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Where Others Won't

by Cody Royle

In this award-nominated podcast, Aussie Rules head coach Cody Royle brings together thinkers and practitioners from sports, business, and academia to detail the leadership and culture secrets of the world's best teams.

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  1. Owen Eastwood - The Next 10 Years in Leadership

    Owen Eastwood has worked with some of the most elite teams and groups in the world, including Gareth Southgate's England Football team, the Command Group of NATO, the South African Cricket Team, corporate leadership teams, elite ballet, and the British Olympic team. He is the author of Belonging:...

  2. Russell Earnshaw - The Magic of Coaching

    Russell Earnshaw is a coach developer and director at The Magic Academy. You can follow Rusty on Twitter. Where Others Won’t is recorded in Toronto, Canada, and was created by Cody Royle and Adam Esker. Learn more about Cody at: www.codyroyle.com

  3. Véronique Richard X Darren Holder - Creativity In Coaching

    Véronique Richard is a performance psychologist specializing in creativity. She's renowned for her work with Cirque du Soleil, as well as consulting with Cricket Australia, Swimming Australia, and AFL clubs. Darren Holder is the former coaching director for Cricket Australia, and held the same...

  4. Pratik Patel X Marc Bubbs - Nutrition for Leaders

    Pratik Patel is a former NFL coach specializing in nutrition and strength. He now consults high-impact individuals on their health and lifestyle. Marc Bubbs is Canada Basketball's performance nutritionist, as well as being the bestselling author of PEAK: The New Science of Athletic Performance…

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  5. Alex Auerbach - Creating an Unfair Advantage

    Dr. Alex Auerbach is the Director of Wellness and Development for the Toronto Raptors in the NBA. He joined the Raptors after serving as the Director of Clinical and Sport Psychology for the University of Arizona. In January 2022, Alex and I will be launching Unfair Advantage, our newsletter...

  6. Kelly Brown X Chris Gibson - Total Excellence

    Kelly Brown won 64 caps for Scotland Rugby, including 14 as captain. He had a glittering club career, including three Premierships and two European Cups with Saracens. He is currently an assistant coach with Saracens. Chris Gibson MBE is a former Lieutenant Colonel with the British military.…

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  7. Brittni Donaldson - Redefining Mental Toughness

    Brittni Donaldson won an NBA championship as a member of the Toronto Raptors and is now dedicating herself to reshaping youth development through sport. You can follow Brittni on Twitter. Where Others Won’t is recorded in Toronto, Canada, and was created by Cody Royle and Adam Esker. Learn more...

  8. Wade Gilbert - Coaching Lessons From Around The World

    Wade Gilbert is a coaching scientist, performance consultant, professor, and editor of the International Sport Coaching Journal. His book, Coaching Better Every Season, is a staple on every coaching bookshelf, and his research has shaped many of the things we consider to be modern best practices....

  9. Fiona Murden - Role Models

    Fiona Murden is a psychologist and author. Her most recent book, Mirror Thinking: Why Role Models Make Us Human, explores the mirror neuron - a core element of our behaviour and learning that most of us have never heard of. You can follow Fiona on Twitter. Where Others Won’t is recorded in…

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  10. Aaron Walsh - The Skill of Mental Skills

    "Walshy" is an experienced Performance Coach. Currently working with the Chiefs in Super Rugby as well as consulting a number of teams as they build their mental skills programs. Have worked in MLB, NRL, and with various national teams. Currently coaching multiple corporate leadership teams in...

  11. Cameron Schwab - Leading With Emotion

    Cameron is a CEO, leadership coach and strategist. He works with CEOs and emerging leaders to achieve high levels of trust – personally, culturally, strategically and organisationally – as the basis of high performance. After cutting his teeth as a recruiter at the Melbourne Football Club when…

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  12. Doug Lemov X Todd Beane - How We Think About Coaching

    Doug Lemov's book, The Coach's Guide to Teaching, has become a must-have for any coach, at any level, in any sport. Todd Beane's work at TOVO has had a similar impact, where his team seeks to reframe how we perceive and teach the beautiful game using ideas passed down by the great Johan Cruyff.…

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  13. Joan Ryan - The Intangibles

    Joan Ryan has done years of extensive research into team chemistry to try to understand whether it actually exists. Having been around the World Series-winning San Francisco Giants team, Joan felt that despite the analytic movement suggesting otherwise, team chemistry just had to be a thing. In…

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  14. Marc Champagne - Life-Changing Questions

    Marc Champagne returns to Where Others Won't to tell me about his new book, Personal Socrates. Using strong questions from legends and world-class performers like Kobe Bryant, Maya Angelou, and Steven Hawking, Marc shows us how we're all just one question away from a different life. Where Others...

  15. Peter DeBoer - Coaching in the NHL

    Peter DeBoer is the head coach of the Vegas Golden Knights in the NHL. Prior to joining Vegas, Peter coached the Florida Panthers, New Jersey Devils, and San Jose Sharks, leading both the Devils and Sharks to the Stanley Cup Finals. Before getting his break in the NHL, Peter was a standout coach…

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  16. Lisa Fallon - The Magic of Coaching

    Lisa Fallon is Galway United men's head coach. Lisa has a vast array of coaching experience across men's and women's football, as well as Gaelic Football. Prior to joining Galway, Lisa has held coaching roles with the likes of Chelsea, Cork City, Dublin GAA, and Northern Ireland. You can follow...

  17. Adam Gotsis - Life in the NFL

    Adam Gotsis is a defensive end for the Jacksonville Jaguars in the NFL. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Adam played for four years at Georgia Tech before being drafted in the second round - 63rd overall - by the Denver Broncos. He’s now entering his second season with the Jaguars, where…

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  18. Pippa Grange - Fear in Coaching

    Dr. Pippa Grange is a performance psychologist, culture coach, and author of the bestselling book, Fear Less: How to Win at Life Without Losing Yourself. She’s perhaps best known for her work as Head of People and Team Development at The Football Association, where she worked closely with the...

  19. Joanne McCallie - Coaching and Mental Health

    "Coach P" is the former head coach of Duke Women's Basketball. In a career spanning over 30 years, with stops at Maine and Michigan State, Joanne became one of the most decorated coaches in college sports. Now, she's lending her expertise and experience to tackle mental health impairment and the...

  20. Thomas Gronnemark - How Throw-Ins Can Change Football

    Thomas Gronnemark is changing football. His work as a specialized throw-in coach includes stops at heavyweight clubs like Liverpool FC, AFC Ajax, RB Leipzig, KAA Gent, Atlanta United, and FC Midtjylland. Thomas' work gained popularity when his Long, Fast and Clever philosophy helped Liverpool go...

  21. Anthony Seibold - Reflecting on The Tough Stuff

    Anthony Seibold is the former head coach of the Brisbane Broncos and South Sydney Rabbitohs, two of the National Rugby League's premier franchises. Anthony was named 2018 NRL Coach of the Year, before being chased from the game less than two years later. In this refreshingly candid interview,...

  22. Emile Studham - The Tough Stuff Series - Volume 8

    Emile Studham is a founding partner at Performance by Design. PBD is a culture consultancy specializing in taking frameworks tested and proven in the professional sporting arena, and applying them to corporate environments. They help major organizations from all around the world to create open,...

  23. Tom Morris - The Tough Stuff Series - Volume 7

    Tom Morris is the head coach of Germany's women's rowing team. A psychology major, Tom has coached rowing squads for Australia and Canada (including a medal performance in the Rio Olympics), and worked with Ross Lyon as the Coaching Performance Manager for the Fremantle Dockers. This episode is...

  24. Simon Strachan - The Tough Stuff Series - Volume 6

    Simon Strachan is the co-founder and GM of Sport for GainLine Analytics, an innovative company that measures team cohesion in sports franchises. Many of GainLine's findings challenge long-held beliefs about success in professional sport. You can find Simon's work at www.gainline.biz This episode…

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  25. Scott Robertson - The Tough Stuff Series - Volume 5

    Scott Robertson is the head coach of Super Rugby franchise, the Crusaders. A former All Black and Crusaders player, Robertson took over as head coach in 2017 and has led the Christchurch-based team to four straight Super Rugby titles. Over that time, they've maintained an 86% win record. This...

  26. Dr. Amy Kruse - The Tough Stuff Series - Volume 4

    Dr. Amy Kruse is a neuroscientist and performance expert best known for her work with DARPA, the United States military's performance research division. She's credited with coining the term 'operational neuroscience'. Amy's efforts at DARPA generated scientific breakthroughs in areas including...

  27. Peja Lindholm - The Tough Stuff Series - Volume 3

    Peja Lindholm is the head coach of China's national curling team. Peja is one of the greatest curlers of his generation, capturing three world titles as skip of the Swedish men's team. Turning his attention to coaching, he spent nine years as Swedish team head coach, guiding his home country to a...

  28. Lisa Alexander - The Tough Stuff Series - Volume 2

    Lisa is the former head coach of Australia's national netball team, the Diamonds. As Australian coach, Lisa won 83 of her 102 test matches, for an impressive 81% winning record that included a Commonwealth Games gold medal, and a World Cup triumph. After leaving Netball Australia, Lisa has set…

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  29. John Herdman - The Tough Stuff Series - Volume 1

    John Herdman is the head coach of Canada's men's national soccer team. Having coached New Zealand's women's national team to two FIFA World Cups in 2007 and 2011, Herdman then took the head coaching role overseeing Canada's women's program. Under his stewardship, Canada won gold at the PanAm…

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  30. John Lamont - One-on-One With My Under-18 Coach

    John Lamont is my former Oakleigh Chargers U18 coach from the elite junior talent pathway in the Australian Football League. 2020 marks 18 years since I graduated from that program, so I was keen to re-connect with JL to reminisce, and pass on what lessons I took from him and have applied to my…

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  31. Tony Granato - The Craft of Coaching (Part II)

    Tony Granato is the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers’ men’s hockey program. He played fourteen seasons in the NHL with the New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, and San Jose Sharks, where he was best known as a prolific scorer and key member of the Kings team that made a run to the 1993 Stanley...

  32. Kirk Ferentz - The Craft of Coaching (Part I)

    Kirk Ferentz is the head football coach at the University of Iowa, a role he has held since 1999. Under Ferentz’s leadership the Iowa football program has made 17 bowl game appearances. He is the longest tenured football coach in college football. Prior to joining Iowa, Ferentz was hired by Bill...

  33. Michael Lepp - The Go Fast Business

    Mike Lepp has more than 35 years of experience working with athletes and teams to develop successful strategies in the area of individual and organizational human performance. Lepp joined Joe Gibbs Racing at the start of the 2007 and played an instrumental role in building the organization’s pit...

  34. Marty Lauzon - Building Trust With Your Players

    Marty Lauzon is the director of sports medicine and performance for the Atlanta Falcons, where he is responsible for handling all aspects of the club's athletic training department. Prior to joining Atlanta, Marty spent 10 years with the Cleveland Browns. You can find more about Marty on…

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  35. Adrian Gostick X Chester Elton - Leading With Gratitude

    Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick are the founders of The Culture Works, a global training and consulting company focused on creating great places to work. They are also the New York Times bestselling authors of All In, The Carrot Principle, and What Motivates Me. Their latest book, Leading With...

  36. Laura Gassner Otting - Be Limitless

    Better known as LGO, Laura is the bestselling author of Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life. Laura’s entrepreneurial edge has been well-honed over a 25-year career that started as a Presidential Appointee in Bill Clinton’s White House, where she helped...

  37. Will Ahmed - Optimizing Human Performance

    Will Ahmed is the Founder and CEO of WHOOP, which has developed next generation wearable technology for optimizing human performance. WHOOP today works with professional athletes across every sports league, college athletes across every conference, Olympians and the U.S. military. Ahmed wrote…

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  38. Joel Peterson - Entrepreneurial Leadership

    Joel Peterson is the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he teaches Entrepreneurial Management. He is the author of two books: The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds that Make a Business Great, and the newly launched Entrepreneurial...

  39. Terry Knickerbocker - Coaching Actors

    Terry Knickerbocker is an acting coach based in Brooklyn, New York. He has coached actors on over 300 films, television and theater projects, both on and off-Broadway and regionally. He also consulted with playwrights and screenwriters on their scripts. Some of the actors he has worked with and...

  40. Stephen Rollnick X Richmond Stace - Motivation and Pain

    Dr. Stephen Rollnick is the co-founder of Motivational Interviewing (MI). The Motivational Interviewing style, strategies and skills have been used to address a wide range of challenges, including those very tough conversations in which there seems little hope of making progress in helping…

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  41. Kristen Hadeed - The Goal Is To Be Human, Not Perfect

    Kristen Hadeed is the founder of Student Maid, a successful cleaning company that has employed thousands of students over the last decade. Kristen believes Student Maid’s success boils down to one thing and one thing only: creating a place with humanity at its core. A place where people feel...

  42. Michael Bungay Stanier - How To Tame Your Advice Monster

    Michael Bungay Stanier is at the forefront of shaping how organizations around the world make being coach-like an essential leadership competency. Michael is best known for writing The Coaching Habit, the best-selling coaching book of this century, with over 700,000 copies sold and over 1,000...

  43. Grant Baldwin - The Successful Speaker

    Grant Baldwin is a renowned keynote speaker, known for his humor and the ability to keep the audience in the palm of his hand. Grant’s new book is called The Successful Speaker: Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform, and is a must-read for coaches, executives, and...

  44. Meeta Singh - Sleep As A Competitive Advantage

    Dr. Meeta Singh is a sleep doctor whose work and research focuses on maximizing performance for sports teams. She also works with C-suite executives to help with jetlag management and enhancing sleep. Meeta is the service chief of sleep medicine at the Henry Ford sleep laboratory in Michigan, and...

  45. Cameron Schwab - A Life Of Leadership

    At age 24, Cameron Schwab was named CEO of one of the Australian Football League's cornerstone teams, the Richmond Football Club. For most of the next 25 years, Cameron was CEO of Richmond, Melbourne, and Fremantle while those clubs were in times of extreme hardship both on and off the field. He...

  46. Richard Gerver X Sunny Verma - Education Reimagined

    Richard Gerver is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author, and renowned thinker on education. As headmaster of the failing Grange Primary School, he famously transformed the school into one of the most acclaimed learning environments in the world. The school's miraculous turnaround saw him…

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  47. Brian Scudamore - Willing To Fail

    Brian Scudamore is the founder and CEO of O2E Brands, the banner company for 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, WOW 1 DAY PAINTING, and Shack Shine. A pure entrepreneur, Brian's success is a tale of perseverance, failure, trial, and error. He is a respected industry leader and speaker, well-known in the business...

  48. Carly Clarke - Building An Environment Of Excellence

    Carly Clarke is the head coach of Ryerson University’s women’s basketball program, and an assistant coach of Canada's women's national team. Carly guided the Ryerson Rams to a Canadian national championship final after the 2015-16 season, which was the first national title game the school had…

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  49. Ryan Hawk - Welcome To Management

    Ryan Hawk is a keynote speaker, author, advisor, and the host of The Learning Leader Show. At college, he battled head-to-head for the starting quarterback role with likely Hall of Famer, Ben Roethlisberger. After college, he took the skills he’d learned on the football field and applied them to...

  50. Jerry Colonna - Radical Self-Inquiry

    Jerry Colonna is the Founder and CEO of Reboot.io, an executive coaching practice based in Boulder, Colorado. His new book, also called Reboot, is one of the must-read leadership books of the year. Prior to launching his coaching practice, Jerry was a venture capitalist in New York City. The fund...

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In this award-nominated podcast, Aussie Rules head coach Cody Royle brings together thinkers and practitioners from sports, business, and academia to detail the leadership and culture secrets of the world's best teams.

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