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Sports Thoughts — 67 episodes

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Hard Coach Or Soft Coach Is A False Choice.

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THE THINGS THAT UNITE US!

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Ten Second Coaching.

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Culture Is What You Do.

5

AI: It's Your New Assistant Coach!

6

It's Different Here!

7

There Are No Ten Year Old Champions.

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The One Choice You Never Lose!

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I Built the Coaching Course I Always Wished Existed

10

The Best Way I Know to Educate Coaches.

11

Coaching the Coaches!

12

Coach Education for The Real World.

13

Join Your Own Team!

14

Stop Beating Yourself Up Coach!!!

15

Not Good Enough

16

How Great Coaches Keep Getting Better

17

The Three Skills Every Coach Needs to Keep Learning.

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Who are you raising: the next someone else or the first them?

19

When Athletes Become Coaches

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Stop Separating Skills From Stress

21

Drop the Weights. Build a Mental Gym.

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3 Things You Can Do Right Now to Make You an Even Better Coach.

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Talent Identification

24

Parents - Let them Go!

25

Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect

26

Preparing to Win - When and Where It Matters

27

TOP THREE COACHING TIPS

28

Why Aren't Kids Coming Back to Your Sport?

29

The ABCs of Sports Bulldust

30

Play Like Your Place: Why Copying Norway Won’t Work — And What To Do Instead

31

Parents — sometimes you have to say NO.

32

One session to change their lives.

33

Wayne. How do I coach "good"?

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Good boys make great players.

35

Facilities Don't Win Gold Medals

36

There Are No 7-Year-Old Champions

37

Stop Telling. Start Asking.

38

Player Power.

39

Close Your Eyes. What Do You See?

40

First Time Coach? DON'T PANIC!

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The Coaching Moment

42

There is No Such Thing as Perfect Technique

43

Kids Today are Not Lazy...Kids Today are Not Lazy...Kids Today are not Lazy.

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Sports Thoughts - Welcome to 2026

45

STORY TIME 6: RUGBY IS ALL YOU KNOW

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YOUR KID ISN'T TALENTED

47

Teenage Drop Out - Stop The Drop!

48

30 Years Experience in 1 Minute!

49

STORY TIME 5 - THE REMARKABLE DAVE TAYLOR

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Getting Better at Coaching

51

Coach - Take Care of Yourself!

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Coaching Mind and Body

53

Goldilocks Coaching - Coaching Which is Just Right!

54

STORY TIME 4 - THAT'S THE WAY WE DO IT HERE

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Periodization - Time to Change Our Thinking

56

The Facilities and Money Myth

57

The Parents as Enemies Myth

58

The Talented Athlete Myth

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The Periodization Myth - It Doesn't Make Sense

60

STORT TIME 3 - FINDING YOUR WHY MAKES COACHING SIMPLER

61

The Sports Experience Model - SEM

62

STORY TIME 2 - TENNIS AND CRAYONS.

63

STORY TIME 1 - THE POWER OF CHOICE

64

Debunking the Talent Myth -The cold truth: There are no ten-year-old champions

65

CHAMPIONSHIP CHOICE #1 - INQUISITIVENESS

66

THE CAR RIDE HOME - RIDING IN THE DANGER ZONE

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THE TALENT MYTH - THE TALENT WORSHIP TRAP