In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I reach into the mailbag to respond to some questions sent my way ([email protected]). Some deal with curling but others revolve around sports in general. I end this episode with another sound bite. Enjoy!

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I talk in more detail about how your team can be the most dangerous team in the competition. You'll hear that at the 02:10 mark. That's followed by three sound bites. The first at 10:05 is with the great tennis player,  Roger Federer. In the second sound bite at 13:45 you will hear the words of PGA golfer Jorden Spieth as he talks about world #1 golfer & 20:24 Olympic Gold Medalist, Scottie Scheffler. The last sound bite at 16:50 is the speech that the late college basketball coach, Jim Valvano gave at the 2008 ESPY Awards ceremony as he accepted the prestigious Arthur Ashe Award. 

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This episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" pulls the curtain back on the Olympic Games from the perspective of the media. Our guide for this episode is Hans Frauenlob, Olympian (2006 Torino, Italy [curling]) and now a member of the international broadcast consortium that brings the sights and sounds of the Games to various platforms around the globe. 
Hans has been the guest of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" for two previous episodes, one entitled "Not Sad Because It's Over But Happy Because It Happened" (S3E12) and for an episode about rules in curling entitled "Because It's The Rule" (S3E14).

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" you will hear a recording of an episode from another podcast, "Chasing Life", hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN. 
In his episode you will hear from a former Olympic Gold Medalist (Dominique Dawes) and a cognitive scientist and President of Dartmouth College and a former elite athlete in the person of Sian Beilock. 
The title of this episode gives away its content, the mental preparation required by an elite athlete to perform to a podium finish and how anyone can achieve goals by training their mind as well as their body!

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" we hear from Jim Waite who has coached at four Olympic Games and although they were Winter Games, as Jim puts it, Olympic Games are Olympic Games, be they winter or summer. Jim has been a guest on "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" on two previous occasions. He was my very first guest when the podcast was launched! Enjoy what Coach Waite has to say about coaching at the Olympics!

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This episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" begins a series focused on the "Summer Olympic Games of 2024" hosted by Paris, France. For Canadians who follow the inevitable myriad story lines, those games began with what can only be described as a national embarrassment. It involves the Canadian Women's Football (soccer) Team and more specifically, its head coach and some coaching assistants. I talk about what happened and suggest a bright spot in the darkness of the incident from which your team can take a lesson. But the bulk of this episode is a rant by "The Restless Ranter" who makes his views known on the obsession with Olympic medals. He not only pulls back the curtain on the negative aspects of those medals but to his credit offers solutions. 

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" I dig into my coaching manual ("A Pane In The Glass: A Coach's Companion") for two articles. The first is entitled "Right Off" and the second "It's About Time"! I end this episode with another musical happy thought I think you will find uplifting!

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" the subject is "foam density" underneath the yellow stuff. World Curling came out with a directive on the matter late last month. If you didn't see it somewhere, I begin with an audio version of that directive before I call upon my friend Eugene Hritzuk (who has joined me on the podcast a few times when the topic has been brushing) to put it all into plain English. Check the "chapter markers" if you wish to go straight to the discussion I have with Eugene. The episode concludes with a visit from "The Restless Ranter"!

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast" my long time friend from Halifax, NS, Helen Radford, joins me to give us an update on Curling Canada's "Next Gen" programme. You will also hear the voice of one of television's most out spoken chefs, Gordon Ramsay, who has a very important and sobering message for us all. I conclude this episode with a sound bite about anger and how to deal with it. You'll find it most enlightening!

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In this episode of "A Pane In The Glass Podcast", Bobby Ray (Manager-Club Development & Membership Services) of Curling Canada returns to the podcast microphone to bring us up to date on the health of the sport as we come out of the pandemic era and into a new and exciting time for curling. He reveals what he has learned from visiting curling facilities across the country. 
Please share this episode with anyone you know who has anything to do with the business of curling, membership augmentation and retention! 

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