The Coaching Podcast

In this special episode, Emma interviews 3 Scottish high performers for their perspective on the impact of coaching on their careers. They include Judith Ralston, former singer and current BBC Scotland Weather Presenter; Lee McConnell, former Scottish Athlete & 3 time Olympian & Colin Fleming, Current Scottish National Tennis Coach & former Professional Tennis Player.

Emma Doyle interviews Melbourne's Aiden M. A. Thornton who is leadership scientist and practitioner.

First and foremost, Aiden is an integrative thinker with deep functional expertise across the field of leadership. As a leadership scientist, Aiden is deeply immersed in leadership theory and research which has emerged over the past 80 years. He was granted the Australian Postgraduate Award for academic excellence, and is currently completing a groundbreaking PhD focused on methods of fostering leadership to successfully navigate 21st century complexity. He has a number of collaborative research projects in progress, and will continue to publish findings in peer reviewed journals. Aiden collaborates closely with Lectica™ - a leading provider of leadership assessments located in USA - to deliver public seminars and accreditation programs focused on developmental principles, practices and metrics. Aiden is the only person in the southern hemisphere to be certified by as a Master Lectical™ Consultant and Senior Lectical™ Analyst.

Learn more here: https://www.aidenmathornton.com

Simon interviews Behavioural Strategist, Warren Kennaugh.

Emma Doyle interviews Scottish Master Performance Tennis Coach, Kris Soutar. She has also been a guest on his excellent Podcast (Kris Soutar's Tennis Journal) and his insights are always pushing the envelope in coaching.

Kris Soutar is a coach with a difference, he can work at every level of the game with equal ease. Kris acknowledges every level of the game has to be treated with equal importance and over the last 27 years takes pride in the fact he has worked with champions of all ages and stages. Using his character centred coaching philosophy he places the learners' needs at the heart of everything he does and no matter what the challenge is he will find innovative and effective ways to make the developments required to move to the next level.

Kris is an LTA level 5 Master Performance Coach and has coached for 27 years. In the last 10 years, Kris has been creating quite the reputation in the world of coach development. At present, Kris is the Project manager for the Judy Murray Foundation. The motto of the foundation is, Everyone for Tennis, Everywhere for Tennis. The foundation launched in 2018, and the strategy is to build workforces in local communities by training youth and community workers, teachers, parents, students, club members and sports coaches to deliver starter coaching and competition. Check out http://www.judymurrayfoundation.com

In March 2019, Kris started a position with Tennis Scotland as a performance coach consultant. This role will see Kris work directly with the coaches of the country's best young players.

Kris is also a performance coach education tutor and consultant for the LTA, which sees him lead on all levels 1-4 within their course structure and help develop performance content and resources for courses and CPD workshops. Put all this together and it is clear Kris is living his belief that every level of tennis is equally important.

Simon interviews Customer Experience & Contact Centre Coach, Jim Rembach. Jim is the host of the long-running 'Fast Leader Show' podcast.

Emma Interviews Adam Gard'ner, who at the time of the interview was Tennis New Zealand Coach Development Manager. Adam is an extraordinary human and his story is one worth sharing.

Adam Gard'ner is an advocate for the value of play and physical activity as contributors to wellbeing and resilience. He has enjoyed travelling the world with the sport of tennis, and now relishes the opportunity to return to his hometown, making a home with his family on the street where he grew up.

After 12 years in Shanghai, Adam and his wife, Lucy, and their children, Joey, 14, Grace, 12, and Charlotte, 10, returned home to post-earthquake Christchurch three years ago. "Shanghai was an amazing experience, we saw a massive amount of change there where I was working as a tennis coach for the largest tennis and coaching organisation. The earthquake brought us back home... we felt it was time to get home to our families."

Living overseas for an extended period - Adam's tennis career took him from Europe to the United States before he landed in Shanghai - he become more attached to his memories of life in New Zealand. "You become more attached to your home because you have such a love for it. When I came home I thought 'I have to embrace this'."

In 2017, Adam joined the team at Tennis New Zealand, but he still belongs to the first tennis club he joined in 1988 - Waimairi - and his parents still live in Broadfield. As Healthy Families Ōtautahi Christchurch Play Systems Innovator, Adam worked alongside our wider Sport Canterbury team, to support community-led initiatives that represent healthy change.

Emma Doyle interviews the host of The Tennis Files Podcast, Mehrban Iranshad. Emma has been a part of Mehrban's Tennis Summit for the past few years and he is such a humble guy.

Mehrban is a former Division I college tennis player and nationally-ranked junior. In 2015, he founded Tennis Files, a website devoted to helping people become better tennis players. Mehrban is also the host of The Tennis Files Podcast, where he interviews professional tennis players and coaches to help his audience improve their games and reach the next level. His podcast is one of the top-rated tennis interview shows on iTunes.

Mehrban is extremely passionate about tennis. His goal is to make the highest-quality tennis content available to as many people as possible. He loves tennis and wants to do everything he can to advance the sport . Mehrban is also an attorney and plays in tournaments and 5.0 USTA Leagues. And last but not least, he is your proud Host of the world's first ever Tennis Technique Summit.

Simon interviews Manu 'Swish' Goswami, one of the worlds top youth entrepreneurs, public speakers and venture capitalists. A coach and mentor for young, up and coming entrepreneurs looking to make their mark in business and to impact the world.

Speaker Manu Swish Goswami, is the CEO of Trufan, a social intelligence platform that helps over eighty of the world's biggest brands and celebrities sell directly to their top fans. Trufan has raised over $1M to date (from several NBA players and venture firms) and has clientele that notably includes Visionary Music Group, FaZe Clan, Hootsuite, Dwayne Wade and Kyle Kuzma. Before running Trufan, Swish consulted for Fortune 500 companies like Western Union and worked at JB Fitzgerald Venture Capital.

Emma Interviews Motivational Speakers, Commentators and recent Authors on how to deal with issues facing Teenagers and Families, Sonya Karras & Sacha Kaluri. Check out this cool episode with lots of laughs and serious questions:

Sacha Kaluri - When you are frightened, and you feel like, 'I don't know if I can do that' what tips you over the edge that makes you say, 'Yes I can'?

Sonya Karras - How do you handle the 'No's?

Check out their book - The Two Worlds of Your Teenager

Over the past 17 years, Sonya Karras and Sacha Kaluri have been working with teenagers on a daily basis. They understand that while teenagers experience many changes in their lives, there are two big areas that come into full bloom at about the same time as each other: social life and thoughts about a career path. Sonya and Sacha are experts in these two areas. They believe it's the parent's job to be well prepared for this often confusing time in their teenager's life. Then when your children really need help they will confidently come to you, their parents, because you understand what's really going on. The purpose is to make sure the forever-widening gap between teens and their parents becomes narrower and narrower. Sonya and Sacha have made it their life's mission to engage and connect with teenagers on a daily basis to guide them in these areas. They believe the more choices, options and information a teenager is given, the more likely they are to make positive choices, especially when faced with a tricky situation. Their fun, down-to-earth manner readily connects with parents and teens, and makes this an engaging and informative read.

Emma and Simon explore how to deal with fear around things like public speaking and the technique Emma uses to make her speeches more effective. Emma reveals to Simon how she first met Bill and they discuss how his sliding door moment and his passion changed his life. Simon then plugs his singing before they jump into dissecting Bill's question about the challenge for kids and adult learning and discuss the importance of being open to new opportunities and methods.

Bill is a veteran with over 30 years of college, junior and club coaching and management experiences and is recognized as a High-Performance Tennis Specialist by the PTR, USPTA & USTA. No stranger to entertainment and tennis promotions, he created and co-hosted the award-winning weekly radio show called "Tennis Talk" that aired on WLAC out of Nashville.

In 2012 Bill served as an "on-air" TV announcer and commentator for the WTA Tour Dallas Women's Pro Tournament on the FOX Sports South Network and ESPN. He currently serves as a host and producer for a new internet-based tennis show called "5 Questions" on Around the Court Around the World. He has also been featured on local and regional TV and radio networks promoting tennis and offering tennis tips.