Our Great Coach on this episode is Andrea Anastasi.

Andrea played volleyball for Italy 141 times, and was part of the team that won the 1990 World Championship. He transitioned in to coaching in 1994, and in 1999 led the Italian team to gold medals at 2 European Championships, the World League, as well as a Bronze at the 2000 Olympics. In 2007 he took over the Spanish National team and famously led them to the 2007 European Championship. He then moved on to coach the Polish national team and in 2011 led the team to their first ever medal in the World League.

He has also coached teams to National Championships in Italy and Poland, and is presently the head coach of the Belgian National Team. Andrea is a coach with a global perspective and as you will hear in this interview speaks multiple languages that allows him to communicate with his very international teams. What I found most interesting, and unique, in this interview was the process Andrea goes through when he joins a new team in a new country.

I think anyone who is moving in to a new culture in either a team or new company will find this interesting and helpful. I also enjoyed the way Andrea talks about using body language to communicate across cultures and again I think this applicable for anyone who is communicating across age or demographic groups. And finally, the importance he places on listening when it comes to effective leadership.

Andrea was both a champion player and coach, and this combined with his empathetic style made for a terrific interview.

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Our Great Coach on this episode is Cheryl Reeve.

Cheryl is a Basketball head coach and general manager for the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA.

She has led the team to championships in 2011,2013, 2015 and 2017. She is one of only 2 coaches in the WNBA history to have a winning % over 60 in regular season games. In addition she has the highest winning % of any coach in the WNBA postseason.

She has also been an Assistant coach for Team USA at the 2016 and 2021 Olympic Games helping them to Gold Medals, and in 2022 was appointed Head Coach of the team that then went on to win the World Championship.

This was a terrific conversation, although a little short as Cheryl was pressed for time, and I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

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Today’s episode is on the topic of Championship Behaviours, and we are joined for the discussion with one our past guests the Great Coach Hugh McCutcheon who has just written a book called Championship Behaviours.

Hugh played Volleyball for New Zealand national Junior and Senior teams before transitioning into coaching.

In 2005 he was appointed as Head Coach of the USA men's team who went to win the Gold medal at the 2008 Olympics.

Then in 2008 he was appointed coach of the USA women’s team, and led them to a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics.

He is presently the Assistant Athletics Director at the University of Minnesota.

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Our Great Coach on this episode is Malcolm Blight.

Malcolm is a former Australian Rules Football player and coach, who is the only person in the game’s history to win the Brownlow, Magarey, and Coleman medals. As a coach he has led multiple teams, notably winning back-to-back premierships with Adelaide in 1997 and 1998. He was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996 and was elevated to Legend status in 2017

Interviewing Malcolm was a great highlight for us, he was one of the people we wrote on our dream list when we started the podcast.

This was a wonderful conversation, and I hope you enjoy it as we did.

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Todays episode is on the topic of Feedback, and it features audio quotes from 14 coaches that we have interviewed on the podcast.

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Our Great Coach on this episode is Mike Candrea.

Mike is a Softball coach who after 36 years leading the University of Arizona has retired as one of the most respected coaches of Any sport in the USA. He is the all-time winningest coach in college softball history and ranked fourth of any coach in any NCAA sport with 1,674 wins. His teams have won 8 Women's College World Series and 11× Pac 12 or 10 Regular Season titles. In addition, he led Team USA to 2004 Olympic Gold medal and the 2008 silver medal. And In 2017 he was inducted into the USA Softball Hall of Fame

Mike is a wise and generous person who openly shares the many lessons he has taken from the extreme highs and lows he has experienced in his life.

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Our Great Coach on this episode is Natasha Adair.

Natasha is a former All American High School player and now Head Coach.

Following a successful playing career, she transitioned into coaching and spent 14 years as an Assistant before becoming a Head Coach for the first time with the College of Charleston in 2012. From there she moved to Georgetown where she turned around the program and earned a WNIT invitation.

She then moved to Delaware where she led the team to three Colonial Athletic Association titles and their first NCAA Tournament appearance in nearly a decade. In 2022 she was announced as the new coach for Arizona State who compete in the Pac 12.

She has also served as an Assistant coach for gold medal winning USA Youth teams at World Cups.

Natasha is an articulate and deeply committed coach who in her words is more focused on the living trophies in her care as opposed to the Big trophies they are pursuing.

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Todays episode is on the topic of Behaviours, and it features audio quotes from 13 coaches that we have interviewed on the podcast.

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Our Great Coach on this episode is Ricky Stuart.

Ricky is a former Rugby League player who won 3 premierships with the Canberra Raiders as well as representing both New South Wales and Australia.

As a Coach he has led Australia, the NSW State of Origin Team, the Sydney Roosters who he led to a Premiership in 2002, and is now the Head Coach of his beloved Canberra Raiders. Ricky as had a long and celebrated career which includes being the only person to win the Dally M Player of the Year award and the Daly M Coach of the Year award. He has also started the Ricky Stuart Foundation to help both families and people living with Autism.

Ricky is a passionate and principled leader who balances the ability to be honest and forthright, but at the same time exhibit the type of deep care that helps builds character and changes lives.

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Gary Kirsten is that rare breed of person who has been able to reach the pinnacle of his sport as both an athlete and coach, and this lends his story an added layer of credibility, whether it is talking about the deficit of mental skills he experienced as a batsman, or the importance of understanding what the environment requires of you as a leader.

Here he speaks to us on how the worlds top performers mange the anxiety gap between their performance and their actual capability. 

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