Think Curiously

In May 2024, I was interviewed live on air on The Mark Patterson Show on BBC Radio Foyle and told Fiona's Cancer story. At the time I thought to record the audio from the show knowing that at some point it would be removed from the online archives. I appreciate that by doing this, I may be in breach of copyright, but I am willing to do it so that I continue to share her Story.

Please, if you listen, share this so that others too can hear of the mistreatment that Fiona suffered. Her story should hold a mirror to the practices of care staff dealing with terminally ill patients.

This week I am joined by author, coach, coach mentor and podcaster Cody Royle. Hailing from Australia and currently residing in Canada, Cody works with 13 head coaches in 7 different sports across 5 countries focusing on head coaching performance and wellbeing. He has penned two books, The first of which, Tough Stuff is a book written for head coaches and explores seven hard truths that head coaches should be aware of.

In his second book, where others won’t Cody explores how intelligent teams are able to organize and utilize their people to create competitive advantage. Often, the teams that create sustained success are those who break all the rules and search for ideas where others aren’t willing to go.

In this episode we explore 3 life lessons Cody has learnt from his time in sport, we discuss the importance of belonging, how coaches and players navigate change and how coaches are now becoming more like CEO’s managing departments to try to drive performance improvement! 

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Blaine McKenna is a Football Coach who hails from Northern Ireland and has coached in 11 countries on 5 different continents! Experiencing so many different cultures has taught Blaine a number of important life lessons. In this episode we explore those life lessons plus listen as Blaine recounts some of his more memorable experiences to date.



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John is an SEN teacher by day and 1st team coach at Irish Premier League Club Portadown by night! A deep thinker and an articulate speaker, John lays bare the life lessons that he has learnt from the side-line! We touch on the influences of his father, his formative years in coaching and the values by which he live his life!

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Sir Dave Brailsford is a accredited as being the innovative leader who propelled the British Olympic Cycling Team and later with Team Sky to unprecedented success. In this episode  I scratch the surface of the Marginal gains theory and discuss some of the  methods I've used in my coaching that i think has increased my coaching efficacy:

1) - Creating flexible multifunctional practices
2) - Predetermined players roles and responsibilities in sessions
3) - Preassigned players to teams for SSG's & Phases of play
4) - Fly-by coaching method
5) - Recording training sessions 

Steve Black has been called a motivator, coach, psychologist, priest, councillor, psychiatrist, comedian, strategist, facilitator, and friend. A coach who done things differently.

I explore 2 life lessons that can be taken from Steve's career and discuss those in relation to my own experiences.

Life lessons:
1) Break the mould
2) Be yourself 

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After experiencing the worst form of coaching i've witnessed in 19 years coaching, I reflect on two life lessons i've learnt through Sport.

1 - Coaching is about connection - Translated to life, to build relationships we first must learn to trust 

2 - Spectate, do not commentate - Learn to listen and think before you speak.

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What is Mamba mentality?

“just trying to get better every day

The alter-ego helped Kobe Bryant cultivate his own philosophy. Simply stated, Mamba mentality means “just trying to get better every day.”

We scratch the surface of Bryant's MAMBA Mentality and related to the world of Youth Sports Coaching.

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Are we born with a purpose or is it something we purchase ?

We explore Man's search for meaning by Viktor Frankl.

And look into the accident Japanese concept of Ikkigai 

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How do you define happiness? Is it linked to the material possessions that you own?

Is our understanding of self worth too closely connected to the worth we place on material possessions ?

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