Coaching Culture with Ben Herring
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Coaching Culture with Ben Herring is your weekly deep-dive into the often-overlooked “softer skills” of coaching—cultural innovation, communication, empathy, leadership, dealing with stress, and motivation. Each episode features candid conversations with the world’s top international rugby coaches, who share the personal stories and intangible insights behind their winning cultures, and too their biggest failures and learnings from them. This is where X’s and O’s meet heart and soul, empowering coaches at every level to foster authentic connections, inspire their teams, and elevate their own coaching craft. If you believe that the real gold in rugby lies beyond the scoreboard, Coaching Culture is the podcast for you.
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Coaching Your Own Kid
Coaching kids is one thing. Coaching your own child can feel like stepping onto a field where every word carries twice the weight. I’ve been thinking about why so many coaches avoid coaching their…
Dark Moments Build Great Players. Joe Rokocoko
Ever been told to start at zero? Joe Rokocoko has—and he calls it the sentence that rebuilt his standards, his respect, and his career. From a Fijian village to Parisian match nights, Joe opens up…
The Power Of Little Hooks
A small moment can change an athlete more than a big speech ever will. We’re digging into the idea of “little hooks” the tiny wins, cues, and shared moments that get players latched onto learning and…
Alex Laybourne: Swedens rise to Top 30 on a shoestring
What does it take for a fully amateur national team to punch above its weight and chase top-30 ambitions? We unpack Sweden’s rise with head coach Alex Laybourne, tracing a bold shift from “show up…
How to Make and Break Confidence
If you’ve ever walked into a team review wondering which clip will make you look stupid, you already know how confidence gets crushed. We talk about coaching confidence through the most common tool…
Gary Gold: What Coaches Get Wrong With Culture.
If “culture” makes your eyes glaze over, try this: design the environment and make excellence a habit. That’s the heartbeat of our conversation with international head coach Gary Gold, who has led in…
What If Your Best Coaching Is Silence
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Filo Tiatia: Edge And Empathy In Coaching
Culture isn’t a slogan; it’s the air your team breathes. With Filo Tiatia, iconic loose forward turned pro coach across New Zealand, Japan, and Wales—we unpack how identity, empathy, and…
How Community Rugby Sustains Elite Performance, and How You can See it
Elite rugby loves to talk about high performance, but the uncomfortable question is simpler: what happens when the clubs empty out? We dig into the community game and why participation is the true…
David Nucifora: INSIDE IRELAND’S RISE
Most teams say they want a great culture. Far fewer leaders can explain what culture looks like on a random Tuesday, or how to build it when pressure is high and everyone is watching the scoreboard.…
The Greatest Poem For Coaches to have in their Pocket
The most dangerous trap for a coach is thinking leadership is a clean job. It isn’t. Rugby coaching lives in the arena: the training ground when energy is flat, the change room when emotions run…
Scott Johnson: Why most team values are meaningless… and what actually builds culture.
Forget the posters. Scott Johnson, one of rugby’s most widely traveled coaches, breaks down culture as the simple, repeatable ways we do things—and the accountability that keeps them real. We explore…
How Physical Micro-Rituals Stop Overthinking In Sport
A single mistake can hijack an entire training session. We’ve both seen it: a young player drops a ball, throws a pass behind, misses a read and then spends the next 20 minutes replaying it in their…
Culture Is a Delusion: Jed Thian’s Brutal Truth About Rugby
The opening punch lands fast: learn how to control yourself or someone will control you. From there, we pull a thread that runs from Roman drill fields to packed terraces—how rugby evolved as…
Kieran Read: What I recommend you do, if you were All Blacks captain.
One careless comment can shrink a player for months. One intentional conversation can change a career. That’s the tension at the heart of leadership and it’s exactly where Kieran Read goes with us.…
Joe Launchbury on Leadership, Culture & Accountability in Rugby
What really builds culture when results, bodies, and time are under pressure? We sit down with Joe Launchbury—70-cap England lock, longtime Wasps leader, and current Harlequin—to unpack how simple…
What If Losing Is Where Culture Begins
A team loses a final. The microphone shows up. Most leaders reach for explanations, soft excuses, or someone to blame. We don’t. We play a short, stunning post-game interview from Gav Hickey, who…
Mark Jones on Leadership : Why Coaches Fail When Players Don’t Buy In.
What makes a team’s culture visible when the pressure is highest? We sit down with Ospreys head coach Mark Jones to unpack the daily habits, leadership handoffs, and language choices that turn values…
Tony Shaw on Rugby Toughness & Culture: “If You Want Comfort, You’re in the Wrong Game”
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Felipe Contepomi: When Your Greatest Strength Becomes Your Biggest Flaw
What if passion isn’t the finish line but the fuel—and only excellence keeps the engine from overheating? We sit down with Hall of Famer and Argentina head coach Felipe Contepomi to unpack a coaching…
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