The Ben Ryan Podcast

Sports & Recreation Podcasts

Olympic Gold Medal winning coach, Ben Ryan, seeks out the world’s top performers and coaches to find out what makes them and those around them, the best. From Footballers and Athletes to Special Forces soldiers and company CEO's, Ben’s focus is on performance and culture, what's important, what isn’t and what really makes a difference. Ben is the most successful men’s rugby sevens coach in the world, winning Continental, World and Olympic titles and off the pitch has been working at the top end of international sport consulting. More at: http://benryan.co.uk/bio/ Book - https://amzn.to/3qFjKtN Twitter - https://bit.ly/3ph5W7o Instagram - https://bit.ly/2Z5QSit LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3ah8Ftv

Location:

United States

Genres:

Sports & Recreation Podcasts

Description:

Olympic Gold Medal winning coach, Ben Ryan, seeks out the world’s top performers and coaches to find out what makes them and those around them, the best. From Footballers and Athletes to Special Forces soldiers and company CEO's, Ben’s focus is on performance and culture, what's important, what isn’t and what really makes a difference. Ben is the most successful men’s rugby sevens coach in the world, winning Continental, World and Olympic titles and off the pitch has been working at the top end of international sport consulting. More at: http://benryan.co.uk/bio/ Book - https://amzn.to/3qFjKtN Twitter - https://bit.ly/3ph5W7o Instagram - https://bit.ly/2Z5QSit LinkedIn - https://bit.ly/3ah8Ftv

Language:

English

Website:

http://benryan.co.uk/

Episodes

It's A Wrap - Series 3 Round-Up

6/15/2022

Thank you for tuning into series 3 of this podcast. I'm now off to record a bunch of new content for Series 4 which will be with you shortly, but in the meantime, if you'd like to sponsor the show, please reach out to me on my socials or on LinkedIn, details of which are below. Also a big thanks to all of my guests from series 3. If you'd like to thank them for the episodes directly they are on... Alistair McCaw - @AllistairMcCaw Marcus Daniell - @MarcusDaniell Wendy Searle -...

Duration:00:02:02

Jon Norfolk - The Leverage You Can Create From An Under-Performance Is Really Strong

6/8/2022

Jon Norfolk is head of coaching at one of Great Britain’s most successful Olympic programmes, British Cycling. Jon is another of our guests that has experienced competing and coaching in different cultures and environments. Having worked previously with the Australian Track Cycling Team and been head coach of the hugely successful GB Paralympic cycling programme, he was also both an International cyclist in his own right and also cycled as a tandem partner including setting a world record in...

Duration:00:48:34

Scott Drawer - We Need To Value The Off-load As Well As The Load

6/1/2022

Scott Drawer is the current Director of Sport at Millfield School, one of the UK’s leading independent school’s. Before that he was Head of Research and Innovation at UK Sport and also held positions as Athletic Performance Manager at the Rugby Football Union and worked in the Sky Performance Hub in Cycling. I first met Scott in his role at UK Sport almost 15 years ago as I asked him to help me tap into the amazing work being done across the UK sport innovation and research network to help...

Duration:00:58:10

Robbie Elliott Part 2 - Being First Is Not Always The Best

5/25/2022

This week its part 2 of my chat with former footballer Robbie Elliott. Robbie spent two decades as a professional footballer, playing over 140 times for Newcastle United and over 250 appearances in total. Last week we chatted about his own playing career and some of the iconic managers he worked under including Ossie Ardilles, Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalgleish, Sam Allardyce and Sir Bobby Robson. This week we focus on his career post playing from his role at Newcastle in the sports science...

Duration:00:33:34

Robbie Elliott Part 1 - There's Definitely A Difference Between Luck And Fortune

5/18/2022

After last weeks chat with Darius Charles, we stay on the football theme with another ex Professional footballer, Robbie Elliott. Robbie had almost two decades as a professional footballer, playing over 140 times for his beloved Newcastle United and over 250 appearances in total, which also included spells at Sunderland, Leeds, Hartlepool and an eventful four years at Bolton Wanderers. Over his career, he’ worked under some iconic managers including Ossie Ardiles, Kevin Keegan, Kenny...

Duration:00:42:06

Darius Charles - I Was Creating A World Where Opportunities Would Come My Way

5/11/2022

This week I’m delighted to bring you a chat with someone who grabs life by both hands, former footballer Darius Charles. Darius retired from professional footballer just a matter of weeks ago after playing professionally for sixteen years for the likes of Wycombe Wanderers, Brentford and most recently, AFC Wimbledon. We talk about how he feels about that and also the journey football has taken him on personally. His mum had him when she was sixteen years old and Darius has had plenty of...

Duration:01:05:01

Stuart Lancaster Part 2 - To Get Trust, You've Got To Give Trust

5/4/2022

This is the second part of the conversation I had with Leinster Rugby senior coach, Stuart Lancaster who has held senior leadership positions at many levels of the game including being the former England Rugby head coach. In part one we chatted about the foundations of culture, putting teams together and knowing your own personal strengths and weaknesses. In this episode we jump around a bit again and touch on subjects like managing time and energy, continual learning and the art of...

Duration:00:42:37

Stuart Lancaster Part 1 - You Don’t Get High Performance And Just Tag Culture On At The End

4/27/2022

Todays show is the first part of another brilliant conversation, this time with rugby coach Stuart Lancaster. Stuart is currently coaching Leinster Rugby and he’s held leadership, management and coaching positions at many levels of the game including being the former England Rugby head coach. I’ve also worked with Stuart during my time at England Rugby and have coached against him during his time at Leeds and we discuss that time in both our lives later in this show. He’s a wealth of...

Duration:00:40:19

Stuart Lancaster - You Don’t Get High Performance And Just Tag Culture On At The End

4/27/2022

Duration:00:40:19

Ask Me Anything

4/20/2022

Thanks to the following for their great questions which formed the basis of this week’s Ask Me Anything show. On Twitter - Brad Allen, Simon Young, Bruce, Luke O’Mahony, Jack, Chris, Nimi, Tuma On Instagram - Richard Mortimer, Emma, Sala Through LinkedIn - Hannah Behan, Andrew M, Rod Bannister, Lucas O’Ceallachan, Mark Leppard, Neil Thomas, Chris Latterell, Martin Prior, Via email - Ben, Shelley Show Notes: Loughborough University - https://www.lboro.ac.uk/ Plato -...

Duration:01:12:37

John Sutherland Part 2 - The Best Leaders Understand They Don’t Have All The Answers

4/13/2022

It's part two of my conversation with former Met Police Superintendent, John Sutherland. From sieges that shut down London, to the time he got things very wrong when communicating to his team and his own personal battle with his mental health, this is another cracking episode, and we pick up from where we left off, talking about Leadership and perhaps it’s most important trait. Show Notes: Jurgen Klopp - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_Klopp Chief Superintendent -...

Duration:00:34:06

John Sutherland Part 1 - We Are More Than The Names That We Have And The Positions We Hold

4/6/2022

John Sutherland joined the Met Police in 1992 after receiving the baton of honour, presented to the outstanding student during an officer’s basic training. He quickly rose through the ranks and as it says on the back cover of his first book 'Blue', experienced all that is extraordinary about a life in blue: saving lives, finding the lost, comforting the broken and helping taking the dangerous people off the streets. With the highs came the lows and in 2013 John suffered a major nervous...

Duration:00:41:08

Laurence Halsted - Seeing The Person Behind The Athlete Is Essential

3/30/2022

My guest this week questions the idea of what success is and how most people can look at sport and life in a very different way. Laurence Halsted is a double-Olympian, a fencer who achieved European medals as well helping to take the GB fencing programme from amateur to professional and qualify for an Olympics in the team event for the first time in the modern era. He’s a former performance director for the Danish Fencing Federation and now Director of Mentoring at The True Athlete Project...

Duration:01:08:46

Dr. Jim Loehr - Every Dose Of Stress Is A Gift

3/23/2022

Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist and cofounder of The Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute. He has worked with hundred of world-class performers from the arenas of sport, business, medicine, law enforcement, military and much, much more. Sport clients have included tennis players Jim Courier, Monica Seles and Andre Agassi, golfers Mark O’Meara and Justin Rose, boxer Ray Mancini, Ice hockey stars Eric Lindros and Mike Richter and Olympic gold medal speed...

Duration:01:19:00

Craig White Part 2 - Nothing Is Ever In The Way, It's On The Way

3/16/2022

In part two of my discussion with Craig White we go into Transcendental Meditation, centering, flow states, the roles of breath, sound, touch and movement and much, much more, but we start by talking about Embodied Learning - what it means, and how it works, as well as the sensation we’ve all felt, our gut feeling. Show Notes: Alan Watts - https://www.youtube.com/c/AlanWattsOrg/videos James Haskell Podcast episode with Craig - https://apple.co/3CKiKeL NLP -...

Duration:00:47:54

Craig White Part 1 - Confusion Always Precedes New Learning

3/9/2022

Craig White's credentials in rugby are impeccable. Roles at Wasps, Ireland, Wales, The British and Irish Lions as well as his journey with the Uruguay team at the last Rugby World Cup, fill his CV. He started in strength and conditioning but has added so much more at places like Bolton Wanderers Football Club, where he acted as consultant to manager Sam Alladyce. Relating to the Bolton part of his life, there is some swearing in this section of the podcast. We don’t usually include swearing...

Duration:00:56:20

Andrew Milburn - Nine Times Out Of Ten Your Gut Is Right

3/2/2022

Andrew Milburn retired from the US Marine Corps in 2019 and has since gone on to write the highly acclaimed memoir ‘When The Tempest Gathers: A Marine Special Operations Commander At War’. As an infantry and special operations officer, Andy has had operational command at every rank which included leading the multinational special operations task force given the mission of defeating ISIS in Iraq. This has obviously led to some very dangerous situations and from all his experiences, he shares...

Duration:01:06:07

Wendy Searle - Just Get Out The Door

2/23/2022

This week's podcast comes from one of the most inhospitable but beautiful places on earth as we chat to explorer, Wendy Searle. A mother of four with a busy job, Wendy wanted to show others that extraordinary is available to everyone. She is the seventh woman and fourth fastest in history to ski solo and unassisted from the coastline of Antartica to the South Pole. The 715 mile route took her 42 days, she fell over every day, lost 12kg in bodyweight, had moments of pure elation and moments...

Duration:00:59:17

Marcus Daniell - There's A Relationship Between Rest And Pushing Too Hard

2/16/2022

This week's guest is professional tennis player, Olympic medallist and founder of the brilliant High Impact Athletes organisation, New Zealander, Marcus Daniell. The chat you're about to hear is a very honest one from someone who's learnt so much from the journey he has taken. It's easy to think that being a professional athlete means that, not only do you know everything about preparation and performance, but that you also have an entourage around you to help and guide you. For the huge...

Duration:01:00:39

Allistair McCaw - You Can't Give Energy, If You Don't Have Energy

2/9/2022

So, It’s series three and for my first guest of the re-branded 'Culture & Performance Podcast' I thought it would great to kick off with a best-selling author and speaker and someone who’s recognised as one of the world's foremost figures in leadership, team culture and performance, Allistair McCaw. For over 25 years Allistair has worked with some of the most successful people, teams, colleges and organisations in the world. We first met when we were both presenting at a conference for...

Duration:00:59:06