Coaching Culture with Ben Herring
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.
Coaching Culture with Ben Herring
Latest Episodes
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. We sit down with David Nucifora, a longtime p...
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 high, and game day when every decision gets judge...
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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 why “team as family” sets people up to fail,...
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 head. Confidence dips, choices get slower, an...
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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 organized collision, how the ball operates as a symb...
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