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Joe grew up in Merseyside and idolised Shane Warne growing up. He made his club first team debut aged just 13 and by the age of 15 was being asked to coach junior cricketers at the club. After finishing sixth form college he went to Australia for a winter to play and coach and whilst there made the decision to move to London where he found a club who offered him the chance to play and coach. 10 years on he is still as keen as ever to push on and find an opportunity to play in the game professionally but in the mean time he loves his coaching in the UK and down under. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Gary has experience of starting up and taking to market a tech based business in the education sector. He is also a junior sports coach and parent of two sporty children. As a junior player with Somerset he recalls how he never really got the right feedback at the right time to help him kick on with his development as a player. As a parent of two children who love their sport he has witnessed countless occasions where the opportunity to provide insightful and impactful feedback has not been taken which has left his kids feeling insecure and in turn made him feel frustrated as a parent. Go Fathom is an app which addresses all of this in one place in real time and enables coaches to provide feedback quickly and simply whilst enabling the parents to maintain control the data. For more info on Fathom go to the Fathomcricket.com website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This time last year Ian Livingston came on to chat with me about the inaugural coach development day in which I shared the background to the event, why I felt it was important and who was the day aimed towards. In this episode Livo asks me to share details of what is different this time around: slightly shorter day, different sessions, more partner organisations so lots for coaches to benefit from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard is a Baptist Minister, hockey coach, Motivational Interviewing expert and parent of three sporty children. He is interested in finding ways of helping athletes get more curious about their own performance and learning through non judgemental acknowledgement and asking more questions as opposed to jumping in to help straight away. This is a fascinating look in to an area that will be new to most cricket coaches but one worth investigating further for sure which I will will be doing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

David started playing cricket for the first time in his first year of senior school and immediately fell in love with it. He went on to captain the school's second eleven and joined Abberton CC where he tried coaching for the first time. This led to an introduction to coaching with Essex CAG juniors which is where he met his now business partner Brian. After a tough time with work over Lockdown David decided to jump into coaching full time and so co-created Centurion Community Cricket with Brian where their aim is to grow the game and grow communities around the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode we hear from Peter on how an initial trip to Kenya inspired him to pave a career path in coaching which then took him to South Africa before returning to the UK. He talks about the importance of ensuring that kids he coaches have fun, grow in confidence and learn more about themselves as individuals as well as the game. As someone who places as high value on developing himself and continuously learning he tries to bring this into his coaching too for the benefit of the kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Marcus started playing cricket when as an 8 year old he was invited to the club where his Dad was junior coordinator and he just instantly fell in love with the game. He now plays first team club cricket and takes the lead on all matters relating to the re-build of the junior section starting with the thriving All Stars and Dynamos programmes. His vision is to see Woodbridge produce enough juniors to play senior cricket ten years from now and nothing is going to stop him achieving this goal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Luke grew up in a very sporty family and cricket was one of the sports he got introduced to very young. He played cricket at school and remembers coaches and teachers who encouraged him to have fun when it came to sport. Going to Uni he needed to find a placement opportunity to help him with his Spanish so reached out to a friend who knew someone at the MCC who put Luke in touch with someone at the Argentinian Cricket Association and before long Luke found himself in Buenos Aires working in schools and local clubs with young cricketers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A wonderful panel of guests representing the coaching and leadership community in Cricket (Dinesha Devnarain), Rowing (Cath Bishop), Football (Lewis Nightingale) and Rugby (Will Webster). We hear each of the guests views on the following three questions: 1. How is success measured as a coach in your sport? 2. Describe your greatest challenge as an athlete and compare that to your greatest challenge as a coach. 3. How much emphasis is there placed on Winning in your sport? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dane is a massive believer in how the culture and environment you create as a coach directly links to how players perform and behave. He has seen this first hand good and not so good as a player and now wants to ensure he does all he can to create the best culture and environment for those players he coaches. He is also a great believer in a coach being a support role to players who leads by example from the front, so that means if a player needs you to be there to throw balls at 6am you are there etc etc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Graeme's first recollection of coaching in London was to a group of primary school kids on the fifth floor roof of a building in Hampstead! Fast forward a few years and he is coaching in the nets with Middlesex academy and chatting with Toby Radford and from this conversation an opportunity arises which Graeme takes with both hands which takes him and his family to the Caribbean for 7 years during which time he leads the West Indies U19s to World Cup success in Bangladesh. He now is Director of High Performance with Cricket Ireland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CricFit specialise in providing S&C resource to amateur cricketers. Sam as its founder is someone with a strong background in the game, who grew up in the county age group junior ranks of Northants but fell out of love with cricket around the age of 16-17. Having spent time in NZ playing aged 18 Sam went to Uni in Sheffield and got stuck into his Sports Science degree and then Lockdown hit. During this time he shared some of his thoughts and ideas around cricket fitness online and this was the start of CricFit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adi's first experience of coaching was in south African townships in 1986 where he wasn't a very popular figure simply because he was white. Post Mandela's release he got involved in coaching the Eastern Province youth from U13-18 and from there got into coaching at the top level of the game. He is from farming background and never played first class cricket so uses his love of the land and wildlife to help him create messages and build themes fit for purpose in cementing team values, develop togetherness and address challenges and has never looked back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jon has had a lifelong involvement in cricket culminating in becoming Chair of Eastbourne CC a year ago. One of his main goals for his first year in office was to get behind the ground breaking idea that Cricket District put to him which was about creating a cricket festival and league for state educated kids across the county of Sussex. In its first year this event has seen 50 children take part in a range of formats including pairs cricket, Hundred format and T20 and has been a great success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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