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
Choose What You Inherit
My dad is about to turn 80, and it’s made me think hard about the quiet stuff we pick up from our parents: the phrases, the reflexes, the way we decide what’s “possible.” Some of that inheritance is gold. Some of it needs to be left behind. I s...
Lost 7 Finals By One Point. Then Won | Club Newman
A rugby club with 1,500 players shouldn’t feel personal, yet Newman Club in Buenos Aires somehow does. Alfredo Cordone explains how Argentina’s club-first rugby pathway creates a level of belonging most countries have lost, where the club becom...
The Welsh Rugby Programme Punching WAY Above Its Weight | Coleg Sir Gar
A lot of talent pathways talk about “development,” but few are honest about what it really takes to build better players without losing the person. We sit down with Euros Evans, Director of Rugby at Coleg Sir Gar and Head Coach at Llandovery RF...
Building A British And Irish Expat Rugby Team
A lot of people talk about “culture” like it’s a slogan. Dan Elsom lives it, by building a brand-new representative rugby team for the British and Irish expat community in Australia, then turning it into a real platform for players who want mor...
Inside Canada’s Rugby Factory | Shawnigan Lake School
Watching pro rugby on TV can make school rugby look intimidating, but the truth is far more hopeful and far more practical. We’re joined by Tim Murdy, Director of Sport at Shawnigan Lake School, to talk about how a youth rugby program becomes a...
Fan Mail
Hi Ben. Thanks for the show and the reflections. Picking up on your 10 Jun pod on coaching your child, I was left wondering about how you would approach my situation? You touch on a parent projecting what a child could be. In my case, the child is clear to everyone she will be a really good player as a young adult (in 6 years time) but isn't prepared to admit that would need work and to commit time she thinks she doesn't have available. As a coach (and dad) I've had to back off from trying to help her with the practice and accept she isn't ready to do the work to fulfil her potential and there is a mismatch between what she could do if she tried, and what she is doing. Am waiting for the penny to drop but interested if you have any thoughts on coaching your own child who wants to play but is less keen on the practice? Many thanks. First time messenger. Dave J
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