Hosted by Ben Herring · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 129 episodes
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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.
Ben Herring hosts Coaching Culture with Ben Herring, a sports show with 129 episodes published.
Japan has a way of exposing your coaching habits in seconds. The standards feel sharper, the respect is unmistakable, and the smallest details suddenly matter more than your favorite playbook. We’re joined by Matt Cobain
A 60-5 final score makes headlines, but the real story is what has to be true inside a team for that kind of performance to show up when it matters most. We’re joined by Tom Kinley, General Manager of the Hurricanes, to
Getting selection wrong isn’t only about who you pick. It’s about how you tell people. We dig into one of the most uncomfortable parts of coaching: delivering news that changes an athlete’s week, their confidence, and so
Ever wonder why some teams click faster, learn quicker, and bounce back stronger? We unpack the real levers behind high performance—where data sharpens intuition, language creates buy-in, and framing turns meetings into
What happens when a record-setting, globe-trotting winger trades the try line for a whiteboard? We sit down with Nems to explore how he’s building the Fijian Drua development pathway with a people-first approach that sti
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 son or daughter, even w
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 about the unseen work b
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 pulling themselves f
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 and play” to a no-excus
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 coaches use and misuse
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 South Africa, Englan
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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 non-negotiable standards create e
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 performance metric that
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 Davi
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 e
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”
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
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
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. From describing himsel
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