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The Ben Ryan Podcast
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’...
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Jon Norfolk - The Leverage You Can Create From An Under-Performance Is Really Strong
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 e...
Scott Drawer - We Need To Value The Off-load As Well As The Load
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 a...
Robbie Elliott Part 2 - Being First Is Not Always The Best
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 f...
Robbie Elliott Part 1 - There's Definitely A Difference Between Luck And Fortune
After last weeks chat with Darius Charles, we stay on the football theme with another ex Professional footballer, Robbie Elliott. Robbie had almost tw...
Darius Charles - I Was Creating A World Where Opportunities Would Come My Way
This week I’m delighted to bring you a chat with someone who grabs life by both hands, former footballer Darius Charles.
Darius re...
Stuart Lancaster Part 2 - To Get Trust, You've Got To Give Trust
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...
Stuart Lancaster Part 1 - You Don’t Get High Performance And Just Tag Culture On At The End
Todays show is the first part of another brilliant conversation, this time with rugby coach Stuart Lancaster.
Stuart is currently...
Ask Me Anything
Thanks to the following for their great questions which formed the basis of this week’s Ask Me Anything show.
On Twitter - Brad Al...
John Sutherland Part 2 - The Best Leaders Understand They Don’t Have All The Answers
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...
John Sutherland Part 1 - We Are More Than The Names That We Have And The Positions We Hold
John Sutherland joined the Met Police in 1992 after receiving the baton of honour, presented to the outstanding student during an officer’s basic trai...
Laurence Halsted - Seeing The Person Behind The Athlete Is Essential
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.
L...
Dr. Jim Loehr - Every Dose Of Stress Is A Gift
Dr. Jim Loehr is a world-renowned performance psychologist and cofounder of The Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute.
He...
Craig White Part 2 - Nothing Is Ever In The Way, It's On The Way
In part two of my discussion with Craig White we go into Transcendental Meditation, centering, flow states, the roles of breath, sound, touch and move...
Craig White Part 1 - Confusion Always Precedes New Learning
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...
Andrew Milburn - Nine Times Out Of Ten Your Gut Is Right
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...
Wendy Searle - Just Get Out The Door
This week's podcast comes from one of the most inhospitable but beautiful places on earth as we chat to explorer, Wendy Searle.
A...
Marcus Daniell - There's A Relationship Between Rest And Pushing Too Hard
This week's guest is professional tennis player, Olympic medallist and founder of the brilliant High Impact Athletes organisation, New Zealander, Marc...
Allistair McCaw - You Can't Give Energy, If You Don't Have Energy
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-sellin...
Series 3 Coming Shortly And With A New Name!
Series 3 starts on Feb 02 with a re-branded podcast 'Culture and Performance with Ben Ryan' which will encapsulate all things that Ben holds dear with...
Series 2 Summary & Ben's Best Books
Ben will be back in a few weeks time with more great conversations in Series 3. In the meantime, please check out past podcast episodes as well as so...
Martin Buccheit & George Perry - Learning What Not To Do, Is As Important As Knowing What To Do
It's two for the price of one on this week's podcast as I'm joined by two world-class operators. The first, Martin Buchheit, I have known and worked a...
Heather Fisher - It’s About Proving Myself Right, Not People Wrong
For today’s show, It’s the awesome Heather Fisher. Heather recently finished her stellar International Rugby career that’s included winning a World Cu...
Chris Skelley - Keep Moving Forward, Keep Staying Positive
For today's show it's the irrepresible Chris Skelley. Only a couple of months ago he won Judo gold in the visually impared under 100kg category at the...
Aidan McCullen Part 3 - Leaders Need To Be More Like Coaches
Today’s show its the last in a three-part series with former rugby player Aidan McCullen who these days is an executive coach, host of the weekly podc...
Aidan McCullen Part 2 - There’s Nothing In A Caterpillar, That Tells You It’s Going To Be A Butterfly
Today’s show is the second of a three-part series with former rugby player, turned exec coach, podcaster and writer, Aidan McCullen.
Las...
Aidan McCullen Part 1 - If It Takes Slower To Get There, It’ll Last Longer
Aidan McCullen played professional rugby for over a decade, including huge clubs like Leinster and Toulouse and was capped by Ireland too, but since h...
Alice Dearing - You Thrive When Surrounded By Good People
For today’s show, I chat to an athlete who's just returned from her first Olympic Games , open water swimmer, Alice Dearing. When we met in a small pa...
Tom Mitchell Part 2 - How Putting Your Plate Away Can Lead To The Team Scoring More Goals
It’s the second part of the chat I had, walking through Richmond Park in South London, with Olympic Silver Medallist and England and Team GB Rugby Sev...
Tom Mitchell Part 1 - Excitement And Fear Walk The Path Hand-In-Hand
Tom Mitchell, Olympic Silver Medallist and England and Team GB Rugby Sevens Captain at both the Rio and Tokyo Olympic Games is this week's guest.
Jeremy Snape - There's A Lot Of Things You Can Do If Your Radar's Up
As a cricketer, Jeremy Snape achieved international honours with England as well as captaining county side Leicestershire, but it’s perhaps for his wo...
Joe De Sena - Nothing Good Happens After 11pm
Joe De Sena is a force of nature. I first became aware of Joe through podcasts like The Tim Ferris Show and Rich Roll and decided to reach out. Joe's...
Kelly Sotherton - Throw Positive Thoughts Out And They'll Come Back Somewhere
As a heptathlete, Kelly Sotherton had huge success. A triple Olympic medalist, Commonwealth Games gold medalist and with European and world medals. Bu...
Osea Kolinisau - When You Don't Have Much, You Help Each Other Out
Former Fiji sevens captain and my great friend, Osea Kolinisau, or Oscar, as he is known in rugby, is this week's star guest.
Flag beare...
Owen Eastwood - Belonging
Owen Eastwood is a performance consultant who’s book ‘Belonging’ I devoured recently. Topping the charts in his native New Zealand, it’s crammed full...
Cath Bishop - There's More Than A Medal At Stake
Ex-International Rower Cath Bishop won World Titles and has been to three Olympics including the 2004 games in Athens where she won a silver, but resu...
Liz McColgan - Everyone Is An Individual
Series 2 kicks off with Olympian and former world champion athlete, Liz McColgan.
Liz had a glittering career in athletics on both the t...
Series 2 - On It's Way!
Series 2 starts on July 07 with former World Champion and Olympic Silver Medalist Liz McColgan the first of many weekly guests. Details of how you can...
Short - Kelly Sotherton speaks about the relationship between athletes and the press
As part of their discussion, which will be aired in full as part of series 2 of the Ben Ryan Podcast, Ben sat down with former heptathlete Kelly Sothe...
Series 1 Review
Welcome back to the podcast where this week I take a look back over series one with the help of my partner, TV presenter Michelle Ackerley.
Greg Barden - 'Life Isn't Black And White'
Greg Barden was the youngest to ever pass Special Forces Selection and his journey from the Special Boat Service to England Sevens and company founder...