🎙️ Episode 360 – Fishbowling & Unlocking Coaching Potential with Russell Earnshaw

Welcome back to The Coaches Network Podcast! In this special episode, Coach Yas is joined once again by the ever-insightful Russell Earnshaw – known to many as Rusty – for a rich conversation exploring what it truly means to coach with purpose, flexibility, and curiosity.

🔑 What’s Inside This Episode?

Rusty and Yas dive into:

• 🧠 The lock and key analogy for coaching – why no coach holds all the keys and how collaboration opens more doors for players.
• 📋 The critical importance of intentional session planning – and what happens when coaches aren’t aligned.
• 🔄 How self-awareness and honesty about your coaching preferences (e.g., not enjoying 1:1 coaching) can enhance player outcomes.
• 🧩 The value of understanding your own coaching strengths and blind spots – and when to hand the reins to someone better suited.
• 🗺️ Why identifying team values (like confidence, decision-making, or self-organisation) must shape your planning.
• 🤝 How involving players in the planning process can foster autonomy and resilience.

This episode is packed with golden takeaways for coaches at all levels who are keen to reflect on:

• Their intention behind planning
• How to design environments that reflect core values
• And how to collaborate better with co-coaches to unlock collective potential.

📌 Whether you’re a coach developer, grassroots leader or elite performance coach, this episode will get you thinking differently about how and why you plan.

🔗 Connect with Rusty:

Twitter/X: @_RustyEarnshaw

Website: The Magic Academy

🗣️ Let us know your thoughts and biggest takeaways by tagging us on social media or using the hashtag #TheCoachesNetwork.

🎙 Episode 359: Creating Coaching Cultures That Care – with Temisan Williams (Coach Accelerator)

In this episode, CoachYas is joined by Temisan Williams, founder of Coach Accelerator and a seasoned academy coach with over 15 years of experience across clubs like Tottenham, Southend United, and Fulham. Temisan shares his powerful journey from aspiring footballer to coach, diving into the personal moments and pivotal lessons that shaped his mission to support coaches and players with care, empathy, and intention.

💬 In this episode, we discuss:

• Why Temisan left a Biomedical Science degree to pursue coaching
• The importance of creating player-first environments in academies
• Supporting coaches globally through the Coach Accelerator community
• The reality of player experiences beyond the pitch – including a powerful story of loss and resilience
• Learning from transitions between elite and grassroots environments
• How coach adaptability and awareness can transform development journeys

🧠 Whether you're working in grassroots or the academy system, this episode unpacks the human side of coaching and reminds us of the bigger picture behind player development.

🔗 Connect with Temisan & Coach Accelerator:

Instagram: @coach_temisan

Website: www.coach-accelerator.com

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Episode #358 of The Coaches Network Podcast.

The guest for this episode is Adam Kelly.

Adam is an Associate Professor of Sport and Exercise and Course Leader for Professional Doctorate in Sport (DSport) at Birmingham City University, United Kingdom. I am also Leader of the newly established BCU Research for Athlete and Youth Sport Development (RAYSD) Lab. Alongside completing a PhD at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom, I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist (BASES CSci), and FA UEFA A Licenced Coach. Join us as Adam shares his thoughts on how talent can be better identified and practitioners and organisations can implement more robust, effective and nurturing talent development systems and environments. Enjoy!

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Episode #356 of The Coaches Network Podcast.

The guest for this episode is Sarah Murray.

Sarah Murray is a high performance coach and experienced performance psychologist. Sarah works with teams, individuals and leaders to enhance and develop understanding of themselves and those they lead.

She uses her expertise to develop high performance people, pathways and leaders. Her aim is to enable individuals to thrive in fast paced, dynamic performance worlds by connecting them with their super strengths and using these effectively.

Sarah has over 14 years experience working with individuals in elite sport , business and education. She has worked with a range of national sporting teams and organisations including many years working with a premier league football club. Enjoy!

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Episode #354 of The Coaches Network Podcast.

The guest for this episode is Stephen Maxwell.

Stephen is a Lifelong Learning enthusiast, Coach Education Manager with Cricket Ireland, Founder and Creator of No Other Game Around, Performance Analyst, Coach Developer across multiple sports and High Performance Coach. Join us as Stephen shares his thoughts on how coach and coach developers can uphold high standards for themselves and challenge one another to be the best versions of themselves. Enjoy!

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Episode #353 of The Coaches Network Podcast.

The guest for this episode is Larry Raji.

Lanre Adio Raj better known as Larry in the world of football is a UEFA A Licence Goalkeeping Coach, currently plying his trade within the Academy at West Ham United FC, having held previous roles at Norwich, QPR & Brentford just to name a few. Larry joins Coach Yas in sharing his insights from a 25+ year journey as a coach, his thoughts on how goalkeeping has changed over the years and importance of mentoring for coaches at all levels. Enjoy

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Episode #351 of The Coaches Network Podcast.

The guest for this episode is Cody Royle.

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Episode #352 of The Coaches Network Podcast.

Following many requests around more interactive segments on the podcast, myself and colleague Gerard Jones get together each week to discuss questions that have been put to us, topics requested and themes that have emerged from our own experiences. These discussions take place live as part of a 'X' space every Sunday evening GMT. You could get involved live or listen back right here on a Wednesday.

Discussions typically range from 30-60 minutes and each episode Gerard and myself will be going into some real depth and sharing our views and opinions on the topic to leave with you key takeaways to consider in your own environments.

However we're trying something new for this month and each of our sessions throughout the month of July can see coaches accredited with 1 hour FA CPD Hours following the completion of a brief post session task, if this is something of interest to you, you can sign up with the link below.

https://forms.gle/fLPPxHsh7JFQARG5A

So the favour I’m asking for is for you to let me know your thoughts on this new format and you could do by getting in touch on Twitter/X @thecoachesnet , once again that is @thecoachesnet and of course if you have a question feel free to send that in too! Hope you enjoy the new format!

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