Coaching Sports Needs to Change – Details, episodes & analysis

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Coaching Sports Needs to Change

Helen Wright

Sports

Frequency: 1 episode/64d. Total Eps: 16

Helen Wright, author of the book “Barefoot Flying”, is a five-time university national championship coach and has been influential in creating and promoting rugby in Canada. Helen believes that coaching must change to be relevant for today’s athletes and participants.

These podcasts will appeal to coaches, players, parents, administrators, and anyone who is interested in sport delivery or coaching in any medium.

Please join Helen and her guests as they discuss and explore how coaching has affected lives and how it can change to be a more positive and enjoyable experience for everyone.

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🇨🇦 Canada - Rugby
16/09/2026
#51
🇩🇪 Germany - Rugby
16/09/2026
#19
🇨🇦 Canada - Rugby
15/09/2026
#46
🇩🇪 Germany - Rugby
15/09/2026
#16
🇨🇦 Canada - Rugby
14/09/2026
#39
🇩🇪 Germany - Rugby
14/09/2026
#11
🇨🇦 Canada - Rugby
13/09/2026
#33
🇩🇪 Germany - Rugby
13/09/2026
#8
🇨🇦 Canada - Rugby
12/09/2026
#31
🇩🇪 Germany - Rugby
12/09/2026
#7

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Episode 16 - Pay It Forward

Season 1 · Episode 16

Thursday, November 6, 2025 • Duration 15:08

Podcast #16 is about the vulnerability of coaches as they grow older in their years and in the game and the value they have to the community of sport. This podcast is taken from a speech that Helen delivered to a masters rugby club, where she encourages masters level players and coaches to continue to provide mentorship and leadership to their communities… ultimately “paying it forward”.

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Episode 15 - Coaching Relationships with Other Coaches

Thursday, July 25, 2024 • Duration 23:14

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.

This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.

Podcast #15 is about the relationship that coaches develop with other coaches. It delves into the nuances of coaching with other coaches and how those relationships can be positive or negative. It also takes a look at the relationships that coaches have with opposing coaches and how society has conditioned that scenario to be combative based on the great “competitive” lie.

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Preparing for the Possibility of Not Being Picked

Season 1 · Episode 14

Thursday, April 25, 2024 • Duration 14:55

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.

This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.

Podcast #14 is a must for players. It describes the vital difference between who you are and what you do. This podcast describes some of Helen’s experiences and her ideas about how to maneuver through that selection process with your own self worth intact.

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The Trauma of Rep Teams and Selection

Season 1 · Episode 13

Wednesday, March 27, 2024 • Duration 23:27

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada. This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.

Podcast #13 is a must for players, coaches and parents who are involved in representative levels of sport where the selection process can be traumatic and leave negative self esteem blueprints for the player.

This podcast describes some of Helen’s experiences and her ideas about how to maneuver through that selection process with your own self worth in tact.

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Episode 12 - Interview With a 15 Year Old Hockey Player

Monday, February 26, 2024 • Duration 26:38

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada. This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.

Episode #12 is an interview with Wyatt, a fifteen-year-old hockey player. Wyatt describes his motivation for playing sports and how he got started. There is an interesting connection to the sensory regulation that results as a natural outcome from practicing the skills of hockey and the related joy he feels in those moments. He describes the influences of his coaches and his team mates and provides a surprisingly positive and mature view of sport’s value to the lives of young participants.

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Episode 11 - The seeds of abuse

Season 1 · Episode 11

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 • Duration 17:26

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.

This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.

Episode #11 is a must hear for parents, players, and coaches. She discusses the nuances and subtleties of the seeds of abuse. She talks about what to be aware of in the environment of sport where the balances of power can tilt.

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Episode 10 - When winning is not a good thing

Season 1 · Episode 10

Friday, December 22, 2023 • Duration 15:47

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been and influential creator and promoter of women’s rugby in Canada.

This podcast speaks to the addiction of winning and the resulting self judgement that losing can contribute to our self esteem.

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Episode 9 - Interview with Nikki Clouter

Season 1 · Episode 9

Friday, November 24, 2023 • Duration 29:17

**This episode contains expletive language**

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada. This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.

Episode #9 is an interview with Nikki Cloutier, who has been an untiring volunteer in this community. Nikki has played rugby to high performance levels; she has coached everything from under fives to senior teams and she has been a primary contributor and administrator in the Edmonton and Alberta rugby Unions.

Nikki discusses her love and passion for the game and the challenges that could push her to consider leaving the game. Nikki is not the only volunteer to feel this immense stress and unless this environment changes, we will soon lose the game that we have all grown to love.

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Episode 8 - Power Over and Boundaries

Season 1 · Episode 8

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 • Duration 19:18

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada. This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change.

Episode #8 looks at the concept of “power over” and boundaries. It discusses how players, coaches and individuals can retain their own power, while still reaching for goals and overcoming challenges. It also talks about boundaries and how to know what they are and when to use them.

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Episode 7 - The Art of Strategy

Season 1 · Episode 7

Monday, September 25, 2023 • Duration 18:16

Helen Wright is a five-time university national championship rugby coach and has been an influential creator and promotor of women’s rugby in Canada.

This podcast is about her views and discussions on how coaching sports needs to change. Episode #7 takes a look why coaches need to create strategies and how asking the right questions can lead you to finding your mission statement and creating strategies that are in alignment with who you are as a coach, regardless of whether you are coaching under five soccer or high performance rugby.

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Coaching Sports Needs to Change – Details, episodes & analysis

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