Coach Life 2.0

In this episode, Jack Rosenkrantz, an executive coach and yoga teacher, shares his journey from a high-stress sales career to becoming a coach. He emphasizes the importance of taking responsibility for one's life and finding authentic desires and goals. Jack discusses his approach to coaching, which focuses on meeting clients where they are and helping them clarify their vision and dreams. He...

Nick Passarelli, a financial services professional with over 20 years of experience, shares his insights from coaching his own children in youth sports for 11 years. Nick discusses the challenges of coaching young children, such as managing their expectations and teaching them good sportsmanship. He also highlights the differences between coaching boys and girls. Nick shares how his coaching exper...

This week’s episode features Susan Hobson , the Founder and CEO of Elite High Performance Inc. Susan is an Author, Keynote Speaker, and High Performance Leadership Executive Coach who specializes in mindset strategy architecture, also known as Success Psychology Brain Training. A former professional female hockey player and Princeton Graduate, Susan holds a masters in Neuro-linguisitc programming...

This week’s episode features Wally Kozak. Wally is known as one of the best technical hockey coaches in the world. A retired teacher and life-long coach, he has worked at every level of hockey and has contributed to Hockey Canada’s certification programs with age appropriate curriculum for teaching foundational skills. Wally was a defensive skills coach with the Canadian men’s hockey team at the 1...

Kasy Kiarash is the founder of Final3rd Soccer , a platform providing professional soccer training and knowledge to players of all ages. Kasy is a UEFA-B Licensed and National Team coach who has worked with the Guyana women's national team, Orlando City S.C, and Toronto FC academy. He is currently in his 7th season as the Men's Soccer Lead Assistant Coach at Ryerson University and has been coachin...

This week’s episode features Matt Holmberg . Matt is entering into his 15th season with the Queen’s University women’s hockey program, and his 12th season as Head Coach. Queens has made the playoffs in all twelve seasons with Holmberg at the helm, and they have the second highest winning percentage in the OUA over that span. He holds the Gael’s women’s hockey record for most regular season and pla...

This week’s episode features Dr. Beth McCharles . Beth is a mother of three who runs a private practice as a mental performance coach. She works with National Sport Organizations, including Hockey Canada and Curling Canada, and serves as a mentor coach with Ryerson University’s athletic department. A successful dual-sport athlete in Ice Hockey and Soccer during her collegiate career, Beth was indu...

This week’s episode features Haley Irwin. Haley is in her second season as the lead assistant coach with the Ryerson University women’s hockey program. She is a three-time olympic medallist, and two-time olympic champion, representing Team Canada at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 games. Following the 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang, Irwin began to shift her focus from playing to giving back to the game. Pri...

This week’s episode features Stephanie Jones. Stephanie is the Associate Head Coach of the University of New Hampshire’s women’s hockey program. She has been with the Wildcats for 19 seasons and counting, the first four as a standout student-athlete, and the past 15 as a member of the coaching staff. From 2007-2010, Stephanie helped guide New Hampshire to four consecutive NCAA tournament appearanc...

This week's episode features Liz Keady Norton, the Associate Head Coach of the Boston University Women’s Hockey program.  Liz began her coaching career almost a decade ago at Andover High School. She then entered the division 1 coaching ranks, with stints as an assistant coach at Union College and Harvard University before joining BU in 2017. Liz is also in her 13th year as the General Manage...

This week’s episode features Marcello Lio. Marcello is currently serving as the Football Director and JV Head Basketball Coach at St. Andrew’s College in Aurora Ontario. He has over 22 years of coaching experience at a variety of levels from grass roots to professional, with the Bergamo Lions of the European American Football Association. Marcello has coached with Football Canada’s Junior National...

This week’s episode features Stephanie White, the Director of Sport at Western University.  Stephanie has over 20 years of experience working in athletics. She holds a Master’s in Leadership from the University of Guelph, where her major research paper was on Coaches’ ethical behaviour and the impact on student-athlete performance. Steph has also coached women’s hockey at the provincial, nati...

This week’s episode features Vanessa Stratton. Vanessa is a Level 4 certified hockey official with 20 years of refereeing experience. She has served at various levels of minor hockey, from grass roots to junior, and has also officiated at 8 National Championship Tournaments and 7 IIHF World championships, including the Women’s Worlds in 2016. Vanessa holds a Bachelor of Sport Management, A Master...

This week's episode features Rachel Flanagan.  Rachel is in her 14th season as head coach of the women's hockey program at the University of Guelph. During her first 13 seasons as head coach, Coach Flanagan has taken the Gryphon women's hockey program to new heights, securing the school's first ever national title in 2018-19 while capturing a total of three OUA titles (2018-19, 2016-17 &...

This week’s episode features Dave Gwyn. Dave is in his 20th season as a minor hockey coach in the Greater Toronto Area. He spent his first 8 seasons in the GTHL with the Wexford Raiders AAA program. In 2006, he transitioned to the girls game, and in his second season, lead the Scarborough Sharks Midget AA program to a provincial championship and a silver medal at the inaugural Esso Cup in Calgary....

This week's episode features Jessica Roque, head coach of the University of Waterloo women's basketball program.  Roque is in her first year with the Warriors, after making the move from the Ryerson Rams where she spent the past four seasons as the full-time Assistant Coach.   With the Rams, Roque was the lead in preparing in-game tactics, practice facilitation, game film breakdown,...

This week’s episode features Dan Church. Dan was named the head coach of the Lions women’s hockey program in 2004 and is the longest-serving active head coach at York. In addition to his work with the Lions, Church is a coach mentor for the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association (OWHA). He also has extensive national and international experience with Canadian women’s teams at a number of different age...

This week’s episode features Ken Dufton, a hockey coach with an extensive and storied history in the game, amassing almost 50 years of coaching experience to date. Ken’s father was a founding member of the Don Mills Flyers AAA program in Ontario, the organization with which he spent the first decade of his coaching career. In 1984, he transitioned to the women’s game, and became a pioneer in the g...

This week's episode features Kim McCullough. Kim is the Director & Founder of Total Female Hockey, an organization that empowers players and coaches in the female game with the information and inspiration they need to drive their own success. For the past 13 years, Coach Kim has worked with thousands of players and teams across North America, both on and off the ice, sharing her experiences an...

This week's episode features Jess Turi, a hockey coach with over 13 years of experience behind the bench.   Jess served as a head coach in the PWHL for 7 seasons before spending the last two years as an assistant coach with the University of Toronto women's hockey program.  She has also served as a high school hockey coach for the past 10 years, winning 3 ROPPSA gold medals to date.&nbsp...

This week’s episode features basketball coach Carly Clarke. Carly is currently in her 9th season as head coach of the Ryerson University women’s basketball program. In 2016, she led the Rams to their first ever OUA championship title. The team would go on the become the first Ryerson team in any sport to make an appearance in the national championship final, where they finished with the silver med...

This week’s episode features Lisa Haley, a Canadian ice hockey coach, wife and mother. Lisa has spent 23 seasons as head coach in USports women's hockey, tying her for the longest tenure in history of the league. She spent her first 14 years at St. Mary’s University in Nova Scotia, before joining Ryerson University in Toronto, where she is currently in her 10th season behind the bench. Lisa also h...

Today’s show features hockey coach Kori Cheverie. After an illustrious playing career at St. Mary’s university and in the CWHL with the Toronto Furies, Kori joined the Ryerson Mens Hockey coaching staff in 2016, becoming the first female full-time assistant coach in USports mens hockey history. She is currently in her fifth season with the men's program at Ryerson, and is also serving as an Assist...

This week's interview is with Geoff Haddaway, a hockey coach with extensive experience in both the men's and women's game. Geoff has won numerous Coach of the Year accolades, has served as a coach with Team Ontario U18 at several National Championships, and has worked with Hockey Canada at their development camps. Geoff is currently in his 9th season as head coach of the Cambridge Rivulettes, and...