The Magic Academy

Rusty chats with his magic lessons friends, Magic Academy members and trainee wizards Sinan and Ben plus Magic Circle member Tom Luddington... 

Fletch takes the reins this week and chats with William Bryce  about the NFL academy based in London

Rusty chats with Ugo Monte... Harlequin, England and British Lion, father and commentator... Chats all things being human, being Fletch’s favourite commentator, immediate feedback on social media, winning championships and hanging with the Magic academy during lockdown...

Jared Payne... ex-Crusader, Irish International and British and Irish Lion chats player-to-coach with Rusty. From his first day as a coach to what he has been up to over lockdown and everything in between.

Topsy Ojo (London Irish legend and one club man) and Dr Daniel Fujiwara (expert in well-being) chat all things well-being in sport with Rusty

Danny Newcombe and Will Roberts from Boing Kids join Rusty to chat all things 'Bears in the Woods', coach development and how we take webinars to the pitch more effectively.

Rusty chats with Damian Hughes, storyteller extraordinaire and all things truth tellers versus time tellers, cultural architects, momento mori and (the radio DJ) Chris Evans. Similar WiFi to Stuart Lancaster.

Jean Côté, professor and researcher in coaching and children in sport, planner of interactions and ex-goal tender chats all things coaching with Rusty.

Aaron Walsh and Rusty make it 2nd time lucky. Linkedin's most improved person and mental skills coach with the Gallagher Chiefs joins Rusty to chat all things belonging, identity and normalising mental skills.

Lara Mossman joins a notable list of second podcasters all the way (with dodgy wifi) from Melbourne and takes Rusty by surprise by hacking the pod to gamify his coaching report from a session she watched. Enjoy!

Rusty catches up with Ben Pegna, ex-player and now consultant coach chats all things coaching, rooming with rusty with the 7's and Going For Gold...

Rusty and James chat all things coaching, opera and his dissertation on Magic Academy cards

Sammie Phillips, Ben Powell and Peter Bell from England Touch join Rusty to chat all things touch rugby, skill development and Rusty's road to the 2023 World Cup.

The Batman and Robin of coach development share their experiences, insights and stories with Rusty and Fletch

Rusty chats with Brendan who is Performance Director at British rowing who talks all things rowing, paddling, triathlon and broken laptops...

Rusty chats with Razor who talks about being a storyteller, surfing, coaching Brazil 7’s, ROG’s 10 kids and who inspires him!

Billy and fletch chat about training with Mako and his cousins, his faith and how he is dealing with the world cup final

Dan Cox chats all things Cake evenings, ouch moments, pracademia and SGS Filton with Rusty

Ben Earl... chats with Rusty all things early success, changing his mindset around training, Walt's visualisation and how would he make England U18's better

GB Canoe Slalom coach... Rusty and Craig chat all things coaching individuals, £250/hour sessions, trans-disciplinary teams, pivotal moments, the Lord Mayor of Winchester and WITTW.

Rusty chats with Stephen Rollnick, clinical psychologist, godfather of motivation interviewing and expert at making Rusty aware there is way more to learn...

We kick off the new season with Kirk Vallis, Head of Creativity at Google who talks all things Creativity in sport and business with Rusty...

In the final podcast of season 4, Richie Gray chats all things coaching, the NFL, coaching contact and rough and tumble with Rusty

Andy Friend and Rusty chew the fat on (amongst other things) his coaching journey, the importance of character, coaching 7's (obviously), the importance of caring and learning moments.

An epic episode bringing together Sport and Business as Rusty and Fletch chat with Kirk Vallis of Google, Stuart Lancaster who's internet sadly went awry and Nick Twigg to talk all things around leadership, creativity and other interesting stuff!