Danny Brassell – Read to Lead
Episode description
Rob talks to Danny Brassell, a former inner-city teacher on a mission to bring joy back into education and the workplace by transforming struggling and reluctant readers into more passionate and proficient readers. Danny shows audiences how to make reading a life-long habit and trains leaders how to communicate their messages through effective and inspirational storytelling.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Danny is a reading ambassador encouraging others to take up reading regularly and he found is vocation while teaching children in inner cities. He coaches people to love reading and do it for pleasure.
- You can get children especially to love reading if you find text that is inspired by their interests. It is the subject matter that draws in a reader not the act of reading itself.
- The link between sports and knowledge is intrinsic. It is often philosophy that informs sports from an early age and reading is the root of this.
- Developing countries supply the world with hard worn, success hungry sportsmen and women and are looking to dominate the sports industry. Resilience is an aspect of character particularly prevalent amongst people of difficult origins.
- A good coach knows their team. Know everybody's strength, give everyone a role.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Its ironic I'm considered Americas leading reading ambassador as I grew up hating reading. My father was a public librarian and I always hated the library growing up. The furniture was always uncomfortable, it always smelt funny to me, there was always some elderly woman telling me to be quiet and there is always some homeless guy who thinks he's a vampire hanging out in the library.' – Danny
‘There's no way I'm gonna get this kid to read Charles Dickens or William Shakespeare. But if I give him a newspaper article on Wayne Rooney the kid will devour it in, like, three seconds.' – Danny
‘When you have someone enthusiastic it makes my job really easy.' – Rob
‘To me the secret to being a good coach is to figure out the strengths of your different players. Figure out the hand that you've been dealt and turn it into a winning hand.' - Danny
GUEST RESOURCES
His work can be found on his websites at:
https://freereadingtraining.com/frt
https://freegiftfromdanny.com/
and via social media at:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannybrassell/
https://www.instagram.com/realdannybrassell/
https://www.youtube.com/dannybrassell
VALUABLE RESOURCES
ABOUT THE HOST
Rob Ryles is a UEFA A licensed coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non-League and grassroots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience
Rob Ryles prides himself on having a forward thinking and progressive approach to the game built through his own experience as well as lessons learned from a number of highly successful managers and coaches.
The Leader Manager Coach Podcast is where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life.
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