Season 5 - Episode 12 with Ben Pegna
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 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!
Rusty chats with International and Premiership referee JP Doyle.
Fletch catches up with 'Tony'
Fletch chats all things rugby with Joe Marchant
AB Zondagh chats with Rusty all things Stade Toulousain, skills coaching, players taking responsibility and coaching in a foreign language...
It's Fletch's turn to take the reins for the Magic Academy podcast! He is joined by Dr James Bell guru of performance phycology chats with Ricard Hill MBE of Saracens, England and British Lions fame! They chat all things Culture, Resilience and Relationship.
Rusty chats with Eddie Jones, who has been the head coach of the England national team since 2015. He previously coached Australia between 2001 and 2005, taking the team to the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final.
Jamie, Mark, Rusty and the mysterious John chew the fat on restarting coaching kids from scratch after a conversation started on #WebinarWednesday
12 years on from when they worked together in the England pathway Fletch chats with George Ford, Englands current Fly half! They chat about Fordy's early experiences, leadership and the World Cup Final
Stuart Lancaster chats all things coaching, co-coaching, leadership and being Fletch's best boss..
Rusty chats with Clive Chapman, rugby coach at Birmingham & Solihull Bees explores the joys and challenges of coaching community rugby...
Rusty and Marcus chat all things coaching, his journey, scanning, skill development, transition, analysts and pick their best 5-a-side rugby teams...
Rusty chats with rockstars of Italian Rugby - Luca Bigi, the international Captain, Michele Mordacci, the Peter Pan of Rugby Colorno and specialist in mini and youth coaching, Aldo Birchall who is rocking it at Biella in Serie A as Head coach, Dan Goegan who edits RugbyMeet and plays hooker at Colorno and last but not least long time friend of the Pod Nick Scott Director of Rugby at Colorno. This episode is dedicated to our friends and coaches in Italy! #ForzaItalia
Rusty chats with Andy "Hollers" Holloway, kicking and skills maestro who works with Championship side Ealing Trailfinders. He also works with Blackheath and the winning Cambridge University team from this seasons Varsity match.
Rusty catches up with Jack Pattinson, London Irish DPP manager and Rhys Davies who works alongside him as the Academy Coach Development Officer.
Rusty chats with Sally Needham, County Coach Developer for the FA, Northerner and lover of coaching young children. Rusty wrote loads of notes!