Today Rob talks about adversity in its many forms, and the ways in which we can use the surprising power of negative thinking in overcoming adversity in our lives. It&rsquo;s a tool we rarely ever use in order to face everyday life, but as Rob explains, it may just be the key to unlocking a more positive, productive outlook on life. KEY TAKEAWAYS <ul> <li>One of Ryan Holiday&rsquo;s views surrounding the stoic philosophy is in imagining the worst-case scenarios, as opposed to searching for the positives in all things.</li> <li>Memento Mori means &ldquo;Remember that we are all going to die&rdquo;. In the stoic philosophy, they preach that death is inevitable, so we should make every second count.</li> <li>You&rsquo;re going to face an abundance of adversity in your lifetime. The world, in its natural state, is a brutal one. Challenges should not be surprising.</li> <li>There is a peace to be found in the realisation that adversity is inevitable. By accepting that challenges are everywhere, we are able to meet them with grace.</li> <li>Sometimes during adversity, all we can do is to keep the main thing as the main thing. In those moments, focus is enough.&nbsp;</li> <li>You can only control the things within your power. Remember that sometimes all you can do is be there, standing strong and showing up. Try to influence only the things within our power.</li> </ul> BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;We are all finite&rsquo; &rsquo;There&rsquo;s no need to wait for a wake-up call&rsquo; &rsquo;The best thing we can do for ourselves is to accept that life is tough&rsquo; &lsquo;Don&rsquo;t ask for things to be easier. Just ask to be stronger&rsquo; &lsquo;When everyone around you is losing their head and blaming it on you, can you maintain the focus?&rsquo; &lsquo;Here I stand. I can do no more' VALUABLE RESOURCES <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a> &nbsp;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. CONTACT METHOD <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">https://www.robryles.co.uk/</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk">https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk</a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

Today Rob talks about adversity in its many forms, and the ways in which we can use the surprising power of negative thinking in overcoming adversity in our lives. It&rsquo;s a tool we rarely ever use in order to face everyday life, but as Rob explains, it may just be the key to unlocking a more positive, productive outlook on life. KEY TAKEAWAYS One of Ryan Holiday&rsquo;s views surrounding the stoic philosophy is in imagining the worst-case scenarios, as opposed to searching for the positives in all things. Memento Mori means &ldquo;Remember that we are all going to die&rdquo;. In the stoic philosophy, they preach that death is inevitable, so we should make every second count. You&rsquo;re going to face an abundance of adversity in your lifetime. The world, in its natural state, is a brutal one. Challenges should not be surprising. There is a peace to be found in the realisation that adversity is inevitable. By accepting that challenges are everywhere, we are able to meet them with grace. Sometimes during adversity, all we can do is to keep the main thing as the main thing. In those moments, focus is enough.&nbsp; You can only control the things within your power. Remember that sometimes all you can do is be there, standing strong and showing up. Try to influence only the things within our power. BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;We are all finite&rsquo; &rsquo;There&rsquo;s no need to wait for a wake-up call&rsquo; &rsquo;The best thing we can do for ourselves is to accept that life is tough&rsquo; &lsquo;Don&rsquo;t ask for things to be easier. Just ask to be stronger&rsquo; &lsquo;When everyone around you is losing their head and blaming it on you, can you maintain the focus?&rsquo; &lsquo;Here I stand. I can do no more' VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast &nbsp;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. CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=ukSupport the show.

Leader Manager Coach Podcast

Adversity

Welcome to the seventh instalment of Rob&rsquo;s incredibly insightful series on the coaching wisdom of Leo Tolstoy, and how you can apply it to the leadership, the management, and the coaching elements of life. This time round, we&rsquo;re discussing the importance of remaining grounded, the futility of revenge, why we should all nurture our own sets of values and virtues, and why faith and wisdom are the most important goals in life. KEY TAKEAWAYS <ul> <li>Remind yourself on a consistent basis to remain grounded - Things can upset and destabilise you, so remember to remain grounded, even in the wake of success.</li> <li>Remember that there is no competition - There is only one you. There is only one journey. If you decide to compete in any arena, then remember to remind yourself that your journey is unique.</li> <li>The journey is always internal - No matter the circumstances, the power to adjust and respond is yours.</li> <li>Beware of revenge - Be careful about allowing your emotions to take you on a journey that causes you to take retribution. Your time is much better spent on other pursuits.</li> <li>Decisions - Realise the importance of knowing who you are, and have a set of guiding virtues and values. Use them in every decision you make.</li> <li>Understand conflict - Develop your own theory on conflict and war. It will help you to better understand yourself, as well as the motivations of others.</li> <li>Faith - We need to have faith of some kind. Faith is what sustains you, and feeds your soul. If you only believe in yourself, you will limit yourself.</li> <li>As human beings we should aspire to gain knowledge, and use that knowledge for good. We must learn to focus and keep building ourselves.</li> <li>Find time for yourself - If you cannot find time to reconnect with yourself, then you cannot hope to connect with others.</li> <li>Speak less and do more - We are awash with information and communication. We have purpose and meaning in life, so choose your path and follow it rigidly.</li> <li>Always build bridges between you and others. Make sure those bridges remain in place. Do not give in to feelings of injustice or revenge.</li> <li>Wealth - Wealth spread well, and used wisely, can promote growth, and can nourish the world around you. Remember to give generously.</li> </ul> BEST MOMENTS &rsquo;Success is just as likely to destabilise you&rsquo; &rsquo;The actual achievement is about you and the decisions you make&rsquo; &lsquo;We never seem to get away from conversations about challenges&rsquo; &lsquo;Coaching can seem like the most difficult thing in the world&rsquo; &rsquo;True words spoken kindly are powerful&rsquo; &lsquo;Keep it on the grass&rsquo; &lsquo;Wealth is like manure - If it&rsquo;s hoarded it tends to make a big stink' VALUABLE RESOURCES &nbsp; <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a> &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST &nbsp; 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. &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">https://www.robryles.co.uk/</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk">https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=uk</a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

Welcome to the seventh instalment of Rob&rsquo;s incredibly insightful series on the coaching wisdom of Leo Tolstoy, and how you can apply it to the leadership, the management, and the coaching elements of life. This time round, we&rsquo;re discussing the importance of remaining grounded, the futility of revenge, why we should all nurture our own sets of values and virtues, and why faith and wisdom are the most important goals in life. KEY TAKEAWAYS Remind yourself on a consistent basis to remain grounded - Things can upset and destabilise you, so remember to remain grounded, even in the wake of success. Remember that there is no competition - There is only one you. There is only one journey. If you decide to compete in any arena, then remember to remind yourself that your journey is unique. The journey is always internal - No matter the circumstances, the power to adjust and respond is yours. Beware of revenge - Be careful about allowing your emotions to take you on a journey that causes you to take retribution. Your time is much better spent on other pursuits. Decisions - Realise the importance of knowing who you are, and have a set of guiding virtues and values. Use them in every decision you make. Understand conflict - Develop your own theory on conflict and war. It will help you to better understand yourself, as well as the motivations of others. Faith - We need to have faith of some kind. Faith is what sustains you, and feeds your soul. If you only believe in yourself, you will limit yourself. As human beings we should aspire to gain knowledge, and use that knowledge for good. We must learn to focus and keep building ourselves. Find time for yourself - If you cannot find time to reconnect with yourself, then you cannot hope to connect with others. Speak less and do more - We are awash with information and communication. We have purpose and meaning in life, so choose your path and follow it rigidly. Always build bridges between you and others. Make sure those bridges remain in place. Do not give in to feelings of injustice or revenge. Wealth - Wealth spread well, and used wisely, can promote growth, and can nourish the world around you. Remember to give generously. BEST MOMENTS &rsquo;Success is just as likely to destabilise you&rsquo; &rsquo;The actual achievement is about you and the decisions you make&rsquo; &lsquo;We never seem to get away from conversations about challenges&rsquo; &lsquo;Coaching can seem like the most difficult thing in the world&rsquo; &rsquo;True words spoken kindly are powerful&rsquo; &lsquo;Keep it on the grass&rsquo; &lsquo;Wealth is like manure - If it&rsquo;s hoarded it tends to make a big stink' VALUABLE RESOURCES &nbsp; Leader Manager Coach Podcast &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST &nbsp; 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. &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD https://www.robryles.co.uk/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=ukSupport the show.

Leo Tolstoy's Coaching Wisdom - Part 7

&lsquo;Although you might&nbsp; have a liking and desire for something the mind needs to be conditioned for it&rsquo; Rob is talking with Granville Cousins a practising Yoga teacher with over 40 years practice experience and 20 years as a teacher. They discuss Granville&rsquo;s journey from working as a joiner to changing course completely to learn and teach yoga. They have shared yoga practice in the past when Rob was a student of Granville&rsquo;s and this is a heartfelt episode where they share their understanding and learning across the years and recall entertaining stories about the challenges of yoga including the importance in the early days of having a car that could negotiate a steep hill! &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS <ul> <li>It&rsquo;s about being aware of the potential of where the path can lead if you devote yourself to it.</li> <li>When I made the decision, it was clear to me it was the right thing to do.</li> <li>If you feel you have a mission and there are those around you who will support you then you should go for it.</li> <li>My dad was a great mentor watching me, in peace with me, listening and through his presence facilitating my progress by letting me develop in my own way.</li> <li>After an injury I began using martial arts, as part of my rehabilitation and went on to have my teacher as a mentor, it was having a person who saw something in me.</li> <li>When you are practising full time, it takes things to another level.</li> <li>You are focusing every day on your passion and working with someone who believes in you.</li> <li>Meditation is the main thing; when you begin the journey, the meditation seems more distant because your energy is all focused on the physical.</li> <li>The physical channels your attention but as you develop you understand the importance of meditation.</li> <li>Meditation is a process and when you begin you have preconceptions about what meditation is. As you follow your practice, your attitude and understanding continue to develop and change.</li> <li>You need to first be a practitioner before you become the teacher.</li> <li>My focus is now on meditation and helping others to investigate and challenge through this practice.</li> <li>When you investigate and ask questions about the path, you then develop and move forward with more intellect.</li> <li>You need to be prepared to let go to reach something more.</li> <li>The biggest challenge is to follow your own heart and accept the consequences.</li> </ul> &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;It felt as though there was some other power directing me towards making yoga my primary interest&rsquo; &lsquo;Although you might&nbsp; have a liking and desire for something the mind needs to be conditioned for it&rsquo; &lsquo;You must develop your own investigation otherwise you are at the mercy of others&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a> <a href="http://www.yogawithgranville.com/tag/granville-cousins">Granville Cousins website</a> &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a>&nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a> &nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

&lsquo;Although you might&nbsp; have a liking and desire for something the mind needs to be conditioned for it&rsquo; Rob is talking with Granville Cousins a practising Yoga teacher with over 40 years practice experience and 20 years as a teacher. They discuss Granville&rsquo;s journey from working as a joiner to changing course completely to learn and teach yoga. They have shared yoga practice in the past when Rob was a student of Granville&rsquo;s and this is a heartfelt episode where they share their understanding and learning across the years and recall entertaining stories about the challenges of yoga including the importance in the early days of having a car that could negotiate a steep hill! &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS It&rsquo;s about being aware of the potential of where the path can lead if you devote yourself to it. When I made the decision, it was clear to me it was the right thing to do. If you feel you have a mission and there are those around you who will support you then you should go for it. My dad was a great mentor watching me, in peace with me, listening and through his presence facilitating my progress by letting me develop in my own way. After an injury I began using martial arts, as part of my rehabilitation and went on to have my teacher as a mentor, it was having a person who saw something in me. When you are practising full time, it takes things to another level. You are focusing every day on your passion and working with someone who believes in you. Meditation is the main thing; when you begin the journey, the meditation seems more distant because your energy is all focused on the physical. The physical channels your attention but as you develop you understand the importance of meditation. Meditation is a process and when you begin you have preconceptions about what meditation is. As you follow your practice, your attitude and understanding continue to develop and change. You need to first be a practitioner before you become the teacher. My focus is now on meditation and helping others to investigate and challenge through this practice. When you investigate and ask questions about the path, you then develop and move forward with more intellect. You need to be prepared to let go to reach something more. The biggest challenge is to follow your own heart and accept the consequences. &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;It felt as though there was some other power directing me towards making yoga my primary interest&rsquo; &lsquo;Although you might&nbsp; have a liking and desire for something the mind needs to be conditioned for it&rsquo; &lsquo;You must develop your own investigation otherwise you are at the mercy of others&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast Granville Cousins website &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD LMC Rob Ryles Website LMC YouTube&nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedIn &nbsp;Support the show.

A Lifetime Spiritual Journey of Discovery – Interview with Granville Cousins, Yoga Teacher

In this episode Rob shares the stoic philosophy promoted by Ryan Holiday in his book, &lsquo;Ego is the Enemy&rsquo; Ego is what drives us with no regard to others whilst humility will influence the way you appear to other people, the way you interact with others and the way you learn. There are many facets to ego and it manifests itself as part of our lives daily. Rob explores the ways to take control of ego and view life within the frame of reality and understanding to be a better leader and manager. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS <ul> <li>Ego is what drives us to get whatever we want without regard to others</li> <li>But there are many other facets to ego, it manifests itself as part of our lives everyday</li> <li>It&rsquo;s vital to be in control of yourself</li> <li>People are prevented from achieving what they can achieve and getting to where they want to be because they are not prepared to put in the work.</li> <li>You must be prepared to do the work and everything changes when your definition of success is being the best you can be</li> <li>When you understand yourself, your strengths and weaknesses and your journey then you are in a position to affect the lives of others.</li> <li>Passion and enthusiasm will&nbsp; get you some of the way but the next level is to be able to be dispassionate, to stand back and&nbsp; look at the situation and view it in the frame of reality</li> <li>You see the long game and the final story.</li> <li>Our egos will hold us to what we perceive we should have &lsquo;I deserve it, why me? are all facets of the ego.</li> <li>Controlling the ego through the passage of life will improve your life journey.</li> <li>You have to move beyond your idiosyncrasies to be a better leader and manager and have the resilience to carry on.</li> </ul> &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;There is discipline required in the self-control in maintaining a daily ritual&rsquo; &lsquo;You should be learning every day and be the eternal student&rsquo; &lsquo;It&rsquo;s fabulous to work with young people who have enthusiasm&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a> &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a>&nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

In this episode Rob shares the stoic philosophy promoted by Ryan Holiday in his book, &lsquo;Ego is the Enemy&rsquo; Ego is what drives us with no regard to others whilst humility will influence the way you appear to other people, the way you interact with others and the way you learn. There are many facets to ego and it manifests itself as part of our lives daily. Rob explores the ways to take control of ego and view life within the frame of reality and understanding to be a better leader and manager. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS Ego is what drives us to get whatever we want without regard to others But there are many other facets to ego, it manifests itself as part of our lives everyday It&rsquo;s vital to be in control of yourself People are prevented from achieving what they can achieve and getting to where they want to be because they are not prepared to put in the work. You must be prepared to do the work and everything changes when your definition of success is being the best you can be When you understand yourself, your strengths and weaknesses and your journey then you are in a position to affect the lives of others. Passion and enthusiasm will&nbsp; get you some of the way but the next level is to be able to be dispassionate, to stand back and&nbsp; look at the situation and view it in the frame of reality You see the long game and the final story. Our egos will hold us to what we perceive we should have &lsquo;I deserve it, why me? are all facets of the ego. Controlling the ego through the passage of life will improve your life journey. You have to move beyond your idiosyncrasies to be a better leader and manager and have the resilience to carry on. &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;There is discipline required in the self-control in maintaining a daily ritual&rsquo; &lsquo;You should be learning every day and be the eternal student&rsquo; &lsquo;It&rsquo;s fabulous to work with young people who have enthusiasm&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD LMC Rob Ryles Website LMC YouTube&nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedInSupport the show.

Why Ego Really Is The Enemy

Rob has been exploring the chapter &lsquo;Managing Yourself&rsquo; in Ryan Holiday&rsquo;s book, Ego is the Enemy. In this episode, he takes the learning about management and explores the impact successfully being able to manage yourself has on the skills of being able to effectively manage others. People will only follow and look to someone if they believe they can manage them effectively and those who master managing themselves are the individuals who potentially become great and good leaders of others. Listen in and find out more. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS <ul> <li>The only way to become a successful manager is to first master managing yourself.</li> <li>Management is a phenomenal skill that often people think is easy to do.</li> <li>People think that being knowledgeable in a certain area means you will be a good manager but this is not true.</li> <li>If you can&rsquo;t manage yourself you will not be a good manager of anyone else.</li> <li>Discipline, rituals and self-control are all required for managing ourselves effectively.</li> <li>What is it in your daily life that needs adjusting?</li> <li>Management of yourself is the tiny, atomic, successful habits of each day that become you</li> <li>As a result of managing yourself successfully you become able to be a good and great leader of others.</li> <li>Managing ourselves is where it all starts and is linked to leadership and effectively managing others.</li> <li>People will follow someone they can see is driving a path that they can walk along.</li> </ul> &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;How many great footballers have gone onto be great managers&rsquo; &nbsp;&lsquo;John DeLorean, a genius, who brought the world the DeLorean car which to all intents and purposes was a failure in part because he was a management disaster&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01AWUTMB0/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1">Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/0349411905/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=57187430590&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwoqDtBRD-ARIsAL4pviCPwFCWqf1JxsXC-EVHsMpKHr4zEvmvz0qU016QaZMPF0kIfNVkOl4aAqvYEALw_wcB&amp;hvadid=259044980391&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9041117&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvpos=1t1&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=13817456402881374103&amp;hvtargid=aud-615159460541%3Akwd-300965023671&amp;hydadcr=18488_1772458&amp;keywords=deep+work+cal+newport&amp;qid=1571299503&amp;sr=8-1">Deep Work by Cal Newport</a> &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a>&nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

Rob has been exploring the chapter &lsquo;Managing Yourself&rsquo; in Ryan Holiday&rsquo;s book, Ego is the Enemy. In this episode, he takes the learning about management and explores the impact successfully being able to manage yourself has on the skills of being able to effectively manage others. People will only follow and look to someone if they believe they can manage them effectively and those who master managing themselves are the individuals who potentially become great and good leaders of others. Listen in and find out more. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS The only way to become a successful manager is to first master managing yourself. Management is a phenomenal skill that often people think is easy to do. People think that being knowledgeable in a certain area means you will be a good manager but this is not true. If you can&rsquo;t manage yourself you will not be a good manager of anyone else. Discipline, rituals and self-control are all required for managing ourselves effectively. What is it in your daily life that needs adjusting? Management of yourself is the tiny, atomic, successful habits of each day that become you As a result of managing yourself successfully you become able to be a good and great leader of others. Managing ourselves is where it all starts and is linked to leadership and effectively managing others. People will follow someone they can see is driving a path that they can walk along. &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;How many great footballers have gone onto be great managers&rsquo; &nbsp;&lsquo;John DeLorean, a genius, who brought the world the DeLorean car which to all intents and purposes was a failure in part because he was a management disaster&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday Deep Work by Cal Newport &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD LMC Rob Ryles Website LMC YouTube&nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedInSupport the show.

Managing Yourself

Day to Day Inspirational Living in Dhaka &nbsp; In this fascinating episode, Rob shares a taste of what it&rsquo;s like living in Dhaka and doing what he loves. He gives a view on day to day life working with the national youth team and on the many fascinating aspects of being part of a different culture. The city of Dhaka is a place that is a stark contrast to the lake district hamlet he has have come from and the city is one that is continually on the move. As a part of the team building something that will have an impact and make a difference&nbsp; Rob reflects on the process of building a national team in a country where people grab their opportunities and are willing to work to make a difference to their futures. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS <ul> <li>Our training ground is an oasis that stands next to a factory complex.</li> <li>There are ladies who are there when we arrive and when we leave and their sole responsibility is to pick weeds and bad grass from the rest of the grass.</li> <li>We practice functional plays, set pieces and all the elements that any coach would undertake in daily training.</li> <li>There is so much potential and we are seeking to not just get it right, but get it right repeatedly.</li> <li>Don&rsquo;t practise until you get it right practise until you can&rsquo;t get it wrong.</li> <li>We are here coaching football and trying to make a difference.</li> <li>There are boys here who could make a splash if they were playing in the English game but there is a challenge in getting opportunities for these boys.</li> <li>If we can get them out there, they can return successfully to represent their country, bringing Bangladesh credibility.</li> <li>Those boys can come back and bring all their learning and impact on their own teams and the national team moving forward.</li> <li>It will take time &ndash; all we can do is affect one day at a time, one individual at a time.</li> <li>If you want to affect change you have to be the change.</li> <li>Making little changes can make all the difference over time.</li> </ul> &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;It&rsquo;s a blessing to be able to put hours of work into something you love&rsquo; &lsquo;If you have an opportunity to do something out of your comfort zone and that requires you changing your life, you should grab the opportunity&rsquo; &lsquo;They do it hours and&nbsp; hours every day because they have to, it the hand life has dealt them&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a> &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a>&nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

Day to Day Inspirational Living in Dhaka &nbsp; In this fascinating episode, Rob shares a taste of what it&rsquo;s like living in Dhaka and doing what he loves. He gives a view on day to day life working with the national youth team and on the many fascinating aspects of being part of a different culture. The city of Dhaka is a place that is a stark contrast to the lake district hamlet he has have come from and the city is one that is continually on the move. As a part of the team building something that will have an impact and make a difference&nbsp; Rob reflects on the process of building a national team in a country where people grab their opportunities and are willing to work to make a difference to their futures. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS Our training ground is an oasis that stands next to a factory complex. There are ladies who are there when we arrive and when we leave and their sole responsibility is to pick weeds and bad grass from the rest of the grass. We practice functional plays, set pieces and all the elements that any coach would undertake in daily training. There is so much potential and we are seeking to not just get it right, but get it right repeatedly. Don&rsquo;t practise until you get it right practise until you can&rsquo;t get it wrong. We are here coaching football and trying to make a difference. There are boys here who could make a splash if they were playing in the English game but there is a challenge in getting opportunities for these boys. If we can get them out there, they can return successfully to represent their country, bringing Bangladesh credibility. Those boys can come back and bring all their learning and impact on their own teams and the national team moving forward. It will take time &ndash; all we can do is affect one day at a time, one individual at a time. If you want to affect change you have to be the change. Making little changes can make all the difference over time. &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;It&rsquo;s a blessing to be able to put hours of work into something you love&rsquo; &lsquo;If you have an opportunity to do something out of your comfort zone and that requires you changing your life, you should grab the opportunity&rsquo; &lsquo;They do it hours and&nbsp; hours every day because they have to, it the hand life has dealt them&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD LMC Rob Ryles Website LMC YouTube&nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedInSupport the show.

Living in Dhaka!

What are your key fundamental values?&nbsp;&nbsp; They will guide your decision making on a daily basis&nbsp; It&rsquo;s vital you understand what&nbsp;affects you, your thoughts&nbsp;and actions and in this episode inspired by Leo Tolstoy&rsquo;s calendar of wisdom Rob shares more curated wisdom and reflects on how it can be used to guide life and provide contentment and fulfilment in the busy modern world.&nbsp; This thought-provoking episode will help anyone, anywhere reflect on the true importance and impact of what we do and how we think.&nbsp;  &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp; The futility of endless work&nbsp; Working, day after day is better if we can adopt a balanced way of life that provides us with sufficient time for recuperation and recovery so that we can deal with the challenges&nbsp; Attitude&nbsp; An approach to&nbsp;a life of humility, learning, an open mind and be the eternal student&nbsp; Every single day, we use those qualities to become more involved individuals making our lives better, and being able to be better leaders.&nbsp; We are all one&nbsp; Going to war with others is a futile and damaging thing,  creating relationships enables us to disagree and have conflict but allows us to move on in a professional and a mature way&nbsp; Take time to think&nbsp; We jump into action unconsciously every day without giving any conscious thought&nbsp; If we use our conscious thought we can make things better every day&nbsp; What is first&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;the thought or the deed?&nbsp; If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Whether the plan is detailed or an outline, the thought will come before the deed.&nbsp; Remember to let go&nbsp; It&rsquo;s about the balance between doing everything you can and understanding&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;time to let go of the anxiety and let it be, the rest will take care of itself&nbsp; Foundational values&nbsp; We are pushed into making daily decisions. If we have in place a set of foundational values that to us as individuals are key, those values will predict what our response will be&nbsp; Understand what your role is in your life&nbsp; What is your role, what am I here to do? It&rsquo;s about continuing to work every day to achieve growth.&nbsp; Remember to play the long game&nbsp; Impatience can get in the way. It&rsquo;s about the precise focus over the long term to know what the&nbsp;long-term&nbsp;objective is clearly so that you can overcome the challenges of everyday&nbsp; Embrace the challenges&nbsp; Do not wish for a comfortable life, it&rsquo;s a dream, illusion and a way to discontent, embrace the challenges so they can guide you and help you grow&nbsp; Remember you can only improve and work on yourself&nbsp; The only thing we can really control is what we do think, respond and in doing so it creates the change in others&nbsp;  &nbsp; Don&rsquo;t criticise&nbsp; It&rsquo;s easy to criticise and throw stones. Don&rsquo;t engage in futile and fruitless criticism of others to protect yourself when you need to get on with it and get better at it, not blame others&nbsp; Know yourself&nbsp; If you know yourself you set your own standards, success and benchmarks and are not influenced by others&nbsp; Be a good person&nbsp; In this world, there is tragedy, injustice, horror&nbsp; Be in your life by your own standards a good person&nbsp; The inner citadel&nbsp; Create an inner place within yourself. If you have a place inside your mind that is untouchable so when the turmoil of life hits you can be present and make calm decisions and have a rational thought process&nbsp; Act in line with your conscious&nbsp; If you ever have a feeling you should have been doing something then act on it&nbsp; Be compassionate&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a great characteristic,&nbsp;it helps you be a better&nbsp;leader;&nbsp;it helps you empathise and is an attractive character&nbsp;trait&nbsp;&nbsp;that people like to see and be around&nbsp; Understand&nbsp;what real freedom is&nbsp; It&rsquo;s about being yourself. It&rsquo;s within you and is about making your own decisions about what&rsquo;s right for you and take responsibility for it&nbsp; You do not have to justify yourself to anyone else&nbsp; When you can stand up and be proud of yourself and like yourself you do not then have to worry about others or justify yourself to others&nbsp; Use your intellect&nbsp; Do not waste what you have, it&rsquo;s important to use your intellect to solve problems&nbsp; Remember it&rsquo;s an inner journey&nbsp; The decision internally to act on your values saying this is me&nbsp; It&rsquo;s an internal journey. And by fulfilling the inner journey the externals will fall into place&nbsp;  &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS&nbsp; &lsquo;Stand up for what you believe in but maintain the relationships&rsquo;&nbsp; It&rsquo;s within yourself and linked to your fundamental values &lsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;How much time have you spent worrying about things that are out of your control?&rsquo;&nbsp;   &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp; <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Calendar-Wisdom-Alma-Classics/dp/184749563X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HC1ALXHP9JO1&amp;keywords=leo+tolstoy+calendar+of+wisdom&amp;qid=1578443128&amp;sprefix=leo+tolstoy+claendar+%2Caps%2C157&amp;sr=8-1">A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy</a>&nbsp;  &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;   &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD&nbsp; <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

What are your key fundamental values?&nbsp;&nbsp; They will guide your decision making on a daily basis&nbsp; It&rsquo;s vital you understand what&nbsp;affects you, your thoughts&nbsp;and actions and in this episode inspired by Leo Tolstoy&rsquo;s calendar of wisdom Rob shares more curated wisdom and reflects on how it can be used to guide life and provide contentment and fulfilment in the busy modern world.&nbsp; This thought-provoking episode will help anyone, anywhere reflect on the true importance and impact of what we do and how we think.&nbsp;  &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp; The futility of endless work&nbsp; Working, day after day is better if we can adopt a balanced way of life that provides us with sufficient time for recuperation and recovery so that we can deal with the challenges&nbsp; Attitude&nbsp; An approach to&nbsp;a life of humility, learning, an open mind and be the eternal student&nbsp; Every single day, we use those qualities to become more involved individuals making our lives better, and being able to be better leaders.&nbsp; We are all one&nbsp; Going to war with others is a futile and damaging thing,  creating relationships enables us to disagree and have conflict but allows us to move on in a professional and a mature way&nbsp; Take time to think&nbsp; We jump into action unconsciously every day without giving any conscious thought&nbsp; If we use our conscious thought we can make things better every day&nbsp; What is first&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;the thought or the deed?&nbsp; If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Whether the plan is detailed or an outline, the thought will come before the deed.&nbsp; Remember to let go&nbsp; It&rsquo;s about the balance between doing everything you can and understanding&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;time to let go of the anxiety and let it be, the rest will take care of itself&nbsp; Foundational values&nbsp; We are pushed into making daily decisions. If we have in place a set of foundational values that to us as individuals are key, those values will predict what our response will be&nbsp; Understand what your role is in your life&nbsp; What is your role, what am I here to do? It&rsquo;s about continuing to work every day to achieve growth.&nbsp; Remember to play the long game&nbsp; Impatience can get in the way. It&rsquo;s about the precise focus over the long term to know what the&nbsp;long-term&nbsp;objective is clearly so that you can overcome the challenges of everyday&nbsp; Embrace the challenges&nbsp; Do not wish for a comfortable life, it&rsquo;s a dream, illusion and a way to discontent, embrace the challenges so they can guide you and help you grow&nbsp; Remember you can only improve and work on yourself&nbsp; The only thing we can really control is what we do think, respond and in doing so it creates the change in others&nbsp;  &nbsp; Don&rsquo;t criticise&nbsp; It&rsquo;s easy to criticise and throw stones. Don&rsquo;t engage in futile and fruitless criticism of others to protect yourself when you need to get on with it and get better at it, not blame others&nbsp; Know yourself&nbsp; If you know yourself you set your own standards, success and benchmarks and are not influenced by others&nbsp; Be a good person&nbsp; In this world, there is tragedy, injustice, horror&nbsp; Be in your life by your own standards a good person&nbsp; The inner citadel&nbsp; Create an inner place within yourself. If you have a place inside your mind that is untouchable so when the turmoil of life hits you can be present and make calm decisions and have a rational thought process&nbsp; Act in line with your conscious&nbsp; If you ever have a feeling you should have been doing something then act on it&nbsp; Be compassionate&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a great characteristic,&nbsp;it helps you be a better&nbsp;leader;&nbsp;it helps you empathise and is an attractive character&nbsp;trait&nbsp;&nbsp;that people like to see and be around&nbsp; Understand&nbsp;what real freedom is&nbsp; It&rsquo;s about being yourself. It&rsquo;s within you and is about making your own decisions about what&rsquo;s right for you and take responsibility for it&nbsp; You do not have to justify yourself to anyone else&nbsp; When you can stand up and be proud of yourself and like yourself you do not then have to worry about others or justify yourself to others&nbsp; Use your intellect&nbsp; Do not waste what you have, it&rsquo;s important to use your intellect to solve problems&nbsp; Remember it&rsquo;s an inner journey&nbsp; The decision internally to act on your values saying this is me&nbsp; It&rsquo;s an internal journey. And by fulfilling the inner journey the externals will fall into place&nbsp;  &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS&nbsp; &lsquo;Stand up for what you believe in but maintain the relationships&rsquo;&nbsp; It&rsquo;s within yourself and linked to your fundamental values &lsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;How much time have you spent worrying about things that are out of your control?&rsquo;&nbsp;   &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp; Leader Manager Coach Podcast&nbsp; A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy&nbsp;  &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;   &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD&nbsp; LMC Rob Ryles Website&nbsp; LMC YouTube &nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedIn&nbsp;Support the show.

Leo Tolstoy's Coaching Wisdom Episode 6

Rob is interviewing Kent Teague, successful Texan businessman who always wanted to own a football club.&nbsp; His dream and ambition has been realised as the owner of Leyton Orient Football Club and in this episode, he shares his journey and aspirations for the club moving forward.&nbsp; They discuss the skills and qualities that Kent has used so effectively to build a successful career as a businessman and the importance of knowing what you are good at and working within a diverse team to build success.&nbsp; Kent is passionate about Leyton Orient and shares why he splits his time between the UK and America so that he can be a part of the journey of Leyton Orient as a family club who are part of the community. This is a fascinating insight into why owning a club is truly all about being a part of it at a grassroots level, listen in and hear more.&nbsp;  &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp; <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Business&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">In business, I have very specific strengths, and those strengths are particularly strong. &nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">I have the ability to think analytically &ndash; taking seemingly unrelated  facts and making them related.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">I have divergent thinking &ndash; you take certain  facts and you come to an unusual&nbsp;conclusion;&nbsp;this is the creative part&nbsp;of the thinking process.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Most people have one or the other but don&rsquo;t usually have both. &nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">I have been successful in business because;&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">I was really clear about what I was good at and what I wasn&rsquo;t good at&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">I had a high degree of value for people who were good at something different.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">I became successful because of a&nbsp;team&nbsp;and how successful those people were at&nbsp;complimenting my skillset.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Football&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">I became involved in  a consortium that was being put together to purchase Leyton Orient and was the majority financial backer. &nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">It took many,&nbsp;many,&nbsp;years for me to figure out how I could purchase a club and more years to actually find a club to buy. &nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Because of the emotional investment, I have made I have&nbsp;had&nbsp;many fantastic experiences and made lots of friends.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">It&rsquo;s important we build a sustainable club and understand the ambition of fans. &nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Our desire is that we win and draw a little bit more than we lose,&nbsp;so we build a winning football club.&nbsp;</li> </ul>   &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS&nbsp; &lsquo;I had wanted to buy a club for a very long time &ndash; I had a high interest and passion about wanting to achieve it&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;I thought the UK would be a brilliant place to do something because of promotion and relegation&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;With regard to making money, I would be better served to do almost anything else I could think of&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;Owning a fourth or fifth division team is probably the worst way to make money&rsquo;&nbsp;   &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp; <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://twitter.com/KentTeague?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Kent Teague Twitter</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.leytonorient.com/">Leyton Orient - website</a>&nbsp;  &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;   &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD&nbsp; <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

Rob is interviewing Kent Teague, successful Texan businessman who always wanted to own a football club.&nbsp; His dream and ambition has been realised as the owner of Leyton Orient Football Club and in this episode, he shares his journey and aspirations for the club moving forward.&nbsp; They discuss the skills and qualities that Kent has used so effectively to build a successful career as a businessman and the importance of knowing what you are good at and working within a diverse team to build success.&nbsp; Kent is passionate about Leyton Orient and shares why he splits his time between the UK and America so that he can be a part of the journey of Leyton Orient as a family club who are part of the community. This is a fascinating insight into why owning a club is truly all about being a part of it at a grassroots level, listen in and hear more.&nbsp;  &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp; Business&nbsp; In business, I have very specific strengths, and those strengths are particularly strong. &nbsp; I have the ability to think analytically &ndash; taking seemingly unrelated  facts and making them related.&nbsp; I have divergent thinking &ndash; you take certain  facts and you come to an unusual&nbsp;conclusion;&nbsp;this is the creative part&nbsp;of the thinking process.&nbsp; Most people have one or the other but don&rsquo;t usually have both. &nbsp; I have been successful in business because;&nbsp; I was really clear about what I was good at and what I wasn&rsquo;t good at&nbsp; I had a high degree of value for people who were good at something different.&nbsp; I became successful because of a&nbsp;team&nbsp;and how successful those people were at&nbsp;complimenting my skillset.&nbsp; Football&nbsp; I became involved in  a consortium that was being put together to purchase Leyton Orient and was the majority financial backer. &nbsp; It took many,&nbsp;many,&nbsp;years for me to figure out how I could purchase a club and more years to actually find a club to buy. &nbsp; Because of the emotional investment, I have made I have&nbsp;had&nbsp;many fantastic experiences and made lots of friends.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s important we build a sustainable club and understand the ambition of fans. &nbsp; Our desire is that we win and draw a little bit more than we lose,&nbsp;so we build a winning football club.&nbsp;   &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS&nbsp; &lsquo;I had wanted to buy a club for a very long time &ndash; I had a high interest and passion about wanting to achieve it&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;I thought the UK would be a brilliant place to do something because of promotion and relegation&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;With regard to making money, I would be better served to do almost anything else I could think of&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;Owning a fourth or fifth division team is probably the worst way to make money&rsquo;&nbsp;   &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp; Leader Manager Coach Podcast&nbsp; Kent Teague Twitter&nbsp; Leyton Orient - website&nbsp;  &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;   &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD&nbsp; LMC Rob Ryles Website&nbsp; LMC YouTube &nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedIn&nbsp;Support the show.

Building a Sustainable and Winning Football Club – Interview with Kent Teague, Owner of Leyton Orient Football Club

&lsquo;It&rsquo;s about meeting yourself and asking have I acted in the way I would have liked to have acted and can I do better tomorrow?&nbsp; How many times have you achieved something but not felt comfortable with it? Rob has taken his inspiration for this episode from the book by Ryan Holiday &lsquo; The Ego is the Enemy&rsquo; and focuses on the chapter &lsquo;The Eternal Student&rsquo; Rob has experienced a stage in his life where he wanted to be recognised and looked for recognition, it seemed to be important but as life has gone on those things have faded away and become less important replaced by the peace that can be found in just being yourself. This is a great episode that will help anyone to look within and understand better how understanding yourself is the most important thing anyone can do as an eternal student. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS <ul> <li>The external pressures are less important and it&rsquo;s about meeting yourself and asking have I acted in the way I would have liked to have acted and can I do better tomorrow?</li> <li>The important thing is what is real and the ritualistic aspect of life</li> <li>No matter how great the world makes you, no matter how great you are you must listen to the voice within that tells you where you really are</li> <li>Keep your ears and eyes open to learning all the time</li> <li>The minute you think you think you have all the knowledge; the minute you think you know it all is the minute your downfall begins.</li> <li>The minute you think you know it all is when you stop taking information in, you stop growing and the process begins to reverse itself.</li> <li>Have the humility to be able to analyse yourself, to take a look and then take the step further and negative self-assess -&nbsp; looking at what you are not so good at, do this recognising the world might think you are in a particular place but only you know deep down where you are.</li> <li>You are prepared to take the steps whatever they are every day to improve and move forward, you have to be prepared to follow the process.</li> <li>Be an eternal student, on the way ignoring the noise.</li> <li>Be grateful for where you are and the opportunities to learn</li> <li>Be patient and allow the processes to occur and be happy you are doing what makes you happy every day</li> <li>Whether or not you can see the results you are on the plateau and recognise that&rsquo;s really what&rsquo;s important.</li> </ul> &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;He had all this success early on for a short period of time but it wasn&rsquo;t sustained&rsquo; &lsquo;As lifelong learners, we can have a &lsquo;plus&rsquo; in our lives &ndash; someone in our lives who is a master at what we want to be, who we should aim to use as our mentor and coach&rsquo; &lsquo;There is a danger and a downside to having success early on in your career&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ego-Enemy-Master-Greatest-Opponent/dp/1781257027/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=55988860507&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiAjfvwBRCkARIsAIqSWlM75-sfF24SjHY7toXCCCsY8LxvAJAGJS3vVPt6x5rcEl61cwf2yz4aAlpZEALw_wcB&amp;hvadid=259076963892&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9041117&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvpos=1t1&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=2801410498120845276&amp;hvtargid=kwd-301203113938&amp;hydadcr=18520_1817330&amp;keywords=ego+is+the+enemy+by+ryan+holiday&amp;qid=1579100907&amp;sr=8-1">Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday</a> &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a>&nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

&lsquo;It&rsquo;s about meeting yourself and asking have I acted in the way I would have liked to have acted and can I do better tomorrow?&nbsp; How many times have you achieved something but not felt comfortable with it? Rob has taken his inspiration for this episode from the book by Ryan Holiday &lsquo; The Ego is the Enemy&rsquo; and focuses on the chapter &lsquo;The Eternal Student&rsquo; Rob has experienced a stage in his life where he wanted to be recognised and looked for recognition, it seemed to be important but as life has gone on those things have faded away and become less important replaced by the peace that can be found in just being yourself. This is a great episode that will help anyone to look within and understand better how understanding yourself is the most important thing anyone can do as an eternal student. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS The external pressures are less important and it&rsquo;s about meeting yourself and asking have I acted in the way I would have liked to have acted and can I do better tomorrow? The important thing is what is real and the ritualistic aspect of life No matter how great the world makes you, no matter how great you are you must listen to the voice within that tells you where you really are Keep your ears and eyes open to learning all the time The minute you think you think you have all the knowledge; the minute you think you know it all is the minute your downfall begins. The minute you think you know it all is when you stop taking information in, you stop growing and the process begins to reverse itself. Have the humility to be able to analyse yourself, to take a look and then take the step further and negative self-assess -&nbsp; looking at what you are not so good at, do this recognising the world might think you are in a particular place but only you know deep down where you are. You are prepared to take the steps whatever they are every day to improve and move forward, you have to be prepared to follow the process. Be an eternal student, on the way ignoring the noise. Be grateful for where you are and the opportunities to learn Be patient and allow the processes to occur and be happy you are doing what makes you happy every day Whether or not you can see the results you are on the plateau and recognise that&rsquo;s really what&rsquo;s important. &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;He had all this success early on for a short period of time but it wasn&rsquo;t sustained&rsquo; &lsquo;As lifelong learners, we can have a &lsquo;plus&rsquo; in our lives &ndash; someone in our lives who is a master at what we want to be, who we should aim to use as our mentor and coach&rsquo; &lsquo;There is a danger and a downside to having success early on in your career&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD LMC Rob Ryles Website LMC YouTube&nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedIn &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Support the show.

The Eternal Student

&lsquo;Real freedom comes from living your own life so you are aligned with who you really are&rsquo;&nbsp; This is the next part of a series exploring the &lsquo;Calendar of Wisdom&rsquo; from the great philosopher Leo Tolstoy.&nbsp; Each month Rob is sharing the daily wisdom of Leo Tolstoy and in this episode the wise words range across truth, courage, being in nature and encompass humility, keeping your head, being yourself and taking baby steps on the journey to finding your inner peace.&nbsp; Rob invites you to find &lsquo;somewhere to hang your hat&rsquo; in this podcast which has something that will resonant with every leader, manager and coach.&nbsp;  &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp; <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Courage - Always remember you can make a decision at any moment in time. Courage more than anything else is about non-conformity and standing up for what you believe.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">The truth - We can speak the truth kindly and quietly but be committed and courageous and do not be weakened by any opposition.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Understand that many answers lie in the natural world around us. Recovery and recuperation time should be spent in green spaces within the natural world where ever possible.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">Understand that the only journey that matters is the one within. It&rsquo;s what it means to you, how you deal with things on an internal basis.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Resonance is an indicator that you are on a path so it&rsquo;s vital to look within and feel when you hear something, reads something or say something.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">Humility - We all get caught up in our own actions we all get caught up in our own world and our own importance. Humility is a great characteristic to have and should be developed.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Often we need to get ourselves out of our own way - Our needs, anxieties and thought processes lead us to think things over and over when we need to make the decision and let it happen.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">What or who is your guiding light - Life is challenging and there are great things that come before us that require big things from us.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">The time is now -&nbsp;It&rsquo;s&nbsp;what we do now that makes the difference.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Unify your thought process and concentrate on the next thing to be done.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">The peace that exists within us &ndash; is there when you are faced with external events with potential noise.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">Real happiness comes from serving other people. The greatest rewards come from the greatest amount of service.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Be as kind with your words to yourself as you are to others. Above all else know yourself so you can be true to yourself and in alignment.&nbsp;</li> </ul>  &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS&nbsp; &lsquo;Courage is one of the greatest characteristics you can develop&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;We often need to make the decision have faith and let it go&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;Life is a process and it&rsquo;s important to be process orientated taking baby steps along the path.&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;Peace is always available within yourself and is a place you can work from to make the most of any situation&rsquo;&nbsp;  &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp; <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Calendar-Wisdom-Alma-Classics/dp/184749563X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1HC1ALXHP9JO1&amp;keywords=leo+tolstoy+calendar+of+wisdom&amp;qid=1578443128&amp;sprefix=leo+tolstoy+claendar+%2Caps%2C157&amp;sr=8-1">A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy</a>&nbsp;  &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;   &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD&nbsp; <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

&lsquo;Real freedom comes from living your own life so you are aligned with who you really are&rsquo;&nbsp; This is the next part of a series exploring the &lsquo;Calendar of Wisdom&rsquo; from the great philosopher Leo Tolstoy.&nbsp; Each month Rob is sharing the daily wisdom of Leo Tolstoy and in this episode the wise words range across truth, courage, being in nature and encompass humility, keeping your head, being yourself and taking baby steps on the journey to finding your inner peace.&nbsp; Rob invites you to find &lsquo;somewhere to hang your hat&rsquo; in this podcast which has something that will resonant with every leader, manager and coach.&nbsp;  &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp; Courage - Always remember you can make a decision at any moment in time. Courage more than anything else is about non-conformity and standing up for what you believe.&nbsp; The truth - We can speak the truth kindly and quietly but be committed and courageous and do not be weakened by any opposition.&nbsp; Understand that many answers lie in the natural world around us. Recovery and recuperation time should be spent in green spaces within the natural world where ever possible.&nbsp; Understand that the only journey that matters is the one within. It&rsquo;s what it means to you, how you deal with things on an internal basis.&nbsp; Resonance is an indicator that you are on a path so it&rsquo;s vital to look within and feel when you hear something, reads something or say something.&nbsp; Humility - We all get caught up in our own actions we all get caught up in our own world and our own importance. Humility is a great characteristic to have and should be developed.&nbsp; Often we need to get ourselves out of our own way - Our needs, anxieties and thought processes lead us to think things over and over when we need to make the decision and let it happen.&nbsp; What or who is your guiding light - Life is challenging and there are great things that come before us that require big things from us.&nbsp; The time is now -&nbsp;It&rsquo;s&nbsp;what we do now that makes the difference.&nbsp; Unify your thought process and concentrate on the next thing to be done.&nbsp; The peace that exists within us &ndash; is there when you are faced with external events with potential noise.&nbsp; Real happiness comes from serving other people. The greatest rewards come from the greatest amount of service.&nbsp; Be as kind with your words to yourself as you are to others. Above all else know yourself so you can be true to yourself and in alignment.&nbsp;  &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS&nbsp; &lsquo;Courage is one of the greatest characteristics you can develop&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;We often need to make the decision have faith and let it go&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;Life is a process and it&rsquo;s important to be process orientated taking baby steps along the path.&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;Peace is always available within yourself and is a place you can work from to make the most of any situation&rsquo;&nbsp;  &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp; Leader Manager Coach Podcast&nbsp; A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy&nbsp;  &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;   &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD&nbsp; LMC Rob Ryles Website&nbsp; LMC YouTube &nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedIn&nbsp;Support the show.

Leo Tolstoy’s Coaching Wisdom Episode 5!

Rob looks in depth at the qualities of 2 great managers whose teams faced each other in the Champions League final - Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino. The events that led to Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspurs facing each other were phenomenal examples of belief. Both managers share passion, authenticity, humility and vulnerability which makes them attractive to others. It&rsquo;s all about that feeling, it&rsquo;s not about logic it&rsquo;s about emotion, we do things because of emotion, we buy things for the emotion and we do things emotionally. It&rsquo;s why football, sport and life are all so amazing it&rsquo;s all driven by and is about the emotion. Creating your inner citadel is key and filling it is a vital part of your emotional well-being and Rob discusses not only how to create your fortress of fortitude but how you can develop habits and behaviours that will keep it filled in this absorbing episode. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS <ul> <li>When you are who you are, you are vulnerable because you are allowing people to see the real you.</li> <li>It is the openness, vulnerability and humility that is attractive to others.</li> <li>To have humility you have to have a self-image that is made of iron and is built on stern solid stuff and the fundamentals have to be in place.</li> <li>Whatever you are trying to achieve knowing who you are is vital and you have to be vulnerable enough to let others see the real you.</li> <li>Life isn&rsquo;t all about the success it&rsquo;s all about the unseen, unnoticed work that began years ago that enables the public success.</li> </ul> Stoic Philosophy <ul> <li>What do you have to draw on?</li> <li>This is a time to celebrate but there are many mundane or challenging days for all of us.</li> <li>There may be things that seem insurmountable or uncertainty</li> <li>Stoicism &ndash; it&rsquo;s all about creating and filling the fortress of fortitude often called your inner citadel.</li> <li>No one can get into your inner fortress and take what you have there but have you stocked it properly in the good times?</li> <li>Have you created the right habits? It&rsquo;s not about the challenges it&rsquo;s knowing that you have filled your inner citadel to help you move onward.</li> <li>Hopefully, the Leader Manger Coach podcast has helped to fill your inner citadel and build the fortitude you need.</li> </ul> &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino are great examples of humility and vulnerability&rsquo; &lsquo;It makes you even more attractive because the world is full of people that do not how who they really are&rsquo; &lsquo;This is the stuff that isn&rsquo;t sexy&nbsp; or on the stage its all the stuff that needs to happen and goes on behind the scenes&rsquo; &lsquo;Have you formed relationships that mean that people will be there in more challenging times?&rsquo; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daily-Stoic-Meditations-Perseverance-translations/dp/1781257655/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=61779639788&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAo7HwBRBKEiwAvC_Q8UiGigJ_nWRatM1vnsXktMGUUK87-7lRVbHjzHc2JXj6eDzkFu2MMxoCUAoQAvD_BwE&amp;hvadid=259031418924&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=1007094&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvpos=1t2&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=16025598898339172031&amp;hvtargid=kwd-299859358522&amp;hydadcr=10779_1749383&amp;keywords=ryan+holiday+stoic&amp;qid=1577905030&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">The Daily Stoic book Ryan Holiday</a> &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a>&nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a><a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

Rob looks in depth at the qualities of 2 great managers whose teams faced each other in the Champions League final - Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino. The events that led to Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspurs facing each other were phenomenal examples of belief. Both managers share passion, authenticity, humility and vulnerability which makes them attractive to others. It&rsquo;s all about that feeling, it&rsquo;s not about logic it&rsquo;s about emotion, we do things because of emotion, we buy things for the emotion and we do things emotionally. It&rsquo;s why football, sport and life are all so amazing it&rsquo;s all driven by and is about the emotion. Creating your inner citadel is key and filling it is a vital part of your emotional well-being and Rob discusses not only how to create your fortress of fortitude but how you can develop habits and behaviours that will keep it filled in this absorbing episode. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS When you are who you are, you are vulnerable because you are allowing people to see the real you. It is the openness, vulnerability and humility that is attractive to others. To have humility you have to have a self-image that is made of iron and is built on stern solid stuff and the fundamentals have to be in place. Whatever you are trying to achieve knowing who you are is vital and you have to be vulnerable enough to let others see the real you. Life isn&rsquo;t all about the success it&rsquo;s all about the unseen, unnoticed work that began years ago that enables the public success. Stoic Philosophy What do you have to draw on? This is a time to celebrate but there are many mundane or challenging days for all of us. There may be things that seem insurmountable or uncertainty Stoicism &ndash; it&rsquo;s all about creating and filling the fortress of fortitude often called your inner citadel. No one can get into your inner fortress and take what you have there but have you stocked it properly in the good times? Have you created the right habits? It&rsquo;s not about the challenges it&rsquo;s knowing that you have filled your inner citadel to help you move onward. Hopefully, the Leader Manger Coach podcast has helped to fill your inner citadel and build the fortitude you need. &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino are great examples of humility and vulnerability&rsquo; &lsquo;It makes you even more attractive because the world is full of people that do not how who they really are&rsquo; &lsquo;This is the stuff that isn&rsquo;t sexy&nbsp; or on the stage its all the stuff that needs to happen and goes on behind the scenes&rsquo; &lsquo;Have you formed relationships that mean that people will be there in more challenging times?&rsquo; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast The Daily Stoic book Ryan Holiday &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD LMC Rob Ryles Website LMC YouTube&nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedInSupport the show.

Your Inner Citadel

In this crossover episode, Rob and Paul Lowe, Successful author and host of the &lsquo;Speaking from our Hearts&rsquo; podcast discuss how football and some of its iconic legends have made an impact on them. As someone who had no positive role models when he was young Paul looked to the game of football and found amongst others, Brian Clough. In this very honest conversation with Rob, he discusses his journey and the positive influences that made a difference to someone who was looking for a guiding light. This is a great listen, Rob and Paul candidly discuss the beautiful game, the impact of some of the game&rsquo;s greatest managers, coaches and leaders and how we all have to master the game of life. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS <ul> <li>The power of sport to change people&rsquo;s lives, particularly football is immense.</li> <li>It&rsquo;s a sport that is universal and can change lives.</li> <li>Football can dominate peoples working lives, social lives and all aspects of life</li> </ul> Is life a game of 2 halves? <ul> <li>In the first half, we are busy with life chasing external goals and then there is the metaphoric half time.</li> <li>It a point to take stock, realising that you&rsquo;ve achieved goals and learnt to manage yourself - meaning you are ready to go out in the second half of life and be a manager</li> <li>For the first half of my life, I achieved lots of goals but due to my self-destructive needs, I then would take negative actions that impacted on others.</li> <li>Until you have the emotional and spiritual maturity to understand who you are and why you are doing something.</li> <li>The most powerful relationship is the one you have with source and that&rsquo;s different for everyone</li> <li>For me, the positive influence was Brian Clough. His influence was immense and it was because I was looking for a male role model. I felt I knew him so well even though I&rsquo;d never met him</li> <li>He was a guiding light for me because in my real world there was no positive influence only males who were violent and destructive</li> <li>We all wear a mask; I had created an alpha male mask but it was a smokescreen for being in reality very vulnerable -&nbsp; I was saying stay away please don&rsquo;t hurt me</li> <li>It&rsquo;s about surrounding yourself with good people who will help you achieve your goals and overcome your challenges</li> <li>We are all learning and playing different roles in life, following our own path in life.</li> </ul> &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;The wisdom they imparted was diamond, you couldn&rsquo;t buy it&rsquo; &lsquo;Men with grassroots values&rsquo; &lsquo;As a young player you may or may not make it but it&rsquo;s about going out with integrity&rsquo; &lsquo;In my early days my approach was&nbsp; I&rsquo;m not going to lose whatever the cost and this reflected the turmoil in my life at that time&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Speaking-our-Hearts-Mastering-game/dp/1781332819/ref=sr_1_12?qid=1576073624&amp;refinements=p_27%3APaul+Lowe&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-12">Speaking from Our Hearts: Mastering the Game of Life book by Paul Lowe</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emerging-Forest-Pain-Purpose-Mastering/dp/1719373272/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=the+game+of+life+paul+lowe&amp;qid=1576075246&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-5">Emerging from the Forest&nbsp; from Pain to Purpose Mastering the Game of Life book by Paul Lowe</a> <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/speaking-from-our-hearts/id1421271122">Speaking From Our Hearts podcast</a> &nbsp;&nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a>&nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

In this crossover episode, Rob and Paul Lowe, Successful author and host of the &lsquo;Speaking from our Hearts&rsquo; podcast discuss how football and some of its iconic legends have made an impact on them. As someone who had no positive role models when he was young Paul looked to the game of football and found amongst others, Brian Clough. In this very honest conversation with Rob, he discusses his journey and the positive influences that made a difference to someone who was looking for a guiding light. This is a great listen, Rob and Paul candidly discuss the beautiful game, the impact of some of the game&rsquo;s greatest managers, coaches and leaders and how we all have to master the game of life. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS The power of sport to change people&rsquo;s lives, particularly football is immense. It&rsquo;s a sport that is universal and can change lives. Football can dominate peoples working lives, social lives and all aspects of life Is life a game of 2 halves? In the first half, we are busy with life chasing external goals and then there is the metaphoric half time. It a point to take stock, realising that you&rsquo;ve achieved goals and learnt to manage yourself - meaning you are ready to go out in the second half of life and be a manager For the first half of my life, I achieved lots of goals but due to my self-destructive needs, I then would take negative actions that impacted on others. Until you have the emotional and spiritual maturity to understand who you are and why you are doing something. The most powerful relationship is the one you have with source and that&rsquo;s different for everyone For me, the positive influence was Brian Clough. His influence was immense and it was because I was looking for a male role model. I felt I knew him so well even though I&rsquo;d never met him He was a guiding light for me because in my real world there was no positive influence only males who were violent and destructive We all wear a mask; I had created an alpha male mask but it was a smokescreen for being in reality very vulnerable -&nbsp; I was saying stay away please don&rsquo;t hurt me It&rsquo;s about surrounding yourself with good people who will help you achieve your goals and overcome your challenges We are all learning and playing different roles in life, following our own path in life. &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;The wisdom they imparted was diamond, you couldn&rsquo;t buy it&rsquo; &lsquo;Men with grassroots values&rsquo; &lsquo;As a young player you may or may not make it but it&rsquo;s about going out with integrity&rsquo; &lsquo;In my early days my approach was&nbsp; I&rsquo;m not going to lose whatever the cost and this reflected the turmoil in my life at that time&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast Speaking from Our Hearts: Mastering the Game of Life book by Paul Lowe Emerging from the Forest&nbsp; from Pain to Purpose Mastering the Game of Life book by Paul Lowe Speaking From Our Hearts podcast &nbsp;&nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD LMC Rob Ryles Website LMC YouTube&nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedIn &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Support the show.

The Game of Life. A Conversation With Paul Lowe

&lsquo;Competition attracts us, inspires us, drives us and facilitates many things - its related to being the best you can be&rsquo; Rob is exploring aspects of fundamental learning that as Leaders, Managers and Coaches help not only us but those we support to take the steps needed to move towards our goals. It&rsquo;s those tiny things that can make the difference along with the understanding that the only person you can truly compare yourself to is yourself using your internal values. There is some great wisdom and learning in this episode listen in and enjoy. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS <ul> <li>Life changes and pushes us in different directions and we respond. In this preparation phase, there is an ever-growing list of things to do.</li> </ul> &lsquo;Aim for the eagle, bag the pheasant, don&rsquo;t eat crow <ul> <li>Set your sights high, have an optimist approach and aim to be the very best you can</li> <li>When you reflect on events you may not have achieved exactly what you wanted to but it will be better than if you had taken no action at all.</li> </ul> Competition is for losers <ul> <li>If we set out to compete with others to be better than others, to be a better team or individual it is easy to become frustrated.</li> <li>It is vital to be happy in the process through our internal values. It is about being the best in our field at any given time.</li> <li>The person who is the benchmark for you is yourself when you use your internal values system</li> <li>When you use this system, no one will be able to diminish your inner calm and understanding.</li> <li>It&rsquo;s about learning to be internally driven; you can aim to be better than you were last time</li> <li>If we are driven by internal values our results will be better.</li> </ul> Difficult People <ul> <li>How many times do you talk or have an internal dialogue about someone who we judge as difficult?</li> <li>If we were empathetic enough to be in their shoes they would probably put us in that bracket too.</li> <li>We have a perception that there are people, who we aspire to be, who don&rsquo;t have the challenges that the rest of us do but the reality is this is a comparative situation, that will make you feel negative and the reality is probably not as it seems.</li> </ul> Leverage and force multipliers <ul> <li>There are certain things in your psychological armoury that will be force multipliers, giving you more leverage</li> <li>This includes having an optimist baseline attitude because over time this will multiply your outcomes.</li> </ul> &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;In the leadership of your organisation in the organisation of your family, in the relationships, you have in your work environment it&rsquo;s all about the moment in time and being the best, we can be&rsquo; &lsquo;Life is messy and its complex, it requires thought, patience and to be analytical&rsquo; &lsquo;We would be a lot better off keeping our noses out of others business, it will only create anxiety based on a falsehood&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-abrahams-b72a306/?originalSubdomain=uk">Dan Abrahams LinkedIn</a> <a href="https://www.optimize.me/">Brian Johnson Entheos</a> &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a>&nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a> &nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

&lsquo;Competition attracts us, inspires us, drives us and facilitates many things - its related to being the best you can be&rsquo; Rob is exploring aspects of fundamental learning that as Leaders, Managers and Coaches help not only us but those we support to take the steps needed to move towards our goals. It&rsquo;s those tiny things that can make the difference along with the understanding that the only person you can truly compare yourself to is yourself using your internal values. There is some great wisdom and learning in this episode listen in and enjoy. &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS Life changes and pushes us in different directions and we respond. In this preparation phase, there is an ever-growing list of things to do. &lsquo;Aim for the eagle, bag the pheasant, don&rsquo;t eat crow Set your sights high, have an optimist approach and aim to be the very best you can When you reflect on events you may not have achieved exactly what you wanted to but it will be better than if you had taken no action at all. Competition is for losers If we set out to compete with others to be better than others, to be a better team or individual it is easy to become frustrated. It is vital to be happy in the process through our internal values. It is about being the best in our field at any given time. The person who is the benchmark for you is yourself when you use your internal values system When you use this system, no one will be able to diminish your inner calm and understanding. It&rsquo;s about learning to be internally driven; you can aim to be better than you were last time If we are driven by internal values our results will be better. Difficult People How many times do you talk or have an internal dialogue about someone who we judge as difficult? If we were empathetic enough to be in their shoes they would probably put us in that bracket too. We have a perception that there are people, who we aspire to be, who don&rsquo;t have the challenges that the rest of us do but the reality is this is a comparative situation, that will make you feel negative and the reality is probably not as it seems. Leverage and force multipliers There are certain things in your psychological armoury that will be force multipliers, giving you more leverage This includes having an optimist baseline attitude because over time this will multiply your outcomes. &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS &lsquo;In the leadership of your organisation in the organisation of your family, in the relationships, you have in your work environment it&rsquo;s all about the moment in time and being the best, we can be&rsquo; &lsquo;Life is messy and its complex, it requires thought, patience and to be analytical&rsquo; &lsquo;We would be a lot better off keeping our noses out of others business, it will only create anxiety based on a falsehood&rsquo; &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES Leader Manager Coach Podcast Dan Abrahams LinkedIn Brian Johnson Entheos &nbsp; 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. &nbsp;&nbsp; CONTACT METHOD LMC Rob Ryles Website LMC YouTube&nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedIn &nbsp; &nbsp;Support the show.

Aiming For The Eagle

&lsquo;It can take something like leaving, all be it temporarily, to make us realise who and what is important&rsquo; &nbsp; Rob is in the middle of a significant packing up process as he prepares to leave the UK to live and work in Bangladesh.&nbsp; Working for the Bangladesh Football Federation as a National Coach is a great opportunity but involves leaving and in this candid and deeply personal episode Rob explores the process of leaving which involves many things leaving friends, familiarity, comfort and&nbsp; trading the known for the unknown.&nbsp; Leaving is not something that is often talked about, it&rsquo;s linked to departures, going away, emotion and the ultimate departure from this human plane &ndash; death but it can also help us realise what&rsquo;s really important the relationships in our lives that make it meaningful and our interdependence.&nbsp;  &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp; <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">We cannot do this thing called life on our own&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;all about developing independence when we leave our parent or carers side, taking on responsibility and making our own decisions and mistakes and then moving on to&nbsp;&nbsp;</li> </ul> the next level&nbsp;- interdependence.&nbsp; <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">I&rsquo;ve had to let go of responsibilities that I&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;continue in a different country&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">I&rsquo;ve had to realise that you&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;keep hold of everything and trying to keep hold off everything would be like trying to stop the movement of the universe&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Things won&rsquo;t move forward if you are kicking your feet and holding on whilst the momentum of the universe is moving on.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">How many of us have things in our lives that we need to let go of?&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">We let go to make space but nature abhors a vacuum and in creating space we allow serendipity to rush in and fill it with new challenges&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">There has to be the death of the old to allow the new to come in&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">If everything in life was laid out there would be no challenge and no beauty in it&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">We all have our own hero&rsquo;s journey and if we are prepared to step out of our comfort zone and trust then often things have a way of working out.&nbsp;</li> </ul>  &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS&nbsp; &lsquo;I am so grateful for how loving supportive and caring my family and friends have been. It&rsquo;s shown me what a fundamental part of life relationships are&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;This process has taught me the value and beauty of interdependence&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;It&rsquo;s a great lesson to set yourself deadlines and there are great tools such as&nbsp;accountability&nbsp;to help&rsquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp; <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heros-Journey-Joseph-Campbell-Collected/dp/1608681890/ref=sr_1_4?adgrpid=55947820969&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiAt_PuBRDcARIsAMNlBdpCiDK8YDKKz1zkhS_1tvSuPbw6_9j1JPaoSDFGEz21ulLS-j4MQmMaAiBUEALw_wcB&amp;hvadid=259100273698&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9044880&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvpos=1t2&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=6988255886633788190&amp;hvtargid=aud-615159460541%3Akwd-317174307596&amp;hydadcr=10833_1789926&amp;keywords=hero%27s+journey+joseph+campbell&amp;qid=1574839380&amp;sr=8-4">The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell</a>&nbsp;  &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;   &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD&nbsp; <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

&lsquo;It can take something like leaving, all be it temporarily, to make us realise who and what is important&rsquo; &nbsp; Rob is in the middle of a significant packing up process as he prepares to leave the UK to live and work in Bangladesh.&nbsp; Working for the Bangladesh Football Federation as a National Coach is a great opportunity but involves leaving and in this candid and deeply personal episode Rob explores the process of leaving which involves many things leaving friends, familiarity, comfort and&nbsp; trading the known for the unknown.&nbsp; Leaving is not something that is often talked about, it&rsquo;s linked to departures, going away, emotion and the ultimate departure from this human plane &ndash; death but it can also help us realise what&rsquo;s really important the relationships in our lives that make it meaningful and our interdependence.&nbsp;  &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp; We cannot do this thing called life on our own&nbsp;it&rsquo;s&nbsp;all about developing independence when we leave our parent or carers side, taking on responsibility and making our own decisions and mistakes and then moving on to&nbsp;&nbsp; the next level&nbsp;- interdependence.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve had to let go of responsibilities that I&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;continue in a different country&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve had to realise that you&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;keep hold of everything and trying to keep hold off everything would be like trying to stop the movement of the universe&nbsp; Things won&rsquo;t move forward if you are kicking your feet and holding on whilst the momentum of the universe is moving on.&nbsp; How many of us have things in our lives that we need to let go of?&nbsp; We let go to make space but nature abhors a vacuum and in creating space we allow serendipity to rush in and fill it with new challenges&nbsp; There has to be the death of the old to allow the new to come in&nbsp; If everything in life was laid out there would be no challenge and no beauty in it&nbsp; We all have our own hero&rsquo;s journey and if we are prepared to step out of our comfort zone and trust then often things have a way of working out.&nbsp;  &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS&nbsp; &lsquo;I am so grateful for how loving supportive and caring my family and friends have been. It&rsquo;s shown me what a fundamental part of life relationships are&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;This process has taught me the value and beauty of interdependence&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;It&rsquo;s a great lesson to set yourself deadlines and there are great tools such as&nbsp;accountability&nbsp;to help&rsquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;  &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp; Leader Manager Coach Podcast&nbsp; The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell&nbsp;  &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;   &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD&nbsp; LMC Rob Ryles Website&nbsp; LMC YouTube &nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedIn&nbsp;Support the show.

Leaving and the Value of Interdependence

&lsquo;I&rsquo;d gone from a club where I didn&rsquo;t know if I had a job week to week to a club at the top end of the championship&rsquo;&nbsp; In this episode, Rob is talking all things football with Bobby Mimms. Currently, they are both working within the coaching team who are in Bangladesh working with the next generation of football players who will forge a path in the Asian football arena.&nbsp; They take the opportunity of a get together for coffee to reflect on Bobby&rsquo;s professional football career and the changing face of football in the UK along with an in-depth conversation about the work that&rsquo;s involved in moving from playing professional football to a coaching career.&nbsp; Bobby was a&nbsp;professional&nbsp;player during some of the most interesting years in football to date listen in to hear what it was like on the inside.&nbsp;  &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp; <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">I played at a time and in clubs where playing a simple game with good players was what made the difference.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">I was part of a focused, sustained campaign with substance behind it&nbsp;&nbsp;aiming&nbsp;to reach the final and be on top.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">As a goalkeeper, I was used to the view of the pitch from end to end, as an outfield coach you view the pitch from side to side.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">At 38 I was beginning to find the training harder which was ironic because I was the one planning and delivering the training.  &nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">Being a player and then being a coach is moving from one career to pursue a different career you have to be prepared to put in the work to train and gain experience in the new role.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">I&nbsp;got an introduction to Wolves&nbsp;and&nbsp;was offered the post&nbsp;I then&nbsp;stayed for 8 years.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">There is a historical precedent in the profession for dismissing goalkeepers early on but this is not productive they need time to develop in the role.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">A young goalkeeper is not the finished article as the coach it&rsquo;s your job to improve on what they have and are to create the finished article.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">If you can add something and make them a better goalkeeper then you have done your job.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">You have to have a conviction as a coach and believe in what you have seen in someone.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">Everyone needs someone to believe in them at some point in their lives.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">When someone&rsquo;s confidence has been knocked it&rsquo;s about building it back up.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">When you work with a senior it&rsquo;s about gaining their trust to be able to work with them successfully.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">It&rsquo;s challenging working in different countries but international football was something I wanted to work in. Not getting to play as international player&nbsp;had&nbsp;left something unfulfilled for me.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">When you come to somewhere new there are challenges but as a coach, you get what you were getting 20 years ago in the UK &ndash; respect as the coach and players who want to learn.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">In Bangladesh football is a way out so&nbsp;the young players&nbsp;listen and want to do well.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1">You have to have the right mentality The football looks after itself but there are lots of things around the football you want to compare with back home but it isn&rsquo;t the same they are not working at the same level.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">You have to have the mentality of being able to understand what you can and can&rsquo;t affect.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1">More than anything else here you have a set of willing players.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1">I don&rsquo;t mind them making mistakes, if they didn&rsquo;t make mistakes I wouldn&rsquo;t have a job.&nbsp;</li> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1">This is a chance to move the game forward within the Asian arena.&nbsp;</li> </ul> &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS&nbsp; &lsquo;He couldn&rsquo;t dive, catch or kick when he started but through hard work and perseverance he had a good career as a goalkeeper&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;It was adversity that brought the group together&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;We got promoted and challenged for the premier league training on a parks pitch,&nbsp; you had to clear up the dog mess and stop to let traffic to the crematorium through during training&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;I was told early on that they throw goalkeepers away too early on but  it still happens today&rsquo;&nbsp;  &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp; <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/leader-manager-coach-podcast/id1370481271?mt=2">Leader Manager Coach Podcast</a>&nbsp;  &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;   &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD&nbsp; <a href="https://www.robryles.co.uk/">LMC Rob Ryles Website</a>&nbsp; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMPYDVzZVnA">LMC YouTube</a> &nbsp; <a href="http://inkedin.com/in/robertryles/?originalSubdomain=bd">Rob Ryles LinkedIn</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/robryles" rel="payment">Support the show.</a>

&lsquo;I&rsquo;d gone from a club where I didn&rsquo;t know if I had a job week to week to a club at the top end of the championship&rsquo;&nbsp; In this episode, Rob is talking all things football with Bobby Mimms. Currently, they are both working within the coaching team who are in Bangladesh working with the next generation of football players who will forge a path in the Asian football arena.&nbsp; They take the opportunity of a get together for coffee to reflect on Bobby&rsquo;s professional football career and the changing face of football in the UK along with an in-depth conversation about the work that&rsquo;s involved in moving from playing professional football to a coaching career.&nbsp; Bobby was a&nbsp;professional&nbsp;player during some of the most interesting years in football to date listen in to hear what it was like on the inside.&nbsp;  &nbsp; KEY TAKEAWAYS&nbsp; I played at a time and in clubs where playing a simple game with good players was what made the difference.&nbsp; I was part of a focused, sustained campaign with substance behind it&nbsp;&nbsp;aiming&nbsp;to reach the final and be on top.&nbsp; As a goalkeeper, I was used to the view of the pitch from end to end, as an outfield coach you view the pitch from side to side.&nbsp; At 38 I was beginning to find the training harder which was ironic because I was the one planning and delivering the training.  &nbsp; Being a player and then being a coach is moving from one career to pursue a different career you have to be prepared to put in the work to train and gain experience in the new role.&nbsp; I&nbsp;got an introduction to Wolves&nbsp;and&nbsp;was offered the post&nbsp;I then&nbsp;stayed for 8 years.&nbsp; There is a historical precedent in the profession for dismissing goalkeepers early on but this is not productive they need time to develop in the role.&nbsp; A young goalkeeper is not the finished article as the coach it&rsquo;s your job to improve on what they have and are to create the finished article.&nbsp; If you can add something and make them a better goalkeeper then you have done your job.&nbsp; You have to have a conviction as a coach and believe in what you have seen in someone.&nbsp; Everyone needs someone to believe in them at some point in their lives.&nbsp; When someone&rsquo;s confidence has been knocked it&rsquo;s about building it back up.&nbsp; When you work with a senior it&rsquo;s about gaining their trust to be able to work with them successfully.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s challenging working in different countries but international football was something I wanted to work in. Not getting to play as international player&nbsp;had&nbsp;left something unfulfilled for me.&nbsp; When you come to somewhere new there are challenges but as a coach, you get what you were getting 20 years ago in the UK &ndash; respect as the coach and players who want to learn.&nbsp; In Bangladesh football is a way out so&nbsp;the young players&nbsp;listen and want to do well.&nbsp; You have to have the right mentality The football looks after itself but there are lots of things around the football you want to compare with back home but it isn&rsquo;t the same they are not working at the same level.&nbsp; You have to have the mentality of being able to understand what you can and can&rsquo;t affect.&nbsp; More than anything else here you have a set of willing players.&nbsp; I don&rsquo;t mind them making mistakes, if they didn&rsquo;t make mistakes I wouldn&rsquo;t have a job.&nbsp; This is a chance to move the game forward within the Asian arena.&nbsp; &nbsp; BEST MOMENTS&nbsp; &lsquo;He couldn&rsquo;t dive, catch or kick when he started but through hard work and perseverance he had a good career as a goalkeeper&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;It was adversity that brought the group together&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;We got promoted and challenged for the premier league training on a parks pitch,&nbsp; you had to clear up the dog mess and stop to let traffic to the crematorium through during training&rsquo;&nbsp; &lsquo;I was told early on that they throw goalkeepers away too early on but  it still happens today&rsquo;&nbsp;  &nbsp; VALUABLE RESOURCES&nbsp; Leader Manager Coach Podcast&nbsp;  &nbsp; ABOUT THE HOST&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;   &nbsp; CONTACT METHOD&nbsp; LMC Rob Ryles Website&nbsp; LMC YouTube &nbsp; Rob Ryles LinkedIn&nbsp;Support the show.

A Coffee with Bobby Mimms

Welcome to The Leader Manager Coach Podcast, where we take a deep dive examining knowledge, philosophies, wisdom and insight to help you lead, manage and coach in football, sport and life. Leader Manager Coach is presented by Rob Ryles. Rob is a UEFA qualified coach with a League Managers Association qualification and a science and medicine background. He has worked in the football industry in Europe, USA, Asia and Africa; at International, Premiership, League, Non League and grass roots levels with both World Cup and European Championship experience.

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