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“A lioness doesn’t wake up and care that it’s Saturday. She wakes up doing scary-ass shit, because she’s a lioness.” – unknown Her roar Her pride Lionesses in the pride Her hunting tactics What’s with the lionesses, Boydy? Well, earlier this week Suzanne Wrack from The Guardian wrote an article about the impact England’s Women’s…
I’d like to firstly thank my Facebook Friends (you are a small but mighty number) for being super active on my site this week after sharing about this endeavour. WOW – I got tons of visits! This one is for you. In January 2021, in the middle of COVID (btw in one week-ish, it’ll be…
I was so pleased about the recent appointment of Charmaine Crooks as Canada Soccer’s interim president. Crooks is the first woman and the first person of colour to lead the organization. YES!!! GO WoC!!! BOOM. Things are changing. Why was I so mad the other day?!?! Then I hit Twitter and started reading about glass…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have some knowledge of the battle Canada Soccer’s NSWT is facing. Earlier this week, Soccer Canada president Nick Bontis resigned, stating: “I acknowledge that this moment requires change.” Bontis, btw, was also named CONCACAF Council vice-president (North America) earlier this week. He resigned to start a better…
After some feedback from my last blog post, I decided to share some of the original transcript, with edits of course. In case you missed it, I did an interview in 2020 with a Master’s student. Their study was meant to explore how coaches understand and use teachable moments in their approaches to coaching. As…
Funny the things you can find when cleaning out your closet. Well, in this case, my Mac… I came across transcript notes from an interview I did on January 10th, 2020. It was with a university student completing their Masters. The study was meant to explore how coaches understand and use teachable moments in their…
I read this article last week: In defense of Gen Z by Stephanie Bai (February 16, 2023) https://www.macleans.ca/longforms/gen-z-hustle-burnout-work-life-balance/amp/ The first words in the article intrigued me: “You’re wrong about Gen Z.” “Am I?” I asked myself… Generation Z are those born between 1997 and 2012. They have grown up in a world with smart phones,…
“Millennials… report having zero friends (22%), zero close friends (27%) and zero acquaintances (25%).” This data comes from Minda Zetlin’s September 2019 article entitled “Millennials Are the Loneliest Generation, a Survey Shows”. You can read it here: https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/millennials-loneliness-no-friends-friendships-baby-boomers-yougov.html One key talking point on any of my teams is relationships; this is one of the pillars…
Reading the nightmare reality that is our Canadian National Women’s Soccer team at the moment, I found some notes that might be of interest…. A USC/Purdue study published on March 24, 2021 found that women’s sports was severely underrepresented in television news and online media coverage. The study found that 95% of TV coverage focused on men’s…
I recently read Atomic Habits by James Clear. It was a good read, with some key take-aways, for me anyway, listed here. These are direct quotes from the first two chapters of the book: “Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash major change.” “A…
The Boyd Effect 