Best Constraints Collective Podcasts (2025)

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#72 Mark O'Sullivan 1:14:03

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Inflation, Deflation, & Simplification: The 8 Things That Influence Prices | Frankly 115 26:09

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In this week's Frankly, Nate explores how the prices we encounter in our daily lives are influenced by not only how much money is in the system, but also by resource depletion, technology, affordability by 'the masses,' and trust within a complex global system. Prices are deeply intertwined with the biophysical reality that underpins our society, a…

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10 Reasons To Use a Middle Front Setter 4-2 with No Block, When Your Team Passes Great in Practice But Not Games, and VolleyMovement with Daniel Maciel 37:48

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The conversation emphasizes the importance of personal development in coaching, highlighting how an individual coach's improvement can lead to overall team enhancement. It discusses the ripple effect that occurs when a coach becomes better, positively impacting all team members. Anything you do along the lines of coaching improves your team. The fa…

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"Leadership is a practice...not a position" - a conversation with Hayley Lever 1:21:29

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In this episode, I sit down with Hayley Lever, Chief Executive of Greater Manchester Moving, to explore what authentic leadership really looks like when you're trying to create systemic change. Hayley has been one of the biggest influences on how I think about leadership, culture, and the power of creating environments where people can truly thrive…

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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: How Artificial Superintelligence Might Wipe Out Our Entire Species with Nate Soares 1:40:55

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Technological development has always been a double-edged sword for humanity: the printing press increased the spread of misinformation, cars disrupted the fabric of our cities, and social media has made us increasingly polarized and lonely. But it has not been since the invention of the nuclear bomb that technology has presented such a severe exist…

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#71 Round Up 5 27:05

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What coaches can learn from locksmiths - a conversation with Scott Benbow 1:30:00

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In this episode, I sit down with Scott Benbow, a Football Fun Factory franchise owner in West Cumbria who's on a mission to transform grassroots coaching through learning science. After an 11-year break from coaching and a deep dive into neuroscience and learning development, Scott returned to football with a radically different approach—one that p…

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Tips To Teach Everyone How To Set, 10 Benefits To Attending a Coaching Clinic, and The Volleyball Journey 36:29

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The conversation emphasizes the importance of personal development in coaching, highlighting how an individual coach's improvement can lead to overall team enhancement. It discusses the ripple effect that occurs when a coach becomes better, positively impacting all team members. Anything you do along the lines of coaching improves your team. The fa…

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Reimagining Ourselves at the End of Our World: Kinship, Interconnection, and Spirituality in the Metacrisis with Samantha Sweetwater 1:33:51

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Over the past decade, the world has become increasingly chaotic and uncertain – and so, too, has our cultural vision for the future. While the events we face now may feel unprecedented, they are rooted in much deeper patterns, which humanity has been playing out for millennia. If we take the time to understand past trends, we can also employ practi…

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Clarity Precedes Accountability, Beating Teams That Are Bigger, Stronger, and Faster, and How Minds Change 33:01

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In this conversation, Tod Mattox and Davis Ransom emphasize the importance of clarity in accountability, defining player roles, and understanding effort metrics. They explore strategies for adapting to physical opponents, developing diverse scoring methods, and maintaining ball control. The discussion also highlights the significance of tactical aw…

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Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament | Frankly 114 40:17

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Over the past decade, the world has become increasingly chaotic and uncertain – and so, too, has our cultural vision for the future. While the events we face now may feel unprecedented, they are rooted in much deeper patterns, which humanity has been playing out for millennia. If we take the time to understand past trends, we can also employ practi…

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Dog Walk Diary: Fix the system…not the coaches 16:15

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In this episode, I dive into a subject that's been weighing heavily on my mind, sparked by the writing of fellow ecological explorer, Steve Whelan and observations across the coaching landscape. I explore why coach education systems continue to default to instructional, directive models when we know that contextual, experiential learning can be far…

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#70 New Website and Book 15:19

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Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveries with Rosa Vásquez Espinoza 1:22:05

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For centuries, modern science has relied on the scientific method to better understand the world around us. While helpful in many contexts, the scientific method is also objective, controlled, and reductionist – often breaking down complex systems into smaller parts for analysis and isolating subjects to test hypotheses. In contrast, indigenous wis…

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#69 Podcast Summary 5 - Eric Brymer 41:07

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What Coaches Get Wrong About Armswing, Coaching for End of the Season Elimination Matches, and Volleyball Explained 31:41

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In this episode, Tod and Davis discuss the upcoming virtual clinic for volleyball coaches, emphasizing the importance of arm swing as a fundamental skill in volleyball. They explore various coaching techniques to enhance hitting, the significance of preparing for end-of-season matches, and innovative practice strategies to keep players engaged. The…

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11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview | Frankly 113 37:41

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In this episode, Nate weaves personal reflections into an exploration of the human predicament, unpacking a series of chronological insights that have reshaped his worldview. What began years ago as an investigation into oil has morphed into a deep lifelong journey into the complex web of energy, psychology, evolution, and systems that drive today'…

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#68 The Value of Opposed and Unopposed Practice 37:24

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In this episode, we dive into one of coaching’s most persistent debates: Should athletes learn through unopposed drills or through messy, opponent-driven, game-like action? A new paper entitled "The value of opposed and unopposed practice: An ecological dynamics rationale for skill development" argues that if we want athletes to develop skills that…

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Will We Artificially Cool the Planet? The Science and Politics of Geoengineering with Ted Parson 1:21:43

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Global heating continues, despite the increased use of renewable energy sources and international policies attempting otherwise. Even as emissions reduction efforts continue, our world faces more extreme weather, sea level rise, and human health impacts, all of which are projected to accelerate in the coming decades. This raises an important but co…

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#67 Stuart Armstrong 1:31:08

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Stuart Armstrong is a workforce development system builder, learning innovation architect, skill acquisition specialist, and ecological dynamicist, and host of the Talent Equation Podcast. Enjoy!By The Constraints Collective

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10 Questions with Catalyst Volleyball Club Director Tobias Herrera IV (Part 2) 30:01

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In this episode of The Volley Pod, Tod and Davis are joined by Tobias Herrera, the Director of Catalyst Volleyball Club in Houston Texas. He joins the pod to discuss key questions that coaches want to know! This week the trio discuss how to incorporate music in practice, how to handle missed practices without compromising the team results, the diff…

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Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy and other Personal Dangers of AI | RR 20 1:53:14

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Mainstream conversations about artificial intelligence tend to center around the technology's economic and large-scale impacts. Yet it's at the individual level where we're seeing AI's most potent effects, and they may not be what you think. Even in the limited time that AI chatbots have been publicly available (like Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, et…

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10 Questions with Catalyst Volleyball Club Director Tobias Herrera IV (Part 1) 33:46

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In this episode, the hosts discuss various aspects of volleyball coaching, including reflections on recent matches, the introduction of a new segment with Tobias Herrera from Club Catalyst Volleyball, and the importance of balancing culture and drills in practice. They delve into mental toughness, the first week of practice for different teams, man…

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The Quadruple Bifurcation | Frankly 112 22:46

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In this week's Frankly, Nate outlines four bifurcations that are likely to underpin the human experience in the near future. While the broad biophysical realities of energy and ecology underpin our civilization's movement over time, in the moment, people will experience these trends mostly economically and psychologically. Whether related to the wi…

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#66 Round Up 4 35:25

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In this episode we discuss an article from The Athletic entitled “What is the CLA? Inside the revolutionary coaching method quietly fuelling the world’s best athletes.” We reflect on the Constraints-Led Approach (CLA) in coaching challenging the notion that it’s a “revolution,” since the foundational work by Carl Newell is nearly 40 years old. The …

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Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World with Sheldon Solomon 1:46:50

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Many of us wrestle with the unsettling truth that everyone – including ourselves and those we love – will one day die. Though this awareness is uncomfortable, research suggests that the human capacity to contemplate death is a byproduct of consciousness itself. In fact, our efforts to cope with mortality are at the core of culture, religion, the de…

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Constraints Led Approach Tips, Conflict Coaching Gasoline, and Volleyball Canada 31:37

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In this episode of The Volley Pod, Tod and Davis talk about ideas for how coaches can integrate more of a constraints led approach in their gyms. These ideas are ready to be applied today! Tod then explains Conflict Coaching fuel, the idea that coaches can avoid these types of “fuel” for conflicts on their teams. Then they share excellent resources…

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#65 Podcast Summary 4 - Jonny Headrick 27:57

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Dr Jonathon Headrick is a lecturer and researcher in the field of exercise and sports science. He is also an accredited Exercise (AES) and Sports (ASpS) Scientist recognised by ESSA. Dr Headrick's expertise lies in skill-acqusition and learning design in sport, with applications spanning junior development through to elite level performance context…

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The Three Most Important Words We're Taught Not to Say 26:30

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In this week's Frankly, Nate considers the ways in which our social species overvalues false-confidence rather than the more honest and inquisitive response of "I don't know." He invites us to consider the science behind this cultural bias towards certainty: from our biological response from the stress of "not knowing" to the reinforcing effects of…

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Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell 1:27:43

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Monopolistic business practices have been illegal in the United States for more than a century. Yet, monopoly power continues to accelerate in our modern commercial landscape. Large, powerful corporations edge out smaller businesses, often citing scale, "efficiency", and lower costs as their reasons for success. But looking more closely reveals a r…

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#64 Do we need skill acquisition specialists in sport? 32:21

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If you're getting value from our podcast check out our Patreon site at patreon.com/TheConstraintsCollective where you can access member only podcasts and monthly meet ups, a range of resources and an online coaching community. In this episode we ask the question 'Do sport organisations need skill acquisition specialists?'. We explore how a skill ac…

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What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism 17:50

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In this week's Frankly, Nate reflects on the multiple metaphors brought to mind via a single photograph, which depicts a sloth climbing a barbed wire fence in Costa Rica. Beyond evoking compassion for a species that's on the receiving end of human intervention into its ecosystem, the image raises larger ideas about the response of animals, includin…

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Teaching Individual Defense, Principles To Start he Season With, and The Constraints Collective 31:02

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In this episode, the hosts of The Volley Pod discuss various aspects of volleyball coaching, focusing on defensive strategies, tactical awareness, and principles for starting the season. They share insights on improving individual defense, the importance of readiness and posture, and how to effectively teach players to dig and pursue the ball. The …

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Data as a Differentiator: Inside Harbor Capital’s AI and Tech Strategy 26:20

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In this episode of The Allocation Agenda, host Steve MacDonald sits down with Pradeep Tekkey, Chief Data Officer at Harbor Capital Advisors, to explore how data is transforming the investment management industry — and why firms that overlook it do so at their own peril. From growing up in the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands without a television …