Paul McGuinness has worked with, played with and coached some of the biggest names in the world through his incredible football career.

Growing up with his father being heavily involved in football management and coaching, you could say that Paul was destined to make his own pathway into the game.

From a young age, he can remember how his father coached him and as he developed as a player, focussed on becoming a coach after his playing days were over.

Sir Alex Ferguson recognised his ability as a coach and brought him into the Manchester Utd Academy in the early 90's at a young age and he remained working there for many years.

Paul has worked as Director at the Centre of Excellence, Youth Development Coach and Coach Developer at Man Utd, The FA and Leicester City and he now works as an independent Football Consultant.

In this episode, Paul shares some fascinating insights into his coaching, tells some great stories and highlights the importance of using analogies, stories and language to engage performers.

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Dr. Kieran File is an associate professor in Applied Linguistics at Warwick University.

In this episode we explore how language shapes relationships in professional sports teams.

Kieran spent 6 weeks following and studying a professional rugby team in New Zealand to learn and write about the use of language within the context of a professional sports team environment.

His book; How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams was a fascinating insight into the dynamics of power and solidarity within a team environment.

He also talks about his journey into sharing his passion of sport with his linguistic profession. His PHD in post match interviews and the importance of the use of language within the sports context.

If you want to get in touch with him you can find out more here:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/people/file/

https://twitter.com/KieranFile

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John Stoszkowski describes himself as a 'reformed academic' and has spent his life studying and learning philosophy.

John has over 25 published research papers covering social learning, reflection and critical thinking. As well as this, in 2019 he was awarded a Senior Fellowship from Higher Education.

In 2021 John made the decision to leave academia and is now providing philosophy-driven coaching and courses to help self-determined professionals unlock their true potential.

John now works in businesses and elite sport to work with people to help deepen their thinking to gain a better perspective on themselves and their situations.

He has also co-written a book with previous guest of the podcast Daniel Massaro called Being Well - A journey of living well through a sporting life.

Find out more about John through his website - https://johnstoszkowski.com/

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