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The Growth House Podcast

Ben Fennell

Released: 2025-06-12

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23 Episodes

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23 Episodes

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Released: 2025-06-12

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LEADERSHIP and TEAMSHIP

00:00 – 03:00 | Introduction & Career Overview Host Ben Fennell introduces the podcast and Kate Richardson-Walsh.Highlights Kate’s 375 caps for Great Britain hockey, 13 years as captain, and Rio 2016 Olympic gold. 03:00 – 05:00 | Early Career & T

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00:00 – 03:00 | Introduction & Career Overview

Host Ben Fennell introduces the podcast and Kate Richardson-Walsh.Highlights Kate’s 375 caps for Great Britain hockey, 13 years as captain, and Rio 2016 Olympic gold.

03:00 – 05:00 | Early Career & Team Development Challenges

Kate discusses the turbulence of her first 10 years in the sport.Explains lack of full-time training due to funding and resulting inconsistency in performance.

05:00 – 08:30 | Purpose, Vision & 'Gold Medal Standards'

Insight into rebuilding after London 2012.Shift to using “Would a gold medallist do that?” as a daily behavioural check-in.Importance of turning abstract vision into actionable behaviours.

08:30 – 12:00 | Strengths & Self-Awareness

Team learned to recognise and value individual strengths through psychology work.Kate discusses her personal strength (consistency) and Helen Richardson-Walsh’s penalty goal at Rio.Power of knowing and using your strengths under pressure.

12:00 – 15:20 | Good Day / Bad Day Exercise & Triggers

Importance of knowing your personal signals of performance and self-awareness.Identifying emotional and behavioural cues that indicate decline or stress.Creating plans and asking for support when triggered.

15:20 – 20:00 | Receiving Feedback Well

Kate’s story of receiving honest feedback from a junior teammate.Emotional reaction vs. self-control.Emphasises thoughtful, kind, and direct feedback as a gift.

20:00 – 25:30 | Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DIB)

Overview of diversity within the GB hockey team and its limitations.Leveraging cognitive, personality and strength-based diversity to enhance resilience and creativity.Transition from inclusion as a concept to belonging as a performance driver.

25:30 – 30:00 | Inductions, Culture & Storytelling

Team’s cultural onboarding and welcome ceremonies before Rio 2016.Use of storytelling to share values and welcome new members.Importance of helping new joiners quickly understand and contribute to team culture.

30:00 – 36:30 | Identity, Microaggressions & Representation

Kate’s personal experiences with prejudice and stereotypes.Subtle discrimination: e.g., “couldn’t you have used a prettier picture?”Significance of representation and embracing identity confidently.

36:30 – 39:20 | Safe Spaces & Learning Through Discomfort

Importance of creating non-judgmental spaces for DIB conversations.Avoiding blame and “cancel culture.”Acknowledging fear but choosing to grow through discomfort.

39:20 – 45:00 | Closing Reflections: Leadership, Teamship & Growth

Leadership: “Honesty” – authenticity and holding self to same standards as others.Teamship: “Selflessness” – showing up daily even if not selected.••Growth: “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable” – personal and team development through challenge.

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Episode ID: 1000712582461

GUID: 67d03d2d77c96703a6580060

Release Date: 12/06/2025, 16:53:02

Description

Welcome to The Growth House Podcast. My name is Ben Fennell, and I'm founder and CEO of The Growth House. This is an interview series where we explore leadership and teamship and growth, a series of topics that during 16 years as CEO of BBH, I grew passionate about and I've dedicated the last five years into studying it in as much detail as I possibly can. So we'll be speaking to business leaders, senior members of the military and special forces, athletes, coaches, technologists, and even astronauts and will be looking to understand the behaviours, the tools, and critically the habits that become part of the working daily and weekly life of a high performance team. If you enjoy this podcast and want to find out more, please look us up www.growthhouse.co.uk hope you really enjoy the interviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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