The Pathway - Crossing the Threshold
The Sport Experience Show
Welcome to The Pathway... the podcast that explores the transformative power of youth sports. The series is inspired by an upcoming book by Andrew O’Loughlin, who got curious about the best ways to navigate through the tests, trials and triumphs of his own kids sport, and what would be the best tips for us as providers at clubs, or as a guide for parents, and, most importantly, for the kids. In each episode, we dive into the Hero’s Journey of young athletes, uncovering the lessons, challenges, and triumphs that shape who they are - and who they’re becoming. In this episode, we are...
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The Pathway - The Refusal of the Call
The Sport Experience Show
Welcome to The Pathway... the podcast that explores the transformative power of youth sports. The series is inspired by an upcoming book by Andrew O’Loughlin, who got curious about the best ways to navigate through the tests, trials and triumphs of his own kids sport, and what would be the best tips for us as providers at clubs, or as a guide for parents, and, most importantly, for the kids. In each episode, we dive into the Hero’s Journey of young athletes, uncovering the lessons, challenges, and triumphs that shape who they are - and who they’re becoming. This episode explores the...
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The Pathway - The Call to Adventure
The Sport Experience Show
Welcome to The Pathway... the podcast that explores the transformative power of youth sports. The series is inspired by an upcoming book by Andrew O’Loughlin, who got curious about the best ways to navigate through the tests, trials and triumphs of his own kids sport, and what would be the best tips for us as providers at clubs, or as a guide for parents, and, most importantly, for the kids. In each episode, we dive into the Hero’s Journey of young athletes, uncovering the lessons, challenges, and triumphs that shape who they are - and who they’re becoming. We also address those...
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SHORTS - Are you having a good impact? Or a bad one?
The Sport Experience Show
Hello and welcome to another short Sport Experience design blog, hopefully helping you get more people, more involved in your sport, for longer! This is an audio version of the blog we shared recently, simply asking, are we having a good impact, or a bad one? You can check that out at or follow along on LinkedIn at Please do let me know what you think, just drop me an email at [email protected] - it would be great to hear from you! And please, if you do think someone might find this useful, we’d love you to share it with them. Thank you!
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Creating the Active Bands success story with Adam Bishop from Aths Aus
The Sport Experience Show
The purpose of the Sport Experience Show is to help you evolve the experiences you provide in your sport, and progress with the influence we can have in today’s ever-changing world. And so I’m really pleased to share this chat with Adam Bishop from Athletics Australia, a brilliant example of someone who is thinking differently about how we engage with our audiences, how we can grow within a sport, but at the same time embrace the wider active world and the opportunities that can bring. And while we are looking at experiences across all the layers of the sport and physical activity, this...
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The Aus Open Event Show + Sport Experience Show
The Sport Experience Show
We thought this Event Show would be so valuable and interesting to our Sport Experience Design community, we wanted to share this with you here. And in this new series of the Event Show we were lucky to speak with leaders in the world of major events, as we enter an exciting window of opportunity across our industry. The purpose of the show is to give a voice to our industry, to hear from influential leaders as to how they are going about their work, and so we can take things away and apply it in our world. So in this chat, I’m joined by a popular figure in our industry, who has been heavily...
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Creating Active Experiences @ Bodhi & RIDE with Michaela Fellner
The Sport Experience Show
The purpose of the Sport Experience Show is to help you harness the power of the experiences you provide in your sport, and so I’m really pleased to share this chat with Michaela Fellner, the founder of Bodhi & RIDE, a brilliant example of someone who is building a community through the power of the experience. And we are focused on the experience as while we all have a lot of things to achieve, and lots of ways to do it, THE EXPERIENCE you provide will ultimately decide whether people want to sign up and show up, or not. While the 'SX Show' is about experiences across all the layers of...
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The Sport Experience Show - More People, More Active with Dr Erica Randle
The Sport Experience Show
Brilliant to share this chat with Dr Erica Randle, a highly regarded expert in sport and physical activity, having led some brilliant research projects across the active world. We were very lucky to tap into her wealth of experiences - to see how you can apply them in the design of your sports and activities.
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Sport Experience Design with world-leading expert Professor Daniel Funk
The Sport Experience Show
This show features a true world-leading expert in all aspects of sport – and a pioneer in sport experience design - Daniel Funk, a prodigious professor based Temple University his work has provided essential insights for many across our industry, and we explore the role that ‘the experience’ plays in sport – for the fans, for the active participants, and for us as providers.
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A parkrun journey - the influential participant experience with Tim Oberg
The Sport Experience Show
This chat with Tim Oberg, the man who brought a global success story, parkrun, to this part of the world is a great opportunity to understand the experience that parkrun provides, and how it goes about providing it.
info_outlineWelcome to The Pathway... the podcast that explores the transformative power of youth sports.
The series is inspired by an upcoming book by Andrew O’Loughlin, who got curious about the best ways to navigate through the tests, trials and triumphs of his own kids sport, and what would be the best tips for us as providers at clubs, or as a guide for parents, and, most importantly, for the kids.
In each episode, we dive into the Hero’s Journey of young athletes, uncovering the lessons, challenges, and triumphs that shape who they are - and who they’re becoming.
In this episode, we are talking about ‘Crossing the Threshold - the critical point where kids leave the ordinary world of unstructured play and enter the special world of organized sports—a place that’s challenging, exciting, and sometimes overwhelming.
We also address those questions really being asked by parents, discussed and debated on the sidelines and school gates, what do we need to do differently for girls than boys, if anything? Is this sport safe enough for my kid? And the classics, should it be about winning?
This podcast is brought to you by Sport Experience Design.
Our mission is simple: helping get more people involved in sport, more often, and for longer.
You can visit us at sportexperiencedesign.com to learn how we can support your journey in creating impactful sports experiences that inspire participation and lifelong engagement.
And to check out the book, please visit SportExperienceDesign.com/ThePathway