{"podcast":{"title":"Canada Basketball Coaching Podcast","slug":"canada-basketball-coaching-podcast-7586702","podcast_index_feed_id":7586702,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/canada-basketball-coaching-podcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/canada-basketball-coaching-podcast","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/canada-basketball-coaching-podcast/20251117_071140_3cf5c9a8847a5faa3bd5106e45b719ed.png","author":"Mike MacKay & Brandon Brock","episode_count":41,"summary":"Join Coach Mike MacKay and Coach Brandon Brock as they dive into weekly conversations about transformational coaching, stewardship, and performance safety. The Canada Basketball Coaching Podcast is a place for all coaches to join in on a conversation to help grow the game of basketball. Look forward to weekly episodes including conversations with coaches from across the country and around the world engaging in conversations around new concepts in the game of basketball.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-15T20:19:41.112235+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/canada-basketball-coaching-podcast-7586702"},"episode":{"title":"Motivation - Are you Building Fear or Freedom","slug":"motivation-are-you-building-fear-or-freedom","published_at":"2026-04-27T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/canada-basketball-coaching-podcast-7586702/motivation-are-you-building-fear-or-freedom","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/canada-basketball-coaching-podcast-7586702","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/canada-basketball-coaching-podcast/2740974","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/356053/2740974/canada-basketball-coaching-podcast/2026_04_27_17_26_33_0859a696-c7b5-4cdf-ab73-da3675a40231.mp3","summary":"On this episode of the Canada Basketball Coaching Podcast, Coach Mike and Brandon dive into the concept of motivation through a practical coaching lens, exploring how everyday coaching decisions can shape, shift, and sometimes unintentionally disrupt athlete motivation. Building on ideas from self-determination theory, they unpack the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and introduce the concept of “motivational displacement”, how drills, constraints, and coach behaviours can redirect what athletes are actually motivated to do. Through real coaching examples, they explore how environments can either foster autonomy, confidence, and connection, or create fear, compliance, and short-term thinking. The conversation challenges coaches to reflect on their own motivations, the impact of reward and punishment, and how to design practices that truly support athletes in learning, adapting, and performing in the storm.","meta_description":"On this episode of the Canada Basketball Coaching Podcast, Coach Mike and Brandon dive into the concept of motivation through a practical coaching lens, e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2434,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/canada-basketball-coaching-podcast-7586702/episodes/motivation-are-you-building-fear-or-freedom/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/canada-basketball-coaching-podcast-7586702/motivation-are-you-building-fear-or-freedom.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}