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How you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Catching up: Episode 7It's been a while and Briar and Danielle meet up to chat pickleball. This episode was recorded in the fall but lots of great pickleball content relevant every day. Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. Find us on YouTube, How you Play The Game or on Instagram for more information about who we are and tips and strategies f...
2026-02-1945 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Tanner Big Canoe - The mental game continuedTwo years ago in our first season we spoke to Olivia Apps about the importance of mental conditioning in her game of Rugby. And just to recap - this mental conditioning contributed to a silver medal at the Paris Olympics this past summer with Olivia leading the team from an underdog - 9th place to silver. So it can happen. Today we have another athlete with us, Tanner Big Canoe - who plays serious golf, has been in pro tournaments, instructor but importantly to us, is a new pickleball players and 12 months in, is a solid 5.0+ pickleball p...
2026-01-1948 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.The Mind of a Referee - Joan PollardToday’s podcast is with our friend, Joan Pollard. We know her as a friend and amazing pickleball player but also when you get into a medal round, it might be Joan that is the referee. Joan travels far and wide to referee games and she’s well respected in that community and the pickleball community in general. Today’s topic is - obviously Joan is a referee - but what is the mind of a referee? What kind of person makes a good one? Someone who is organized, maybe a take charge personality, ability to be non emot...
2025-12-1656 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Levelling up your game!Tamara Bick. Coach and teacher and comedian. Tamara talks to us about tips for us earthlings about improving our skills. She reveals strategies, tips on how can we level up and improve our overall play to become more effective and competitive players.Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. Find us on YouTube, How you Play The Game or on
2025-12-1245 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Intergenerational pickleball - Nancy Sharpe, Tara Sharpe and Cole LesterBriar and Danielle dive into the stories of three generations of pickleballers, in one family, who recently made us all proud by medaling at the Canadian Nationals. Since then, the three of them have medaled in what seems like every tournament! Let’s take this in - 3 generations….Grandmother, her daughter, her grandson. Wow. Incredible. One of the great themes of this podcast is that Tara and Cole, who are high level players say they play with anyone who wants to play because they love the game. Let's hear what they have to...
2025-02-2645 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Season 3. Episode 2 - Partnerships that workAfter morning drills, Danielle and Briar overheard a question from a team who play regularly together. They win tournaments, they win games. They have honed their skills into a powerful duo on the court. Their question was about favouring that happens during mixed doubles. We thought it would be a great question to answer in our podcast. Such a typical situation at every level. This is our first guest episode. Let’s introduce them: Shari Hazeldine and Cathy Crough.For both Cathy and Shari and like all of us, pickleball is a sen...
2025-02-1842 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Season 3. Episode 1. Catching up.After a summer of tournaments, new jobs, the Olympics, getting married (Danielle), it's time for a complete catch up on life, pickleball and love. Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. Find us on YouTube, How you Play The Game or on Instagram for more information about who we are and tips and strategies for playing your best game.
2025-02-0834 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Season FinaleBriar and Danielle toast to another season of pickleball podcasts. How much fun has this been? Paddle up!Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. Find us on YouTube, How you Play The Game or on Instagram for more information about who we are and tips and strategies for playing your best game. Paddle up...
2024-07-3041 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.PerfectionismWhile perfectionism can have both positive and negative impacts on pickleball players, finding a balance between striving for excellence and maintaining a healthy perspective on mistakes and imperfections is essential for overall enjoyment and success in the sport. Briar and Danielle talk setting high standards and the positives and negatives in pickleball. Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. Find us on YouTube...
2024-07-0939 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.ConditioningLet’s talk about physical conditioning. It’s been the single biggest concept on my mind for a variety of reasons. Being in shape, training for tournements, improving our game. Being ready for old age. Ug. Briar and Danielle talk about setting goals and the hard part, following through. Life gets so busy. What are you goals?Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. ...
2024-06-2643 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.FriendshipThis week we are talking about friendship. Seems like a broad topic. Why is friendship different in pickleball than in any other sport. It may not be any different but we think pickleball promotes friendship more broadly, more easily. It is how we met, and it is how I met others after moving to this community a couple of years ago. Let’s talk about how friendship is interwoven in pickleballThank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your q...
2024-03-1236 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.MentorshipIn this episode, Briar and Danielle speak about Mentorship in sports and most specifically in pickleball. We are thrilled to have the insights from a female pickleball star and mentor here in our community as our guest, Robyn Percival. Robyn is an elegant, skillful player who I first met in our Friday morning drill session and has been a mentor and friend of Briar for a long time.Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback.
2024-02-2254 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 7. ElitismElitism. Standard dictionaryBeing elitist in the context of sports refers to the adoption of an exclusive or snobbish attitude, often associated with a sense of superiority, towards individuals or groups based on their perceived athletic abilities, achievements, or participation in particular sports. What does that mean to you? Let's talk about it. Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. ...
2024-02-1035 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.episode 6 How you play the game!Briar and Danielle talk today about equating how you play the game of pickleball and how you play the game of life. When you think about it, there are so many parallels between sports and life. Here are just a few topicsRules and ObjectivesDecision-MakingFocus and ResilienceChallenges and OpportunitiesTeamwork and CollaborationPersistence and PerseveranceBalance and Self-CareThank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics y...
2024-01-2549 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Pet Peeves.....Briar and Danielle talk about pet peeves....court etiquette. We've been feeling lately like, well complaining. Court annoyances and irritations about pickleball. Are we becoming those people? These really aren't problems at all in the context of the world but in pickleball, they are real.Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. Find us on YouTube
2024-01-1442 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Injuries and preventing them!No one wants to talk about this but just like every other sport, it is a thing. It can happen. And more and more people are playing pickleball so naturally, injury will be and is on the rise as well. Most people think pickleball is a low-impact sport - not too much running, not like lifting weights, playing rugby or football…..but still - strains, shoulders, elbows, knees, ankle injuries abound. Pickleball is full of quick lateral movements, sudden stops, reaching up quickly for that overhead slam. Briar and Danielle talk about the kind...
2024-01-0243 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 3. Drills part 2.What are drills really? We have already done one podcast about drilling, we sure talk about it a lot amongst our friends. Unanimously it’s the one topic of conversation we talk about, and talk about how we need to drill but then we don't really do a lot of it. Why is that? More fun to play games than work at improving our games? C'mon. Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk...
2023-12-0746 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 2. Supporting each other.What does it mean to support each other in pickleball? Briar and Danielle chat about the amazing community of women that are playing the game, both recreationally and competitively. We see each other on the court playing with and against each other. How important is it that we support each other no matter what side of the court we are on? In Abbie Wambach 's words from her book, the Wolfpack, "if we keep playing by the old rules, we will never change the game." Thank you for li...
2023-11-2334 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 1. Catching up.Briar and Danielle catch up after a brief summer break and playing at Canadian Nationals. We talk about the tournament, fall play, dropping down in the ladder and so many other things!Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. Find us on YouTube, How you Play The Game or on Instagram for more information about who we are and...
2023-11-1434 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 11. Court etiquette and playing with friends.It's hard to believe there can be anything controversial in pickleball, but things do come up. The good news is there are always solutions. Sometimes you want to just play with your friends and not change up with the rest of the group. What's the etiquette? When there are people practicing for tournaments, a shortage of courts in your community and an abundance of players vying for court time - it can be a bit hairy. It's important to take turns and not hurt feelings. Sometimes, it's a slippery slope and hard to please everyone. Thank y...
2023-08-0134 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 10. Ebbs and Flows of the Game.Sometimes you feel discombobulated. Out of the groove of working out, playing regularly, having good games. You wonder why you played so well last week and this week not a ball is in the court! Sometimes things throw you off, things come up good and bad. At one point, Danielle wondered if going to Canadian Nationals was going to come unraveled. Then you get back in play, you work hard, work at it and it comes together. It's ebbs and flows. They happen in pickleball, they happen in life. Th...
2023-07-2536 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 9. The targeting game in pickleball.Briar and Danielle talk about something that happens to all of us - being targeted in the game of pickleball. But can you use it as a strategy? You sure can. Tips to looking at ways to turn this potentially negative situation around and make it a positive for you. Remember, every ball is a good ball, are we right?Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. Find us on
2023-07-1834 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 8. Identifying as an athleteBriar and Danielle talk about identifying as an athlete and what does it mean. We talk about our own story with athleticism, sports in high school, where we are now and preparing for the next stage of life. Lots of stories about our recent tournaments, how we look at pickleball as a sport. Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. Find us on YouTube, How y...
2023-07-1235 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 7. The Mental Game - guest Olivia AppsThis week, Briar and Danielle speak to @livapps, Olympian, Rugby player, Canadian Women's Sevens, and daughter to Danielle about the mental game. How do you mentally condition for your game and for life. Listen to Olivia speak about her career as a Rugby player and how she prepares for not only her but as a co-captain of her team, prepares for her game and always has a Plan A. Only a Plan A. Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk ab...
2023-07-0443 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 6. Drills and drills and more drills.This week Briar and Danielle talk about setting expectations for yourself . There are win days and there are days when maybe it doesn’t feel like a winner. Putting the time in and you are more likely to reach your intended goals. Our Friday morning Drill and Practice Group with our friends is where we practice shots over and over again. We put the time in.Practicing pickleball shots, position and strategies you would encounter in a game. And doing it over and over again, it helps you coordinate your body and brain. The more balls yo...
2023-06-2739 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 5. Tournament Play.Briar and Danielle talk about playing in tournaments and what that means and how to prepare. Are they really scary or just another way to play competitively. If you've done what you can to prepare and play your best game, checked the boxes, and got your mental game under wraps, then it's a great way to meet people and just get out of your comfort zone. Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome your feedback. ...
2023-06-2034 min
How you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 4. Let’s talk. Communication!This week, Danielle and Briar talk about how we talk to each other in our pickleball games. Danielle is playing in a tournament and getting ready by taking a lesson, practicing, drilling, playing. Briar has read interesting materials on professional tennis player communication with winning and losing teams, patterns of communication, and the differences between rec and competitive play. Are the ways we talk to each other the same or different. What about between men and women? What words can we use. Does everyone want to talk in a game?How do you keep yourself from getting i...
2023-06-1339 minHow you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 3: Who’s your partner? Setting a good foundation of the game.Do you care if who your partner is? Some people don't. Danielle didn't. At first!This week, Briar and Danielle talk about chemistry between partners. Picking a good partner that fits your needs, balances skills, someone you can trust, makes you feel good about your playing and helps you to be a better player. These are all parts of setting a good foundation of your game. Thank you for listening to How you play the game. Send us your questions and any topics you would like us to talk about. We welcome y...
2023-06-0634 min
How you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 2. Starting out - don’t be intimidated!Briar and Danielle are talking about getting started with learning to play pickleball. If you are thinking about picking up a paddle - where do you start? How do you get from the couch to the court? Taking it another step - you have an idea for a business, what are you doing to get started?Don’t be intimidated! You don’t need a partner and you don't need equipment. You do need proper shoes and a paddle and lots of places have paddles on hand. The Pickleball community is growing so fast...
2023-05-3027 min
How you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.Episode 1. How you play the game. IntroductionDanielle French and Briar Jamieson talk about their new podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship. Danielle and Briar met playing pickleball and love talking about the game, sharing tips and strategies and creating community. Briar talks about communication on the court, and those that talk to each other on the court seem to do better, play better and win.Danielle thought it would be fun to connect concepts important in pickleball and in running your own business. For example - communication. It’s critical in playing a good and strategic game, it’s important with your...
2023-05-1118 min