Talking Split is a podcast developed by Basketball Victoria, aimed at coaches who want to learn more about the game, as well as develop their skills as coaches and leaders.
Headed by Basketball Victoria Coach Development Officer Rob Coulter, he is joined by Basketball Victoria’s High Performance Coaches and specials guests each and every week to dissect the world of coaching.
178: Coach Wellbeing Month - Mental Health with Francielle Wilson
Oct 23, 2025
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This episode we are joined by Francielle Wilson from Inner Game Psychology for Coach Wellbeing Month, who brings a unique perspective on mental health and wellbeing, based on her elite sports background. Francielle discusses how self care matters, some strategies to be the best version of yourself, setting boundaries for yourself and how to manage white line fever!
177: Coach Wellbeing Month - Mental Wellbeing with Ben McKechnie
Oct 21, 2025
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Joined by Ben McKechnie from Space Between Psychology this week, to discuss the Mental side of Coach Wellbeing Month. Ben does a great job of unpacking how coaches can be the best versions of themselves when coaching, how a decline in mental health can impact on those around them, and how to cope with stress, especially differentiating between big, and small changes that occur in life.
176: Coach Wellbeing Month - Physical with Durham McInnis
Oct 16, 2025
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Week 2 of Coach Wellbeing Month, and we are joined by Durham McInnis from Core Advantage to talk to the physical side of wellbeing. Durham dives into where to start your fitness journey, what you can do to get the most bang for your buck, the part that nutrition and creatine can play, and of course, recovery and how to make sure you don’t overdo it. We are also joined by Luke Lehmann as he talks to us before his 24-hour run marathon in support of SmackTalk next week, and his call to action to Unplug from social media for 24 hours on the 24th October.
175: Coach Wellbeing Month - Nutrition with Alex Parr
Oct 10, 2025
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Up first this week for Coach Wellbeing Month, is Alex Parr from Eight Nutrition, talking all the good, and more moderately good things in food and drink! We get into when is the best time to eat, how to read food labels, fasting, meal preparation and how to live with a more sustainable and healthy diet in moderation.
174: Coach Wellbeing Month
Oct 03, 2025
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It’s been a long run up from when the idea was first raised to now, but over the course of October we are focusing in on Coach Wellbeing. Over this month we are going to dive into 4 main areas that can impact on coaches, Nutrition, Physical Health, Sleep and Mental Health, with experts in the fields coming in to give some advice to coaches (or anyone in the sport) on how they can make some sustainable changes to habits, to live a healthier lifestyle.
173: Panathinaikos Clinic Observations
Sep 26, 2025
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172: Social Split Talk Part 2
Sep 19, 2025
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Back for Round 2 this week of clips that we have heard on socials over the past little bit, and how they can apply to our coaching and basketball environment. The debut of a new podcast guest this week, with David Peters making his podcast debut after a year in the State Development Coach role, and now in the High Performance Coach for Vic Metro Men role.
171: Social Split Talk Part 1
Sep 12, 2025
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This week we delve into some of the social media clips that have been doing the rounds over the years and discuss how they might apply to our situation as coaches, and some of the key points and takeaways. We didn’t manage to get all of them in this week, so stay tuned for Part 2 next week, and if there is anything you’ve come across send it through!
170: Wrapping Up The Season
Sep 05, 2025
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As many of our seasons are drawing to a close or deep in finals, we look at the role the coach has to play in conducting end of season reviews both with their players, their own role, the season as a whole, and what some PD and downtime can look like in the time that they have off.
169: How to Lose A Game in 10 Ways
Aug 29, 2025
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A bit of a rom-com special this week, and not just about Zoe’s love of a BBQ brisket. The topic this week is “How To Lose A Game in 10 Ways”, and are we as coaches doing anything that can be contributing to our teams losing games? We bounce around several different topics that can make a big difference to the scoreboard over the course of a game, most of the things thankfully, are within our control! If you’ve got any others we haven’t thought of, drop them in the comments and we may end up with another pod around “50 First Mistakes” for the Adam Sandler fans…
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