How you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship.

Feb 08 2025 24 ep. 38 mins 1

How you play the game. A podcast about pickleball and entrepreneurship. artwork

Two Friends: entrepreneur, teacher. One love: pickleball.

Danielle French and Briar Jamieson met playing pickleball and love talking (and laughing) about the game, sharing tips and strategies and creating community. Each week they meet to chat about their game on - and sometimes off - the court.

Danielle is the founder of South Pond Farms and host of the Netflix series, Taste of the Country. Briar is an educator.

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Season 3. Episode 1. Catching up.

Feb 08 2025 34 mins

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 w

Season Finale

Jul 29 2024 41 mins

Briar 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

Perfectionism

Jul 09 2024 39 mins

While 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

Conditioning

Jun 26 2024 43 mins

Let’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

Friendship

Mar 12 2024 36 mins

This 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

Mentorship

Feb 22 2024 54 mins

In 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.

Episode 7. Elitism

Feb 10 2024 35 mins

Elitism. Standard dictionary Being 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 y

episode 6 How you play the game!

Jan 25 2024 49 mins

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 topics Rules and ObjectivesDecision-MakingFocus and ResilienceChallenges and OpportunitiesTeamwork and CollaborationPersistence and PerseveranceBalance and Self-CareThank

Pet Peeves.....

Jan 14 2024 42 mins

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 wo

Injuries and preventing them!

Jan 02 2024 43 mins

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