Coaching While Black (CWB): Hosts Armond and Alecia what's healing and harmful within sports - specific to their perspective as expert Black coaches. Though spoken from the Black voice, these conversations set to inspire all humans who support young people in sport to create positive and safe environments for all athletes.
Coaching While Black is a podcast of the non-profit the Center for Healing and Justice through Sport. CHJS works to ensure that more young people and athletes have access to sport experiences that address issues of systemic injustice and are inclusive and healing-centered.
CHJS engages with sport at every level. From community centers and juvenile detention facilities to major college athletic conferences and professional leagues, the CHJS team puts a premium on teaching coaches to deliver healing-centered sport experiences while protecting, nurturing, and embracing athletes for every bit of who they are.
Visit us at www.chjs.org to learn more and email us at team@chjs.org to join the healing-centered sport movement.
In the season finale of Coaching While Black, Alecia and Armond take stock of where the healing-centered sport movement stands - and where it's headed. Sports-based youth development had its moment in the sun. Now, healing-centered sport and coaching are earning their place in the conversation, and the momentum is only building.
In this episode, two expert coaches reflect on what it means to show up not just as a practitioner, but as a movement builder - someone who sees the work as bigger than any one program or player. They explore what coalition leadership looks like in practice, and spotlight the real, on-the-ground progress coalitions across the country are making to create youth sports environments that are safer, more affirming, and more humane.
Credits
Hosts: Alecia Ivery and Armond Richards
Production: Players Coalition + Isis Roberts
Editor: Grace Stetler
Director: Team CHJS
26 Mar 2026
Coach Lessons Learned
As healing-centered sport experts, Alecia and Armond discuss the practicality of implementing healing-centered coaching as middle and high school coaches. The two battle in the hot takes, arguing over whether a coach should make kids do what they say vs meeting the athletes where they're at. "How are they going to learn to persevere if I don't put them through it?!" vs "Fear sparks compliance - not learning."
Help us build the healing-centered sport movement. Visit chjs.org to learn more or email us at team@chjs.org to join the movement.
Credits
Hosts: Alecia Ivery and Armond Richards
Production: Players Coalition + Isis Roberts
Editor: Grace Stetler
Director: Team CHJS
19 Mar 2026
Does Sport Actually Heal?
CHJS spends a lot of time telling coaches that sport heals kids — but in Episode 3, they let a kid say it himself. Leo, 13, joins Armond and Alecia not as a guest celebrity but as an athlete with real opinions about what makes sport feel safe or unsafe, connecting or isolating, healing or harmful. The conversation is refreshingly unscripted: the hosts ask, Leo answers, and when his experience complicates the framework, they follow him there instead of steering him back. It's a useful gut-check for any coach who thinks they know what their kids need. Plus, can't forget the hot takes with our devil's advocate Armond and with Leo playing a special guest.
Help us build the healing-centered sport movement. Visit chjs.org to learn more or email us at team@chjs.org to join the movement.
Credits
Hosts: Alecia Ivery and Armond Richards
Production: Players Coalition + Isis Roberts
Editor: Grace Stetler
Director: Team CHJS
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Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
22 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
18 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 48 / 100
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Social presence
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YouTube
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Engagement
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