Pre-Zero Sports Talk

About Pre-Zero Sports Talk

Pre-Zero Sports Talk is a sports leadership podcast exploring high performance, coaching, athlete development, sports business, faith, purpose, innovation, sustainability, clean progress, and life beyond the game. Hosted by Sid Bensalah, with over 30 years of global sports industry experience, the podcast brings honest, long-form conversations with athletes, coaches, leaders, founders, innovators, and changemakers. This is not only a podcast about sport. It is about what sport reveals about people, how we lead, how we handle pressure, how we pursue meaning, and how we build lives, teams, and communities with purpose. Through real conversations beyond the game, Pre-Zero Sports Talk explores leadership, performance, faith and purpose, identity, resilience, human potential, athlete well-being, coaching culture, community impact, sports governance, clean progress, sustainability, technology, innovation, and the future of sport. No filter. No bias. Straight talk. Subscribe and join real conversations on sport, leadership, faith, performance, purpose, community, impact, and life beyond the game.

Publisher

Sid Bensalah

Category

business · society & culture · sports

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Feb 2023

Latest episode

16 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

90 of 110 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Repurpose Your Pain: Cecily Lachapelle on Faith, Identity and Healing

   Host Sid Bensalah interviews Bible teacher Cecily Lachapelle about transforming pain and identity crises into a powerful story of faith and healing.

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   25 Sept 2026

   Darren Swanson on Group Flow, Inner Development, and Human Maturity

   Host Sid Bensalah interviews Darren Swanson, founder of Novel Futures Corporation, exploring group flow, inner development, and human maturity through the lens of sports and foresight.

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   27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Being Pain-Free Doesn't Mean You're Ready to Play

   Dr. Peter Dionisopoulos, a Doctor of Physical Therapy, explains to host Sid Bensalah how performance-based rehabilitation bridges the gap between pain-free recovery and athletic readiness.

Inside a recent episode

Repurpose Your Pain: Cecily Lachapelle on Faith, Identity and Healing

Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] It comes to its full expression in Jesus Christ. So we need both parts. And if you're confused, I would say this to anybody that opens the Bible and says, I really would. I read it. You know, I'm reading it in my language. I know how to understand words. I'm not a dummy. I can I can understand the words, but I don't really understand what is being said. And I don't understand how this applies to me. That's what I hear most of all from people that I mentor or people that join my live stream. And to that, I say. Great. Neither did I. And nobody expects you to know it all at once. But make the effort to learn how to study it. […]

Who has been a guest on Pre-Zero Sports Talk

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Cecily Lachapelle
• Darren Swanson
• Peter Dionisopoulos
• Phil Cohen
• Chris Majer

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

4,273

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

89

Social presence

100

YouTube

68

Engagement

71

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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