Laurent Duvernay-Tardif: Two Worlds of Sport, Lessons from Andy Reid & Build Bigger Funnels

About this episode

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif discusses his multifaceted life as a Super Bowl champion, physician, and advocate for youth sports and arts.

Laurent Duvernay-Tardif contains multitudes. He's a Super Bowl champion with the Kansas City Chiefs, a practicing physician in Quebec, a business owner, and the founder of a foundation dedicated to giving underserved children access to both sport and the arts. He is also one of the most thoughtful voices on youth sport you will find anywhere. In this conversation, Laurent traces the full arc of a remarkable life: from a childhood spent sailing with his family across the Caribbean, to playing badminton and violin alongside football as a teenager, to meeting with the Dean of Medicine before meeting a single NFL team, to sitting out a season to serve on the front lines of COVID relief. At every step, his story challenges the assumptions that dominate youth sports culture today. Laurent argues that sport and physical activity have quietly become two different things: one is an industry of performance, the other is a lifelong health behaviour. He believes the youth sports environment has tilted too far toward the former, narrowing the pipeline of kids who stay active. He talks about what Andy Reid understood about coaching that most coaches never do, describes the Kansas City locker…

People in this episode

Host: Scott Rintoul

Guest: Laurent Duvernay-Tardif

Topics covered

• youth sports
• health and wellness
• coaching
• sports culture
• community service

Keywords

• youth sports
• Andy Reid
• Kansas City Chiefs
• LDT Foundation
• health behavior
• sports culture
• COVID relief

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kansas City Chiefs, LDT Foundation

Places: Quebec, Caribbean

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