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The Bench is building Canada’s athlete leadership ecosystem.
Created and hosted by former International athlete and Sport Marketing Executive Ken Saint-Eloy, The Bench explores the transitions, challenges and opportunities that shape life beyond competition.
By connecting the experiences of former athletes with the realities facing today’s athletes, The Bench opens a broader conversation about athlete development, leadership, identity and transition — and what it takes to turn performance into opportunity beyond sport.
The podcast is the catalyst, not the destination.
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Created and hosted by former International athlete and Sport Marketing Executive Ken Saint-Eloy, The Bench explores the transitions, challenges and opportunities that shape life beyond competition.
By connecting the experiences of former athletes with the realities facing today’s athletes, The Bench opens a broader conversation about athlete development, leadership, identity and transition — and what it takes to turn performance into opportunity beyond sport.
The podcast is the catalyst, not the destination.
Take a Seat
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
70 minutes
English
Canada
6 episodes
since Sept. 1, 2026
episodic
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
What happens when you walk away from the game before the game walks away from you?
At just 21, Dakota Whyte stepped away from professional basketball after a journey through Team Canada, the Youth Olympics, NCAA Division I basketball and the professional game in Europe.
In this episode of The Benc…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
“Most only play 3 to 5 years in Pro. What are you going to do for the rest of your life?”
Hugh Lawson understood something early in his football career: he didn’t want being an athlete to become his entire identity.
A Vanier Cup champion and former Toronto Argonaut, Hugh went on to build a career …
For Tychon Carter-Newman, the end of his university basketball career didn't feel like the beginning of something new. It felt like heartbreak due to the circumstances it happened.
After years of competing at the elite level, the structure, identity and sense of belonging that came with being an a…
What happens when the dream ends before you’re ready?
Savanna Hamilton planned to play professional basketball and represent Canada before eventually transitioning into sports media. Then, almost overnight, the basketball chapter ended.
Fortunately, another chapter was already taking shape.
In Epis…
What does life after sport really look like? In Episode 1 of The Bench Podcast, Donnovan “DJ” Bennett shares his transition from University Football player to one of Canada’s leading voices in sports media.A former Ontario Canada Games rugby player and Western University football player, Donnovan k…
The game ends. A new chapter begins.
For athletes, what comes next isn't always clear — and too often, we're expected to figure it out on our own.
THE BENCH was created to explore that space: the transition from performance to what comes next, the opportunities athletes can build beyond competition…
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