Quarterback DadCast | Intentional Fatherhood & Leadership at Home

Casey Jacox
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Quarterback DadCast is a podcast for dads who want to lead with purpose, build strong relationships, and raise confident, resilient kids. Hosted by Casey Jacox, the show blends fatherhood, leadership, mindset, and personal growth through real conversations with athletes, coaches, business leaders, and everyday dads. Each episode explores:  How to be a more intentional father How to build confidence and resilience in your kids How to balance work, life, and family How to show up as a better leader at home This isn’t just a parenting podcast; it’s about leadership in real life. From the lessons learned in sports to the defining moments after the game, Quarterback DadCast helps dads grow, connect, and lead when it matters most. If you care about being present, building trust, and becoming the dad your kids need, then this podcast is for you.

  1. 2d ago

    Joel Goldberg - An Emmy Winning Broadcaster Shares How To Build Trust At Home

    Send us Fan Mail Thank you, Steve Garraty, for making this episode possible! What if the real edge in a world obsessed with AI and shortcuts is still the simplest thing: how you treat people? I’m joined by Joel Goldberg, an Emmy Award-winning Kansas City Royals broadcaster, speaker, author, and host of the Round the Bases podcast, for a wide-ranging conversation about fatherhood, trust, and the habits that quietly shape our kids. We start with gratitude, then get into the Goldberg family huddle: how Joel met his wife, what it takes to make marriage work through decades of change, and what it’s like to raise kids while living a sports media schedule full of travel, late nights, and long seasons. Joel shares what he’s proud of, what he wishes he could redo, and the mindset shift that helps him give himself grace while still trying to improve. From there we zoom out into leadership lessons that apply to every dad and every job. We talk about hard work that gets modeled more than taught, the difference between being “nice” and being respectful, and why authenticity beats “fake it till you make it.” Joel also shares how he broke into broadcasting by doing what others wouldn’t: picking up the phone, asking for the decision-maker, and showing up. It’s a powerful reminder that small moves can separate you fast. To learn more about Joel’s speaking, books, and newsletter, visit JoelGoldbergMedia.com. If you got value from our conversation, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a quick rating and review so more dads can find the show. Support the show Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts!  Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!

    Joel Goldberg - An Emmy Winning Broadcaster Shares How To Build Trust At Home

  2. Oct 22

    Drew Grouten - Service And Accountability Lessons From A Working Class Childhood

    Send us Fan Mail You can love your kids more than anything and still feel completely unprepared for what parenting demands day after day. That tension is exactly where this conversation with Drew Grouten lands, and it’s why it sticks. Drew is a dad of two young kids, a longtime soccer player, and a leader in the staffing and recruiting world at Randstad, and he brings a grounded, practical voice to what it actually takes to lead at home. We start with gratitude and the reality of family roles, including what it looks like when one parent becomes the default parent and how that impacts work-life balance. From there, Drew walks us through a working middle-class upbringing in rural Connecticut, where sacrifice wasn’t a speech; it was a thousand quiet choices his parents made so he and his brother could grow. That foundation turns into values Drew is trying to pass down now: acts of service, accountability, and structure without entitlement. Sports become more than a hobby as we talk youth sports culture, humility, resilience, and the moment a coach benched Drew and taught him a lesson he still uses as a father. We also get candid about the most common “dad game” struggle: patience, especially when your instinct is to jump in and fix things. Drew closes with actionable themes for dads: build your own parenting playbook, stay curious about your kids’ inner world, and choose the people who shape your family’s village. Subscribe for more honest fatherhood conversations, share this with a dad who needs it, and please leave a rating and review so more families can find the show. Support the show Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts!  Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!

    Drew Grouten - Service And Accountability Lessons From A Working Class Childhood

  3. Oct 15

    Sean Patton - Special Forces Veteran Learns Shares His Path To Fatherhood

    Send us Fan Mail A lot of dads say they want to be “better leaders at home” but very few can explain what that actually looks like on a random Tuesday night. That’s why this conversation with Sean Patton hit so hard. Sean is a U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, host of the No Limit Leadership podcast, and an executive coach, but here we focus on the identity shift that comes with becoming a father later in life and the kind of growth it demands from you first. We start with a simple gratitude habit that forces presence, then quickly get into the real stuff: provider pressure, marriage strain, and how easy it is to disappear into work while telling yourself you’re helping. Sean opens up about being raised by a single mom, learning compassion and empathy early, and carrying unprocessed sadness from not having a dad around. We talk about how those childhood gaps can become fuel for intentional fatherhood, and how travel, military service, and time overseas can deepen your view of shared human needs. If you care about emotional intelligence, character, curiosity, and raising resilient kids, you’ll find a lot to steal for your own home. Then we get practical. Sean explains how he and his wife build alignment with clear family values and a monthly “family board meeting” approach: an agenda, acknowledgments, honest feedback, budgets, and new commitments without keeping score like opponents. It’s leadership development applied to parenting and marriage communication, and it’s the kind of structure that can change a household’s culture fast. If you get something from this, subscribe to the show, share it with a dad who needs it, and leave a rating and review on Apple or Spotify so more families can find these conversations. Support the show Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts!  Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!

    Sean Patton - Special Forces Veteran Learns Shares His Path To Fatherhood

  4. Oct 8

    Coach Mike Burns - How A Division I Coach Leads At Home

    Send us Fan Mail You can learn a lot about a leader by how they talk about their family when nobody is keeping score. Today, I sit down with Coach Mike Burns, Boise State men’s basketball assistant head coach and longtime “defensive beast,” to get past the résumé and into what actually builds a life: gratitude, work ethic, marriage, and raising kids who are ready for the real world. Mike shares the story of meeting his wife Mary in Las Vegas, the long wait that turned into the gift of twins, and what it looks like to support Bodie and Kylie as they carve out their own paths in college, wellness leadership, communications, and a possible future in medicine. If you care about parenting teens, launching kids, or staying close when they leave home, you will hear a lot that feels familiar. From there, we dig into the values Mike learned growing up with a UPS truck-driving dad and a mom who anchored the household with consistency and care. We talk about fairness, love, and discipline, and why the best coaches and the best parents find a way to motivate and elevate without humiliating. Mike also walks through his nontraditional journey into coaching, from chasing opportunities with the Seattle Mariners to working as a concert promoter, then building a coaching career step by step through relationships and relentless effort. If you are looking for a fatherhood podcast that blends sports leadership with real-life parenting tools, this conversation delivers practical takeaways on resilience, adversity, identity beyond athletics, and leading your home like a true quarterback. Subscribe, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review so more dads can find the show. Support the show Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts!  Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!

    Coach Mike Burns - How A Division I Coach Leads At Home

  5. Oct 1

    Ben Utecht - A Super Bowl Champion’s Playbook For Leading At Home

    Send us Fan Mail One careless sentence can live in your kid’s head for a week, even when you “didn’t mean it like that.” That’s where this conversation takes off, because former NFL tight end and Super Bowl champion Ben Utecht has learned that leadership at home isn’t about volume or authority, it’s about clarity, humility, and presence. Ben shares what it’s like being a proud girl dad to four daughters and how he tries to lead with four simple principles: listening, learning, language, and love. We talk about why “values” don’t stick unless you practice them, how beliefs drive behavior in families the same way they drive culture in teams and companies, and why vulnerability isn’t oversharing but a skill you can develop. Ben pulls lessons from the Peyton Manning huddle where every word had a purpose, then translates that into everyday parenting and marriage so dads can communicate without leaving landmines behind. We also go deeper on identity and performance, from Tony Dungy’s servant leadership to the pressure kids feel in sports, school, and dating. Ben explains how he sets a higher standard by how he treats his wife, how he apologizes, and how he coaches his daughters to see athletics as part of who they are, not the core. If you care about fatherhood, emotional intelligence, family values, and building a championship culture at home, you’ll leave with practical tools you can use tonight at the dinner table. If this conversation helps you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a dad who wants to lead his home with more intention. Support the show Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts!  Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!

    Ben Utecht - A Super Bowl Champion’s Playbook For Leading At Home

  6. Sep 24

    David Meltzer - Losing everything and bouncing back as a Dad & The Power of Time

    Send us Fan Mail Thank you, Mark Krajnik for making today's episode possible! Today, we welcome a powerful guest to the podcast.  He built the kind of life most people only see from the outside: elite sports access, massive deals, and the feeling that money can solve almost anything. Then it nearly all collapsed. I sit down with David Meltzer to talk about what happens to your identity, your faith, and your family leadership when the scoreboard flips, and you have to rebuild from the ground up.  We start with gratitude and the simplest definition of “winning” as a dad: healthy kids who are happy, who love you, and who appreciate you. From there, David shares a raw 4 A.M. parenting moment that exposed how fast fear turns into anger and how easily a father can accidentally interfere with the very success he’s trying to create. We also dig into why kids don’t absorb lectures but absolutely absorb behavior, especially through the teen years and the shift from idolization to humanization.  David gets practical on what to teach kids now: reading to sharpen curiosity and spot what’s real, using AI because knowledge is a commodity, and learning face-to-face selling skills because human connection still moves the world. He breaks down “non-negotiable time” as the antidote to chasing balance, plus a clear view of forgiveness and kindness that protects your energy and strengthens your self-image.  David also offers a signed copy of his book to our listeners. If you take something from this conversation, subscribe, share it with a dad who needs it, and leave a review so more families can find the Quarterback Dadcast. Support the show Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts!  Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!

    David Meltzer - Losing everything and bouncing back as a Dad & The Power of Time

  7. Sep 17

    Graig Paglieri - Service First Fatherhood Lessons From A Marine & CEO

    Send us Fan Mail Today's guest is someone I've had the pleasure of knowing for many years, and today I get to learn more about him!  We welcome Soliant CEO Graig Paglieri. Our conversation starts out with a random moment of noticing a laundromat that turns into a surprisingly powerful reminder: our lives can feel heavy, but we’re often doing better than we let ourselves remember. That’s where we start, with gratitude, perspective, and the real emotions that hit when you’re staring down big transitions like becoming an empty nester. We also pause to talk about loss, and how it has a way of snapping us back to what matters most in parenting, marriage, and leadership. From there, Graig and I go deep on the values that shape a man long before he becomes a CEO or a dad. Greg grew up surrounded by teachers, coaches, community service, and the kind of quiet sacrifice you only understand later. We connect those early lessons to his decision to join the Marine Corps and what military leadership teaches about staying calm in chaos, managing stress, and not overreacting when the “fog” rolls in. If you’re trying to become a better father, a stronger husband, or a steadier leader at work, those lessons translate fast. We also get practical about work-life balance, time prioritization, and the trap of always trying to “fix” things for our kids and our spouse. Listening is a skill, not a personality trait, and we talk about how asking permission to coach can change the tone in your house. We wrap up with purpose-driven work and Graig’s role at Soliant, supporting special education staffing and healthcare staffing, including teletherapy and hard-to-fill specialist roles that impact families across the country. If this conversation helps you slow down and lead your home with more intent, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more dads can find it. Support the show Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts!  Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!

    Graig Paglieri - Service First Fatherhood Lessons From A Marine & CEO

  8. Sep 10

    Scott Donald - Be Present, Be Patient, Be Persistent

    Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever told yourself “I can’t step away from work,” this conversation will hit a nerve in the best way. I’m joined by Scott Donald from Winnipeg, a sales leader and founder of SBD Growth, but we spend most of our time on something bigger than sales: how a dad learns to lead his home with presence, patience, and follow-through. We start with gratitude and the weird, tender transition toward an empty nest. From there we use golf and hockey as real-life metaphors for parenting mindset and resilience. Do you see the water or the pin? Do you expect the miss, or do you commit to the shot. That same mental habit shows up in how our kids handle pressure, mistakes, and confidence, and how we as parents respond when emotions run hot. Scott also shares what shaped him early: moving through tough family seasons, leaning on grandparents, and learning values the old-fashioned way at the dinner table and over cribbage. We talk about slowing down before you speed up, why fundamentals matter, and why “keep your head down and follow through” is advice that applies to marriage, work, and raising kids. We go straight at work life balance and the workaholic identity, because time is always a choice. If you want a clear takeaway to carry into your week, Scott nails it: be present, be patient, be persistent. If you get value from this one, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a dad who needs a push to choose his people over his inbox. Support the show Please don't forget to leave us a review wherever you consume your podcasts!  Please help us get more dads to listen weekly and become the ultimate leader of their homes!

    Scott Donald - Be Present, Be Patient, Be Persistent
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Quarterback DadCast is a podcast for dads who want to lead with purpose, build strong relationships, and raise confident, resilient kids. Hosted by Casey Jacox, the show blends fatherhood, leadership, mindset, and personal growth through real conversations with athletes, coaches, business leaders, and everyday dads. Each episode explores:  How to be a more intentional father How to build confidence and resilience in your kids How to balance work, life, and family How to show up as a better leader at home This isn’t just a parenting podcast; it’s about leadership in real life. From the lessons learned in sports to the defining moments after the game, Quarterback DadCast helps dads grow, connect, and lead when it matters most. If you care about being present, building trust, and becoming the dad your kids need, then this podcast is for you.

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