CoachDad

Jim Miller
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Coach Dad helps dads, coaches, and sports families navigating the pressure, politics, emotions, and purpose of youth sports.  From playing time and parent drama to leadership, faith, discipline, and character, we talk about what really happens behind the game - and how dads can lead well through it.  It starts at home. 

Episodes

  1. 12h ago

    The Hidden Costs of Youth Sports for Families

    Youth sports cost more than money. Most families know the visible costs: team fees, uniforms, gear, lessons, gas, hotels, tournaments, and meals on the road. But the hidden costs are often harder to count. In this episode of Coach Dad, Jim Miller talks honestly about the full cost of youth sports — financial, emotional, relational, lifestyle, spiritual, and family cost. This is not about quitting sports. It is about leading your family with wisdom. Jim walks through the questions dads and sports families need to ask before saying yes to the next team, tournament, season, showcase, or training commitment. He also introduces the free Coach Dad Total Cost Audit, a simple tool to help families count more than the money. The question is not just, “Can we afford this?” The better question is, “Is it worth the cost?” Download the free Coach Dad Total Cost Audit: [coachdad.live/audit] Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ea7mcYCMvMw Coach Dad is for dads, coaches, and sports families trying to lead better at home, in the stands, and on the field. Have a question or want to join in the discussion? Click here to send us your voice or text message. We'd love to hear from you! 📩 Join the Coach Dad email list for weekly encouragement, practical tools, and honest conversations for sports dads, coaches, and families. Credits:  Photo/Video: Noah Miller, Micah Miller Video Editing/CoachDad Theme music: Asher Miller 🎧 Listen to Coach Dad wherever you listen to podcasts.  Contact: TheCoachDadTeam@proton.me 📹 Video Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coachdadlive 🤝Want to support the CoachDad launch? https://www.coachdad.live/partner

  2. 5d ago

    From Iowa to UTSA: Kris Reupke on Failure, Grit & Fatherhood

    In Coach Dad’s first guest episode, Jim sits down with Kris Reupke — husband, father, coach, business owner, former Division I pitcher at UTSA, and owner/manager of DBAT New Braunfels. Kris shares his story from small-town Iowa to junior college baseball, UTSA, coaching, business ownership, and fatherhood. Along the way, he talks about mental toughness, failure, preparation, recruiting, youth sports pressure, travel ball, and what it really means to develop young athletes. But the heart of this conversation is bigger than baseball. Kris opens up about learning the difference between being a coach and being a dad, especially on the ride home after games. He talks about the moment he stopped trying to correct everything and started asking better questions, listening more, and giving his son room to process. Jim and Kris also discuss what coaches look for beyond talent, why parents matter in the recruiting process, how athletes are shaped by the environment at home, and why youth sports should produce better people — not just better players. This episode is a practical, honest, faith-and-character-centered conversation for dads, coaches, and sports families who want to lead kids well. The mission is bigger than the game — and it starts at home. Have a question or want to join in the discussion? Click here to send us your voice or text message. We'd love to hear from you! 📩 Join the Coach Dad email list for weekly encouragement, practical tools, and honest conversations for sports dads, coaches, and families. Credits:  Photo/Video: Noah Miller, Micah Miller Video Editing/CoachDad Theme music: Asher Miller 🎧 Listen to Coach Dad wherever you listen to podcasts.  Contact: TheCoachDadTeam@proton.me 📹 Video Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coachdadlive 🤝Want to support the CoachDad launch? https://www.coachdad.live/partner

  3. Jul 17

    Good Dads Are Accidentally Crushing Their Kid’s Confidence

    Most dads who crush their kid’s confidence are not trying to hurt them, they are trying to help. They see the swing that needs work, the missed free throw, the bad body language, the mistake in the field, or the moment their child should have competed harder. So they correct. Then they correct again. Then they correct again on the ride home. But what feels like helpful coaching to Dad can start to feel like constant pressure to a child. In this episode of CoachDad, Jim Miller talks about how well-meaning dads and coaches can accidentally crush confidence through over-talking, comparison, result-based praise, visible disappointment, and too much correction. Jim uses the picture of a dripping faucet to explain how small comments, repeated over and over, can become the loudest voice in a young athlete’s mind. You’ll learn how to build durable confidence through unconditional love, belonging, safe risks, process-based praise, and a better balance between encouragement and correction. Because the mission is bigger than the game — and it starts at home. Have a question or want to join in the discussion? Click here to send us your voice or text message. We'd love to hear from you! 📩 Join the Coach Dad email list for weekly encouragement, practical tools, and honest conversations for sports dads, coaches, and families. Credits:  Photo/Video: Noah Miller, Micah Miller Video Editing/CoachDad Theme music: Asher Miller 🎧 Listen to Coach Dad wherever you listen to podcasts.  Contact: TheCoachDadTeam@proton.me 📹 Video Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coachdadlive 🤝Want to support the CoachDad launch? https://www.coachdad.live/partner

  4. Jul 10

    How to Win Without Losing Your Kid

    What is the win costing? In this episode of Coach Dad, Jim Miller talks about the cost-benefit analysis every sports family needs to make. Winning is not wrong. Competition is not wrong. Excellence is not wrong. But if winning starts costing your child’s character, peace, joy, honesty, or relationship with you, the price may be too high. Jim opens with a simple picture: standing over a box of glazed donuts. At first, all you think about is how good it looks. But as you mature, you start asking a better question: “What is this going to do to me?” That same question applies to youth sports. This episode challenges dads, coaches, and parents to stop measuring success only by wins and losses. A kid can go 3-for-3 and still have a bad process. A kid can go 0-for-3 with three lineouts and still have great at-bats. The goal is to focus on process, effort, character, and relationship — not just the scoreboard. Jim also gives families a practical “Win Check” to use after a tournament, season, or stretch of games. These questions will tell you more than a trophy ever will. The mission is bigger than the game, and it starts at home. If this episode helped you, follow Coach Dad wherever you listen to podcasts. Then send this episode to one dad, coach, or sports parent who cares about winning but wants to keep the relationship healthy. Have a question or want to join in the discussion? Click here to send us your voice or text message. We'd love to hear from you! 📩 Join the Coach Dad email list for weekly encouragement, practical tools, and honest conversations for sports dads, coaches, and families. Credits:  Photo/Video: Noah Miller, Micah Miller Video Editing/CoachDad Theme music: Asher Miller 🎧 Listen to Coach Dad wherever you listen to podcasts.  Contact: TheCoachDadTeam@proton.me 📹 Video Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coachdadlive 🤝Want to support the CoachDad launch? https://www.coachdad.live/partner

  5. Jul 3

    Travel Ball is Breaking Families - And Nobody Wants to Say It

    Travel ball is not automatically bad. But every sports family needs to ask a better question: Is this sport serving our family, or has our family started serving the sport? In this episode of Coach Dad, Jim Miller talks about the pressure families feel in youth sports, the cost of travel teams, the hidden sacrifices that come with the schedule, and why dads need to lead their homes with wisdom. Jim unpacks the obvious costs like team fees, uniforms, tournaments, hotels, gas, and meals. But he also talks about the hidden costs: sleep, health, marriage stress, sibling sacrifice, family rhythm, and the loss of margin. This is not a guilt episode. It is not an anti-sports episode. It is a reminder that sports are meant to be a tool, not the end goal. The goal is not just to make the middle school team, the high school team, or even play in college. The bigger goal is to use sports to help form discipline, humility, hard work, teamwork, and character that will serve kids when they are 35, 50, and leading their own families. Because the mission is bigger than the game. And it starts at home. Have a question or want to join in the discussion? Click here to send us your voice or text message. We'd love to hear from you! 📩 Join the Coach Dad email list for weekly encouragement, practical tools, and honest conversations for sports dads, coaches, and families. Credits:  Photo/Video: Noah Miller, Micah Miller Video Editing/CoachDad Theme music: Asher Miller 🎧 Listen to Coach Dad wherever you listen to podcasts.  Contact: TheCoachDadTeam@proton.me 📹 Video Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coachdadlive 🤝Want to support the CoachDad launch? https://www.coachdad.live/partner

  6. Jun 26

    Your Kid Needs a Dad More Than a Coach

    Your child may have several coaches over the years — but they only get one dad. In this episode of Coach Dad, Jim Miller talks about the danger of letting the coaching voice replace the father voice. Many dads are deeply involved in their child’s sports, but involvement is not the same as connection. A kid can have a dad at every game and still feel like he is always being evaluated. Jim unpacks how good dads can unintentionally turn every car ride, practice, and postgame moment into a performance review — and what kids actually need from their fathers after success, failure, frustration, and disappointment. This episode is a reminder for every sports dad: your kid needs your love more than your analysis, your presence more than your pressure, and your father voice louder than your coaching voice. Have a question or want to join in the discussion? Click here to send us your voice or text message. We'd love to hear from you! 📩 Join the Coach Dad email list for weekly encouragement, practical tools, and honest conversations for sports dads, coaches, and families. Credits:  Photo/Video: Noah Miller, Micah Miller Video Editing/CoachDad Theme music: Asher Miller 🎧 Listen to Coach Dad wherever you listen to podcasts.  Contact: TheCoachDadTeam@proton.me 📹 Video Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coachdadlive 🤝Want to support the CoachDad launch? https://www.coachdad.live/partner

  7. Season 1 Trailer

    It Starts at Home: Why Coach Dad Exists

    Youth sports can be one of the best classrooms for courage, discipline, teamwork, toughness, humility, and character. But for many families, the pressure has gotten louder, the schedules have gotten heavier, the car rides have gotten quieter, and sports has started shaping the home instead of serving it. In this mission trailer episode of Coach Dad, Jim Miller shares why Coach Dad exists, the problem he sees in youth sports, and the kind of dads and coaches this podcast is here to help. This episode is for dads, coaches, sports parents, and families who want to help kids compete hard without losing their joy, their identity, their faith, or their relationship with the people who love them most. Coach Dad is about youth sports, fatherhood, coaching, pressure, character, faith, identity, and family culture — because before the scoreboard, before the trophy, before the scholarship talk, and before the next game… It starts at home. Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/MedwPfyxU3E Have a question or want to join in the discussion? Click here to send us your voice or text message. We'd love to hear from you! 📩 Join the Coach Dad email list for weekly encouragement, practical tools, and honest conversations for sports dads, coaches, and families. Credits:  Photo/Video: Noah Miller, Micah Miller Video Editing/CoachDad Theme music: Asher Miller 🎧 Listen to Coach Dad wherever you listen to podcasts.  Contact: TheCoachDadTeam@proton.me 📹 Video Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coachdadlive 🤝Want to support the CoachDad launch? https://www.coachdad.live/partner

  8. Jun 21

    How to Survive the Car Ride Home After the Game

    The car ride home after the game can either build your kid’s confidence or quietly break it. In this episode of Coach Dad, Jim talks about why the postgame car ride matters so much for dads, young athletes, coaches, and families navigating youth sports. After a tough game, kids often do not need immediate correction. They need to know they are safe, loved, and steady with Dad — even when they did not play well. Jim shares how dads can accidentally turn help into pressure, why connection should come before correction, and what to say after a hard performance. Coach Dad helps dads and coaches lead better at home, on the sideline, in the car, and in the hearts of their kids. It starts at home. Subscribe for honest conversations about youth sports, fatherhood, coaching, faith, pressure, character, identity, and family culture. Have a question or want to join in the discussion? Click here to send us your voice or text message. We'd love to hear from you! 📩 Join the Coach Dad email list for weekly encouragement, practical tools, and honest conversations for sports dads, coaches, and families. Credits:  Photo/Video: Noah Miller, Micah Miller Video Editing/CoachDad Theme music: Asher Miller 🎧 Listen to Coach Dad wherever you listen to podcasts.  Contact: TheCoachDadTeam@proton.me 📹 Video Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coachdadlive 🤝Want to support the CoachDad launch? https://www.coachdad.live/partner

  9. Season 1 Trailer

    CoachDad: Coming Soon. . .

    Coach Dad helps dads and coaches lead better in youth sports, fatherhood, faith, character, pressure, identity, and family culture. Launching Father's Day, June 21.  It starts at home. Have a question or want to join in the discussion? Click here to send us your voice or text message. We'd love to hear from you! 📩 Join the Coach Dad email list for weekly encouragement, practical tools, and honest conversations for sports dads, coaches, and families. Credits:  Photo/Video: Noah Miller, Micah Miller Video Editing/CoachDad Theme music: Asher Miller 🎧 Listen to Coach Dad wherever you listen to podcasts.  Contact: TheCoachDadTeam@proton.me 📹 Video Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@coachdadlive 🤝Want to support the CoachDad launch? https://www.coachdad.live/partner

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Coach Dad helps dads, coaches, and sports families navigating the pressure, politics, emotions, and purpose of youth sports.  From playing time and parent drama to leadership, faith, discipline, and character, we talk about what really happens behind the game - and how dads can lead well through it.  It starts at home. 

Information

  • Creator
    Jim Miller
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 CoachDad
  • Show Website
    CoachDad