Dadical

Seth Stoker
  • 5.0 (13)
  • Parenting

Fatherhood is disappearing. Not because men don't care, but because no one is telling them it's worth fighting for. At Dadical, we believe the most radical thing a man can do in today's world is choose to be a present, intentional, sacrificial father. Not perfect, but committed. Not celebrated by culture, but irreplaceable to the people who matter most. Each episode, Seth sits down with real fathers. Not celebrities, not experts with credentials. Just everyday men who are in it, figuring it out, and raising kids with intention, values, and love. They share their stories honestly, including the wins, the failures, and everything in between. Because the ripple of one good father reaches further than any career, platform, or achievement ever could. This podcast is for the dad who is trying. The man who wants to be. And the culture that desperately needs both.

  1. 14h ago

    Dadical Podcast Episode 13: Seth's Takeaways

    The numbers don’t lie. In 1960, 5% of children were born outside of marriage. By 1990 that number was 30%. The number of kids growing up without a father in the home has essentially doubled in one generation. And somewhere along the way, we decided that was progress. 12 episodes and 900 streams in, I wanted to sit down and share what I’ve actually learned from the conversations I’ve been having. Because something is shifting. Dads are more present than they’ve ever been, and the ones showing up to do this right aren’t bumbling idiots -- they’re deliberate, purpose-driven fathers who understand what’s at stake. In this solo episode I walk through my four biggest takeaways from the first year of the Dadical Podcast: why loving their mom is the most universal theme I’ve encountered, what it actually means to be present versus just being nearby, why protecting your kids from struggle is one of the worst things you can do for them, and why the most important question you can ask yourself as a dad is -- what am I helping them become? You want to change the world? It starts in your own home.

  2. 5d ago ·  Bonus

    Bonus Episode: Seth Stoker on the Atta-Dad Podcast

    You’ve heard Aaron Brooker as a guest on the Dadical Podcast. This week, the tables are turned. I had the chance to sit down with Aaron on his show, @attadad, and answer some of the same questions I ask my own guests. We talked about what it’s like to parent a 19-year-old while still raising teenagers, why survival mode is so easy to stay stuck in, and what it actually looks like to keep life normal for your kids when your family is going through something hard. I shared a tradition we’ve built in our home around family prayer that has had a bigger impact than I ever expected, and why I wish I had spent more time working shoulder to shoulder with my kids instead of just telling them what to do. This one is a little different. Same mission, different seat. If you haven’t already, go give Aaron a follow at @attadad and check out the free resources he has available at attadad.com. He’s putting out great content and the tools he’s built for dads are worth your time.

  3. 6d ago

    Dadical Podcast Episode 12: Aaron Brooker

    Aaron Brooker (@attadad) spent 14 years teaching middle schoolers in the toughest part of Omaha before moving into disability insurance. What he learned in those classrooms shaped everything about how he parents his three boys — Elias, Jonas, and Ari. In this episode, Aaron and Seth dig into the frameworks Aaron has built and shared for free on his site: his cell phone contract, family meetings, and the power of consistency over perfection. Aaron’s dad was a quiet, faithful provider with a stutter — who wrote a Christmas letter every year and gave his son a voice to look back on. That tradition lives on. They also hit a genuine disagreement: should you go through your kids’ phones? Seth says yes, no illusion of privacy. Aaron says he respects the boundary to stay their trusted advisor after high school. No resolution — just two dads thinking out loud. The conversation ends with legacy: “Dad loved us for who we are. He apologized often, forgave fast, and was patient. And it all pointed toward something bigger.” Find Aaron’s free resources at attadad.com | Follow him @attadad

  4. Oct 7

    Dadical Podcast Episode 11: Nav Prasad

    Nav Prasad's dad left Fiji at twenty years old with no high school diploma, no connections, and no plan. He worked hotel kitchens and theater jobs, battled racism, found his way into car sales, and became one of the top ten car salespeople in the country competing from a small town against people from New York and Florida. He brought his siblings over and helped them build lives. He is now seventy one years old and still works by appointment only. Nav watched all of that from a distance. Now he is trying to do for his boys what his dad did for him. Just closer. More side by side. More present. Nav has two sons. His oldest is nineteen and autistic. His youngest is ten and will walk up to a stranger in a grocery store and start a conversation without hesitating. Nav will tell you that did not happen by accident. In this conversation Nav talks about what it meant to grow up watching a father build something from nothing and what he is deliberately passing down to his own boys. He talks about parenting a child with autism, what the diagnosis at fifteen clarified, and what he learned from those early years that he applies to his younger son today. He talks about youth sports as a vehicle for building resilience and why so many parents are wasting one of the best opportunities they have to connect with their kids. And he shares the framework that might be the most practically useful idea we have discussed on this show. Failure is information. Not an identity. Not a destination. Data. It tells you what to work on. And teaching your kids to see it that way might be one of the most important gifts you can give them. Nav downloaded TikTok four weeks before we recorded this conversation. One month and a million views later he is clearly onto something. New episodes every Wednesday. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts by searching Dadical or visit dadicalpodcast.com

  5. Sep 30

    Dadical Podcast Episode 10: Jason Miller

    Some stories are hard to hear. This is one of them. Jason Miller grew up without a father. As the product of a one-night stand, he was raised in an abusive home with no father figure and very few positive influences in his life. His grandfather was murdered when he was ten. He was abused by the son of a pastor who was supposed to protect him. And by the time he reached high school he had run out of reasons to believe his life was worth living. He found one anyway. Today Jason is a husband of 25 years, a father of two, and the lead pastor of a church of nearly a thousand people. He coaches leaders for a living. And he builds resilience in others out of the exact places where his own was forged. In this conversation Jason talks about what it felt like to grow up feeling completely unwanted and unworthy of love. He talks about the men who showed up for him when no one else would and what those moments of unexpected kindness did for a kid who desperately needed them. He talks about the long and non-linear work of healing — not recovering, but being redeemed. And he talks about what he is most deliberate about giving his own children because of everything he had to find on his own. Jason taught us that a few chapters do not make a novel. You cannot choose your circumstances. But you can choose to take control of your story. This one is worth your time. If you or someone you know is struggling help is available. Call or text 988. New episodes every Wednesday. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts by searching Dadical or visit dadicalpodcast.com

  6. Sep 23

    Dadical Podcast Episode 9: Chris Stream

    Most of us picture fatherhood on a fairly predictable timeline. Finish school, start a career, meet someone, start a family. Chris Stream's path looked nothing like that. Chris spent his twenties and thirties building his career and searching for the right person to build a life with. He did not get married until his late forties. And when he did, it came with more moving pieces than most people navigate in a lifetime. His wife Brooke was a widow. Her daughter Campbell had never known her biological father. Chris became an instant dad to a five year old while simultaneously marrying for the first time and navigating the legal complexities of adoption. Then came a premature baby who spent three months in the NICU. Then a son born into a family that was still finding its footing. He will turn sixty this year. His son is eleven. In this conversation Chris talks about what it means to be an older father, the deliberate advantages it brings, and the challenges nobody tells you about. He and Brooke had the financial stability to invest in experiences over things, but that created its own parenting challenge: how do you build resilience and work ethic in kids when it would be easy to just give them everything? He also talks about parenting a child with Tourette's without defaulting to medication, why he has always talked to his kids like adults rather than children, the weekly family ranking system he uses to keep his kids competing for his attention, and how his son Calvin at eleven years old articulated something profound about the difference between the family you are born into and the family you build. Chris is a college professor, a Las Vegas native, and one of the more unconventional dads we have had on the show. His path to fatherhood was anything but typical. What he built when he got there is worth hearing about. New episodes every Wednesday. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts by searching Dadical or visit dadicalpodcast.com

  7. Sep 16

    Dadical Podcast Episode 8: Scott Schlofman

    The last few episodes of the Dadical Podcast have been heavy. Stillborn children. Military deployments. Infertility. The loss of a spouse. The loss of a father at twenty years old. This one is different. Scott Schlofman is a financial adviser and father of four in Phoenix, Arizona. He has senior twins, a freshman, and a seventh grader. By his own admission he is just a regular dad. He is wrong about that. In this conversation Scott shares some of the most practical and immediately applicable fatherhood wisdom we have had on the show. He talks about the barber chair and why he has cut his kids' hair their entire lives and what that captive audience has given him in terms of real conversation with his teenagers. He shares his framework for teaching his kids about dating, a cereal analogy that will make you laugh and then make you think. He talks about how he pulled his son out of school for half a day to run the actual numbers on what it costs to live independently and why that conversation matters more than any lecture ever could. He also gets into the tension between high expectations and realistic parenting, why words matter more than most parents realize, and why loving their mom is still the single most important thing a dad can do for his kids. Scott co-hosts a sales podcast with previous Dadical guest Mike Williams and has been doing it weekly for six years without missing an episode. He showed up to this conversation having listened carefully to previous episodes and built on them throughout. That preparation shows. This is a conversation about the tactical side of intentional fatherhood. The systems, the habits, the specific things you can do differently starting tomorrow. New episodes every Wednesday. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts by searching Dadical or visit dadicalpodcast.com

  8. Sep 9

    Dadical Podcast Episode 7: Burke Williamson

    Every day you pull into the garage after a long day at work. You're worn out. You have emails to return and tasks that slipped through the cracks. And you have a decision to make before you walk through that door. Burke Williamson knows that decision better than most. Burke grew up in a small town in southern Utah as the youngest of four boys. His dad was a state champion wrestler, an all-state football player, and the kind of man who showed up to every game, every match, and every moment his kids needed him. He coached their teams not because he had to but because being there was what mattered most to him. Burke was twenty years old and serving a church mission in the West Indies when his dad was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Six months later he was gone. Burke was on the other side of the world and couldn't get home to say goodbye. In this episode Burke shares what it taught him to lose his father before he ever became one himself. He talks about the eighteen summers we get with our kids and what it means to make them count. He shares why he refuses to give his family the scraps that are left after a long day at work. And he talks about the choice he makes every single day to live a life of hope rather than anger, even after losing both of his parents to cancer. Burke's dad may not have been perfect. But he was the perfect dad for Burke. And that is who each of us can be for our kids. Warts and all. Every December the community where Burke grew up hosts the Paul Williamson Invitational Wrestling Tournament. That is the legacy of a man who showed up. New episodes every Wednesday. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts by searching Dadical or visit dadicalpodcast.com

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Fatherhood is disappearing. Not because men don't care, but because no one is telling them it's worth fighting for. At Dadical, we believe the most radical thing a man can do in today's world is choose to be a present, intentional, sacrificial father. Not perfect, but committed. Not celebrated by culture, but irreplaceable to the people who matter most. Each episode, Seth sits down with real fathers. Not celebrities, not experts with credentials. Just everyday men who are in it, figuring it out, and raising kids with intention, values, and love. They share their stories honestly, including the wins, the failures, and everything in between. Because the ripple of one good father reaches further than any career, platform, or achievement ever could. This podcast is for the dad who is trying. The man who wants to be. And the culture that desperately needs both.

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  • Creator
    Seth Stoker
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Seth Stoker

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