S.A.H. Dad

Joe Bouchelle IV

Hosted by Joe — stay-at-home dad, husband, soccer obsessive, and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — the SAHDad Podcast is a weekly conversation at the intersection of faith, family, and athletics. Real people. Real stories. Real talk about balancing belief and competition. From USMNT debates to missions, mental health, and raising kids who love the game and love their faith — nothing is off the table. The next generation is watching. And they need to know they don't have to choose. New episodes every week. Faith. Family. Sports.

  1. 1d ago ·  Video

    My Wife Moe | Growing Up LDS in a Town of 2,000, SVU, Motherhood & Baby #6 | SAHDad Podcast

    Fair warning — this episode comes with kids, popsicles, ice cream bars, a cheese spider, a sound bar maxed to 85, and one very determined toddler who does not care that we're recording. This is the most SAHDad episode we've ever made. And it's one of my favorites. This week's guest is my wife Moe. And before you ask — it was her idea. Moe grew up in Bridgeport, Illinois. Population under two thousand. Sixty three kids in her graduating class. No Walmart. No soccer program. No access to much of anything. But a family reputation that kept her honest, a faith that kept her grounded, and a small community that gave a painfully shy girl room to become someone. She was the only member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in her high school for a time. She drove thirty minutes into Indiana just to go to church. She navigated summer softball schedules that didn't care about her Sunday commitments. And she sat out of a tournament game — as their starting first baseman — because her family chose faith over the field. And she still looks back on that with peace. We talk about what it was like growing up LDS in a town that small. We talk about how her reputation as the only member in her school shaped the way people around her acted — bonfires with Sprite instead of alcohol, a friend who signed her yearbook saying thanks for helping me stop cussing. We talk about how she almost went to BYU and how a missionary named Rob Robbins changed everything by simply opening his mouth and talking about a small school in Virginia. We talk about SVU — driving up the hill on a spring break trip, seeing Main Hall, and knowing instantly. Trying out for three sports in one day. Losing by fifteen to Coastal Carolina and going to Outback Steakhouse where Coach Harmon ate a bloomin' onion by himself for dinner. We talk about the chaos of year one in Arizona — learning to teach with no certification, learning to coach, learning to be married adults in the real world all at the same time. And how year two felt like a completely different life. We talk about motherhood. We talk about the butterfly effect — how not playing basketball at SVU meant being available for the intro to business class after lunch where we met. And how six kids deep, she wouldn't trade any of it. Oh — and baby number six is on the way. Her one piece of advice to close it all out: no matter what you're pursuing, keep the Lord involved. He'll help you know when to go deeper and when to move on. This episode is everything the SAHDad Podcast was built for. Faith. Family. Sports. And home — in every sense of the word. 🎧 Listen now and share this one with someone who needs it. 📲 Follow us on Instagram @sahdadpodcast | linktr.ee/sahdadmedia #SAHDadPodcast #FaithFamilySports #FaithAndAthletics #LDS #Motherhood

  2. Aug 5 ·  Video

    Non-LDS at a Mormon School, US Soccer's Real Problem & Finding Fulfillment Outside "The Norm" |

    This one was a long time coming. Sean Breen and I lived on the same floor at Southern Virginia University, played soccer together, and somehow let way too many years go by without actually catching up. This episode fixed that. Sean grew up in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia — a military town, a house divided between Spain and Ireland and Germany and the US, and a family where sports were always on the TV whether you had a team or not. His mom is from Spain, his dad was Air Force, and every summer from the time school got out until the day before it started back up, Sean was on a plane to Spain by himself. No parents. Three months in Europe with his cousins, his grandmother, and an uncle who made sure the boys were swimming laps, playing tennis, and doing math homework whether they liked it or not. He also got politely asked to leave Catholic school in sixth grade for throwing food at silent lunch. Which honestly tracks. We talk about what it was like coming into SVU as a non-LDS student from a Catholic family — his mom's hesitancy, the 25 books she read about the church before letting him go, the student code he misread and the coffee he ordered at an Italian restaurant sitting right next to the student body president. We talk about his twelve years in property management, the golf handicap he's been grinding down, and the SVU friendships that somehow survived years of silence and still feel like family. We go deep on the World Cup — Spain winning, Infantino needing to go, the VAR mess, the pay-to-play crisis, Pochettino staying on, and why nothing ever seems to actually change with US soccer no matter how many times we have this conversation. And at the end Sean drops the most quietly powerful piece of advice this podcast has heard in a while: Find fulfillment in the things that aren't the societal norm. The little things. The friend group that shows up on a Wednesday night. The dinner with your mom every week. The Marvel movie you still go see with the same people you went to high school with. A lot of little things can be as equal — if not greater — than one big thing. This one's for anyone who's ever felt behind because their life doesn't look the way everyone said it was supposed to. 🎧 Listen now and share this with someone who needs to hear it. 📲 Follow us on Instagram @sahdadpodcast | linktr.ee/sahdadmedia #FaithFamilySports #Soccer #USMNT #SVU #FriendshipMatters

  3. Jul 29 ·  Video

    From Uganda to Rhode Island | Ace Flores on Faith, Soccer & Finding Your Divine Potential

    Ace Flores grew up as the only member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in his school. He couldn't afford club soccer. He moved between Texas, Florida, and Rhode Island. He turned down a Division One offer to serve a mission in Uganda. And on his last day in Buena Vista, Virginia — he met a girl at the gym, lost his nerve, and then found her on Instagram an hour later. She just got baptized. He baptized her himself. This episode is EVERYTHING this podcast was built for! Ace is a center back who just transferred from Southern Virginia University to Rhode Island College — not because SVU wasn't right for him, but because working until 3 AM at Taco Bell before 6 AM training sessions wasn't sustainable, and his family had never seen him play a college game. So he prayed about it, entered the transfer portal, and the Lord put him exactly where he needed to be. We talk about growing up moving between three completely different places and never having the money for club soccer — just a ball and his dad's shed. We talk about being outnumbered in eighth grade history class when the teacher started explaining Joseph Smith and polygamy and he sat there quiet and alone. We talk about Uganda — the bucket showers, the 4 AM arrival, the companion from Zimbabwe who polished his shoes and danced to while making breakfast, and the gift of discernment that changed the way Ace prays every single morning. We talk about SVU, Payden Pemberton, playing center back when he was recruited as an attacking mid, and what it felt like to start fifteen out of seventeen games in a historic season. We talk about the USMNT, the pay-to-play crisis, Tim Howard as the greatest American soccer player of all time, and why Cape Verde — where Ace's mom is from — won everyone's heart in this World Cup. And at the end, Ace gives advice so simple and so personal it stopped me cold: Read your mission call. Get your patriarchal blessing. Find someone you can talk to. And develop a relationship with the Savior — because you are so much more than your occupation on this earth. This one is special. Don't miss it. 🎧 Listen now and share this with someone who needs to hear it. 📲 Follow us on Instagram @sahdadpodcast | linktr.ee/sahdadmedia #FaithAndAthletics #MissionLife #LDS #FaithFamilySports #Soccer

  4. Jul 26 ·  Bonus

    I Was Wrong About Diego Luna | Full 2026 World Cup Debrief | The Golden Age of the World Cup?

    The World Cup is over. Spain are champions. And I have a lot of thoughts — some of them are going to make people mad. In this episode I'm going full debrief. No guests, no script, just me sitting down a week post-World Cup and saying everything I've been thinking since the final whistle blew. Infantino needs to go. I'll die on that hill. The integrity of the international game is not safe with him running FIFA and this World Cup gave me more reasons than ever to believe that. Too many coincidences. Too many inconsistencies. Too many moments that just didn't add up. I also owe someone an apology. I was wrong about Diego Luna. I said before the World Cup that he should have been on the roster. And then I went to his RSL game against Burnley, did the eye test in person, and came away genuinely disappointed. Pochettino was right to leave him home. I don't love how it was handled — but the decision itself? I'm eating crow on that one. I still stand by Tanner Tessmann. I still stand by Cameron Carter Vickers. And I think Malik Tillman and Weston McKennie need to be untouchable in that midfield for the next four years. But Diego Luna? Pochettino saw something I didn't. And the eye test confirmed it. I also talk about what made this World Cup quietly historic — the last dance for a generation of greats that we may never see together on this stage again. Messi. Ronaldo. Modric. Neymar. Salah. De Bruyne. Kane. Casemiro. And why the controversy is drowning out something we should be stopping to appreciate. Plus — A'nue's first professional soccer game, RSL's sensory room, and why watching a six year old talk tactics during a World Cup is one of the best things that's ever happened to me as a dad. 🎧 Listen now and share this with every soccer fan you know. 📲 Follow us on Instagram @sahdadpodcast | linktr.ee/sahdadmedia #WorldCup #USMNT #SpainWorldCup #FaithFamilySports #Soccer

  5. Jul 22

    Decide Now, Succeed Later! A Journey from College Athlete, to Military Elite Forces Trainer

    Bennett Candland didn't think he was good enough to play college basketball. He got cut from his freshman team, didn't try out sophomore year, barely played junior and senior year, and had exactly zero people looking at him coming out of high school. So how did he end up playing at Southern Virginia University, serving a mission in Alabama, training Army bomb disposal units, and now working with Air Force Special Warfare operators in Las Vegas? One conversation at a time. One decision at a time. And one principle he made long before he ever needed it: lean into the gospel, even when you can't see why. This episode goes deep. Bennett opens up about what it was actually like being an LDS athlete in Maryland and Pennsylvania — where the basketball culture was about as far from gospel standards as you can get, where his social life with teammates was basically nonexistent because of the choices he refused to make, and where he watched those same teammates come to practice still recovering from weekends he wanted no part of. We talk about his mission to the Deep South, how it turned a shy kid who could barely communicate into someone who now coaches elite military operators and earns their respect in the first five minutes. We talk about SVU, the revenge tour that brought him there, the professor who called him before a test he was about to sleep through, and what it meant to be there when all three Candland brothers were on campus at the same time. And at the end, Bennett drops some of the most straight-shooting advice this podcast has ever heard — no preachiness, no script, just a guy who's lived it telling you exactly what he wishes someone had told him. "No one cares about the beginning of the movie. They care about the end. So wherever you're at — start committing to it right now." 🎧 Listen now and share this with a young athlete who needs to hear it. 📲 Follow us on Instagram @sahdadpodcast | linktr.ee/sahdadmedia #FaithAndAthletics #LeanIntoTheGospel #MissionLife #FaithFamilySports #LDS

  6. Jul 15

    From Catholic School to the Temple | Jake McMahon's Conversion Story & the Power of One Testimony

    This one is special. Jake McMahon is one of my closest friends and his family's conversion story to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the most powerful things I've heard in a long time. It starts with a Catholic family from the Midwest, a mom quietly searching for truth, a dad who refused to answer the door for missionaries, and a fourteen year old boy who walked into the Salt Lake tabernacle and felt something he'd never felt before. One minute. Broken English. A brand new missionary from Peru bearing her testimony to a family who didn't even know what a testimony was. And that one moment rippled into everything. Baptisms. Missions. Temple sealings. A dad who went from hiding from missionaries to becoming one of the most influential young men leaders his ward has ever seen. Kids who still text Jake's dad to this day because of the impact he had on their lives. We also get into Jake's mission to Barcelona, what it taught him about discipline and Christ, balancing faith and family with kids, the importance of teaching agency over obligation, disc golf — yes, disc golf — and his single most powerful piece of advice for youth: Prioritize Christ. In whatever way that looks like for you in that moment. It all works out when you do. This is exactly the kind of conversation this podcast exists for. Don't miss it. 📲 Share this episode with someone who needs to hear it today. 📲 Follow us on Instagram @sahdadpodcast | linktr.ee/sahdadmedia #ConversionStory #FaithAndFamily #PrioritizeChrist #FaithFamilySports #LDS

    From Catholic School to the Temple | Jake McMahon's Conversion Story & the Power of One Testimony

  7. Jul 9

    "What Are We Doing?" | USMNT WC Elimination, Entitlement Culture & The Broken Youth Soccer System

    My six year old son buried his head in my chest and cried for fifteen minutes after the US lost to Belgium. He understood exactly what it meant. The question is — did the national team? 😤 Because the face of US soccer sat on that bench with a blank expression. And then in his postgame interview said "I get to go rest now." Nine years after Taylor Twellman asked "what are we doing" — I'm asking the same question. And I don't think we're any closer to an answer. In this episode I'm holding nothing back. I'm talking about the lack of heart and emotion from the USMNT after one of the most deflating losses in recent memory. Talking about entitlement — in the national team, in the youth system, in the culture we've built around this game in the United States. I'm talking about paywalls keeping kids from watching the game, rec leagues costing over a hundred dollars, and individual training sessions running two hundred bucks an hour for seven year olds. We're talking about a youth system that is running exactly as intended — and that's the problem. But there's light too. There are kids like my son A'nue all over this country who are passionate about football in a way that gives me real hope. And this World Cup — for all its controversy — has shown what this game can do when it's played with freedom and joy. So "what are we doing?" And more importantly — what do we do next? 🎧 Listen, share, and let me know your thoughts — find the rest of the podcast on Instagram @sahdadpodcast🔗 All links at linktr.ee/sahdadmedia #USMNT #WorldCup #SAHDadPodcast #AmericanSoccer

    "What Are We Doing?" | USMNT WC Elimination, Entitlement Culture & The Broken Youth Soccer System

  8. Jul 1

    Missions, Multi-Sport Kids & Keeping Faith When Life Gets Busy | SAHDad Podcast ft. Cort Cox

    This one's a conversation I've been looking forward to for a long time. Cort is one of my closest friends and one of the most genuine people I know — and this episode did not disappoint. We covered a LOT. From the deeply personal — Cort opens up about his decision not to serve a mission, what led to that choice, and how his faith has continued to grow in a way that works for HIM — to the everyday chaos of raising multi-sport kids while trying to keep faith and family at the center of it all. Cort and his wife Autum have figured out something that I think a lot of families are quietly searching for: how do you honor the Sabbath when your kids have tournaments? How do you let your kids explore every sport they love without burning them out? And how do you stay grounded in your faith when life is pulling you in twelve directions at once? Their answer? Make Sunday feel different. Rotate who picks dinner. Watch a movie together. Talk in the car on the way to the game. Simple things that add up to something real. We also talk about Southern Virginia University, getting out of your comfort zone, why multi-sport athletes are almost always better athletes, and how Cort's son went from watching hockey on TV one night to dragging the whole family onto the ice — including Cort, who broke his jaw learning to skate. 🏒 And at the end, Cort drops some of the most straightforward and powerful advice I've heard on this podcast: find what YOU believe, follow it, and the rest will fall into place. If you've got kids in sports and you're trying to figure out how faith fits into all of it — this one's for you. 🎧 New episodes every week | Faith. Family. Sports. 📲 Follow us @sahdadpodcast 🔗 linktr.ee/sahdadmedia #SAHDadPodcast #FaithFamilySports #FaithAndAthletics #MultiSportAthletes #ParentingAndFaith

    Missions, Multi-Sport Kids & Keeping Faith When Life Gets Busy | SAHDad Podcast ft. Cort Cox
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Hosted by Joe — stay-at-home dad, husband, soccer obsessive, and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — the SAHDad Podcast is a weekly conversation at the intersection of faith, family, and athletics. Real people. Real stories. Real talk about balancing belief and competition. From USMNT debates to missions, mental health, and raising kids who love the game and love their faith — nothing is off the table. The next generation is watching. And they need to know they don't have to choose. New episodes every week. Faith. Family. Sports.

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  • Creator
    Joe Bouchelle IV
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    47
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Joe Bouchelle IV
  • Show Website
    S.A.H. Dad