You can be home and still not be there.
That is where Dustin Whitlock and Ryan Grow start episode one. Two active high school football coaches. Five kids between them. Fall camp in Florida heat, side jobs, a house full of lice, and an IV in the arm after a 7-on-7 tournament. This is the life behind the whistle.
They get honest about the phone problem, why it is easier to pour into your players than your own kids, and what your wife carries that nobody in the stands ever sees. Plus the birth stories. Cash was born at three o'clock on a Friday and Dustin coached that night. Brady was born in the middle of a hurricane and Ryan went straight from the hospital to paint the field.
If you have ever walked through your front door with practice still running in your head, this one is for you.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Welcome to From Field to Fatherhood
01:02 Locker Room Check-In: lice, IVs, and week one of camp
08:08 Who gets the best version of you?
09:39 How to transition before you walk through the door
15:28 Why it is easier to pour into your players
18:53 A word from SidelineHQ
19:30 Being intentional: put the phone down
22:08 The family tradition you refuse to miss
26:08 Supporting your wife: what nobody sees
32:32 Have you taken her support for granted?
35:12 Born in a hurricane, born on a game day
41:21 Why coaches are hardest on their own kids
46:39 Leadership starts at home: are you the same man?
50:22 What coaching girls taught us about being dads
51:31 Football principles that made us better fathers
58:51 The Coach's Two Minute Drill
1:02:37 Your challenge this week
1:03:10 Coaching is what we do. Fatherhood is our legacy.
THE CHALLENGE THIS WEEK
Ask your wife one question. What is something you are struggling with right now that I can take off your plate? Then listen. That is it.
ABOUT THE SHOW
From Field to Fatherhood is a weekly conversation for coaches who are also husbands and fathers. New episodes every Tuesday morning. Hosted by Dustin Whitlock and Ryan Grow. Presented by the Board Drill Network.
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Coaching is what we do. Fatherhood is our legacy.
