Dad the Man

Brendan explores the concept of Instagram versus reality in the context of a husband and father at the holidays.

Cal Callahan is a retired trader,  host of The Great Unlearn podcast , and runs Unlearn Ventures, which is an investment fund and incubator for forward-thinking projects. The product of a hard charging father, Cal was supplied with the tools necessary to perform well in school and even better professionally as a trader. It wasn't until after facing a life altering experience at the Route 91 m...

Heath Evans is former NFL fullback. After a 3 year career at Auburn University, he was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks as the first fullback off the board. He spent several years in New England under head coach Bill Belichick and QB Tom Brady before heading down to New Orleans where he became a Super Bowl champion alongside Head Coach Sean Payton and QB Drew Brees. After his playing days, Heath tr...

Collin Henderson is the founder and CEO of Master Your Mindset, an industry leader in the field of mental conditioning. He is a speaker and author of five books dealing with peak performance. Most notably, his recent books Quiet Mind and Quiet Mind for Kids just recently released. They are awesome and I'll drop a link to pick up a copy in the show notes. Collin earned his undergraduate and masters...

Before passing away at the beginning of 2021, Tim Tinsley immortalized his final thoughts in a blog series called Thoughts of a Dying Man. In today's episode, Brendan reads Tim's last entry and unpacks the lessons contained inside, particularly, how the ambition to die a good death can inspire us to live a great life.

Trevor Cowley is a successful serial entrepreneur most widely known for his podcast Real Business owners, which he cohosts with his business partner Kale Goodman. Trevor's businesses include Easier Accounting, 60 Day Credit Repair, an Everbowl store, and he has also invested in seven other business as well. Despite growing up in a challenging environment, his father walking out on his family when...

Jeremy Neves is a founder, investor, and consultant who spends his professional time starting and scaling business and teaching others to do the same. In 2009 he founded Xcite Satellite which employed 1,000+ individuals over a ten year period, generating over $70 million in sales before making a successful exit in 2019. He has since consulted a number of businesses, most notably a company that he...

Today's guest is none other than Coach Mark Richt, or Poopah, as his grandkids call him. Coach Richt played quarterback at the University of Miami and threw his hat in the ring for the NFL before turning his sights towards coaching college football. The day before leaving to begin his coaching career as a GA down in Baton Rouge, he received a phone call and a job offer from the late Bobby Bowden,...

Jordan Montgomery is a highly regarded performance coach and keynote speaker. From small town Iowa, to a dominant force in the performance coaching industry, Jordan travels the country speaking and coaching executives to Fortune 500 companies, professional and college athletes, sales organizations, and entrepreneurs. Jordan also has a podcast called The Montgomery Companies podcast, which is a fan...

My name is Brendan Wall, and I am the founder and host of the Dad the Man podcast. In this episode I formally introduce myself, and explain the sequence of events, as I remember them, that led to me starting this podcast. I give some context on how the show was born and our mission in serving men better.

Bert Sorin is the president and co-owner of the legendary Sorinex Exercise Equipment, which was founded by his father Richard Sorin. Sorinex equipment can be found in college and professional weightrooms across the country and in the home gyms of icons like Joe Rogan, Jocko Willink, and Cam Hanes. Growing up with a barbell in his hand has been pivotal in charting the course of Bert's life and led...

Anders Varner is the host of the ultra popular podcast about fitness and training, Barbell Shrugged and is the Director of Media at the Shrugged Collective. Anders is well known and respected amongst CrossFit and fitness circles and even owned his own CrossFit gym at one point. More recently, Anders has increased his own popularity on social media and fitness communities for his Diesel Dad program...

Will is a real estate broker in Denver, Colorado where he and his partner Eli run Mile High Property Brothers. Will is also the cohost of the wildly popular and impactful Day One Dollar Zero podcast which is a personal favorite of mine. Will has lived a life dedicated to serving others from his time as a marine, to a police officer, and now to an entrepreneur and podcaster where he pours into peop...

Adam Hensley is best known as the founder, owner, and operator of Garage Gym Lab, which he turned from a passion project and side hustle into a thriving business allowing him to make the leap and leave a successful commercial real estate career behind. Garage Gym Lab reviews gym equipment and produces some amazing content. It’s a really great mix of useful and relevant info and pure entertainment....

Sean Lowe is best known for his role on the 17th season of ABC’s The Bachelor, which is a role he earned after a top three finish a year earlier on The Bachelorette. In fact, as far as I know, he is the only Bachelor to remain married to the recipient of the final rose. You may also known Sean from appearances on Dancing with the Stars, Family Feud, Wife Swap, and other shows or as the author of h...

Lew Caralla is the head strength and conditioning coach for the football team at Georgia Tech University. He played college football at Defiance and began his coaching journey by doing summer internships at USF and Virginia while in school. After graduating, he worked as a GA at Mississippi State. He then worked as an assistant strength coach at Georgia Tech, Mississippi State, then Michigan....

Peter Burns is a studio host for SEC Network, where he regularly hosts the show SEC Now. In addition to his studio role on SEC Network, Burns has provided analysis as a course reporter on SEC Network’s live coverage of various sporting events, contributing to studio programming across all ESPN networks, including The Paul Finebaum Show, College Football Live and SportsCenter, a...

Nate Checketts is the Co-Founder & CEO of Rhone, a men’s performance lifestyle brand founded in 2014. Prior to Rhone, Nate worked for and consulted with some of the biggest technology and entertainment properties in the world including Cisco, The NFL, Legends, FanVision and Sport Radar. Nate is also an avid entrepreneur who founded and launched 4 companies before the age of 30, including Rhone...

Collin Crane is the head strength and conditioning coach for the men's basketball team at Mississippi State University. In this episode we talk mentors and success, marriage and fatherhood, and everything in between. Collin played college hoops at Carson Newman University. He coached at the Florida, Missouri State, and UT Chattanooga in different capacities before landing his current role at Missi...

Welcome to Dad the Man! This episode serves as the trailer for this podcast. We will take a quick run through the following items so that you know what you can expect here. What does dad the man mean What you can expect from the show when and where you can expect to hear it my intentions with the show who I am How to support the show and get involved Thanks for listening! I'm glad to have you join...