You Asked, We Answered

You Asked, We Answered

From The Struggle Bubble by Chad Kutting and Craig Surgey

March 31, 2026 · 44 min · Episode 37

About this episode

Chad and Craig answer listener questions about parenting and youth sports while reflecting on their own experiences.

No guest this week — just Chad and Craig, a stack of listener questions, and zero filter. Craig's fresh off a brutal week commuting to RSA in San Francisco ("two hours to go 55 miles"), and Chad's still processing a nail-biting state cup match in Davis that went to PKs in the final three seconds. So yeah — business as usual in the Struggle Bubble. The episode opens with a quick follow-up on Andrew McRobbie's appearance last week and the wave of listener messages it sparked — parents saying they'd never considered that any given game could be the last one. From there, Chad and Craig rip through a Q&A covering the stuff their audience actually lives with every weekend: is club soccer worth thousands a year? What do you do when you feel yourself becoming the sideline parent you swore you'd never be? Should your kid quit Little League for travel ball? And what happens when a parent tells a volunteer coach they're "ruining the sport"? The back half gets more personal. They dig into what happens when a kid's entire identity is wrapped up in their sport, how to break the cycle of negative self-talk before a game, and whether anything they've said on this podcast has actually changed…

People in this episode

Hosts: Chad Kutting, Craig Surgey

Topics covered

  • listener questions
  • parenting
  • youth sports
  • soccer
  • identity in sports
  • self-talk

Keywords

  • listener questions
  • youth sports
  • soccer
  • parenting
  • self-talk
  • identity
  • Little League

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Places: San Francisco, Davis

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