The Art of Signature Moves: Unlocking Your Family's Potential - Jason Hewlett

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First, I want to thank our former guest, Greg Offner, for making today's episode possible!!! 

Let's get to today's episode.....So....What does it mean to truly honor your family name while encouraging each child's unique identity? 

This question lies at the heart of my conversation with Jason Hewlett, whose journey from Las Vegas impersonator to corporate speaker offers surprising insights into authentic fatherhood.  

As a Hall of Fame speaker, he values the way to become a Hall of Fame dad instead.

Jason's approach to raising his four remarkably diverse children reveals a masterclass in balancing values with freedom. His daughter Ella traveled solo across Italy, New Zealand, and Australia as a teenage au pair. His son Redford graduated as student body president with academic honors. Romney pivoted from basketball to bodybuilding when competition grew fierce. And thirteen-year-old Royal shows natural talent across multiple domains. Each child embodies the Hewlett name differently, yet powerfully.

The secret? Jason's "ICM Process" - Identify, Clarify, and Magnify - helps family members discover their unique "signature moves." Rather than projecting expectations, he creates space for authentic growth. When his sons cut bowl-shaped haircuts for their yearbook photos (which subsequently went viral), Jason celebrated their creativity instead of squashing it. This pattern of encouragement traces back to his own childhood, when his parents supported his Dennis Rodman impersonations at Utah Jazz games despite the raised eyebrows.

Most powerful was Jason's vulnerable sharing about reconciling with his father after years of estrangement. Their relationship healed through a shared mission developing a heart supplement that saved his father's life, demonstrating how parental relationships can transform at any stage.  They know are in business together with a  powerful new supplement drink called, "Cardio Miracle."

Whether you're struggling to connect with your children's interests or seeking to balance family identity with individual expression, Jason's wisdom offers a roadmap for creating what he beautifully describes as "an eternal family."

 Listen now and discover how to honor your name while lighting unique paths for each family member.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hi, I'm Riley and I'm Ryder and this is my dad show.
Hey everybody, it's CaseyJaycox with the quarterback dad
cast.
Welcome to season six, and Icould not be more excited to
have you join me for anotheryear of fantastic episodes and
conversations really unscriptedand raw and authentic

(00:24):
conversations with dads.
If you're new to this podcast,really it's simple.
It's a podcast where weinterview dads, we learn about
how they were raised, we learnabout the life lessons that were
important to them, we learnabout the values that are
important to them and really welearn about how we can work hard
to become a better quarterbackor leader of our home.
So let's sit back, relax andlisten to today's episode on the
Quarterback Dadcast.

(00:45):
Well, hello everybody.
It's Casey Jaycox with theQuarterback Dadcast.
We're in season six, as theseason rolls along and we're in
the summer and I'm grateful forour next guest, who came highly,
highly recommended by thetalented Greg Offner, who can
definitely tickle the ivory, andI think our next guest can as
well.
His name is Jason Hewlett.
He's for the last 25 years he'sbeen impacting organizations

(01:12):
and companies and everywhereelse he goes and speaks with his
energy.
He's also a corporate executivecoach, teaching performance.
But, with all that said.
That's not why we're havingJason on.
We're having Jason on to talkabout Jason the dad, and how
he's working hard or continuesto work hard to become that
ultimate quarterback or leaderof his household.
So, without further ado, MrHewlett, welcome to the
Quarterback Dadcast.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Casey, this is great to be with you.
Thanks for having me on.
I love that we have this sharedconnection to Greg and I admire
the work you're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Thank you.
You bet man Well, who cantickle the ivory better, you or
him.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Oh, him by far.
Oh man, that's his shtick.
I started my career in LasVegas as an impersonator, so
he's a real musician.
I'm just kind of a pretend, butno, he's amazing at what he
does.
I am so glad you told me that,and now I'm like this is going
to derail me, because I wantedto like, hey, give what's your
best impersonation oh reallyyeah so I started my career in

(02:08):
Las Vegas in 20 in 2001 and Iwas a both a Elton John
impersonator and Ricky Martinfor the show Legends in Concert
on the strip at the ImperialPalace you look like Ricky
Martin.
I, I do have the Ricky Martinlook, and what's interesting is
now that I have a beard andglasses I don't pull it off as
well.
But man back 20-plus years agowhen he was the hottest thing

(02:31):
going with the leather pants andthe bonbon shake, and I was
doing that around the world, andI didn't just perform in Vegas,
I performed all over thedifferent spots that they had
for Legends in Concert showsaround the country, which would
be places like Myrtle Beach,valley, forge, pennsylvania,
other places that were fun, andthey would have us for private

(02:51):
events, big Las Vegas show typeevents, and then Elton John as
well.
So I would actually open theshow as Elton come back later in
the show after a few othercharacters as Ricky Martin,
nobody knows the same guy.
It was a fun gig for a while.
This was before we had kids, sojust my wife and I traveling
around and kind of a wild way tostart a career, right.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
So I am a closet singer.
Give me a few soda pop, dadsoda pops.
The vocal is really good going.
I can play about five or sixchords on the guitar,
self-taught.
Just enough to know if youdon't play guitar you like, oh,
that guy's pretty good.
And then a real guitar playerwas like that guy sucks.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
I'm with you.
That's how I am on the piano.
I can just play enough stuff onthe piano for people to go wow,
he's great, but the musiciansgo.
Hmm, how did he figure that out?

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Can you do walking to Memphis?

Speaker 1 (03:42):
No, I can't.
What do you?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
got, I can do Jaws on the piano and Chopsticks.
And what's that, fair Elise,that duet thing you do?

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, oh, the Heart and Soul.
Heart and Soul, that's it.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
There we go.
I can do that, but I literally.
The other day I looked up howto learn how to play walking to
Memphis on YouTube.
I'm like this is so outside mypay grade, but I might try to
like see if I can teach myself.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Walking to Memphis.
That's a tough one, man.
I'd say that's high, high levelstuff.
For me it's I, in fact I justdid a wrapped up a show where I
was doing Elton John and BillyJoel in the same show.
It wasn't necessarilyimpersonation, but rather just
enjoying the music of them.
We had a five-man band with me,including a saxophone, which
made it extra special, and wesold out all these shows.

(04:34):
It was a really neat thing.
So did that, learned all theBilly Joel, uptown Girl and
Piano man.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
Uptown Girl.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, there you go.
And then, yeah, did stuff likemy Life.
And then, of course, Elton Johndid Rocket man Goodbye, Olympic
Road, Candle in the Wind,Crocodile Rock, those fun ones.
So it's cool.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
So you got some range , brother.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, I've done enough to make some waves and
make a career out of it.
It's been a fun thing, and thenI also mixed that into being a
keynote speaker, so that's kindof been the life that we've
created for our little family.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
And I've been very fortunate to have enough gigs to
make it work.
Wow, all right, I've alreadyderailed us.
We're going to get back ontrack.
We always start out eachepisode with gratitude, so tell
me, what are you most gratefulfor as a dad today?

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Oh, today actually, my sons just came home from
essentially their scout camp forthe week, which was a young
men's camp that our church putson once a year and unfortunately
, due to the alignment of thingswith my schedule this last
couple of months my songraduated from high school and
some other things I had to taketime off the other weeks in
order to not make it to thiscamp with them.
But they just came home, I justhugged them.
They smelled like campfire andfive days without showers and I

(05:51):
was just so excited that they'reback.
So, yeah, they just walked inthe door about an hour ago and
so it's been.
That is my full gratitude today, just so happy to have them
home.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Love.
That.
That's so cool.
You did a good job.
I can really describe you, andI could almost feel like I was
smelling campfire when you, whenyou said that, um, what I'm
most grateful for today is atime here in Eastern Washington.
Um, we are lucky, very, veryblessed and lucky to.
We built a little place here 20years ago.
And, um, I'm working thismorning and then this afternoon

(06:23):
my actually my son, one of hisbest friends and my buddy.
They're playing golf right now.
They're going to come back forlunch and then this afternoon
they're going to play 36 holes.
I'll play 18 with them.
They're going to play another18.
And then we'll just hang out.
And last night we watchedCaddyshack and they were
surprised that Dad knew all thelines.
I'm like welcome to the bigleagues.

(06:46):
Boys and girls, it's all right,don't nobody worry about me.
Yeah, buddy, yeah, I could doso many lines from that and my
wife was getting mad.
I'm like, honey, this is whatyou do when you watch Caddyshack
.
You just keep quoting, you tryto get ahead of it and see who
knows it the best.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's what we do and see who knows it the best.
That's what we do.
That's what a dad does.
Man Watch a movie with dad.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, we laughed so hard.
And even this morning mybuddy's son was up before my son
.
He's like Casey.
That was so funny.
I can't believe how much heknows Caddyshack.
I'm like I couldn't tell youwhen the War of 1812 was but I
can tell you a lot aboutCaddyshack.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
All right.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Okay, bring me inside the Hewlett huddle, tell me
about how you and your wife met,and then about the each member
of the squad.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, my wife and I met at church actually it's
called a singles ward and so itwas a bunch of single adults, if
you will, that were justlooking for somebody to date.
And I saw her at the drinkingfountain or blonde hair.
The way the water fell off herlips I thought, okay, that's the
one right there.
I knew it immediately and Iactually did not ask her out for

(07:53):
nine months because I knew thateveryone else in that whole
community was trying to ask herout too.
So she would give every guy onedate and one chance to wow her.
And that was for me.
I was like, okay, I have to puttogether a plan.
So I went out with every girlother than her and made her,
made sure she knew that, andthat was my trick.

(08:16):
And yeah, so finally we becamefriends and we were on this
activities committee, togetherplanned activities like
volleyball, and activitiescommittee together planned
activities like volleyball andand other fun parties for the
church.
And then, gosh, I remember Ifinally got the guts to ask her
out.
I had already schemed andfigured out what she liked, what
things that guys hadn't takenher to do, and I just, I just

(08:39):
knew the second that I asked herout.
I was never going to let thatgo, and so yeah worked out.
Six months later, we're married.
Yeah it was a good, good thingfor us, and so we we got married
in 2001, right before 9-11happened, and it was a wonderful
time.
As you know, that was adifferent time of life, and then

(09:01):
, within five years, we startedhaving some kids.
So we now have four children,and we actually had three in 26
months.
For the dads that can do math,there were no twin twins or
triplets in there, so we had.
We have two Irish twins,however.
So our daughter she's now 19.
Our sons are 18 and 17.

(09:22):
And then we have a 13 year old.
So we had four and five years,and life is incredible with
these kids, as you know.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
Wow, your wife's a trooper.
I'll say Wow, and what keepseach child busy?
What lights their fire?

Speaker 1 (09:41):
Well, ella, she's the eldest, she just graduated from
high school a year ago and inthe last year she has become an
au pair and an au pair is like asavvy word for nanny and she
got to go across the pond andshe did that for a couple of
months in Italy and she was inVerona where Romeo and Juliet
was based.
So then she, without speakingany Italian, she lived with a

(10:05):
family that barely spoke anyEnglish and she just kind of
braved the wilderness of beingan amazing person and going and
trying something incredibly cool, and had a little five-year-old
boy that was very challengingfor her to communicate with as
well, because he was justlearning English from school and
his dad spoke a little, his momspoke a little of English, but,
man, it was a tricky situationfor her.

(10:27):
And yet she navigated allaround Italy, she figured out
the metro system, sheessentially spent every cent she
earned in order to go visitVenice and Milan and go do some
incredibly cool things forherself, and her favorite was
Florence or Firenze, where youknow Da Vinci and Michelangelo
and David, and she had a great,great time.

(10:49):
So she did that for a fewmonths.
We went and got her and pickedher up a couple of months back
and that was one of the greatestexperience of our life to see
our daughter having gone fromkind of not doing the best in
high school, kind of flounderinga little bit, and then turning
into this amazing adult as shewent and explored the world and
realized how awesome her lifealready was back at home and

(11:11):
that she had the tools to beable to navigate, travel and
communicate with people in adifferent language, just through
her personality of fun andenjoyment.
And then she went to New Zealandand she was a nanny there for
two little kids and they theyall lived essentially in the
same house, which is reallytricky.
They shared a one bathroom inthis whole house, stuff like

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that that she just you know shewasn't used to in our home.
She has her own floor,essentially in the basement, and
so so to have her own uh spacewith this family was really an
interesting experience.
We didn't pick her up from NewZealand, but she did travel all
around New Zealand in a littleminivan that she rented.
She did that for 10 days on herown.

(11:53):
I mean, she's just a brave girland it's been awesome to watch
her spread her wings and fly.
In that sense, she even hoppedover to Australia, hung out
there for a week, and I'm reallyproud of her for making that
thing happen in her life.
Because now people are askingher how did you do it?
How did you have so much gutsto make that happen?

(12:14):
And you know she's alreadylived like a full life and she's
not even 20.
And so that's just.
That's just her man.
I'm just so excited for whatshe's going to do next.
She's finally just got home afew weeks ago for our son's
graduation from high school, andso that's my daughter.
Was that too long?

Speaker 2 (12:33):
to tell you about.
That was fantastic man.
I'm envious of her resiliency,her curiosity, no fear.
I mean those would be greatlife skills she's going to use
somewhere down the road.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
No fear is what it was about, for sure.
And to get the phone calls wegot or the FaceTimes, and she's
ready to jump off of a towerwhere it was the biggest bungee
jump in the world, or you know.
I mean she was just doing stuffthat we were like we can't stop
you, so we love you, good luck,you know.
I mean it was really inspiringto see her go for something that

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she knew that we would benervous about, and yet we had
raised our children in a, in amotorhome environment.
Anyway, we visited all 50states as a family, and so we've
we've done a lot of travelanyway, we've taken them
overseas in the first place, andso I do feel she was somewhat
prepared, but we did not knowthat she would take it and run

(13:31):
with it like she has.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
She's like the next Evel Knievel, I mean that's
absolutely going out of a cannonhere pretty soon.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Well, especially living out of a little minivan.
It was essentially a ToyotaSienna.
It was like the same minivan wehave at home, but it was
outfitted for a one persontraveler and she just went on
her own all around New Zealandand apparently other girls do
this and you would think thatthat's dangerous.
You know, thankfully she wassafe and had the greatest time.

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She climbed mountains and sheswam on beaches and, you know,
and beautiful ocean and she justhad the greatest time of life.
And I said to her you know, youjust accomplished something
that you'll be able to look backon forever and talk about as
the great adventure and you canbuild on that adventure forever.
So it's been fun to watch.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Wow, and tell me about the other three.
What are they up to?

Speaker 1 (14:22):
So Redford, so that Ella's the eldest, she's 19.
Redford's 18.
He just graduated from thelargest high school in Utah
where we live and it's calledHarriman High.
He was the student bodypresident for the last year of
that school and it's beeninteresting to watch him develop
into this incredible leader.
In fact, the principal retiredalong with this class after 25

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plus years and said this is thebest student body president I've
ever seen in my history of mycareer.
And he said I watch Redfordbuild community through
including everybody attendingevery single event, making being
a student body leader coolagain, and that was something of
great pride for us as a family.
So he just graduated withhonors.

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He was in the National HonorSociety.
Things I never accomplished,casey, I mean stuff that my wife
and I were like where did thiskid come from?
I mean, he's just an amazingboy.
And he didn't really hit intothe athletic side of things he
tried out for.
Some teams like golf andbasketball didn't make it.
What's interesting is he didn'tlet that keep him down.

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He just attended all the eventsand cheered everyone on.
His younger brother made theteam and so Redford would cheer
his brother on and do all hecould to help him in the tryouts
, even though Redford knew hewasn't going to make it Stuff
like that.
That's really special.
And then he eventually realizedleadership was the spot and
being the attendee of all theevents and the best cheerleader

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for everybody and high-fivingeveryone from the nerdiest nerd
to the coolest of the cool andbeing friends with everyone in
between, we're just really proudof that that.
That was what he chose and heactually entered a thing called
DECA, which is like a youthactivity where you build up a
business and some ideas, and heactually took state in that with

(16:10):
his partners and then they tookseventh in the world for their
idea and we're funded with$6,000 by an investor.
They have other investorslooking to maybe buy the product
and, what's interesting, he gota full ride scholarship to
Southern Utah University as apresidential ambassador.
I'm just telling you, my wifeand I we didn't even make it to

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college.
I mean we tried for a few weeksat the local community college.
So to see our kids essentiallystand on shoulders and make life
better has really just been soinspiring for us.
And he leaves in six weeks on amission for our church.
He's going to Argentina for twoyears.
He'll be learning Spanish andhe's been working his whole life

(16:54):
to save up and make it so thathe can do this wonderful charity
.
Service for our church and forhelping people to come to Christ
is what we say, and so we'reexcited for him.
And then our next son is Romney.
He's 17.
He was a basketball player fora few years one of the best
shooters I've ever seen, andworked so hard at it.
Some school stuff happenedwhere we did so well in the

(17:20):
state that other kids startedmoving in.
I'm sure everybody kind ofknows that story.
And so now he's kind of putbasketball to the side and gone
to bodybuilding.
So he's more of a bodybuilder,sculptor of his body.
He's a hiker, he's a workoutmachine, gets great grades, just
a good young man.
He's now going to be thestudent body spirit leader of

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the school, which is essentiallylike the vice president for
next year when he's a senior andfollowing the footsteps of his
older brother, and he's doing agreat job.
We're very proud of him, getsgreat grades and so forth.
And then, last but not least, isRoyal.
He is 13 and going on, you know, 35.
I mean, this is like thegrownup kid that grew up in the

(18:06):
watching the older three do alltheir things.
And now he's this.
He's really the daredevil.
He's the one on the motorbike,he's the one that if he picks up
a basketball, he's the star ofthe team.
If he tries to play golf, he'shitting hole in ones.
I mean, he's like just kind ofthat kid that's good at kind of
anything he tries.
And so we're interested to seewhere this goes as he goes into

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his high school years.
But giving them tools andopportunities, and whether it's
camps that they can attend or,you know, giving them the tools
to say, hey, I want to becomebetter at dirt biking and riding
on my Suron and stuff like that, that's what we're about as
parents to give them adventureand create opportunity.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Love it, man.
Well, you sounds like you got afantastic family of, uh,
overachievers that aredefinitely making mom and dad
proud and, uh, great kids, andI'm actually just cool, cool
hearing about them.
Uh, each one, um, I want toturn it towards you now.
My man and I want to learnabout what was life like growing
up for you and talk about theimpact your parents had on you

(19:09):
and maybe some lessons andstories that have helped you
become the dad you are today.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Well, that's very kind.
I grew up in a wonderful home.
I think a silver spoon wouldprobably be appropriate.
My dad was a very successfulfinancial planner, insurance
agent.
He was, in fact, the topsalesman in the world and the
company he was at was Sun Lifeof Canada.
And so I had a very nicegrowing up in terms of affluence
and seeing the possibilities ofthe world.

(19:37):
And so seeing a dad that said,hey, anything's possible,
working for the man might not bein your best interest.
So what can you create?
He really instilled that in meright from the beginning, and my
mom encouraged all of this aswell.
And so I went to a privateschool.
Growing up I was held back inninth grade.
After doing my best throughschool, all through the years,

(19:59):
finally, ninth grade it caughtup to me.
I had to be held back.
But I'll tell you, held backwas nice, cause now I was go,
went from the youngest to theoldest in the class.
I mean, I was the only one thatwas shaving and driving in
ninth grade.
And then, uh, I I became a goodbasketball player, worked
really hard at that, became allstate.
Uh, after working through thesummer, 50,000 baskets, that

(20:23):
kind of.
You know those kind oflegendary stories that make you
realize that goal setting reallymatters.
And I eventually got a fullride scholarship for basketball,
and I didn't take it because Irealized I wanted to be in the
entertainment space.
And so, instead of doing that,I went to the Las Vegas career,
and so that was an interestingshift for me.
But growing up, yeah, Iremember to the Las Vegas career

(20:43):
, and so that was an interestingshift for me.
But growing up, yeah, I rememberone of my favorite stories
about my parents, my dad, when Iwas little and things were not
going well with school, he satme down one day and I think I
was 11 or 12 and he handed me.
He said, hey, look, obviously,math, english, science, these
things are not working out.

(21:04):
So let me just tell you, if youread these books, even though
you're having a hard timereading, just get through them.
And he sat me down and gave methe book by Ogmandino called the
Greatest Salesman in the World,and then the book by James
Allen, as a man Thinketh, andthe book by Stephen Covey, seven
Habits of Highly EffectivePeople, and the book by Dale

(21:25):
Carnegie, how to Win Friends andInfluence People.
And he just gave me all ofthese books and said look, if
you'll figure out how to readthese books and do what's in
them, you will be successful,regardless of what's going on
right now with your inability atschool, and he really coached

(21:47):
me through that.
I'm so thankful for that.
My mom equally helped me in somany ways by seeing that I was a
unique child and saying well,you have much to offer and so
you have a light to shine.
And I always say that.
She said that the light youshine is the light you receive.
So I went everywhere smiling,making people laugh, and she
encouraged that.
She got me the costumes todress up as these characters
that now I have utilized in ashow and as presentations for my

(22:10):
whole life.
And so I grew up in a reallyspecial home.
I had two brothers, two sisters, and I was the oldest, and
these guys are my best friendsstill to this day.
It's a wonderful thing that wehave that kind of relationship.
And I went on a mission toBrazil.
I eventually came home, met mywife.

(22:31):
She went on a mission toHonduras, so we had that in
common, and then we have doneour best to raise our family in
the same values and we're justthankful for the opportunity
that we have to raise a familythat we believe is an eternal
one, and so that's what we'regoing for.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Love it.
Tell me the I'd say top one ortwo values that mom and dad said
hey, part of the Hewlett crowd,this is who we are and this is
the most, no matter what happens.
These are the two things thatreally define us that maybe, as

(23:09):
I asked that question, maybe ittakes you back again to a story
that maybe you've either learnedthrough hardship or through
good times, bad times, but alsoyou maybe even share with your
kids.
Tell me what comes to mind.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Yeah, that's a great question.
I mean, first and foremoststands out would be just
honoring the Hewlett name.
I mean that was a major thingfor my family to say hey, if
you're going to do that, ifyou're going to my my, my hero
growing up as a basketballplayer was Dennis Rodman and,
being a kid from Utah, we hadJohn Stockton, carl Malone,

(23:40):
these legends of basketball thatwere obviously having Michael
Jordan in their way of winning achampionship.
But Dennis Rodman was myfavorite player because he got
all the rebounds, he neverstopped running and working and
he really out hustled everybody.
So I would actually dress up asDennis Rodman and I would paint
my fingernails and I'd drawtattoos on my arms and I'd color

(24:01):
my hair.
And my dad was like what ishappening?
And I remember because he wasone of the people that helped
save the Utah jazz from beingsold to Minnesota back in the
early eighties.
So he helped found what wascalled the jazz 100 club, so he
had front row seats my entireyouth.
So from the early, eightiesuntil 1998, when Jordan hit the

(24:22):
shot over us and beat us.
Finally, uh, finally, for thesecond time we had front row
seats and I got to be there forall those events that were
amazing for Utah but were alsotragic, and I was sitting there
as Dennis Rodman and you couldimagine my dad just like
suffering because we werediehard Utah jazz fans.

(24:44):
But I loved Rodman so muchRodman would actually give me
his towel and high five me, andit was a wacky time.
But I only share that becausemy dad still, despite the fact
that I look like a lunatic, hestill honored me and allowed me
to come to the game and didn'tlike put that out, if you will.
Yeah, you know, he still waslike okay.

(25:06):
Yeah, he just was like I acceptthe weirdness that you are and
that has driven the way thatwe've lived as parents ourselves
.
And so I'd say, honoring theHewlett name and honoring our
own faith and we are members ofthe Church of Jesus Christ
Latter-day Saints and for usthat's a big deal and we share

(25:29):
it, we talk about it.
I never hide from that.
I've written in my books aboutit.
Speak about it on stage.
We're not looking to makeeverybody join us, but the point
is we're proud of it and we'regrateful for it, and so we want
to share that faith wherever wego, and that's about doing good
in the world.
And so those are two majorthings in our life that we've
now passed on to our children.
We say, hey, are you going tobe honoring the Hewlett name

(25:52):
wherever you go?
That's what people know is thatyou're a Hewlett.
And I grew up in the shadow of adad who was really well known.
Everybody knew I was JohnHewlett's son.
And now my kids are known asJason Hewlett's kids, right,
because I kind of get around andpeople have gotten to know me.
But what's fun to now be knownas is I'm Ella's dad, or I'm

(26:17):
Redford or Romney or Royal's dad.
That's a great honor to me.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, love it.
Man.
How, if someone's listening tous saying, well, how can, and
they want to like, take thatsame advice and let's honor our
name, honor our family name,what are?
Tell me some ways that you havetaught your kids to honor the
Hewlett name?

Speaker 1 (26:40):
Oh man, I love that question.
I would just say, by standingfor what's right, doing your
best, showing up fully, fullypresent, sharing your signature
moves, keeping your promiseswith people.
There are so many differentways that we can do it that are
not big.
It's, I believe, more in theconsistency.
Consistency, and there was a.

(27:04):
There was a thing that happenedthis year that was kind of
interesting.
My son's got their high schoolpictures taken and they didn't
like them.
They were like we want to redoit.
And so the night before theywere like mom, where's dad's
scout uniforms from the attic?
Do you have those still?
So she went and found the scoutuniforms.
They we had no idea what theywere going to do, but they were

(27:25):
like we're gonna, we're gonna dolike this scout thing.
So so they bowl cutted theirhair with a bowl and with their
friends and made a whole videoabout their haircuts being like
napoleon dynamite style, dumband dumber, almost-esque look.
And they put on these scoutuniforms and did this whole

(27:46):
thing as their yearbook photos.
They made a video snippet of it.
It was like 20, 30 seconds longand it started to go viral on
TikTok and then Barstool Sportspicked it up and it went crazy
and it's now been seen like ahundred million views around the
world.
It's crazy, like celebritieswere sharing it and now it has

(28:07):
their names on it Redford,hewlett, romney, hewlett has
their IDs, their high schoolcards and everything.
And now there were so manypeople that were like there is
no way in the comments, there isno way that parents approved
this or there's no way theparents would be proud of this.
And I was the first one toshare it on my social media

(28:29):
because when I saw it I laughedso hard.
I was like this is absolutelysomething I would do.
There's no harm in it.
But it was just to me like kindof almost like a microcosm of
what my parents encouraged me.
They were like it's okay to dowhat you're going to do.
Dress up as Dennis Rodman on thefront row of the jazz game Show
, up as Michael Jackson dancingat the talent show of our church

(28:52):
.
Stuff that doesn't make sense,but people enjoyed it.
It didn't hurt anybody.
I mean, I was running around asa Pee Wee Herman impersonator
when I was in third gradebecause he was the most popular
guy.
Things didn't turn out so hotfor him in some senses.
But now here's my childrendressing up, doing funny things
and I'm like, if I squash this,this potentially could put out

(29:16):
the flame and fire of fun.
That is innocent and harmlessand is something that I
encourage their creativity, thejoy and the happiness that it
actually brought lots of people.
People are like this is thebest thing I've ever seen on the
internet.
That's how much people loved it, and I was like I'm glad that
we continue to encourage thecreation and the fostering of

(29:38):
goodness rather than you know,they weren't out there like
exploding things and hurtingpeople and making that viral.
They're just doing somethingfun and silly, and so that's
what I would encourage toparents and say if you see that
your kids have some creativeidea, how can you encourage it
rather than put it out?
If you can support them in anyway, whether it's sharing their
post online or saying do youneed a better camera so you can

(30:01):
make a better video production?
That's what it's about, in myopinion.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
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(30:27):
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Here are a few.
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For me it was a game changer.
I was personally learning allabout TED-based that's, tell,

(30:49):
explain, describe, questioning,and that really resonated with
me.
We also learned about unlockingthe power of humility and
unlocking the power ofvulnerability.
Casey taught us to be a teamplayer, to embrace change, to
stay positive.
He is one of the most positivepeople I know.
He believes that optimism,resilience and a sense of humor

(31:12):
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And I agree Casey's book Win theRelationship, not the Deal.
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(31:33):
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(31:56):
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Now let's get back to casey'spodcast, the quarterback dad
cast I love that, I think it's.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
I think what's really kind of hitting home that I
hope that there's a parentlistening is, um, you know many
of the episodes I've done and,jason, I've interviewed over 300
dads, which is crazy to think.
But and I'm nowhere near doneI'm hoping that we'll get to a
thousand eventually.
But I think too often societynow, with the pressures of club

(32:35):
sports, travel sports, danceteams, whatever it is, it's like
they get your, you get sowrapped up in your kids Sport or
activity and it becomes yourego and um, I've always I mean,
I don't know if it's maybebecause I played football in
college, so I don't have, I'mnot living vicariously through
them, but I just I've alwaystold my kids, like this is your

(32:57):
journey, not mine.
I don't have any eligibilityleft and I'm grateful that, like
my kids, both pick sports thatI wasn't super good at in high
school, like my, my son playsgolf in college, my daughter's a
Hooper, way better basketballplayer than I ever was.
Um, but I just, I'm a bigbeliever into, like you know,
attitude, effort, mindset, beinga teammate, doing the little

(33:17):
things that maybe no one wantsto do, like the extra pass or um
, and uh, I love that what youtalked about is kind of like I
think it kind of embodies thatsame theme, but it also it's.
It's so easy to say, oh, likedude, really you're gonna cut
your hair and look like a,you're gonna look like a tool,
like what are you doing, bro?
But you just said no, do it.

(33:37):
And I love that.
Your parents said, yeah, dressup like Robin, we don't care
which.
I think the if I'm judging Utahlike like that doesn't happen.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
No.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
And I think that was so uncommon what your parents
did.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah.
And that's exactly right.
I mean, I grew up in a placecalled Park City, utah, which is
essentially not your typicalUtah city.
It's very affluent, it's wherethe celebrities live, it's every
religion is there, and so whatyou think of of Utah, park city,

(34:11):
is a little bit different.
And that's where I grew up andI was very blessed to have that
opportunity to live there and tohave parents that were like hey
, yeah, you should go to theCatholic mass, you should go to
the Jewish synagogue, you shouldgo hang out with your friends
in their different capacities.
They taught me that that wasokay and we've fostered the same
with our children.
In fact, when we've traveled thecountry in our motorhome, we go

(34:31):
to every religion we can popinto, because I'm like guys, you
need to see how cool this is,the way these people worship and
how different it is from us.
And in my opinion, that justgives you more of an
appreciation of who people areand you know whether it's going
and eating dinner with the Amishor hanging out with the.
You know the Baptists in NewOrleans while they're playing

(34:54):
the trumpet and dancing at thechurch.
I mean, we've done a lot ofreally neat things with the kids
in order to help themunderstand that everybody's
beautiful.
The world is a wonderful place.
Everyone has their place in it.
How can we make a differencewith how we stand out in a sit
down world?
Because each of us have oursignature moves and each of our
children has theirs.

(35:14):
I hope they'll shine that light.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
I've never heard of that in my entire life.
I'm almost 50 years old and Ithink that's fricking fantastic
and I think it attacks in apositive way all the negative
stereotypes of organizedreligion.
But, being really honest, likeI don't, jason, I don't, I don't
, I don't go to church, notbecause I just I just don't
choose, not, I just just justdoesn't happen.
But I'm very spiritual, I do agratitude practice every morning

(35:40):
, I pray, I talk to I mean I, Ihave a relationship with God,
but I just don't go to churchfor whatever reason.
But but the fact that you, yourparents, how they raised you,
I've never heard of that in myentire life.
Like that's so cool.
Right on, because I think it'sso easy to get.
You get wrapped up in like no,we're Catholic and this is right

(36:01):
, or we're more Mormon, this iseveryone else's idiots, and nor
jewish and everyone else.
It's like I think that's what'slike causes so much uncertainty
and and like how that's what Ithink maybe it's pushed me away
not to take us down to different, but I think that's maybe it's
pushed me away from someorganized religion.
I'm like, well, how do you know, yeah, how do you know you're
right did?
Were you there when god washere?
Did you?
Were you part of that Zoommeeting that I didn't get

(36:21):
invited to?
How do you know?
You don't know.
No one knows.
I don't think.
I mean, our faith is our faith.
We can't see it, but youbelieve it, but no one I don't
think anybody knows the truth.
So if I'm kind of reading theroom and hearing your church and
your faith is just freaking, bea good human being, be nice,

(36:42):
love people, go out of your wayand do good Like I can get down
that religion all day long.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
No, I appreciate that that's cool, and I don't know
if everybody that's in my faithbelieves the same as me in that
sense.
But I'll tell you, there'sreally no more great memories
for us than to see what otherpeople believe and to learn
about it, and to go and visittheir place of worship and to
also visit their homes and tosee what their lives are like.

(37:11):
You know people that havemarriages that are different
than what ours looks like.
That's a beautiful thing for usto be able to be like.
We celebrate you, we honor you,we love you.
And how can we I mean, Ibelieve that's what Jesus was,
that's just what he did love you.
And how can we I mean, Ibelieve that's what Jesus was,
that's just what he did.
He went to the far reaches ofthe places where the real

(37:32):
righteous, in their quote,unquote way, would say you can't
go there, you shouldn't beplaying with those people.
In reality, that's ourresponsibility is to reach out
to the one who is reallystruggling or the one who has a
different belief and faith.
And so to us it's beenimportant and in reality I don't
know why, casey, but it seemsto drive firmer our own faith
into our own foundation, for usto believe more of what we have

(37:52):
and are and know and do.
And you know, whether we knowthings definitively or we just
have a strong faith, the fact is, can we go out and spread joy
and light to anyone that weinteract with, and how can we do
that?
Through not only our ownsignature moves, but also, you
know, we shine light, but wemostly reflect the light.
That is the God that we believein.

(38:15):
And so I think that once weshare that which we truly are
and that we believe, then it'llcome through in our actions, not
just our words 100%.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Yeah, it's easy to say those things, but you never
want to be that person.
That's like oh, I go to churchevery Sunday, but I also beat my
wife and I get parking ticketsevery other day and I speed
through child kid zones, but Igo to church and I'm good.
It's like I don't want to bethat.
Don't be that dude, just be theconsistent person that shows up
, that believes in fundamentalsof life.

(38:46):
And I love it.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah, church, in my opinion, in a lot of ways that
that's too much of an excuse tolack of spirituality and and so
if there's a and I don't want tobe judgmental of anybody either
Like if they do their churchthing and beat their wife, you
know, obviously that's, that'sreally sad.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Please stop.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
It's time to be done.
But like, if you don't go tochurch but you've got your
spiritual, you know practices inalignment with what you know
for yourself, whether that's outon the golf course or in nature
or with your family heavens,then then that is your church,
right, so that's the place whereyou worship and that's a good
thing.
So, yeah, that's an interestingway to go on the conversation.
I'm sure you didn't know that'swhere we're headed, but yeah,

(39:32):
that's been a big thing for usin our family is to honor the
name and honor the faith.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Love it, man.
That's so cool.
That's what the power ofcuriosity so it's kind of like
in my work world I'm obsessedwith.
I think these three, thesethree skills I think, create the
best cultures in business andfamilies and life.
And and it's the power ofhumility, vulnerability and
curiosity, I think, when thosethree skills are present, look

(40:01):
out.
And one of the skills I use inmy this podcast is curiosity.
I don't come in with, I come inwith a high level view of what
I'm going to do, but then Ipractice my active listening.
I practice my follow-upquestions.
My goal is to help people makepeople think.
My goal is to always have myguests say, ah, great question.
That that's how we make people,that's how you are.

(40:22):
Stay on people's mind If you,if you, but if you show up
common, we make people.
That's how you are.
Stay on people's mind If you,if you, but if you show up
common, just do what everybodyelse does, um and so, uh, I love
that you said that, what yousaid, but I think it's.
I think, when we, as humans anddads, if you're listening, if
you're not curious, maybe that'sone thing you take from today.
And you, you, you maybe ask onemore question, or two more

(40:43):
questions at your kids to trulyunderstand what's driving them
Like.
What are they?
What, what, what's going on intheir world?
And well, tell me, why?
Tell me more about that, buddy.
Versus how's your day Good?
Okay, go play video games,we'll see you in six hours.
It's like, you know, it's hardto have sometimes the those
questions, those conversations,but it's also the blessing that

(41:05):
are right in front of you if yougo just a little bit more
curious and see what you canuncover.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
I love that, casey.
That's very cool, and I agree Ifound that as a dad, when we
have that curiosity, it makesall the difference for the child
, because then they realize thatit's okay to play in the space
rather than thinking I'm guidingthe direction only.
And so, as a motorhome driverwhich is an interesting

(41:29):
experience in and of itself withchildren when they were little,
we would say, okay, here's thegoal, we've got 30 days, we're
going to try to hit 25 statesand we don't have one thing
planned.
Though what do you want to do?
And that's what we would do.

(41:53):
We would let them create thepath and my wife would be
Googling as we're driving.
While I'm driving and trying tokeep things on the road, the
kids and my wife were playinggames in the back and my wife
was Googling the next KOA or thenext tourist trap or the next
thing that you never knew youneeded to see, and it would veer
us off into these lands ofwonder where you would discover
stuff that nobody had given usany suggestions to go see.

(42:16):
That were the best parts of thetrip.
You know the Gothic Americanhouse in Iowa that you know.
The dad and the daughter arestanding in front of it on their
painting, or I mean there's somany different things that we
were like we never would haveseen that had we not just lived
in the curiosity.
And I do make a living as aspeaker and that's been a

(42:36):
wonderful thing.
But I say I make a living as aspeaker, but I make a life as a
listener and the reason that mylife has been so great is
because I listened so well tothe opportunities around me and
that's been probably one of mybest parts is being a dad.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Yeah, love it.
If you were to articulate we'llcall it three actionable things
that dads could take from ourepisode, or three actionable
things that maybe you and yourwife have chose to lead your

(43:15):
kids.
Tell me what comes to mind.

Speaker 1 (43:19):
Well gosh, I would probably lean into what I speak
about at corporations and forpeople that really need
leadership advice, and I've saidthe phrase signature moves a
few times during this podcast sofar.
So let me just tell you whatthat is move.

(43:46):
It was hitting game, winningshots, or sticking out his
tongue to dunk right.
If you're to think of TigerWoods, it was maybe the fist
pump and the winning all thechampionships.
So everybody has theirsignature move, I believe.
And so, as a dad, what are yoursignature moves?
As a mom, what is it that makesyou stand out in a sit-down
world, and how can we help ourkids discover that for

(44:07):
themselves?
What are their signature moves?
So I'll give you a process thatactually I created that really
helps people understand this.
It's called the ICM process.
I stands for identify, c forclarify, m magnify.
So what you do is you sit down,either by yourself or with your

(44:28):
children, and you say, okay,let's identify.
This is just a silent practicefor yourself.
Identify for yourself how manygifts, talents, skills and
attributes you have.
Try to write down as many asyou can without self-editing.
Just identify everything,whether it's I mean, it could be
the most normal stuff in theworld, like I play the piano, or

(44:48):
I'm nice to people, or I'm goodat creating or I can bake.
I mean just simple stuff.
But it's the cumulativeaddition of everything together
that allows you to come up withthis nice list.
In fact, casey, when I do thiswith leaders, I say, hey, have
you identified your signaturemoves?
And they look at me like I'mcrazy, and and I just say, hey,

(45:08):
let's write, let's write it down.
And so we come up with a listof words, and I challenged them
to come up with a hundred, andfor a lot of people that's hard.
Like if I said, hey, write down10 things you're good at.
They're like I don't even knowwhat I'm good at.
But if I said, write down 10things you're bad at, they'd be
like oh, I can write down 20.
Right.
And so I say, let's lean intowhat you're good at already, so

(45:30):
identify as many as you can andstart writing them.
What's interesting, if I were tosay entertainer was something I
identified for myself.
I can then extract from theword entertainer all kinds of
other talents and skills that Ihave that make me that whether
it's being funny, musician,persistent, curious, you know,
creative.

(45:50):
I mean all these words sort offunnel out of the words that we
choose, and so that's how youcome up with 100.
What I like to then say is hey,take the top 10 you wrote down
and circle the ones you love,the ones that really stand out,
and then I want you to put thislist aside.
Now.
This is a fun practice with yourkids, especially because
they're just like oh, I'm goodat all these things, especially

(46:12):
when they're young.
When they're young, they'relike I'm an artist and I can
sing and I can dance and you'relike, you know, even if they're
bad at it, they think they'regreat at everything.
It's the best.
This is tougher with teens, butthis is where the next part of
ICM comes in Clarify, c is whereyou involve other people, and

(46:36):
so now clarify with the peopleyou know love and trust to give
you the words that you didn'tcatch yourself perhaps, and so
you could say to, if I'm a mangoing through it, my wife, I
could ask her if I'm braveenough.
Hey, give me some words thatyou think are my signature moves
, that make me uniquely who I am.
Now you could also do this withyour kid, with your parents,
with your friends, with yourcoworkers with your boss.

(46:57):
I mean this is a reallypowerful tool because they're
going to give you words younever saw in yourself.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
Right.

Speaker 1 (47:03):
They're going to clarify for you.
Like, if I say I'm funny, Iidentify, I'm funny, my coworker
might clarify that I'mhilarious, that's a better word.
And so then you can choose thewords that you want from the
identify list.
You came up with yourself theclarify list, others came up for
you.
Now you can magnify that bysaying to yourself okay, here's

(47:25):
my top 10 of identify and top 10of clarify.
When and where am I going tofocus on these?
And you could even say on aSunday, okay, I'm going to focus
this week on creativity.
How can I be more creative thisweek and lean into that
signature move?
And I'm just telling you thiswill transform the way that you
lead in your home.
This will give you everyopportunity to amplify and

(47:49):
magnify the talents of the kidsthat you raise.
And you know they may haveidentified some things you had
no idea, like.
Maybe you know about the videogames, but maybe you don't know
that they really really loveproblem solving.
You know, and you have othergames or other really really
love problem solving.
You know, and you have othergames or other ways to do some
problem solving, even even withmy kids.

(48:09):
I would say to them hey, youguys, I know you're in high
school.
I want you to look at mywebsite and tell me what you
think.
If, if I were to make it better, how would you do that?
And they added for me somethings and pieces I never would
have known.
And then I'd say, okay, well,why don't you look at my

(48:39):
Instagram and my TikTok and howwould you make that better?
And man for keeping the promisehow do you keep the promise
with your children and yourfamily and yourself?
So when you do that, you livethe ICM process.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Love it, man.
Well, you also showed you.
So our, even though we usedifferent words, I think our
themes are aligned.
You use you're using curiosity,and then you use humility and
vulnerability by asking yourkids for help.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Love it Right.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
You know that's awesome dude.
Well, I wrote down this.
I wrote this down and I can'twait to take my kids through it.
Um, specifically, you know thekid in college, um, and uh, one
that's about to go to college.
She's going to be a senior,which I just cannot fricking
believe, but it is what it is,and awesome.
Um, okay, if people want tolearn more about Jason, you've

(49:25):
hit them in the heart.
You've hit them in the brain.
They're like God.
How can I follow this dude?
I want to learn more about hisstuff.
Tell me what's the best way Ican make sure people know how to
find you.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
That's very kind.
Jasonhulettcom is the bestplace.
If they want actually aassessment form or worksheet on
the ICM process, they can justgo to jasonhewlettcom, forward
slash ICM and there they'll getsome cool stuff.
Linkedin I'm active on andInstagram and other social media
but those are the fun places Iplay.

(49:58):
And you know, casey, I wasthinking as I shared the story
of my dad and mom.
When I was young, my parentsdid go through a breakup.
Things kind of fell apart inour world for a little while
while I was building my ownfamily up and I had a strange
relationship with my dad forquite a while.
And the only reason I'm sharingthis as we're starting to wrap

(50:19):
up is because there may bepeople out there that have
experienced something similar,where their dad was their hero
growing up and then things kindof fell apart into their adult
years or perhaps later in life.
The only reason I bring that upis because my dad almost died
from needing a quadruple bypasswhen he was in his 60s and

(50:41):
genetically we are a family thatis supposed to die in our 60s
from heart failure and heartdisease and that's just what's
happened to my grandpa, my greatgrandpa.
Everybody before us has passedthat way.
So I thought my dad would begone by his 60s and at that time
we were a bit estranged in ourown way.
But we started to come backtogether in the last few years

(51:02):
because he created a productthat helped him to actually make
it not need a quadruple bypassand he was able to
therapeutically fix his heartand his heart disease and
reverse it through somethingcalled nitric oxide.
And if you're an athlete, youknow what nitric oxide does.
It's it's you know.
It's the way that you repairyour muscles after a good

(51:22):
workout.
Nitric oxide is a molecule thatyou create inside your own body
through arginine and citrullineand amino acids and naturally
and a lot of people have heardof the beets and that you can
take beets and it's good foryour health.
But my dad created this productcalled Cardio Miracle that
changed his life and saved it,and it's a natural supplement.
This is not an MLM, this isn'ta pitch or anything.

(51:45):
I'm just telling you becausethis has helped repair my
relationship with my dad.
And what happened was that ashe figured out this product and
he started telling everyoneabout how they could help
themselves with cardiovascularissues, blood pressure issues it
actually regulates your bloodpressure, people with diabetes,

(52:09):
other challenges that are youknow whether it's PTSD or too
many concussions from being hitin football?
The blood flow that goes intoyour microcapillaries changes
everything when you take nitricoxide in your body and it's
created there, and so my dad hasbeen helping a lot of people
with that.
He left the insurance industryand financial planning as one of
the most successful in theworld, created this business out
of nothing in his 60s and wejust celebrated his 73rd

(52:32):
birthday Wow.
The reason I'm sharing this withyour audience and with you is
because we have reconciled ourrelationship and now my dad and
I are best friends again.
Reconciled our relationship andnow my dad and I are best
friends again, and it cametogether through him figuring
out a product that could savehis own life and has now helped
millions of people around theworld.

(52:52):
This product is doing wellcardiomiraclecom.
If anyone wants to check it out.
It's pretty amazing and Ithought I'd share it with you
because, as a dad who cares andas someone who probably wonders
where the relationship went withme and my dad, as favorable as
it was through our youth, thingswere tricky as I became an
adult and a new dad, and nowwe're back as best buddies again

(53:16):
.
He brought me on as thepresident of his company and so
now I am running Cardio Miraclewith my dad as a family legacy
business.
It is taking off.
Athletes, coaches, peoplearound the world are using it,
seeing their VO2 max change,seeing their ability to work out
harder change.
I'm just so grateful thatsomething as your dad, almost

(53:41):
dying from needing a quadruplebypass he can come back from the
dead, essentially reverse hisgenetic fate.
And here we are, 10 years laterbest friends again, talk every
day, just celebrated Father'sDay together, my birthday
together.
I'm just so thankful to have arelationship with my dad that's

(54:03):
firm and strong and good and theHewlett name can continue to be
raised up.
And I think that a lot of peopleare confused when they see that
their dad might go off in someweird space compared to what
they did when they were young.
I think everyone has toreconcile that to some extent in

(54:24):
their lives as we becomefathers ourselves.
And then we look back and wesay why was I so judgmental of
my dad?
Why didn't I see it?
Because he was just my dad?
Well, no, he's a person, he's ahuman who has struggles, who
has to get through some thingsand thankfully he and mom are
are are good pals.

(54:44):
My dad has a wonderful wifethat we're thrilled with and I'm
just sharing that forpotentially for hope for anybody
that's out there thinking maybeyou know there's no place for
me to have a fixed relationshipwith my, my dad, in the future.
There is always hope if we'rewilling to listen and to love
and to learn, and that's beensomething we've done in our

(55:05):
family.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
One I'd also encourage is to to share, like
you didn't have to share, thatthis episode was, like you know
shiny, happy people, we're allholding hands, rainbows.
We've got these amazing kids.
Everyone's smart, everyone'sstraight.
A's this all their mark in this?
But like that's real life.
Straight A's this, all theirmoney in this, but like that's

(55:29):
real life.
Episode two I got interviewed bymy buddy and I talk about the
journey of my dad, who passedaway on December 29th 2021.
And my dad, me and my wife tookcare of my dad financially,
physically, emotionally in andout of assisted living
facilities for 20 years.
Wow, um.
When I built, when we built ourhome, my dad accused me of

(55:51):
stealing all of his money tobuild our house.
It was the dementia, theAlzheimer's, the you know, and
so it's life's not.
Yeah, it looks great on socialmedia everybody, but I got shit
too.
I got tough times.
We all got tough times andthat's really what this journey
of this podcast is about is.
I just wanted whether you're thebest speaker in the world,
whether you're Jim Nance fromCBS and hopefully Jim Nance is

(56:11):
listening.
Brother, you got to come onbecause both of our dads passed
away from Alzheimer's and we cando something together if you're
listening, but it doesn'tmatter.
Like I was a corporate, I had avery successful corporate
career.
My kids didn't care.
My kids cared hey dad, can weplay catch?
Hey dad, can we play golf?
Hey, can I go to Susie's house?
It's like what are we doing asdads to not let us get so

(56:35):
wrapped?
up in what we do but doesn'tdefine who we are, you know, and
I love that you shared it,because we all go through
adversity and I hope that's onething that at least people can
draw on the faith examples youshared, but also the adversity
you shared.
And just because you're havinga bad day, this is kind of one
thing I tell my clients.
I teach is don't let one badhour lead to one bad day and one
bad day lead to one bad week.

(56:56):
I mean the best part about timeit resets.
So we get 1,440 minutes eachday and then it resets.
So make the choice to dosomething tomorrow and you
either can be that victim ofyour own story or the hero of
your own story.
You can get stuck in thatnegative loop or get out of it
by asking for help, leaning inon the humility, the
vulnerability, the curiositygoing through this ICM process.

(57:18):
That, I think, will provide alot of clarity, because I
totally agree with you, jason weall have gifts, every single
one of us, right and so yougotta be like just curious and
say, like you know, there'ssomething I'm really, really
good at now I'm not handy, Iknow that, but there's things
like I am good at.
So, um, yeah, I love that youshared that man.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
Thanks for letting me share it.
I mean, obviously, I felt that Ineeded to share it just because
I think that, yeah, we do talkabout the fun and all the
goodness and everything, butthere is the ugly, and some of
the most beautiful things comeout of the ugliest stuff 100%.
And when it comes to I'm sorryabout your dad and obviously
people with dementia,alzheimer's, other challenges

(58:02):
like this this is hard and oneof the reasons that my dad has
created this product, that hasreally been.
Actually, we actually got anemail the other day from a guy
with the early stages ofdementia and he said I started
taking the product as much as Ipossibly could and because it

(58:24):
floods blood into your microcapillaries of your brain.
What he said is he said I don'tknow what's gone on, but my
doctors are confused as to whysomething has changed in me and
I am better thinking I was goingdown the road of dimension.

(58:44):
I think I might be okay.
I mean, we were stunned to getthese emails but like
scientifically proven that theblood flow to those areas and
cleaning out those capillariescan be very helpful to the brain
, to the heart, to the soul, andit's a wonderful thing to now
be on a mission to help peoplein a natural way through
supplement rather than justmedication and other things that

(59:05):
can be just a little bandaid.
That might help for a minute but, can actually potentially
reverse some things that arevery potentially, uh, you know,
able to kill us.
And so, uh, we're on a missiontogether, my dad and I.
We've jumped off this cliff andit's been amazing thing.
And, uh, he's, he's healthierthan he's ever been.
His, his blood pressure is thesame as somebody in their teens,

(59:26):
which is bizarre because he's300 pounds and he's 73 years old
and you know.
So he calls it a mulligan onlife, as you'll appreciate, as a
golfer.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Right.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
And, and I can just tell you, man, it's just such a
pleasure to get to talk aboutbeing a dad and now working with
my dad.
I don't know if my kids aregoing to work in this business
with me.
I would love that in the future, but I'm still going out and
speaking, performing, helpingpeople with their health Now.
I'm excited to see what my kidsare going to do and obviously

(59:56):
what everyone's kids are goingto do is amazing and I just am
excited that they have theopportunity to keep the promise
every single day in all thatthey do.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
So good, brother, all right, we now go into what I
call the lightning round.
This is where I show thenegative hits.
Have taken too many hits incollege not bong hits, but
football hits when I'm going toask you lightning quick
questions.
Your job is to answer them asquickly as possible.
My job is to make you giggle.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
Well, that'll be easy .
I'm a good audience, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Okay, True or false?
Before doing impersonationssuch as Elton John, you were
going to do Total Africa.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
No, not true.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Okay, Okay.
Last book you read was oh, uh,get quiet.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
By Elaine glass.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Okay, Uh, if you were to go on vacation with just
your wife.
Sorry, kids, you're stayinghome.
Where are we going?

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Matterhorn Switzerland.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Okay, I thought you meant like the Matterhorn, the
ride at Disneyland.
I was like that's kind of odd.

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Switzerland, okay, I thought you meant like the
Matterhorn, the ride atDisneyland.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
I was like that's kind of odd.
No, I've never been there,wanted to go there, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Um, if I came to your house for dinner tonight, what
would you cook me?
Eggs, okay, that's all I cancook.
I'm not gonna.
No, I'd, I'd throw on a burger.
That would be it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
You could put eggs on the burger.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Eggs and burgers, man , that's what I've got.
It sounds good.

Speaker 2 (01:01:24):
George Foreman grill Solid.
Didn't George Foreman pass awayRIP.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
Yeah, man, we've got to honor George.
Yeah, man, we used the grill.
I cook eggs and beef on theForeman Love it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
If there was to be a new impersonation that you do in
Vegas that might push outsideyour comfort zone, but deep down
you're like.
You know what I think I'd liketo try doing that person.
Who would it be?

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
Bruno Mars.
I've been working really hardto figure that one out.
That's a hard voice but it'svery similar to Michael Jackson
and some of those real goodbelting type singers like James
Brown and stuff.
So yeah, it's Bruno Mars.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
It's a hard one.
Now, if I'm judging my kidskill, teen music isn't 24 Karat
Magic goal.
Isn't that him, Bruno Mars, 24Karat Magic in the air.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
Oh there we go.
There it is.
Let's go somewhere.
Look out, Uptown Funkin' Guiltyyeah, there you go.
Oh God, we got issues, yeahthere you go oh God, we got
issues.

Speaker 2 (01:02:22):
This is fun though.
Okay, If there was to be a bookwritten about your life.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Tell me the title.
Oh, I mean the Promise.
That's where I'm at witheverything that I talk about.
So the Promise?

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
I love that title.
Okay now, jason, believe it ornot, you heard of Netflix.

Speaker 1 (01:02:41):
Heck yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
You heard of Hulu.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
They're fighting for the promise, brother.
They want to make a movie andyou are now the casting director
and I need to know who is goingto star Jason Hewlett in this
critically acclaimed, hit newmovie, the Promise.

Speaker 1 (01:02:55):
That's funny.
So last week I got a couplepeople comparing me to certain
celebrities.
I got Matt Damon the most,which.
I found very funny.
One guy said James Hetfield,the lead singer of Metallica.
And I've gotten Ben Affleck,I've gotten a couple of

(01:03:15):
different looks, but uh, yeah,man, I would say if there's
anyone you would want to playyou in a movie, it would.
It would have to be probablyTimothée Chalamet.
He's the.
It would.
It would have to be probablyTimothy Chamelet, he's the.
He's the one that just did the,uh, the Bob Dylan one.
So I would say, if, if therewas a best actor, now that's the
coolest I'd say him.
My favorite actor of all timewould be Daniel Day-Lewis to
play it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
Hmm, solid, okay, and then last, uh last question
tell me two words that woulddescribe your wife.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Oh gosh, gorgeous, light.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
Boom, love it.
Lighting rounds complete.
Uh, I'm random, I have, I'mweird.
Uh, he gig a little bit, but Ithink I giggled more of my own
jokes, which means I take theloss.
You get the dub Uh, jake, thishas been a fricking blast.
And uh, everybody's scoring ahome.
I showed Jason a blank piece ofpaper and now we're an hour and
one minute into this thing.

(01:04:09):
We had just a fricking,fantastic, deep conversation.
So, and I would encourage you,you don't need a podcast to have
these types of conversations,you just need a little bit of
curiosity.
And if you haven't asked yourfriends some of the things I
asked Jason, go do it, find outmore about them, find out about
your kids, find out about yourspouse, find out more about
yourself and watch what willhappen.
So, man, I'm grateful our pathshave crossed.

(01:04:32):
I'm really grateful to GregOffner for introducing us.
Hope we can meet in person oneday and I hope this is not the
last time we talk, brother, butI really, really appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
Thanks Case.