Sep 9, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 14 segments
Delyle Bloomquist grew up homeless at times, without food, in a family torn apart by divorce and financial stress. In this episode of Case Studies, he tells Casey how a bishop's quiet decision to…
Delyle BloomquistGuestCasey BaughHost
I, I say this all the time, you're only su- as successful as the number of motivated good people you have that work for you.
Um, so Delile, we, we donated our plane, and Delile donated money for, to the golf team, but with that, got a golf trip.
And so ended up, you know, going and playing Rock Creek, and then did it again next y- the next year, went to Sage Valley.
We went to Bluejack, and was able to go ride back on a plane with you for four hours, and by the end of it I was saying, "Will you do a podcast with me?" [laughs]

Yeah, my donation to BYU may not have been as large if I knew that this was gonna happen
Like, you have such a beautiful story, and I just wanted to, yeah, wanted to capture it.
... and traveling through town, you know, it was tough to get you on the schedule, but, uh, coming through town.
Um, so I want you to go back to your upbringing because this was a so r- very successful career, worked, um, on very hard, um, hairy turnaround projects, and kind of did those consistently throughout the course of your career, and were known as somebody that could go solve really complex hard problems, which I think is, like, the most admirable ski- skill set.
[laughs] You know? It's, it's a, it's a different person and you just, you know, you kinda made a career for that.
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I, I say this all the time, you're only su- as successful as the number of motivated good people you have that work for you.
Um, so Delile, we, we donated our plane, and Delile donated money for, to the golf team, but with that, got a golf trip.
And so ended up, you know, going and playing Rock Creek, and then did it again next y- the next year, went to Sage Valley.
We went to Bluejack, and was able to go ride back on a plane with you for four hours, and by the end of it I was saying, "Will you do a podcast with me?" [laughs]

Yeah, my donation to BYU may not have been as large if I knew that this was gonna happen
Like, you have such a beautiful story, and I just wanted to, yeah, wanted to capture it.
... and traveling through town, you know, it was tough to get you on the schedule, but, uh, coming through town.
Um, so I want you to go back to your upbringing because this was a so r- very successful career, worked, um, on very hard, um, hairy turnaround projects, and kind of did those consistently throughout the course of your career, and were known as somebody that could go solve really complex hard problems, which I think is, like, the most admirable ski- skill set.
[laughs] You know? It's, it's a, it's a different person and you just, you know, you kinda made a career for that.