What's up, guys? I'm Jared Lopes, and you're listening to the Dad Tired podcast, where I'm helping

everyday families learn how to follow Jesus and everyday life.

Hey, my name's Jared Lopes, and I am the creator of dadtired.com.

Thanks for checking out this podcast.

I'm guessing that if you found this podcast on maybe the iTunes store or maybe you found us on an Instagram page or Facebook, you click this podcast because you're wondering, or I should say you click this episode

because you're wondering who is dad tired, what is dad tired, what's it all about? And so I just

want to spend a couple minutes telling you what dad tired's all about before you start to dive

into some of our other episodes that will be filled with kind of intentional specific content. So anyway, my name's

Jared Lopes. I have been a pastor for the last 11 years, which seems crazy to me. I'm 29 years old.

I got hired in ministry right out of high school, which is freaky to think about, that somebody would give

me responsibility over anything, let alone some kind of spiritual responsibility over anybody's

life. But by God's grace, I survived, and I've made it 11 years, and that's what I've been doing

for the last 11 years is serving in ministry and trying to point people to Jesus. And and that's what I've been doing for the last 11 years, is serving in ministry

and trying to point people to Jesus. And so that's what Dad Tired is all about. The reason that

Dad Tired got started was in 2015, happened to be one of the hardest, most miserable years of

my life and marriage. And so I was in a dark, dark season. And I was far from

my wife. I was far from God. And I literally got on Google and searched help. I was looking

for help for dads, help for Christian dads, Christian dad resources, Christian husband resources.

And the stuff I was finding, I was getting like three pages deep into Google search and not finding anything that seemed to be super relevant.

And so I thought, man, there's got to be more out there.

And so I started to compile everything that I had found online into one place on a website.

And I thought, all right, I'll just give this stuff away.

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