A Widower's Perspective (with Brandon Janous)

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Kids & Family, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Parenting

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In March 2020, Dad Tired community member Brandon Janous lost his wife to cancer after a two year battle. She was 38 and a mother 3. Today's episode will no doubt shift your perspective and priorities as you hear Brandon share with Jerrad what he has learned as a new widower, and what he wishes he would have done differently.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	How's it going guys? Welcome back to the Dad Tired Podcast. I'm your host
0:06.7	Jared Lopes. Join me every Monday as we dive into what it looks like to be men who
0:10.8	fall in love with Jesus and help our families do the same.
0:14.4	You can learn more about our books, resources, conferences, and even online community
0:18.8	by going to dadtired.com.
0:20.8	Let's dive into today's episode.
0:25.0	Hey guys, a couple weeks ago I had put on the Dad Tired Clothes Facebook group.
0:29.5	I had just asked, are any guys feeling especially Dad Tired and want to share some of their journey with me here on the
0:35.7	podcast? And I got tons and tons of guys who responded to that and it was really impactful and just like humbling,
0:42.3	hearing a lot of your guys of stories of all the stuff that you're going through man I just I don't take that lightly I don't overlook it I know that as we're trying to lead our families well and you know do all these things to lead our families well I know that you
0:53.4	guys are many of you are in just the thick of life like job loss and spouse
0:58.5	conflict and your children maybe are sick and like you're like you're just dealing with all kinds of things and so I just I know that man like I never want to take that lightly I know we're shooting for some heavy stuff here and some hard things but I know that in the midst of all of that you guys are just
1:14.8	dealing with some really life, real life hard situations. But one of the guys that happened to respond
1:21.6	to that Facebook post said that he had just lost his wife after a two-year battle with cancer.
1:27.0	He lost her in March of this year, 2020, and then we went immediately into a pandemic where we were all on lockdown and so that
1:36.1	was his reality the last few months and I thought man that is just such a that's an
1:40.9	incredible it's incredibly hard story and if he'd be willing, I'd love to just
1:45.8	hear him process that with us dads and with us husbands.
1:49.4	And so he was more than willing to come on, his name's Brandon and he's just a normal dad. He's
1:54.2	a part of the Dad Tired Facebook group, but I asked him if he'd come on and
1:57.2	share his story. Please you guys listen to the end, the whole thing here
2:01.2	because he's it. We're just gonna talk about some stuff that I think is going to really help you put some things into perspective for you so that being said I love you guys I'm praying for you constantly in the room that I'm sitting in now I get up in the morning and I
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jerrad Lopes, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jerrad Lopes and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.