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.

What's up, guys? Thanks for checking out the Dad Tired Podcast. It's good to be with you. Again, my name is Jared Lopes. I'm the host and creator of Dadtired.com. If you've never heard of Dad Tired, we are a group of men from around the world who are taking our faith, our family, and our marriage very seriously. And so it is good to have you with us.

We'd love to have you come hang out with us.

We've got a closed group on Facebook with about 1,500 guys from around the world

who are confessing sin and encouraging each other and praying for each other

and constantly pointing each other towards Jesus.

So if you are not in that group, we'd love to have you be part of that group. The best way to stay connected with what we're doing at Dad Tired is to go to Dadtire.com and sign up for the, just type in your email and put in for the newsletter.

And then we send out updates and all kinds of good stuff like that.

I did want to spend this podcast sharing some, kind of announced some exciting news

for the guys in the Dad Tired group and wanted to share that stuff with you and kind of

give some context and clarity to some of the big announcements that we made this week. So a year

ago, I started Dad Tire totally out of my own brokenness and junk. I was

feeling like a really crappy husband and dad. My wife and I were going through some really

difficult times in our marriage. And so I was just feeling like, you know, I desperately need

some help. And so I started a Google search places that are looking for resources that could help me as a husband and dad.

I was like Google searching resources for Christian husbands, Christian dads, young Christian husbands and dads,

and really just could not find anything that I thought was like relevant or was speaking my language. And so I started

to blog and I started to put together some resources that I was finding because I knew that

there were other guys in my situation, likely in my situation. So I wanted to put whatever

resources I found out there for them as well. And the blog took off really quickly. That moved from

a blog and turned into a podcast, which we have now, which you're listening to right now. We have

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