Monday Motivation

Good morning, Cadre crew. Another amazing Monday. I'm so excited to be here today. Our community keeps growing, which is so exciting to see all the new fresh faces, the names. I hope everybody is enjoying our live content. Our live content. I don't know about you all, but I'm. I live for it. I live for when my Cadre notification pops and I can see who's live. I also live for the team Cadre posts and when individuals are posting in the community. So I hope that's something that you're going to continue to be a part of as we grow our Cadre platform.

So, so excited to be here today and share Monday motivation as you pop on the app on Mondays. One of the very first things that you'll hear on Monday, somewhere between eight and ten in the morning, is yours truly. I'm just going to always hopefully give you a few nuggets to roll with. But so when I embarked on 2023, this was a goal that I had for some time going into 2023, it just didn't happen naturally December 31. But it's something that I've been thinking about long before 2020, h***, even 2021, where I really wanted to put a big, big, big goal on my chart, right on my life resume, on something that I want to impact a lot of lives.

And so I did that. And it's May 27, 2023, and it's something that every single day, I'm getting my mind right. I'm getting physically prepared for. Like, this weekend was just an all in on, you know, physicality, mental toughness, all the things. So, you know, it was a big weekend for me. My body's still kind of hot from it all over the weekend. As you put in miles and so many more miles and just showing your kids and showing your family that you're prepared and ready to do some really hard things.

I think they grow and take a lot from that, and they're inspired by that. But why am I doing this? 6. And I'll tell you why. In our country, there's 107,660 people that died from overdose last year. Okay. I'm not doing this to raise awareness. I think that would be almost a slap in the face for a lot of people. So I'm not doing it to raise awareness. What I'm doing it for is the baby boomers now that are raising kids. I'm doing it for those two and three year olds that are now maybe 1012, that have no longer mom and dads.

I'm doing it for the communities, the police departments, the EMS systems that are working their a**** off around the clock to try to keep our community safe. I'm doing it for all the individuals that have been affected by opioid use disorder in our country. And I'm going to find five charities, five that I believe in, that I believe will have the biggest impact in our country for those individuals. And it could be a $1,000 or it could be a million dollars. I have no idea how much money we're going to raise come May 27, 2023.

But I'm going to give him my all, and we're going to raise money, and we're going to find five charities that we believe. Maybe it might be providing Narcan and communities. Maybe it's the ability to provide more sober housing in West Virginia. We're an area that's been decimated by the opioid epidemic. Regardless, we are going to find ways to make change, and we're going to make an impact on people's lives. I can promise you that. But this all comes back to. I want to share two stories, right? Two stories.

Number one. Actually, three. But number one, I opened a residential treatment program a little over seven years ago. And I'll never forget, this is a true story. I got a call. We're going to call him Johnny. I got a call from Johnny's dad, who's so excited to get Johnny into treatment at, you know, a company that I own. Right? And it was. It would have been our very first client. Our very first client. He called me on Saturday. He asked a bunch of different questions. What can I bring? What can I not bring?

The dad, right, was just asking all these different things. He was prepared for his intake on Monday, and I got a call Sunday night that Johnny was no longer with us because he died of an overdose. That was the very first person, and that is an absolute true story. That is the very first person that was ever supposed to come to a company that I started some seven plus years ago. If you don't think that changed the way I viewed the enterprise and what I was trying to impact and the individuals I was trying to ultimately serve, obviously mistaken.

It mattered so much to my life. And I'll never forget that call. I'll never forget that call from that father. And all I could think of is, I want to make a difference. So that's number one. That's my very first story. Right? Entering the space, entering the real world of starting this. Number two, I always like to go to Thursday family and Sunday days for years and years and years. I always like to check in to see who shows up. And it's really important. It's just so important to me to make sure that there's connection and that people are coming to see their loved ones.

Right. You're never supposed to have favorites. Right? Every teacher will tell you that, too, professor. You're never supposed to have favorites. But I will tell you, this individual touched my heart. He was a musician. He. Gosh, it's hard not to get a little emotional, but he was a musician. He was funny. He was charismatic. He was all the things. And he had a love for Prince. He loved Prince. Hometown hero here in Minnesota, Paisley park. All the things. And his three year old daughter came to visit, and he named her Paisley.

And I'll never forget receiving a phone call from his fiance that Paisley now, unfortunately, is going to be going on in this life without a father because he's no longer with us. That's just another example of what this epidemic has done to so many families and to so many people around the world. Not just the United States, but around the world that have been devastated by the epidemic. And I don't think that there's one person that's listening to this today that can't say that they haven't or haven't been affected by the opioid epidemic.

And I want to make sure that all those parents, those families, they did not live their life in vain. And we are going to run for them. Those 107,660 people last year and all the ones before them. And so if anybody wants to come May 27, 2023, to White Bear Lake, we will be here. We will be running. And it's going to be an emotional day. It will be an inspiring day. We're going to put on some amazing things. If it's just me that shows up, that's cool. If it's more than that, that'd be amazing, too.

But we're running for Paisley's of the world. We're running for those grandparents now that are raising their grandchildren. We're running for the fiance of Paisley. We're running for all those things. So I can't wait to do this. I can't wait to be a part of it. But I gotta tell you, I've shared this with a few people now. I've went a little bit more all in on LinkedIn and my story and why. 6 miles and. But I want to tell you, this is a true story. This happened last week. There's a little box, you know, Amazon box or whatever, right?

Sitting outside the doorstep and it was not an Amazon box. It was wrapped up really weird and stuff like that. And I got this book. This is a true story. I got this book by Mister Michael Horn called conquering the Impossible. And it showed up last Thursday and it showed up late. I didn't get it till Friday morning. And Google, Google. Mike Horn. And I don't know who's responsible for giving this guy my address and everything, but this man's absolutely incredible. And he wrote to me, conquering the impossible.

Luke Mayor Canoo of abode of life, remain light. Have the most amazing run. You have a big run ahead of you. Go get him. Mike Horn. And if you take a look at this man, this is probably one of the most inspiring human beings that you'll ever come across. His name's Mike Horne. All I got to say is google him. 6 miles to you. 176 point miles to all those affected by the opioid epidemic and then some. And we're going to go make some changes and we're going to do some amazing things. So here's to all those that have been affected by the opioid epidemic and here's to all those lives that we're going to change for the future.

And Mister Horn, I will not let you down. I will not let you down. That's all I got to say. Have an amazing day, you guys. Make some changes that you ultimately want to see in this world. And I promise you, and I promise you, you can do the impossible too. Have an amazing day. Take care of y'all. Thanks for listening in.