Monday Motivation: IT’S MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH!!

Hello. Happy Monday. Hope everybody had a phenomenal weekend. Wow, what a great weekend it was. Took it all in with my family. It was incredible. Thank you for being here. Again, we are live. My name is Luke Wentland. It's always an honor and a privilege to be here every single Monday morning. This one is a little extra special. So it's Mental Health Awareness Month. This is a month that means so much. What up, bro? Good to see you, man. It's always good to see you. You're a special, special person.

So again, it's Mental Health Awareness Month. Thank you all for joining. Again, my name is Luke Wentland. Just want to share just a couple of things I believe are just really important for this month and what you can do and how we can do things in order to make a difference in other individuals lives. So I think like the very first thing, you know, that I think is really important, we'll just give it a second. I have to have a sip of this coffee. I think the first thing that's really important is although mental health specifically is a conversation that is more apt to happen at our dinner tables, there is still a stigma.

There is still shame. So we just want to like at Cadre, number one, right out the gate, say like, it is okay to not be okay. If you provide Cadre as a solution to any teammates, team members, colleagues, representatives, your agency, organizations, you name it, again, just screaming this from the mountaintops, like show up as you are, be here, participate in this community and just realize like it is simply okay to not be okay. It's just as important as your physical health. It's just as important as all the other things that are happening in your life, like mental health, in my humble opinion, is just kind of the bedrock or the foundation of basic living.

Here's my challenge to every single individual that's listening to this and beyond. Last night, for example, I took the opportunity and I ran through all my text messages I sent last night on Sunday night, and I sent 78 text messages. And it was just basically like checking in on you. Hopefully you're doing okay. And also I want to challenge you to reach out to somebody to check in on them, check in on their mental health. Not say like, I'm checking in your mental health, but just check in. Say, how are you doing?

How are you? okay? Something like that, right? And so it was a beautiful moment, but I'm going to do that every single day Not saying I'm going to text the same person, but I'm going to text somebody new every single day, and then on Sunday, I'm going to go really heavy for the duration of this month. And so my challenge to you is, who is that one person today? Who's the one person today that you've been thinking about, that you haven't had as much correspondence with, that you want to reach out and just check in on them?

If this is, just think about this, if there's sub 10,000 individuals on cadre, and let's say 500 people see this, and each individual reaches out to one person. If each individual reaches out to one person, that's 500 lives that we've touched, right? So just think about that. I encourage you to push your chips in, give that one message out, just let them know like, hey, it's okay if you're not okay, let's advocate together, let's participate as one, and let's make an impact to this community and beyond to just share and check in.

It's kind of like half the battle in this life. So, okay, that was the heavy part is Mental Health Awareness Month. The light part was I don't know where you're located in the United States, but I was in Minnesota. So right outside Minnesota is this little area called White Bear Lake, and then I live in this little spot called Delwood. And my in-laws came, so my mother-in-law was in town, my brother and sister-in-law were there, my other brother and sister-in-law were there, and my little nephew Casper was over at the house.

And so He's just this beautiful soul running around with this little fire truck. And every one of the words, it's really interesting because every one of the words that he starts is like, black. And I'm like, what was that? And I'm trying to hear it again. Like, of course, the black ball or running over here. And he's like, for the first time, he's like, Uncle Wook. And it was just, it was the cutest thing in the world. So I hope you had a memorable weekend too. Is there anything that you did that just shined a light on something that was important to you, memorable?

Hopefully if you're watching this back on replay, just kind of like sits in a minute and just go like, man, I'm so grateful for that little nephew. I'm so grateful for planting flowers. I'm so grateful for going for that walk. I'm so grateful for these opportunities and these moments. So lean into gratitude is a game changer. But again, Mental Health Awareness Month, we at CADRE, all the teammates at CADRE, our number one goal is we're gonna check in on other people, right? We're gonna check in on other people, we're gonna send that text message, we're gonna pick up the phone and call, we're gonna send that e-mail, and I'm gonna encourage you all to do the exact same, okay?

So you all have a wonderful week. Remember, it is Mental Health Awareness Month, and it's this really good moment to just truly check in on yourself and say, am I okay? Am I feeling good about myself? How am I feeling from a depression, anxiety-based perspective? Is there anything I need to work on, focus on, change in my life? If so, there's no better time than now to start. And here you go, push your chips in and say like, this life is going to be different going forward today on. So again, thank you for joining.

Thank you for participating. It is yet again, Mental Health Awareness Month. We're going to be doing some really amazing things here at Cadre throughout the duration of the month, sharing stories, opening up more and more. It's really it's I think I could speak for the entire community here of contributors when I say like our a big part of our life's work is sharing our stories. So in fact, like I have a speaking engagement on the seventh, I have a speaking engagement. I want to say it's like the 11th or the 12th speaking engagements in the 20th days of this month.

And so I just really want to share my story. And if it could just help one person And one person says, I feel less alone. I resonate with that. I relate to that. This is part of our cadre, right? This is why we do what we do. So you all take care. Enjoy this month. Make it meaningful, make it impactful. Take care and thank you for joining again. Peace, everybody. Bye-bye.