Make Your Dreams Come True!

Cheers. Happy Friday. See if anybody's gonna jump in. I always do this with my coffee, hoping my dog doesn't bark today. He's on full window patrol today, so we'll see how this goes. I'm going to see if anybody's able to jump in. I know 09:00 on a Friday is a tough time sometimes if you're in the middle of a workday, but hopefully, if you can't tune in live, you can watch this back. I have a message about making your dreams come true today. I love talking about this with you guys. I hope that these live streams serve you in some way, shape, or form.

I hope they inspire you. I hope they get you excited to go out and do whatever it is that is on your heart, on your mind, on your vision board, if you will. I did a little tv segment yesterday for my product line because we are included in the everyone wins swag bags, gift bags for this year's 2023 Oscar nominees. So that was really fun, and it was one of those moments. What's up, you guys? Dan, Marissa, Nick. Okay, we're starting to stream in, everybody. It's happening. Hopefully, the quality is good for you guys here.

I was just saying, I was doing a tv segment yesterday, and, you know, having a tv show one day. My very own show is on my vision board. So every time I get the opportunity to go on tv. What's up, Brian? Every time I get the opportunity to do a tv segment, I'm like, me, pick me, pick me, because it's just so fun for me, and I just love the rush of doing live tv, and you just never know what's, gonna, like, fly out of my mouth. So it was really fun. What's up, Cadre? Big caps. Marissa, thank you for that.

Quality is great. Great quality. Okay. Amazing. So a brief message about making your dreams come true. No, this is not an infomercial. Although one day, I do want to go on QVC or HSN and live my best tv selling life. I will do that. Mark my words. You heard it here first. I'm manifesting. But one of the things that's been on my heart in terms of making your dreams come true is this idea of vulnerability. Cadre is the vulnerability app. In my opinion, it doesn't get any more vulnerable than the way that we share here at Cadre.

And I was starting to think about how that relates to being able to achieve your big dreams. And I don't know about you guys, but I feel like, as a member of this team, and I don't know what it's like as you, the viewer or you the user on the app, but, I mean, we get. We share. I don't know where else you can go where people are pouring their hearts, their souls, their lived experiences out for you to learn from. And I went to a book signing last night from my friend coach Dar. I shared this with you guys last week, the art of bouncing back.

And she talked a lot about this. She talked a lot about learning from the mistakes that you've made or the failures that you've had and really kind of leaning into this idea that you're allowed to sit with it for a minute, but then shake it off, see where you need to make the change, and then let's move on. Give yourself 24 hours. She has this 24 hours rule, and I was just thinking about, like, this vulnerability that we have and how vulnerability and sharing and getting real and raw plays a huge part in achieving your big dreams and getting to that next level.

If we can't share, how are we going to overcome? So I was doing a little research, as I always do for these live streams, because I want them to be meaningful for you. And I came across a Brene Brown article in Forbes, and she describes vulnerability as three things. Okay, so uncertainty is number one, risk is number two, and emotional exposure is number three. And I loved this idea of breaking that down and thinking about the ways that I personally have experienced uncertainty as it pertains to my big dreams, risk and emotional exposure.

So when I thought about it, I wrote down these things. Uncertainty, for me, has looked like, and I want you to think about what it looks like for you. Launching a business or a new website. I mean, I wrote my own code for my very first website. Like, can I get a tech job at Cadre? Just kidding. You do not want me writing any code right now. But I was, like, putting ads up on the side of my WordPress site. Like, I was really kicking some b*** and coding that myself. And it was. I was so uncertain, and I was like, is this even gonna work?

Is anybody gonna come to this website? And then, of course, launching a business, I mean, how uncertain can you be in launching a business? You are. You are just putting yourself out there in such a big way. You have no idea what the end result is going to be. Another way that I've shown uncertainty in making my dreams come true is moving across the country sight unseen. Has anybody packed up and moved with a backpack and a pillow and a girlfriend they don't really know and drive across the country?

To a state that they've never been to with no job. I mean, I am the definition of uncertainty. Like, I don't know how much more uncertain you can get. No idea where my path was leading, but wow, did it serve me. I fell into the fashion industry, I made my own way. I got a job. I got multiple jobs, and I've been working ever since very, very uncertain times. But it paid off. And then, like I just said, not having a job, but also not having a job while you're, like, leaving one, right? So how many of you have left a job because you knew it didn't serve you with nothing lined up?

Now, nobody would suggest that. All the parents on here are like, please don't tell my kids to do this. I never recommend it, but sometimes you just have to bet on yourself. And I have done that multiple times where I have taken that kind of, I guess, passion for self and just said, I know it's gonna work out. And I didn't try to always, like, leave a job without another one lined up. But I think in the back of my mind, I always knew that I could bet on myself, but there's nothing more uncertain than not having security, not having financial security, not knowing, like, where your, what your environment's gonna be.

I mean, there's so, so much uncertainty in the unknown, but I think it's part of this whole journey of betting on yourself. So that leads me into risk. The second part of vulnerability, risk. I have risked maybe pulling out money out of savings and putting it into my product line or, you know, purchasing a big purchase or maybe joining a self improvement group or whatever it may be. But financial risk is a huge part of making your big dreams come true. Now, am I telling you to drain your 401K? Absolutely not.

Don't go drain your IRA or make irresponsible choices. But part of betting on yourself and being able to see your dreams come to fruition is taking a risk. We don't know if something's going to pay off, but, gosh, what if we don't? What if we don't take the leap? What, are you just going to sit there in fear? I almost didn't launch the rescue kit company because I thought, oh, the minute I'm out there, somebody's gonna knock me off. Scary. I don't want to do it. And my business partner, my sister, was like, that's not an excuse.

So taking a risk is always going to lead to some kind of reward, whether that's personal growth or success of a business. On the other side, take that risk. Maybe it's hiring an employee. Like, you don't know if you can part with some of that money to be able to get some support. But if. If you think about bringing somebody in to relieve you of some of those duties and maybe getting some of your sanity or your time back, it's sometimes worth its weight in gold. So sometimes these risks that we have to take make us more vulnerable.

But on the other side of that is huge growth. And the last thing is emotional exposure. And that's what we do here at Cadre. Like, I cannot relate emotional exposure enough to what we're doing here at the app. We are fully, emotionally exposed for your benefit, for everyone on this app, we are risking it all. We are sharing on a nationwide platform, hopefully sometime worldwide at some point. And we are pouring our souls and our experiences out to you so you can lead a better life, so you can feel less alone, so you can feel stigma free and safe in this environment to have actionable steps for change.

The minute you can emotionally expose yourself, you're connecting with people, and you're letting them know that they're not alone, and vice versa. And then you're building community. And then with community comes full blossoming of opportunity. So when I read this article and I read these three things that vulnerability is, and then I thought about how important all of these things are to making actionable change and your dreams come true in this life. Wow. Wow. Brene Brown. You're doing Ted talks for a reason.

I loved it. If you can't lean into this vulnerability and this kind of vulnerability, I have to think that you're limiting yourself. You are limiting yourselves to possibility, potential success, relationship building, and everything that's on the other side. Remove fear and watch what happens. Fear. I love that. Luke. Fear is a dream killer. Fear is a dream killer. Fear is a goal killer. It will stifle you in your mind, which will stifle anything that you want to achieve, physically, mentally, emotionally, in business and life.

I'm not saying you have to jump out of a plane if that scares you, but I'm saying take a risk. Understand that uncertainty is a part of the journey. Emotionally expose yourself so you can experience connection and think of how all of this relates to authenticity of self, if you are fully yourself, which is what people are now hiring and looking for. Somebody told me that if I want to be successful on TikTok, I shouldn't go in full glam. I should go like this with no makeup, on, a high ponytail. Maybe my hair wasn't washed for three days.

Who knows? I did wash it yesterday. But show up as you. Nobody wants, like, this generic version of yourself or this version of yourself that just is not day to day. People are hiring somebody who's gonna contact their soul, right person to person, who's gonna. Who's gonna just hit them really hard with who they are authentically. And the minute we can openly share and expose ourselves, we're going to connect with people. That person's going to take a vested interest in us, and we're going to achieve something that we never knew was possible.

So my challenge to you today is to get vulnerable. Get vulnerable with one person today. Have your vulnerability. Accountability, buddy. Somebody that you can get really raw with, that sees you, and slowly start to gain confidence in the fact that if you show up this way for people, you will build your community, your network, and you will build this opportunity for making your big dreams come true. So thank you, guys for tuning in. I love talking to you about this, and I'm working every single day toward making my personal dreams come true through all of these actionable steps that I share with you.

So I hope that this helps you, and I hope that it motivates you to go into a super productive weekend and kick some b*** when you get back to work on Monday. And also kick some b*** today, because I like to see Fridays as a Monday. Every day is a fresh start. But Fridays, for me are, like, I'm motivating myself with these talks because I'm, like, living it. I'm taking notes. Like, I take this seriously. So don't squander the opportunity to be as successful on a Friday as you can be on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or even Saturday, Sunday, whatever that looks like for you.

Whatever productive looks like for you. So I love you guys, and I hope that you have the best Friday, the best weekend. And I want to hear on the community feed in the app how you are working toward making your big dreams come true. Have a great weekend, everybody. And don't forget to tune into the oscars because we gifted them through my company, the rescue kit company. We gifted them all of the top actor and actress nominees, as well as Jimmy Kimmel, the host. Okay. And directors, our product.

So it's gonna be really fun to watch, and I just love watching the red carpets chance to just, like, see what they're wearing and get excited about it and just, I don't know, celebrate people who work really hard and who never give up on their big dreams. We talked about this last week. So, anyway, love you guys and have a great weekend and cheers.