Make Your Dreams Come True!

Good morning. Happy Friday. Welcome to making your dreams come true with me, Risa. It's so good to see you all. I just love this time on Fridays and I've already gotten some steps in. I walked the dog, I grabbed a coffee. The dog got his little pup cup from our local coffee shop called Luxe Cafe, and it was really cute. I just love starting my morning off like that. And it's beautiful weather here in Arizona, and I heard that the east coast is getting gorgeous weather as well, so love that for us.

Okay, so I'm gonna dive right into my Friday session of making your big dreams come true. And today I want to talk to you guys about just a little realness that's happening in my life and kind of update you. And I guess just talk about the reality of actually making your dreams come true. And so not just talking about it, but actually doing it. What's up, Luke? I know about kowalskis. I know where you like to hang out. Okay, so I am. I have a couple things for you guys today. One, I'm gonna talk about going all in on your big dreams and applying that to my real life.

And then just a couple of lessons I learned from recently attending a live podcast about transitions. And then lastly, you're going to want to hang in for this because I have my very own make your big dreams playlist for you guys with a couple bonus tracks. No, I'm not going to play you a record here, but I am going to list off my top twelve favorite big dreams inspired songs with two bonus tracks. And then I'm going to post it in the community feed. So you're not going to want to miss that part of what I'm talking about today.

Okay, so I want to talk about first going all in and. Excuse me, allergies are so bad here. Excuse me. So going all in. You know, it's so interesting how you, when you speak things out into the universe and you make them a ritual like I have with this live stream every Friday. Every Friday I have talked about going all in. Every Friday I have given you tips for. For how to make your own big dreams come true. And I think along the way, I have sort of been infusing that into my own soul and giving myself a little dose of my own medicine.

And I realized that after talking about this weekly. What's up, Barbara? After talking about this weekly, I sort of came to a realization. And I had an epiphany moment. And I decided it was time to practice what I had been preaching. And I decided you know what? I don't just want to talk about it. I want to do it in my own way, and I want to go all in on my own big dreams. And as you know, if you've tuned in here weekly, you know that I have a company called the rescue Kit company. And, you know, that has been my big dream for a long time.

I conceptualized this one stop shop wedding idea back in 2007, and I now have a physical product to embody this idea of having a one stop shop, something wedding related, that I could offer to brides to make their life easier. Little did I know at that time I thought it would be a physical building, a brick and mortar building where brides could go and get every service that they needed for their big wedding day all in one place. But really, what I was starting to manifest at that time that I didn't even realize was a product that would help give them the best return on their investment for their look on their wedding day and solve, prevent, and solve wardrobe disasters for them.

I am here telling you that through practicing all of this advice that I give here on the Cadre app, and had it not been for the Cadre app and this safe space for me to be able to talk about how to go all in on yourself and then have the safety of this community, I think one of the most important things that we need to really realize is that when you have the safety of friends or a community platform like Cadre that gives you the room to be your most authentic self, you will shine your brightest.

Let me say that again. When you are in a space or a room where you can just be you, your most authentic self, you will get shinier and shinier and shinier. And that has what I have experienced being immersed in the Cadre community and on the Cadre platform around people who just allow me to freely be me. That is what I have personally, firsthand experienced. That is what Cadre has done and will continue to do for me now. I didn't realize that I would have a physical urge to make a move like this and to make the kind of move that was all about me.

Because I am so used to being a chronic people pleaser and because I am so used to wanting other people to succeed. I am a service based consultant. I have been for the last ten years as a wardrobe stylist, and I have gone all in on helping other people feel confident and beautiful and give them the power to walk out the door and feel like the best version of themselves. And I have just been in practice for the last decade of building up other people. And I think that when you are in a role where you give, give, give, give to others, it becomes a practice that you can sometimes maybe lose yourself in.

Or maybe you put yourself on the back burner, because I don't think I ever lost who I was, but I do think that I put myself and my big dreams on the back burner. And I'm just telling you this in true vulnerability style here at Cadre. I think I didn't realize that I needed to listen to my own gut and my own pit in my stomach throughout this process of, like, you know, what time is going by so, so, so fast, it's so undefeated, and it moves so quickly that I think about how I might have missed some things along the way or how I maybe didn't wring out the towel 100%.

And. And I think it's so important to listen and to practice what you preach and to listen to your gut and your heart. And so that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go all in and I'm going to go so hard, I'm going to just go full speed ahead because you just don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. So you have to go full speed ahead today as if somebody were going to cut you the million dollar check to go start your big dream or whatever it may be, or maybe it was going to be taken away tomorrow.

Could you feel proud of where the business is at today? Feel proud of where you are at today? Maybe you're on a health and wellness journey. Maybe. Maybe you're trying to quit something. Maybe you're trying to change the way you save money. Whatever that habit is that you're trying to build, or whoever it is that you're trying to become, I think it's time to really go all in and not just be. I had this note that I wrote down. I don't just want to be dream Risa. I want dream Risa to be me. So I don't just want to be thinking about her.

I want. I want her to just. I want her to, like, infuse herself into me, and I want to be the person that I dream about. And you have the power to do that. You, right here, right now, have the power to do that. So. Okay. Luke, like you today, oh, had a major epiphany myself. Check my. Excuse me. LinkedIn post today. I had a moment. Ah, love that. Being you is beautiful. I agree. You're speaking my language. I need to go all in even more. Yeah. Hello, junk food junkie. Yes, go all in even more. Go so far in that you feel so uncomfortable that you might feel like you're taking up too much space.

I often tend to cower away because I feel like if I shine my light too bright, people are going to be intimidated by it, they're not going to like it. They're going to be annoyed by me. They're going to think I'm too much. They're going to think, who does she think she is? Oh, gosh. I hope they start saying that about me. I really hope that, because that means I'm doing something right. So I attended a live podcast the other day that was all about transitions, and it was with three very powerful women.

Women. One of them included the CEO of the company, Boss Babe. They have three and a half million followers on Instagram. If you don't know them, go look them up on Instagram. And it was mind blowing. And I won't give you the whole rundown of it because you can go listen to the podcast yourself. And I don't want to get too off track, but I really did feel like in that moment, that was the universe sort of guiding me into the next realm. And I didn't know that when I walked into that room that night, I was invited by one of the hosts.

I didn't know that they were talking about transitions. It was like I was meant to be in that room because my life just feels like it's at a transition right now, and life should be like that. I mean, it's going to be ups and downs. You're always going to be transitioning into something, whether it's a new job, or it's a new marriage, or it's a breakup, or it's maybe a different financial status, you're always going to be transitioning. But in this moment, this podcast spoke to my soul, and it was really cool to be part of a live recording.

So I felt like the universe was guiding me through, and they were saying, you know, this is going to be scary and uncomfortable, but everything is on the other side of that short term discomfort. So if you are not going all in on yourself, not only are you doing yourself a disservice, but you're doing a world that needs your gifts a massive disservice as well. So I think if you're gonna take one thing away from this this morning, it's to wring out the towel with belief in yourself, and it's to wring out the towel with how much you're putting yourself out there.

If that's something that you aspire to do, put yourself out there so uncomfortably ask for what you want and ask for it from the people that you want it from, but also give to them. Give to them what you are asking for. I saw this lesson from Jamie Kern Lima, who wrote believe it and who founded the company it cosmetics. She actually mentioned that today in her Instagram post, and she said, if there is something that you are seeking from someone or from the universe, give it out. So if you are seeking capital from somebody, go give them the money to buy a coffee or go purchase a coffee for them or whatever it is.

But what you put out will come back to you tenfold, and I truly believe that. So with that, before this gets too long, I want to give you guys my big dreams playlist. Let me catch up on a couple of these comments. Yes. That's how I want to start my business. Go all in. I fully encourage you to do that. I also encourage you to jump into the community feed here on Cadre and start seeking advice, because there's a lot of entrepreneurs on this platform. So start putting out there. If you need help with something or you have a question about something, and if you just want to share where you're at in your business journey, drop it in the community feed.

Luke, all in. So much love for you in this idea. Risa, your time is now. Thank you, Luke. You're the best. When chasing your dreams, there will be failures that knock you down. Just get up. Yep. I like to call them falls. How do you get up from that fall? I use the word fall instead of failure myself, just because there's going to be rises and there's going to be falls. So how do you get up, emerge, and arise from that fall. Keep chasing your dreams. Yes. Chris. What's up? How are you? Love you guys.

Kelsey. So inspired by you, Risa. Keep crushing it. I'm so inspired by you too, Kelsey. Talk about somebody who crushes this life. This. This feed is giving me life right now, you guys. Okay, I'm gonna share to you my big dreams playlist, and then. And don't roll your eyes at me, you guys, because some of these are pop music. Some of these are maybe Disney. Okay, don't get mad at me. Okay? But I want you to hang in there for them, and then I will drop them in the community feed. And I would encourage you, if you have a song that, like, jazzes you up and it reminds you of how to go after your big dreams and maybe gets you emotional, it tugs at your heartstrings.

Drop it in the community feed as a comment on this post. Okay, the first song is the song don't quit your daydream by Lily Miola. I love that song. You'll use it like, in a lot of. You'll hear it in a lot of sounds on social platforms. I love it. Rise up by andra day. That, to me, is just, like, the epitome of an emotional feeling that I get when I listen to it and reminds me so much of going after my big dreams. This song just makes me happy. And it literally says, you make my dreams come true.

It's hollow notes. You make my dreams come true. I've been listening to that song since I was a little girl. My uncle used to always play hall and Oates on the way to our lake house, the drive to the wired lake house, and it always just makes me happy. If you've seen that movie 500 days of summer, it reminds me of that, too. Don't stop believing my journey. Obviously, the climb by Miley Cyrus is one of my, like, car belted out songs. If you don't know that song, it's such a. It's classic Hannah Montana.

Okay, don't get mad at me, all right? I know if you guys have little girls, you probably have heard that song before. Maybe on the Kidz bop station. Who knows? The strong. The song stronger by Kelly Clarkson. And also, Kelly Clarkson is in an is in a breakup era. She's still. She's, like, claiming herself right now. She just separated from her husband, and she's just, like, coming out with all of this powerful music about herself and believing in herself. So I bet her new album is really good. The song keep your head up by Andy Grammer, I just think is poppy and fun.

And I love it because it does remind us to just keep going and keep your head up. Two songs by Katy Perry because she's just fierce in that way. But the song roar is so good. And the song firework, which makes me so happy, it's another one of my belt out car songs. Fight song by Rachel Patton. Because, duh, this one is like the pump up song of all pump up songs. I know everyone on team Cadre loves this song. It's lose yourself by Eminem. It's so good. And if you haven't seen the movie eight mile, it's just like, that makes you want to go out and just throw punches at the world.

Like, I've got this. And then last song before. The bonus tracks is one of my personal favorites. Probably not a lot of you have heard it. It's called note to self by Ben Rector. It is so good. And he's such a, like, clear singer. You understand every lyric. It tells a story, and it makes sense, and it is one of my favorite songs. Okay, bonus tracks. This is good, you guys. Two bonus tracks. We've got almost there by Tiana and Princess and the frog. I mean, Tiana, making her beignets in the Disney movie is like.

She's, like, starting her business. She's an entrepreneur. She's a female. I, like, love little Tiana in that movie. She's so good, and she's just like. You're so close. You're almost there. You've got this. And I just love it. And the last one is my personal favorite song to sing of pretty much all time. It's tomorrow by Annie. And it just reminds you that when you are in that tough spot, the sun is always gonna come out tomorrow. Well, maybe not if you live in Seattle. It doesn't come out every day, but you know what I mean?

Or London. But the song tomorrow by Annie, it just, like, warms my heart. I love busting it out in the car or on my microphone in my house, because I do that nightly. Whatever, whatever. Whatever gets you excited. But those are my bonus tracks. I'm sorry. I love theater. I love songs. I love Disney music. Movies, music, all the things. So that is your daydream playlist, you guys. I love all of you. I will make a Spotify playlist, and I will show you share it in the Cadre app. I'll have to ask Alec if I have that capability.

Yes. I will share it for you guys. Best live ever. Okay, you guys, I'm still standing. That's such a good one. Oh, my gosh, you guys, I saw Elton John in concert a few months ago, and it was iconic, and he played that song. So, yes, I love it. So add all of your additions into the community feed, and then I will take the collective and I will make a Spotify playlist. And I would love for us to just keep adding to it, and we can use that to pump us up every Friday going into the weekend, or if you want it on Mondays after Luke's Monday.

Motivation. But I just love you guys. And if this does one thing for you, I hope that it gives you the energy to just think and dream big and then go for it. Become those dreams. Become that person that you envision yourself to be. Become that person right now. Right now. I love you guys. Have a great day. It.