A host recounts a Glenwood Springs breath‑holding challenge featuring developer Ethan Cavanaugh, offers practical breathing cues to lower heart rate, and previews upcoming Cadre live speakers.
East coasters 845, central time zone 745 Mountain 645 west coast Pacific 545. Great start to the day. Happy Monday, Cadre crew.
Cadre team went to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, to see who could hold their breath the longest. By the end, 30 minutes later, Ethan Cavanaugh actually held his breath for two minutes and almost 40 seconds. Sometimes it's all about being smarter about what you're doing.
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Happy Monday, Cadre crew. Gosh, what a good day. Great start to the day. Well, let's give it a second here just to make sure everything's working. The notification pops, and then we'll get started. East coasters 845, central time zone 745 Mountain 645 west coast Pacific 545. Early bird gets the worm west coast say it was about a year and a half ago, and our Cadre team met for the very first time on call, Vail, Colorado. And there was a group of five of us that got there a day early, right? So we got there a day early.
We got in a van, and we drove, you know, out west from Denver, out into the, you know, Rockies, getting in through Vale and whatnot. And, you know, we were thinking about what to do the day before everybody arrives. And, you know, we heard about Glenwood Springs, right? So we went to this place called Glenwood Springs, and there's five of us, like I said, that went out there. We were going to get all the houses ready for the men and the women and get all of our food arrangements set and whatnot.
And it was just a blast of a time for the two days that we were there. But we went out to Glenwood Springs, and we went out to Glenwood Springs. We had kind of a little challenge, right? So we had a little challenge between us five. We could see who could hold their breath the longest, right? And so, you know, we all went and, you know, the first person popped up at, like, I'm not even kidding when I say this, probably 25, 28 seconds, you know, somewhere on that ballpark, right? So that first. That first person went up at 25, 28 seconds.
He's actually a developer here at Cadre. He's amazing. His name is Ethan Cavanaugh. So all the background stuff that you're seeing and the ability to someday message and book now and everything that's been built with him and, excuse me, Alec DeWitt's and Ethan and that team. And Ethan popped up at, like, 20 some odd seconds later. Right. I want to say it was like 28 seconds. We'll go with 28. Sake of argument. Everybody else kind of held their breath and held their breath and held their breath. And in the springs, it's kind of like the perfect spot where you're just destressing, getting yourself into a good flow.
We're just sitting there. I mean, it's the most beautiful, tranquil setting that you could ever imagine. The snow was just kind of falling down. The steam was coming up. It was. It was just gorgeous. And so, you know, we tried it, you know, once, twice, three times. But. So we're all going to try right here, right now, okay? We're all going to try here, right here, right now to hold our breath, okay? 54321. Now it, it. If anybody made it to this point, they made it to 1 minute. So I just, I let go.
But it was crazy because, you know, Ethan popped up right away and we all just kind of gave him a little feedback. We were like, number one, like, get your heart rate down, right? So get your, get your heart rate down. Start in, breathe through your nose, out through your mouth. Breathe through your nose, out through your mouth. And then you want to get all of it out. You want to get everything out before you come back in and breathe that one last final one before you go under the water, right? So we're like, all right, here you go.
This is how you do it. And then your biggest one. Your biggest one, right? Keep breathing out. Keep breathing out. Get all of it out, all of it, all of it out, all of it out. And then take it all the way in. And that's when you go under, right? So again, getting yourself right, getting yourself set, started at 28 seconds. Guess what? By the end, 30 minutes later, he actually held his breath for two minutes and almost 40 seconds. Two minutes, almost 40 seconds. So think about that. His first time going less than 30 seconds.
Towards the end, he had, he had literally 30, 1 minute, one and a half. Two, two and a half over. He almost six x'ed his output. Almost six x'ed his output from his very first breath of trying, which me leads me to believe two things. Number one, what if there's all these other things in your life that you can five and six x? Maybe it's sleep, right? Maybe you're sleeping and it's just cruddy and not getting good sleep. And what are you doing for yourself for that? Just using an example. Maybe you're an entrepreneur, right?
And maybe those days of four, 8 hours that you're putting in, what does that look like for five, six X ing? I'm not saying it's all about time. Sometimes it's more about working smarter, not harder, right? Maybe it's your exercise, maybe it's at the gym. Maybe it's how you treat a friend. But I just firmly believe in my heart. David Goggins always says we're living at about 40% of our capacity. Sometimes I think that's high for a lot of people. But what if, what if all these things in life that we could five x six x.
I'm a testament to it personally, right? I'll never forget getting on the treadmill for the first time, you know, basically being able to, you know, luckily bang out a mile or two, you know, today I'm, I'm ten xing 20 x 100 X ing that. But I saw it literally in front of my eyes that a human being could go from 28 seconds to two minutes and 30 some seconds like that. Little bit of coaching, little bit of direction, knowledge, experience, wisdom. Trying it. Openness. Openness to feedback. Before you know it, that individual culminated in a five x growth.
We have amazing coaches here at Cadre. Go look at our website at Cadre IO, all the individuals that are signing up to support individuals here on the platform. The team is building a book now button, so therefore, you can five and six x your life and all these things. Maybe it's financial, how to, how to financially prepare yourself for the future. Maybe it's trauma, grief, loss, substance abuse, mental health, yoga, planning. But if you're here and you want to be here, we have a group of individuals here that are going to show up for you daily to be able to provide information, tools, resources, education, knowledge, lived experiences.
We could save you a little bit of time exponentially. Grow you, help you grow, lead you, guide you. You know what, Cadre, simply put, you know, we just. We want you to just live a better life. That's so important. So, so, so important. Right? We have some awesome live speakers this week. If you haven't checked out the live streaming schedule, all you have to do is go up in calendar and you can check it right there, right on the app. If there's any feedback that you ever have. For our team, we have some renditions going on, new iterations all the time.
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Right? Hop right. Our blog at Cadre IO. Check out our blog. We have some amazing, amazing storytellers, you know, on our blog. You know, one of them is our Friday, you know, making your dreams come true. Reese Acostas. Her writing is just off the charts. That's all I got to say about that. We got a webinar coming up. It's amazing. Led by doctor Carrie Mankey. Another webinar. We've had our last two that have been outstanding with bar Provo and Abby Mallard, health. My friend. She's remarkable. So again, some insane coaches that are here to support you to five x six x your life.
Ethan saw it in the blink of eye in less than 30 minutes. Right. Our developer of how to hold your breath, how to go deeper, how to just relax yourself so you can see, you know, through into the 1 minute, two minute. Heck, he was almost at the three minute mark of holding his breath. And people would say like what is, what is holding your breath really would do for you? Well, it's, it's a mindset. It's a mindset. I'm a firm believer if you can hold your breath for a long time, you can do a lot of things in this life.
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Barb's outstanding. She's just so much good energy and I hope that you can learn from her as well. So that'll be good stuff. Keep an eye out the walk and talk with Nick. I'm a fan. I'm a huge fan. I think he's going to go either Thursday or Friday. Don't quote me on that. But that again, great walk and talk time with Doctor Carey is always good. We hope that you show up for our livestreams. We live for it as experts to be able to share some of these knowledge stories that we hope help you and help you in your life.
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