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Good morning, Cadre crew. We're just a little early today coming live from y'all from Chicago. Beautiful back backdrop here, so you can see some of the towers downtown. Just have a couple meetings back to back here Monday and Tuesday that I'm really excited about. I can't wait for. But my message today is this. PJ Fleck was hired for the coach, to be the coach at the Minnesota Gophers, right? He's hired to be the coach of the Minnesota Gophers. And he's having in his press conference. My wife and I are watching the press conference.

And he said this quote, and you can laugh at it because it sounds. Sounds funny, but it's so true. And he said, if you hang around with turds, you're heading to Turdville. And I was like, oh, my gosh. You know, just hit him to it. Absolutely real, which I just loved. But you hang out with turds, you're heading to Turdville. What do I mean by that? Well, here's the deal. Over the last eight years of my life in building. What's up, Katie? In the last eight years of building businesses and working with individuals and helping people, you know, there's a lot of individuals that come to you sometimes and ask for your time.

Like, hey, Luke, do you have an opportunity to chit chat about XYZ? Or I'm wondering, I'm starting a new business or whatever. Right. So you have an opportunity to sometimes provide different feedback. You have some times to provide, you know, what you did, how you do it, why you do it, all those things. But, but here's what I found, and I think this is another quote that's going to matter and it's going to resonate for you. So Kobe Bryant was asked, is one of his last interviews, actually, before he died?

And he said, you know, you were 18, you're on your come up. You know, what did you do? And he said, well, I dealt with what I referred to as Goat Mountain. You know, I went to Hakeem, I went to Jordan, I went to Larry Bird, I went to all the guys, magic, I went to all of them. I said, what did you do? How did you do it? How did you train your body? How did you do it? It's funny how he didn't say, oh, I went to the guy that was in the league for two years and left. I was talking to the guy who lost all the championships.

I was talking to the guy. No, no. He wanted to talk to who he thought was the most impactful people that's going to impact his life, is wanting to be the best professional that he can be. So again, PJ Fleck, you hang around with turds. You're heading to Turdville. Number one, you want to learn from the best, go to the best. You know, there's been so many studies. It's dynamically, you know, Harvard Business Review, all the different studies, talks over and over again. But you are who you hang around with, who's in that close circle.

And I, over the last, you know, month to two months, I've absolutely taken this to heart. Like, I've always helped people, no matter what. What's up, junk food junkie? Good morning. But I've always taken this to heart. But I just, over the last, I would say, 90 days, I exponentially went there. I exponentially went there within my circle, within my group. So currently, right now, in my group of, I would call it seven to ten people, I have pushed those individuals and they've pushed me to maybe see how I think differently.

But there's. There's a very different level when it comes to these folks. They're vibrant. Their energy is positive. They're looking for every way to find something, how to do something, versus how they can't. Right. They don't think about, like, lack of resources. They think what we have, we are. We have an abundance of resources, and we can just go get it right. And I'm gonna call some of these folks out. Cause I think so much of you. John Hutchinson, care counseling chief, Arradondo, Minneapolis St.

Paul police that recently retired and moved on and started own consulting firm. Amanda from out east. Amazing. Running an incredible group, the gals from Blue Cross Blue Shield. Enjoy Chicago, my hometown. I love it. Car jazz. That's amazing. Chicago is a beautiful, beautiful community. But so I've tried to strong myself, especially over the last 90 days, with just true winners in their field. True winners in their field. Ask him questions. What do you do? Another example, the highest rated syndicated radio show.

I'm going golfing with him basically. Weekly or bi weekly. What do you do? How do you do it? Why do you do it? There's a couple individuals that I know. They're starting their own companies and their own businesses right now. How do you do? How are you doing it? Why are you doing it? What does that look like for you? The best part is we all can do this. Every one of us can do this in any role, any job, with your colleagues, the people. Like, let's say, for instance, you work at. You're in sales at, you know, a Fortune 500 company, and there's 25 sales representatives.

There's probably two or three of them that are doing really well, who are you gonna hang around with? Who you gonna try to find your time? Who are you gonna work with? Maybe there's a. Maybe you're writing a book now. Maybe you need to reach out to five to ten authors that have done this and done this well. Maybe one. Maybe one might give back and give you the time. Maybe one. So I encourage you, I encourage you to really take a step back and think about who, who in the world are you spending your time with?

Who are you spending your time with? And is it driving you? Is it driving your business? Is it driving the people that you love that you want to be around? Is it making you a better person? If you've been in business for three, 5710, 1520 years and people aren't knocking down your door to get information from you, feedback from you, want to rub shoulders with you, I'm telling you, you better start looking at yourself in the mirror, because nobody wants to be around that energy. People want to be around positive, vibrant, energized individuals, and those individuals bleed other individuals energy, etcetera.

Or you take from it. You take from them that energy, right? Are you a given? Are you taking. And then I just want to end with this one last thing. This one last thing. So I was in the sauna a couple days ago, right? I tweaked my ankle, and I'm sitting in the sauna. I'm feeling bad for myself, and I got a little shoulder thing going on and whatnot. And there's this probably 82, 84 year old guy that walked in the sauna. He's sitting in there with me, and I'm stretching on my shoulder, and I kind of made a tongue in cheek joke.

I was like, ugh, sucks to get old, you know, here I am, half his age, and he looks at me and he said, number one, age is nothing but a number, sir. And I was like, wow, hit me in the mouth with it. That was number one. And then number two, we said, at my age, and as the older you get, you're going to focus on one or two things. You're going to be really frustrated with all the things that you can't do, or you're going to be grateful for all the things that you can do. So why is, why don't we, as Cadre here, let's make this a week of gratitude.

What on earth can you be really grateful for? Junk food. Junkie also, sometimes, besides asking questions, just watch and observe the big zogs to learn the way of their doing things. That's absolutely right. That's a not just asking questions, just following, watching, observing, seeing how they do that and why they do that. So I left you some pretty good quotes today. You hang around with turds. You're heading to Turdville. Let's be grateful for this life. I hope everybody has an incredible week, a dynamic week at that.

Girls time mentorship and Katy Donovan are going live tomorrow. Excited for y'all to listen in. We have the amazing doctor e coming to you live. If anybody wants to join in to our Wednesday support group. m.. Central. I hope that you all jump on. Like to see the faces. Like to see you. Our AA meeting is growing on Sundays. If anybody ever wants to jump on. Thanks, junk food junkie. I will have an amazing trip here in Chi town. But our AA meeting group is growing, and we are going to be having more wellness experts coming to.

You live here relatively soon. So in short order, there's a group of about six or eight new wellness experts that have been vetting and working with on the side here. So we're trying to get some of those folks up and running. But at any rate, I hope you all have a remarkable week. Do right by each other. And if you're looking out and you're trying to see over your shoulders and you're looking out in the grazing of the pastures of who you want to spend your time and energy with, look no further than the one that's done it.

All right. Have an amazing day. Grateful for my son's 16th year of sobriety. That is right, car jazz. I love it. Grateful for my son's 16th year of sobriety. I love hearing that. That is absolutely remarkable. All right, you guys take care. Have an amazing week. Do something special with one another. Bye.