Monday Motivation: Safe Places

Good morning, world. What's up, Cadre crew? It's going to be another great week. I just wanted to talk about safe places today. Again, my name is Luke Wendtlandt, your chief motivational officer at Cadre, as well as one of the founders of the organization. In regards to safe places. I was listening to a podcast last week, and I listened to the individual who actually came up with the term safe places. So she was a research professor at Harvard University, and she was talking about safe places, how important they are.

And she said, you know, unfortunately, over the last, like, five to seven years, you know, the term that I built, safe places has turned to anything but that. Safe places have turned to an area of, you know, cancel culture. If I don't believe in somebody's opinion, we don't get along. If I. If you and I don't agree on the potential outcome of something, is this even a safe place anymore? And so, good morning, junk food junkie. What a great day. So I just thought about that, and one of the things about safe places is it can come in any spaces, shapes, sizes, human beings, races.

It doesn't matter. But I had the privilege on Saturday to speak to a group of, let's call it about 200 individuals at a rotary convention here in Minneapolis St. Paul. And when we were talking, I was talking to my wife prior to leaving, and, you know, they wanted someone to come and talk about mental health. And, you know, so I was just going to be real raw and kind of share my entire story. And, you know, with that being said, you know, my wife asked the question, do you think this is a safe place?

And I didn't even think about it. I was like, oh, my gosh, is it, you know, will the individuals that, that listen in, think about it in that light, will they view kind of me with panic attacks, anxiety or otherwise? Is this going to be Luke's canceled moment? I'm just kidding. But in all sincerity, I was serious. How is that going to be received? Is this going to be a safe place? And what I'm pleased to inform you is of those 200 individuals, that that was one of the safest places that I've ever been able to share, really.

Like, it's been one of the most safe places that I've ever been able to share and to be able to open up authentically. Open raw. Good morning. Speak wonder. Yeah, it was an unbelievable experience. And I saw individuals, sometimes through emotions, sometimes through laughs, sometimes through connection, talk, through the speech. I found it to be a very, very safe place. And so what I want to share with you is you just, you never know with your perceived feeling, for lack of better words, of what may or may not be a safe place.

But I encourage you to try. I encourage you to try because it's better to talk about it than to hold it in. And if that place turns out not to be safe, well, you know what? That's on them, not you. So I encourage you to find your safe place, whatever your safe place may be. To share, to talk, to find connection, to be open, to be honest, to be raw, to be vulnerable, to be authentic, to be all the things. And you never know. I believe in my heart of hearts, the good of sharing far outweighs the potential negativity of the ramifications that could come back.

So find your safe place. Have an amazing week. I hope everybody out there in Cadre verse just really. I saw that post about recharging ignite and this is going to be a great week for all of us. We have an excellent week of lineup of speakers that will be coming to you, our wellness experts live on the platform. Be on the lookout for amazing announcements. And we have a really, really big announcement in a little over a week. So excited to share that one with you as well. Come mid November, we have our first live event ever.

Our first live event ever in Minnesota. We're so excited about that. Myself, a bunch of other individuals here at Cadre are going to be coming together in order to be able to talk openly, honest, raw about feelings. So individuals like me, or maybe you feel like the only thing they do is go work out and sit in a bath or a cold bath. There's so much more to me, like feelings, depth, empathy, understanding. I'm a work in progress and I want to just try to improve for my family, my wife, my children.

And I need to go deeper and I need to find different ways and different modalities in order to achieve those goals. So with that being said, it's going to be an amazing event. It's going to be here in Minnesota. I hope you can attend. And last but not least, I just want to share the beauty that is the world. Look at that. Isn't it just utterly gorgeous? What a morning. So hope everybody has an incredible week. Take care of y'all. Bye bye now. And thanks for being a part of the journey with us. This is remarkable.