Wellness Routine

Well, hey, Cadre. Happy Friday. No matter where you are, no matter what time it is, I'm glad that you are here. My name is JC Lippold, and this is a wellness routine. m. Central standard time, we'll talk about little ways. Not little meaning simple, but little meaning maybe you'll do it, and you won't feel some big wow, some big change, some big shift in ways that you weave together, you being on your side. That's how I look at wellness. Wellness is the way that we say, hey, I am on my side. So for tonight's wellness routine, we are coming from the yard.

There's a little sauna, there's a little bonfire. The music's pumping. There's a little cold plunge right back there. And I'm here with fellow Cadre mates Luke and Anna and Shannon. And we are here spending time together. About six months ago, I didn't know these people. Luke shot me a message on LinkedIn one day saying, hey, we need to meet. And I'm like, okay, let's meet. About a month ago, me and Shannon grabbed a cup of coffee at a Starbucks, said, hey, let's meet. About three weeks ago, me and Anna got a cup of coffee at the anchor in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, and we met.

Hey, Marisa. Marisa. I remember when I met you at orange theory and that first time, we were people that didn't know each other yet. That's our wellness routine tonight, finding opportunities to spend time with people that you do not know yet. Hey, speak, wonder. How are you, my friend? Speak, wonder. We didn't know each other yet a handful of weeks ago, and all of a sudden, now I wait. I wait for the next time I get to spend time with you. A person in my life asked me on a phone call once, hey, JC, where do you find peace?

Kind of a big question for a phone call. And I thought for a hot second, but I already knew the answer. And I said, I find peace by spending time every day with people that I don't know yet. Culturally, we may call those people strangers. I choose to call them people that I do not know yet. When we spend time with people we don't know yet, we return to that genesis, to that core of who we are. There's no predispositions, there's no assumptions. There's no roles that we fit or expectations that we have to live up to.

Every time you spend time with someone you don't know yet, you have the opportunity to remember who you are. So who can you spend time with that you don't know yet? I said that to this person on the phone calls, like, yeah, I find peace by spending time with people I don't know yet. They responded with like, okay, that makes sense. Where do I find that? And I go, I have no idea. Because it doesn't count. If you join a volleyball league, there's a. There's something that connects you, right? You know that those people want to play volleyball.

If you go to a new social group, if you are going to any event where there's something that's bringing those people together around a shared talent or a shared interest, there's already something that connects them. But I'll tell you, picking up a conversation with someone at the coffee shop, the grocery store, the person walking down the street, sitting on a sauna bench with someone you don't know yet, and going, hey, that's it. Hey. It starts the opportunity for you to be with someone you don't know yet, and more so, for you also to be with the person that you've known for your entire life, and that's you.

So it's Friday night, where I am, wherever you are, consider sometime in the next 24 hours, let my voice kind of ring in your ear, going, all right, I'm gonna find someone I don't know, and I'm gonna smile at them. I'm gonna strip a conversation with them. It's kind of funny. People always say to me, it's like, jason, see, you know everybody. And my response is always, not yet, but I'm working on it. There is great power in connecting with people, learning the things that bind you together and seeing the opportunity for where life can take you.

And all of a sudden, you're grounded back within that core, back into who you are. I hope you have a great night. I'll be back here tomorrow morning and Sunday morning and also Sunday evening for our live Zoom call within space. Because we know in December, right. It's a really, really loud time often. m. Central Standard time. I'll be right here to hold that space. Speak wonder, Marisa. We'll see you guys later. Have a good one. Bye.