Livestream A Friend

Hi, guys. Good morning. It is Shannon from aloud. It is 09:00 on a Monday morning. Welcome. I'm in my kitchen. It's the beginning of the week, so, like many of you, this is my workspace. So I'm sitting down to start my day. Okay, so today is the beginning of a new segment, I guess. And it's really born out of the idea that we don't all have a voice in our lives telling us what we need to hear. And so that is what? Live stream a friend. That's where that concept came from. I'm someone who I really, for me, I know you probably all have heard of the love languages.

I love words of affirmation. So for me, that's something that's really important. And I'm sure there's many of you who have that as well. And we don't always hear that voice in the world. In fact, that is part of why Cadre exists, honestly. That's why we're building this community of people to reframe how we talk to each other, to reframe how we talk to ourselves. And so we want to be a different kind of voice. So I personally want to be a different kind of voice to you, too. So what does that mean?

It means that I'm going to be here every Monday morning as we all start our weeks and we go out into the world. You know, there's that expression of the Sunday scaries. And we go out into the world with sort of the pressure of what's ahead for us in that week. I know for many of us, I'm a mom. I have kids. It's what's on the plate. Where do I have to be? What appointments do I have to get to? If you don't have kids, you still have very incredibly full lives of expectations that you have to, you know, that you have to hold in that week.

Good morning, Risa. It's nice to see you. And so my intention here today is to be a place and a space for you to come and say, I just wish I could hear this as I start my week. And that might be something as little as, you're doing a fantastic job. It might be something as little as when you go into that meeting today, you've got this, you know exactly what to say. You are incredibly worthy of the place that you hold in that meeting. It might even just be something like, you're not alone. So I realize that today might not be the day when a lot of people come with something that they need to hear, said to them.

And that's okay. So what I'm going to say, in the absence of people asking me to say something for them or to them particularly, is I'm just going to say some truths that I know to be true as I go into this week. And so, one is that today is a day. Today is one day. And what that means is you can control right now. You can control how you show up in the next 3 hours until lunch. You can control kindness that you put into the world and the kindness that you receive back. And so don't put pressure on yourself to make everything the perfect day.

Don't. Good morning, G. Welley. Don't make yourself feel like this has to be the thing. And if you screw it up, the rest of your week is screwed up and the rest of your life is screwed up, because that's not how being a human being works. So I invite you to hear that message today. If you haven't heard it, you might make a mistake this week. You might make a mistake today, you might make a mistake in the next two minutes, and you're human, and that's fine. And then you just move on to the next thing.

Another thing you might need to hear this week as you go out into the world is that you're not stuck. So I know many people feel they might go into a job that they feel like isn't their calling, that isn't where they should be in the world. And I would say to you, you're not stuck. Right? So remember that. Take this day. Take this one day that you're going to this job that you don't love. Maybe you're surrounded by people that don't have the same values as you and take that moment and say, all right, I'm not stuck.

This is a day. How can I reframe this? How can I take a moment and maybe you take. Actually, G. Welley's on here today. So he's another Cadre contributor who helps us with goals. He does sports psychology work and it helps us set goals. So how can we look at, all right, I'm going to be in this job today that I don't like, and I'm going to be surrounded by these people that I don't feel like are my people. But what I could do is maybe I take five minutes on a break and I just note my values. What are my values?

So that you can start to take these little tiny, tiny steps towards a place that does feel more like you. So that's something else you can do today. Just remember that you're not stuck as you go out into the world. So that's it, friends, I will be here every Monday. I will be here to say the things. I will be here to be a phone a friend for you and to say the things you need to hear. So please come back and do that. But I think this week, my biggest thing that you need to hear, that I'd love for you to hear, is that today is just one day and you're going to make it through and you're going to do a beautiful job.

If you do the worst job in the world according to your brain inside your head, that tells you you need to be good or perfect or whatever, still rises tomorrow and you still have, you're human, and so you still have a chance to live more in alignment with the life you want to live after that. All right, everybody, thanks for joining Risa, thanks for joining Garrett. And see you guys later this week. I hope you do have a great week. m. And tomorrow we're going to talk about anxiety, loneliness, all the things that we think make us alone.

And I'm going to share some numbers with you. Go into the data, go into the science, I'll call it, of how big of a problem this actually is and how you're not alone and how so many of us live lives with things that are hard. So have a great week, everybody. We'll see you soon. And you're doing a fantastic job being exactly who you are. Have a great week. Bye.