Monday Motivation: Be Yourself. Be Ourselves.

I was so scared. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. It's Luke Monday. Motivation. Just deafening, deafening applause. It was sort of otherworldly experience. Been here since day one. I'm your chief motivational officer. I'm really excited about an amazing week here, but I thought I would start out with this classic track while we get ready here. Hope everybody's having a great day. It's Monday. It is Monday. Good morning, good morning, good morning. I'm starting to see all the names pop in. Heidi.

Stacy, Walt, Jennifer, Jules. Oh, it's always good to see everybody's faces. Happy Monday. Happy Monday listen to the tune for just a couple seconds while everybody starts rolling in. Hope everybody had a dynamic weekend. A phenomenal Mother's Day weekend. To all the mothers out there. I just hope you had a really special day. A really special day. Happy Monday Happy Monday is right. I just love this song so much, and it's just gonna lean in right to the conversations from the greatest showman. This is me.

Good morning. Good morning, Jules. All right, I'm going to pause that bad boy and let's start being ourselves. Being our authentic selves. You know, there's a lot of organizations, you know, that use words like vulnerable, authenticity, showing up as themselves, being oneself. And I posed this question to you today. Do you really show up this way? Do you truly show up? Authentic? Do you truly show up you? I always ask myself this. If I'm not hurting somebody else's feelings and I'm totally showing up as myself with my core values, so not hurting somebody else's feelings and showing up with my core values, would I make the same decision that I'm about to make?

Maybe it's even for myself sometimes, but specifically at work, right? If I'm not hurting somebody else's feelings and I'm leaning into the core values not only of myself, but hopefully the matching core values of an organization, do those things line up? Do those things line up? That somebody can truly be you? Can you really be you Monday at work? Can you really be you Tuesday at a meeting? Can you really be you Wednesday when you're taking that sales call? For eight years, Luke Wendland, myself personally, I showed up every day, suit and tie, sport coat, dressing away, because I thought it was like the way that I was supposed to dress as a business owner, as a business leader, etcetera.

It was like anything but authentic. The real me sometimes is shorts and a t shirt. The real me is a shirt like this. The real me is this. It's not that I can show you, and I'll take you through my wardrobe. Sometimes. Sometimes it's literally the same shirt every single day. Same pair of pants, same this. Because to me, you know that decision fatigue is not something that I want to bog myself down on because I know who I am. But it wasn't always that way. This is how we kickstart a week. That's right.

Let's go speak wonder, junk food junkie. Have a wonderful day. Have an amazing week. In a world of make believe, in a world where everybody can show up in a fake and phony lifestyle. I really, really ask you on Instagram, on TikTok, on Twitter, on Cadre, on anything. Like, are you you? And I seriously mean that. Like, are you really you? Are you the person that you want to be? Are you the person that ultimately you're happy that you show up as authentically, vulnerably open, honest, real? My wife and I actually had this conversation on Sunday.

The sermon that we went to is talking about, you know, authenticity and being yourself. And I I was talking to my wife, and she's like, how do you feel about that? And I was like, I'm 98% there. 98% there. Doesn't mean you don't fall. Doesn't mean you don't have issues. Doesn't mean you don't have problems. But here's. Here's the big but the 2% that I don't, not only do I know it, and I know I'm doing something that I don't believe in, I know I'm maybe not fighting, like, in an argument, fighting whatever words you want to use, conflict, showing up the way that I necessarily would want to.

And what do I mean by that is maybe I fold over. Maybe I lay over. Maybe I don't really say what I really mean. And my wife owes that. She's owed that from me to be me. Maybe at work, I just kind of, like, roll over a little bit if I feel away about something. So, again, 98% of the way there. But guess what? I do with that 2%. And I do it every time. I make sure I call the person. I make sure I address the situation. I say, hold up. I just have to let you know that, you know, that conflict that we had and we talked about ABCD.

I want to throw out an e there of what I really feel. I want to throw an e out there of, like, who I really am in this situation. So you're aware, you know, the average person lies eleven times a day. It doesn't mean it's the smallest lie, the biggest lie, anything. I think sometimes it's lying to ourselves about how we feel about situations. It doesn't mean you're saying this extravagant lie of something out there in the world, but something like you said, yes. When really you mean no. My mother, junk food junkie says, my mother taught me, be yourself.

Don't be a chameleon and change to suit other people just to fit in. It's really, really true. The thing of it is, though, junk food junkie, it's easier said than done. Otherwise our world would be invariably different. So I really ask you this question today, and I want you to think about this. I want you to process it, and I want you to say to yourself, am I truly showing up? Me, best of times, worst of times? Or am I even me? Do I know who I am? Is who I am aligning with the work values that I work in?

Do my coworkers really know me? Do my friends really know me? Does my family really know me? And I think what's going to end up happening a lot is you might actually say, no, they don't. And as scary as that is, I think it's also exciting. I think it's also exciting to be able to say, like, there's this fulcrum and it's going and it's going and it's like the teeter totter of life. And it's like if imagine just being in this teeter totter where you have to go, fake, phony, fake, phony, real, real, fake, phony, fake, phony, real, real, fake, phony.

And I just. I can't imagine what that must be like, what I do. I know I did it for a while. Until finally you just keep working and working and working, and you reach new heights because you're just you. And some people might not like you. Some people may love you. Some people may despise you. Some people may hate you. Some people may love you. All good. Don't worry about that. Just worry about, can I be me? The rest of this will work itself out. Thank you for showing up today. We have a phenomenal lineup.

JC, thanks for coming on this morning. And just let everybody educating again about the world, of what Cadre is, who we are, what we are, and what we're going to continue to try to do to change the world, which I believe we're not only doing, but we're expediting that speed at record speed. Number two, the cast that's coming on throughout the duration of the day, Mister Tappy Gene. JC as they continue to share their stories, leading vulnerably how to grow the next leaders bold followership. How do we lead authentically?

I really look forward to listening into those as well. Like I always say, like, I always try to take a bit in piece or a bit and nugget, you know, every single day with every one of our live stream folks that keep coming on the platform. Just because, you know, to me, I think one of the most important things is just consistent learning, whether it's oneself, about oneself, because if you can master you. I think the rest I'm not saying is easy, but it's easier. So I hope everybody has a phenomenal week.

I know there's an individual on this live stream right now that has a really, really, really big week. It's one of the cadres fear followers. She's been a part of this for a long, long time. She's getting married this weekend. And I just want to say, I wish you nothing but the best. And I know that one thing. I just want to tell you. So when I was proposing, not proposing, when I was asking my father in law for his daughter's hand in marriage, marriage, you know, he said this to me. He said, I want you to fall in love with my daughter over and over and over again.

And I just. I want you to remember that. Fall in love over and over and over again. Fall in love for the person that's the mother. Fall in love with the person who's the athlete. Fall in love with the person. Fall in love year over. Year over. Year over. Year. So happy wedding weekend coming up to the one and only miss Zobitz, which won't be anymore. Colleen, it's great to see you. Speak wonder junk food junkie. It's always the best. I live for Monday motivation, and I am going to finish off my way out as I exit with the one and only.

This is me, the greatest showman. I hope everybody has a dynamic week. Be good to one another. Love one another up. When I go running, I usually always just blast this song. All right, take care, guys. Have a dynamic week. Okay, bye bye. I am.