Monday Motivation: Growth. EVERYONE CAN DO IT.

Good morning, good morning. Grand to be on hand. Good morning, good morning to you. Doo doo doo. Good morning, Cadre. It's Luke here. Hope everybody's having an amazing start to your week. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. Let's give it a minute here while people start to arrive on the live stream. Hope everybody's having a wonderful, wonderful day. Good morning, good morning. Good morning, everybody. It is Monday. It's Monday. Good morning. Oh, my gosh. There's all the names I see. One after another after another, popping in.

Happy Monday, everybody. Hope everybody had a great weekend. Good morning, good morning, good morning. Oh, what a great day. What a great day. Good morning, Steph. Erwin. Oh, my gosh. This is amazing. Jungfu junkie. Good morning. I just see so many unbelievable people that are hopping in on a Monday, sharing space with me again. My name is Luke Wendtlandt. I am the founder of Cadre. It is an honor and a privilege to be here with you all. Good morning. How are you today? Good. It's going to be a great day.

I just want to bring forward a story to you today that I think we all can resonate with. And it's about my eleven year old son. It's about my eleven year old son, Drew. You guys ready for this? So Drew suffers with generalized anxiety disorder and he finds his class in his classroom in the school district to be pretty chaotic. Right? Not saying that every class and every school is, but he would prefer a really, really small setting for his learning and his appetite for growth. He says sometimes he gets.

It's almost like the adds type of stuff, too much stuff. And he can't learn. And he can't learn well. So he was talking to my wife, and I, mind you, my wife is, you know, an educator herself at public schools. Send the sunshine to Vermont, please. I love it. And my wife's an educator in the public school system. And, you know, Drew's asking, like, I think I need a change heading into 6th grade. And, you know, my wife and I sat him down and we both said, like, we. We respect this. Right? We respected that.

You may need a change, but neither one of us have the bandwidth to be able to support this right now. You know, we have other kids. My wife is going back to school. My bandwidth with work and all the things going on, I can't lead that right now for him. Not much to his chagrin, but rather taking the opportunity to say, all right, I'm gonna figure this out myself. m. riding his bike over to meet with, you know, call it principal, provost, director, whatever word, you know, you'd save for the school.

And he's gonna, he's gonna meet with them and then he's gonna make an educated and informed decision if he needs a change of school. m. and mind you, the enrollment period is closed so this would have to be an exception. But yet Drew's willing to try and he's willing to be super uncomfortable and he's willing to send the email and he's willing to give it a try. And my take is, what if mom and dad would have done it for him? What if mom and dad would have said, we got this. We'll set up a meeting, we'll meet with the individual, we'll go over it and see if this is right for you.

We'll figure it out for you. I mean, what win would that have been for him? Honestly, it wouldn't have. There's no win there. Like, if he wants to make this change as eleven years old, 6th grade, and he wants to do something that is going to benefit him in his life that he feels is needed or necessary, I'm going to ensure that. We'll give you every resource to try to make that happen. But it needs to be on you. It needs to be on you. And so I'm gonna let him. I'm gonna let him fail if that's failure.

Whatever. I mean, there's no fail here. Like, there's literally no fail. There's nothing that is, like, even using that four letter word I think is just kind of brutal sometimes in life. But there's no wrong here. Like, he may go through this process and continue at his old school district, he may go through this process and move on to the new school district. Whatever it is, he won because he tried. He got super uncomfortable. He's doing things that he's never done before. And it's brave, it's open, it's honest, it's authentic, it's relatable.

And I really want to push you all to ask what could be your drew moment this week? What could be your drew momentous that you, you maybe put yourself in this, like, insanely uncomfortable spot that. That you're gonna learn a lot about yourself in the journey. Or maybe it's your kids that maybe you're not going to do something for them and you're gonna say, son, daughter, he her. They theme. This one's on you. You know, this, this, this one's on you, you know, this one's on you to try to figure out.

This one's on you. I'll support you. I'll be here. You know, I can. I can still be the net underneath to ensure that you feel emotionally safe, psychologically safe, all the things. But maybe this one's on you or this is just on you, period. Either or is good. So I want to challenge you this weekend for your drew moment. I think it's. This is one of those stories that I will never forget. I'm 43 years old and this was about as proud, powerful moment of my life. Like, I learned so much from my eleven year old in this experience.

I was like, oh, my gosh, like, I can't believe he's doing this. So I want to challenge you this weekend, so go make it happen. And then, you know, number two, I just wanted to say there's a lot going on in our lives, right? There's a lot going on in our lives. And through this story again, we can multiply human beings. What does that mean? Like, we can multiply managing and micromanagement, not leadership. Let me say that again. Management and micromanagement is not leadership. Leading is leading.

Leading is multiplying. Leading is taking Drew and saying, you got this, you got this. I'll be here. I'll make sure you're safe, make sure all the things so at work use this story too. Like, am I, am I, am I managing too tight? Am I managing too close? Or do I just need to let someone kind of, like, open their wings and fly out of the nest, you know, as one of my direct reports or someone that I work with or whatever that looks like. But I encourage y'all to take this story and run with it. And in your life today, man, did I learn from this eleven year old.

And I think you can, too. So have a wonderful week, you guys. Lift somebody up, find a way to figure out your school, whatever school that might be, who knows? Might be a new job, might be, you know, reading a book, might be going for a walk, might be starting to run. Who knows? But uncomfortability sure does drive growth, doesn't it? Have a wonderful week, you guys. Take care. Lift somebody up. Be good to one another. Take in the rest of this week of this amazing, amazing live streams that we have coming and look for a Cadre event coming towards you in the near future.

This is going to be fun. We got a couple right in our backyard here in Minneapolis St. Paul. Who knows, you might even want to fly in for it. So take care, you guys have a wonderful week. Bye.