Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Well, good Monday morning, everybody. How are you? By golly, I hope you're good. I'm sitting down at my desk looking at some residue from Friday that's still here. Listen to a little music before we talk. Cadre. Today I'm free in my mind. This is an artist. Oc Elliot, Carissa, Leslie, how are you? Nice to see you guys. How's your morning going? Be honest. Is it a good morning? Is it a cruddy morning? Let me know I am free I'm free in my mind I am free hey, Steph. I'm free in my mind in a dream beezabits, Steph.

Cadre crew, how are you? It's another week. If your week starts on Monday, that is, if your week starts on a different day of the week, or if today is the weekend for you, or if you are on vacation. BMC, how are you? I hope you're good. I say that a lot, right? I see you, I get excited, and then I say, I hope you're good. But know this, even if you're not good, that's okay, too. The prerequisite for being in the Cadre sphere is that you are a person who's doing something really good for yourself.

It's almost as if every time you log into Cadre, you're taking a little retreat. That's the word for today. Retreat. To step out of what is normal, to reset, to rediscover, to do a lot of res. And if we think about it that way, retreat, rediscover, recalibrate all of the re's. If you take off the r in retreat, a retreat is a treat. And it's not hard to take a retreat now, again, to take like a week long sabbatical to, you know, someplace warm and sunny or someplace with mountains and running water, maybe that's hard.

But for you to go ahead and take, take some time is actually something you can do every single day. This idea comes from our friend Jean Nichols, contributor, who will be jumping in later today with a live stream, you know, on Cadre today, which is what you're viewing into right now. Every single day, I take some time to watch content from a contributor and to share what I learned. So there's a pre recorded video. It's four minutes long. It's beautiful. Jean is sitting on the top of a mountain somewhere.

You need to check it out. And it's called retreat. And in this moment, in this four minutes, Jean talks about how taking a retreat, whether it be the example she uses, is going to an art museum. You know, for a while, I used to organize what I would call short term sabbaticals. There's a city about two and a half hours north of where I live in Minneapolis where I would talk to businesses, and I'm like, hey, businesses give me stuff that I could build into this short term sabbatical. And then I would go on tv and I would raffle off these two day, mid week sabbatical trips on Lake Superior in a very hilly part of the state where we don't have a lot of hills.

So I look at them almost as Minnesota mountains. And people would have these two day trips where they would still work. They would maybe still log into meetings and do whatever, but they would take this time to go ahead and reset, rediscover all of the Reese. You know, me watching a four minute video that gene put together was like a retreat for me because it allowed me, here's how Jean says it. To step in to who I am. So often when we're doing the work, so often when we're filling the role or the responsibility that we have.

I'm speaking to all y'all right now. Luke and Steph and Jules and everybody that I can't see because I would have to scroll up and my phone would fall over. Who are you outside of the responsibilities that you have? Who are you outside of the role that you fill? Who are you outside of the things that you get really good at doing over and over and over again? What we end up finding is with a little retreat, we can step into who we maybe optimally are again and again. And who benefits from that? Everybody does.

So this song that I'm playing by OC Elliot is from my playlist called Duluth. Every time I drive north to that short term sabbatical city, this is the playlist that I listen to. And even listening to this song for a few minutes allows me the opportunity to dive back in. To dive back into who I am. So coming up later today, everybody, you had a lot of opportunities to learn and connect with professionals and peers who are building a community and offering you resources to a world wellness that has a lot of pathways to get there.

So as I hit play again, get ready in about 20 minutes to hear from Luke. You'll see Gene later on today, and Daryl and Jason and Imtiaz. So many people to retreat to. To find yourself. I am free I'm free in my mind. Where are you gonna go today? Where can you retreat to? What do you need in this moment on this professional development day? This day when we talk about what we do. Maybe what you do today is you return to who you are, driving down the road, stepping into your backyard, going for a cup of coffee at a new coffee shop you've never been to before.

Wherever you are, everybody know that Cadre is with you. I'll talk to you later.