Cadre Today and The Outward Facing Clique

Well, hey there, Cadre. Good morning. Happy second good morning of the week. Happy Tuesday. And good morning meaning that I'm glad to see you, not good morning, meaning that you need to be having a good morning to be here. I'll go ahead and wait a few moments, as always, to allow people to move into the proverbial room, and then we'll chat. It's Cadre today. It's always Cadre today. That's part of the reason why you get to see my weird looking mug seven days a week. Matt Tappy. Good morning, my friend.

Nice to see you. Shannon, jewel. Speak one. Oh, my gosh. The crew is in the house. Well, hey, my name's JC. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to share time and space with you. Good morning, Jules. Good morning, Shannon. Good morning, everybody. Or if you're watching this later, which, remember, you can watch live streams whenever you want. Part of my daily routine is before I log on for Cadre today, I watch a ripe livestream. I watch a live stream from sometime in the past, and it inspires me as live streams do.

So in doing so, what you get with Cadre today is a little perspective on what's coming up and a little recap on something you may have missed. So, first of all, it's a big day, y'all. One of my favorite humans. I got to have breakfast with this person a few years ago, and I just asked, I was like, hey, can I take you to breakfast and just ask you a bunch of questions because I want to learn from you. And she said, of course. So we went to uptown diner in Minneapolis, and I got to learn from one of my favorite people, Betsy Hodges, who has been the mayor of Minneapolis and is a global force in helping people shift their lens in the things that make humans different.

Honestly, one of my favorite humans I've ever gotten to know. m. today, you're gonna see Betsy live for the first time. m. betsy Hodges will be right here, central standard time. And then at noon, who I chatted about last week on Cadre today, the wonderful Doctor Leslie Davis. So you got Doctor Leslie coming from down Missouri. You got Betsy Hodges coming to us from Washington, DC, and you got me sitting here in Minneapolis, y'all. Cadre connects lots of people in lots of different places doing lots of different things, and you are one of them.

And sometimes being around different people can make you a little anxious. So often on Tuesdays I talk about the idea of the outward facing click. You know, on Tuesdays we talk about community, right? How do we build it? How do we use what we have as humans to connect with what other humans have? That's what community is. Well, normally I talk about this idea of the outward facing click, which was born of ideas that I came up with when I was youth directing. But those ideas were born of me being an anxious, scared kid who never felt incredibly safe and grounded going to school.

Well, on Wednesday mornings, you can listen to doctor Christina Cohen. Doctor Christina Cohen, wonderful therapist and founder of a community called therapy suites that brings therapists together in a space where they can learn from one another and co work together and the like. Well, anyways, last week on Doctor Christina's livestream, Doctor Christina spoke about the first day of school and how if you are a parent, I am not. I am one of those individuals who feels called to help other people raise their kids rather than having my own.

But if you are a parent, Doctor Christina gives some wonderful advice on how to prepare your kid for the first day of school. And the headline is, hey, make sure that you don't go into the negative spiral with your kid of all the things that can go wrong on the first day of school or all the anxiety on the first day of school. But Doctor Christine also makes the point, reminds adults who often need to be reminded of things, I would say more so than kids, that it takes a good 30 days on average for the average person to establish a new routine.

So it makes absolute sense that your kid is going to be nervous walking into school when they've been out of that routine for three months. So here's something that you can do with your kids. But also, I've already done this with myself. This morning. Doctor Christina said to ask your kid, and I would say to ask yourself, hey, what are three things that you're excited about for the first day of school? Or when I asked myself this morning, hey, what are three things that you're excited about for today?

And then all of a sudden doctor Christina says, hey, and also, what's one thing you're nervous about, what's one thing that's scaring you out of your pants because it provides you the opportunity to validate, to be real. What do we do at Cadre? You're going to see contributor after contributor being very real. We're never going to be in a studio. We're never going to be doing our makeup and setting our light. You will always see if I'm in my office, this old light glowing from the ceiling. You're going to see me probably with hair sticking out on the side.

You're going to see me wearing my legalized emotional eating shirt. Guess what? We're real. And so are your kids. And so are you. So if you need a little validation, check today. What are three things you're excited about? What's one thing you're nervous about? If your kids starting to shake because first school is showing up and they're sad. They don't want summer to end. And also they don't know who they're gonna sit with in the lunchroom. They don't know if they're gonna like their teachers. What are three things that you're excited about, kid?

What's one thing that you're nervous about? Shannon here says my kids surprise me. And their strength and all of that. It's something I never had and appreciate in them. Yeah, Shannon, you know what I think? For all the ways that school is getting harder nowadays for young people, I think one of the things that's happening is our kids are also getting more resilient and more capable and more mature. Whether that's because they have to, or whether it's because they've been in a space where talking about mental health is more normalized.

Talking about what you're feeling is more normalized. Those things pay dividends. Jewel says my family tradition for the first day of school is that I always drive them there versus them riding the bus. Yeah, those types of things. Like, like Jules, the kids may say, here. Here are the three things I'm excited about. And one of those may be our tradition of you driving me to school. Like building in those things that are innately positive or innately special. Really, really allow your kids to say, and here's the stuff that's making me crap my pants.

Like, here's the thing that I'm not looking at. Looking, you know, looking forward to. Nuffy lover sue, nice to see you, my friend. Speakwonder says kids students are often their own advocates. Join Luke Agnesha's live. Yes. If you listen to Luke's live yesterday he told the story about Drew. And I will tell you, I checked in with how Drew's meeting went and Luke said it went wonderful. If you're like, who's drew? Drew is luke's eleven year old son. And if you're going, what meeting? I'm going to invite you to watch luke's livestream yesterday.

Y'all. Cadre is a. Well, you know, if you go, gosh, what's jaycee gonna talk about literally seven days a week when he bops in? Cadre is a verb. It's not a noun. It's an evolution. It's a constant changing. Skydeheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh and guess what? Every single time that your brain goes, mmm, I need something for me right now. Here's the place to go. Click into the ease that social media provides right here into the Cadre sphere.

And you are going to find contributors who are professionals and peers in lots of different ways, who are fostering a community, and in that community, offering resources like their experience and conversation and connectivity to show you that there are many ways to wellness. That's what we do, y'all. m. central Standard Time. You'll see Leslie Davis, Doctor Leslie Davis, for a little coffee chat at noon Central Standard time. And by golly, you are now ten minutes less than 24 hours until you see my ugly mug tomorrow morning.

Have a good one, y'all. I'm gonna throw out a little bit of music like I normally do. You know, if you don't know this about me, I'm a Broadway guy. I love story through music. This is a little instrumental epilogue from the musical Illinois. So if you need a moment of music, hang around, close your eyes, give yourself one more breath. Speak, wonder. I love me some Broadway. Two. Speak, wonder. What's your favorite musical? Everybody else, if you're a musical theater person, throw out your favorite musical.

I love getting to know you. There's something about music that makes you feel. It's like, wait, is there music going, or is that just the playlist? In my mind, as we hear that little pattern again and again and again. Ah, Les Mis. Yes. Do you hear the people sing, my friends? Do you hear the cadres Singh? I will leave you with that wonderful idea. Newsies. Seize the day, y'all. Our Yden.