Monday Motivation: A Dream, 20 Years In The Making.

Good morning. What's up, Cadre? It's Luke here. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday. Hope you had a wonderful weekend. We'll give her a second here. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, Cadre family. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. Happy Monday. I can't wait to share this story with you guys today. It's so amazing. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Hope everybody had a dynamic, incredible weekend. Hold on one second, I'm gonna pause this bad boy.

There's a really great story about this. Foo Fighters, by the way, does. I'll just quick share the story real fast. It's amazing. So, David Letterman. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Jules. Good morning, Josh. Good morning, Sue. Good morning, Beth. Live from the Cadre mobile. Let's go, junk food Junkie Sarah. Oh, my gosh, I love it. This is amazing. It's a great day. Great start to the day. So Foo Fighters, quick story about Foo Fighters. David Letterman was doing his last show ever. So always remember this when you.

When you change somebody's life or show up for somebody. So David Letterman, last show ever. Foo Fighters were in China on tour. And Dave asked the Foo Fighters specifically, will you come for the last show? Will you come? There's a song that means so much to me. It's that everlong song right there. And he, through his heart attack and whatnot, he listened to that song over and over and over again. And so when it was his last show ever, Dave Letterman reached out to the team at Foo Fighters asking him if they could please make it to the last show to play the song.

And they regretfully declined and said, sorry, we can't make it. We're on tour. Da da da da da. The next day he gets a phone call and it's from the manager of the squad, from the manager of the team saying, just talk to the guys. They are going to postpone the tour and they'll be there. Isn't that an amazing story? Just makes me so happy. But okay, so dream 20 years in the making. Dream 20 years in the making. What the h*** does that mean? My brother in law is wicked smart. D*** near Rhodes scholar, wicked smart kid.

He's always been somebody who has taken academics number one and maybe athletics, friendships, etcetera, Kind of in the back burner because he had big goals and dreams. And so he left the iron range of northern Minnesota and went off to college at Carleton College in Northfield. It's a wicked smart private school here in Minnesota. We always call it the Harvard of the Midwest. Great, great School. And he had bigger dreams, which was to ultimately, you know, lead or be part of a leadership team of a Fortune 500, Fortune Thousand company.

And so always just remember this when your dreams don't come fast enough. So, you know, he started working out in Boston, and after he was done in Boston, he then went to Chicago, and when he was done in Chicago, he went to Singapore, and when he was done in Singapore, he went to Switzerland. What he's done in Switzerland, he came back to Minnesota. When he was done in Minnesota, he went over to England and just now. And it's really cool to see his house with all the pictures of the different places he's worked.

And of course, with him and his wife and now his beautiful son Casper, which is my nephew. It's really exciting to say that he's worked 20 years for this promotion. He has been named, and it's all public knowledge on Friday, but one of the largest security system companies in our world, fire system, you name it, called API, based here in Minnesota. He has been named the CFO of the organization. So I really want you to take a step and think about your goals, your dreams, your ambitions, and to think like, man, can I possibly, you know, lean into this ability to be patient and enjoy the process?

Can I? Can I. Can I lean into the fact that my dream might take six months, my dream might take two years, my dream might take 20 years? He's worked so hard for this moment. To all these different places he's worked by all these different places. I mean, he worked like he's transitioned globally because he's had to make sure that his resume can basically dot every I and cross every T. Have you led a global company on finance? Have you done xyz? Have you done. In order to achieve the goal of a fortune, thousand API right in our backyard?

It's in business Wire. His name is David Jackala. And I'm just. I'm so proud of him that. I mean, I remember when I met him 13 years ago, you know, he said, like, my goal and my dream someday is to. To lead a large organization here in our backyard and be a leader of their finance team. And sure enough, he made it happen. So I really, really, really need everybody on this call. By call, I mean live, to think about your goals and your dreams. And sometimes do you get frustrated when they don't happen right away?

Guilty. I do. I'm trying to enjoy the process. I'm trying to put the process over outcome. I'm trying to do all that. But I would be Lying to you if I wouldn't say, like, I want some things now. And I'm living in that instant gratification world. But I'm so proud that my brother in law, to flip side the coin, has put so much time, effort and energy into his dream and achieving it never stopped, never quit. When it got hard and when it got tough, I'm sure he got knocked down. But he always picked himself up back up because he had these big dreams and goals.

And I'll never forget he flew back to Minneapolis and I'm sitting there and I was at his house, I'm chatting with him and he told me, he's like, I got some news. It's very, very confidential. I just want to tell you this. And I just gave him the biggest hug and I said, I'm so proud of you. And I say, I know how hard you've worked to try to achieve this dream and goal. So think about that and think about that with your big dreams and with your big goals. And it could be something as simple as losing weight, quitting smoking, quitting drinking, going after the big goal that you have.

Maybe it's your big masogi that I'm going to be talking about here soon, in the coming weeks. But what out there that you're working on right now that maybe you're only around first base and you still have second, you still have third and you still have to get to home and you're maybe you're not even to first base, right. Like I'll give an example. Cadre. My big goal of Cadre is that we are in a household name in every single house in the United States. And beyond that this is a desired platform for many hundreds and hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people to show up on and have this be a safe spot for them to arrive to in their own mental health journey or whatever journey that they may be on.

And I know that's year's dream, I do. But we're gonna get there and you know, year one, year two, year three, and here you just got to take a look at and say like my gosh, he was probably, you know, in an internship in Boston working for so and so at the time. So everybody, we can't forget your sister. She was also on board for his dream of supporting him. Oh yeah, that's right. We can't forget your sister. She was also on board for his dream and support him in so many ways. Yep, my sister in law has absolutely been there and been a rock for him to be able to make sure that these dreams can be possible 100%.

In fact, my text message to her basically said that I'm so proud of David and you and all the things that, you know, it takes for. Yep, that's right. Josh says truth takes a village 100%. Right on. You know, even, even like again, I'm using myself in this perspective. Like cadre's nowhere without everybody on this call. Everybody that's helped supporting by call. I gotta quit saying that this live. It's nowhere without everybody. And all the individuals that have taken a village for him. It's the same as mentors, as coaches, all those individuals that help support him and guide him and lift him up.

And I have a feeling there's probably one person, there's probably this one person that maybe said, I don't know if this is the right decision, David. I don't know if this is right. I don't know. You know, probably could have taken the easy way out and stayed at that role in Chicago when he was the interim XYZ. Right. 100%. But you know, keeping keeping that gas pedal down on your dreams and goals is really, really critical. So I'm going to take that today and I am going to ensure that I always put an asterisk on my dream to say not yet, not yet.

I'm getting there but not yet. It's my asterisk. So I hope everybody has a wonderful day today. And I really just think about this story and maybe sharing this story with your kids. A brother, a sister, an in law, colleague, you name it. To think like 20 years in the making to have a moment of time when you're named that person now you actually got to do the work. And I asked him, I said so what's this going to be like the magnitude compared to your last job, like 1x2x he's like oh, 10x that. So I'll all all to take on more, you know, take on more with that big dream.

But and I'm sure everybody on this call has big dreams too. All right, you all have an amazing day. I got started off right today. I went straight to Embrace North. I jumped in the sauna, I did the cold plunge. It was a wonderful, dynamic start to my day. I'm riding those unbelievable for me, endorphins, my cortisol, everything's just feeling really, really great right now. I'm feeling awesome. I hope you are too. Fist pump to this week. Let's go. It's going to be an amazing week. And when Thanksgiving rolls around for you all.

I also want to say that it is important that grief and I know we always want to stay positive, stay positive but I just want everyone to know grief during this time is cool too. Grief during this time is cool too. Maybe it's a moment of silence, maybe it's the post, it's the Cadre post, right? Like take this moment in for what you need and I hope everybody has an opportunity to relax, rejuvenate, recalibrate, rewind, whatever it takes for you in this moment right now and live Thanksgiving up this year for you and your family and everybody that you love in your life.

So with that being said, remember that story of my brother in law and remember Thanksgiving that there's always this beautiful, beautiful side to it and there's also somebody sad too and know that that's okay. All right have a wonderful week you guys. Take care, enjoy it and next time you listen to Everlong that story.