Monday Motivation:Santa Monica To New York City.

Well, the world is on earth. Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday. We are back Monday morning Monday motivation. Repeat the sounding joy. Repeat the sounding joy. Gosh, it doesn't get much better than that. Just Christmas Christmas music, Christmas sound. We are here live at the the Butter Tin. Hope everybody's having a wonderful start to their day. We got this beautiful music in the background. It's beautiful. It's beautiful. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. I'm seeing all the names pop in.

It's always one of my favorite parts of the week is Monday morning and seeing all the folks joining the lives. Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Hope everybody had a wonderful weekend. I sure did. Cheers to you and yours all. Really excited to share the message today. So again, my name is Luke Wendtlandt. I've been here since day one at Cadre. What a dream it's been over the years to be able to develop, build and see this grow to where it is today. Super exciting. We also had a big, big change in the app.

So if anybody has not updated your app, I would highly suggest you do that as soon as possible. It is world class how we've turned everything into the community groups. I think you're going to love it. But my message today is leaving from Santa Monica to New York, right? You, maybe you just got married, maybe you're starting a business or maybe you're in this thing called life. Maybe you're in this thing called life, right? And you show up to Santa Monica, maybe it's by yourself, maybe it's with somebody else, maybe it's with a business.

Maybe it's something that you're showing up to Santa Monica with, right? You got your car, you got your gas, maybe it's electric. And you're on your way out of the pier, right? You're on your way out of the pier and you think the destination you're going to is New York City. You think that's your destination. And you start going. And before you know it, you hit Utah. And you get to Utah, you pop a tire. You pop a tire, you replace the tire. You're out of money. You have to drive all the way up to Seattle.

You work your way back down to Colorado. In Colorado, you get a new vehicle. You go through. You go through Colorado, you drive down to Texas, you work your way through there, you meet somebody who helps you get back on track. Back to like maybe Kansas, right? And in Kansas, you're able to drive 75 for a while. 75, 80 miles an hour. It's smooth until all of a Sudden, you have this big snowstorm that comes in, and when the snowstorm comes in, it kicks you up to Buffalo. You stay there for a month, right?

You stay there for a month. You're trying to figure out where to go from there. And then, believe it or not, you completely veer off course and you're nowhere near New York City, but you actually end up in the beautiful area of Maine. And so now here you are in the Maine mountains, and where you thought you were going to be was New York City, and you end up in Maine. In life. Whose life does that sound like? Mine. Right. Thought I was going to end up here. Thought 20, 30, 40 years from now was going to be in New York City.

Not really New York City, but saying, like, the direction of life, this path of life. And a lot of people enter business this way, too, where they're gonna start a business, they think they're gonna start an enterprise, and they believe that it'll just go from Santa Monica, smooth sailing, all the way to New York City. And speak wonder says, sounds like my life. Exactly right. And I can tell you, I can rest assure you, looking at the hat, looking at the growth Cadre, I'm sure you're all going to say, well, you're heading straight to New York City.

Well, the reality is we've done all of that. We've went up to Washington, we went back down to Texas, we went to New Mexico. We've been through. We hit so many potholes along the way and then some. And the best part about it is I'm proud that we've hit the potholes. I'm proud that we've went through that stretch because it builds resiliency. And when you can become resilient, not only in life, business, in a relationship, in a marriage, partnerships, colleagues, friendships, you name it, you have this way of saying, like, no, we have a flat tire, or we need gas, or I need.

Or let's take it easy and go smooth for a little bit. So I encourage you to all take a step back and look at the duration of your life thus far. Wherever you may be, wherever you may be, middle of Kansas, northern Ontario, south Mexico, wherever it is. Not just literally and figuratively listening to this, but as you cross the United States, and I'm using that as, like, our life parallel, you'll end up exactly where you're supposed to go. Let me say that again. As you leave this thing called life of leaving, called West Coast, east coast, you are exactly where you're supposed to be right now.

Whether you can see that as a gift or see that with gratitude or see that with envy, jealousy, fright, all the words that sometimes make us disgusting as human beings at times, to tweak that and change that into a narrative that, you know, this marriage has been really, really hard. This business has been really, really hard. This life has been really, really hard. But I'm right where I need to be right now. And there's beauty in that. There's beauty of owning that. Right? Somebody might be in debt, somebody might be getting a divorce.

Somebody might be going through. Somebody might be going through a bunch of stuff. And it's like us, you know, running this enterprise that we call Cadre Life is what happens. You had life is what happens when you had other plans. How right on is that? But it's again, you know, looking at this love of ours, which is the Cadre Enterprise, you know, again, the perfect route from Santa Monica to New York City doesn't exist. I knew that going in. I've done this before. I built an enterprise before. I know what this is like.

But a lot of folks that enter into spheres like this of professional growth, entrepreneurialship, you name it, this can be new for a lot of folks. And so, again, I want you all to think about your journey of where you're at. And know if you are in the desert, the Mojave Desert right now, and you are struggling to breathe, or you are in the beautiful landscape that is Asheville prior to. Around Asheville prior to the hurricanes, like, either one of them is good. Either one of them is good. Remember that, because I think we always feel when things get hard, it's not good.

And I disagree. There's beauty and comfort. We just had a conversation about this. There's beauty and comfort. There's also beauty knowing that you can be resilient to go through, to get back to comfort, too. Okay? So as you're on your stretch of life here, just know you are where you're supposed to be. And I look forward to you ending wherever your end is. If it's the tip of Maine, if it's South Florida, it's Mid Charleston. C. who knows where you're going to end up on the East Coast. But it's going to be a beautiful spot for you and a beautiful journey.

Enjoy life. Enjoy this thing called life. Take it in, love it up, live it up. And just know those setbacks are beautiful. There's beauty in our fellow sojourners, correct? That's right. Speak. Wonder all right, y' all have a wonderful, wonderful week. I look forward to all of you updating the app and checking out what this amazing team at Cadre has developed and built. It is. It is just pure gold. I love it. I love it so much. I hope you do, too. And I look forward to sharing many, many more Mondays with you on this journey of life.

Take care, y' all. Peace.