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Well, hey, good morning, Cadre coming to you live from the Mazda. I'm getting ready to head into facilitating a session with a group of leaders today. And even though it's not professional development day, it's mental health day right here. Wednesday. In the Cadre sphere, I love how everything ties together. My name is JC if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend a few minutes with you. Write now. Lisa Mack Ball out. How are you, everybody? Nice to see y'all.

Robert, nice to see you, my friend. So, like I say, on Wednesdays, we talk the big bucket of mental health. That doesn't mean, right, that it isolates us from other topics, but quite the contrary, right? I'm getting ready to head in and spend time with 15 leaders as we look at their year ahead and where they're going as an organization. And of course, what's at the heart of that, all the things that they use. Sarah Jo, nice to see you. Jules, nice to see you, sunshine. If we don't start from the things that move us, right, our thoughts, our feelings, those intangibles, the things that we care about, we end up not getting to where we can go to.

So here's my mental health speed bump from yesterday. It was a day where I had a lot of things on my schedule where people reached out. They're like, hey, would you be able to help us with X? And I love saying yes for a couple reasons. Number one, I love saying yes. I love being a part of things and seeing what I end up seeing. You know, as a coach and consultant, I spend a lot of my time on the outside looking in. And not only do others find that perspective valuable, but I love that perspective.

I love getting to look into worlds and go, huh, what about this world? Yesterday, I facilitated a session for Women in Student Transportation, this organization that brings together female identifying humans who work in driving buses and getting kids from A to B. And at the end of the day, I sat at the piano bench and I held space for people who are in mourning and loss. And this time of year when it seems like everybody's happy and all three of these things were things that I said, yeah, yeah, I'd love to help.

And I never talked about compensation or getting paid for any of these things. And there was about, let's say, 40% of me, 20% that was really angry at myself and like, oh, no. Like, you should be paid for your time. You should be paid for your time. I was like, 20% mad at them being like, how dare they ask me to do something without honoring my time, you know, these very human things and I'm risking to be very human right now. That's kind of what we do at Cadre. The other 60%, I was like, no, like, I love doing these things.

I'm glad to help. And you know what? I got to the end of the day and also in this day was about a million other things. So I was just also busy and stressed. I got to the end of the day and I was like, this was the best thing I could have done for myself right now. Me being incredibly selfless was exactly what I selfishly needed for a couple reasons. Number one, how often do we benefit from taking a little bit of time and pressure and focus off of ourselves when we're working on ourselves? But number two, we often think one side of the spectrum, oh, I need to be incredibly selfish because I need to take care of myself, or I always need to be selfless.

I need to do nothing for myself and everything for everybody else because that's what good people do. And in reality, I've never found anything in this world that is binary. Do this, don't do this. I've never found that thing. Especially when it comes to energy in, energy out. I always love using this made up word lessish. If we don't keep ourself in both the selfless and the selfish moments, we lose ourself. If you take out the self from both of those words, you're left with L, E, S, S, I, S H.

Lessish. Are you feeling lessish today? If so, be a little bit more selfish and be a little bit more selfless and see what happens. Y'all, it's so nice to spend a few minutes with you this morning, but you're going to see a wonderful docket of individuals contributors coming on in the live streams as well. You can click into any of these communities which I think are right up there on your screen and go, gosh, you know what? I'm really needing a big scoop of X today. Click on it and you'll see specified content, pre recorded and community feed and live streams and Q&As.

And as of last week, I now host a once a week Cadre Today interview and next week we get a double shot. I'm going to be interviewing Luke Wetland, founder of Cadre on Monday and then on Wednesday, one of my favorite humans, Betsy Hodges, former mayor of Minneapolis and just a world changer when it comes to how we look at ourselves and those others than us and how we maybe have to do a little bit of self work in order to really be living as a global citizen. So Monday, Luke, Wednesday, Betsy. Every day right here, 24 hours a day, we have the Cadre sphere spinning for.