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Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing, Cadre? It's gonna feel real good. Gonna make a difference. Gonna make it right. How are we doing? Hey, Luke. Nice to see as we are showing up a little MJ in the background today. Vis a bit. Okay. We'll wait to listen to the build up in the chorus until the end of Cadre today. Today. How are we doing, everybody? I hope you are good and if you're not, I think that's okay too. Hey, Shannon, Nice to see you, my friend. As we come together again and again and again, know that there is hope that you are doing good, Andrea, and that if you're not doing good, that there is a remembrance that that is a okay.

Even though it may not feel like it right, it is a okay to be how you are doing right here, right now. Luke says that the morning news is light years better than hearing about the wildfires, deaths, etc. In our world. Thanks for lifting my spirits, not other way around. Yeah, because the thing is, hopefully Cadre is one of those places that allows you to fill your gas tank so you can go ahead and deal with what do we do in this world. It's going to feel real good and then it's going to make a difference.

I played the right song this morning, y'all. Because sometimes we think we have to ignore the world or step outside of the world in order to exist healthily. And maybe there's truth in that in moments, right? We often talk about putting the self in both the selfish and the selfless. It seems like the world says we're not supposed to ever be selfish and that we're always supposed to be selfless. What happens when we do that? Well, we burn out. So in the selfless moments, we end up being not present.

So there's no self in the selfless. And because we're always hiding ourselves when we're being selfish, because we're not supposed to be, there's no self within the nourishing, selfish moments. So what are we left with? If we take the self out of both of those words, we're left with less from selfless and we're left with ish from selfish. We're left feeling less ish. So I like Luke's prompt this morning. Right. Hopefully being here right now is something that helps lift your spirits so then you can walk back into the world with the wildfires, the deaths, the wars, the so and so forth, and exist in the midst of that.

Because in reality, we do exist in the midst of that, y'all. On Wednesdays we talk about mental health every day. For since last Thursday, we've been highlighting a different one of our communities, right? If you go up into the corner and you pull down, you now see there are different communities. A community is something that you can be a part of, that you may choose to be a part of because the topic resonates with you right now. You know, if a month from now you go, hey, this topic isn't front and center for me anymore, then you can go ahead and remove that community for the time being.

But the communities that you are in are what populates into your feed. So then you know that when you're walking into Cadre that it's like a personalized, you know, well fitted garment that you have tweaked as your body shapes and shifts that makes you feel warm and comfortable and all those things. Wednesdays we talk live streams, mostly about the big world of mental health and everything that goes into that world. In our communities that kind of fits into our, our header of depression, anxiety and stress.

You have to remember the order. Das Depression, anxiety and stress. Here's what the headline in that community says. Show yourself some love today by discovering relatable tools and resources that support and heal your mental and emotional well being and practical, intangible ways. The practical and the tactical, y'all. You know, I got a great example of this yesterday. If you haven't yet, watch and if you have time, go ahead and watch the interview that I did yesterday with Dan Griffin. If you don't have time, go into the Cadre sphere community and you'll see a little recap that I wrote with his takeaway prize for each of you from that 23 minute conversation.

Here's the reason why that conversation was powerful for me yesterday. You know, Dan works a lot in the conscious masculinity world. He spends his time supporting, teaching, guiding male identifying creatures in this world, right? He talks to men about their mental health and about all the things that stem from that. And it's really interesting because I got to see him practice being conscious, being present, being thoughtful, which is something that, you know, if you're like me, I have quite a few men in life who, who don't excel at that.

Why? Because as Dan said yesterday, we teach you what you should have learned. That's what him and his company does. We teach you what you should have learned when you were in. So often many of us aren't equipped with the tools, the practical and tangible, the practical and tactical ways to care for, to strengthen, to Acknowledge our current state of our mental health. So many times I was invited to pause as Dan thoughtfully moved through the conversation. Yesterday, he stayed very much in a curious and a courageous space.

Those words came up quite a bit, which made me really happy he stayed in the present moment. You know, when we did our every single Cadre interview starts with the questions, who are you? What do you do? And how do you feel when people ask you those two questions? And of course, that third question is where we get into a lot of the cobwebs of our mental health reality. How do you feel when people ask you questions like who are you? And what do you do? Which often are really loaded questions that challenge our enoughness, that challenge our awareness of who we are and what we have that is of worth.

Dan's response to that first set of questions is, there should never be a short answer. Who you are and what do you do should always be changing and evolving. I think that's the beauty of this community, right? The depression, anxiety and stress community. Because like a beautiful cloudy sky, it's always changing in what we see and how we interpret it and what we do with it. So no matter where you are this morning, no matter what you're doing, I invite you to tap in right here to Cadre and spend some time going, huh, what am I in consideration of myself today?

If you would look into the mirror, what is it that you would find in yourself today? And how would it change the way that you operate in this world? You know, Luke started us with a really wonderful image of our perspective, and hopefully Cadre is the place you can come to to fill the tank, to lift the spirit so that you can go back out in the world. Not to ignore it, not to isolate yourself from it, but to impact it. So what happens when we acknowledge who we are and what we have? That's what we call presence.

Being where you are with what you have and honoring that. Dan was a great example of that yesterday. I bet all y'all right now are great examples of it today. Andrea, Nettie, every single one of you who are here right now tuning in. So as we hear the build up, y'all, as we move to that chorus, look in the mirror and do those little things today, y'all. You deserve it. The world will benefit from it. Let's go, y'all. Or non binary individual. If you're gonna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.

Yeah. See you later, y'all. Have a good one. N.