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Hey, good morning, Cadre. How are you doing today? Not how are you doing yesterday? Not how do you think you're supposed to be doing? Not well. I know that I shouldn't complain about things because doing. But how are you doing right now? I hope that you are phenomenal. I hope that you're great. But even if you're not, I want to remind you that that is a as well. Marisa, I hope you're great. Nice to see you, my friend. We got a little DJ Drez playing us in on this. What do we got? Wednesday. R. strand.

How are you, my friend? It's been a little while. Nice to see you. So Cadre today. Cadre every day. But no right now. Cadre today. My name's JC if we've never shared time and space together before, there are always new people walking into the Cadre sphere, and you are exactly where you're supposed to be. So thank you for being here and thank you for allowing me time to spend time with you. You know, Wednesdays, we often talk about the big, big bucket, the mental health bucket, right? You know, we use this term, Cadre sphere, which is this big, big world.

Buddy, nice to see you, Buddy. Oh, my gosh, Buddy. That may be my favorite screen name in the Cadre sphere that I have seen. Buddy, it's nice to see you. So we use this big term, the Cadre sphere. You know, just like if you ever, you know, look at galaxies or you look at the universe and you go, wow, there's all these layers, and they're big, big, big, big, big. How do we put all these things together? Well, that's kind of what we're doing here, right? When we say, oh, this is the mental health for all app.

This is the many ways to being well app. Really, the way that we ensure that we're doing that is everything we say is applicable in a billion different ways. It's how you pick it up. It's how you apply it. So whether we're talking professional development stuff on Mondays or whether we're talking grief and loss on Fridays or any of the other big buckets, there's always doorways that connect in and out and through and to other big, big sections of conversation that we could ever have. But I think Wednesday is the big planet in the.

In the atmosphere, right? Because we're talking about mental health. Everything that we experience in this world is through this brain and the way that fires and the way that we remember things and perceive things and the way that our world is very different. Than everybody else's world. So I'm going to go ahead and queue up my friend Betsy Hodges, who will be on next Tuesday, right? So Betsy's what was on yesterday and give a little shout out to what Betsy's live streams about on Tuesdays. Betsy always talks about rules of engagement.

Betsy has on the wall, kind of the things that Betsy holds Betsy, Betsy's self to when doing all the things that Betsy does. And it makes me think about the space that we exist in, right? We all exist in a. Here's a. Here's a big term. We all exist within our own cultural, linguistic reality. Cultural meaning. The things and the practices that tie us to the people that we exist with. And linguistic. The way that we talk about it, the way that we explain those things. So the way that I live in the world that, that I have fostered around the people that I exist with and my house within my city, within my state, within my race, within my age, within my family, with all these things that's part of my world.

And then the other part is how I talk about it, right? We all have different cultures in which we exist and different language that we use to talk about it. So it would make sense that in our smallest world, let's say your office, let's say within your phone, let's say within your automobile, the things that you place around yourself have great purpose and meaning to you. You may not think of it that way. Why? Because when you're in the water a long time, you get allocated to the temperature. So I'm going to show you a couple things in my office.

I have two pieces of art. One is this one. It's made by a buddy of mine, Sean G. Phillips, who originally from Detroit, now lives Northside, is a North Sider in Minneapolis, and is a near and dear friend of mine who captures so much of the world. And you think back to 2020, Sean was in the middle of all the things that were happening in 2020 and making art from those things, like capturing the big days, the days of being at the courthouse, the days of people coming together to clean, to stand up, to speak, to fight.

Sean was in the midst. And this reminds me that that's one of those things I feel called to. To be in the midst of the stuff. I'm going to show you one more piece of art behind my giant whiteboard here also. I have a whiteboard in every room in my house. But here's. Here's the other one. This is John Candy and Steve Martin in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Who's a plane, Trains and Automobiles fan out there? I hope you are. If you've never seen it, please see it. It is my second favorite movie of all time, and it's the one movie that makes me cry every time I see it.

But also, it's one of the funniest movies that's ever been Din. Done. Created. It's about these two people who don't know each other, who meet even though they don't want to, and then they stay together to get to where they're going. And by the time that they get to where they're going, they realize that there's power in being with the people that you're around. Like, not because you've chosen them, but because they're in the space that you're in. And that photo, the two of them carrying a trunk down a very rich, fancy street in Chicago is very representative of that, right?

One of them is going home. The other one has just shared that they don't have a home, that they're homeless and that they're a widow, and that they just wander. And the two of them end up sharing, you know, Thanksgiving dinner together with the. The rich one's family. And it's this beautiful meeting of people who, if they simply did what they did and acknowledge each other's humanity, something good is going to come out of it. My whole world is wrapped up in those two things. Being in the midst of and responding to the world in which I'm in and acknowledging that the people that are in that world are the most valuable thing that I'm currently experiencing.

Consider the space that you're in today and how it impacts how you do what you do and who you are. And then next Tuesday, chime in to Betsy's live stream because it really is a special. A special conversation with someone who is as in the things as. As anybody on this planet and is also really, really, really a person who makes you feel the things can bring the humor and the tears and the thoughtfulness and place you right where you are. So no matter what's going on, no matter where you are, I hope that you're doing great.

But even if you're not, you're on the journey, y'all. So consider the space that you're in and how it's supporting what you're doing. We'll talk to you later. DJ Drez plays us out.