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Hey, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? I hope you're doing great. I really do. My name is JC if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now. As I mentioned, I hope you're doing great. If you're not doing great, I want to assure you and remind you, be that squeaky wheel, that you will accomplish pretty remarkable things in the moments when you're not doing great. T. North Beezel Bits. Nice to see y' all crew. Chris Fortman.

Oh, what a crew coming in this morning. Newland, Shannon, Robert Crew. Nice to see you. How, how great of a reminder to know that you're gonna do pretty awesome stuff when you're feeling great. And you're also gonna be doing some pretty awesome things when you're not feeling great. I am currently sitting 15 floors above the ground of Chicago, where I will be the next couple of days doing some continuing education. I spend a lot of my world coaching or supporting or reflecting being an outside voice within other people's realities.

So for the next couple of days, I'll be in the classroom learning some new stuff. I love sitting in the seat of student as often as possible. I have found that my joy, my contentment, my clarity has always come out of me being in a seat where I don't know as often as possible. So it's the first day of school, I'm already panicking. There's pre work we're gonna have to teach today. And the funny thing is I do all those things, but not in this world. Today's little morsel that I want to give you is something that I say quite often if we've shared space together before.

You know, I always say things like, and this is one of those things I say all the time. And I have kind of my list of things that I say all the time, but one of them is you can't cook a turkey faster than you can cook a turkey. You can't. If it's Thanksgiving morning and you want turkey at 5am you can't walk over to the the oven and turn it up to a thousand degrees and get that turkey done faster. It. It doesn't work that way. You'll have burnt turkey on the outside and frozen turkey on the inside.

You cannot, no matter how much you wish, cook a turkey faster than you can cook a turkey. Another phrase I say that makes it sound like I'm not from Minnesota. Well, maybe it makes me sound like I'm from Minnesota, but I Always kind of say with a southern drop, is muddy in the field, doesn't make the corn grow any faster. Right. If you want the corn to grow, throwing more water in the. In the dirt, just get you mud. Things take time, Jules. Good morning, Shannon. Good morning, Dr. Green. Nice to see you again.

It was so great to spend some time with you on. On Darnell's call earlier this. Earlier this week. Yeah, that was this week. But some things take time. I'm going to say that differently. Everything takes time. Some things take more time than others. So I may be in this seat right now of wanting to be at 8pm tomorrow night when this training is going to be on, and I can go, huh, Okay. I didn't die. I didn't get yelled at. I learned some stuff. I was in a space where. Where the opportunity for me was to say, I don't know, and to be supported in that.

And yet I have this lump in my belly right now saying, gosh, I wish I already knew all of the things. I wish I knew the answer. I wish I could rely on my experience and be like, well, I already know how this is going to go. Because my experience has shown me that a lot of the times we don't know, a lot of the times we have to sit in the seat of, let's see what happens? Or what do you think? Or I need help, Or I have this lump in my stomach and it doesn't feel good. When we get good at saying those things, we get to bear the fruit of learning new stuff more often.

I have no interest in being an expert in anything. I have no interest in being the. The one who has the answers. I really, really get excited when I get to be the one who goes, I don't know. And maybe I stop there and I walk away, or, I don't know, what do you think? Or I don't know. But maybe we can ask that person or maybe we can talk through this together, or maybe we can try a bunch of things. On Wednesdays in Cadre, we talk about kind of that big bucket of mental health. And everything I'm kind of speaking through right now is you sitting with the magnifying glass looking at yourself going, huh?

How do I react? How do I honor? How do I move through? How do I navigate? And give yourself permission to go, here's what I need. Here's what I know. Here's what I don't know. Here's what I've tried that's worked. Here's what I've tried that hasn't worked. You are in a space here in the Cadre sphere where you are either lovingly encouraged to play that game or you are already playing that game and now you are around other people who are also doing it. So you can feel free or you can feel affirmed.

You can build those neural pathways that go, oh yeah, we're gonna acknowledge that we can't cook a turkey faster than we can cook a turkey. Muddy in the field isn't going to make the corn grow any faster. Me acting like I have all my s*** figured out isn't going to actually get me to have my s*** figured out any faster than then it's going to take for me to go ahead and figure everything out. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, my invitation for you today is to let the turkey cook.

And if you're a vegetarian, change that analogy to make sense to you. What do you need as the reminder that you have not lived today yet? You don't have all of the answers. You may be a trusted person who's considered to be an expert, who's going to always win, but guess what? You aren't. Liberate yourself from that. You may fail or struggle or deal with something you've never dealt with before. Today. Let the turkey cook. I will be back tomorrow morning with an update on how day one of training goes for me.

Hey Emily, nice to see you, but send me some well wishes. And I'm sending those well wishes right on back to you. Have a good one.