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Foreign. Hey, 1% better. How are we doing today? Really long intro. But pop, we'll stop at the end of the intro. That's Billy Porter. Love yourself A really good tune. Jen. Varale T North healing with Dr. Green. 1% better. How are we all doing today? That was Billy Porter's love yourself bezel bits. It's fun. I was in London for work the last handful of days, but now I'm back in the States and Billy Porter right now is over in London in cabaret. So it was lovely to go ahead and walk past and know it's like, oh, I need to listen to some Billy Porter again.

Great voice, great personality, great energy on this planet. Those are the things that I come here for. I come to the Cadre sphere for great energy, great personality and great talent at what do we do here? Showing the world that there's lots of ways to be. Well, Alicia, nice to see you this morning as well. Hey, at the end of today, actually, the end of yesterday, my time's all back backwards. You can check out in replay right now. Jen Verrales, somber or sober, not somber hour, live stream. But, hey, I'm glad I'm here.

I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. Those 17 words are the way that I walk into every single live stream lately. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. I think that's the formula to create some pretty powerful connections, right? The number one thing you will not find in the Cadre sphere is the right answer to say, here's what everybody needs to do and everybody needs to not do the opposite. Now, we're actually going to tell you the opposite.

We're going to say there's lots of things to consider. Everybody has very, very, very wonderful, unique pathways that they're walking. And we know that being in a space where you can go ahead and be in consideration, you can be curious, you can challenge, you can ask questions, you can share. Those are the worlds that we all need. We're creating one right here for you. Hey, so on Wednesdays, we talk a lot about the big bucket of mental health. You're going to see a lot of of clinicians and practitioners of mental healthcare coming to live stream today.

You can go ahead and jump into the prerecorded content or jump into a community that really hits and feels loud and powerful and fruitful for you today. But I always kick things off with Cadre today. A Reminder for those who've been here for a while and an introduction for those who've never been here before that there's something powerful that happens when we have the opportunity to type in a question or a comment, to engage in all the things. So this morning, because I'm still on London time, I got up nice and early, early Minnesota time, not early London time.

And I went to the, to the gym to move because it felt right. And then I went to the grocery store with no intent. I didn't, I didn't need to pick anything up, but it felt right, it felt grounding. I bought a pack of Oreos. It's been a long time since I've had Oreos and milk, but I bought a half gallon of milk and a pack of Oreos and before logging on here, I had some Oreos and milk. So much of the world really tries to create a binary for us. Do this, don't do this. I spent, I've spent a lot of my career in, in the health, wealth, nutrition, movement, space.

And how often do we hear things like, hey, eat less and move more. Guess what? A hundred people eat less and move more and 100 people have very different results and experiences and it ends up working well for a handful and everybody else goes, but I did everything I was supposed to do and it didn't work. The interesting thing is the thing that you really need to do today may be the absolute opposite of the thing that you needed to do yesterday. You know, I used to love drinking cold water. Like the colder the better.

I was a tennis player in high school and I had my, my two quart Coleman and I'd fill it up with ice and then put water in it because I loved the quench, I loved cold water. Now I drink like lukewarm to like even warm, warm water because seems right, it tastes right. I have over the last few months. I'm a destigmatizer, y' all. If you don't know that about me yet, you will soon. Over the last few months, actually it's been about six months now, I've had some colorectal stuff going on. I had some surprise surgery.

I have some hardware in my body that they're attempting to get things moving in the right direction. And I go back in for another surgery consult in two days and they don't know what's happening or what's going to happen. I may be a 43 year old incontinent man walking around with the pension that may be my life. And with that being Said, now I drink water because I know that it's going to help relieve a lot of pain. Right now, the one thing I know is hydrating a lot is going to help me feel less pain as my body tries to figure out and heal and exist in a different reality.

When I was a high school tennis player, like T. North, also high school tennis coach, one of my favorite hats I've ever gotten to wear, I drank cold, cold, cold water because it felt right. Then as I got older, I drank warm, warm, warm water because it felt right. I used to drink water because it made me feel quenched. Now I drink water because it helps me not be in pain sometimes. We exist in a world that says, I need to do X every single day. Because if I do X every single day, then life will always be good.

We hear things like, don't quit, don't give up. Actually, there's a lot of people who need to learn how to give up. They need to learn how to give up the bad relationship. They need to learn how to give up the addiction. They need to learn how to give up the voice in their head that no longer serves them. But because they've lived in a world of binary reality that says, you never give up, don't. No matter what, don't give up. They never learn how to give up. Here's the beautiful thing, y' all. Our bodies tell us lots of useful information.

We have a curiosity that makes us ask wondering questions. We have a heart that feels stuff that says, ooh, maybe we should do that. That feels right and good and makes sense. We have a language, a way to communicate what's inside, outside that. If we learn how to communicate clearly, unabashedly, as I always love to say, if we learn how to speak our truth quickly, we can process, and we have a presence. We have an ability to go right now. Here is the opportunity at hand. And I'll tell you, those four voices, those are the four tenets of enoughness.

If you're wondering. So on Saturday mornings, when I talk about enoughness, those are the things that we talk about. Your words are enough. Your feelings are enough. Your thoughts are enough. You are enough. It's your presence. When we listen to these four voices, we get contradictory information every day, meaning what the recommendation is or what the pathway is, is constantly changing. And it may make us go, ah, those must be unreliable voices because they always say something different. Today I invite you to flip that.

Perhaps in chat, if you're listening, what is something that used to be true for you, that is not true for you now and used to be maybe yesterday. It may be earlier this morning. What is a voice that has said something that now is saying something else? It may be, hmm, today I want a protein shake. Tomorrow it may say, I want Oreos and milk. It may say, huh, you know what? I want a cold, bubbly beverage, like a Diet Coke or like an energy drink. Or it may say, I am that weirdo. Who wants warm water?

Does anybody here drink warm water? Like, I'm not talking, like, room temperature. I'm talking about, like, on the hotter side of room temperature. If you learn to listen to those voices, y' all, your body gets really excited and starts going, I'm going to give. Give more information because they're listening. Listen to those voices, y' all. They are on your side. You are on your side. Have a great Wednesday ahead, and I will be back to tomorrow morning. On Thursdays, I come to you from the buttered tin in St.

Paul, Minnesota, where I have a meeting, steady State meeting at 7am with founder of Cadre, Luke Wetlandt. Then bop on out to go ahead and spend some time with you. So that's when you'll see me next. Jen Verrale says, I'm so sleepy. 6am Yoga is gonna be challenging. And then by 7am so much energy. Exactly right. Sometimes that morning we go, and in that moment, we have two really great choices. One is to go, yeah, I need more sleep, or I need stillness, or I need music. That second voice says, I need to get out of bed and I need to go move.

And the cool thing is, some days, one of those is right, and in other days, the other one is right. Listen, respond, and then live. And then love yourself. Y' all have a good day, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow. It's time to shine.