Monday Motivation: A Traditional Like Any Other

Foreign Cadre. Hope everybody's having a dynamic start to their week, their Monday. To the moms out there, hope you had a phenomenal Mother's Day. I can't wait to tell you about our tradition like no other. Most people think that's the Masters, but it's not. It's the Wendlands Mother's Day. It's just remarkable. It's a pretty cool experience at our household. So good morning, everybody. On a Monday. Monday. I have three specific asks today or not three asks. Like, I guess I got three items on the agenda, but one is an ask.

So good morning, everybody. I see all the names popping in. It's like one of my favorite things in the world to do on Monday morning is to go live with the Cadre family. Hope everybody had a phenomenal weekend. Took in some sun, took in some rest, took in some relaxation. To the moms out there, hope you got an opportunity to do whatever it is that is you. Is it spending time on the water, Is it going for a walk, is it golfing? You know, what is it? But hopefully you got an amazing. Hopefully an amazing opportunity to do you and spend time for you, because, you know, sometimes we just forget to even do that.

Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. So here's my three items on the agenda today. Number one, remember this Cadre IO. Number two, remember a tradition like any other. And last but not least, number three, I just want to give an update on a human being in the Cadre sphere that I think is very, very important. Okay? So number one, Cadre IO, Cadre IO, if you go to your website, go to our website. Cadre IO in your browser, on your phone, anything like that. Cadre IO on Cadre IO, right on the very top, there's this blue banner.

Right on the very, very top of the website, there's a blue banner. And on the top of the website, it says, take our mental health survey. We are looking for data, and we are looking for individuals to take the survey as what we're ultimately hoping to do is garner some information that we can use not only for our product and service, but most importantly, that we can take to our employer groups and we can take to those organizations that we get the privilege to work with so we can share some information about individuals in our Cadre sphere, what they're dealing, how they're dealing with it, and why they're dealing with it.

It's ultimately ways that we can show up and be better. Number two, a tradition like any other. So I know you guys might Find this crazy, but it is. It is what it is. My wife, every Mother's Day, for the last, however many Mother's Days that I can remember, we do the same thing every single Mother's Day. So sleep in. We may have sport activity. We may have a little something. We play basketball outside. Whatever we want to do. It's Em's Day. She can choose whatever she wants, but she always has the same ask that we have.

Wait for it. Are you ready for this? KFC? So we do not have KFC 364 other days of the year, we don't do it. I won't have it. If we're going out to eat, I keep it so special for Mother's Day, where it is our moment. And we order, you know, the crispy chicken, the coleslaw, we have all of it. And it is so special to my wife. And I think when you keep things special and they're special to her and they're special to our family, and it's a tradition, it's just like something you'll never forget, like these, these, these, these kids will never forget, ever.

That mom loves KFC on Mother's Day. And I know people are probably going, why kfc? Why kfc? I don't know, but it's what my wife wanted, and it's what we just keep very near and dear to our hearts. And then last but not least, I wanted to share and so keep things, you know, keeping things the big thing and the big thing, the main thing, keeping things special is just really, really important. I think sometimes, you know, we. We go off and we go have ice cream, you know, with our kids, because they, you know, had a baseball game or we go have ice cream.

But like, keeping things super special, gosh, I think is really important. So never forget that one. You always remember KFC at the Wendtland House with Mama Wendlandt and how important it is to her. Okay. And then last but not least, I just want to share about. I want to say almost, you know, two years ago or close to two years ago, I had the opportunity to connect and help coach with an individual in the Cadre sphere. And I will admit that first stretch was really, really tough. It was abrasive.

It was hard. We were in a dark spot. The individual that I was talking with and connecting with and working with, alcohol was in the way. There was a variety of different things. Depression, anxiety. I just remember talking to the individual the very first time and her just in tears, Just in tears and just sharing and in Tears and this individual knows who she is. And I just want to tell this person how proud I am of you and the steps that you've made and the leaps you've made. I now receive text messages like, have a great week.

Here's good vibes sending your way. Here's three things that I'm going after this week. Here's two things that I want to share with you. I just want you to know you have no idea, although, like, you are in a better place, you have no idea what that means to me at the end of the day, like, people that do what we do, like, I. E. The Cadre team, we just want to help. That's it. Like, that's why we show up. That's why we do what we do. That's why we built this platform. That's why the individuals go live.

That's why, like, we are just here to build connection, community through authentic, authentic relationships and just being us. So I want you to know that you've utterly changed my life. That you've changed my life. How you show up and that every once in a while when I get that text from you, it's like, wow, he or she is really getting it. And not only really getting it, but making impact on others now. Because what you find is when you're low, you're alone. When you're low, you're alone. When you're low, you're isolated.

When you're low, you don't know who your people are. When you're low, you're looking for coping. When you're low, you're low. And when you're high, and what I mean by high is you are in a different place. You're positive, you're helping others, you're doing it, whatever, right? Your biggest bang for your buck is supporting other human beings. And where you find your most joy is supporting other people. So those individuals that are not necessarily in a place today to help others, that's okay. But when you do and you can start rubbing off on some of the things that you've learned or some of the things that you can take with you and share with others and help those folks through a dark time, I'm telling you, it will change your life and it will impact so many people.

So today, if you need extra Cadre time and you need extra coaching, we're available for you. And that's easy. You literally just email oaching coachingdre IO and we can help you. And you'll have the most amazing Nikki Millay that is going to help you and take you through that experience and what that's like here at Cadre. But number two is if you get to a point, Speaker Wonder says your biggest bang for your buck, supporting other human beings. Isn't that the truth? That's what life is. My humble opinion, what it's really all about.

But number two, there's some areas in the app, in the platform where you'll see some Cadre contributors, where it has the Book now button. And that Book now button refers directly to coaching as well. This is definitely an independent, you know, ask, right? Like, this is like you on your own. I don't believe that. You know, many organizations may cover this, not right now, but if they would in the future, that'd be amazing. But right now they do not. So that would be individual coverage that is out of pocket cost to be able to be supported in coaching.

But I'm telling you, it can change your life. So never forget that. So again, number one, let's just go through a tradition like any other tradition like any other is Mother's Day, KFC at the Wendlands. Love that. My wife loves that so much. Number two is Cadre IO and going up to the very top, right to the very top, there's the blue banner. And on the blue banner, you're going to see the mental health survey. I'm asking politely to please take that survey. That would mean a lot to us. And then of course, last but not least is Cadre coaching.

And I wanted to shout out an individual that's been a part of Cadre now for a while that is really changing her life, his or her life. Because I don't want to call that person out. I want to keep that individual and remain anonymous his or her life. And really done some incredible things through not only Cadre, but herself, himself, to be able to drive their future forward. So with that being said, go make an impact. Go make something different. Go change somebody's life. Because really, at the end of the day, that's what it's all about.

Take care, you guys. Thank you for everything. Have a wonderful week. Do one thing special for another human being. You will not regret it. Bye. Bye.