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If you wanna go somewhere, you better wake up in pain. Chris hartman, dream big 30. How y' all doing, Bezo bits? Okay, we'll stop at the verse. If you want to be somebody, if you want to go somewhere, you better wake up and pay attention. One of those great little bops from Sister, Act 2, which is just full of those bops. But it's time to wake up, right? It is the Morning Chuck Wagon 38. And the great thing is, if we wake up, if we experience the world in which we're living, we're gonna get something out of it, which is why I am here every single day.

Peace and joy. To go ahead and remind you that Cadre is a place where you can go ahead and find some ground to grow, find some ground to sit, to rest, to challenge, to consider, to play with courage and curiosity and all the things. So, as I say every morning, 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 formula for how the Cadre sphere works. We're creating a world where there's many ways to be. Well, so we're never going to say, you need to do X.

We're actually going to say the opposite. We're going to say, hey, here's a person who is here and there, and they're glad that they're here with you. And they know what they know. They have their experience, they have their curiosities, as if they found something that may help somebody else. And because they care about you, they share it. So on Wednesdays, we spend a lot of time talking about that big old bucket of mental health, mental wellness, of the things we hear about more and more. And let me tell you my belief, we often hear that, oh, my gosh, there's more and more mental health crises that are presenting.

Things are getting worse. And as they often say, progression is great, regression is great, stagnance is scary. What's been happening over time is we've created more space, more resource, less stigma, which, what does that end up? Opening up more awareness to what's been here. You know, when I was a little kid, I had a bunch of mental health crises, but I could never name it and I could never say it out loud. And I look at today, I look at the young people I work with. Amara, nice to see you, my friend.

I look at the young people I work with and their willingness to go ahead and say, hey, I'm experiencing something. Hey, I'm going to Name it. Hey, I'm going to invite people into supporting me. It's a really beautiful thing and at the same time it's a really hard thing because we realize that struggle is part of the journey. So let me tell you a story. Yesterday I co facilitated a wellness day for a tech company in the Twin Cities. Ms. Shannon Paul, everybody just entered the room. How you doing?

Ms. Shannon Paul? I co facilitated a wellness day for a tech company here in the Twin Cities. The first half of the day was led by a new friend, a person I didn't know yet. That's what I like to call strangers. Her name is Kate. And Kate did a lot of kind of personal development and growth stuff with the whole staff of this organization. In the afternoon I moved from kind of the personal implications of being well into kind of the organizational concepts of being well. Like how do we be well together, how do we do our business in a way that, that is, that, that, that, that is good.

And it was really interesting because in the morning, you know, I'm an observer by nature, so I love sitting in the corners of room and, and taking in what there is to take in. So I crafted my session to be responsive to the morning session. And I watched this room full of people being shared information about resilience and about values and about responses to pressure and stress and things that are very, you know, often what we think of as, okay, this is a one on one mental health type of conversation.

And in the afternoon I got up and started talking about organizational stuff and you could see they received those two chunks of information differently. They were very quiet in the morning. They were very. I'm not going to share anything. When it was the one on one the mental health conversation in the afternoon, where I would call it the applied mental health situation, where we talked about how do you be well in the rigmarole of doing what you do and all of a sudden you're able to apply the stuff from the morning session to their work.

I think there's a big aha there. Our mental health journey doesn't exist in a silo from the rest of our life. I'll say that again. Our mental health journey doesn't exist in a silo separated from the rest of our life. Mental health actually isn't in any silo whatsoever. Mental health is intrinsically in each thing that we do. Mental health is within this fidget spinner and within this pair of scissors and in this ball of yarn and within this protein shake. Right? It is inside. So sometimes if you're going, gosh, I keep reading the book, I keep reading the quote, I keep meditating, I keep.

And I just, it's not changing anything. My invitation today is to go rather than creating your meditation corner in your house. Also do that if that feels right and cool and awesome to you. Find the 5 minutes on your schedule when you're sitting at your desk in your three piece suit, or when you're out in the field, or when you're in front of your class, or when you're, you know, doing what you do. To go, I'm going to practice being well right now in context in your reality, in your muckiness, in your way, in your method.

That's when we have to do what we have to do. Like the things we go, gosh, I have to be better at this. I need to get more sleep, I need to have more positive self talk. I need to invite people into my conversations. Those things need to happen. Maybe needs too strong a board. What if you considered those things happening in the midst of the stuff that you do rather than on the side of the things that you do. Here's a really great example. Ms. Shannon Paul, who just logged in a little bit ago. You can check out Ms.

Shannon Paul's live stream or just type in Ms. Shannon Paul and you'll see lots of content. Ms. Shannon Paul has an initiative called Comedy through the Chaos. And at a local jazz club, Ms. Shannon and others within Ms. Shannon Circle get up on stage, whether they're comedians or storytellers and they share their craft, their story, their. Their comedy in the context of a topic. So there is one on change. All of a sudden you have comedians riffing on change or storytellers telling stories about change.

This week there's one coming up around the idea of parenting or being parented. And I love this because it's creating space for people to go see a show but to be thinking about the things that they think about when they're not at the show. Comedy is not something that we use as purely as an escape from reality. A comedy is a vehicle, a vessel. If we use some Sanskrit parallel here, a mantra. What is a mantra? A mantra is a vehicle of the mind. So it's something that we ride through existence in, whether it be a phrase or a word or a thought or maybe it's a pastime.

Maybe music is your mantra and you use music to travel through work and life and play and family and friends and chaos and calm. Comedy through the chaos is a really great example of letting mental health be within rather than being silent on the outside. So wherever you are, no matter what's going on, it's time to wake up, y' all. If you want to be who you are, if you want to go where it is that you feel like you should be going, wake up and pay attention to those things that are happening around you that can help you be a little bit better.

Hey, have a great. What do we got? Wednesday? Have a great Wednesday, everybody, and we will see you soon. Dr. Charisse saying hey as we say goodbye.