Me time ✨ Living Your Truth

Happy Sunday. Hey, Cadre family, how you doing today? Whether you're popping in or listening on replay, I want to know who you are. Who are you? How are you? All of the things. Also, Hydrate team. I'm going to be doing that a little bit through my live stream today in our Cadre sphere. I love that we call it a Cadre sphere. Sphere. Full circle. Andi. Mac. What's up? How you doing? What's so exciting? Were your ears ringing? I was at the Cadre offices the other day. Yep. Just dropped something. We were talking about how amazing you are.

Yep, I did just drop something right there. So if you're listening on replay, no worries. I'm at my studio, and really, I can only break small things. Ah. I'm doing well today. It's hot out there. The air quality in Minneapolis is a little questionable, but I taught a spin class this morning, and then I went out and did a long run. So I am feeling the need to hydrate more. You know, fun fact. Well, there's probably a lot of fun facts out there, right? I have been running so much, and I've been coaching people pretty much all my life in different sports.

So I coached volleyball high Jules. I coached people to do triathlons and duathlons. I coach people in my day job. I coach people on spin bikes. I have gotten a certification to help coach people on how to run and move their body in a way that's safe and to help them achieve whatever their goal is. But we often just don't hydrate enough. And if I can coach people on any one thing, it would be, how might we all hydrate more? I know it didn't start that way, but that's where it ended. And it's funny because our bodies are, what, 70% water?

And if you think about how many times in a day you drink a plain glass of water that doesn't include coffee or tea or anything. Anything. Just a plain glass of water. It's probably just not enough, right? So my invitation to you is like, find ways to hydrate more because our brains function better. I know that when I'm super dehydrated, like, I was on my run today. I crashed. I could feel, like, everything just getting hot. I felt a little dizzy. Not going to lie. And I was like, d***, I didn't hydrate enough yesterday.

Yesterday. Because it impacted today. Hey, Mary, Andy says, let's go back channel with friends and pups. One of these glorious days. Hey, I'm here for it. Let's do it. Let's I'll figure I have your number in my system. I'll send you a note, we'll go do the thing or send a note on Cadre Sphere and see who wants to meet up with dogs and things. So here's my fun tip for today. There's this drink called Element. If you haven't ever had it before, comes in little packs, it comes in cans. And I have found this to be one of the best sources for me to rehydrate because it has sodium, potassium and magnesium.

So if you are sweating a lot or moving your body doesn't mean you have to be working out. You could be moving your body and walk outside or gardening. We sweat, and when we sweat, we lose salts and we need to replenish that in our bodies for our bodies to function healthy. So there's my fun tip for today. So you dialed in today. It's Sunday and the goal is about or the conversation that I put out here is around living your truth. So if you're new to me, cool. Welcome. I'm so excited to have you here.

And if you've been with me before, you probably know I like to ask a lot of questions. It's kind of my jam. I do. But I do want to post one question in the chat today. When I say the statement, live your truth, what do you feel in your body? Not what is it, what is your truth, but how do you feel in your body? And then secondary, what do you think? How you feel first and then what do you think? Now feel free to type it in the chat or just type a note to yourself. The question and the answer, it's 100% up to you because every minute of these cadres are 100% about you.

So take. Take what you can, do what you need, but if you're willing to post in the chat, awesome. Cool. When I make the statement live your truth, how does it make you feel? And then what the words that you think. So when I say that my first reaction today, not every day, but my first reaction today is my heart feels heavy and like I'm a very high empath. I feel a lot of emotion. I feel my own. I feel everybody else's. So then I need to check in, is it something that I'm going through or is it something that somebody I know might be going through?

But let's just say that it's mine today and my chest feels heavy. Okay, why? Why would my chest feel heavy with the statement live your truth. Now, there are several reasons and they can be A ton that are different for all of us. Right. So my chest could feel heavy because maybe right now, I feel like I'm running in a hamster wheel. I've had some things come up in life. I've had some plot twists. And when plot twists happens, we go into basic needs mode. What do I need to do to complete basic needs?

But that isn't always aligned with living your truth. Or is it? We could chicken and egg that one all day long, but the reality says that our emotional intelligence goes down when we feel stressed. We feel like our world just got rocked upside down for all kinds of reasons. We could have a fender bender. We could have to move to a new city. We could do all different kinds of things that could cause us to feel that transition, that could feel like our world just got flipped. So when I get inside IG and get inside that hamster wheel, it feels to me like I'm out of control a little bit.

And it's not about having to be in control. I don't always feel the need to be in control of things. But what it means is, like, I feel like my foundation just isn't set up, settled. So that's what it means for me. Jules says you feel conflicted in your heart and your stomach. Aren't into things I used to enjoy. Andy says I want to make some exciting changes, but I get a little overwhelmed or stuck. And all that has to happen to get there. Yeah. So we. We actually feel things powerfully in our bodies, but most often, we listen to what we are thinking first.

When I say, live your truth, what do you think? I think, gosh, am I? I think I am. I teach a lot of spin classes. I do a lot of coaching. I'm running these marathons for charities. Is that my truth right now? That feels like yes. So why do I feel heavy? Oh, well, I feel heavy because there's 1, 2, 3 other things in my life that are out of balance. That right now, I feel like I have to focus on those before I can on the other things and find my joy again. See where I'm going? Maybe, maybe not. But I'll walk it out for you.

When we discuss living our truth and we decide that that's something that's important to us right now. Now, it might not always be important to us, or maybe you've never asked yourself the question before. Awesome. There's zero right or wrong in this. But when I think about living my truth. And what does that mean for me, Jean? For me, Jean, that means that when I wake up in a day, I take time to appreciate the sunshine, and I take a breath, and I find gratitude. That's me living in my truth. Because I did a master's project on gratitude when I was in getting a master's degree in design thinking and innovation.

And my thesis was. Or my master's project was all around designing a way for people to express more people to other people. So gratitude is something really core to me. But if I'm not thinking that way in the mornings, then I feel like I'm not living a piece of me. Living my truth means that when I say yes to a body of work, I'm a consultant, that it aligns with my values and that when I go into that work, I have the freedom to show up as I am now. Here I am with you today. I'm a sweaty hot mess, literally.

And I get to show up exactly as I am. There are times where I've had to get on conference calls with my teams on my client project work where I'm just getting off a bike, teaching a spin class, and I'm like, hey, guys, I can be on camera off camera, but literally, I just got done teaching a spin class at my other job, and they're like, okay, cool. Because they know that that is a big part of my life. So when I'm living my truth, for me, that means being able to be my authentic self, whether that's in my relationships at work, whether I lead teams, a run club, I'm showing up in a country all by myself, and I get to show up curious.

Because curiosity is a really big tenant to mine now. Am I able to live my truth every day? No, not always. Why not? Because sometimes other people's stories take over our own. Right? Sometimes as loving, caring, compassionate, kind human beings, sometimes helping someone else live in their truth or solve their problems or get outside the hamster wheel might mean we have to put ourselves on pause to help somebody out. Now, what happens when we do that over and over and over? So last week's conversations, we talked in the live streams about living at finding your freedom in your truth.

Right? So freedom to say maybe. Right? So there's a balancing act. There's always a balancing act of who am I as the beautiful, handsome, incredible, awesome, strong, compassionate, empathetic human being that you and I are today. And then there's the balance of what do I need to say yes to for me and what do I need to say yes to for others? And that's the teeter totter, right? That's the balancing act. So when we're living our truth, my invitation to you is to type in the chat. If you're living in your truth, what does that mean?

Because as a strengths coach, right, I use the Strengths Finder inventory. There's a 1 in 33 million chance you or anyone else are going to answer the inventory in the same way. There's a 1 in 33 million chance that you and anyone else are going to have the top five same strengths themes in the same order. So you're perfectly unique. So when you say living in your truth, it takes on a whole different meaning because of your lens. Now my invitation to you is to allow yourself to take a pause and discover what that means for you.

So I already mentioned living my truth, waking up with gratitude, being able to not jump on my computer or my phone and answer questions for my team or my clients all the time. Right? And it's not just my team. I'm not the only person that helps the team. So why do I have to think that I'm the only person that can answer the question? Sometimes I am. But do I have to answer every question before 7am? No. No I don't. I mean sometimes I do because our studio is open at 5:30 in the morning. So sometimes if there's an immediate question, somebody, whoever looks first needs to help out, right?

So that's a moment in time. But on a day to day basis, if I look at it regularly day to day. My dog wakes me up at 5:30. Yeah, that's not. I don't prefer to wake up at 5:30, but he does so cool. So I know if I give him his food and I take him out for a quick walk, then I can either go back to sleep if I need more sleep or I can take that pause. So the thing that I'm working on in the month of July and we all are working on stuff, right, Is how might I continue to live into my truth even more? I know my truth is around gratitude.

I know that movement is really important for me. It always has been. It's what helps me find calm in my body and my brain. I know that part of my truth is dreaming and reading books and being curious. It's just who I am. And when I can't read books or I forget to read articles, like I feel a little lost, I feel a little scrambled. So that's really important to me. And living in my truth means also being available to go do more things with family and friends. Because I work a lot. I love my work.

But I work a lot. So my truth right now is really how might I continue to foster relationships? So those are the tenants of my truth. And when I'm doing those, when I'm taking time for friends and family, even if it's just a check in finding gratitude, moving my body, that includes stretching, which I'm not great at, and not getting on to any device to turn on for Everybody else before 7am that's me living in my truth. That's me taking a time to appreciate nature, to move, to find calm. Maybe that's the time that I read.

Doesn't matter what it is. I just know that those are the pieces that are my truth. And so if I live into that, what does that look like? And what does it look like if I'm absent of that? So I'd always be curious to know what that means to you when you're living in your truth. How do you define that? Let's have a chat. But for today, I'm going to invite you to hydrate, get some extra hydration, straight up water, hydrate your bodies because your brains function better, your organs function better, your body's function better.

Oh yeah, I live my truth when I coach, I don't know how to not coach and I don't know how to not share information. Do that, start the things, lean into it. And also on Tuesday, I believe at 11:00am Central Time, Nikki and I are going to go live. We're going to do a little workshop with you around the concept of freeing yourself from expectations. How to say maybe, how to say yes, how to say no. So watch for that getting posted out there. If it gets rescheduled, I'll let you know that too. But come back.

Take it out, check it out, check it out. Take a look. I'm going to go hydrate a little more. I hope you all have the best day. Just remember that your truth doesn't have to be mine, but if you stand strong in yours, we get to do great things together. So I look forward to seeing you all soon. I'll be back on Monday talking about professional development.