Cadre Today Interview: Josh Leddy

Well, hey there. Good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? How are we doing? Pardon me. Being a few minutes behind logging in. Me and Josh Letty are Cadres Today interview guests. Today we're having, as it often happens, some technical difficulties. He wasn't able to hear me, although we were seeing each other. So I'm going to be doing some troubleshooting with Josh to reschedule our conversation. It's always one of those moments when you look at each other on the screen and you're going, and then he switched computers and all the things.

But notice I'm not saying. I'm sorry, I'm not saying, oh, my gosh. Because the beautiful thing is when life happens, the space that we place in between the thing happening in our response, that's where our power is. Shannon Amar, Emily, Andy, lots of people coming on in to say good morning in the Cadre two day. Me and Josh are going to work on doing some troubleshooting, figuring out where the disconnect was. But I'll tell you, Josh's smile was. Was shining this morning. He was outside. I'm outside.

Where are you? If you look around, what do you see? I see three big, beautiful pine trees. I just have to show you. So this is a home. They call it Blueberry Hill in Spooner, Wisconsin. This is where I get to perch this week as teach at a art center over in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. Where are you? What do you see? Or if you're like, I don't see anything. Great. What do you hear? Because I also hear a couple birds that are singing alongside me. This is Cadre today. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you are here.

I know what I know, and I care about you. Those 17 words kick off Cadre every single day that we get to be on this earth. What a beautiful thing to go ahead and be reminded that there is gratitude and gratitude that we are here together, that we risk to know things. We risk to look at our experiences and go, huh, there's something that this experience provides me. And that along with that gratitude and latitude that we say, hey, you know what? I may not know you at all, or I may know you a little bit, or I may know you enough that it actually, really, really means something when I say, and I care about you.

But you have a group of people that care about you right here. Jules is on the deck with a great cup of coffee overlooking the lake. Jules, you are a master at finding that configuration as often as possible. I love that Shannon says, I See my kitchen and the cupboard door fell off and that happens and it's okay. Yeah, it absolutely is. Now it's even better if the cupboard door fell off all by itself. And now we're talking like ghosts, because that'd be pretty cool. Speak, Wonder says, I see a big field on Queen Anne's lace, lace lake.

You tell me. So on Tuesdays, quite often we talk about, hey, Carrie, nice to see you as well. Carrie. I saw you were hanging out with a good group of people, getting hot and getting cold with some cold exposure. I think last night it looked like a divine time. You know, on Tuesdays you see people like Betsy Hodges and Dr. Leslie, who's getting ready for her TED Talk. And we always talk about on Tuesdays, them and me and others, the act of doing humanity together. How do people exist alongside one another and maybe once they do that, create things together that they may not be able to create by themselves.

I am swimming in that. This week I have 29 young people from 11 to 18 from all over the country who came together on Sunday and they will leave on Friday to go home. And throughout this week, all of a sudden, they'll go from being people who don't know each other yet. That's what I like to call strangers to people who go, you change my life and I'm going to stay in touch with you forever. Some of these young people have come back to this art center for two, three, four, five, six, seven years. And this is the week that they say, this is the week where I get to be me.

This is the week where I get to see my people. But their first day, because we have some first time attendees, they go, I don't know why I'm here. I feel uncomfortable. I don't feel a part of things. And as I often say on Tuesdays, this is why the outward facing click idea was created. What is an outward facing click? A group of people who, rather than going, oh, this is a thing that's special to us and we're gonna focus on it so much that we can't let anybody else in. And then taking that special thing and turning it outwards to where people can go, huh?

The longer I'm a part of this community, the less it is about me and the more it is about the people who have yet to be a part of it. So if you are here for the first time today, you are the most important person here. You are the one who has a perspective that you are never going to have again. Because now that you're Here, you're past the entrance point. You are more in the know of the why and the what and the how than you were 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 6 minutes ago. In that first moment, you hold something that is so valuable and that you'll never be able to hold again.

And so that's what we do here. I'll tell you, it's always interesting to go, who are going to be the people who randomly find their way to this art center in the middle of nowhere, Wisconsin. And I often think that people who find themselves here had an invitation, heard from somebody else, there was something that brought them into the understanding of, that's your opportunity today. Who are the people? If you're going, gosh, I just don't feel. I don't feel like I can accomplish anything today.

I don't feel like I have the power today. I don't feel like I have the direction today. I don't want to today. The number one thing that you can always do that will literally change the world is to consider, who do you know who needs something that you know about? Cadre is a great example. Who's that person that you may be walking down the street and go, huh? Hey, you ever heard of Cadre? Let me write this down for you. Go to this. Open up your app store, go check out the website. And they'll go, wow, there's this weirdo walking down the street who said I should maybe check this thing out.

And I felt welcome, so I did. And all of a sudden, they walk in here and they get to be a part of the thing that you are a part of right now. That's a pretty beautiful thing. The reason you do. The reason we do Cadre today, interviews like Josh and I will get rescheduled once we figure out why he could not here is because all of a sudden, you who are already here, become the person who goes, huh? I'm seeing Cadre in a different way. I'm seeing the special group of people with special intention. You can hear Luke talk about why Cadre is named Cadre in his live stream yesterday.

All of a sudden, this thing, Cadre is a verb. It's not a noun. It's an evolution. Continues to be exactly what it's designed to be. So no matter who you are, no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, you are a part of this wonderful, wonderful thing. And you also have the opportunity to invite others to be a part of it also, y'. All. I will see you tomorrow morning again right from this porch on Blueberry Hill. But until then, jump into the Cadre Sphere whenever you get that urge, that inkling, that synapse of the brain.

Find what you're looking for. And if it's not here, maybe you're the one who's supposed to create it. Talk to you tomorrow.