Cadre Today: Josh Leddy Interview Reschedule!

Well, hey, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? I hope you are doing super swell, but even if you're not in it, that's okay too, right? We always kick off these Cadre todays by reminding you that we hope and wish you the best of things, but also know that a lot of days we're not sitting in that seat and you still have incredible capacity to do impactful things right now. The other thing we always say at the beginning of Cadre today is, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you.

But you may see there's two faces here. Me and Josh are glad that you are here. We're glad we're here. We care about you and we know the things that we know. And that's a really good perfect storm to go ahead and create some. Some connectivity to change the way we do our days. So, Josh, how are you doing, my friend? I'm doing fantastic. Thanks for having me. Yeah, thank you. If you're a regular Cadre attendee, you know that every once in a while we split the screen. We people in to converse. Because often engaging in conversation with other people is one of those best things to do to go, I'm hearing myself, I'm seeing others see and hear themselves, and you never know what fruit's going to come into the picture.

So these Cadre Today interviews always start with this question. Who are you? What do you do? And how do those questions make you feel whenever you have to speak about yourself in a. In a specific construct, Josh, let everybody know who you are. Well, I am a man of many things. I am Josh Letty. I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a connector, a facilitator of good times, and more importantly, someone who is passionate about giving people the tools to heal naturally, physically and mentally. Because I've had so much interesting things happen to me throughout my life from physical injuries that develop into mental struggles, and now I've kind of been able to put that all together into this culminating experience that I call back channel brewing and what we are trying to do by creating community through all that.

So, yeah, that's pretty much who I am. That's awesome. Well, hey, let's go and say some good mornings. T. North's in the house. Jules, Steph, Luke, nice to see y'. All. Jules from coming up from way up North, Jewel says, hey, Josh, long time no see. So you already have. Have friends sitting here in the Cadre sphere. T. North says I got to meet Josh at our in person Cadre event in Minneapolis. It's like, like, like this is, this is Cadre in the action. But Josh, when you think about answering the, like, answering questions of who are you and what do you do?

I know that, like, you say like, like you've experienced a lot of, a lot of interesting as you use the word. Maybe in different chapters of life, you may be, you may have used words like unfortunate or uncomfortable or traumatic experiences, yada, yada. But when you answer those questions, who are you now? Throughout your life, what other, what other titles have you announced yourself with? Like, who have you been in the past that you've had to go, you know what? I'm actually more than that, or I'm actually different than that, or I'm actually not that anymore.

Yeah, I mean, my whole entire life I, I was a hockey player. I mean, that was where my identity lied. And as injuries essentially took my hockey identity away from me, I struggled for quite a long time to really be able to answer that question. And so for quite some time, when everybody asks, you know, what do you do? I just tell people, you know, I make it happen. And whenever I'm meeting somebody else, I don't like to ask them what they do. I just like to ask them, how do you like to spend your time?

Because that is going to be a much better indicator for who that person is. Because sometimes we get stuck doing what we don't want to do and then we're doing who we really like. Who we are is what we're doing alongside kind of in the background. And that's what I'm more interested in. So I just try to break down people's barriers by, you know, answering that question in a different way. That is more or less trying to get them to ask another question for me. Because if I'm, if I'm out here making it happen, how am I making it happen?

And I'm trying to make it happen by just enhancing the community that I'm a part of. And I'm fortunate that it gets to grow every single day with every single event, with every single connection, just like we have here right now. Yeah, well, I mean, again, and like, and if we, if we step out of our own seats, how often do people want to place us either on the high shelf or in the, the premier spot and we go, gosh, like two things are happening there. Number one, they're trying to show respect where they think respect is supposed to be placed.

But number two, they're also Saying, I am not there. I am not Josh. I am not the optimal. I'm not the. The premier. And it's always this back and forth of going, wait, how have we gotten into this space? So I love how you invite people to go, what. What do you do? Where do you find joy? Where do you find connect connectivity? Where do you find yourself? And even as you use connector as. As one of your, you know, indicator words, what a gift to go ahead and have people who enter your sphere with a desire to connect, which moves us to, you know, Back Channel's upcoming Spring Park Awakening.

So, you know, where. What is Spring Park Awakening? Where is it happening? How can people engage? And even at the same point, like right now, I know we have people who are six hours north of the cities, six hours south of the cities. We have people from coast to coast, everywhere. It's like, y', all, you can connect and Cadre with energy even if you are physically far away. But, Josh, go ahead and dive into everything that's coming up with Spring Park Awakening. Yeah. So Spring Park Awakening is a sunrise wellness and dance festival, and it is designed to bring everybody together and give people access to avenues of wellness that might otherwise be intimidating to someone.

Breweries, you know, we're fortunately considered one of the greatest gathering spaces in the world, right? That's where people come, they engage, they communicate, and that is an important portion of wellness. But then there is, you know, the alcohol side of things and how breweries are evolving and the push for NA and just overall balance. And that's what I really want this event to do, is to break down that invisible barrier that would prevent someone from coming to a brewery. And because there's alcohol, because we want you to consume at backchannel, but it doesn't need to be alcohol.

You can consume community, you can consume conversation, and you can consume healthy activity. So instead of someone hearing about going to a, you know, a breathwork class or a bar class or Pilates in a space that they're not familiar with, that, you know, has walls and people that they're not. They don't recognize, now we're bringing that right to backchannel in an open space where you can simply observe or you can partake, and then you can talk to people, engage afterwards and have a whole day of just processing what wellness can be and how you can integrate that into your life.

Josh, you know, I always talk about this idea of taking things off the high shelf, and I am so appreciative of the work that you're doing to go where are spaces? I mean if we go Back to the 80s, we think of the TV show Cheers where everybody knows your name and like literally that, that anthem shifted the oh, this is a show about a bar to. This is a show about people who in the middle spaces of their life they go, I want to be seen, I want to be heard. I want to be soft, I want to be open. I want to, I want to be.

And you are offering that space. I mean like, like in the chat, Rose612 says, oh, I coached at 45 work out there last year. I loved it. It's like all of a sudden when you start moving these things together, people go and one other thought that comes up. So I'm in northern Wisconsin right now at a, at an art center in northern Wisconsin, which you know, can be less, maybe seen as, as less attempting to create spaces for people to connect. And some of my fellow teachers, they went to the 24 hour grocery store, like I wonder if they have any like na beer.

And they did and it was chilled and it was accessible. And they're like, thank you for having this. In a space where if access point isn't there, people will fall into the patterns of going, well I'm either welcome or not welcome. I either need to do this or not do anything. And you're weaving all those things together. So, so what are the like, like if, if someone was, was going to show up, first of all, when is it, where is it? If they were going to show up, what would, what would a walk through through this day look like?

And, and who's welcome to join? Yeah, so anybody is welcome to join. It's a family friendly event. But there are components of the event where it might not be the best to have, you know, a baby around because if we're doing breath work or meditation, you really want to minimize the distractions. So just be mindful of that. But the event takes place at Back Channel Brewing and it kicks off at sunrise, so 5:30 in the morning with a sunrise yoga. And, and the event basically covers every modality that you can think of and the cost is $10.

Normally if you were to attend any of these classes, It'd probably be $20 for one class. So we're trying to get you access to all of these things and it's a pretty hefty event to put on. So we're just trying to, we're just trying to break even because you know, it's. As a brewery we typically profit on selling beer, but this is an event where we, we're not at. We don't want you to consume beer if you're going to go and work out. We want you to replenish with functional beverages. And maybe you're the type of person that really does enjoy going for a run and rewarding yourself afterwards.

Well, you have that option as well, but we're not putting heavy emphasis on that. com and I would highly recommend getting your ticket beforehand. They're $10 leading up to the event, but it'll be $15 at the door just because we're going to have to have a bunch of people there, you know, going through the process of getting people to sign waivers and whatnot, because we're doing active things and we want to make sure everybody's, you know, aware of the risks associated with, with moving the body.

Right. But moving the body is incredibly important and that this is, that's what this is all about. So at sunrise, we have sunrise yoga and, and then in between each modality, we have a speaking engagement. And we're fortunate to have some, some wonderful individuals from the Cadresphere partaking in that. Gene Nichols is one of them. Jen Varale is going to be talking about mindful drinking. And I'm really excited about both of those two. Nikki Peters. I'm pretty sure Nikki Peters is involved with Cadre, but she's not.

Nikki's one of those wonderful spirits and energies that is, that is in the sphere of all the things we're doing. But again, another one is people like you, Josh, who, who has entered the world going, how do we bring things that are good for people, to them, to their workplace, to their conversation, to their community? So I love that Nikki's going to be there too. Yeah. Yeah. I'm honored to have everybody a part of it. I'm really excited to have our keynote speaker, Bob Cooley, in town. And I bring in Bob in.

He's currently resides in Boston at his genius of flexibility studio there, but he primarily resides in. In Santa Barbara. And I just think that this is the greatest healing and human performance modality that I've ever experienced since my first bout with pain at 11 when I unknowingly broke my back. So I've been living with chronic pain for 30 years and it really is the reason why I'm doing what I'm doing. But to finish off what the festival is like, we have a vendor village that runs from 8am to 2, so you can talk to specialists, you can experience mobile Cryotherapy, mobile, salt cave, mobile sauna, cold plunge, and have just a firsthand approach to talking to these wellness experts and seeing what works for you.

Because it's not just one thing that is going to cure a mental or physical illness. It's a combination of little things that add up to a complete success story. And that's what we're trying to bring with Spring Park Awakening. And then the culmination of it all is essentially just a dance party. So we've got Dance Agenda, which is a wonderful music organization that is just the best at setting the right energy for any event. So even if you don't want to partake in the fitness modalities, you can move your body by just dancing some music.

And that's what it's all about, just bringing people together. Well, and everybody, like, like we swim and we swim in the pool of the world, that if we're not conscious, we forget that we're in water because we allocate to the temperature. You know, it's like, like, if you're listening, you know, what I'm hearing right now is Josh, elite athlete who has been going through life for 30 years. And the bodies continue to said, the body continues to say, hey, I need. Hey, I need. Hey, what if. Hey, this is what I'm feeling.

Hey, I'm giving you partial information. And Spring Awakening is, is a, is a perfect example of, here's a space that's created with all of those voices and all of those answers to be considerate of. Like, that is what, as we always say at Cadre, we're creating a space where we're inviting people to see that there's many ways to be. Well, you know, I always love when you create an event like this and someone goes, ah, so what is it? And you know, to the point you could be like, oh, it's all these things, but it's like, no, but what's the one, what's the one line?

And the line is that there's lots of things to experience and you're not going to know what you're going to find until you start looking for it. So the fact that you're bringing all these things together. Wow, wow, wow, wow. So, so, Josh, if, if, if you were going to, you know, and, and you've already kind of, kind of, kind of circled this circle, this sphere, but we always, we always end Cadre today interviews with an opportunity of going so at home. If you're listen, if you're tuning in, you've listened to, you know, Two people who you may not know yet engage in conversation.

Josh and I have engaged in conversation. It's always important to leave with a tactical and a practical, you know, a take home prize, something you can go, ah, here's something that's going to resonate with me or kind of float in my mind as I go throughout my morning. Josh, as you get ready for spring awakening, as you get ready for your Wednesday, as you ruminate on this conversation, what's the one thing you'll go? It's like, okay, when I sign off, here's the first thought I'm going to carry with me.

Well, for me, and I hope I heard this correctly, but for me, I want people to understand that I'm here to be a resource for your wellness. Am I going to be the one that's going to heal you? Probably not directly, but I hope to indirectly give you the opportunities to live your best life. You know, I've said what I like, what I do out here, but I wrote a book about my journey last year and it has really been the culmination of everything I've been trying to put together. And now I feel comfortable putting information out there and continuing to explore the wellness to new heights.

And when someone, when I want some, when someone thinks of me and who Josh Letty is, I want them to think of me as, gosh, you know, I bet I can go to him and figure out what I can do to jumpstart my approach to wellness and stabilize it so that it's there for the long term. Yeah, well, and Josh, thank you for navigating bravely because that take home price is a rather non firm edged question. It's like what do you take is going to be very different than what someone else has taken, how they perceive that.

And again, Josh, like you say, like you, you are a conduit for so many people to find something that they're going to find that's going to offer benefit and nourishment and, and movement. You know, T North just said, love it. Shannon said morning. Good morning Shannon. You know, we, we, if we create two hard lines, hardened lines of here's where you're supposed to go, we know a lot of people won't walk in the midst of them. So if you are looking for more information, I'll go and put it in the community feed for, for Spring Park Awakening coming up and engage at this event, at this day in ways that make sense to you because that's, that's the beauty of what Josh is creating here.

Josh thank you for taking some time this morning. Enjoy the crisper weather, everybody. If you're in the Midwest, and if the storms on the inside of the outside of your head are not calm and crisp, know you can always jump right back in here to the Cadre Sphere and find some connection. So have a great day, everybody. Josh, thanks, brother. We'll see you soon. Thanks for having me.