A Good Friday Fumble Story For You!

Hi everybody, it's Luke Wentland. Just battling a little bit of cold and stuff all week, but I just wanted to check in with you all here before the, excuse me, before the weekend begins. I just want to share kind of a funny story. So here we go. Hi everybody, just those folks that are coming on board and seeing this live, thanks for showing up, thanks for being here. Again, my name is Luke Wentland. I've been at CADRE since day one. I just want to share a funny story. So a dear friend of mine opened up this big new downtown Minneapolis co-working space.

It's awesome. Like this really cool building. It's called the Little Big Studio. Her name is Sarah Edwards. Interviewed her, actually, she was the fourth Mental Wealth podcast interview. She's awesome. She's a really great individual. super passionate about mental health, all the other things. So, all right, check this out. So here we are. She has like 300 and some individuals and she's giving this big speech and she's talking about this little big business that she's building, which is connecting creators with businesses and all this stuff.

It's awesome, super cool. And so when she opened this co-working space, which is fantastic, someday you guys all got to come see this spot. Cadre was the first ever tenant in the little big space. And it was just when it was like starting. So it was the very first thing. There was nothing in there at all. And it was just a big wide open space. I just remember like her pushing this chair and she just like strolled forever. Okay. And then she goes, well, would you want to join? I said, I'm in. She goes, you don't even like, you don't even know what we're going to do.

You have no idea. And I said, I'm in. Like Cadre will be here. We'll support you. Anybody who has big dreams, we'd love to help you. So here we are. huge event downtown Minneapolis last night, right? Big event, 300 and some people. The mayor's there. You know, there's a lot of like movers and shakers and all the things. And she said to me beforehand, she goes, hey, I'm gonna let you know that, you know, sometime during the speech, I'm gonna talk about, you know, you and what you're building. Just raise your hand.

And I'm like, oh, okay, sounds good, no problem. So, you know, here we are, like I'm in the back. And all of a sudden she's like, and I just want to shout out somebody. His name's Luke Wentland with CADRE. Luke, why don't you come on up? So here I am. I have my hat on backwards. I'm wearing an inappropriate outfit to this event. And I show up in the middle of this whole group of individuals and she brings me up. She's like, I just want to thank you for believing me and da, da, da, da. And it was like a minute, minute and a half.

And I had the most like fumbling like ever moment in front of 300 people. I was like, yeah, cadre is. Cadre is this, and this is what we do, and thank you so much, and support Sarah. And I was like, oh my gosh. If you had told me that you were gonna have me come up, and you were gonna have me say a few things, I would've knocked it out of the park, I would've prepared, I would've something. But then I thought about it, and I was thinking about this, and I'm going, But what about if I just was prepared anyhow?

Like what if I was just ready for it? Like what if I was just ready to say, in the event something like this happens or the mayor came up and after she pointed at me, ask a couple questions or whatever that might have been, like why wouldn't I have just prepared anyhow? But my whole point is I fumbled in front of like 200 and some people, okay? So I fumbled in front of 200 and some people and there's embarrassing and all the other things, but the reality is like nobody cares. I mean, nobody really cares, right?

So it's like, here I am walking into the lion's den. I had no idea, I had no idea that she was gonna say, Hey Luke, would you say a few things? Would you address the crowd? Would you tell them about your story? Da da da da. I'm like, okay, this is your moment, not mine. So I just felt really weird and dumb. And then I was just super nervous and I even said it. I'm like, I'm really nervous. but here's what cadre is, here's what I do, da da da da da. So I just want to share that we all fumble and some are bigger than others and some fumbles are smaller than others and that's okay.

But I just want to share like, man, I was embarrassed. I couldn't have felt dumber, but that's okay and we move on and it'll be great. And then Rachel says, I bet no one even noticed. Probably not, but I sure did for myself. So everybody that showed up, I just want to share, we're all human and we all make mistakes, and most importantly, putting on the spot in front of two, 300 people where you get thrown a mic really didn't go very well for me. No, I'm just kidding, but it was fine enough. I just felt totally put on the spot, embarrassed, and when I left, I was like, Oh my God.

Did I just make myself look like a clown? But it's all good. It's probably not the case. But at any rate, you all have a wonderful weekend. If you get a little embarrassed, that's okay. My beard is out of style, it's gray, it's all the things. I'm totally embarrassed by that. No, I'm just kidding. But hopefully you all have an opportunity to take in some of those embarrassing moments of your life and just kind of laugh them off. because really that's what it's all about. So all right, I'm going to just say hi to everybody.

Jules, you're amazing. I hope everything went great for you today. Rachel, thank you so much. T-North, you're the best. Rachel, bet no one else even noticed exactly. It was enough. That's all we can do. That's right. So you guys take care. Have an amazing weekend. Thanks for listening in. I hope this story just resonated and hit home and just go like, you know what, we all like, we'll have those moments, those fumbling, embarrassing, moments where you would have like, you go to bed at night going, oh man, what I wouldn't have done to said something a little bit different.

So you guys take care. Thank you so much and we will talk soon. In the meantime, lift somebody up, love somebody up and take care of you guys. All right, bye-bye.