Luke Wendlandt shares a brief story about reconnecting with a college friend in crisis and encourages the community to reach out—text, call, or show up—when checking in on others.
Luke Wendlandt: Happy Friday. I love this community more than anything. Reach out to those people around Junior community, check in with those folks, shoot them a text. If the text doesn't feel reads right, pick up the phone and call.
What's up, Cadre crew? It's Luke here. Happy Friday. Right around that noontime, which means we have a Cadre today, which means we have a little check in and then we just have a short little story that I just want to share with you. Happy Friday. Thanks for being here again. My name is Luke Wendlandt. I've been here since day one. I love this community more than anything. This is what I live for. I just wanted to share just a quick little story. I have not spoken to, texted with, connected with a friend that I went to college with for about 20 years.
Somewhere on that ballpark, about 18 years, 20 years. And he, you know, sent me a text message and he said, you know, what's, what's your words for the year? What's your words for the year? So I told him what my words were and then I asked him what his were and he said, survival. And so I do. What I do is I called them right away and I said, everything okay? Said, everything okay? And he said, no, it's not. And I said, well, what's going on? What's happening? And he indicated that him and his wife are separated and they have an older child that becomes violent when things don't go well and he's, you know, hits him and all these different things that, that, that, that happen.
And when I asked what his word of the year was, he said survival. And so and said texting. I called and then he lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia. And I just told them like, hey, if you need somebody to come down, I'm happy to fly down for a weekend, you know, chat, catch up, figure out what you can do. What's, you know, get your mind right, get yourself prepared just to be the best you, you can. So my encouragement to the entire Cadre sphere is just this. Reach out to those people around Junior community, check in with those folks, shoot them a text.
If the text doesn't feel reads right, take a different approach, pick up the phone and call. All right, lean in. Lean into each other. Do, do the best you can in junk food junkie. I'm going to tell you, we're fixing this talk soon.
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