Monday Motivation

Happy Monday, Cadre crew man, what an amazing day to be alive today. But seven years ago, somewhere on that ballpark, I read a book that changed my life called living with a seal. I reread it probably within the last couple years with my wife. It's just a remarkable book. It's called living with a seal. If you haven't read it before, but please do. But the author of the book, Jesse Itzler, became almost a hero of mine several years ago. And ultimately he was on the Rogan podcast. He's on a bunch of different individuals podcasts 34567 years ago.

And he exudes, I think, everything that's great in this world. And like I said, he's a hero of mine. Jesse Itzler, if you told me seven, eight years ago that I would be sitting courtside at the Atlanta Hawks game in Atlanta with the owner of the Atlanta Hawks, I probably won't believe you. But that happened to me yesterday. Hey, Katie. That happened to me yesterday. And I want to take you how I think it happened. First, when you read something that's super, super inspirational and you read something that you love and you read something that matters and you read something that you're passionate about, I think it brings you to a place inside, like this burning fire of, like you want it or you want to be a part of it or you want to see more or it intrigues you or whatever.

So I met, I just had a goal of, like, seeing Jesse or hearing him speak or something along those lines. Right. So check box one. Check, right. That was done. That was completed. I watched him speak. Checkbox two. You know, he's developed all these different things and different programs and whatnot, and I've just became more and more involved, you know, again, you know, check. Checkbox three. Right. You know, checkbox four is saying yes to as many possible things that you can, that somebody like that is doing.

Right? Say yes, say yes. Say yes. And then you're, before you know it, like, you just continue to excel your life and keep moving forward. And here I am seven years later in Atlanta at his house, him and Sarah Blakely sitting in a sauna in a cold plunge right outside his home and with some of the most amazing human beings that I've ever met in my life. There was one person that ran a marathon. Seven. Seven marathons, seven days, seven different continents. There's another individual that ran 73 miles last year.

He was trying to do a hundred mile race, but he ended up finishing 73 miles. There's another individual that did back to back fifties, 51, day, 50 the next. There was another individual that started a business called Lean Kitchen. That's scaling across the, it's just scaling across the country, right? It's called Lean Kitchen. There's another individual that started a construction company in Ontario that's now growing from Ontario down to Florida, through Florida, out to Colorado, and developing these large scale storage units.

And so I'm telling you, and I can't stress this enough, like, you are who you hang around with. Like, you are who you hang around with. If you, my wife always says, like, if you want to walk with the turkeys or soar with the Eagles, those are just the decisions that you're ultimately going to make. And again, being in that room with those individuals now, people that I call friends, people that I love and trust, but to sit through, like I said, the Atlanta Hawks game, sitting next to the owner of the company and right to, it's just insane.

I just have to tell you this. So Jesse Isler, myself, and two other people, and then right to the right of me was two more individuals. And those two more individuals that were right to me were Howard Schultz, right hand man, the Starbucks CEO, his right hand man, a confidant. And right next to that was the individual by the name of David Moore, who, big time venture capitalist, helped execute on a bunch of different deals, including the latest Blackstone Spanx and all these other things that were going on.

But regardless, the story that I want to tell you today is, like, you can reach your dreams. Like, you absolutely can achieve your dreams. You can meet the people that you want to meet. You can go do the things you want to do. Like, our world has never been as accessible ever. Like, whether it's with social media, whether it's all these things, like, you have access and you have with a compelling attitude, a compelling story, doing something that is so different than everybody else. Like, you can do it, too, like any one of us can.

But it's, I mean, it just didn't happen overnight. What I tried to explain is, like, that was seven years to get to that moment where I was able to have, like, facetime and be there with him and talk to him and share, you know, my triple h, my hope, my hero, my heartbreak, all those things, my stories showing, showing my little five year old running a five k 3 miles. But it starts by taking action. It starts by taking action. Today you can do it. You absolutely can do it. So I just want to share with you today that story of, like, this long journey for me of meeting my hero, my idol, the person who I believe is just driving so much incredible goodness to this world.

And so I want to tell you, you can, too. And if there's some dreams and some desires that you have in this world, then they don't happen in a week, they don't happen in a month, they don't happen in a year. Sometimes things takes a long time to come to fruition. And I'm just telling you, like, mine was seven years, but I wouldn't have had it any other way. And in fact, but think about this. Like, I was also supposed to pick him up one time at the airport. That fell through because of his schedule and everything, and you just gotta keep trusting the process.

And what if I only had 15 minutes, you know, to pick him up and drop him off at the speech, this case, like, I had a day. I had an unbelievable day. m. Like, we spent the entire day together and learning more about him and what drives him, what fuels him, and seeing how he wants to roll up this new business and his strategy and his vision and everything with it. Like, I got front row seats to one of the greatest entrepreneurs in the last 2030 years and just seeing his brain. And so again, I just wanted to tell you, like, you can do whatever you want to do.

Go get it. Go get it. Trust the process. It's going to take time and enjoy the ride, and enjoy the ride while you're doing it. So go after it today. Do everything you want to do. Make it happen. Does anybody have any questions whatsoever about that? But I just want to, again, just reiterate to everybody, you can achieve your goals. You can achieve your dreams. Be patient, keep working hard, and just know, like, there's going to be things that come up against it and roadblocks and everything, but just know that they're going to be there for you.

And if it's meant to be, it's meant to be, baby. You can do it. I'm just going to wait for 1 second to see if anybody had any questions whatsoever. Otherwise, if you do, you can always email me. It's lwentlinadre IO. Please email. We have an incredible week ahead. An incredible week ahead. We just got done with a remarkable retreat with all of our shareholders, our partners, and, and really just driving home the strategy for 2023, which we're so jacked about, and we can't wait to share our stories, our messages, our vision to the world.

And we hope that it changes lives, even if it's one we've won. But I'll wait one more minute, see if anybody has anything that they'd want to say with that. But if not, take care. Have a wonderful day. Y'all look forward to catching up with you again soon. And all because of that all day running company. So, you know, it's crazy what you can do when you put your mind, your body, your heart and everything, and you have to suffer a little bit. Suffering is where the growth really, really happens. So take care of y'all.

All right? Talk soon. Thanks, you guys.