Trending Tuesdays

Hi, everyone. Hey, guys. It's Tuesday. It is Tuesday and we are coming at you because normally we show up on Tuesdays, but we used to call it toolbox Tuesdays. And we've got a little switch up for you today. If you haven't seen, the cadres sphere has gone through kind of a facelift over the last week. We're really doing our best to be in line with where you guys are and meet you on a day of the week where you know exactly what to expect. So Tuesday is all about community. And community, y'all, is something that we thrive in.

Community is one of our favorite pillars. It's a huge value in our business. It is something that we eat, sleep and breathe every single day. So we loved this change and we're excited to talk about who we are and what we do within community. Hey, whoa. Everyone's going on hopping up. Hey, JC. Hi, Alec. Happy Tuesday. Sandy. What's going on, girlfriend? This is great. If you don't know us, allow us to introduce, or dare I say, reintroduce ourselves. We rap. My name is Mary. This is my best friend and business partner, Jill.

Hi, everyone. We own a company called Girls Mentorship. So we teach life and personal development skills to teen and tween girls. Now, I know not all of you are teen and tween girls. However, that doesn't mean you exit the live stream. Just because we say teen and tween girls does not mean that these principles that we talk about don't apply to you. And coming in on Tuesdays, the community day, we're going to talk about things that are impacting Gen Z and Gen Alpha that we feel like you all need to be aware of and how you can loop yourself in and help.

Sandy. Nope. Dream big, 30. You are right. Jill has a very contagious. Thanks, you guys. I think one of our favorite things about community and why we're excited to be contributing to this Tuesday livestream. Cause there's a ton of creators today talking all about community. One thing that Mary and I noticed four years ago when we started our business, girls mentorship, was that there wasn't. Yes, there are spaces for our kids, like Boy scouts, Girl scouts, after school programs, sports, all of that good stuff, which my kids, I am a parent, all participate in.

But what was lacking, or what we noticed was lagging, was a space where kids got to come and practice life skills. So, leadership skills, how do they develop confidence? How do they learn how to fail and fail forward versus it, making it mean something about them. So we started this business because we knew kids, girls specifically need a space where other women have gone before them. We have fallen down, we've taken the wrong path. We have learned from our own experiences to reach our hand back to say, hey, we're here to support you on this journey of your life.

I think the prophet Shania Twain said it. Let's go, girls. And that's really kind of the motto that we embody here at girls mentorship. So since we speak teen and we're constantly updating on trends and topics, slang words, we thought it would be fun to bring some of what we talk about with our community onto the Cadre app. Because realistically, the Cadre sphere isn't just for people who are adults, right? It's for our kids as well. Mental health and wellness is the worst between girls and our youth, at least statistically.

From what we're seeing, we're seeing a huge jump in anxiety, depression, disordered eating between our youth and. Yeah, JC, I knew you'd like that Shania line. So it's important for us to keep our community up to date on what's going on. I don't know about you guys, but there's not enough hours in the day for parents especially to be in the know around all of the things that are going on. So we thought it would be fun to kind of do a trend report here similarly to the ones we do with our community.

So let's get into it. Reporting live from Mary's spare office. Recently, Kellogg's, the company has come under fire for a new marketing campaign that they put out there. And that marketing campaign was aimed at people who are having trouble with inflation turning to cereal as an appropriate dinner option, and the masses are not happy about it. And what do the masses do when they are not happy about something? They come together as a collective and they decide on a correct plan of action. So if you have happened to be on TikTok or any news syndicate lately, you've seen that people are planning a boycott of Kellogg's because they don't feel like their suggestion, if you will, to simply eat cereal for dinner is the appropriate course of action to address what's going on in our world.

And I know if I feel it, if Jill feels it, y'all probably feel it too. And we want this to be a really safe space to talk about the things that are impacting all of us individually, because what impacts us as individuals impacts us as a collective as well. We also see a huge correlation between messaging that brands like Kellogg's putting puts out there to what we're seeing as far as statistics with our young people go, which, unfortunately, is the rise of disordered eating in teens. We don't feel like messaging like what Kellogg's has put out is really helping that problem in particular.

And disordered eating is, it's not a new term, but it is definitely on the upswing, where parents need to be vigilant and proactive in noticing and having conversations with their kids. So disordered eating is separate than having an eating disorder. Some of the symptoms, if your child is experiencing some disordered eating, is frequent dieting, anxiety around food, weight inflections or fluctuations, and a preoccupation with their body image. Now, this goes for girls and for boys. So this statistic came from bark technologies.

If you're unfamiliar with them and if you're a parent and you're parenting between a tween and a teen, this organization is incredible because they have their own phone, but they also have a router technology that helps you as a parent monitor and control what your kids are saying. So if they are talking about disordered eating with friends, it will notify you so that you can be, again, proactive in having conversations and ask questions to start understanding what it is that they're experiencing so that you can get them the proper help.

So disordered eating is on the upswing, which is, again, our kids are in the world of social media and influencers and comparing themselves to everything and everyone. And if you don't have the latest, then sorry, you can't sit with us. And that's not okay. Well, and I don't know if any of you can relate. Yes, we're talking about this within teen context. However, we all have a phone. We all have access to the Internet in some way, shape, or form. And I as a. I'm almost 36. I'll be 36 this time next week, Tuesday.

So y'all get ready with your party hat. March 12. It's a birthday. It'll be a birthday live. I feel this way as a 36 year old woman looking at certain things online, and I have trouble disconnecting. So if we think about it, we're giving our kids these cell phones that connect them to 100 million of their closest friends. Of course they're gonna feel this way. Not that this hasn't always been something to watch out for in terms of your kids, but more so now than ever with the access to information that they have.

And just to touch back on bark. Luke, I know you're in the comments somewhere. Your kids have gab phones or you have the gab wireless router. Same context, but bark technologies does something like this every year. We analyze how often kids encounter or engage in concerning conversations. 6 billion activities on family accounts across text messages, emails, YouTube searches, and 30 plus additional apps and social media platforms. So this statistic around disordered eating and what bark technology has pulled out of this report is specifically what your kids are talking about via text and are searching on social media apps.

That's why we feel like looping in our community and being here for trending Tuesdays is so important to talk about, because whether you're a parent. I'm not a parent, but guess whose kids I get to interact with every single day outside of our business? Jill's kids. Right? I want to be the cool aunt. I want to be the volunteer at church that strikes up conversations with the kids walking by that they see as a safe space to come talk to if they need to. One thing that we really, really, really encourage parents to do is to surround themselves with community similar to the one we all have here on Cadre.

So it's not just coming from them, and they're not 100% responsible for their child's mental health and well being. It is so important to surround yourself with people that can pick you up when you're feeling down. And the same goes for your kids. Who's the community that your kids have around them as well, that you know, like and trust that can talk about these things and not make your kid feel shamed or guilt or wrong for however they are taking what they're feeling and putting into action. So let this conversation first be a reminder to you around how you're speaking about yourself, because how you speak about yourself is how you show up in the world and how other people, how other people see you.

And first and foremost, we're not perfect people, and we're not expecting you to be perfect. This is such a beautiful app to be in community, to just check in, to be like, man, am I falling short here or where am I succeeding? So, first and foremost, let this conversation be a reminder of how you are seeing yourself to then support the people in your life, whether they are your children or, like Mary is saying, the kids that you are surrounded by within your life. Because realistically, at the end of the day, you get to be that mirror for other people.

Right? One of our favorite sayings is we don't have to be leaps and bounds above anybody else or, you know, have ten years worth of experience. We need a 10% edge to turn around and be able to teach someone else, and you have no idea. The kids that are looking up to you in your life are looking to you for guidance. So I am excited. 0, if you will, from Cadre, because this is the stuff we're going to bring. We really find it important because I think the way we have to understand it is our kids are the next generation of leaders, right?

Our Gen Z is in the workforce in full force now. Gen Alpha is going to be our politicians and our lawyers and our judges, and we need to make sure that we're helping them go out into the world as equipped emotionally, mentally, relationally, as humanly possible, because they are our change makers. We can't turn a blind eye and say, it's not my kid, not my problem. As a collective, the health and wellness of ourselves is a direct reflection, like Jill said, of the next generation. And I think it's definitely our responsibility to make sure that we boost them up as much as we possibly can.

Because they're smarts. Their abilities are going to be all of our abilities in the next coming years. Amen. And with that, y'all, man, that was good, because I agree, there are times where I'm like, ugh, these kids nowadays, right? Have we all found ourselves to say that? And it is our responsibility. So I love the call out and you guys, new faces today, which was so exciting. Thank you for tuning in. Thanks for taking the time out of your day to be with us and to be within this awesome Cadre sphere.

And if you didn't get your fill of care today, go back and check the previous live streams because Nikki showed up this morning. JC, a fan favorite was here, Doctor Leslie Davis. We drank coffee with her an hour ago. Not to mention what's going on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, another new thing. We'll be back on Thursday. We've moved our toolbox Tuesday, talk to a toolbox Thursday. We're going to be talking about empathy. So we kind of touched on it a little bit today around knowing and seeing yourself in the younger generation, but we're going to do a deep dive into that subject matter on Thursday.

Same time, same place. What do you say? Hey, Nikki. We're so glad you watched, too. Welcome to our little corner of the Internet within the cadres sphere, DJ Kirkby. What up, girl? We miss you. This is awesome. This is awesome. You guys go on and prosper. Go on and have the. The absolute best rest of your Tuesday. Not just for yourself, but your community as well. And we will see you in just a couple of days. Bye, everyone. See you Thursday.