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Brianna Battles  00:01

Welcome to the practice brave podcast. I am the host Brianna battles, founder of pregnancy and postpartum athleticism, and CEO of everyday battles. I’m a career strength and conditioning coach, entrepreneur, mom of two wild little boys and a lifelong athlete. I believe that athleticism does not end when motherhood begins, and this podcast is dedicated to coaching you by providing meaningful conversations, insights and interview topics related to fitness, mindset, parenting and of course, all the nuances of pregnancy and postpartum, from expert interviews to engaging conversations and reflections. This podcast is your trustworthy, relatable resource for learning how to practice brave through every season in your life. Hi, Hey everyone. Welcome back to the practice brave Podcast. Today, I’m here with my son, Cade battles. Hi, he’s excited to come on this podcast. We’ve kind of made this a tradition the last couple years, where he comes on and we do a podcast around his birthday, just kind of document his growth. And for those of you who don’t know, the whole reason that I started pregnancy and postpartum athleticism in this business was because of him, because of the experience I had becoming a mother, and my birth experience with him, and just what it was like, you know, in my I guess, big identity shift as a mom after having him, and it led to a lot of positive things with his business. And His birthday is coming up at the end of the month, which I consider like an anniversary for the PNP brand. Because, again, if it weren’t for him, would not have this business. So it’s all significant blessing. Definitely the best thing to happen to me.

Cade Battles  01:55

Yeah, I did that.

Brianna Battles  01:56

You did do that? All right, so I’m going to be interviewing Kate. He’s turning 12 on June 25 and I know so many of you have been here from the beginning and now he’s kind of like growing up with us. So Cade ready to do an interview? Yeah, you’re exciting. All right. So can you introduce yourself and tell people a little about, little bit about what you’re into right now.

Cade Battles  02:23

Hi, I’m Kate Daddles. I’m really into sports, and my favorite one is probably football or basketball, and the sports I play is football, basketball, baseball and Jiu Jitsu, and that’s what I’m really into.

Brianna Battles  02:45

Yeah, what do you love most about sports? Like, why? Like, what is it that lights you up?

Cade Battles  02:50

How energetic it is and how, like, you can challenge yourself to keep pushing forward, and you don’t really lose, you just really learn, yeah, if you do lose, I guess,

Brianna Battles  03:07

yeah, you’ve like, I feel like you’ve gained so much maturity in the last couple years, specifically with like, how you approach your competitiveness, because you’re like, You’re a really intense person like me, and we feel things very intensely. So when you would lose, I mean, you would be, like, almost angry, like, really mad, really, really mad, and you would cry and be pissed off at literally everybody. But I feel like, within the last, I don’t know, like, six months or so, there’s been a big shift in seeing that with you. Like, what do you feel like happened?

Cade Battles  03:47

Well, I keep telling myself what I just said, like, you always learn from it, like you can do better from it, and whatever you did in the sport that you could do better, because there’s always improvement waiting for you. Yeah, you could just improve on what you did wrong. Yeah, yeah.

Brianna Battles  04:05

It’s a really good growth mentality to have. So what’s something that most people wouldn’t guess about you? I know what I think. Oh, and you think

Cade Battles  04:15

I don’t really know. I mean, people know me so well, usually my friends, like, down the street, yeah, all those people, what would you not guess without me?

Brianna Battles  04:26

Well, I think that people assume that you’re just like this energetic, like crazy boy energy. But you’re also a lot of feelings. You have a lot of feelings, like you’re very sensitive, and overall, I feel like you’re really emotionally intelligent, because you can communicate a lot of those things with me, but most of the time, I think you you come off as being like, just a really goofy, funny, like active and intense kid, but underneath that, like you feel things really deeply, especially. At bedtime, when you want to talk a lot, just chop talk, huh?

Brianna Battles  05:04

Yeah, just to stay up, yeah, I know your game. How would you describe our family?

Cade Battles  05:12

Intense, athletic, very supporting, like mom goes to literally almost every one of my games that I have, or digit or jiu jitsu tournaments, and my family, and then I usually go to my brother’s sports all the time, or if I can’t, I usually have my own, yeah, yeah.

Brianna Battles  05:35

Something that, like we kind of joke about a lot is like, hey, if, like, if I’m not at your practice, k, then, like you’re at my practice, and so our whole family just sort of, it’s use that’s part of our family culture is training together or being in the same environment as as one another, to be supportive of that. Yeah, I do. I do like that intense and athletic. Yeah, all right, walk me through a typical day in your life. What is your favorite part? Let’s think about like, school, school, like school, like a day in the life, like when you’re in school, because summer is a little bit of a free

Cade Battles  06:12

for all. Yeah, it’s really fun. I know, um, in school. I mean, there’s an everyday schedule, but since I’m going into middle school, it’s gonna change a lot, yeah, but from the last year, um, wait, it’s like a

Brianna Battles  06:26

typical day. So like, you wake up, you eat your breakfast, yeah, I wake up, go

Cade Battles  06:31

to I go to the bathroom, and then I eat breakfast, and then go to school, and then we jump right into, like a special thing, like specials, they call it into, like, music library, PE or something like that. And then after that, we go into math. And then we do, like an hour and a half of math, and then we go into a special group thing, yeah, where we do math and reading. And then after the hour group that we have, we go in to lunch. And then after lunch, we have recess. After recess, we come in and do reading for an hour, and then we start social studies, do what recess and finish with social studies and science. Yeah. So that’s what fifth grade

Brianna Battles  07:33

was like for you. And then normally, after school, you know, we come home, we eat real fast, and then it’s like, sports really fast. And I’d say, like, most nights when we’re in season, I say we because, like, it’s like, the whole family, the whole family is involved in this with our own everybody’s sports. There are nights that we’re not getting home and eating dinner till like, nine o’clock at night and it’s late,

Cade Battles  07:55

which is game was like, I know, yeah, yeah.

Brianna Battles  07:59

That’s crazy thing about sports mom era is like you just everything is so late because they don’t want to eat dinner, like four. But now that we’re in summer, we have a little bit more flexibility, and you get some time off of organized sports and organized like school and schedule and stuff like that. So I like to make sure that we break that up throughout the year, so that you know, you have your time to be locked in, and you have times where you have a little bit more freedom and autonomy. And that’s what summer is like for us right now. What is your dream way to spend a Saturday?

Cade Battles  08:34

Oh, I wake up, I eat breakfast, I watch a little bit of TV, and then I go out right away to play with my friends down the street, with Max, Ethan, Luke and Theo, and they all live down there. So I just bike down there. We play outside, even like play with ball game or playing trampoline. We do a whole bunch of stuff. Yeah, let’s talk

Brianna Battles  09:05

about that a little bit, because I feel like, you know you’re really lucky. You have a unique childhood where you have a lot of friends that live on your street. You’re able to play with them, and you guys do not spend a lot of time on screens. Like you guys are really active in how you play. But I feel like that’s pretty rare. Would you say?

Cade Battles  09:24

Yeah? I mean, most kids are on video games non stop and like Fortnite and all that. Like, I just disagree with all of it, because it will literally ruin your brain into becoming an athlete or something like that. What you want to become your dream? And I get if you want to be like an esports player, then, yeah, whatever. But I totally disagree with that. It ruins your brain. And for me, it gives me migraines.

Brianna Battles  09:59

Yeah, nothing. On, yeah, on our, like, travel days, we’re on iPad a lot, you feel it. And so, yeah, we try to, I mean, I don’t feel like I can tell my boys you cannot play things, but in our house, we just don’t really, we don’t have a lot of access to video games. And if we do, they are sports games, and I know that you play with your friends sometimes, but overall, like, Yeah, but there’s a we have pretty strict boundaries online. That’s not how you’re spending your time. Shad hides

Cade Battles  10:25

those iPads over there. That’s right, and that’s right.

Brianna Battles  10:27

We’re not in a good hiding place right now. But yeah, like, we just not into that. But I also think that, like, we stay busy enough where there’s not a whole lot of time to be doing that, because we don’t really like condone having a ton of downtime, especially during again, like school season, like we like to have a really structured week so that we’re prioritizing our school, our schedule, our sleep and and just like, especially as he gets older, I just don’t want him to have too much time on His hands. I think it’s really important to stay busy and to stay organized and surrounded by like productive people. So that’s how we approach this. What other questions do we have here? What is one thing you wish adults understood about being a kid right now in 2025

Cade Battles  11:19

that whenever you start young in anything you want to do, it’s just so much better, because your brain will take that in pretty easily. And then when you’re adult, it’s just a lot harder, because you haven’t been doing it since you were a kid. And I, and a lot of grown ups say, I want to be a kid again. But like, yeah, I get why they say that, because it’s a lot easier to learn different stuff and how to become what you’re going to become when you’re older.

Brianna Battles  11:53

Yeah, yeah. One thing we talk about a lot is like exposure, early and often, exposure to different sports, to different hobbies, different activities, like, both athletically and not. Cade likes to draw and like, have that as a creative outlet. But we’ve been encouraging that since he was really little, music wise, like, you have a an electric drum set and like, that’s a good outlet for him too, sometimes, especially a night when he has a lot of energy, but just Yeah, being able to expose our kids early and often to a variety of different interests so then they can learn it and then use it or revisit it later in life. Okay, what is something really cool that’s happened to you recently?

Cade Battles  12:39

Well, in Baseball, baseball season gets ended in West Valley. We won the championship, which is really good. We had the best record, and it was very fun. We’re playing against a really good team, and it was just very exciting.

Brianna Battles  12:58

Yeah, what did that coach say to you after that game. I shared a post on it on social media, but wrote it down too. I did because I was like, I gotta remember this.

Cade Battles  13:08

It was like, after the game, or, I think it was a semi final game, when you go into championship, that’s what it was. The coach said, like, Wow, you really have a gift, and I, I really hope you get to show it or something like that, and like, go on and become a very, uh, what’s the word successful?

Brianna Battles  13:32

Yeah, successful, yeah, yeah. And I just like how he said that, like, you have really good energy for your teammates and like that. You just really good sportsmanship. And you know, we love that about you, too. Kay, we love seeing how hyped you get for, like, everybody, every circumstance. Like you’re just you bring so much positive energy, and you’re a really good teammate, and you’re really good, like, competitor against other people. I liked watching you in the championship game when you did your lineup where, like, you were, like, clapping so much for the other team, like, for the friends that you have on the other team. You were so many people, I know, but like, it was cool that you’re like, still supportive, even though, like, you knew you’re gonna go into a game and, like, want to win, but that you’re still like, hyping your friends that are on the other team. And that’s just a that is a gift that will take you very far. It’s one thing to be a good player. It’s a whole other thing to, like, bring the character and sportsmanship along with it. So you have talented in a multitude of ways. Who do you look up to in your friend group? Or in terms of, like, an adult and then why

Cade Battles  14:38

blowing my friend group? I have a lot of friend groups, yeah, and different or just thinking, Who do you look up to the people on the street? I mean, like, oh, maybe Ethan, because he’s really supporting and he’ll literally, like, talk to about anything. Yeah, yeah. And it’s really nice to like endorse that, I think, yeah. So yeah,

Brianna Battles  15:09

always a really good friend, which plays into the next question. Well, what makes somebody a really good friend? In your opinion,

Cade Battles  15:17

supporting, kind, helpful, yeah? Athletic. They’re willing to do stuff,

Brianna Battles  15:27

willing to, like, play with you. Yeah, yeah. You have a lot of good, good friends in your life. I’m so happy that you

Brianna Battles  15:36

do okay. What is your favorite game to play right now? Not just like sports, but like activity game.

Cade Battles  15:45

Well, with football, yeah, right now it’d probably be with a ball, because I just feel fun, yeah, hitting a ball and try people trying to do out, yeah, I’ve been playing that recently a lot with them down the street,

Brianna Battles  16:03

all right, if what’s like a word or a trend or like a phrase that, like we as grown ups just don’t get but you guys use all the time, like, I remember, like when you told me, like my sweatpants were drippy, I was Like, what?

Cade Battles  16:18

Oh yeah, well, like you’re cooked, or something like that, or you’re cooking, I think you’re doing, like, really good, or something like that. Yeah. And then like, cat, that’s cat says i It’s a lie fly, well, that’s no canvas, no lie. Okay, no cap. That’s cat, Okay, anything else? No. I mean, there’s brain rot, stuff that people are using a lot, and I hate it. Like sigma, that’s brain like, I can’t stand it. And then, like, Ohio, Skip, de riz, like the, what is that? I don’t know and

Brianna Battles  17:04

I but we call that brain rot, because

Cade Battles  17:07

it’s, like, very brain rot. And, like I said earlier, like the video games and the

Brianna Battles  17:12

YouTube Oh, so that’s a video game culture,

Cade Battles  17:15

yeah, okay, okay. But Cook, it’s, yeah, cooked is like, cooked is like, you’re cooking,

Brianna Battles  17:21

you’re cooking. It’s a good thing, yeah? But if you got cooked, then that’s not a good thing.

Cade Battles  17:26

You got cooked, like your ankles got broken or something like,

Brianna Battles  17:30

and that’s like a joke, yeah?

Cade Battles  17:32

Okay, you’re not unless you snap your ankle, and then, yeah, you broke your ankle.

Brianna Battles  17:36

You know, look, there’s some, like, old ladies listening to podcasts that are my age. They don’t know what all these things are. So we’re gonna, you know, we’re gonna try to, try to lock in. That’s a good module. Lock in. Lock in, yeah? Or like Grandma says, Okay, I’m locked Yeah.

Cade Battles  17:52

Lock in is a good one too. Walk ins really good one.

Brianna Battles  17:56

All right, let’s move on a little bit back to sports, because obviously this is something you talk about a lot. What’s your favorite? What’s your favorite? Well, we said your favorite sport is football. But what do you love about football in particular? Hating people. You like hitting people. I feel

Cade Battles  18:13

like you like shift mom and then dodging getting hit. Yeah, dodging getting hit is really fun, especially when you have the ball or you’re trying to catch the ball because I’m a running back and, and this was

Brianna Battles  18:22

your first year of tackle football this past fall, right? Really fun. Yeah, you had played like, one year of flag before that, and, or maybe two. Yeah, I, and I, this is a question I get a lot, like, oh, like, when did you put your son in football? And, like, we were really hesitant for a while, because, no, I don’t want him to get, you know, concussion and what we what we know about brain injuries and stuff like that. So we did want to delay a little bit. So he started football, tackle football at 1111. Started tackle football at 11, and I’m so grateful that you started at that age, so that, like, your first exposure wasn’t going to be in seventh grade, where a lot of those kids have been playing for a long time, and then you’re, like, trying to figure it out, because it is different than flag. It’s a lot different, a lot different. Yeah. So I’m grateful that you were, you know, matched up with people that around your size, and that you were able to get exposure to, like, learning the fundamentals at this age. And then one thing that I love, from a coaching perspective, is seeing how transferable jiu jitsu was into football. Can you talk about that a bit? Because you’ve been doing jiu jitsu since you were four years old, so seven and a half years, yeah. So, like, I feel like football definitely is where I’ve seen jiu jitsu like compliment that

Cade Battles  19:45

sport for you, it was like it really helped because, like, tackling and double legging, yeah, when you grab both their leg and drive forward and take them down, like that helps a lot with tackling, wrapping your arms around you. Using your shoulder, driving into them, that helps so much. And then, like you get stronger hands with your grips in Jiu Jitsu, so you can drive people farther, holding their pads or stuff like that. Yeah, even,

Brianna Battles  20:14

like you’re knowing how to fall, like you can

Cade Battles  20:16

fall, yeah? Like tucking your chin,

Brianna Battles  20:20

yeah, like absorbing the force and absorbing the fall, or I would love when, like, you’d get tackled, but like you’d roll, like you’d do, like, a forward roll every like, tuck and go over your shoulder. Because so many people, like, that’s not innate to them. Like a lot of people, a lot of these brain injuries and concussions happen because they don’t know how to tuck their head when they fall, or they don’t know how to, like, roll into the fall, and

Cade Battles  20:41

as people, like break their wrist or, like, hurt their neck or their Mac problems or stuff, so

Brianna Battles  20:47

I feel like that is, you know, going to be something that continually serves you, is that you’re the fundamentals you’ve acquired through jiu jitsu showing up in places like football games where it is, like, more aggressive, well, it’s a contact Sport, just that reaction time, knowing how to, like, move really dynamically, but also, like, drive and be really explosive. And then, of course, the protection piece. So that was cool to see. Definitely helps. Yeah. So what do you love about football?

Cade Battles  21:15

You asked me that question, did I yeah, I said hitting on the

Brianna Battles  21:18

beginning of hitting people. Oh, that’s right. And, and cooking him, huh? Cooking him, yeah. And Kate is really fast. That is one of his, like, God given abilities, as he has some wheels. And he certainly did not get enough from me. I’m not fast. I can run a long time, but, like, I can’t run fast. So you are, you’re really special when it comes to that. What do you love about basketball? Because you like, haven’t played that much basketball.

Cade Battles  21:43

Yeah, I’ve been definitely practicing a lot, yeah, right here on the hoop. Yeah, my dribbling skills has gotten a lot better. And I think it’s just fun because, I mean, there’s definitely contact, but there’s not as much contact as football, definitely not as much. And it’s a lot funner, because you’re running back and forth through a court on the wood floor, dribbling a ball, and you’re trying to make

Brianna Battles  22:09

it in a hoop. Yeah? I mean, people know what basketball is, kid, but like,

Cade Battles  22:13

it’s fun doing it. Yeah? No, for sure, it’s fun because, like, yeah, you have teammates and you’re passing it to them. But like, Jiu Jitsu, it’s a single sport. You’re on your own out there on the mat, and you’re on a competition, you’re, like, trying to stay focused, yeah? And then teammates, like in all sports, just back

Brianna Battles  22:35

you up, yeah? What do you like about baseball? That’s a different kind of sport. Because, like, I feel like the what was that statistic that’s like, the failure rate of like baseball, like you’re gonna take more, not just like losses in terms of like losing a game, but like your strikeouts or whatever, like you kind of fail so much more than you like have any kind of like emotional W, yeah. So what is it about baseball that like keeps you engaged and interested.

Cade Battles  23:02

Well, it’s probably all your teammates, nine people out on the field, and then, can’t really describe it, but like when you’re on defense and you’re trying to strike out the other people, it’s just so, like, satisfying to me, yeah? Because, like, it’s just the game that keeps going until, yeah, it’s like, so strategic, yeah, and it’s very

Brianna Battles  23:34

specific, yeah? Like anything can happen,

Cade Battles  23:37

yeah, yeah, any people on base, like, get out at any time. Yeah, you never, you never know anything about it.

Brianna Battles  23:44

I was never really into baseball until you started playing. And then I was like, Wow, this like, you understand, like, why people say that baseball is romantic, because it’s, there’s just so much beauty. That’s an expression. I make that up because it’s, like, it’s so beautiful, like, a lot of things have to come together in order to, like, in order to have one brilliant moment after, like, so much delayed gratification. Like, you don’t you very rarely have, like, this instant dopamine, like, feel good, you know, yeah, I

Cade Battles  24:16

can’t, I can’t really describe it, yeah, as as well, as if you’re actually playing it, yeah, but fun

Brianna Battles  24:23

to be out there. Very fun. Yeah. And then what do you love about Jiu Jitsu?

Cade Battles  24:28

Well, um, probably that like you’re only it’s one on one, and you’re not with anyone else. But I like team. I like team a lot. But jiu jitsu is just so much different, because you’re by yourself going against another opponent that you either really know or you don’t know at all, and you’re literally fighting them, yeah, and trying to submit them, or anything like that. Yeah.

Brianna Battles  25:00

And do you like that? Like, what does

Cade Battles  25:03

it feel like to it’s very intense and hot. You probably know that you just did, like, what you did? What did you do this weekend, Masters

Brianna Battles  25:12

International, yeah, yeah. And I got coach would be like that.

Brianna Battles  25:21

But, yeah, it is. It is really intense. But the the high of like doing good, or of like hitting a move or a submission, or just, like, satisfying, yeah, and then, like, there’s just so much, I mean, for me anyway, there’s, there’s so much growth in that sport. Like it’s, it’s about being in it for the long run, doing something that’s so different in terms of being an athlete. It’s, it’s just so different. I love it, and I love that you love it, and that it’s, I think, especially for kids like I don’t think that any one sport should be their whole personality. You know, a lot of kids want to only play baseball or only play football or only jujitsu, and I do not agree with that coaching philosophy for youth athletes. There’s a time and place to specialize, but that is not it is not at this age. And what I’ve really liked about jiu jitsu is like it is a sport that can be sprinkled in throughout his year of training in both boys, where it doesn’t have to be their main focus. But it’s a supplement activity, and I look at it more as like a life skill versus a sport, because I always want him to know how to defend himself, to defend others, and to like, know the escalation of that, like most people think, like, oh yeah, I could take that person, but like, it teaches you to read a room, read people’s energy, and just be so much more self aware. And I want to raise really strong voice, and boys are the helpers, and I feel like it’s a critical life skill for our kids to have. And then being a coach, I also see, like, not just that side of why it’s practical, but I see the sports and performance side translate really, really well to any sport that he’s done, because, you know, the whole body, like, whole body movement patterns and really specific movement patterns that are very transferable to any other sport that they do, and then the mental resiliency. I mean, I mean, that’s, it’s like, it’s the hardest sport, wouldn’t you say, like, mentally, yeah, yeah, it’s a certainly is mental for me. Have you ever thought about what kind of athlete or teammate you want to be? I feel like you already are. You are that I

Cade Battles  27:35

really am. But like I said a lot earlier, you can always improve on something. So I think I could maybe like a teammate. Did you say,

Brianna Battles  27:49

yeah, like things like, about what kind of athlete you want to be, or what kind of teammate you want to be, like

Cade Battles  27:55

I want to be a really good teammate, very supporting. And the type of athlete I want to be is also very supporting kind and not putting anyone down in our place when they either, like, strike out miss a shot in basketball, or,

Brianna Battles  28:12

like, act irritated by something, yeah.

Cade Battles  28:15

Like, you always pump them up. Like, yeah,

Brianna Battles  28:19

yeah, yeah. One thing I love about you. And I mean, I know I have drilled this into your little brain since you were really young, but I always tell you, go, think, did you think the coaches? Huh, yes, all the time. But like you always

Cade Battles  28:33

in any other team, like any other team, it’s like, did you think the coaches? Thank the coaches.

Brianna Battles  28:38

I just like to make sure when I don’t see but, and you do a really good job of that and thanking the refs and stuff, but ultimately, like your talent takes you far, but your character and like the reputation that you create, especially in your local community, and, you know, in a small sports circle like that really matters. And, you know, I want people to know like Cade battles isn’t just this fast or this really great athlete, like, he’s a good kid also. And I mean, I used to recruit Division One athletes, and I knew that, like, grades matter, character matters, the family they come from matters, like, all these different variables, not just their athleticism. Like, what are we going to be bringing into the like, onto this team, and you want to know that. And so in raising someone who’s really athletic, that’s just a value system that’s been really important for us to instill, and you do a really good job of that. You if you could try any new hobby or skill, what would it be? Rugby run? Yeah, me

Cade Battles  29:42

too, definitely rugby. Sorry, my eyes are really watery right now,

Brianna Battles  29:47

bro, we should do rugby.

Cade Battles  29:48

Rugby. I really want to do that really badly, and just because of like, I know how to do jitsu football,

Brianna Battles  29:56

should we create a Mother Son rugby team?

Cade Battles  30:01

Oh, that’s cap. That’s cap. Sit down. Sit downs another one too, really, like when they get checked or something like, I know it’s disrespect, but it’s funny thing this village. Sit down. Yeah, he’s your enemy. I know, I know. And jerk.

Brianna Battles  30:19

All right, what is something that feels hard right now? Math, like life hard. Zoom out of it, yeah, Zoom out. Zoom out of school. Stuff, I’ll give you a prompt, because I know that you’ve talked to me about this a lot. You’re a little nervous about going into middle school, right? Does that feel hard

Cade Battles  30:40

to you right now? Yeah, what was the question again,

Brianna Battles  30:43

what feels hard to you right now?

Cade Battles  30:47

My head, okay, um, well, I mean the pressure into going to a new school, middle school with a lot older kids than I am, because I was literally the oldest in the school, yeah, so I’m literally gonna be one of the youngest ones, because people are, like, 14 in eighth grade and like, I’m just going into six. And so it’s definitely gonna be hard and tough to, like, battle through all those all, like the math and teachers and stuff, I know I’m zooming back in school, but like, that’s just hard.

Brianna Battles  31:28

Like, it’s okay to be intimidated, yeah, then you’ll figure it out, and the teachers will be supportive. They know they get new sixth graders that are scared every single year, and they all help them find their rhythm

Cade Battles  31:43

and their routine. And yeah, but no one’s like me. That’s the thing.

Brianna Battles  31:46

Well, of course, you’re you’re special, but you’re not that special.

Cade Battles  31:52

Am I special in a good way? Yeah, okay,

Brianna Battles  31:55

yeah, you’re gonna be just fine. And if it’s not fine, we’ll figure it out when hmm, when do you feel the most confident

Cade Battles  32:05

in sports, when I’m winning, when you’re winning? Yeah, and my team’s like, all hyped stuff like that.

Brianna Battles  32:13

When do you like? How do you like create that confidence?

Cade Battles  32:16

Though? Scoring, either way, basketball, baseball, it’s usually baseball, though, when you get most hype in the dugout, like last year, I played club, and we went on this home run streak, and it was, like, home run after home run, or like, hit after hit, yeah, and it was crazy. And then the whole dugout gets hyped, and we keep hitting because we’re so like, what do

Brianna Battles  32:43

you do when like you like, when you’re down and you like, you know you need confidence, but you’re like, really anxious or intimidated or scared. Like, I think a lot of kids struggle with that, right? They feel intimidated, like they don’t want to mess up. Maybe they just lost, and now they have to try again. Like, how do you like, generate that momentum to be more confident.

Cade Battles  33:01

Well, for me in baseball, this year, we had a really close game, right? And we’re down by like two runs, and I’m not pitching, but this other kid, Roman, a really good friend, pitches gas like, gas, gas like, that’s good. That’s very good, very fat. And I’m just at shortstop telling them to lock in, like, let’s go, Roman, lock in here. Let’s go. And we’re all hyped and stuff. Like, I just tell myself, if you’re not, if you’re gonna be down, you’re not gonna win at all. Like, ever. You’re not gonna win if you’re

Brianna Battles  33:39

down, like, if you have a crappy attitude,

Cade Battles  33:40

yeah, yes. If you have a crappy attitude, then, like, or if your energy sucks, you’re gonna lose. You you’re already gonna lose. You already told yourself that you’re gonna lose.

Brianna Battles  33:49

Yeah, it’s hard to battle out of that. Like, bad energy. Sometimes we’re just like, man, and you’re down, or you’re trying to

Cade Battles  33:55

tell your teammates to look like, Let’s go walk in right here.

Brianna Battles  33:57

Yeah, harder to do an individual sport, right?

Cade Battles  34:01

Yes, because you’re by yourself, yeah, yeah.

Brianna Battles  34:05

So you gotta, like, self hype. That’s tough. What is a moment where, like, you were really proud of yourself recently, not in sports and not in school, but like, who you are as a human proud in yourself? Yeah? When have you been proud of yourself, like, semi recently, when not in school, not in sports, for like who Cade battles is as a human,

Cade Battles  34:31

I’m proud that I hate to move on from 11. Felt what that I get to move on from 11, I get to move on every year to never another age like another year older, yep, another year to come. Okay? Because then I would have done sports related so, yeah.

Brianna Battles  34:51

Well, I want to share a moment that I was really proud of you for something that was, I think, reflective of your character. And it was something. Happen at school?

Cade Battles  35:01

I graduated. You did graduate fifth George Washington thing. That’s what I want you. That’s what you’re gonna say. No, no, I did a historical biography on George Washington. I had to memorize a five paragraph essay. Yes, he did. And then my parents because we were leaving for Mexico. So I did memorize my my five paragraph essay early. So first up, yeah, I was first up, but I was also in the classroom, and my mom and Devlin just in the back like this,

Brianna Battles  35:35

with my phone out, taking the video. My entire class was like, whatever you have a proud, proud mommy and daddy. We didn’t, we couldn’t miss seeing you. Yeah, yeah, teach us about George Washington. I mean, I forgot the whole thing already. That’s okay. That’s okay. You You know the main points? Well, my something that you did earlier this year, that I think, like, spoke a lot about who you are. Is one of your friends was getting bullied, and she was getting bullied by kids that you were also friends with, and they did something mean to her, where they took her backpack and threw it in a trash can, right, a wet dress can, a wet trash can, and she was really upset, right? So what did you say?

Cade Battles  36:26

Tell me, set the scene. I can’t remember anything, but like I said, like, back off. Don’t pick on anyone else, or something will happen to you, and you don’t want to find out. So please just stop it, right now.

Brianna Battles  36:39

Did they stop? No, no. So then what happened?

Cade Battles  36:43

Mine, suplex them. They did not suplex them. No, I push the one of them. I pushed them off. And like, I pushed them off, I told them again, yeah, with my words and with your words. And then, and then I got physical, because they did stop, right?

Brianna Battles  37:05

And I’ve always told Cade like I would never be mad at you if yours.

Cade Battles  37:09

And then I got yourself, and then I got sent to the principal’s office and and

Brianna Battles  37:15

it’s easy for Cade to get playing for things here, right? If you’re if you are acting in a way that is standing up for yourself or standing up for others, then I don’t care if you get in trouble, and I will defend you. Period, full stop. Thank you. But we want to you know Kate is somebody who like, I think he’s it’s easy for him to take the blame on things because he’s so active and intense and fiery in his like words and his actions. So he will get in trouble a lot, you know. And I just like to make sure that you know that the truth does come out with that. And I was really proud of you for standing up for somebody, for using your jiu jitsu for the greater good, and setting a precedent that you cannot bully other people. And I think that it’s important for kids to know like that escalation of like, using your words, repeating your words, and if it doesn’t stop, well, then you can get physical, but you can get physical in a way that’s not actually going to hurt yourself or others. And I was really proud of you for that. Yeah, thank you. You’re welcome. All right, we’re gonna flip the script now. What is it like having me as your mom?

Cade Battles  38:32

Well, I mean, it’s very intense, but yes, it is like like you were saying, like, there’s sports every day, and sometimes I feel like I need an off day. Like, we took like, a two mile walk, like, a month or two ago, just talking about this and like, how, like, sometimes I need breaks because I’ve been doing this since I was Yeah, down there,

Brianna Battles  39:04

yeah, little and that’s what our summer’s boring.

Cade Battles  39:08

I have self. I’m I’m very grateful that I have some days off, but then I get right back into it.

Brianna Battles  39:18

Yeah. What I like about our relationship is that we’re really similar, and I feel like I really, I really get you, I get your brain, I get your feelings, I get your intensity, and we’re really similar, and it’s nice that we have each other for that. Like it’s just, I feel really thankful to know you in that kind of way, yeah. What do you want your life to look like when you are graduating from

Cade Battles  39:50

high school? High school? Well, I’m gonna set my life to go to college, yeah, and then I’m. Going to play I might play football there. Yeah, I’m gonna play football there. And after that, I’m going to try to get drafted to the NFL, yeah, and become the next great running back, I guess.

Brianna Battles  40:23

Yeah, I have no doubt you’d be able to do that, folding the mouse. What kind of person do you hope to be when you’re older? You just asked me that. No, that’s what you want your life to look like at 18. What do you think your life look like 18? Okay, well, also question, what kind of person do you hope to be when you’re older, like character wise?

Cade Battles  40:46

Well, we actually just decided the presentation slide at the end of the school year, and it was what you want to be when you grow up, like a future you. That’s what they called it project. And I said, NFL player. I said, all this stuff. And I said, I would pay off the house that you are living in, whatever house it is. I’d pay it off, no. And then I had helped charity wise, and I would donate money, a lot of money, there. And, like, help, like, the foundation of Make a wish, and I’d help those people and stuff. That’s exactly what I did in, like, the presentation slide. Yeah, thing.

Brianna Battles  41:34

So that’s the feel you have a lot of great athletes that you look up to that are really involved in that kind of thing, right? Who do you like? Mookie bits? Yeah, the Dodgers. Okay, yeah,

Cade Battles  41:46

I can’t believe what chance is saying the Mookie Bell. Okay, Mookie Betts, Justin Jefferson in football, and then Mookie Betts is baseball. I really look up to probably the most is basketball. Kobe Bryant, I’m playing, I’m playing basketball out there, like, Kobe, Kobe, Kobe.

Brianna Battles  42:17

I do love hearing that live

Cade Battles  42:19

on and then like,

Brianna Battles  42:22

yeah, no, you got there’s some good, good athletes to look up to, both for their sports skill, but also their their character as well. Do you think that kids today have more pressure than maybe, like people my age? Did we were growing up?

Cade Battles  42:41

No, I think they have to have less pressure, because people today have a little bit more money than people did back then. So back then, back then, back then, back then in the 90s, feel like George Washington right now, bro, give my presentation back then, like people didn’t have tons of money, mansions and stuff, unless they were like, George Washington, or get out. I might not that old. Yeah, I know. I know, I know, but they still didn’t have that much money. Like, my mom has a story. I have

Brianna Battles  43:21

a story, yeah, we just talk about, at least within our family, the life that the life and childhood that Kate has is very, very different than the life and childhood that I had, and very different than the life and childhood that his daddy had as well. So very different in terms of how we’re able to grow up and the exposure that he has, the opportunities that he has, and then I was a little bit more limited for a variety of reasons. Yes, I we help keep that perspective, and try to help keep that perspective, because it is different when you’re used to it’s just different sometimes, I think, and it’s hard when you know Jared, I want to give our boys, like, the life that we didn’t have, but at the same time, like, I don’t want you guys to be spoiled. I don’t want you to be entitled. And so we do talk about that often, like that, you guys are really lucky in a lot of these situations to have the opportunities that you do, and we do share a little bit about what our life was like versus what theirs is like, and just the gratitude and less pressure,

Cade Battles  44:33

I think personally, for me, that you have all this pressure, but I do have a lot of pressure,

Brianna Battles  44:39

and You put a lot of pressure on yourself and and I put pressure on you to become the best version of you. I don’t care if you win. I don’t care if you get all the best grades, but I want you to I want you to try. I always want you to try. That’s where I will put pressure on you, is to, like, work hard and try your best. Whatever that ends up looking like. But it’s not a it’s not a win. It’s not being the best at everything. It’s just being someone who who tries and shows up, yeah? All right, what’s a weird food combo that you love?

Cade Battles  45:14

No, I don’t really have any food combos.

Brianna Battles  45:17

All right. Like, what’s your favorite food right now?

Cade Battles  45:18

Then, if you say right now. I mean, I’ve loved in and out, yeah, for my entire life, or right now this second, like this exact second, I feel like eating an entire Chick fil A, like an entire Chick fil A. I really want Chick fil A

Brianna Battles  45:35

and some Chick Fil A’s, but it’s not happening. But it sounds good, if you could only listen to one song for the rest of the year,

Cade Battles  45:45

what would it be? I’m really into Kendrick Lamar right now. Yeah,

Brianna Battles  45:54

Kate is actually a pretty good rapper, and

Cade Battles  45:57

I made my own rap. He did make

Cade Battles  45:59

his own rap, but yes, no bad words. Don’t worry. Oh god,

Brianna Battles  46:04

yeah, he’s Yeah, really into Kendrick Lamar. What else?

Cade Battles  46:09

Well, it’s just really Kendrick Lamar and Eminem. I don’t know what song I would listen to the

Brianna Battles  46:16

rest of the Eminem is my era, so I’m not like, not George Washington era, bro,

Cade Battles  46:24

hey, I know, I know, um, I could not choose, but I would listen to an artist for the rest of the year. Yeah, which would be Kendrick Lamar, okay, firing. I can’t choose a song though, but it’d be Kentuck Lamar for an artist, okay?

Brianna Battles  46:41

Firm, what is something that you’ve seen or heard recently that made you laugh really, really hard? Mookie toe,

Cade Battles  46:50

yeah, let’s look at it. So Mookie Betts fractured his toe walking to the bathroom in the dark. I’m not very proud of that. You’re not proud of that. No, I don’t I think he feels there. Well, not proud of me either. Like chance land play of one v1 with Him in basketball, and he stubs his tone. He’s like, oh, oh, I got a Mookie toe.

Brianna Battles  47:16

Now. Chance is so funny. So funny. Yes, we had a good laugh about that too, because he just, that’s his re show.

Brianna Battles  47:27

Because, yeah, that was last night. That was last I had a good a good laugh over that. And him calling for you a meatball or something like, oh yeah, or his little cousin, yeah. What’s your let’s talk a little bit about chance you guys have a really special relationship, and

Cade Battles  47:45

what next? Next? Can we talk about my friends?

Brianna Battles  47:48

You’ve talked about your friends. I’m not like, neighborhood friends and everything.

Cade Battles  47:52

Yeah, no, no, okay. I mean, like, cause, okay, okay,

Brianna Battles  47:55

we’re gonna wrap this soon. We’ve almost been yapping for an hour. Okay, brother, you guys are four years apart, and I share that a lot because a lot of people have assumed that, especially when I was pregnant with chance, that like, you guys wouldn’t be close because you’re four years apart, but you and your brother play all the time, and you have a really close relationship, and you also, like, torment each other, like and fight and antagonize, but then like, turn around and are so loving and really helpful and kind to each other. So talk to me a little

Cade Battles  48:35

bit about your guys’s relationship. Well, that’s just brothers. I mean, they they fight, and then they love each other. They fight and then they love each other. So, yeah, I just like to, like, use him for stuff, like, like, um, basketball, like, I was saying 1v ones and stuff, and playing catch, baseball stuff, because, like, my dad or mom don’t are not like, though dad’s usually making food, because this is the time want to play catch at night, and dad’s making food, then mom’s like, doing work in here. So like, wing chance just call it down. Like, one play catch, then we play one v1 then we go and then we go down the street and find friends. Yeah, even when we’re really not supposed to Yeah, you guys, like, last night.

Brianna Battles  49:25

Yeah, you guys, you guys have, like, a video go viral recently.

Cade Battles  49:29

Oh yeah, the 11.6

Brianna Battles  49:31

No, not that one. The the one of you guys, like, hugging goodbye on your last day of school, that one’s going viral. Yeah, really well, like viral for my content

Cade Battles  49:41

and not Mr. Beast, yeah,

Brianna Battles  49:45

not that level. But I think your shows like, you know, so your last year of being in school together, I know that was, like, really bittersweet for you guys, like they’re sad, well, some tears, and just, I. Know, you guys just have a really special relationship, and I’m so grateful that you do. Yeah, yeah. He’s kind of funny, yeah, a little bit, little bit. He gets along with all your friends too, yeah, which is kind of weird. He’s like, the token little brother to everybody. But it’s good, because it’s made him like a really like, he’s very smart and he’s very athletic, and I think so much of that is like just the exposure from being around being around Kate and all of kade’s friends. All right, Kade, is there anything you want to finish this off with?

Cade Battles  50:37

Well, I want to talk about my friends a little bit down the street, yeah, just a little more. Okay, I don’t know why. Well, okay, keep

Brianna Battles  50:48

it short, because we’re almost at our time camp.

Cade Battles  50:51

I don’t really know what to say about them, though. Okay, well, you’re really lucky.

Brianna Battles  50:55

Okay, you have a handful of little boys that are all around your age that live on this street, and you met them the very first day we we,

Cade Battles  51:05

oh yeah, they checked out. There was this house. There was a family of seven right next door of us, and then then down the street. Yeah, they all came to my driveway and just waited till we came outside and

Brianna Battles  51:25

to meet me. Yeah, I feel like that’s been like, one of the one of the best parts of moving to Idaho is moving into a neighborhood where there’s, like, so many kids and California,

Cade Battles  51:35

there was nobody on the street. It was mostly old people to put, like, but there is these one, yeah, no one chuckle, yeah, yeah, and yeah, but you have a

Brianna Battles  51:50

lot of really good friends here. And it feels to me like my boys are getting, like, a 90s childhood. I know that doesn’t mean anything to you, but like, where, you know, they can just, they get on bikes and they’re they can just, like, go to each other’s houses, all of the parents help each other out and they demolish snacks. Or our Costco bill is, like, stupid, stupid. But that’s how we keep kids around, is we keep them fed. We keep them like, snacking. And I love that they have each other like I love that, you know, Kate has these boys and and chance does too, all right, and this is where the attention span has left the building. So let’s wrap it Cade battles. Thank you for being here. Cannot believe that you’re going to be 12 years old. It does not feel possible, but I love you, so I

Cade Battles  52:45

can’t believe it. I believe when I was going to be 1112,

Brianna Battles  52:49

feels real, too not feels too old, just a little. But I love you. I’m proud of you. You’re like the best thing to ever happen me, and best thing to happen to this business because you’re the reason it got started. So we are all very thankful to for you, and thank you for sharing your Cade words of wisdom in this season of life. Thanks for listening, guys. Bye.

Brianna Battles  53:21

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