Exercise Your Influence

Well, happy Saturday, everyone. m. Central Standard Time. My name is JC, and if we've never shared time together before, either in person or here, through a live or a video, thanks for spending a moment with me. Thanks for allowing me to spend a moment with you. So for the last six days, I've been talking about the idea of exercising your influence to level set. I raised the point that in a culture where we have things called influencers, and there's a lot of hype and excitement around those people who are influencers.

And I think in culture, it's something that we think we're supposed to want to be in the way that it's presented to us. So all week I've been sharing tactical and practical ways on how you can exercise the influence that you have. Because if you're anything like me, people who are tagged as influencers don't really have a lot of influence on my life. I appreciate them as people. I appreciate their craft. But at the end of the day, I don't know them. I don't have them come into my mind or my heart because we don't share stories or histories or highs or lows.

The people who influence me are people who are within my sphere, who I have story and energy with. Hey, Luke, happy Saturday. So consider those people, who are those people that you have influence over. What do you worry about within their lives, within their stories, within them attempting to live out their dreams and be happy. Whole people. You know, what we're creating here at Cadre is a pathway for all of us, for our mental health, for our wellness, to be connected with people who we can have influence over and who have influence over us.

And that's been one of the drivers of this idea of exercising your influence all week long, to equip you with ways that you can think about those people that you care about and provide them a pathway right here. A pathway to content and connection, community and conversation around all of the things that make life what it is. Good, bad, hard, easy. And I hope you've already sensed at Cadre that we're not here to give you the, here's the three steps to making all the problems go away. There aren't three steps.

What you have here is the opportunity to have a space connection to ideas, to voices, to hearts, to minds, to keep doing the thing that you've been doing. Chris, I love that you've been loving this topic because this next invitation may be a, an intriguing consideration for you. So you're going to go ahead and see on the Cadre app, on the website, on our social fronts, a way for you to exercise your influence. Right here at Cadre, we'll invite you to sign up for a link that you can invite people to go to and sign up to be a part of Cadre, to be within this world that you are in, and knowing that it takes a lot of work and a lot of courage to go ahead and say, hey, person I care about.

Hey, person I know. I think there's something for you right here at Cadre, and I'd love to hold your hand and walk you into this world. After five people sign up with your link, we're going to send you a Cadre hat for two reasons. Number one, it feels good to get stuff, especially stuff that we like. But number two, it'll be a reminder for you, a badge, that you've exercised your influence. If you have a couple extra minutes today, go into Google and type in Derek Sivers, and there will be a three minute TEd talk that pops up called how to start a movement.

I love three minute Ted talks. I wish this was a three minute TEd talk, but you have to listen to me for a few more minutes today. But when you watch Derek's TEd talk, there's this guy who's, like, dancing on the side of a hill at a music festival by himself. Derek is talking while his video is playing. And Derek makes the point that. That, you know, like, this is a leader. This is a person who's risking to put the thing that he finds to be really important into the world, and he dances with his.

With his bad self. Then all of a sudden, a second person comes and starts dancing with weird dancing guy, please hear this. This is where Derek goes. You know, our culture praises the leader, but it's that first follower that turns that leader from a lone nut into someone who starts a movement. When we live in a culture of influencers, we often think that they have done the work and they are the people that people listen to. But consider in your own life, who do you listen to? Who do you look to?

I bet it's someone who's closer in your sphere. So what a radical idea for Cadre to empower you to be a first follower, to invite other people how to learn to take care of themselves, not by doing exactly what you do, but by walking into a space where you can coexist as you find what you need, as you connect with those who you need to connect with. So, Chris, Luke, all y'all speak wonder. I know you're going to watch this video later, I invite you to exercise your influence. And, yeah, that little voice in your head may go, ah, but I don't have anybody think a little bit harder.

You do. People are watching you. We're watching you. You are influencing us whether you like it or not. So you can go to the website and sign up for your exercise your influence link. Share it with people. Yeah, maybe you share it in a social media post, but I bet it'll work better if you send a text message. Hey, friend. Hey, parent. Hey, family member. Hey, neighborhood. I've been on this Cadre, this very special group of people with a very special intention. That's what Cadre means, special group with special intention.

I'm a part of it, and I think you may want to be part of it, too. And if they go, why? And you go, ah, say. Cause I thought about you and you came to mind. So give it a try. Then check in with them. Walk with them as we walk along with you. That's your opportunity. 330 in the afternoon on a Saturday. m. On a Friday night on the biggest of stages, the smallest of stages in a conversation of millions or a conversation of one on one. There's opportunity and influence right there. Thank you for exercising yours.

We'll see you later. Bye. Peace.