The Outward Facing Clique

Hey there, Cadre. Happy Tuesday. For the second time today, my name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared space or time together before, thanks for the opportunity to do so. My name is JC. You can find me here on building community day at Cadre every single week right around this time. Earlier this morning, Nikki kicked off the day with our programming. And then you'll see Doctor Leslie and you'll see girls mentorship later on today. But also, I want to give a little shout out. m. Central standard time, I jumped on to the team Cadre or jumped on on the livestream as team Cadre and did a what is Cadre?

Session every single day this week. Hey, Kristin. Hey, speak wonder. Every single day this week, and every week, you'll have one of team Cadre jump on to really talk about what it is that we're attempting to do in this world. And if you're wondering, well, I've been around Cadre for a little bit, but what are you really doing in this world? What's Cadre's vision? Well, it's this. We're bringing together contributors who are professionals and peers to share resources and build community, to invite you to see that there are many pathways to wellness.

And on Tuesdays, we talk all about building community. What do we mean when we say that? Well, community is. Hey there, Kristen. Oh, crew. It's nice to see all y'all showing on up. Speak wonder, Kristen, the two of you should know each other. Speak wonder. I was talking to Kristen this morning and let Kristin to know that you used to have some. Some Colorado roots, and Kristen is in the Denver area, so the two of you will have to connect some day. But what do we mean when we say building community?

Well, there's only one prerequisite for building community, and that is people, right? People who need people are the luckiest people in the world. And that community may be two people. Doctor Leslie often talks about that interpersonal relationship between two people. It could be between people who may be a little bit older and people are a little bit younger, like a mentorship relationship, girls mentorship later on this afternoon, or it may be like I often talk about right now, and that is bringing people together around an idea, around a movement, around an event.

And I always say, whenever you're attempting to build a community of people, the longer that you are a part of it, the less it is about you. And I say that with so much excitement and love. How do you feel about that? The longer that you're a part of something, the less it is about you and the more that it is about the people who have yet to find it. Sometimes I say this people, and they go, how dare you? How dare you say that this thing that I am a part of, that I helped build, becomes less about me when I've given myself to this thing.

And what I mean is, if you truly care about the thing that you are building and the reason why it's being built, the mission, the vision, the purpose, the potential impact that the community has in the world, it has to become less about you. And that is the idea of the outward facing click building something that people want to be a part of, that they want to be like, oh, there's something that makes us together. And then turning outside to see who is yet to be a part of it. So as these live streams often do, they pull from where us, as contributors, have been living life.

This past weekend, I was in Eau Claire, Wisconsin for the biggest small town race in the US of a Eau Claire Marathon weekend. There's a marathon, a half marathon, a marathon relay, a kids event, a five k, a ten k, a wonderful, wonderful downtown area for people who either don't want to, don't feel called to participate in any of the events that they can participate within, within the commerce and the energy of the neighborhood. But this weekend, whenever something really cool is happening, I always love thinking about the people who are participating for the first time, the people who maybe never been to this city before, who've never participated in an event before.

So I'll use the idea of running for today's outward facing click. How often do we say something like, I am a runner or I'm not a runner. Running is a verb. It's like, I am a writer, or I am a scissor user, or I am a cherry coke drinker. All those things sound weird. We never say any of those things, but for some reason, running is something we've turned into being an inward facing click. If you went outside right now and from your front door ran down to the street, and if it took you 1 second or 1 million years, you are a runner.

Now, again, I don't need to convince you of that. You don't need to convince that of yourself. But the people who think that there are runners and that there are not runners in this world are the people who need to do the thinking, who need to go. Huh. I have turned this simple verb into an exclusionary task. What you're really saying is there are people who enjoy running and there are people who maybe don't find enjoyment in running. That can be a true statement. But to say that someone is not something as simple as the doer of an action is the perfect example of what we mean when we say the outward facing click.

So right now, I want you to take a moment, it's seven after. I'm going to wait until eight after for you to think about the things that you are a part of, that maybe if your intent is to grow that thing, to grow the mission, the vision, the purpose of that thing in this world, that the number one thing you need to do is acknowledge the people who feel like they are not it. Are you a part of a club? They go, I'm not a part of that club. Are you a dancer? And there are people who go, oh, I'm not a dancer.

But in reality, those people would love to be a part of the club. They would love for you to know that they love dancing, but they don't feel a part of what can you do to turn outward and to invite them to be a part of it again? What did I do at the beginning of this call? I saw that Kristen and speak wonder were both here and I knew that they had a connection. And even though this is my live stream, no, you are. You are the ones who make Cadre come to life. Speak Wonder says, I am a chaser of sunrises.

What a perfect example. No matter how many sunrises that speak wonder chases, it is always forcing speak wonder to be facing outward, to be chasing that next sun that billions of other people may also be chasing. If speak wonder invites to see the world through other people's eyes, to see the sun from someone else's perspective, all of a sudden, we can start doing that, that beautiful thing known as outward facing click. Y'all have a great rest of your day. A couple of hours. Check out Doctor Leslie girls mentorship.

An hour after that and I will be back on Saturday with a little personal development work. Talk to you later.