Bold Followership

Well, hey there, Cadre. Happy Monday and happy professional growth. Professional development day here in the Cadre sphere. My name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared space and time together before, it truly always is a joy to share some space and time with you. And for those that I have shared space and time together with before, by golly, I get to do this seven times a week, and I relish every single one of those moments. So on. Hey, Amanda. Nice to see you, my friend. On professional growth and development day, I talk about bold followers.

Bold followership. What does that mean? Well, if we think about it, in the culture that we all kind of collectively swim in, in the west, where most of us are located. Hey, Katherine, nice to see you. We are inundated with leadership. Lead, lead, grow, grow, climb, climb, climb. And the balance of that is followership. And maybe the unsaid is leadership is active, and followership is often seen as passive. Well, by golly, if we think about the world in which we exist, if followership is passive, I don't know about you, but we spend, or I spend a majority of my time in the seat of following and not in the seat of leading.

Even when I am leading, I'm most often following. I'm listening, I'm responding, I'm waiting. So if we spend a little bit of time considering how we more boldly follow, I think we more often than not, end up having more and greater impact on the work that we do and the people that we collectively aspire to do things with. So, I am currently in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It's a lovely day here, wherever you are. I hope it's a lovely day there, too. But even if it's not, that's okay. Earlier this morning, I was in Detroit, right down the road, and I got to stop in and see two of my favorite people, Tara and her really, really awesome son, River.

Tara owns a gym called Detroit Body Garage. And River, her almost four year old son, worked out with me today. River brought two trucks to the workout. And throughout the workout, river decided when it was time for me to play with those trucks. And I'm glad that river did, because at various times, I needed to play with those trucks more than I needed to do other things, like pick up weights or go run down the street in Detroit. And it was a lovely, lovely reminder of what I needed to do. Why I'm not from Detroit.

I'm in Detroit today. Or in Michigan today, rather. For, let's see, I landed around 1130 last night, and I will fly back to Minneapolis around 930 this evening. So what's that? 22 hours in Michigan? I get to do some cool work today on a project with my friend and colleague Jessica. I got to see Tara in river this morning. Guess what? Doing a workout this morning was not probably the best use of my time. Playing with trucks, with river. A lot better use of my time following rivers lead. Yeah. Was super smart.

So guess what? If I would have not taken Rivers lead, I would have missed out on that opportunity. So the opportunity today, you leaders or you individuals in this world who have the opportunity to respond to the energy around you, and I don't mean that in a fluffy way. I mean, you are a being who has a nervous system, who has senses. You have the opportunity to go, huh, what is going on around me that I can respond to? Respond, go, huh? What things can I take into account that I can go, huh? Would I be better off if I take into this?

And if so, how would that change where I'm going and what I'm doing? Like, even right now, there's a guy on the other side of this screen saying, hmm, x and y and z. Could you follow this voice? And if so, how would it change your day, y'all? That's what the Cadre sphere offers you every single moment of the day. I have a friend, his name is mtiaz. He actually did his first live stream about, oh, I think about 90 minutes ago. You can go ahead and look at past livestreams. He's one of the smartest and most kind individuals I've ever met.

He's located out in New Jersey. Go ahead and check him out. Hey, Marisa. Nice to see you, my friend. Check out imtiaz's first live stream. I'm gonna do it later on today when I get to the airport. And guess what? I will follow in Mtaz's mind and his heart and his words. Because you want to know something? That's what I try to do every. Every single day. I always try to focus on the social collateral that I build up, the people that I have the opportunity to get to know. I try to follow and where it leads me.

And it's never, ever led me wrong. So, y'all, it's a Monday. Whether that's the beginning, the middle, the end of week for you, whether it's a good one, a bad one, where is it guiding you today? I will see you tomorrow. Tuesdays are all about building community. And that's a really wide bucket. Building community is our relationship day. I talk about big relationship building with outward facing click. And then doctor Leslie jumps on to talk about micro relationship building, intimate relationship building.

And you'll see girls mentorship maybe a little bit later on. They talk about up to down, right? What can we learn from our younger beings on this planet? And how can we influence them as we learn from them? But there are always ways that we can jump into the Cadre sphere, learn, grow, connect from our professionals and our peers as we see that there are many ways to wellness. Y'all have a good rest of this day and we will see you soon. Bye. That is it.