Bold Followership

Hey there, Cadre. Happy, happy Monday. Gosh, it's so much fun to look at the lineup of live streams on Mondays here in the Cadre sphere. The day's filling up. Why is that exciting? Well, it means that pretty much any time of the. Any time of the day, well, the daytime, you can go ahead and bop on into your Cadre platform and say hey to somebody. And connection, community resources is one of the ways to truly, truly find your pathway to wellness. So. Hey, Chris. Hey, Amy. Hey there, Jules. Cindy, joy.

Nice to see you, my friend. I hope you all are doing okay, and if you're not, that is okay, too. As I shared, you can check in to a lot of live streams that have already happened today. They're waiting here for you. Or there's quite a few live streams still happening later on today, so feel free to tune into those as well. But my name is JC Lippold and thanks for letting me share a few minutes with you on your Monday. It truly is an honor to spend time with you on professional growth and development day rather than looking from the lens of leader or doer or run ahead.

I love talking about the concept of boldly following. We end up growing so much from any position that we choose to grow in, right? Whether that be from teacher or student, from leader or follower, from being the expert or the beginner, from being the old or the young, the first or the last, the succeeder or the failure. Any opportunity that we decided to grow from, we often do. So the idea I invite you to think about today is, who is the last person that you learned something from? Who is the last person that you learned something from?

Feel free to take a moment to thank. Right? It's always funny when someone asks a question that they've been able to think about for a little bit, and then you have to kind of start sprinting towards your answering, towards your processing of the question. So again, the question who is the last person that you learned something from? While you're thinking, whenever you think of somebody, feel free to type who the person was and if you remember what you learned from them. And I will share. I will share.

So last week was the first week of rehearsals for a camp musical production camp that I am working on. The music director person, and I have about 25 young people aged, I think the youngest is nine, the oldest is 19. And last week was a week of teaching a lot of music. Now, even though I was the one who was doing the teaching, I was in a space where I was learning from their understanding of the learning process. I was learning from them interpreting the music. I was learning from them trying, succeeding, failing, asking questions, making choices, and it was a gift.

Now, again, I think it's probably my biggest sneaky play in this world. I'm always in the seat of student, where some people try to become master teachers or master experts or the voice that people go to for the answer. I have no interest in being those things. I do have interest in being the master student, the master learner, the master question asker, the master smiler who says, you know, I don't know. What do you think? Cindy Joy here says that exercise is like brushing your teeth. You can never stop brushing your teeth because they are healthy enough.

You have to keep doing it. So you must continue to move and eat right for your body. Yeah, right. There's a big aha, there. To that point, you going, huh? Who is the last person that you. That you learned something from? There are a lot of people who I think get led down the pathway of going, my job is to learn all this stuff and to get to the place where it's like, okay, now I'm the one who knows stuff. I don't have any interest in being that person. And I'll also say I have no interest in being led by that person either.

Do you? You want to be led by the person who has all the answers? Do you want to be the one following the master teacher, the expert? I don't know. I think in 2024, we're getting more and more into the struggle bus of going, wow, there are less. I say this a lot, too. The more that I study, the less that I know there's truth to that. Right, jewel says, jean, she taught a sound bath class and explained what could happen within your body. And afterwards, she explained to me the possibilities of what I felt during the experience.

Yeah, Jules, I love that. Right? There's a relationship there, right? Jean taught something, but then even Jean, that had to come into your experience to go, huh? What is happening there? What is happening there? And Cindy Joy says, I'm a lifelong learner. Can't get enough of it. Funny enough, that's what life is. Life is. Life is learning. Life is doing again and again and again and going, hmm, what am I learning? And now, how do I do it? Differently. So to that point, when we think of those masterful people in this world, I think what they're really masterful at is going, huh.

I may know what I know, but I also have a lot of good ideas as to what I don't know. So today, maybe the voice from this little time you spent is, huh? What's the last thing that I learned from somebody else? Spend more time there, because I bet it's going to open you up to an awareness, open you up to a softness, and open you up to a hunger for where you can go next. Y'all have a great rest of your day, and I'll see you again tomorrow right here on building community day when we talk about the outward facing click.

Have a good one. We'll talk to you later.