Cadre Today and The Outward Facing Clique

Hey, good morning. Good morning, Cadre. I always try to figure out the best way to dj the first few seconds of a nice little morning livestream here in the Cadre sphere. This is Kimbrell and pharrell from the hidden figures soundtrack. I love that movie. Hi, michelle. Letting the music play just for a few more seconds as people walk in the proverbial room, opening up the door to the Cadre sphere. That was a good riff to hit the pause on. All right, well, hey, good morning, Cadre. How are you? I hope you're good.

This is Cadre today, right? Every morning I bop in to go ahead and say good morning, to provide you a little bite of something to think about, of some awareness on what we do at Cadre, to give you some direction for the day ahead and to remind you that you are a part of this Cadre sphere because you're here. I always say, I hope you're good, but even if you're not, that's okay, too. The prerequisite for being here is to walk in the door. You don't need to have your stuff together. You don't need to have the answers.

You don't need to feel happy. You don't need to agree with a certain perspective on what being well looks like, because, as we say, Cadre is a community of professionals and peers bringing resources together in community to show the world that there's many ways to wellness, many ways to being well, many ways to say, hey, you know what? I'm doing okay today. My name's JC. If we've never shared time or space together before, thank you for the opportunity to share some time and space with you. Right now.

On Tuesdays, we talk about building community. What does that mean? Think about any time that you are existing with someone other than yourself that is as wide of a net as we throw on building community day. So I like talking about connection with people you don't know yet. Maybe the world calls them strangers. I love calling them people I don't know yet. You have people like Doctor Leslie Davis who talk about kind of that one on one relationship formation. You have rock stars like Betsy Hodges who look at how do we create worldwide shifts in the way that we connect with the people around us to literally change the world.

But no matter what, we are designed to be people with other people. Today is the day that we look at that dance. You may see in this live stream, it says the outward facing click. It's a concept that I use that, you know, if we hear the word click, I love words click culturally normally is not a good word. Click often has an element of, you know, a group of people. Yes, but a closed group of people, a group of people that does not let other people in. An inward facing group. I look at the word click, and I go, well, let's pick apart the parts of that word.

It is normally an inward facing group of people who have something that bring them together that they're excited about. So what if we simply change the inward facing to an outward facing? What if we have a group of people who are excited about something that they share with one another, and then we face them towards the world, and they say, hey, would you like to be a part of this thing? We would like you to be a part of this thing, because you'll make this thing better. That is the idea of the outward facing clique.

A lot of groups stop growing because they become a clique, and they don't realize that they're making it very hard for other people to be a part of it. Cadre could be maybe one of those groups. I thought this morning, I'm like, ah, where are we assuming that people who may not know as much as someone else about Cadre maybe do know as much as everybody else? And I'll answer this question today to flex the outward facing click muscle. You may go. It's like, sweet. So is Cadre like live streams? Yeah.

Cadre is also pre recorded content and a community feed. Cadre is also live events, like in person, face to face events. We have one tomorrow all around neurodivergence in the workplace and empowering and equipping employers and coworkers and colleagues to better understand how, when, why, things outside of their own reality that other people may be experiencing, whether it be people who are indeed neurodivergent or maybe people who have family members that they caregive for who are neurodivergent.

So Cadre does in person events. Cadre works with businesses. So as a business, we work with other businesses and helping support them within their caretaking of their employees, their journey towards helping their employees feel better, be better, do better, better, mental health better, all of the things and in how we operate as humans. Cadre also can be bought right in your app store. So it's kind of a business to a person scrolling through their phone going, huh? Social media for mental health.

Cadre is a lot of things. But I'll say this. If Cadre was going to be something in one sentence, a headline like, what is Cadre? We often talk about this term, the Cadre sphere like atmosphere. But with Cadre rather than Atmos. Cadre or the Cadre Sphere is a world with many doors for people to find their way in, their way into a space where they may learn something that they didn't know before. Hear someone else say something that resonates with something they believe in. They may see someone who they relate to, someone who looks or feels or shares a similar pathway in life like them, who says, hey, here is me.

In a maybe a more real way or a more honest way than we often see in the real world. The Cadre sphere, by intent has lots of doorways. In what doorway did you find into the Cadre sphere? Take a moment to acknowledge that, maybe have some appreciation for that. If Cadre is something that is near and dear to you, but also maybe today, learn about one more of those doorways. If you're a live stream person, watch some prerecorded content. Prerecorded content has a different vibe, has a different access point.

You can go, it's like, huh, I want to find a video on x. Yeah, it's really easy to do that with prerecorded content. Sometimes with the live stream, it's like a real conversation. You don't know where it's going to go. So maybe there are people in your life who are like, gosh, I bet you would really love the prerecorded content here at Cadre. Or I bet you'd really like this contributor. Or I bet you'd really like this day, this bucket of topics and live streams by purpose. On purpose for the purpose of there's lots of doorways in here, y'all.

That's me exercising the outward facing click, saying, the way that I may perceive something may be very different than the way you perceive things. That's how we let other people come on in to something that is special to us. Y'all have a great rest of your day. I'll see you tomorrow morning. We'll let the music play us on out.