JC Lippold leads a community-building conversation, shares a story about entering a senior rock ensemble and a technique—assume connection and lead with appreciation—and previews guests Betsy Hodges and Dr Leslie Davis.
Good morning, everybody. Happy, happy Tuesday. Happy building community day. We'll jump in in about 30 seconds.
On Tuesdays, we talk about building community. You'll see Betsy Hodges from Washington, DC, talking about her rules of engagement. Later on today, you're going to see Doctor D, Doctor Leslie Davis, for a little coffee time. How do you respect yourself as you walk into forming interpersonal relationships?
The music director of the Twin Cities premier senior citizen rock ensemble, Boo Boo, talks about his first day walking into the room. He says he practiced a technique to get to the inside to make that journey in. The opportunity is to build a community.
Good morning, everybody. Happy, happy Tuesday. We'll jump in in about 30 seconds. So if you're walking on in to the cadres sphere, rocking out for a moment, it's nice to see you, everybody. Happy, happy Tuesday. Happy building community day. Okay, I had to get to the rock on part. Well, hey, everybody. Welcome to Cadre today. Every single weekday morning, I jump into the Cadre sphere to say, hey, how are you? What's going on? What's new? My name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to share some space with you right now, right here.
It is a gift to share some time and space with you. You, no matter how you're doing, no matter what's in your mind or your heart, you are always someone who is a gift and has something of great value to bring to a conversation, bring to a room to bring to your own existence and space. Jules, nice to see you, my friend. On Tuesdays, we talk about building community, whether that's one on one community, whether that's one on many community. Later on today, you're going to see two incomparable people.
You'll see Betsy Hodges from Washington, DC, talking about her rules of engagement. On her wall, she has a list of rules that she follows anytime she engages with other people, things that she holds herself to on how to respect and honor and to bring people together that she brings to mind. And then later on today, from St. Louis, you're going to see Doctor D, Doctor Leslie Davis, for a little coffee time. Noon, central standard time. Doctor Leslie talks a lot about that interpersonal one on one relationship.
How do you respect yourself as you walk into forming interpersonal relationships? Normally I talk about the outward facing click. What is that? Well, if you think about cliques, kind of an inward facing group of people. A group of people say, we have something that's special and we're not going to let anybody in. The what if that special thing that you had, you faced it out and other people are able to be a part of it. I have a little story to tell you today. If you were wondering why I was playing a little deaf leopard.
Yeah. To kick in to today's Cadre today, well, I am the music director of the Twin Cities premier senior citizen rock ensemble, Boo Boo. I've been their music director before, but I'm filling in once again. And yesterday was my first day walking into the room. So I was the new person. In essence, I was the outsider walking into a this clique. Now, again, there is familiar faces in the room and people who are excited and grateful to see me, but I was still on the outside. And I want to tell you, I practiced a little technique to, as the outsider to get to the inside to make that journey in.
Think about that first day of school with the cafeteria walk in as the new person, not knowing where to sit. I practice something that I often do whenever I'm meeting new people. This is how I meet new people. I assume connection, and I lead with appreciation. I assume connection, and I lead with appreciation. So I walked into a room of people where there's a lot of faces that I didn't know, and they were the ones who kind of owned that space. So what did I do? I was really appreciative of who they were and what they brought to the space.
I was like, oh, my gosh, I get to be in this room with these people. That's amazing. And then here's the big step that made me feel like I could be enough. I assumed that I had connection with these people. There's this one gentleman named Jeff. He looked like the dada of some friends I had when I grew up. So I walked up, and I'm like, excuse me, is your last name Linder? He's like, no. I was like, are you related to any lenders? He's like, no. I'm like, oh. Cause you look like someone from the neighborhood in which I grew up in.
He's like, oh, where'd you grow up? I'm like, I grew up in Brooklyn center. And then he started going, and he's like, oh, where'd you go to school? And then all of a sudden, we started talking, and he was a principal, but he grew up in another city, and all of a sudden we started talking about all these things. It took 1 second of me going, you look like someone I think I know. I led with appreciation. I'm like, I am so excited to be in this room with you, sir. And I assumed connection. Are you someone related to someone that I know?
And in that moment, we had a 20 minutes conversation on a break, and now every single time we walk into the room together, we're going to be able to rock and roll, because that's what we're there to do. This is the premier senior citizen rock ensemble of the Twin Cities. Everybody think about the groups that you are a part of or the groups that you want to be a part of, or the rooms that you're going to walk into. The opportunity is to build a community. Think about the organizations that you are a part of.
How do you get into those cross functional opportunities? How do you walk into a new neighborhood? How do you walk into a new city council? How do you walk into a meeting? Right. There are so many opportunities right now to connect with people that maybe you don't normally connect with. That's your opportunity today. And there are so many people who have joined the Cadre sphere in the last couple of days. Y'all, welcome to the Cadre sphere. We are glad that you are here with appreciation. We know that we are connected.
And so a little rock and roll to play us out. Y'all have a great Tuesday. Betsy Hodges is coming up in about two and a half hours. Doctor Leslie D. In about four and a half hours. But it doesn't matter what time they're coming on cause you can always watch them on a replay later on. Talk to you later, everybody.
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