Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Oh, hey, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? How are you? I hope you are good. Does anybody still have a printer at home? Like an old. Like a good old printer? I haven't had to use mine a lot recently, but I did the last couple of days and there's something about printing things off in the olden days. Hey, Phil. Margo. That just makes you feel like you're getting something done. So how are we all doing? I hope we are doing great, but if you're not doing great, know that that is a. Okay as well.

My name's JC if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now. Mondays, as we kick off the traditional work week. So often we talk about the work week. We talk about the things that we do with our lives. Maybe it fits into a professional development bucket. Maybe it fits into how do you deal with stress or boundaries or balance or, hey, here's situations that you're dealing with that you're going, gosh, what do I do? But I love talking about this idea of following and following in a active, progressive rock and roll type of way.

And so often we're taught that following is not the good thing to do. But if everybody's leading, who are they leading? The answer is not anybody. So if we look at how can we actively and boldly follow one another and ideas and passions and dreams, then all of a sudden we start getting somewhere. So like I just said, ideas, passions and dreams. Today I want to talk about boldly following dreams. Recently I was in conversation with a friend who is setting out to do a big. To do a big dream. They set the course to.

To run a marathon. And they had the plan all laid out and they're going to be like, here's how I'm going to do it. And then all of a sudden, things changed. They can't do the thing in the way that they were planning on doing the thing. And all of a sudden they go into the place of. So now I can't follow my dream. Here is my thoughts. Number one, really ask yourself what your dream is. You know, is. Is. Is the dream of. Of running a marathon, to, to make it as. As easy as possible, or to never miss a training run or to know how it's going to finish before it starts?

Is that the goal? Or is the goal to do hard things? Like to do something? You go, wow, this is going to be really hard. And if it's the latter, then maybe things falling apart and things changing is a good reminder that you're setting out to do hard things. That's your goal. Hey, Nettie, nice to see you. Good morning. And all of a sudden, the perspective started shifting from what am I doing? To what am I really doing? To having a dream to going, why is this my dream? You know, I look back as. As currently a former marathoner, right now, my body will not let me do a lot of things, including exercise and move in any way.

That's even more. More than mild. And. And yet I go. I look back and I go, oh, my gosh, I missed. I wish I could. It's like I could still do all the things that I was marathoning for, and that was to be around people doing remarkable things. That's why. That's one of the reasons I loved marathoning, because I would get to be around other people who are doing things they never thought they could do. I could still place myself around those groups of people all the time. Do I have to work hard to find them?

Sure. But good thing that marathoning is a hard thing and I signed up to do hard things. All of these little perspective shifts often give you a new journey, a new pathway forward. So my question for you today is, what is your dream and how can you follow it? And you may go, ah, my dream was. But then X happened. And I would go, well, what was really your dream? Or what is your dream now? Because the great thing is if you keep moving in the direction of a dream and you stay open and learning and all of those things, all of a sudden, you always have fuel in your tank to move, to go.

You know, I thought I was going here, but I ended up here. And I couldn't have asked for a better journey. So today, everybody, on this Monday, I wish you the best of journeys. A couple really cool things coming up this week. First of all, tomorrow, Colleen Lindstrom and I, our director of programming and myself, are gonna be at 3:30 Central Standard Time in the afternoon having a conversation called you can't say that on Social Media. A civil discourse on social media. We're going to be talking about how Cadre is forging a space where we don't have to talk about the things to talk about how the things are affecting us.

You know, I always say, like, we don't have to talk about the mosquito. We each get to talk about our own bites. So we're going to be talking about the work that Cadre is doing to create a space where we can have discourse on all the things that it seems like on most other social media platforms, you have to tiptoe around what you're talking about. All right. Coming up on Thursday, 9am Central Standard Time, Dr. Leslie Davis and I are going to be having a conversation in our happy, traditional by this point Cadre TODAY interview format.

And hey, if you are located in the Minneapolis St. Paul area, this Sunday afternoon, 1 to 4pm we are celebrating World Teen Mental Wellness Day with a big old event with live music and live live art and a panel discussion really answering the question, what do teens need the world to know about mental health within their worlds? So all these things coming up. Jules T. North, Nice to see you, y'all. I hope you have a great start to your day. I'll be back tomorrow.