Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Well, hey, good, good morning there Cadre. How are we doing? It is another Monday here and another day to remind you that you have a big group of people that you may never know face to face right here in the Cadre sphere who hope that you are doing great. And if you're not doing great, guess what? We don't care about you any different. And we will always be that reminding squeaky voice that not nothing lasts for too long, right? T north right be's a bits nice to see you speak wonder. We're always going to be that reminder voice that, that, that you're doing it.

You're doing this so called life, right? That goes up and down and left and right and here and there and all over the place. It is Monday, which means we talk a lot about what we do with our lives and how we maybe consider doing it differently or more effectively or more efficiently or with more joy or whatever it is, right? Maybe we call that professional development. And as you see in the name of this live stream, I always talk about the parts of our journey where we are following. And rather than be like, oh, I'm just a follower right now or you know, I'm just going with the flow.

Remove the word just right. If your job right now, if your opportunity right now is to go with the flow or to be that bold follower, let's go, let's do the thing. So yesterday you may have heard and you, if you haven't, go and check out the, the, the, the feed and you'll see pictures and recaps from our world Teen Mental Wellness Day event that we had yesterday here in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was divine. We had young artists and musicians and, and answer the question, so what do we, what do we really need to know about teen mental health?

And all of the older people in the room had the opportunity to, to listen, to ask, to, to dig, to consider and that's all following, that's all followership, right? Those people who are in the room yesterday had the opportunity to go, I'm going to take someone else's lead. There's this really, really great moment. Hey Jules, nice to see you. There's this really, really great moment where one of the young, young individuals on the panel said, hey, older generations, you have this weird understanding of social media because it's a new thing to you.

But for us, meaning that the young people, this is the world that, that, that we have navigated and turned into our really beautiful opportunity to, to live our life. And you know, and they, they flipped the script really Quickly on. Okay, so social media is bad, but how do we use it for good, too? No. Social media is one of the best things that's ever happened in our lives. It's allowed us to make connections with the people we wouldn't be able to make connections with or to stay connected with those people that we want to stay connected with in a world that's moving ever, ever faster.

And all of a sudden, you could just hear all of the older individuals in the room go, huh? Yeah, you're right. We have not. We grew up in a world that didn't have this as our normative. They grew up with it as their normative. And guess what? They have things to teach us about how to use social media in a really powerful way, just like we're doing right here, right? So many of you I've shared so many mornings with. I've shared more mornings with you than I've shared with anybody else in my life or over the last year.

You can't tell me that those connections don't matter. Right? I was reminded of that because I was ready to listen and follow yesterday within the footsteps of those people who had something to teach me. So my invitation to you out there today in the Cadre sphere, who can you follow? Who can you listen? Who can flip your script today with kindness and love and that urgency of going, yo, there's more than what you see in this world? Follow me. Who can you follow today? Well, you're gonna have a lot of opportunities right here in the Cadre sphere.

You know, Luke will be on in a little bit. I'm sure he's gonna recap the event as well. But stay right here whenever you need, come back here whenever you need, and most importantly, remind yourself that you have influence and impact in the lives of those people who care about you and that you care about. So if you know someone who needs to be right here, can you go ahead and do them a favor and guide them here? Let them follow your lead into the Cadre sphere, because they need it, too. Y'all have a good day.

I'll see you tomorrow. Bye.