Cadre Today and Bold Followership

That's a girl. What you wanted to be she said, baby, can't you see? Beezle bits. How's it going, my friend? Nice to see everybody this morning. I feel like Driving My Car is maybe the number one Beatles song that you don't recognize it until you get to the Come on baby, drive my Car. Like that little part's the hook. That's the part that people know. But I got a little Beatles to play in this morning. T North speak wonder how are y'all doing? A little Beatles Drive my car, the 2009 remastered version today.

Well, I hope y'all are doing great on this Monday. Ana, nice to see you, my friend. I hope you're doing great on this Monday. But if you're not, know that that is okay too. And I don't say that lightly. I don't say that without the weight of knowing that hearing that it's okay to be less than great, it doesn't make it feel any better. Good morning, Randy. Ms. Shannon Paul. Nice to see you this morning. It may not make it feel any better to be less than. Oh, less than great. But. But we will always be your affirmation here at Cadre that you are capable, you are worthy, no matter how you're doing, no matter what's going on.

My name's JC if we've never shared space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time and space together with you right now and every Weekday morning at 7:30 Central Standard Time here at Cadre. Today, a little before we get started, tomorrow, 3:30pm, myself and Betsy Hodges are going to be jumping into the live stream for our third chapter of you can't say that on social media. Civil discourse on social media. So if you struggle or are curious about how do we navigate this space with authenticity and clarity and courage, but also mindfulness that people don't all think the same thing.

Surprise. People don't all feel the same thing at the same time. Surprise, surprise. So how do we create what we're creating here at Cadre? And that's a civil space to be able to be who we are and share what we need to share to be. Well, okay, 3:30 tomorrow, me and Betsy Hodges. But today it is professional development focus. Right. Normally Mondays, all the live streams have a little bit of professional development focus. How do we look at professional development? I like to look at it this way.

Personal development is working on who we are. Professional development is working on what we do. And you may be like, yeah, but those things cross over. Yep. Everything crosses Over. That's why we always say there are many ways to being. Well, everything is nuanced. But if we kind of speak a little bit of truth to the what we do focus, I think that gets us more into the, into the professional development space. Oh, I love how everybody is saying hey, hey to one another and calling each other onions.

So there's a nice segue. I did my bi annual 3 day road trip to move my parents this time of year up from Florida. Six months from now, I moved them down to Florida, but Friday morning at 6am I got on a plane, flew to Orlando, packed them up quick, and drove from Orlando to Nashville. That's the long day. And then on Saturday, drove from Nashville to Riverside, Iowa, and then from. On Sunday morning from Riverside back to Minneapolis. Why onions come to mind is I think of all the things I see as I go from state to state.

So you get to northern Georgia and all the signs are peaches and onions. Peaches and onions. Because Vidalias are very popular down in the Peach State. Okay, we're building in there. How's everybody doing? I'd love to know in chat if you're willing to share who's ever gotten a speeding ticket before. I will break the ice by saying I've gotten, I think three, maybe four speeding tickets in my life, but three of them have been in Iowa, all on the same strip of road. It's really funny. And I got my, my third one in Iowa yesterday morning.

Do you want to know why there's this strip? It's after Waterloo. Before you get to kind of like the, you know, Mason City, like, like the strip that, that drives you up to Minnesota. So From Waterloo to 35, if you're like, I don't live in the Midwest. It's a strip, a strip of land where you're driving through farm fields. There's not a lot going on. All the road looks the same. And that's where I've gotten three speeding tickets. And I'll tell you something that I learned yesterday. So often on Mondays here in the Cadre sphere, I talk about followership, right?

The world likes to make leadership out to be sexy. It's like everybody should lead. And you know, leaders never follow. And no great people like however they say it to make themselves feel like leading is the thing we're supposed to do and following is bad. So every time, and I realized this after it happened for the third time yesterday, over the past 25 years, I start speeding or I start going really slow when I don't have Other cars to. Now, again, I'm not saying, oh, I was going with the. With the flow of traffic.

Not saying that I am more aware of the speed I'm going when I have other cars who are also seemingly being aware or are unaware of the speed that they're going. So every time I've gotten one of these tickets, I've been the only car around. Then all of a sudden, boop, out from behind the corn. A cop, you know, jumps up and. And. And sees me. And the funny thing is, when he pulled me over yesterday, he's like, you know, I pulled you over? I'm like, yep, this is my third speeding ticket in 25 years in this strip road.

Cause it's so easy to just start going. And then he lowered the ticket down, still gave me a ticket, but gave me a lower speeding ticket to save some money, because he understood y'all. How often are the people around us, even if they aren't our leader, if. Even if we aren't their direct report, even if they aren't in the C suite, or even if they don't have more experience than us in. In. In the entity in which we work, how often are they serving as a litmus test, as a mirror, as a reminder, as a moment within our lives that's following.

It's real. I always. Whenever I see police kind of sitting on top of a bridge and doing speed guns, when there's lots of traffic around, I go, I think you're shooting in the wrong water, right? Because how can one person speed when everybody else is? Now, again, I know people can zoom and so on, so forth, but in my brain, I finally realized it yesterday. Having people in your periphery and in close proximity invites you to be aware of what you're doing and how you're doing it and how you want to be doing it.

I had no interest in speeding. I didn't. I wasn't going to get through Iowa any faster if I was driving 85 miles an hour or 77 miles an hour. It wasn't going to happen in the grand scheme of things. But all of a sudden, you just kind of start going, y'all, today I invite you to find those people who can invite you to not just start doing anything, but those people who make you think about what you're doing and why you're doing it. That's how we boldly follow for the sake of ourselves, for the sake of all those people around us.

So speak wonder. You're one speeding ticket, Ana. You're one speeding ticket. Vidalia. Onions T North Ibizabitz. I'm scrolling up and up and seeing everybody who's here. Y'all follow boldly today and I will be back tomorrow for a double shot starting with our 7:30 Cadre today in the morning as well as you can't say it on social media. Civil discourse on social media with Betsy Hodges tomorrow afternoon at 3:30pm Y'all have a great day. And for one more go round, let's listen to a little Beatles drive.

She said baby, can't you see. All right, y'all, we'll see you tomorrow. Have a good one.