Cadre Today and The Outward Facing Clique

You gotta love long intros on songs, don't you? You don't think about the words. You can just groove a little bit. One more time, I think. Okay, Sister Sledge, sing us in. Faith Hunter. Good morning, T T North family. I got all my sisters with me, Faith, T. North and Robert. You are my Sister Sledge today. Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get, get up, everybody and sing today. Tuesday. Happy Tuesday, everybody. My name is JC if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now.

It's a gift. It's a gift to spend time with you. And if that makes you uncomfortable, think of yourself as a gift. I am. Okay. Micro dosing that little bit of discomfort to perhaps shift the paradigm of how you see yourself in this world. I hope you're doing great. If you're not doing great, that's okay too. And this is Cadre Today. Every single day, we remind you of why this space exists. The Cadre sphere is here. Bringing together professionals and peers, knitting together resources and conversations and perspectives to invite you to see that there's lots of ways to be well on Tuesdays, most of the time we talk about bringing people together or community development or relationships or org design and development and growth.

All those things that live in the sphere of people doing people stuff together. Later on today you're gonna see two of my favorite humans. Betsy Hodges, who always brings one of her rules of engagement, the way that she shows up in the world, into the live stream. And then one of my favorite shorties in the world, the self proclaimed Shorty, Dr. Leslie Davis, Jiu Jitsu master, wonderful relationship expert. Lots of really cool conversations today in the live stream. But hey, if live streams aren't your thing or if they don't fit in your schedule, guess what?

Prerecorded content, watching live streams and replay using the community feeds to share your thoughts and to find other people's thoughts. Really cool things happening. And you maybe heard me say good morning to Faith Hunter. Faith Hunter is one of our newest contributors. Impactful human on this planet that we share. So make sure you type Faith Hunter into the magnifying glass and check out Faith's content content as well. So as it says in the title, so often I speak about the outward facing click on Tuesdays.

The outward facing click is a mechanism that I developed when I was working in youth work. So if you think about when clicks are often set into our mind, most of the time they're within our younger Years where we see the groups of people who we may want to be in community with. But it's really hard to become a part of that group either because we don't share the language, we don't share the experience, or simply because the group doesn't have doorways that are open for new people to walk into. So I'm not a big math person, but I'm going to open up my calculator on my computer screen so I can do my favorite formula.

You're like, this is lame. JC no, this is a really cool formula. So the formula is x times x minus 1 divided by 2. Here's what that formula is. X times x minus 1 divided by 2. That formula is the amount of potential connections that exist in a group of people. So let's say, hey, speak wonder. Good morning. Good morning. Let's say you're there's a group of people and there's 30 people in that group. So x 30 times x minus 1 times 29. I'm typing on screen so of course I'm going to have some whoopsies.

Okay. And then that number divided by two. In a group of 30 people, there are a potential of 435 potential connections, like one on one connections. 435. I think part of the reason why clicks exist, part of the reason one of the million reasons why clicks exist is because groups of people never ever take advantage of all the different connections that exist. So now all of a sudden when there's the opportunity to bring in someone new. Nah, we're still too busy going, well, we already have enough unknown and enough conflict and enough non spoken through truths within this group that bringing in someone else simply isn't an exciting opportunity.

So 435 potential connections within a group of 30. Just out of curiosity, what's a group of 31? How many potential connections there? 465. Right? One person added to a group of people literally exponentially grows the amount of people, the amount of connections that can have a life changing experience. So I always talk about that. Click right? Clicks face inward. The outward facing click says, hey, we have something special and because it's special, we want to share it with other people. Right? We don't want to keep the light under the bushel.

We don't want to go ahead and hide the, you know, the beautiful necklace under our shirt. We want the world to see it. And if you're going, gosh, yeah, that's true, but we just struggle with really creating a hunger for other people to be a Part of the thing that we're creating. My invitation today is spend more time together with that group, considering who isn't already a part of that connection. I'm going to make up a number. Let's say there's 4,000 people in the Cadre sphere. Times X minus 1, 3999 divided by 2.

99 million potential connections within the Cadre Sphere. If you want to share this beautiful thing with other people who need some support within their journey, within their mindset, within their heart set, within their spirit set, maybe the first step is you jumping in here a little bit more and saying, hey Faith, nice to meet you. Hey, Speak Wonder. Nice to meet you. Hey Robert. Tell me about yourself. Hey T. North, what's going on today? How about those royals? And all of a sudden, one more of those potential connections that already exist, is fostered, is galvanized, is sparked into existence, which then makes you hungry for more.

So as our sister Sledge jumps back in, I invite you today, comment on a post, share an idea, say hello to someone in this community that you're a part of, or in the clique of the world in which you're walking down the street together as we walk on by. Hey, y' all have a great day. I'll be back tomorrow morning per usual. But in the meantime, if you have any questions, comments, hopes, worries, fears, concerns, desires, shoot me a message. We'll talk to you later. We'll let the verse finish out. I got all my sisters with me.

Hey, we are family.