Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Hey, good morning, Cadre. Happy, happy Monday. How are we doing today? I hope you're good. I'm right on time today. 7:30am Central Standard Time in Chile, Minnesota. We got a week of cold and rain coming up. And that's okay. That's okay. Speak, wonder. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. You. Those 17 words are the. The secret recipe. Secret recipe for, I think, how Cadre operates. Jen, nice to see you, my friend. Steph. Hey. Hey. Good morning, Emily.

Oh, crew coming on in to this morning's Cadre today. So I'll say it again. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. Those 17 words are the kind of foundation of how we think we can help people feel better when we take time understanding and appreciating the benefit of being together. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. Us risking to think that what our body's telling us in our experience provides us a reflection into how the world may hit different people.

And the last part, and I care about you risking to build that bridge of going, hey, I'm going to spend time with people I don't know yet. That's what I like to call strangers and see the positivity and the power that comes out of those exchanges. So that's what we do on Mondays. We often talk about how do we do what we do better, whether it be our work, whether it be our relationships, our vocations, our talents, our passions, the way that we enter the world and impact it. So quite often the assumption may be we're gonna talk about how do we lead, how do we walk in front, how do we trailblaze?

And I kick off the morning by doing the opposite. How do we follow? How do we listen? How do we go? Huh? I see that happening over there and I really like it. So I'm gonna go that way, too. Boldly following is, I think, the most underutilized superpower that humans have. If everybody's leading, who's following? So this morning, maybe this is true. Every morning, we're gonna go down a different path. The path that may not seem incredibly positive and sunshiny. So yesterday on the Facebook, a video pumped through the algorithm of Big Bird from Sesame street singing It's Not Easy Being Green, Kermit's song from the Muppets at Jim Henson's funeral.

Jim Henson, the founder of the Muppets, passed away very, very quickly. It's one of the earliest memories I have. I wasn't that young. I just don't remember a lot, but I remember that Jim Henson and Sammy Davis Jr. Both died on the same. Like, on the same day or right in that same window. And I'm a Muppet guy. I've always felt like I'm more of a Muppet than I am a human. So to finish the week and to start the week, to go and have a video from Jim Henson's funeral pop up on my Facebook of Big Bird walking out into the church and singing It's Not Easy Being Green.

You can imagine all the. All the potential feelings, or maybe that it'd be really easy to just not watch it because it doesn't seem like it's going to be something that makes you feel. Feel good. Well, I love feeling all the feels, whether I want to or not. And it was a pretty moving moment. You could hear Big Bird's voice choking up. You could see this puppet that even though can move here and here and here, couldn't show emotion, but could definitely, through voice, share what they were feeling.

Now, again, Big Bird is what color? Yellow. And Big Bird is singing a song about it not being easy to be green. Why would Big Bird sing that song? Well, Jim Henson, the voice of Kermit in reality, what was he singing about that? It's not easy being the things that make you unique, that make you not like everybody else. But then the kind of. The penchant of that song is it's not easy being green. But there's. There's nothing I'd rather be. And then at the end, Big Bird says, thank you, Kermit, for.

For the song. And, of course, if we work through the. The lineage there, you know, Sesame street grew out of Muppethood, and Kermit was Jim Henson's kind of main. Main voice within that world. So what Big Bird was doing was saying, how do I honor this moment? Big Bird said, well, Jim told us how to honor it. Jim created Jim's eulogy that Big Bird gave. Sometimes we work really hard thinking we have to be the one creating the thing for other people, when most often, maybe not most often, a lot of the times the people are attempting to honor are giving us exactly what we need to honor them.

So you want to go ahead and change the world today, Maybe move someone else's message into the center decent to yourself, amplify the unamplified point at the thing that's moving you that maybe others aren't seeing. Just like Big Bird did in a really, really hard moment, said, hey, let's remember who we're remembering by what they gave us. The beautiful moment. I bet you can type in Big Bird Jim Henson funeral and it'll come on up. Give it a watch, y' all. I'll be back tomorrow and every day after that.

But in the meantime, anytime you need something, jump right here in the Cadre sphere. Join a community. If there's a topic or a person who makes you go, that person I want to make sure I continue to see in my feed. Or that topic is really what I'm thinking about right now. Put things in the community feed. Tune in. Lily, put into your calendar. This is a live that I don't want to miss, so I'm going to put it in my calendar and then reach out to us whenever. Y' all have a great day. Remember, it's not easy being green, but it's what you got.

Talk to you soon.