Cadre Today: Bold Followership

Hey there, Cadre. How are we doing today? It is Monday. I think it's so funny when Mondays feel like Mondays and when Mondays don't feel like Mondays, right? When you have to go, is it a Monday? It is a Monday. C. if we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now. It is a gift. If it makes you uncomfortable to know that it's a gift to spend time with you, I am okay making you feel uncomfortable in that way. Say, I'm glad I'm here.

I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you, Amar. I love getting to say that every single day. And seeing you pop in, you make my day better, brother. Say, it is the start of a new week and many of you are probably jumping back into work. If you had some time to take some time away this weekend or maybe you're in the midst of work. Rachel, nice to see you, my friend. On Mondays. In the livestream world, we so often talk about professional development. Amanda, nice to see you. Professional development, developing the things that we do versus personal development, developing the person that we are.

Jules, nice to see you this morning. P. Malanaffi, nice to see you as well, my friend. Yeah, so we talk a lot about in the live streams on Monday, ideas and how we can develop professionally the things that we do with our lives, our vocations, our professions, our jobs, our skills, our talents. And I always kick things off by talking about the idea of boldly following. The loud voice in the world is lead, lead, lead, lead, lead. But if we think rationally about that for a moment, if everybody's leading, who are they leading?

We need to flex our muscles and get good at following, just like we do leading. But we don't spend a lot of time, nor are we encouraged to do so. So I invite you to think every Monday morning about how can you amplify the voices that you think need to be heard by more. How do you move the mission forward that maybe wasn't your mission to start, but you believe in it. You care about it. How do you. I like using the phrase decenter. How do you. When people maybe want to put you in the seat of power and privilege and, you know, executive decision making, but you go, you know what?

I'm not the person who should be sitting in the seat right now. How do you go, hey, thank you for the platform, thank you for the voice, thank you for the trust. And also, here's the person that we're going to listen to right now. How do we do those things? Well, let me tell you, I just got my car worked on. I have a Mazda which you spend a lot of time in with me right here in the live streams. And I love getting regular, regular care done. Smzob's. Nice to see you. T North. Nice to see you, my friend.

I'm one of those people who likes getting my oil changed, getting everything tweaked and up and flying again. And I'm the person who, when I get to the desk and they go, okay, so it's your hundred thousand mile check in. Looks like we should do this, this, this, this, and this and this and this. And they go, what do you think? I go, what do you think? And they go, you should do these things. You don't really have to do this yet. I go, great. It feels really good to follow in that situation. Why does it feel good to follow?

It feels good to follow for me because I don't get a lot of joy out of, out of jumping into learning about cars. It's just not something I'm interested in. But I'm really glad that there are people who that does interest. So when all of a sudden I think about what I use my car for, and that's to get me from A to B, from B to A, I want to make sure it can continue to do that. So I use trust in those people who have skills and passions that I don't have and follow their lead. Now again, there's a risk there, right?

Because what if they're, you know, what if they're not putting my best interests at mind? What do I do in that moment? Well, there's a step before and that's establishing relationship. I always use this phrase, lead with appreciation and assume connection. I form some pretty deep relationships pretty quick by using that formula. Step one, lead with appreciation. Step two, assume connection. My car, people at Mazda and Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, they're my family. I've known them forever. I've driven a Mazda since 2000.

Those have been my people. But how did I form that relationship? I assumed there was a relationship to form and that allows me to follow in their perception of what I need to do to keep my car moving. What is the thing you care about, like driving your car, but you don't actually care about knowing all the things? Who are those people who can know the things that you can follow their lead and you know you're going to benefit and they're going to benefit because that's their vocation, their profession.

Apply that today, everybody, and I'll see you tomorrow. But in the meantime, be looking out for the Cadre newsletter hitting your email boxes today. It will be dropping today with lots of good information about how this Cadre sphere is continuing to grow. Y' all have a great rest of your day. We'll see you soon. Bye.