Cadre Today - Bold Followership

When I met you in the summer. Good morning, Cadre. To my heart beats down? We fell in love as the leaves turn brown? And we could be together, baby? As long as skies are blue. You act so innocent now? Cuz you like so soon speak wonder. Hey, Mat. In the summer. Oh, when I met you in the summer. Alana Banana Amar. Nice to see you. Friends, how are y' all doing today? Happy, happy summer. This little Calvin Harris summer I need to. My old millennial brain has to look up. When did summer come out? Feel like this song is either one year old or, no, 11 years old.

Okay, 11 years old, y' all. Calvin Harris brought the song summer into the world. Well, hey, it is officially summer, and I hope summer's bright and warm and comfortable and all the things you love about summer for you wherever you are. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. And guess what? You always have that formula waiting for you right here in the Cadre sphere. People who are glad that they're together, people who risk to share the things they know and experienced, and people who care about you even though they may have never met you before.

In a world that says social media is. Is not. Not real or authentic or capable of connection, Cadre says, nah. Social media is a tool, and we can do good things with tools. We can do bad things with tools. We're attempting to do something good right here. So, as I mentioned, it is summer, y' all, which means the days are long. As I looked up on the interweb today, today where I am is going to be 15 hours and six minutes of sunlight. It's a really, really, really long day. If you got a lot going on today, pace yourself.

If you feel like you've been getting more and more tired, don't think it's because you're a bad person or that something's wrong. Very likely it's because you keep living more and more day every single day. But now the days start getting shorter. Isn't that weird? So, hey, in the month of June, we're talking a lot about balance. I would love, if anyone, has anything come to mind, what is the number one message you've heard on balance so far in June? Throw it in this chat. But along with this idea, big idea of balance.

Every Monday, we kind of talk about ways that we can develop professionally, ways that we can develop what we do. And I always talk about this idea of following right in the world that says lead, lead, lead and leaders never follow. And following is weak. And, you know, everything needs to be creative and fresh and you need to run in front and you need to kick people down. No, I disagree. I think we spend most of our lives, if we're doing it successfully, we're going to be in the space of following one another and listening to one another and learning from one another and amplifying each other's ideas and pointing to things that make sense to us and asking really good questions and sharing those things with other people.

That's all. Following work, y' all. So speaking of following, I got to do one of my least favorite things in the world yesterday, and that is go to a party. I'm not a social being, especially in person. Public socializing, that's near the top of my list of things that I really don't feel naturally equipped to do. So I don't get a lot of excitement to do it very often. But my partner is in a show and the cast was having a get together in the middle of their production process. So I was invited and, and I went.

And you know, the way I navigate situations that I don't feel comfortable in is I follow the energy of the space. I pay attention to what's going on and I find spaces where I can fit. I find spaces where I can participate. I find spaces where I can not only feel safe myself, but also where I could help other people feel what they wanted to feel. At this party, there was a 13 year old dog. I love dogs. So I spent some time hanging out with the old dog. One cast member brought their. Their young child.

So in a room that was all adults, I spent a little bit of time hanging out with the one child. I was able to spend some time in conversation with the host as they were running around. I felt comfortable supporting the host for a bit and also catching up with the host, who is someone that I've known in a previous chapter of life. And the last thing I did was I reconnected with people that I have shared time with in the past in the macro environment. So if you look at the whole thing together, I fit in to make the party that someone else was creating a little bit better.

I like to think. And for someone like me, that says a lot because I don't think I bring a lot to social situations. It's part of the reason why I don't find a lot of joy being in them. So the macro, I brought in something of positive nature for the host who had an intention, but also for other individuals who may be looking at, say, okay, was this a positive experience? I think I was probably a positive addition for some of them. And because they allowed me in the exact same way to participate with them as I was participating as they were participating with me, I like to think that they know that I appreciated them as well.

So, so often when we talk about followership on Mondays here, we talk about the one like us on on the World experience. But today I wanted you to think about how the experience can create space for you if your eyes are open just as much as you creating an amplification of the people that you are following. Because so often on the long days, the little things seem never ending, right? I think that it already looks like it's the middle of the day outside. And I know 11 hours from now when I go into my last item on my schedule today, which will be some auditions that I'll be in for three hours, that it'll still look like this outside.

And as a person who gets energy by being alone, and I have a lot of time not being alone today, I need to go ahead and make sure that I am also following my own energy and giving myself what I need. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, the best thing you can do is to learn to listen, to rest, to give yourself all the things you can find right here in the Cadre sphere. So have a great one, Everybody. I know Mr. Matt Tappy's coming up at the top of the middle of the day with a little bit of perspective on leadership from the Gen Z lens.

So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on, Alana Banana has last word for you. Find some space for yourself today. We'll talk to you later. When I met you in the summer to my heartbeat sound have a good one, y' all. We fell in love as the leaves turn brown.