Cadre Today- Bold Followership

Cheerio, Cadre. How are we doing today? I hope that you are doing good. I'm a little bit later in the day than I normally am, so pardon your Cadre today on Monday morning, coming on like Monday afternoon instead. But I was flying to London last night into this morning. It's now 5pm London time. But I'm glad to still be here with y' all, Rachel and Speak Wonder and crew. It's amazing how it's like a kaleidoscope, right, Depending on what time of the day you. You. You spin the. The Cadre sphere, it hits you a little bit different.

But whether it's 5pm in your brain right now or whether it's 11am or whether it's feeling like the weekend or whether it's feeling like anything else, I hope that you are doing good. Whether on the harbor side, whether on the west coast, the east coast, Mafi, no matter where you are, I'm glad to spend some time with you right now from London. So it is, I believe, the last day of June a good time to. To say, oh, yeah, we've been talking a lot about balance and a good time to look ahead and go, oh, yeah, we're going to be talking about freedom.

But no matter what, no matter what's going on, words are vessels, right? This is normally when I pick up my water bottle and I shake it and I go, right, this is only a water bottle because there's a little bit of water in it right? Now, if there is no water in it, it would be a bottle. Words are the same way, right? So we could say words like balance or freedom or connection or health or wellness or happy or sad or good or bad. And all these words would purely be vessels until you say, well, what do I mean when I say that, Maffy?

I love me some London, too. I feel home here every time I'm over here. So quite often on Mondays, I talk about the word follower. Now, there's a lot of people who will put a lot of things into your vessels for you and they'll tell you, a word like follower is not a good thing to be. But if we take a camera check, we take a level set and go, hmm, what does the word follower mean? And when are we actually followers? We could venture to go ahead and guess that we follow quite a bit, that the most successful people in the world and the happiest people and the most connected people in the world do a lot of following because everybody's leading.

Who are they leading? Everybody's walking their own direction who are they going to go ahead and see once they get there? Following with a little bit of boldness and on purposeness brings you into amplification of your ideas and other people's ideas. Support, community, connection, collaboration, inspiration, movements. All of these things are born of following. So, more and more over the next couple months, you're going to hear me talking about a series that I'm going to be writing called Natural Born Follower, because I've always felt that that's one of my superpowers.

Took me a little while to see that it was a power, but indeed, I find so much of my happiness and success and clarity by following others and the energy that they're putting into the world. And today I got one of those great reminders that that is true. You know, I'm in a big city that's not my normal city. I'm in a culture that's not my normal culture state. I got off the plane and went to a Turkish barber and had the barber cut my hair and shave my face and all the things. And I don't speak Turkish, but he does.

And I was able to follow his lead. I was able to follow what he was trying to lead me to share with him so he could be successful at his job. And I could feel like I. I got what I was walking into the space for. Heathrow, big airport, customs, always kind of a dance. And how do you get through it? How do you get through things like those, Those things normally by following. I'll tell you, I picked up my dad. It was a. It was a whirlwind of it. Yesterday, Yesterday I picked up my dad from the airport at 5pm and then I was back at the airport myself at 10pm but it took my dad a little time to get out of the airport because he ended up walking the wrong way.

After he got off the plane, he's like, oh, there was no sign saying where baggage was in my brain. I'm going, yeah, but dad, if there is 200 people getting off the plane and 190 of them go one direction, I bet a nickel that those are probably the people you're supposed to follow. But my dad, who's a leader, alpha type of personality, walked the other way, all the way down to the other end of the airport. Then he asked at information booth, hey, where's baggage? And they said, it's the other way.

And then he got into it tizzy, like, my dad's very good at doing. But I thought for a moment if he could understand the power of following with eyes, with ears, with questions, with paws. He would have gotten to where he was trying to get to a little bit faster than he did. So today, what's kind of saying, hey, come this way? Who's the person who's saying, hey, have you considered this idea? Who's the friend or the colleague going, hey, can you amplify my message here? Because if you do, we're going to bring this really beautiful thing to life together.

You know, I'm following in the flow and the energy of all the things that you always bring into this Cadre sphere. Cadre? What is a Cadre? A special group of people with a special intention. What is our special intention together? To help each other see that there's lots of ways to be. Well, we're doing that right now. But who's leading the way depends on the moment. Thank you for being my leaders, thank you for being my fellow followers, and thank you for pointing me and being like, hey, there's an idea.

Show us where to go. The fullness of life is in the balance of knowing when to lead and when to follow. Have a good one, y' all. I will see you sometime tomorrow. I need to figure out my schedule over here. All right, talk to you later. Bye.