A brief roadside reflection that reminds listeners they remain capable and worthy, using a northern lights anecdote to argue that everyday people hold influence with those closest to them.
Your Cadre today coming to you from the automobile on the side of the road. Mel, I am glad that I'm here. I always hope that you're doing as well as possible. Here's that daily reminder that you are still capable, still worthy and still probably going to accomplish some pretty magical things today.
Did anyone see the northern lights yesterday? We've invented this thing called influencer. It's convinced most people that they don't have influence. Most influential person is the person who cares about the person. Reach out to those who need what you have.
Oh, hey there. Good morning Cadre. How are we doing today? Your Cadre today coming to you from the automobile on the side of the road. You may never get all the behind the scenes of how the Cadre livestream comes to life. But I'll tell you, I was driving down the road in between point A and point B and going, yeah, you know, here comes 7:30am Central Standard Time. It's time for little Cadre today. So I pulled on over Chris Edge Cafe. Marisa Smz, how are we doing today? I am on the side of Dakota Avenue parked.
Go ahead and spend a few minutes with you. Mel, I am glad that I'm here. I'm glad that you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. I always hope that you're doing as well as possible. But also know most people on a lot of days are less than awesome. And here's that daily reminder that you are still capable, still worthy and still probably going to accomplish some pretty magical things today. Maybe not magical on like front page news level in the way the world says what's important and what's big but, but impactful and important in ways that people who know you will really appreciate.
And smzab, I couldn't even queue up your your question more perfectly SM jobs. Just asked question. Did anyone see the northern lights yesterday? And that's exactly what we're going to talk about right now in the age of influencing, right? We've invented this thing called influencer. It's convinced most people that they don't have influence. Right? If influencers have influence, it leads us to believe that the rest of people do not have influence. And my message for you today is this, you are the most influential person for the people who are closest to you.
I've actually never been influenced highly directly by an influencer before. For whatever reason, whenever someone is is, well, I can, I can point out some other reasons why people who have influencer who have power normally are people who I shy away from. We could talk about that another day. But I'm most influenced by the people who I have established moments with, so. Oh, Mike, exactly. Most people look at me and they go JC, you're an influencer. And I go, if you're talking to me and I'm talking to you, you also are influencer to me.
It's this really weird world where we've created this idea of, you know, some people's job that they consider themselves to have is to be an influencer. And I would say this every single SMZOBBS Guess what? Yes you are. And I'm not a nice person. I'm an honest person. I'm not even saying influencer as if it's a privilege or a positive thing to be. Here's what I'm saying. Let's go back to last night. The northern lights were happening and all of a sudden all across my social media world and in my email box and in my text messages, I started having people who I know, who I appreciate, who have my cell phone, who follow me and I follow on the social medias who have my.
And they started sending me photos of the thing. That's the thing that made me excited and interested. Someone who I care about, cared about something and therefore I cared about it too. Here's the thing that didn't influence me. Seeing people who I do not know or people like, like the news or so and so forth going, here's this thing that's happening now again I'm all, I always try to be in the nuance. Influence is a neutral thing. I'm not saying being an influencer is good or bad. Social media is not good.
It's not bad. It's definitely not bad. It's definitely net positive for most people on this planet in terms of connectivity and resource. But here's the deal. If we go, some people have influence and other people do not. We're speaking an untruth because I want you to consider who made the northern lights exciting for you last night. In other words, if you didn't know about it and you're up in the northern Midwest here, Iowa, Minnesota, you were going crazy with northern lights last night. How did you find out that it was happening?
And then when did you see your excitement and connectivity to the northern lights start to increase? I bet you a nickel it wasn't because Paris Hilton or Troy Aikman started going, the northern lights are happening. It was because your mama, your sissy, your bestie, your girl, your boy started going, hey, get outside, look at this thing. And there I make my point. My point is this. If you think that you don't have influence that something you care about is not going to impact somebody else, go ahead and flip that mentality.
If you care about something, you go, gosh, I know someone who would really love to know that this thing is happening. Please reach out to them and let them know. Because I'll tell you whether you are experiencing something you deem as small or something big, whether you're attempting to fundraise $100 for a local 5K or whether you're trying to fill a brown bag of groceries to bring to the food shelf, whether you're trying to raise $5 million to go ahead and start a business, you can do either of those things.
You simply need to remember that in the age of influencers, that the most influential person is the person who cares about the person who needs the information. Reach out to the person who needs what you have today because they need what you got. We'll talk to you later.
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