Cadre Today - Radio Waves

Before you lose it all again. Do you see the sunlight? Look up, there's flowers in your head. Cause somebody loves you. You know trouble's always gonna be there. Don't let it bring to your knees. I'll hit the pause. How are you doing today, Cadre? It is what, the 13th of January. My name is JC and I hope you are doing well. But if you're not, please remember that that is a okay as well. You are still incredibly worthy, incredibly capable. You are still worth everything you were before. Capacity may change, but your worth does not.

This is Cadre today. Your friendly, consistent, everyday, squeaky positive voice saying, you're doing it and if you need some help, we are here for you. That was Joy Oladokin with the song Look Up. I love this chorus. It's a go. But the wonderful had me jump in this segment before. We were talking, they're at a commercial break and all of a sudden the commercial break came back and they got JC's here. And I was like, oh, okay, I'm on. Then all of a sudden we started talking about how me and one of the hosts don't like going to the dentist.

It was just this really beautiful organic conversation. But the whole time I was thinking, wait, I thought that I was in the next segment, not this segment. All of a sudden, this beautiful segment on the power of going backwards finished. And they were both like, oh my gosh, it was a great cover. I was like, cover. They didn't show any degree of sorry or any degree of whoops ness or like feeling bad to their viewers. They allowed the beautiful moment that was happening happen. And I think that's one of the beautiful things that we can learn from people who may be willing and risking to share of themselves.

And that's all you. That's you, Emily. That's you, Ridner. That's you. Speak wonder. That's. That's all you out there. When we risk to share of ourselves, sometimes we go, it has to be perfect. It has to be perfect. And it's in the moments when we aren't perfect that we end up giving some of the best gifts that we ever give. I help coach and train people in sharing their messages and public speaking and leading and all these things. And I say one of the best things you can do is to mess up on purpose and to show people that when you mess up, that messing up isn't a question of right or wrong.

It's a question of this is different than maybe what we planned. Different is an opportunity. Different is fresh. Different Is present, different is a once in a lifetime experience and only those people are going to get to experience. It's a gift. Today I got to experience that on the radio. The other thing I love about the radio is it invites you into connection, into conversation. One of my favorite movies is yous've Got Mail and Meg Ryan and you've Got Mail says, you know, most of the time when we're talking to each other, Tom Hanks, we pretend as if we're in the middle of the conversation rather than at the beginning.

So all of a sudden we just jump right into where we left off and we keep things going. I love that idea. If ever you feel alone, jump into turning on the old radio. Yes, we're in the era of the live stream, the pre recorded, the podcasts, the streaming. But there's something about knowing that someone on the other side of that radio is literally talking into the airwaves right now and that you are part of their conversation. They're risking to trust that you are out there and you are risking to trust that they are speaking to you.

That's kind of what happens right here in Cadre right now. I'm speaking to each of you, trusting that you're out there listening and hearing what you need to hear. And I know that I'm hearing right back when I tune in, when I pick up a piece of prerecorded content or jump into the community feed, when I join a community here, or when I do this, when I live stream, that I can say, hey, how are you doing? And that someone's going to say, I'm doing. Fill in the blank. How are you doing? And you know that they care about how you are doing.

So the radio may be not as present in the world as it used to be, but today it gave me those two lessons. Lessons number one, mess up on purpose, or if you mess up, make it purposeful because you're going to teach other people how to do the same. And number two, jumping into a conversation that you know that is waiting there for you, whether that be the line of the grocery store or by tuning into your favorite radio station and going, huh, this person right now is speaking and I'm listening and I feel little bit less alone.

Those are two opportunities you have. I'll go and play that beautiful chorus of Joy Olidokin's look up one more time. Again, these lyrics. Look up, don't you see the sunshine? Look up, there's flowers in your hair. Hold on. Because somebody loves you. You know trouble's always going to be there. Don't let it bring you to your knees. Look up. Have a good one, y'. All. There's flowers in your head? Somebody loves you, you know Troubles always to be. See you tomorrow. Mondays are always bright Some days you lose the fight Life can.