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Shannon Cason's Homemade
She Inspired Me | Everyday is a Story
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Sometimes inspiration comes through the people we've first inspired.
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Shannon Cason
When I saw my daughter Zoey take the microphone, something woke up inside of me. Every day is a story. I'm Shannon Cason. Make sure you like and subscribe. My daughter Zoe speaks. I mean, she's a speaker. She. She won a few state level DECA competitions, and she went on to compete in the nationals. And she's competed in Junior United Nation competitions. These are all high school competitions. DECA is, is for marketing and business. The United nations is more political. And Zoe's pretty good. I've seen her do it. She's pretty good. She's. She's. She's good at it. Her mom does activism, voter activation work throughout the country, and Zoe goes on those trips, too. They'll go around the nation, and her mom would be speaking on the importance of voting. And Zoe will be right along with her. And recently they went to a rally in Columbus, Ohio. And my ex wife, she had told me they had a great turnout in Columbus. And it was in front of the Capitol, and she was telling me about all the people. And then she said Zoe even spoke. And she looked up the recording on her phone and she passed it to me and I watched. And I was amazed. I mean, I've heard Zoe do her thing, so I wasn't like, amazed like she hadn't done this before, but. But it was just something about this time. I knew she was good, but I just felt something special about it. Here's the record.
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Event Announcer
This powerful leader is a youth organizer who has led thousands of youth in the great state of Michigan. Can everybody give up a warm welcome for Zoe?
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Zoe Cason
Good afternoon, Ohio. My name is Zoe case, and I'm 17 years old. Now, I'd just like to add something. Has anyone ever heard someone say the phrase, my vote doesn't matter? Okay. Well, in my school and in my youth organization, I hear people say this a lot, and they are 1000% wrong. When we look back on history, we can clearly see that when people vote, change happens. And that is why they're trying to restrict our votes. So I would just like to say encourage your friends, your family members, your daughters, your sons, your nieces, your nephews, and everyone to register, stay informed and vote when the time comes. Because the future isn't just something we inherit, it's something that we choose. Thank you so much.
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Shannon Cason
I love her comfort. She's also in the moment. She's talking to the audience in the room. Not just some amorphous audience. Somewhere out there, she's speaking to the people that's right in front of her. And she immediately mentions her age, which is good, because these events are filled with civil rights people. You know, people. They all old. Everybody at these events, most of the times are old. So she's 17. It's an outlier. She's. She's letting them know that she's the coming generation. And she gets the audience participation right at the start by asking a question, have you ever heard anyone say? Which is good. She talks about her own experience, but she relates it to the audience because it's not a young audience. So she can talk about being young, but it's not a young audience. So she's relating her youth to the audience to talk to their daughters and sons and nieces and nephews. I think that that's. That's pretty cool. And then she ends with a profound quote. The future isn't what we inherit or something like that. It's what we choose. I thought that quote was pretty good at the end, so. Seeing my daughter speak inspires me. I miss the stage. That feeling you get when you're about to walk up to the mic, you know, when you sitting there and they about to call your name to walk up, it's a bit of fear and excitement mixed together. You try to remember some of the lines that you want to hit, but you're also looking around the audience to see who you're talking to. These are the things I do before I get on stage. I look at the audience, see who exactly am I talking to, because I want to speak to someone in the room, and I go up on stage with that fear and excitement and the sound of those first laughs. The feeling you get when you know the audience trusts you, so you have a little more leeway to just be you. And they'll get it. You know, we just met, but it feels like they're an old friend in some way. I love that feeling when I'm. I'm. I'm on stage and just being able to share your life, your passions, your ideas, your. Your tragedies, your. Your accomplishments, your comebacks. I love it. So seeing my daughter on stage for a rally in Columbus has hyped me up to get back on stage myself. I haven't been on stage enough lately, so I need to get back on more stages. So the moment of meaning for me is watching someone else shine isn't always about competition or comparison. Sometimes it just reminds us of what we're missing ourselves. My daughter inspired me, but what about you? Have you been inspired lately? What's something that you used to love that you need to return to. To feel whole. What's your story?