Team Cadre: What Is Cadre?

Good morning, friends. Welcome. It is Thursday morning. I am Shannon with Cadre. Welcome to what is Cadre? If it's your first time here, welcome. If you have been here before, we're happy to see you. So, what is Cadre? Cadre is a place where we have our coffee together and we have cups like this that say dog person. I am a dog person. m. Here in central standard time. I live in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I'm having my coffee, so, good morning. I'm going to take a sip, actually. Okay. Nice to see you.

Nice to see you all. I see that you're joining. So for those of you who don't know me, my name is Shannon. I am part of the Cadre team. And what we are doing is we are coming in to tell you all why we're here, what is Cadre, and help you figure out what we're doing here. So, first and foremost, what is Cadre? Cadre is a place. Cadre is a community. We call it the Cadre sphere, where we are building a place where there are many ways to be well. So what does that mean? Oftentimes, in our mental health, in the lives we live, there are beautiful people, beautiful places that offer us advice and say, hey, this is how you should do something.

This is what it means to be well. This is how you fix yourself. This is how you make life better. All the things for those of us who care about mental health and community and all of that. So what the Cadre sphere is, is a place where. Where we bring many perspectives together to share what has worked for us as clinicians. I am not a clinician myself, but we have mental health professionals on this platform, like doctor Christina Cohen, Evan Lieberman, Charryse Johnson, Doctor Charryse. Right. So they can share their clinical perspectives.

There are coaches present on the platform who come with training and supporting those specific areas, whatever they lean into. And then there's people like me. I'm a human. I live with generalized anxiety disorder, a parent, a child with special needs, and I have CPTSD. So we come together to say, hey, let's talk about these things that happen to all of us because we're human, as we seek to be less lonely, as we seek to hear others who are in the same boat as we are, and really just like people who are looking to honestly be loved.

I know that might sound crazy in 2024, but that's the truth of it. We're here to spread love in this Cadre sphere. So, as you enter into the cadres sphere. One thing to know is that we are organized by day. What that means is we have different days with topics, programming topics, where you can hear from a lot of different folks around a single concept. Today, for example, it's Thursday. It's Caregiver day. So today on Cadre, you are going to hear from all types of caregivers. m.. I. Talk about what it means to parent a child with autism.

We have Colleen, who comes in and talks about being the sandwich generation. So she's straddling that line of caring for her parents and caring for a child again with disabilities. We have clinicians on today, and we round out the day with Miss Shannon Paul, who is a comedian, which is amazing, and also a caregiver. And so she really helps us laugh through all of it. So as you go through your day, what you can expect to do is have opportunities to just join these different folks again, like me, talking about bringing perspectives around topics that are important to you.

So, again, today is Caregiver day. As you enter into the app, there's a couple of different ways to use it. There are definitely the live streams, and guess what? We're busy people, and it might mean that you can't join a live stream. That's fantastic. As you get into your home screen, once you log into the app, you will see past lives. It's a beautiful place to start. It's a beautiful place to understand sort of the range of folks who are on Cadre. So I encourage you to check that out and just kind of scroll, you know, swipe to the left, I think, scroll over and see folks who are there.

You are able to also then search, right. So you can start to put in the topics that are important to you, and you'll be served up content that's relevant to you. I think the thing we most want you to know as you enter into the Cadre sphere is that you can't do it wrong. Our intent here is to be imperfect. Our intent here is to create a space where, again, going back to our mission, there are many ways to be well. So I want you to be here. Every single person who is part of the Cadre team, we're here for a very personal reason, and we want you to be a part of it.

We also encourage you if there are people in your life that need support, right. Whether it's just a word of encouragement, whether it's a laugh, whatever that is, whether there's actually a topic that they want to delve deep into. Maybe it's personal development. Maybe it's Mondays. For your friend who right now is striving to do this thing in their life, send them on over to personal development day. I think the beautiful thing about Cadre is there's nothing like you can't do it wrong. We're showing up for each other.

Speak wonders here. Good morning. I see you, Colleen. I see you as well. I'm glad you are here. And what you'll start to find as you become more engaged in the Cadre sphere is that you will suddenly have these friends, like Speakwonder, like colleen, who you can see and connect with from your phone in the middle of the day when you need it. So that is why we are here. Please share Cadre, our website. Just go ahead and I'll do the classic promotional plug here. Our website is Cadre IO. If you want to find out more about us and who we are, there's a team of six of us who are bringing this thing to life, and we're growing, and we're so thankful you're here, and it's just a beautiful thing to be a part of.

So that is what Cadre is. You're always welcome to message us, send us information, you know, reach out with any questions. But we're just thrilled that you're here. And I will see you in less than 2 hours to talk about my journey as a caregiver. I hope you all have a fantastic, fantastic day, and thank you for being a part of Cadre, and we hope to see you more.