What Is Cadre?

Cadre. Good morning. Hello. Welcome to what is Cadre? m. Excuse me, I'm getting my coffee situated here. m. Welcome to the day at Cadre. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Shannon. I am part of the Cadre team. I lead operations at Cadre, which basically means I try to keep all the things going, which is a really fun job. So welcome to Thursday. You guys have to forgive me for a second. I wasn't totally situated before I went live, so I'm just getting settled here. Thank you for understanding.

Okay, so what is Cadre? Some of you have been here for a while. Some of you are new to Cadre. So today I'm going to tell you two things. The first thing I'm going to tell you about Cadre is what it means when we say the Cadre sphere. You're going to hear us talk about that. And so I want to explain to you what does that mean? And then the second thing I'm going to tell you is a little bit of a journey. I'm going to pretend. I'm going to pretend that I'm a person. I am a person, but I'm going to pretend.

I'm just going to take you through the journey of someone who might show up for today on Cadre, which is caregiver day, and give you sort of a walkthrough their life of how they might use Cadre. Good morning, Tiffany. Hi. I love seeing you here. Hope you're having a good day. Okay, so, number one, for those of you who are brand new to Cadre, you're going to hear us say the Cadre sphere. And what does that mean? First and foremost, it is a word that we made up. It is not googleable. It's not anything.

It's a word we just created, which means that we also need to help define it. So the Cadre sphere. What we want the Cadre sphere to be this team of our six people who are building this place in the world. It's a place where there are many ways to be. Well, it's a place where you can show up as a human being. You can hear peers like me. You'll hear from me today on Caregiver day. It is professionals, which means clinicians of various types, mental health professionals like Doctor Christina Cohen, Doctor Charles Johnson, Doctor Leslie Davis, Evan Lieberman.

Right. Those are just a few of our credentialed friends. And then finally, peers, professionals, and coaches. Coaches of all kinds. Right. So those are the three folks you'll hear from in the Cadre sphere. They are part of the Cadre sphere. And you are also part of the Cadre sphere, too. So that means. Good morning, JC, Tiffany. JC, the other people who are joining here today, the moment you joined this live stream, you became part of the cadres sphere. And what we do here, I said there are many ways to be well, is we provide a space for people to talk about, see others like them, have their dogs just really stretch and make noise.

I'm so sorry. Gilbert is joining. He apparently wants to be a part of this fear. It's for all of us to come together in a loving, safe space to show up for each other so we're not alone. Right. And that's it. Right. We are here to be a place for you and honestly, for each other. We're all on the same level. We're all people showing up to help each other. All you guys. Steph, Erwin. Love me some Khadri sphere. Steph, you're a huge part of it. Tiffany, I'm so glad you feel warm. I love it. That's the best.

Gilbert makes me happy sometimes, JC. Sometimes he doesn't. Okay. I'm just kidding. I love him. All right, so the number two, I'm going to take us through today's caregiver day on Cadre. What that means is we have different people. We have professionals from Minnesota Autism center. We have humans with lived experiences, caregiving for both children with disabilities. My son Wyatt has autism. Colleen Lindstrom, who's on later today, also parents a child with autism, as does our other Shannon, Miss Shannon Paul.

So you'll hear from us today. You'll hear from all different perspectives, support on how to be a caregiver. Just different, you know? JC, who's here today, will talk about his family. We are caregivers in many ways, and it's a full time job, as you know, if you are a caregiver. And so we want to talk about it. So let's pretend I'm Shannon. I am Shannon. And I enter the cadres here today on caregiver day, and I seek out content around that, right? So maybe I watch the Mac clinicians, maybe I watch girls mentorship, talking about, you know, their content.

And then because I'm a human who is a caregiver, and also a lot of other things I might say, you know what? I'm actually also really trying to, like, get that promotion at work, right? And so then I might go over to Mondays and watch and watch luke on personal development and watch what it means to strive for something and set a goal. Or maybe I have a child or maybe myself. Maybe I'm also an athlete who wants to hit a pr in something, right? Then I'm going to go over to Saturdays and I'm going to watch Garrett Westerwelli talk about how to set goals, how to use athletic mindset to improve, right?

And to get where I want to go. And then you know what else? Maybe I am grieving something. Because every single person in the Cadre sphere will at some point in their lives. Then Friday, it's all day, all day about grief and loss, because that's something we need to. I really feel like I am belaboring this at this point. So I hope you get it. I hope you understand. We're humans who have multiple roles, multiple things we do. And so Cadre wants to be here for all of those things. You can come in, you can watch a video, you can leave, you could come in, you could find and follow a creator that you love and use the community section to put comments about it.

There's a lot of different things you can do at the Kajui sphere. The last thing I will say is we want to hear from you. We want to hear what works. We want to hear what doesn't work. We want to hear, hey, we would love to see a community group talking about this. We can do anything. That's the beauty of the Cadre sphere is the six of us are building this thing and so we can make this place what you need it to be. Okay, I talked too much. Thank you for bearing with that. Here's the day for you. m.

To talk about caregiving. My son has autism. m. At 930. You'll hear from Colleen Lindstrom, who's a sandwich generation. She cares for both a mother with dementia and her son with autism, as well as her entire family. Right. We're going to hear from Minnesota Autism center today at noon when we talk about from a clinical point of view, some caregiving perspectives on how to do what we're doing. Right. But coming at it with a clinical perspective. Girls mentorship is also this afternoon. There's this amazing team that mentor young women.

That is its own particular kind of care. Check that out. Miss Shannon Paul, as always. Love her. She's a comedian and she's a mom of a child with high needs on the autism spectrum. She's a gift. Check her out. And then finally, JC will come back with family. I think it's family matters, which is really, you know, we're all caring for. He's caring for his parents in particularly. But again, all the different parts that make up families and the care that they require. That's it. Thank you for being here, Steph.

Thank you for all you do. You're amazing. Thank you all. I hope you have a beautiful day. So come back here anytime. Come in, watch a video, talk to your friends, start to know each other, and thanks for being part of everything we do here on Cadre. Have a great day, guys.