Like a sitcom from the 80s and 90s, every person is innately tied to their family members in the best and most difficult of ways. JC, a millennial with 6 Gen X siblings, a boomer mother and a greatest generation dad talks about taking care of the ties that bind.
If you've been tuning into live streams in the Cadre sphere on Caregiver day, you've had quite a lineup to connect with. There's a really great Q and a with Doctor Charryse coming up later tonight. What a cool opportunity to continue to watch how Cadre creates ways for you to connect.
Cadre: We talk about the ties that bind us to those people that we are closest to. He says he was a huge fan of Roseanne's sitcom back in the eighties and nineties. Cadre: Who do you impact? Whose lives have you been woven into?
Well, hey there, Cadre. How are you? By golly, it's Thursday and it's Thursday evening. So if you've been tuning into live streams in the Cadre sphere on Caregiver day, you've had quite a lineup to connect with. And there's a really great Q and a with Doctor Charryse coming up later tonight. Shannon is going to be moderating that. But by golly, what a cool opportunity to continue to watch how Cadre creates ways for you to connect. If you're wondering, like, JC, where are you? The lighting is weird today.
Hey, Lori. Nice to see you. If you're wondering where I am, I'm sitting on the stage at Shell Lake Arts center in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. We just got done rehearsing hey, Jules. Just got done rehearsing a show on hope, and we'll perform it with our cast of 31 of young people from all around the world tomorrow afternoon. So my name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you. Right I. Now this is a live stream called family ties.
Family ties, as in the ties that bind us one to another, whether it be our chosen family or our biological family. And also family ties as the name of a great sitcom from a handful of decades ago. So we talk here about the ties that bind us to those people that we are closest to and the stress and the humor that often makes up those relationships worthy of great, great television. So I was a huge fan of Roseanne's sitcom back in the eighties and nineties as a kid who grew up in kind of the big family, who didn't have a lot with generic brands and the ways to cut ends and, you know, hand me down clothes and homemade Halloween costumes, all of those things coming from the, from the wrong side of town.
That show always made me feel seen and also made me feel as if my story was worthy of being on television. Hey, Jules. Hey. Speak wonder. Well, there is one episode where Darlene, one of Roseanne's three kids, well, four kids sooner or later, but three kids for the majority of the show, where Darlene got to share a poem that she wrote at poetry night at school. Darlene didn't want anybody to know about it. And all of a sudden. Hey, Katie, nice to see you. All of a sudden, Roseanne found out that Darlene was going to get to speak at poetry night, and Roseanne was like, why didn't you tell me that you were getting to do this?
This is cool. And we normally don't have. Our kids normally don't get to do cool things like this. And Darlene was like, it's not a big deal, mom. And all of a sudden, Roseanne came to poetry night and got to see a different perspective of her kid, Darlene, who wrote this really beautiful poem about being kind of alone and not seen. And it was a really well written poem. And there's this really beautiful connection of this mother seeing a different perspective of their kidney and their kid showing their mother a little bit about them that they normally didn't share with their parent.
So I often share that. I'm the youngest of seven kids. I'm the only millennial with six gen x siblings, with a baby boomer mother, and a greatest generation father. And even though I'm the tapped caregiver for my parents and some of my older siblings, I kind of keep a lot of my life cards close to chest. I don't know why, but at the end of the day, I want you to think about those people that you are woven into the day to day life with, those family chosen or biological, and the power that you have to make them feel seen and connected in a way like literally nobody else.
There are times that I have to be a little uncomfortable sharing because I know it can literally make the day of those people closest to me. And in that wonderful Roseanne episode, Darlene changed her mother's life. And her mother got to go ahead and see that she was doing some pretty amazing things, not only with her hands, but with the hands of those people that she brought into the world. So whose hands do you impact? Whose lives have you been woven into, and how can you help them see how important and beautiful they are in this world?
It's quite a joy this week to be spending this week with 31 young people from all around and know that I'm getting to stir up in them things that their parents have created opportunities for in the best and the worst of ways. So this auditorium tomorrow will be filled with all of their parents and siblings and grandparents and everybody else. I guarantee you some of the kids up on this stage would prefer that they weren't here yet. I'll encourage them. I'm like, they are your audience today, and you will impact them in ways that you cannot imagine.
Y'all, Cadre is here to impact you in ways that you cannot imagine. And I would love to remind you that you are impacting people in ways that you can't imagine either. Have a great rest of your Thursday. I will be back on Saturday morning with a little bit enoughness. Sunday morning with a little bit of thin space. And then, by golly, another week starts. Have a good one.
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