Cadre Today and Family Ties

Well, hey. Hey there, Cadre. How you doing? I hope you are great. And even if you're not, that's okay, too. It's kind of my favorite part of Cadre, right? That the prerequisite for you to take care of yourself isn't that you have your s*** together. It's that you do the hard thing of clicking into your phone, going online and saying, hey, I'm going to go ahead and connect with some professionals and peers who are providing resources and connection. Show the world that there's a heck of a lot of ways to being well.

So my name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared space and time together before, I'm seeing some of my old friends, like nufi lover sue and Cafe Marisa signing on and some friends that I don't recognize either. So, yeah, say good morning. How are you doing? Vermont and Minnesota coming in hot for Cadre today. My name is JC Lippold, and every morning throughout the week, you see me right here at 730 central standard time to do two things. Number one, give you a little morsel, a little tactical and practical that you can start your day with.

And number two, to let you know a little bit more about this Cadre thing. On Thursdays, we talk about caregiving and just always with great timing. Speak wonder just said hello, all. Speak wonder is one of our contributors. On Caregiver day, you're going to see Shannon and Colleen. And coming up first, Steph Irwin from Savannah, Georgia. And then speak wonder this afternoon as well. You know how many unpaid caregivers there are in the United States? If you know, say the number. If you don't know, throw a guess into the chat and I'll tell you in a moment.

But no one ever signs up to be a caregiver. Now, you may be like, well, I walked into the situation to be a caregiver. Yeah. But still, there's something that pulls you into saying, I'm going to give give of myself to be in that space. But again, most of the time, someone that we love moves into a state where they need, they need to be cared for. And within that space we go, okay, so what do we do? So here's something about the Cadre sphere. It works the best when you say things like, I learned x from x.

So every single time when I sign on, you're going to see me go, hey. So today I watched Miss Shannon Paul's livestream from two weeks ago today. It was amazing. Here's what I learned. So Miss Shannon's live stream is called comedy through the chaos. And I'm a big word person. I love words. Here's what Miss Shannon pulled some focus to. It's not comedy in the chaos. Miss Shannon isn't going to be the person to be like, oh, my gosh, go ahead and see that. There's lightness and levity and ways to laugh in the midst of the chaos.

No, it's comedy through the chaos. On the other side of the chaos that you experience. Miss Shannon always speaks about her wonderful child, which she gave the nickname Cyclone kid to. And quite often you see him make appearances on her live stream. But she makes the point that it's not comedy in the chaos, it's comedy through the chaos. I love that you get to be real in the Cadre sphere. Miss Shannon was not in her recording studio. She was at St. Paul river center. Cause she was in the middle of having to work and do her stuff that she does with her life.

So her live stream was very real. It was hopping out of work to connect with each of us. So miss Shannon goes on to say, hey, yeah, let's look at the good as well as looking at the bad. Cause it builds that that ability to go ahead and deal with both. The last thing that I love that Miss Shannon shared in this livestream two weeks ago is that it opens up the door, right? Being able to use the good and the bad to be able to do the things that you do to get through life. Miss Shannon used this phrase whenever you go into immediate handle this mode.

I love that she was talking about her basement flooding and she's like, and all of a sudden I clicked into to handle this mode. We may call that sympathetic state of your nervous system, right? That fight flight. But you know what I love? When we can put things into our own realities, our own terms, the way that we speak about things. Speak. Wonder says, I'm sharing my poetry today. Right? Speak wonder is going to be sharing. Speak wonder's way of communicating, just as you see all of us do, as contributors.

So when have you had to go into immediate handle this mode? What are the things that you use to set up your world as something that gives you energy as much as the world takes your energy away? And how do you do with looking at the good along with the bad? Not the good instead of the badland, but both, because that's what life is made up of, the real stuff. And by real stuff, we mean your stuff. So you'll see Miss Shannon near the end of the day. Before that, you'll see speak wonder Sharon some poetry.

You'll see Colleen Lindstrom. You'll see Shannon Stauff. You'll see Steph Irwin coming up shortly after. I say, we'll see you later, but here's my invitation for you today. And you will make my day if you do this. And guess what? You're making my day even if you don't. But maybe you go into the community feed and you say, here is something I learned in the Cadre sphere today. And you put those words down. You want to know what you're going to do? You're going to empower every single person within the Cadre sphere to go, oh, I can learn stuff here, I can interpret stuff here.

I can go and have things be inspired by other people being inspired by other people being inspired by other people being inspired. And all of a sudden, this thing happens more and more and more. And by this thing, I mean Cadre, a special group of people with a special intention. What is that intention? To go ahead and bring together professionals and peers, being real, to create resources and community, to show the world that there are many ways to wellness. There are over 50 million unpaid caregivers.

That's a big number of people. And that's exactly what we focus on right here on Thursdays at Cadre, y'all. We'll talk to you later. Bye.