Cadre Today and Family Ties

Well, hey, good morning, Cadre. How are you? There's always that little moment before someone clicks into the live stream that you take a moment to pause. This is my moment to pause. You may be like, what's all that noise around you? Well, I am at the great Minnesota get together, the Minnesota State Fair. Hi, Steph. Minnesota State Fair is. If you didn't know, a Minnesotan will always tell you it is the country's biggest state fair. There's a little caveat. Technically, Texas is the biggest state fair, but it's different, right?

The Texas State fair kind of runs for, like, a long, long, long time. But we are twelve straight days of the Minnesota State Fair, and this is day number seven. And I'll tell you why I'm here in a little bit. But first, this is Cadre. m. central Standard time. You see me. My name is JC Lippold. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to do so. It is a gift to spend time with you. Cadre. Today is a. Is a little opportunity for you to get a quick shot of.

So what is Cadre, and what's going on here right now? Well, Cadre, we have these live streams. We have pre recorded content, and we have a nice community feed. So you have different ways for any time that you go, huh? I think I need some connection. I think I need some perspective. I think I need a voice in the universe that I can say hey to. That's what Cadre is doing for you. Cool thing about our livestreams is each day kind of has a different gravity point, a different anchor that pulls us towards a specific place.

On Thursdays, it's caring for those who care for others a day. So it's a day when we offer support for all those people who are caregivers in the world. You kind of have an SS Colleen sandwich on Thursdays. So you got Steph and Shannon in the morning. Then you got Colleen with the sandwich generation right in the middle, and then you got speak wonder and Miss Shannon in the afternoon. So it's the Ss Colleen sandwich, y'all. And then, of course, I messed that up by being a little jay in the morning.

Where am I? Well, I'm sitting in front of the milk. Yeah, I'm sitting in front of the milk and parlor at the Minnesota State Fair. So throughout the day, they. They milk different animals right here. Yep. That's what we do in Minnesota. We watch animals getting milked. But if you're like, wow, you're at the state fair really early. You. Yeah. One of the sacraments or special moments, special events with special power that I have with my mom is once a year, we open up the state fair. So my mom is right down there, and she's waking up all the cows right now.

We already woke up all the horses. You can check it out. In the community feed. I posted a picture of my mom waking up one of the horses. Every single year for as long as I can remember. Me and my mom are the first people to get to the state fair. And we walk around before everything opens and we go say hey to the horses and the cattle and the goats and the pigs. And it's a really special moment. It's a special moment where, no matter what, we have this. This opportunity to do something always a little bit different.

Like, my mom rides around in her. In her powered wheelie mobile now, where a few years ago, she didn't. We don't stay very long, but that's okay. But it's this Sacramento, which is a churchy word, which, in essence means a special action that when you engage in it, there's a certain magic that presents. This is a sacrament for me and my mother. So for all of you caregivers out there, sometimes, one of the best things I think you can do is to acknowledge the things that you've built in to your relationships with those people that you caretake, for that show that you're actually doing a really, really good job, that you're creating these moments with and for those people, you being one of those people who needs to be connected in.

So in the community feed, I posted a picture of my mom waking up one of the horses, and I asked the question, what are those sacraments that you have with your people? Please speak wonder and Steph and Jules and the other names that now have flickered on by, jump into the community feed, find that post, and share a sacrament that you have with your special people. Here's the reason why it's important to do that. When you share, other people feel, number one, more empowered to share and be heard.

But number two, they may go, I don't have special moments with my people. And all of a sudden, they may go, wow, I'm gonna borrow Steph's tradition, or I'm gonna borrow Jules tradition. And all of a sudden, this Cadre sphere galvanizes in the presence. But again, I hope you check in for the SS Colleen sandwich today. You got some Steph and some Shannon stuff in the morning. Colleen with the sandwich generation talking about being a caregiver of children and parents. And then this afternoon, the other side of the SS Colleen sandwich got a little speak wonder coming from Erie, Pennsylvania, and a little mission, Nepal, coming from good old Twin Cities, y'all.

You're looking at the Milken parlor at the Minnesota State Fair. Have a great day. We'll talk to you later.