Cadre Today

Hey there, Cadre. Just waiting for a little bit of music to fill our space. We'll let it go throughout the chorus. Yeah. Hey, Yoko. Hey, Beezobitz. Colleen, speak wonder Jules. Oh, my gosh. The party is showing up. So I was thinking of a good song to play for this morning's Cadre today. And this was the song that came up after the song that I was thinking that I'd play, which is just so much better. Steph, Erwin, how are you? Oh, my gosh. So many sons. And extra vowels. And greetings. By golly, Cadre, you do know how to change the atmosphere, don't you?

It takes a moment. It takes literally a moment of you saying, I'm gonna do something good for myself, like jump into a live stream or connect with my Cadre friends. Because we deserve community. We deserve support and resources when we are doing the best we can to be well for us and for those around us. Rhonda, nice to see you. On Wednesdays, we talk all about mental health, and every weekday you get a little moment with me. My name is JC. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to share some time and space with you.

It truly is a gift. You are a gift. No matter how you're doing, no matter if you're having a good day or a bad day, you're a gift. So the song I wanted to play this morning was wait for it, wait for it, wait for it. Song by Leslie Odom Junior, Tony award winner in Hamilton. Well, after that song, the wonderful smarties in the AI world said, oh, we're going to play go crazy, also by Leslie Odom Junior, after. That's exactly what we're talking about today. You know, I, for the last couple of weeks in Cadre today in the mornings have been highlighting another contributor.

I've been listening to a contributor, one of their live streams and going, gosh, what have I learned? What have I learned from them? And today, my friend, Paella Vu, Twin Cities resident therapist, build your own pathway is Paella's kind of theme for her. The therapy and the guidance and the support she offers to other humans. And I went way back into July to Paella's last livestream before she went on vacation, she went to Bali. Never been. But, ooh, my wallpaper on my computer screen has been Bali many times.

Why? It's just something about the blue and the green and the water and the peace and all the things. Well, Paella spoke during her last livestream about waiting. Paella's last vacation before this one was in 2019, which, again, was a long time ago, but even more so a really long time ago. If we think about the last five years in the human experience of people living in the west, we've looked at a world that has been ever changing and forcing us to, to wait. Paella has a wonderful gift of speaking, I think, to our humanity.

Anytime I'm with paella, I always go, wow, I feel like I'm speaking to a friend and a friend who is also a therapist, which is such a great gift. Throughout today, you're going to have so many people that you can listen to. Who? Professionals and peers. Professionals in different modalities, to really, number one, offer you knowledge and perspective and guidance, but to do it in a way that's. That's real and friendly because everybody is living that human experience. And here's the cool thing that paella offered me today.

Paella said that rather than thinking about waiting to, like, waiting like, like red light, green light, red light, green light, red light, I rather than thinking of waiting like we're holding our breath or we're wanting what is coming up, paella used the powerful word of pause. Pausing invites us to stop while the world keeps moving, to take it in. We're waiting often invites us to go, nope, don't take anything in. Don't breathe, don't smell, don't look, don't taste. Are you in a space where you're having to wait for something?

What if you took a pause from the and you saw what was available to you here? Because I'll tell you, I've been waiting for paella to get back so I could have a little Wednesday afternoon livestream break with someone who I've really enjoyed getting to know over the last a lot longer than it feels like? Paella said, gosh, it feels like I've been doing this live stream thing now for a long time. And, girl, you have. But I tell you, when I pause and I go, huh? There are so many other things to take in in this moment.

Like, if we turn a little bit, what do we see? If we turn a little bit, what do we see? Pausing invites us to turn a little bit of and to see what's going on. So are you waiting for Bali? Are you waiting for the other side of the diagnosis, or the other side of the treatment, or the other side of the recovery, or the other side of the stress, or the other side of the anxiety, or the other side of the what? If you take a pause from the waiting that's my invitation for you today. But also know this.

It's my invitation for me today. The Cadre Sphere invites you into a world where we don't have the right answer for you. But we are reminding you that we are all living this wonderful life and this journey towards being a little bit better, being a little bit, well, being a little bit on our side. So, y'all, the Wednesday lineup is stacked. Enjoy it. You'll see me again tomorrow morning when I'll get to talk all about my Thursday crew friends like Colleen and Steph and everybody who's here right now.

All right, crew, back to some leslie. I'll let it play to the chorus. So if you need to go, peace out. If you need a little groove in time, stand up, y'all, groove. I won't stand up since I'm the one on the camera, and then you'll be not able to see me. I'll just groove from the neck up. Has anyone ever seen Leslie Odom junior in concert? I did a little few months ago. Oh, and I also saw him in pearly victorious on Broadway last year. So good. Tony nominated. Didn't win, but Tony nominated. All right, enough of that, y'all.

We'll see you later.