Cadre Today and Family Ties

Well, hey there, Cadre. Happy, happy Thursday. As always, we'll take a little minute, a little moment to allow people to filter on into the room. We had a little orchestral kickoff to Thursday today. Anybody recognize this song? A little drama, a little hope, a little build. Oh, then the bass kicks in. Yeah. Hey, Chris. Hey. Speak wonder. Name that tune, everybody. Jules. Amy. How are y'all? We've been traveling far without our own. Not without a star. Beautiful day at Erie, Pa. It's a. It is that time of year when you start to notice that the days are getting shorter.

730. And it's still kinda kind of dark outside. We are coming to America. Speak Wonderland. Good tune. A little Neil diamond to kick off the morning. Well, hey, everybody, 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 right now. Caitlin, how are you, my friend? Nice to see you. You find me every. Every single day kicking off things right here in the Cadre sphere. So you have a familiar touch point, a little reminder that we literally are here all the time.

And with that being said, if we've never shared time and space together before, thanks for the opportunity to share some time and space with you. It is a gift. No matter if you're feeling good or not feeling good. And whether you have your stuff together or you don't have, the prerequisite for being in this space is you have something in your mind, your heart, your spirit, that says, I'm going to do something good for me right now. And that is to place yourself in a community with resources fostered by professionals and peers and people you don't know yet.

That's what I like to call strangers to help you think, how are you, where are you going and what are you doing? Why do you see me every day? Well, because each day in the Cadre sphere has a little different direction, a little different theme. And with that being said, I have the opportunity to remind you of that, to give you some highlights that are coming up in the day, and to give you a little bite size takeaway as to where that theme's going. So on Thursdays, we talk about caregiving. You know that there's millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of unpaid caregivers in the United States.

Yeah. People who care for other people, not because it's their job, but because it's an obligation that they. That they. That they have, that they choose to take on. Now imagine if you're doing your life and then all of a sudden you add a task like that onto your shoulders. Of course, that task is tasks and the task is heart and it's mind. It's all of this stuff. So as we think about that, we have a day to offer support for those people, but also to offer perspective for those people who may not think about the way that they caregive for other people.

I just played the song America by Neil diamond. That was the first concert I ever went to, Neil diamond at the Metrodome with my mother. I was five. I fell asleep. Thankfully, I got to see Neil diamond many other times in my life thus far. Neil diamond is now retired as Neil is dealing with dementia and all of those things. But I think about that first concert I had with my mom, who now I have the opportunity to caregive for in a, I like to say a little bit more enjoyable stage where my mom and dad are still doing a lot of things for themselves, but not everything.

And day by day, those things change. It's interesting because I think as we look at those relationships, there's an idea, it's like of the handoff of parents, how they care for us when we're little and then we care for them when they're old. And that relationship, that balance. I invite you today to think about all the stages of the relationships of the people that you care for. Because sometimes in the harder ones, the darker ones, which may be now or in the future or in the past, there's other chapters that you can take a different perspective, a different look on as we move through this journey.

Coming up today, there's a nice balance with our Thursday contributors. SSC ss coming up this morning, you have Steph Irwin coming to you from Savannah, Georgia. Then Shannon Stauff from the Twin Cities. Colleen, who is the middle of that SS sandwich, talks about the sandwich generation. Colleen is parent and also child within her caregiving reality right now. So taking care of mom, but also of children. So Colleen talks about the sandwich generation in the middle of the sandwich of the day. And then kicking off the afternoon, you can see, speak, wonder just shared.

At 11:00 they will be teaching y'all how to fold a paper. Boat harbor pilots on deck coming to you from Lake Erie, Pennsylvania. And then wrapping up today, the one and only miss Shannon Paul, who brings a little comedy through the chaos. And I'll say, if you're in the Twin Cities, we have a live event coming up one week from today. The beautiful mess, the positive impact of neurodivergence in the workplace. One week from today, we'll literally be getting set up at I heart media in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, with a phenomenal panel of people who will be sparking the conversation that you get to be a part of.

So if you're in the Twin Cities and next Thursday, being a part of a Cadre live event sounds interesting to you, send a message here and we'll send you the information. But as I go back into a little bit of Neil Dimon, I want you to think about the first memory you have with someone that you are in a caregiving relationship with. And again, to any degree, it could be someone that you know, it may be with your child, your parent, your partner, your spouse, your friend, someone who you give some care to within this world.

Think about that and maybe type it right here. What's your first memory? One of mine with my mom is seeing this dude at the metrodome. The metrodome is now long gone, but the memory lives on. Y'all have a great rest of your Thursday, and I'll see you tomorrow morning after you check out Steph Shannon. Clean, speak, wonder, and Miss Shannon Paul. Have a good one. Talk to you later. Coming to America.