Cadre Today and Family Ties

Well, good morning, everybody. A little Disney to play us in today. I'm curious. Robin Williams Genie or will Smith genie? I don't know. They're both pretty good. I don't think I'll choose. The question is Robin Williams Genie or will Smith Genie? I don't think I'm going to choose. I'm just going to leave it right there. We'll let Will Smith sing for a few more seconds. Newfie lover, how are you, my friend? Mister Aladdin, sir. Hey, mister. And misses and everybody in the Cadre spheres, how are you?

I hope you're great. This is Cadre today. Happy Thursday to you as well, Nofie lover. Sue. My name is JC. If we've never shared time and space together before, thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you right now. It is a gift. Steph Erwin, it feels different to be live streaming after you rather than before you speak wonder. I'm still live streaming before you, so that feels normal as ever. Speak wonder. I have to say, I saw an image on, I think it was maybe the Facebook yesterday where it put the 25 largest lakes on planet Earth next to each other for like, you know, perspective.

And I thought of you and I saw Lake Erie along with the other 24 largest lakes on the planet. And I was very proud to see my very own lake superior. Loud and proud. Well, hey, everybody. What is Cadre today? Cadre today is your familiar everyday check in with me, JC, to give you a little bit of perspective, a little bit of preview, a little bit of sweet. What is this Cadre thing? What is Cadre? Well, I'm going to share a little story. Last night I was on YouTube with our contributor Seth Perry. Seth Perry goes live on Sundays.

You may see our stigma. If you see our stigma, that is Seth. Seth does a lot of work to remove stigma around conversations regarding mental health. Well, Seth does live youtubes on Monday and Wednesday nights. And I was his guest last night, and one of the people who were viewing in asked a question as we were talking about, Cadre said, you know, so social media, there's good things about it, bad things about it. And this person who was chiming in said, well, let's say you know someone who isn't on social media and they're struggling with depression.

Do you recommend that they download a social media app or not knowing that social media is sometimes good and sometimes bad? And here's what I said. I said, you want to know what you do, my friend? Let me hold your hand and walk you into a place where I'm going to introduce you to some people. And I said, you know, hey, let me introduce you to my friend Seth, who does this live YouTube on Monday and Wednesday nights. Hey, open up your phone and download the Cadre app. And I'm going to introduce you to my friend Steph and speak wonder and other people on Thursdays, like Shannon and Miss Shannon and Colleen, and people like nuphy lover sue, who you're going to see sign on in and say, happy Thursday, and who are going to connect with you and share their perspective and their, their realness.

Because here's the deal. Sometimes we think we are not worthy to fit into a certain element of a day on Cadre. Like, maybe you go and say, well, I'm not a caregiver. And I go, then maybe you need to go ahead and start caring for some people. Maybe you need to smile at the person who you walk down the street across from. Maybe you need to go, hey, person who looks kind of down, can I recommend that you download Cadre? Cause it's really been a kind of a positive thing for me in my life. And all of a sudden, you become a caregiver.

Now, again, some people may not agree with me. Some people may be like, well, that's not a caregiver. And I go, well, that's the cool thing about Cadre. Cadre is a place where professionals and peers create community and build resources to show the world that there are many ways to wellness, many ways to perceive how we do this thing called life. And with that being said, guess what? You are always exactly doing your best. If you are giving yourself a chance, if you are looking at this world and saying, hey, here's what I need to be doing today to be putting my best foot forward, or the best foot that I can be putting forward.

So wherever you are, whatever you're doing, see that it is enough. Last night, I got to go into Seth's space and shine a little bit of what I had to give. And all those people who I did not know yet, that's what I call strangers, they gave me a lot, and I hope I gave them that, gave them a little bit as well. So get ready. You can go ahead and watch Steph's and livestream. It's fresh. You can click right before mine. It's sitting there waiting for you. And you'll see Shannon Stauff coming up in a little bit.

Colleen midday speak wonder Miss Shannon later on today. And then, hey, if you are in the Minneapolis area, I am going to be joining Miss Shannon Paul live at Crooners Supper Club for comedy through the chaos this evening, an evening of comedy and storytelling. And I will be live storytelling and singing from the piano. So that starts at, I believe, 630 at crooners in the Twin Cities area. So if you're not in the twin cities, you still have time to grab a plane ticket and get here, y'all. So let's get things going, and we'll go back to a little Robin Williams friend like me to play ourselves out.

Here we go. Wa. I hope you're singing with me, y'all, without. We'll see you later.