JC introduces Cadre, explains the platform's community purpose, and reflects on in-person and online gatherings that foster connection, sharing grief and support, and opportunities for people to be seen and heard.
Well, hey there, cadre. Happy Friday. How are you? I hope you are good. Um, you want to know, um, what's going on in my world? First of all, I'm JC. If we never shared time in space together before. Oh, by golly, I'm wearing a name tag JC there I am. Um, thanks for spending some time with me. It's a gift to spend time with you, no matter if you're doing good or if you're doing bad. If you're happy, sad, full of energy or exhausted. Um, it is a gift to spend time with you. So thank you for providing me and everybody else here that gift.
Um, I'm your friendly face in the cadre sphere seven days a week. Um, why? So you have a consistent face and voice saying, Hey, is this your first time here? Awesome. Um, here's what the cadre sphere is all about. Here's what the cadre sphere is all about. Professionals and peers bringing together resources to knit together a community to show the world that there's many ways to wellness. I'm currently in a room, you can probably hear some of the buzz right back there. Hey, clean. Hey, beesabits.
How are y'all? I'm in a room with about two hundred and seventy people. Um, that means there are a potential of 40,855 potential one on one connections in that room. 41,000 connections. We're spending the day together talking about accountability and about goodness, about lots of stuff. Um, but the thing that amazes me most is the opportunity there is in being surrounded by opportunity to connect. The opportunity is there to connect with people that you don't know yet. It's exactly what cadre is creating right here in your phone or on your desktop.
Um, last night, I had the opportunity to do kind of a similar thing. There's about 160 people in a room, um, who are all gathering to say the names of the people, um, that they've lost. It was an event held, um, um, in the evening for about 90 minutes. And there were people who had lost their people in the last week, people who'd lost their people in, in really awful ways. Um, and them getting to be in that room together, where if they had to laugh or cry or scream or share or be honest, um, or be dark, um, they could do it without knowing or with knowing that no one was going to go, well, why are they doing that?
How often do we not share our grief, our reality, um, of caring for other people, of building community, of how we're attempting to exist in this world and to be verbs and not announced to develop professionally and personally, to go ahead and think about our capacity mentally and physically and emotionally and spiritually. And we go, how can I show up within this room? Take advantage of this opportunity right here to go, I can be how I am, where I am with what I have and find resource. I can be heard and seen.
I can have people go, wow, I have no idea what that's like, or they may go, you know, I don't know exactly what that's like, but I, it makes me think of what I'm maybe dealing with. Um, and maybe I'm willing to share that with you just like you were willing to share that with me. But on Fridays, we talk about , um, grief and loss. Why? Because as, um, many people shared in the room last night, if you love, you're going to lose. If you love, you're going to experience grief from the earliest of ages.
It is shown. Hey, Joel, it's nice to see you, my friend. Um, it is shown that that, that that babies, um, like at the youngest of age, understand grief and loss. Um, as we put those pieces together of our lives, being able to look at the people that we share space with, and guess what? Social media is a great way to share space with other people. We're doing it right now. It would not be a good day for me if I didn't get a good morning or a good afternoon with a sunshine emoji from Jules. That's a true statement.
So my invitation for you, if you're in a space of grief and loss, whether that's a grief that you're experiencing recently or five, 10, 20, 50 years ago, grief doesn't stop. Um, their life may have ended, but the life and experience that they shared with you does not. Who around you today can be a potential connection for you to be with, for you to share, for you to be acknowledged by. I'm going to walk back into a room where there's 41,000 potential connections waiting for me as an introvert, as someone who lives with all the panic in the world.
I'm going to walk back in because I bet the odds are in my favor that someone is going to see me and go, huh? There you are. All y'all out there right now? I 'll say it. There you are. Be where you are with what you have. Honor that. And then see what happens. Y'all, I'll see you later.
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