Cadre Today and Family Ties

Well, hey there. Good morning, Cadre, how are you? And let me turn down the music here. How are you doing today, Cadre? Happy Thursday. It is, what is it, the 12th? It is the 12th. I had to check the laptop. It's a chilly day where I am. How is it where you are, Beezo Bits? How are you doing? How's the weather? How's the week? First one in the room. Nice to see ya, Jules. Nice to see you. Goodbye. Golly, if you're back up north, I can only imagine how cold it is up there. It's a crisp morning where I am and I am sitting in an empty ballroom in a hotel as I get ready to the Hamza.

How are you? The Hamza. Love the screen name. I hope you're doing great. Like I was saying, I'm sitting in a conference room in a hotel getting ready about an hour from now to hold space for a big group of leaders. As they look at the work that they do and the way that they lead the people in their organizations that they work with. And that's kind of what I do a lot of times, from day to day. It's my call, it's my vocation. Actually. Quite often my professional bio starts out by saying that JC likes to think he follows in his mother's footsteps as being a professional full time homemaker, holding space for people all around the world.

So as I sit here in this empty room and I go, okay, I'm going to have four hours with a big group of people I don't know yet. That's what I call strangers. And my opportunity is to invite them to feel like they can be here. Maybe they feel safe, maybe they will feel inspired, maybe they'll feel creative, maybe they'll feel connected. I can influence that. Right? I always like being the person when I come into live streams. You know, like today is caregiver day. And quite often I talk about, you know, being the caregiver of my parents who still have a fair deal of autonomy.

But today I want to stretch the idea of caregiving even further to those people that we save or that we share space with. You know, the Hamza says here, what are you hoping to get out of the conference? Well, since I'm leading it, I hope two things. Number one, I hope that the people who right now, I guarantee you are going, ah, I have to take four hours to sit in a room. I don't know what I'm going to get out of it. That early on. In that four hours they start going, I see what I'm getting out of this today.

Second thing that I hope for is that I'm reminded of the power of holding space for other people, especially people that you don't know. It's a gift, and it's a dance and it's a skill, but it's not as hard as we often make it out to be. Right? I got here 90 minutes before. Not that there's a lot of things to do. Like, I have some tech to set up and some things to lay out around the room, but it's because I want to be in this room before anyone else is so I can go, huh? What is it like being in this space?

What is it like when walking in. In the frigid, cold Minnesota weather? You can see Juul says it's 23 below up north. I'm in the Twin cities. It's like 4 or 5 below here. What is it like to walk in to this building? What is it like to know that rather than people being able to do what they need to do for four hours, they have the opportunity to do something different, that their organization is saying, you need to be here. Because we're going to. We're gonna provide you this opportunity to grow and think and connect and learn and da, da da, da, da, da, da.

So my invitation for you today, even though you may not have something as structured as this, to be holding space for other people for, consider how you can hold space for someone else today and maybe outside of the realm of the people that. That you hold space for regularly. And you may go, I don't got time. I don't got energy. I don't got it. Think like the holding the door open for the person or the, hey, can I get that off the shelf for you? Or the seeing the parent who's struggling with kid in grocery store or kid who's struggling with parenting grocery store, give them a smile or give them a, you got this.

Or you're doing it because there's something powerful in holding space for other people. So wherever you are, whatever you have going on today, be there, y'all. There's always a great lineup on Thursdays in the live stream. Check it out. But if you're like, nah, I'm not feeling live streams. I'm not feeling this topic today. Go into the community feed. Go into the prerecorded content. Check out the new communities. If you go right up there on your screen, you're going to go ahead and go, here's where we are.

Here's what we do. What does holding space look for. What does holding space for people look like at Cadre? By golly, Hamza, we do it a million different ways right here through this platform. What a great question to go hey, how can you, you know, I went to the grocery store idea. But how can you hold space for someone right here in your phone by saying, hey, I see you. Hey, I hear you. Hey, I'm simply in this room with you. I don't even need to say anything to make you feel that there is someone else here.

So, as Hamza says, what does holding space for people look like? The Cadre sphere. Right here, right now. Y'all go get it today. We'll talk to you later.