Shoutout and Share

Hi, RSP Community. I am Shannon. I am the CEO of Cadre. That's the platform you're on right now. And I'm actually part of also the RSP community and grateful to be connected to all through Wendy. I wanted to post this video for two reasons. One, I wanted to show you what Cadre is as a platform in general. And I know within this RSP community or a bunch of other things as well, but one of the things we do at Cadre is we like to be really authentic. So in that spirit, I wanted to do two things. One, I wanted to just reach out to you all as a community and number one, I wanted to give a shout out because I know this is a, this is a community of women and I wanted to share that there is someone else in this RSP community who helped me out as another female leader and she is someone who made a call on my behalf or actually allowed me to use her name in a meeting that I couldn't get.

And when I sent the email request for the meeting, it took less than five minutes to get a response from that person. And I have a meeting on the books for next week. And so I wanted to shout out, her name's Monica because it was such a huge gift and it just, I felt so supported and it moved me forward in my role and that's awesome. So that's number one. Number two, I just wanted to share sort of a vulnerability as a bunch of women leaders. I'm having a day to day where I had to have a super hard conversation with someone who was my friend and colleague and it sucked.

Just truth be told, it was a horrible conversation and I think I, I just wanted to share in case anyone else is out there today where those lines cross of friendships and personal relationships and business relationships and how hard it can be at times to navigate those and all you can do is go to your values. And so for me, what I did today is like, these are the things I know to be true about our friendship. These are the things I know to be true about the business and had to have a conversation about future forward and some shifts that were happening.

It doesn't feel great in my body. I hate it. And I also know I'm not the first person to do it. So I wanted to say it to you. If anyone out there is navigating something like that, I just want to let you know you're not alone. I just did it today. It's Wednesday. That's what happened today. So that's it. Just wanted to share my life. If you guys have anything that you would like to share or be supported in, please, please put it here. That's what we're here for. And that's it. Thanks, Bye.