Comedy Through The Chaos

Hello, hello, hello and happy Thursday to everybody here in the Cadre sphere. I hope that the day is treating you well. If it is not, shame on it. Not shame on you. I am Ms. Shannon Paul. I am a variety of word related things including a comedian, a corporate speaker, a voice actor, an event MC and I help out of the great state of Minnesota. Hello Mel Myers. Hello. Welcome in, welcome in. I also happen to be the proud parent of an adorable 17 year old kiddo who happens to be high supports on the autism spectrum.

So joining thanks for joining me for this Thursday edition of Comedy through the Chaos where we try and help use humor to navigate some of the complexities that we have going on in our life. I am so fascinated with how quickly time goes. Look, we are in the midst of October already. Hello Nikki, Good to see you as well. Nikki. I owe you a response to your email because I would like to be on the contributor thing but I am working so hello. I have a gig that night but one of these days I will be available just not in the month of October.

Wow, October already. Heavens to Murgatroyd. How did we get here? But happy to be moving into officially the season of fall. Another transition and thinking about the conversations that we might be having here in the Cadre sphere around the subject matters of harvest and harvesting things. And so I was excited to at least start with this conversation. And thank you very much. Yes. So I appreciate it. So I will go ahead and let you know how November looks. Things smooth out a little bit for me in November.

Right now it is gala season and that leads me to kind of the conversation I want to have today, which is a conversation about harvesting the peace that you have planted in previous days. By that I mean right now this is my fall gala and event season. So this is the time of the year where my schedule gets very robust. I have a lot of things that are going on. So I had a keynote in Fargo yesterday and a workshop. So I drove in Tuesday night, hung out there and did my keynote and my workshop, drove back last night, got my kiddo off to school this morning and it was picture day and I was very proud of him because I was excited about him going to take his pictures and we'll see how it goes.

So yeah, gala season is gorgeous. You get to affect I get to help a lot of organizations here in the Twin Cities, but it is a lot of put on full face makeup and show up in a shiny dress and then go and do stuff. So you get to go a lot of places as well, which is fascinating. And things just happen to be stacked this time of year. But it's also the time of year where my kiddo just got back to school. We're trying to get into a routine, and it's just reminded me that there are so many things that I have been working.

Working with my kiddo on for a long time. Some of the things we have been working on, honestly, we've been working on them for so long, I forget when we started working on them. There are so many things that I have just been trying to put him in the path of, including resources, therapies, self regulation, practices, all of these things that if I pushed the issue and said, you just got to get better at this, that wouldn't work. But I do try to make sure that these things are put in the path for him to be able to continue to work on as at his leisure.

Therapies, occupational speech, all of these things. And sometimes you end up sowing these seeds for so long that you forget that the seeds are actually down there. And then things start to germinate and you're like, wait a minute, where that little sprout come from? And it's because you just been working on it. You forgot that eventually it might actually grow. And now, now that it's growing, we actually get the time to reap the benefits for it. And so this morning was a good example of that, where I was just hoping that he would go to school and be in the right kind of mood because Mama would like a good picture.

I would like. Mama loves it when she gets a good school picture. I hope they're close, but I'm gonna show you one from two years ago because that one is upstairs and his previous school picture is downstairs. So we might take a walk and go do that. So this, that's the school picture from year before last. Good job. Good smile. Very proud of him. We'll take a walk downstairs. Everybody take a deep breath. Take a deep breath in case you get any vertigo or motion sickness. We'll walk down to my studio so you can see the school picture from last year, which is also glorious.

Welcome to the studio, everybody. Hello, hello, hello. I'm going to take this picture upstairs where the lighting is better. Always look good. Always look better in some natural lighting. Always do. And hopefully my Fitbit is paying attention, so I get credit for those steps. Need credit for every single step. So here's an example of how he did during his school picture last year. Look at that. Good guy, good smile, little jaunty cap that he's into. So this morning I was like, here are your selections of outfits you can pick.

Then here we go. Ready to go take our school picture. When I dropped him off, he seemed to be in a good mood. So I'm hoping that that all worked out for him. And that's the thing. We have been working on some of these things, these self regulation practices, the ability to be able to get to school close to on time, working on the, hey, you get to make a choice on what you wear today because this is what we're going to do later. And I've been working on this for so long that I am so grateful for the opportunity to harvest some of the.

Some of the results from the care I've been providing to him for so long. And I think that we forget sometimes as caregivers that that's what we're actually doing is eventually you get to harvest all of these things too. And that might be minor in your life where it's just a day where something goes smoother than it used to in the day. It might be something where you're like, oh, I'm sleeping better. Because the person I care for and care about is also sleeping better. Oh, I was able to re regulate after a hard time, and I get to do that easier.

Now that's something where you're harvesting the benefits of the work that you put in. And so you do deserve to take and reap that harvest. On occasion. You need to make sure that you do it sometimes because if you let it sit on that vine too long, it might rot. Now you missed it. So sometimes when you're like, all right, I'm going to take a minute to actually appreciate the stuff that has grown from the work that you've done. Hey, Speak Wonder. Good to see you. Always good to see you in the chat.

I'm gonna make sure I check you out in the replay. So glad to be able to share the concept of harvesting things. Harvesting that moment of. Of success that you had and going, hey, is okay for me to sit there and go, good job. Well, job well done, caregiver. I did the work today, and it's worth it. So do not let it sit on the vine. No. Eventually then it's like we forget sometimes it looks so, so pretty there. And we're on to the next thing. We're on to sowing that next seed there. We're like, no, no, no.

Go get that one. Go get that jewel. Go get that one. I have tomatoes in the back. Go get that tomato before it drops and the birds eat it. Harvest all of your good work people and make sure that you take care of yourself as much as you can. I was talking to my friend about that today and she is also a caregiver and has a kid, used to be in my son's class, so they're about the same big, so. Oh, you talked about farmers, the nation's caregivers. Oh, I'm excited to go see that. Yes. So thank you very much for sharing that speak Wonder.

You always have a wonderful perspective on things. I appreciate you. So I am very, very excited to continue this conversation as we harvest things and I am very excited to see what this year's school picture looks like with my kiddo, regardless of whether it has a perfect smile or a crooked smile. Happy that he made it and he had a chance to do it and hopefully he had a good time. And hopefully you had a good time today as well. And if you didn't, good times will come eventually. That is how we continue to make sure that we are refueling ourselves.

Not every moment of every day, but hopefully every day there is a moment that you get to do that and that is what we are also here for you in the Cadre sphere trying to give you a little bit more help, a little bit more support, help you build a community. So when you're sitting there hand I had a rough day, you know some other people that are like, I am here with you friend and we will walk alongside you. I will be back Saturday morning at 10am Central. That will be an adventure because in the midst of my comedy through the chaos Saturday edition this weekend, everybody wait for it.

They are putting tickets on sale for San Diego Comic Con. So some nerd friends and I will also be on simultaneously trying to get passes to this wonderful nerd experience in San Diego. So I will be on a zoom meeting on another device watching to see if I'm able to log in and get these tickets. So I am happy to multitask and also spend the day with you as we're talking about reaping benefits of things and the variety of different ways that our Cadre sphere will be helping you navigating the harvest season during the month of October.

So everyone take care of yourselves, be part of this community, keep looking for all of the information that we have to share with you and I will see you back here on Saturday. Be well everyone.