Comedy Through The Chaos

Hello and happy Saturday to all of you. My voice just cracked a little bit. I think I should get my beverage. Hello, Good morning everyone. I am Ms. Shannon and this may be a surprise comedy through the Chaos Parenting edition for you because I was remiss in scheduling that I would be joining you this morning, but my brain was with you. Although my preemptive scheduling skills did not let you know that I was gonna be here. Hello Mel Myers. Good to see you in the chat. Hello. Speak Wonder. I am so glad that you are here.

Hel. Hello everybody. As I was saying. Hello kender. I am Ms. Shannon. You can hear my adorable 17 year old kiddo who happens to be high supports on the autism spectrum over there. Hello Jules. I know I didn't put it on the schedule. I will do that after we get off this live. I will schedule it for the rest of the month because I do plan to join you on Thursdays. And thank you. I'm glad your calendar knew I was here. My personal calendar knew I was supposed to be here. Speak Wonder and Jules and Mel Myers and Kendall.

I plan to do that and normally I'm pretty good at scheduling ahead here in the app so they know I'm gonna be here. But I did not and this will tell you how prepared I was. I actually have a pile of of things that I'm going to share with you today throughout our comedy through the Chaos Parenting edition and always happy to join you and give you a variety of information that hopefully thank you. Because sometimes I don't got myself Kathy, you know that. So it's always good to have you guys have my back.

So for to explain, I often open these lives. Hello Anila, Good to see you. I normally often open these lives with the same similar collection of words where Hi everybody, I'm Ms. Shannon Paul. I'm a comedian, corporate speaker, voice actor, MC that hubs out of the great state of Minnesota. And I happen to be the proud parent of an adorable 17 year old kiddo who happens to be high supports on the autism spectrum. So I say that a lot. Hello Angelo Kidd, good to see you. And so I rattle that off so that you have the foundation of who I am and a lot of the lens of how I join you.

But I don't often dismantle each of those individual things. And so the one that I'm going to talk about today is the fact that I'm a benefit auctioneer. And so as a benefit auctioneer a lot of what I get to do is being a fundraising MC and a Fundraising consultant for a variety of nonprofits and small organizations as they are building supports for their programs, organizations, communities, those things. So I'm very happy that that's part of what I got to do. And that came into play a few years ago when I was reexamining the way that I use my skillset as a comedian, as a speaker, as these other things, and needing something or feeling the need, have something that did more than only had people laugh as a distraction from things like how else can I use my comedy for other things?

O. and he's having a good morning, so he is cared for. And also using my art to make the lives of other people better. And when I said that part of that mission statement, I didn't necessarily know how I plan to manifest that, but it has informed the way that I do a lot of the things I do in my career. And that led to. I was emceeing a variety of different events for, as I said, nonprofits and organizations. And one of my friends who is a benefit auctioneer was like, you should go get your benefits auctioneer's license.

You're already here. And there's a lot of organizations that could benefit from you being their auctioneer. And so last night was a good example of that. So last night I was the benefit auctioneer, the fundraising MC for an event called Fashion Fest. And so Fashion Fest was held here in the Twin Cities, and it supports our M Health Fairview Masonics Children's Hospital. So something that is near and dear to my heart. I appreciate everything that they do at the Masonic Children's Hospital. There have been certain things that my son has benefited from the care there.

And also one of their companion organizations, the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain, because of where he's on the autism spectrum, we've had the opportunity to benefit from all of the care that they have there as well. So I was happy when I got the call to do this event last night. The thing that I love about a lot of these events is not only do I get to. I'm glad he's happy. And Sonny, we were on a group call. Anila was on this call, and one of the people said they watched one of my lives and I'm taking on the side.

I'll get back to the story. They were saying that they really appreciated the fact that it was chaotic because it made them feel less alone. I'm like, oh, yeah, if you want chaos, join us in our abode. Who knows what kind of chaos, but today it is happy chaos. So it's gonna be a good day. So he's hanging out. His adaptive personal trainer will be here an hour so they can efficiently get him up the car. So thank you. So use my art to care for my son and make the lives of other people better. And I do encourage everybody to sit down and go through the process of you as a company and to come up with that mission statement because it helps you inform what you do.