Live AMA Thread With 7 Cups COO Merline Saintil
** Come back tomorrow at 2 PST/ 5 EST **
7 Cups Founder, Glen introduces Merline here!
Date: Thursday, September 6
Time: 5:00 PM EST
Location: FORUMS! I will create the conversation thread on the day of the event!
Submit your questions ahead of time! While this will be a live conversation, we invite you to pre-submit your questions here.
Presubmitted question: What are you most excited about with your new role here on 7 Cups?
Presubmitted Question: What brought you to 7Cups?
I'm excited about the opportunity to help millions of people at scale using such an amazing product!
@MerlineSaintil Hi Merline! Welcome! Looking forward to you getting the chance to meet the community. Thanks for being here!
@Kate
Thank you so much! I can't tell you how excited I am to be here!!!
@MerlineSaintil Glad to have you onboard.
@MerlineSaintil Hey Merline! Welcome to the community
We are glad to have you here!
@MerlineSaintil
Welcome! What a great answer, the numbers are amazing!
@MistyMagic
And we are only getting started :-)!!!
Have you considered participating in sub communities, discussions and or events?
@soulsings
Yes, I would be happy to be a cheer leader to support the amazing work that you do everyday! Please connect with the community management team if there is anything specific that you'd like to me to do.
@MerlineSaintil Yay! We love welcoming new individuals to discussions or events around the community! We'd love for you to join the discussions or the sub-communities! It's always amazing to see the CM team come and hang out with us
@MerlineSaintil
Help in the Mindfulness Forums
Mindfully wiggle
@MerlineSaintil, glad that you joined us
I don't want to spam the thread and make an amazing wall of Bear - though of course that is a wonderful idea I'll save it for another day - so I'll do a block post!
Hii it's nice to meet you I'm bear 
It's nice to have you in our community!
Why did you choose this type of job as your career?
What do you specifically like about 7 cups?
What brought you here/ how did you find 7 cups?
Can you come and say hi in our amazing self-harm recovery sub-communtiy for recovery month found HERE
What's your favourite recovery quote?
Do you prefer cookies or pizza?
Will you try to pop by some group support rooms to see what we get up to? 
@bear228
WOW that is a lot of questions!!
@Laura
What can I say I've a buzzing mind and a passion for rainbow colours! It works perfectly.
Oh I have one more question if I'm allowed to ask this! Why does she have a member account and not a listener one do adminy people not have listener accounts these days?
@bear228
Fantastic questions! To answer just a few of them:
- I prefer pizza over cookies!
- I came to 7 Cups to help scale this wonderful product to help millions more. And I'm incredibly proud of what this amazing team has built.
- And I've always loved technology and so to have the opportunity to use it to help a mission-driven organization was very compelling!
@MerlineSaintil
Wecome ! 
Rebecca
@RebeccaSinclairEdDLMHC
Thank you for checking in!!
@Laura well of course 
What single piece of advice would you give to a 7 Cups listener?
@Suranta
I greatly appreciate your time and dedication as a lister. My advice would be to continue helping others and giving back in such a meaningful way.
@MerlineSaintil
So in other words you have absolutely no idea what a listener
@MerlineSaintil
How important do you find mindfulness in respect of healing?
@amiablePeace77
Peace wonderful answer!!
I will come back and read some of your answers I have to get ready for a mindfulness discussion!
Nice to meet you Merline!
@MerlineSaintil Welcome to our wonderful community! Hopefully you've enjoyed what you've seen of it so far. Has anything surprised you about 7Cups thus far?