The surprises continue to roll on in the NFL for the 2022 season week seven full of it the Jets five and two The Giants six and one the Commanders 23 to 21 victory over the Green Bay Packers Which we're gonna be talking about those two quarterbacks for the Packers and the Commanders as well as a new quarterback change With the Indianapolis Colts. Hello, everyone. Welcome to a brand new episode of time to football My name is Hasan Khan the host of this channel that we like to call Time to football. Glad you guys are able to join us. My hot brunette wife is off screen right now I was waiting for her to say it, but she did not so but you guys can you guys can actually join us in the chat while We are premiering this every Tuesday night 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time in the chat interact with us I'll be joining you guys as well. 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I have so much fun every Sunday Talking with the guys throughout the duration of the games and oh my gosh What a Sunday it was this past week for week seven the surprise games like we mentioned I'm gonna be talking about with the Packers and the commanders 23 to 21 loss this Packers offense Isn't really getting anything going with Aaron Rodgers under quarterback, but there was also another game There was a surprise outcome with the Carolina Panthers arguably one of if not the worst offense in the NFL today Beating the Buccaneers 21 to 3 Tom Brady and the Bucs said at 3 and 4 and the Packers and Aaron Rodgers Also said at 3 and 4 and it led to a lot of people asking their fan base asking and ourselves even asking Are these two quarterbacks goats quarterbacks? losing Their touch. I mean, it's a fair question to ask with all these teams and the lack of success that they've been having so far in the 2022 season Let's first start off with Aaron Rodgers. We're gonna be talking about both quarterbacks first with Rodgers To kind of put it in perspective of what Rodgers is thinking and I know you got to have the confidence But let's just go ahead and show you what he said Following the loss to the Washington Commanders and it post game conference. Check it out. I'm not I'm not worried about this squad In fact, this might be the best thing for us. Nobody's gonna give us a chance Go on a buffalo and some night football Might be the best thing for us A lot of confidence a lot of confidence ahead of this Probably the toughest game that they're gonna have this season on Sunday night football against the Buffalo Bills And I mean Rodgers doesn't like the confidence. You shouldn't.  You're the leader of this team as well You want to boost the morale of your teammates in the same sense as Tom Brady? Probably think of the same thing. Hey, we're not gonna be fazed by this loss We need to get some things together. We need to get this offense rolling But we're not fazed by this Let's first start off with Rodgers and the question is are these two losing their touch first with Rodgers Last week against the commanders 23 to 35 completed 194 yards and two touchdowns zero interceptions sounds great careful with the ball That's awesome But that actually sounds very similar to the stat line of Taylor Honecke I know Honecke threw an interception early on but Right around the same amount of yards two touchdowns for Honecke as well And the whole season the Packers offense Just hasn't really been getting anything going 11 touchdowns and three interceptions for this season. That's awesome. But 228 yards per game Is what Rodgers is averaging So you got to ask yourself like why is this Packers offense not moving downfield and it's a lack of weapons It really is. I think we all knew that going into the season I know that the loss of Devonte Adams was a big loss as well and with the Packers sitting at three and four can they make I mean, I'm gonna say the postseason at this point I mean because right now if the playoffs were to start today, you'd be missing the wildcard spot Tom Brady on the other hand eight touchdowns One interception on the season, which is a phenomenal touchdown the interception ratio averaging 277 yards per game and I think he's on pace actually to put up 4700 yards for the season. So I mean, it's not like Tom Brady is playing terrible In any sense looking at a broad perspective. Will these teams make the postseason the Packers Starting off with them and I'm gonna give you the bad news I'm gonna say no, I don't think the Packers make the Postseason this year. I know that Aaron Rodgers would tell me r e lax Because that season when they started off kind of slow and then kind of pick things up if people were already riding them off No, they're not making the playoffs This year is a little bit different. There's no indication that this season I mean, we've had a large sample size seven games To see if there was going to be any sort of improvement for the Packers No indication no indication whatsoever of these Packers improving and I'll go ahead and point out the the schedule For the next five or six weeks or so for the Packers They've got the bills the Lions the Cowboys Titans Eagles Rams Sixth straight games you face four tough defenses the bills the Cowboys the Eagles I guess you could say the Rams to include them in there And so far this season when they go up against a tough defense this offense isn't able to do What the Chiefs have been doing the Chiefs They're match-up proof pretty much they can put up numbers. They can score down the field Regardless of what the defense says they did it against the bills They did it against the 49ers for the Packers not showing that so if they lose those four games And when the other three against the Lions Uh and the Titans or I should say the other two They're sitting at five and eight at that point And the best shot at that point instead of making a wildcard spot would be to win the NFC north And that's highly unlikely with the Minnesota Vikings sitting at five and one just coming off a buy Huge match-up against the Arizona Cardinals this weekend So it's not looking optimistic For the Green Bay Packers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I'm going to say yes It's not really that they're depending on this but Just because of the technicality of them being in the NFC south It's pretty much a given that they're going to be in because the closest competition that the buccaneers have The Atlanta Falcons sitting at three and four and they're I mean better than what we thought but they're very hit or miss this year So, I mean just because of technicalities Yeah, the buccaneers, but if they had some pretty tough competition in the south, I'm going to say no I'm going to say no as well So the buccaneers make it in the playoffs Uh, or the buccaneers make it in to the postseason for the Packers and their playoff hopes I don't think so. I don't think so, but I encourage you guys to leave your comments down below. Let me know your thoughts What do you think of the Green Bay Packers for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and most especially for Brady and Rogers. Are they losing their touch? We talked about the Green Bay Packers losing to the Washington commanders 23 to 21 And the quarterback at helm for the other side was Taylor Heineke Now this brings up an interesting question with Taylor Heineke Will he be getting the nod over Carson Wentz for the remainder of the season? Heineke or Wentz? To pretty much put it simply Who do you think has the better shot of helping the Washington commanders win? I know this seems kind of crazy to think about it, but let me go ahead and just Dive into the numbers real quick and kind of explain what's going on with best with both quarterbacks For Heineke this past weekend against the Green Bay Packers 20 of 33 completed 201 yards passing two touchdowns One interception started off kind of slow. I think it went 0 for 3 open 0 and 4 through a pick six But he was eventually able to come back and help this team win He's eight and eight as a Washington commanders Starter his record for his entire career is eight and nine 47 career winning percentage doesn't sound that Great, but for Carson Wentz. I mean he's two and four as a commander starter and he has a career winning percentage of 51 so it's not that far off from Heineke and Wentz as far as winning games For Heineke, this is the key note that I want to point out He has a fourth quarter comeback In every five games that he's played for Carson Wentz He has a fourth quarter comeback come back and every eight games that he plays simply put Heineke is a winner At this point with the commanders being three and four. I know they're still kind of in it Heineke should be in consideration to be the starting quarterback moving forward And there's a key note that I want to point out and I'm not entirely sure on on all the details of this But in the trade clause for the Indianapolis Colts and the Washington commanders. I believe for Carson Wentz If he plays a certain amount of snaps for the season I think it's like 75 snaps or something like that Which he may not hit with his finger injury, honestly But if he's given the chance to hit that Then that pick turns from a third round pick to a second round pick And then you got to be thinking if you're a Washington commanders, uh, we're seeing what we're liking in Heineke Maybe we just sit Wentz out for a game or two Maybe for the remainder of the season so that we don't have to pay a second round pick Just because it's not worth it at that point So I know you want to put in Wentz because you traded for him He's the quarterback in the franchise quarterback. You want to see what he got with them I understand but if you're in a position where you're fighting for a playoff spot It comes down to week 14 week 15 week 16 and Wentz just isn't looking good I mean you may want to pull something that the New England Patriots did I mean in much better fashion than they did against Chicago Bears, but Maybe the same thing with Mack Jones Bailey Zappie put in Taylor Heineke over Carson Wentz just because Heineke so far Is winning games if Wentz continues to lose put in Heineke. See what you got. Why not? Uh, leave your comments down below. I'd love to hear your thoughts on on whether Heineke should get the nod over Wentz or vice versa You think Wentz should finish out the season once he comes back from that finger injury The next topic we want to talk about if we want to continue on the train of quarterbacks that have been replacing These veterans, how about Matt Ryan getting benched? in the favor of Sam Ellinger Someone that has never made an NFL start in his career Is going to be making his first start against the Washington commanders You thought that it was going to be a revenge game for Carson Wentz Instead it goes in the favor of Ellinger versus Heineke this weekend So who is Sam Ellinger for you guys that don't know he's 24 years old He played at Westlake High School, which is the same high school as Drew Brees Nick Foles Justin Tucker as well. So a lot of NFL pedigree comes from that school He had a lot of D1 offers from Florida State, Oklahoma State and even Texas Tech eventually settling With Texas and at Texas He has the most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in a single season with 16 And he has the most consecutive passing attempts without an interception 308 passes attempted straight Without a single pick that was also in 2018 His entire career at Texas his stats 94 passing touchdowns 12 27 interceptions and 33 rushing touchdowns Now you could think he's a scam scrambling quarterback, but at the NFL combine he ran a 4.8 440 yard dash Not really Lamar Jackson kind of Athleticism there, but still has the legs to get inside of the end zone Then in the NFL he gets drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the sixth round 218 overall He only came in on short downs Fourth and one third and short need to convert use his legs use his mobility use his power Like he did in college to get those rushing touchdowns Let's use him to convert these downs was utilized a lot last season In relief of Carson wets But it only amounted to three total carries in his NFL career through carries for nine yards Not a single attempted pass outside of preseason play Until this weekend week eight where he gets his first NFL start Frank Reich Benching Matt Ryan Who's suffering through a grade two separated shoulder or shoulder injury as to say maybe not separation But once Matt Ryan comes back healthy They're gonna stick with Ellinger and the plan is to start them for the remainder of the season broad perspective Andrew Luck. I've never seen anyone that has Hurt an entire franchise with their retirement More than Andrew luck has not his fault. I'm not saying that it's his fault that he didn't like oh you put the Colts in the bats like You know, that's on him a player's decision or retire. That's a personal decision You know, you can't blame him for that, but You know, I'm just saying I've never seen a team suffer so much for years Afterwards like it's been what how long has it been four years Since Andrew luck has retired And they still haven't been able to find that franchise quarterback Ellinger is going to be the seventh quarterback After Andrew luck or since Andrew luck has retired That's crazy. Jacobi Prasad has come in Carson Wentz Matt Ryan all these experiments have come in God They failed For Frank Reich, this was his handpicked guy. This is what he wanted You could say Carson Wentz was his handpicked guy as well It was an offensive coordinator Back in Philadelphia when they won the Super Bowl But Matt Ryan was also another perfect replacement. Like what went wrong here It boils down Jim Erse and I have a feeling That Frank Reich has to listen to what Jim Erse the owner is saying Because Erse was the reason that Carson Wentz Left town why they traded them Because Erse in the last two games of the 2021 season saw what Wentz was doing and said I don't like this. This guy's never going to lead us to a Super Bowl Even though we're nine and eight in the stat sheet might say 27 touchdowns to only seven interceptions That's cool. But he blew our playoff chances We need to get rid of them before it's way too late get some draft picks out of them got rid of them Then Frank Reich says, okay. I listened to you, Mr. Erse. Let me bring in Matt Ryan What do you think of that? Oh, yeah, I love it. Let's do it Has been working out Erse says Benchum nine touchdowns nine interceptions Benchum Put in Sam Ellinger So the Colts franchise it's in a lot of Trouble I want to say For Ellinger. Is this the best spot to be in for a team that's three three and one and going through a lot of Offs offensive struggles. I should say Is this the best spot to be in Not really but I mean this is the best opportunity for him To get his first NFL start against the defense and the Washington commanders that has given up some pretty big plays It's not like they're throwing him in the fire like Kenny Pickett was and his first NFL start against the Buffalo bill So hopefully this one It goes around to to being a little bit more helpful for him He has a little bit more ease against the Washington commanders. Hopefully And for Ellinger, I'm excited to see what they have I can't really tell you to be honest with you like whether this is a good move or a bad move I haven't really seen him play to be honest. I mean It's just one of those let's just see what we got and go from there But it is kind of surprising for a team. I know that they lost to the Tennessee Titans twice and Currently the Titans are in first place for the AFC south It's kind of interesting though that you would bench a veteran quarterback In favor of a young quarterback when you're not that out of it For an AFC playoff spot forget the AFC south like the wild card like you're still in contention for that Like why are we doing this move right then and there? I don't know. Maybe at practice. They love what they saw from Ellinger I'm not entirely sure. Maybe it's like the reports were saying or say really truly Doesn't want to blow this season like he like winced it last season if you want to say that it was blown I don't know So I'm excited to see what happens. I'm excited to see if He works out in the NFL for you, Texas fans. I would love to hear your your thoughts and your comments Do you think that Ellinger? Is capable of being a starting quarterback in the NFL is capable capable of being a winning quarterback Let me know your thoughts comment down below And to wrap up this episode what we like to do is just go through each game for week eight And just kind of give you our thoughts And just key notes on those games. So let's go ahead and start our week eight preview with The Baltimore Ravens and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers opening up week eight Thursday night football. So the Ravens are coming off that Finally, finally, they were able to close out a game where it was just so close 23 to 20 victory Against the Cleveland Browns. I know that Lamar Jackson and Mark Andrews weren't able to get anything going But they survived Justin Tucker helped out a lot in that game as well And they were able to beat the uh, Cleveland Browns with the defense making some plays as well for the Bucks We talked about him earlier. Hey, it's Tom Brady on the decline I mean eight touchdowns one interception on pace to throw for 4700 yards, but like, uh, I mean This Bucks team isn't looking the best at three and four If if I want to go ahead and say something right now I know that John Harbaugh and the Ravens like they're my afc north favorites To to win that division on the Bengals have been looking good But I still got the Ravens winning that just just because of the schedule coming up But this game for the Bucks, I I have a feeling this is going to be like that vengeance kind of game And I think they're going to be coming back. I think they're they're Having a good chance. They have a good chance of winning this game Then moving on to sunday. We've got the Broncos and the Jaguars This was filmed on Tuesday. So we don't know the status of Russell Wilson just yet We don't know whether he's going to be playing Uh against the Jaguars I can go ahead and tell you if he was so close to playing against the new york jets with that hamstring injury I'm pretty sure that he's going to be coming back Against the jacksville Jaguars I mean, I thought he would be he would have been recovered because he said that he has that wolverine blood Oh my gosh, so many cringy moments from Russell Wilson, but let the man be let the man just be happy You know doing his subway commercials and Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Unlimited For the jacksville Jaguars, I mean you could say that trade for James Robinson or trading away James Robinson That's a bad trade. Why would you trade away James Robinson for essentially nothing? Well You got to understand how contracts work because this was the last year on James Robinson's contract and travesy tn Is their guide they had no intention of resigning Robinson who's going to be an impending free agents So might as well just get something out of him rather than just letting him walk for nothing And they got a fifth round in the sixth round pick. So It's something it's something it's not the best But it's something and I don't want to say that they're in a full rebuild mode But they are two and five AFC south has not that out of reach I know that things can just turn around you can turn your season around you can make a water card spot I get it But also at the same time they're still looking forward to the future and I don't think that trading James Robinson was a bad move But it is travesy tn's time to shine panthers at falcons nfc south matchup the panthers coming off that Amazing victory the now two and five against the temp of babe buccaneers And then the falcons, I mean, they're a surprise team In the NFL for the season. I mean last week they kind of fell to the Cincinnati bingo was very talented bangles as well. So I mean no You know no shame in that but three and four falcons versus two and five panthers Uh, you got to get Kyle Pitts and drake london going I know that's like the conversation that the falcons offense and The whole fan base has been having like what are we doing with these guys for the panthers post christian mccaffrey trade Uh, they've got something They've got something with a run game. I mean the tape of babe buccaneers defense is pretty good in the run game. So I mean with hubbard getting 63 yards on the on the ground and then Deontay foreman, I think it was a hundred and fifteen hundred and eighteen yards something like that As well with them breaking off for long runs as well hubbard for a long touchdown foreman with that 60 yard game that he had They got something they just want to see what they have maybe one of these guys emerge as a potential Running back for the future and then honestly like if the panthers really want to make this move They may have to like resign them, but like if they want to trade for a running back, maybe someone like cam makers Who's Looking for a new opportunity fresh opportunity.  So he's going to be looking for a massive contract extension But if the panthers are willing to do that and create Or have another foundational piece for their team, they might might just do that I can go ahead and tell you that reports are out there saying that brian burns and dj more Those guys jc horn as well the panthers view them as foundational pieces. They are not going to be traded Prior to the november 1st trade deadline The bears and the cowboys the bears coming off that exciting and upset victory against the new england patriots 33 to 14 and the cowboys wasn't pretty, but it worked out beat the detroit lines 24 to 3 Dak after a week of getting adjusted in the offense getting back into it two games so far this season two games that have not looked great at all I think this week is still kind of You know the bear's defense is kind of tough But I think this week it just kind of gets back to normal dak prescott gets in the groove of things and the Cowboys offense I don't want to see that they're going to be explosive But they're going to be a little bit back to normal for the chicago bears Like we said coming out that upset victory their defense really showed up in their run game Like that's been the biggest strength For this team on offense passing game one of the worst teams in the league But run game what you got with david montgomery and cleo herbert and justin fields as well design qb runs I'm loving what I see against the cowboys and their run defense is going to be pretty tough But uh should be an exciting game to watch uh the miami dolphins versus the detroit lions So two took a bylo returning in his first game with the dolphins and winning that game 16 and 10 after an incredible last minute interception game ceiling interception two who came back led With his head first in a couple of runs uh in a lot of people were concerned for that but he's okay He's going to be starting this weekend against the detroit lions Uh, they're hoping to get that momentum back on track and then keep an eye out on mike issiki the tide end His 10.9 million dollar Contract that's the cap that teams have to take for this season It's kind of a turnoff for some teams that are interested in the trade market But they are listening to offers for mike issiki the dolphins Since week one have been listening to trade offers for issiki who's playing on a franchise tag They have no intention of signing him long term I mean some teams that could be interested Maybe the Tampa Bay Buccaneers that would be a good spot for issiki uh You know some other teams need a tight end as well, but if you're a contender you Need a tight end. You need an offensive weapon like issiki plays 92 of his uh Plays in the slot or out wide like he's running routes all the time So he's he's going to be a good exciting weapon for the detroit lions. They didn't look good last week against the cowboys That's okay. Y'all just hope it's not in that game I'm on our st. Brown is suffering through a concussion, but hopefully swift It's coming back this weekend, which will help out a lot for the dolphins Uh, so it's kind of like etn where What they do on a per touch basis is just so exciting Like swift can only get like 10 15 touches a game, but he makes every single one of those touches count So swift is an exciting player The arizona cardinals versus the minnesota vikings the vikings are coming off a biowake They are five and one the arizona cardinals. Hey Did not have a deficit to come back from after halftime This past thursday against the new orleans sains. They stepped up on defense But they still gave up a lot of yards Which is trouble for cure cousins and that minnesota vikings defense who had or offensive should say They had an extra week to prepare For the arizona cardinals. I do feel like this is going to be a high scoring game We don't know the status yet of james connor, you know, benjamin Who really stepped up and looks like he's an rb1 for that team I don't know. We'll have to see how that running game is going to work out for the arizona cardinals The raiders versus the saints the saints like we mentioned falling to the arizona cardinals on thursday night football the raiders in a victory Of a battle of one-win teams against the houston texans. They were able to come out on top Now they have two wins on the season coming off their biowake So going into week eight March on ladmore should be back I know the saints have been giving up a lot of big plays in the secondary as of late However, don't expect it to happen march on ladmore could be returning could be shadowing divante adam su in that battle should be a good matchup to watch could be 50 50 But don't expect like a high scoring output for either team actually If anything the the raider secondary has been giving up a lot of big plays and James winston could be back healthy in favor of annie dalton who was almost close To being the qb2 behind james winston this past week The new angle pages versus the new york jets jets are five and two one of the surprise teams of the NFL who just traded like we mentioned earlier before for james robertson following that injury to brice hall This is going to be a great fill in Uh, robertson shows no signs of slowing down But i am interested in hearing your thoughts on why they decided to trade for james robertson When players like alexander madison was still out there I feel like on the trade market madison is the best running back that is available Was available. Maybe the vikings were just asking for too high of a price I get that I understand but I mean james robertson and his first Two games three games looked explosive was the starting running back until last week against the giants had zero carries On the grounds But they're just like what they have and the patriots bailey zappy is a zappy hour Is it mac jones like return of the mac? Which one is it zappy hour return to the mac? I don't understand what's going on with the patriots. They have a little bit of a qb controversy They liked what they saw on zappy the last two games outside of the chicago bear's game. I should say And even when zappy came in like against the bears He showed some sort of life at least like to coby mires touchdown Devonte parker. We liked what they saw with him, but uh like I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to see what happens with that qb controversy Pittsburgh Steelers versus the philadelphia eagles the battle of pennsylvania the the steelers with kenny pickett Haven't been able to win some games lost to the dolphins recently in sunday night football Then the eagles coming off their bi-week looking more dangerous than ever I it's not really much to talk about here except It's gonna be tough for the pittsburgh steelers. That's all I can really say The tennessee titans versus the houston texans as afc south matchup The titans currently lead the afc south the texans still are looking to win more than one game Like they got to get things going at this point Nico collins one of davis mills best threats young threats And the offense is dealing with a knee issue. So that's gonna be a big loss if you missed us some time But uh for the titans, I mean what mike vrabel is doing I think daner lofsky said on twitter two candidates for Coach of the year this year should be brian dabel and mike Vrabel like those two guys what they are doing is and and I could not agree more like Such a great job. I kevin o'connell. I would throw in there as well But and and obviously nick siriani, but those two guys as well deserve a lot of praise The washington commanders versus the in-app. It's cool. It's like we mentioned earlier This is not going to be revenge game for course and wins. He's going to be out Matt ryan is going to be out as well And honestly, this could be the last start for matt ryan the last week Was the last start i'm going to say for his nfl career Probably at this point unless he like jumps around to other teams or sam ellinger just does really bad matt ryan comes in uh, but i mean Being signed to be an nfl starter. I don't think that's going to be happening in the future But we're excited to see what happens. I mean wash commanders coming off that Victory against the green bit packers and the colts Want to rebound from that 19 to 10 loss against the titans The san francisco 49ers versus the la rams remember the first time when this game happened on monday night football It was brutal. It was brutal for the rams and weren't able to get anything going alex alan robinson like he is every week Was a note show They're not just they're just not throwing his way cooper cup. It seems like he's the only best part of that offense But the 49ers this time around are nursing some injuries on defense so if there's any opportunity for the rams to really step it up and Just grab a hold of the nfc west or at least compete to be one of the best teams in that division This is the week. This is such a crucial week for the la rams for the 49ers Trading for christian mccafrey and the limited 21 snaps that he had he looked explosive had 63 yards total and You would think at this point that they're going to be using him in a full like playing 90 of snaps or more uh kind of role For the 49ers, uh the next game the new york giants versus the seattle seahawks the seahawks Are coming off a big victory against the la chargers who are now on a by week alongside kansas city And the seahawks have a future franchise running back and kenneth walker like that run game is looking explosive dk metcalf metcalf Avoided a major knee injury, but he was still carted off. So that's something to monitor For the giants six and one a very good story this season and what brian dabel is doing is is so incredible Obviously, like i said like my favorite to win coach of the year for sure and They're just going to continue to keep things rolling. Hopefully that defense if they step it up against the seattle seahawks Sunday night football against the green bay packers and the Buffalo bills the bills are coming off A by week how to extra week to prepare for the green bay packers the packers offense can't get anything going out of the Aaron roger said that he's confident. He's not concerned at all, but You're facing one of the better defenses than the nfl like this should be concerning In some sort of case or some sort of level I should say And then finally Monday night football between the Cincinnati bingles and the cleveland browns afc north match-up battle of ahio The browns following 20 to 23 against the ravens last week for the bingles Yeah, man. I mean they just The last couple of weeks they looked really really good like back to their old selves Like jamar chase has really stepped it up. Don't count them out They could very well be in contention to make the division round maybe in the afc championship and do I even say Super Bowl 57 Come february and that is just a little bit of a week eight preview if you want your weekly picks on who I think is going to win and You know spread picks as well make sure you guys follow this account follow this youtube channel subscribe and we come out with those videos every thursday afternoon But that's going to do it for this episode of time to football I encourage you guys to like I said hit that subscribe button But also give me a follow on twitter as well at it's a song con I'm loving the comments and the interactions and engagements that i'm getting so far from the time of foot football followers and I encourage you guys to hit that follow button interact with me I love to chat with the guys throughout the duration of the week But leave your comments down below with the topics that we talked about with sam ellinger With taylor heineke with erin rodgers and don brady. Are they losing their touch or not? With all that said thank you guys so much for watching this video And i'll see you next week. Take care


What I'm going to say is so simple, but it's something that we forget so often, including myself, and it is this. You can achieve anything you want to achieve, anything that you set your mind and heart to achieve if you just do it step by step. But the thing is, why are we so scared of doing something? We're scared of doing something because we are looking at the whole project or we're looking at this huge chunk of the project and we scare ourselves because we can't see how we can get from here to there without a lot of danger, without a lot of risk, without making mistakes or making risks. But if we realize that any project or any next step can be broken down into very, very small steps, baby steps, small, continuous improvement, kaizen, if we can just do that, we can literally do anything. Here's an example. There's a guy named Navin Jane who is not a rocket scientist, but he wanted to go to the moon. And so he step by step just started to learn a little bit more and a little bit more about rocket science. He started to learn what was needed. He didn't become a rocket scientist, but he just learned just enough to know what kinds of people he needed. And then he did gradually found people to make connections, to get to the right technicians, to get to the right financiers. And now he has a company that within the next few years, they're close to going to the moon. Talk about something that is a huge intimidating project. Going to the moon is a great example. There's a phrase called moonshot. Moonshot is shooting for the moon. Literally going to the moon is the moonshot. So what is your moonshot? What project is so inspiring to you? Something that you said, if I could do this, maybe it's simply your authentic business. If you could create an authentic business that supported you financially very well, where you are doing things that you feel so meaningfully contributing to other people, that's a great vision. And the truth is, you can absolutely get there if you take it step by step. So let me share with you the five steps to use this very simple system. Step one is to brainstorm and write down. This is the key. It's so important to write it down, because if you don't write down what the next doable steps are, your mind immediately goes to the entirety of the vision, the whole project, or it goes to some obstacle that you can immediately think of, because that's how the human brain works. We look for obstacles and dangers and risks faster and more easily than we look for what is good and what is positive. So you've got to write down what are the next doable steps. And speaking of writing it down, of course, I wrote down these steps. So I'm going to just look at my notes here. And that's one of the things that I've trained myself to do that I really recommend more people do is write things down more than you try to remember things.  I look at those checklists every single day. I've not done it for years. So I've literally looked at those lists thousands of times, and I still look at it every day, because I don't want to have to memorize it. Now I do make some tweaks every couple of months, I'll make some tweaks to the checklists. But I use my brain for creativity. I use my brain for intuition, for pattern recognition, for relationship. I don't use my brain to remember things. Everything is written down for me. So all right, what do you want to achieve? Write down, okay, the specific steps needed to get there. Actually step zero, you know, even before step one is to write down what is the vision you want to achieve. Okay, write that right at the top. And then underneath that is what are the steps you know that are needed to get there? Just whatever you know. It doesn't have to be in order. And it doesn't have to be the perfect right step. Okay, all we're doing is brainstorming right now. And just writing down what you know. If I want to get to the moon, I need to figure out how to build a rocket. I need to get the financing for the rocket. I need to figure out where the launch pad is going to be. I mean, literally, you write down what you know. I mean, I know nothing about going to the moon. But that's an example. Find the launch pad, find how to build a rocket, find the people to finance this, you know, for example, three steps. Okay, three steps. Just write down what you know for now. Step one. Step two is based on what you know, reorder the steps. Okay, reorder the steps. All right. And actually, it's funny, I'm making changes as I realized this. The second step actually is to write, look at the steps that you've written down. And is there anything that's too large of a step for you? So for example, build a rocket is too large of a step for me. I don't know how to do that. So maybe my next step to build a rocket is to Google how to build a rocket. I can do, I can Google something. Okay, I don't have to scare myself with, oh my God, how am I going to build a rocket? I'm just going to Google, I can Google how to build a rocket. That's doable. Right? So, and then maybe after Googling how to build a rocket is, you know, well, I don't know what's after that, but that's the first step because and that's really important. As you take each step, more will be revealed to you. More will be revealed to you. Okay, so step one, step zero, write down what the vision is. Step one is to write down whatever steps you already know. Step two is to write down the smaller steps for any step that scares you. Okay, for any step that scares you, write down what the smaller steps are. Okay, and then step three is to reorder, to look at all the steps you have now and to put things in order. Okay, well, the launch pad probably not going to be the first thing. First thing might be to find some people who will finance the project. Okay, so Google how to crowdfund a rocket launch. Okay, or something like that. Right? So maybe that's that's number one. And after I do that, then I do this and then I do that. And you write it down, you reorder it now. Okay, step three is to reorder step four. And by the way, if you don't know how to figure out what the smaller step is, you can always Google, you can always Google it. You can always go to a supportive Facebook group and ask, Hey, I'm looking to do this step. What would you suggest are smaller steps there? And there are lots of Facebook groups that will be helpful to you. Okay, another idea is to just give it a rest. If you've been brainstorming a while, you might just need to rest, go do something else.  So go rest, go do something else. Okay, your subconscious will be working on it. So when you come back, you'll have a fresh energy, fresh perspective on how to brainstorm the next steps. Or you could use both of these. You could basically Google something first, and then post in the Facebook group, you know, Hey, how do I do something? And then go rest, and then come back and check what the Facebook thread is. And you know, so you can kind of combine these things to figure out what the next doable steps are. And finally, finally, as you take each, as you take each step forward, okay, as you take each step forward, embody what your higher values are, what your higher truth is, because it's, because everything that we do is really for our personal development. It's really for our spiritual growth. That's my opinion, maybe I, or you could say it in a secular way, everything you do, build your character. So instead of doing something with with a fixation or an obsession about the result, okay, this is the thing, instead of obsessing about the result, bring your higher value to the step you're about to take. So I'll share with you a couple of mantras that helped me do this. So I might say to myself, step by joyful step, step by gentle step, step by loving step. And as I do everything every day, okay, I bring that kind of love, joy and gentleness to to the next action. And as I as I do this, what happens is it makes my work more sustainable, personally fulfilling and sustainable, whereas some people are working themselves to the ground and they become burned out or, you know, I don't want that for you. I want you to enjoy, to enjoy every step you take along the way, because then you're much more likely to keep taking the steps needed to finally get there. You've got to learn to enjoy work, whatever the work is, whether it's bookkeeping, whether it's taxes, I don't like any of either of those things, but I learned to bring breath, I learned to bring joy to everything, the things I don't like to do, okay. Marketing is not necessarily the most fun thing to do in the world. Well, I've tried to make it fun, but but I bring joy to it, you know, instead of fear instead of, oh my god, will this work? No, just step by step, joyful, gentle, loving step. All we're doing this is for spiritual growth, anyway. All we're doing this is for character development, anyway. We're just using the steps as a stage for our character growth, our spiritual growth. And so, and so you'll grow personally as you take the steps and by doing this, you're probably going to get to where you want to go. So I hope this is helpful. Remember anything you want to do, you can get there step by step, start by writing it down.   If you write it down, you can see, oh, I can do this. You write down the steps until the steps are so small, you could tell, well, that's easy, I could totally do that. And then you take a gentle step forward, okay. So I hope this helps. And I look forward to seeing what that does for you. I welcome you to comment below. And while I'm waiting for you to do that, I'm going to go ahead and look to see if there are any comments in in the Facebook live video that I'm making right now. Great. And thank you so much, Shweta, Francis, and Captain, for your comments there. Yeah, it's like most people don't like working. And it's natural. It's normal in this world, unfortunately, to not like working. By work, I mean, it's particularly things that you don't naturally enjoy just by itself. But I think the secret of, I think the biggest secret I could leave you with, if I were to die right in this, you know, the next hour, if I could die the next hour, the very, the biggest secret I could leave you with about my life and work is I've learned to enjoy everything that I do, everything that I do, no matter if it's writing a difficult sales page, no matter if it's contacting somebody, you know, I feel scared to contact them, no matter if it's doing technical work that I'm not really cut out for, but I have to do by myself, no matter if it's doing tax taxes that are the most, you know, nobody loves doing, you know, doesn't matter.  And if you learn that secret, you can do anything in life and enjoy it along the way. And my God, that's really what we're all hoping for, isn't it? So I'm not able to see all the comments right here, but I think Heather and Sandy may have commented as well. But yeah, Sandy and Heather, so thank you all. Okay, I'll read your comments later. Oh, actually, Sandy's here says, do you have any suggestions for moving beyond the block of not knowing what to call what you're doing? Oh, my God, so that's a whole other topic. It's, yes, I do have a suggestion for you. I recently made a video about this with my friend, Tad Hargrave. He is a specialist at helping people to clarify their niche. So you can go to my YouTube channel and search, or just go to YouTube and search Tad Hargrave. Well, he has a bunch of videos about this kind of thing himself. So Tad, T-A-D, Hargrave, H-A-R-G-R-A-V-E. His website is marketingforhippies.com. And recently, I did a 90- minute call with him for some of my clients on helping them clarify, figuring out how to talk about what they do. So 90 minutes of coaching, various people, and I took a bunch of notes, and you can see that all in the video. So YouTube, Tad Hargrave, George Cow, and you'll probably find that video. So yes, and Heather is one of my co-working buddies, and I recommend FocusMate.FocusMate.com is a wonderful tool to help you have some accountability to doing the work. All right, anyway, I'll stop the video for now. Thank you all for joining me, and I'll see you next time. All right, take care.


The mouse immune system is remarkably similar to that of humans and in fact much of what we know about immunology comes from a stunning mice.  What my lab seeks to understand is how it is that these cells get mobilized into action. Once we understand this we can also try to manipulate it and that means designing better vaccines against infectious organisms better harnessing the potential of immune cells in the fight against cancer. Unlike all the other organs in the human body the immune system is dispersed and in order to understand that dynamic conversation between these immune cells we need to use a living organism. The beauty of working with mice is that we can look at the interconnectivity of all of these cells in real time in the context of an immune response to infection for example. All the animals used in the search are very well cared for. Our ability to do experiments to understand how the immune system functions depends on the welfare of those animals. Every day is a day of discovery and I am still in awe at the marvel of how the mouse functions as an organism and integrates all of the different aspects of its biology into a living creature and this is really a mirror of what we ourselves really are and that's I think the greatest reward of working with a living creature.


Thank you very much and good morning. My eyes were opened to this field of women peace and security six years ago when I attended a military joint women's leadership symposium and listened to the ambassador at large for global women's issues, share a story about the critical role of Haitian women during humanitarian assistance efforts following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. I remember learning that if relief workers excluded women and only gave the men food and first aid items intended to be on behalf of the entire family, the men tended to hoard the items for themselves and not share with the family. When women were included in the process, children no longer starved or needlessly suffered from injuries and the entire family prospered. That message was so powerful to me that I immediately became perceptive to watching and learning more about how everyone, families, communities, workplaces, and countries can benefit from women's involvement. Shortly after that conference I moved to Washington DC and became the aid for a three-star female admiral. If my eyes weren't already opened to gender related issues, both from my own personal experiences and from discussions at female leadership conferences, then they were definitely open in that job. Having the experience of being a female aid to a female admiral prompted me to research and explore the topic I'm going to share with you today, the unconscious gender bias. Prior to that job, I had been aware of the prevalence of unconscious, hidden, implicit thoughts and actions against females. Like when I'd call a hotel to make lodging reservations for my admiral and the receptionist would ask for his name. And I realized the same concept applies in the corporate world with people associating the male gender to titles such as boss, doctor, CEO. Or like when I would see sailors not giving my admiral the same military courtesies and respect that they would afford male admirals, like not addressing her as ma'am, but yet addressing a male admiral as serf. But before I continue with more specific examples of this unconscious behavior, let me set the foundation for my remarks. Both corporate America and the military have realized that diversity is a defining attribute of a successful organization and that what began as an ethical effort to curb discrimination has led to a key talent management tool which allows businesses to flourish. Organizations across all domains have reshaped, redefined, and published diversity policies to set the tone and advance the belief that creating diverse, inclusive environments is critical to mission success and organizational growth. In fact, just two weeks ago, Admiral Harley, the president of the Naval War College, promulgated his diversity way ahead, communicating that a more diverse and robust workforce whose academic rigor, intellectual capacity, and broad experience base will challenge our students to enhance their critical thinking skills and expand their perspectives. I submit, however, that despite best efforts, there's still a barrier to achieving full diversity efforts, especially in gender, and this is the unconscious gender bias which causes people to inadvertently favor one demographic, males in this case, over another demographic, females. Moving the WPS agenda forward in the next decade, it's a strategic imperative for leaders, both civilian and military, to confront this unconscious gender bias barrier in order to maintain a high quality, diverse workforce where women can thrive and maximize their full potential. Today, I will quickly explain the psychology behind the unconscious gender bias and describe their consequences and limitations, and then I'll more fully offer effective resolutions to the problem. To begin with the psychology behind the unconscious gender bias, even though it's a relatively new concept to me, it goes back to ancient times. So unconscious biases are rooted in our brains as a safety mechanism for humans because in ancient times, beings who were different than humans were perceived as dangerous. The biases are inherent in engraved patterns of brain activity, which prompt our brains to assign tags or characteristics to certain identity groups. So for example, a tag of good or bad may be assigned to an identity group different than the human being, or lazy or productive or intelligent or foolish and so on. In ancient times, fight or flight from a diverse being was a matter of life or death. Now though, we know that diversity is not a matter of life or death. It's a matter of a company or an organization achieving its goals and reaching success. Next, I'll move on to consequences of and limitations from the unconscious gender bias. In general, biases could cause female employees to underperform, which negatively impacts the entire organization. This can be seen in an economic implication. A 2015 McKinsey Global Institute report contends that $12 trillion could be added to the GDP by 2025 by advancing women workforce equality. The unconscious gender bias serves to stim the best efforts of diversity policies. For example, leaders may tend to incorrectly and unconsciously assume that men welcome challenges more than women do. So leaders may develop careers of men more than they do of their female employees. Females sometimes need to display that they want to challenge. They might like to ask for more jobs or tasks or more challenging assignments. Or, if they choose not to ask, then they remain stagnant in their opportunity and they don't grow as an individual and nor do they contribute fully to the organization. Another limitation of unconscious gender biases is a lack of emails and top leadership positions. A June 2017 study reports that only 6.4% of Fortune 500 companies had a female CEO in 2016. Military statistics are similar. In May 2017, study shows that every service organization has 10% or less female representation in flag and general officer wardrobes. This becomes a self-perpetuating problem because females tend to not see other females in top leadership positions and then they thus don't see how they could fit into that organization. And they may assume that climbing the corporate or military ladder is not a viable option for them and they exit the organization. Overall, an unwillingness to challenge practices and procedures that no longer optimize the company's goals will not allow diversity to produce options for new solutions and for new growth. But I have good news. So unconscious biases can be unlearned through recognizing what they are through their existence and through understanding this process and this theory. We can halt our brains from processing in this way. Training and education is always a great first step. One example that I have from a recent classroom setting is one of my Air Force male colleagues in passing made a comment about a commoner who wanted to go fly with his boys. And I just interjected, hey, aren't there any female pilots that the commoner is in charge of? And I tried to do it in a non-threatening way. And he seemed to react well. And so if we are able to challenge events like this when they happen, whether it's in a corporate setting or military setting, then it can educate everybody in the room. In response to the December 2015 Department of Defense decision to allow women to serve in all military roles, the Marine Corps has actively started training their Marines on the unconscious gender bias. They dispatch training teams to all their commands to go over these concepts. The other services can follow suit. Leadership, buy-in, and open dialogue between upper level management and leadership and members of the demographic is very important also. Social media and networking groups such as Facebook groups. I belong to a female Navy officer Facebook group. That's a great solution to this problem also. An example that I saw from the female Navy officer Facebook group has to do with uniforms. And I've shared this example with some other colleagues of mine, and I feel like it's a very impactful example. So the Facebook group brought up the fact that if you walk into a uniform shop, typically the uniform shop displays two models, two mannequins, and typically there's a male uniform on one mannequin and a female uniform on another mannequin. Typically, and anecdotally of course, the male mannequin tends to be wearing a uniform of a higher rank than the female mannequin. And or the male mannequin tends to have several more ribbons and medals than the uniform of the female mannequin. I sincerely don't believe that the worker at the uniform store has consciously decided to make the male mannequin an admiral and the female mannequin a chief. Unconsciously, people assume males achieve a higher rank and achieve more medals and ribbons. Another solution is that leadership needs to view qualities as gender neutral. There was a catalyst study called the Double-Bind Dilemma for Women in Leadership, damned if you do, doomed if you don't, that explains how men are viewed to have leadership qualities seen as taking charge and women are viewed to have leadership qualities seen as taking care. The Double-Bind, the dilemma comes into play that when women do display the desired qualities of taking charge, such as delegating, influencing, problem solving, then they're viewed and penalized as being too masculine. So they're either viewed as being too soft and incompetent or too masculine and unlikable. They're rarely seen as the ideal of being both competent and likable. Another solution is to neutralize human resource processes, such as hiring, promoting, interviewing, and making these processes gender blind. You may have heard of the study that illustrated how gender blind editions helped in orchestra overcome the unconscious gender bias. The blind editions accounted for a 50% increase in the likelihood of a female advancing out of the preliminary round. And of course, promoting mentorship is always a great solution. Both, it's important to have both males and females to mentor junior employees and organizations. Some may argue that there's a challenge to this, that we don't want to disempower men, we don't want to have the male employees feeling excluded or marginalized. However, leaders need to stress that diversity is about inclusion and integration and bringing together both genders to form a better organization for everyone's benefit. In conclusion, leaders need to take this theory and translate it to action in order for organizations to function at their peak and capitalize on increased and sustainable results. Leaders can break the barriers and instill improvements to the workplace by the development, retention, and advancement of women. Finally, organizations will prosper in ways never thought possible through enriched creativity, innovation, and teamwork that diversity brings to the organization. Thank you. Well, I want to say thank you to Mary and the Naval War College and to also our partner, Peace is Loud, for being able to come together and think about piggybacking actually off of the Women, Peace, and Security annual conference to do a consortium that we did yesterday bringing together a few people from across different sectors to talk about women, peace, and security curriculum and higher education and training and to think about the future of the field, basically. And I'm going to just say from the outside, it was the first time that we've ever done anything like this and I'm responsible for reflecting back to you the work of the entire group. So I'm going to apologize in advance if I missed a nuance or an important point and ask my colleagues who were a part of the discussion yesterday to jump in and correct me where I'm leading you astray. The reason why we wanted to focus on looking at curriculum in education, higher education, and training, professional training on women, peace, and security is because our organization realized through many different consultations and conversations that there were a couple of things emerging in the field right now. One is that there are a decreasing number of education and training programs and resources that are happening all over the place, but we're quite disconnected from each other and there's a lack of information sharing due to silos in our own sectors and time and lack of resources to come together and share our work and discuss with each other. And secondly, there is also an increasing demand both by students at all levels who are interested in this content and who see themselves having a future career in this field and also an increasing buy-in from faculty members who are seeing the importance of talking about the issues under the umbrella of working peace and security within their content of whatever courses that they're teaching. In fact, we found it was quite multidisciplinary the interest from faculty members. So we thought this was really an opportunity and time to bring together people from academia, from military, people who are practitioners, people who are scholars to share what they've been doing and just begin a conversation about how we are talking about women peace and security in the classroom and how we're training our future leaders. And this very much fits with the theme of this year's conference of amplifying the women peace and security agenda for the next decade. And I'm just gonna take a minute to step back and tell you a personal story or anecdote which I shared with the group yesterday when we started because this is in a bit of a contrast to the perspective that Riza Brooks presented to us this morning. We went around the room in the beginning and we were asked to give one word about how we felt before starting the conversation and a lot of people said curious and grateful and sometimes a little frustrated with the way things are and sometimes very excited to be in the same room and finally start the conversation. And I cheated a little bit because I had two words actually. It's one phrase because recently, last year I moved to Colorado and I've been exposed to many outdoor activities there and I've noticed there's a preponderance of professional athletes that do a lot of cycling and the Ultraman races and things like that. So I was very curious about this phenomenon and I started reading about it and I learned this term called draft legal and I don't know if there's any cyclists or racers in the audience but I learned that this term when I read it of course because everything in my mind connects to women peace and security, why wouldn't it? Draft legal, the term is when the cyclists are riding together and their momentum increases because the front riders are cycling fast enough that they create a wind pocket and all the other people who are cycling in the same direction can get into that wind pocket, they ride together and in fact their momentum increases and their speed increases. And I felt like when I read that I was like hey, that's what we're doing. That's where we are. We are all working together for many years and continuing into the future picking up the momentum with each other's work in all of these different fields. And so I still feel very inspired and encouraged by the work that we're all doing but I think the advantage of conferences like this and the consortium we did yesterday is to bring people together outside of their silos and to really recognize where we really are in the field not how much we have advanced but to also combine our energies together and find those synergies and alignments and those places where we also disagree and diverge so that we can actually pick up the momentum and really advance this agenda forward. So, given that backdrop the questions that we asked ourselves and really set the day for exploring were three. We asked ourselves what is the current state of Women, Peace, and Security education and training? What resources, what examples can we share from our own work and what is our current work looking like? What is the current state of Women, Peace, and I'm sorry what kind of community of practice can be felt or even strengthened within this group? And third, how can the Women, Peace, and Security and gender analysis be incorporated into other fields of study versus having a separate Women, Peace, and Security course so that we can reach more people with this agenda and content? And so we had a very rich and wide-ranging discussion and many issues and many topics and a lot of work was shared across institutions and across sectors. And what was very interesting in my perspective was that the experience in the Civilian Academy is mirroring the experience in the military education sector and it's also mirroring what's happening in the policy field among practitioners. And so we found about four places where we felt there were both challenges but the challenges represented real opportunities for us to set priorities to actually take action and move the field forward. So the first one, and this is not necessarily in order of priority but taken as a whole, right? So we recognize we have an opportunity to create and strengthen a network that can bridge across disciplines and across schools and sort of create a professionalization of the field through strengthening a network of community practice. A couple of recommendations we had collectively among ourselves was, hey, your institution did a mapping exercise. Your institution did a mapping exercise of the field and of strategies or curriculum. What if we did this collectively? We could start by mapping the field collectively and taking an inventory of strategies that have really worked in different institutions to create a culture that's more open to teaching women peace and security and more open to including gender analysis in a broad range of courses. Second, we recognized the growing demand for this content and as I said at the beginning that is something we already knew in the conversation. But we also talked about a little bit about the reasons for the demand in this content. Why is there an increase? And one is the prevailing political landscape right now which is presented in opportunities and new interest in this field. The other is that there are actually an increasing number of jobs in the policy world and in government that are requiring the skill of gender analysis and some knowledge of women peace and security which is unlike what's happened in the past even a few years ago. So we recognize as a recommendation that there's an opportunity for institutions to develop their own competitive advantage and look at the do a market analysis basically of what are the jobs that are coming up in the field in the future and what are the skill sets that the students really need to have to match that. And it went beyond just training in terms of skill set. It really is about shifting mindset I think as Naila used that term in terms of broadening the lens of what is security and answering the question of why are we teaching women peace and security? What is the point of this? And many of the strongest points I think of Brooks brought up this morning is because we want to succeed in the human world a more peaceful place and have real impact and real people's lives on the ground. Third, we recognized the need for discussing and perhaps agreeing at a minimum to a minimum core competency in women peace and security if there was going to be any credible course or education or training given on women peace and security what would it have to at minimum have? And I'm going to go back to that point later because we did find some agreement which I thought was a huge victory considering we had many different institutions represented and many different points of view represented yesterday along the 25 of us. Fourth, we recognized the opportunity to use multiple narratives and entry points to raising the topic of women peace and security and to getting more buy-in from different sectors. We talked about shifting from advocating gender specific courses to actually integrating into other existing courses by national security or IR theory or heart security and then we also there was also quite an interesting discussion about engaging broader audiences using gender analysis as a power lens or a power framework and from that position talking about masculinities and femininities and the role of masculinity and femininity in conflict and in peace and security is an entry point. And then finally I will say that as a fifth opportunity or challenge that we saw we recognized that there's a real need to connect women peace and security domestically. We have in the US at least have been very outwardly focused in international arena but there's a real opportunity to capitalize on a domestic connection what's happening locally to international agendas and to look at this through a more transnational lens. So the second part of our conversation was actually started to become focused more on let's talk about what teaching women peace and security really would look like what is the minimum core competency for any sector really, whether you're teaching a college student, a graduate student or the soldier that's going to go out into Afghanistan what do they at the minimum need to know and again we had a very rich discussion very far ranging topics but it was very interesting to me that this group was able to agree on a set of three to four basic things that we expect to see in a women peace and security course of training and those things were at a minimum the person needs to understand what is gender the terminology that's a starting point two, and this was universal among the whole group everyone who goes through any kind of education and training program in women peace and security needs to know how to do gender analysis what it is and how to actually apply it and that actually had universal agreement in the room third we had a lot of discussion about where does the women peace and security policy framework discussion come into this, is that a core competency and we agreed that knowing about the women peace and security policy framework the resolutions, national action plans things like that was very important but equally important was having a basic history and understanding of where this agenda emerged from, why it emerged that it actually is a social, tied to a social movement and political project of gender equality was equally important content for people to know at a minimum to inform their work and unfortunately we had a lot of discussion about this principle in women peace and security of consultation with women and the inclusion of women's voices and perspectives in a meaningful way and we did feel that that was very much part of a core competency anyone walking out of a training should understand that women's voices need to be included in terms of participation and informing decision making but there were definitely a range of other topics and a range of other issues that belong in this mix in this soup and I want to mention a couple of them and I think my colleagues who were there yesterday please jump in with others if I missed out on anything but we talked about using a transnational lens in courses and connecting U.S. domestic movements to women peace and security internationally we talked a lot about how can in these courses we talk about broadening the lens of what security means and shifting the perspective on what security means one more minute and then just real quick the listening to movements this is another point with listening to movements and movement builders that aren't squarely in women peace and security that agenda so just to conclude basically we are really looking forward to continuing this conversation in the future with the group that started yesterday and expanding it out to others that were not able to participate yesterday we were limited by timing resources in terms of how many people we could bring into the conversation for yesterday but we're very interested in continuing that engagement and we did talk about community of practice and how important that was that is to the future of the field and so we left on the table a discussion of would it be something that people in this group would be interested in convening again next year in this professional network to develop, continue developing and sharing our work and so I welcome you and I'm sure Jane and Mary as well welcome you to talk to us offline about continuing the conversation with that would an annual meeting be of interest to everyone we would like to expand the group and also capturing the challenges and opportunities that we're facing right now in terms of developing the field because as I said in the beginning I think everyone recognizes this is a real window of opportunity for us and that we're just getting started and we're building the momentum and we want to really put our heads down and focus and move very fast and forward in the field so happy to take any questions afterwards thank you very much the War College, she's the first student we've had represented on a panel she is a Navy helicopter pilot so I think it made her stories you may not know that about her and her paper was asked for by the Chief of Naval Operations so I'm really pleased to hear it shows a little bit of how it's starting to get implemented within our student body so Lena thank you very much for the War College, thank you thank you please my question is for mostly for thank you so much for your uncautious advice we agree that that's one of the most challenging obstacles we have to overcome because it's literally affected on our brains you mentioned the example of blind auditions and orbit stress which is such a great example because it's such a simple change that completely has changed the face of work stress and it's used I think a lot in the field of organizational design and behavioral design and these people who believe that it's close to the possible to actually change our internal biases that we should focus instead on changing organizational structures through things like hiring practices evaluating people or trying to eliminate the possibility for bias because it's so difficult to change and so I'm curious about whether you have seen successes in the approach of training or actually being able to change people's minds or for anyone else if you think that that is possible to do or whether it's also a valid approach to sort of try to just eliminate the possibility for that well I haven't seen anything, it's kind of a new topic to me I just started really learning and researching it a few months ago but I have noticed that I've changed myself so when I first started learning about this I didn't realize that I held these biases also so and I did mention in my remarks that it's not just males holding unconscious bias against females or whatever demographic we're talking about females can hold it against other females and I realized that I was and I did and so now that I'm aware of that I've tried to stop and tried to change my behavior and I do know that a lot of my classmates here at the War College have seen very receptive to learning about it people that knew that I wrote the paper but that didn't have to ask to read it have asked me to send it to them and people that are going my colleagues are going into leadership positions have asked hey what can I do when I'm in command to not fall prey to these concepts but I have I haven't I can't answer your question directly I'm sorry I have two questions one for Rachel one for Sahana Rachel you have a lot of military advisors who are out there doing admissions how do they do the NGOs that are out there doing a lot of the same great work as far as dividing the roles and responsibilities we're going to have to see what they're doing the work you all did yesterday sounds great you did a lot of work for one day and I'm just wondering how did you get a chance to talk about how you're going to execute the plan as far as implementing these core curriculum and particularly the military institutions and maybe that's going to be what we talk about in the next work we do just interesting your thoughts on what you talk about as far as what you do so I guess I have maybe a two or three part answer to your question to answer directly we yesterday was the first time we ever brought people together that we ever had that kind of conversation to answer Rachel's question about how do we choose people it was really who have we in our universe and three partners have we been talking to or that we know about who might be interested in joining this conversation and treating it like as it is an exploratory first step in sharing the work that we're doing and it's the beginning of a process of planting seeds and I do agree I was quite impressed with the courage and the commitment of the group yesterday to actually do so much work and actually come to agreement on some things because usually you can sit in a room for ten days and have so many different perspectives from so many different sectors and walk out with nothing or except for frustration but I was quite impressed with that in terms of implementation I think that's on the table because it's still up for discussion because that was our first conversation and I think what I've seen from that conversation other conversations like it and other gatherings like this is that there is a real hunger for the community that Rachel are talking about there's a real hunger for conversation and for sharing of information and a real acknowledgement that we aren't going to accomplish anything in our silos anymore we can, we could probably keep going along the way that we're going along but really the collective brain power and the collective work of this group and all our other colleagues around the world is going to have a much greater impact and that's why they have sort of a two part answer because the depth to answer your question directly but also in the bigger strategic vision of women peace and security we talked a lot yesterday about what is this agenda it really is about it's a transformative agenda gender equality you can't limit it to just yes that's why having numbers is so important because even that little step transforms the environment that you're in and transforms the lens through which you're looking at security and so I would say this is my own view of perspective and I've been accused of being the person that sees the glass actually overflowing and never emptying is I believe that we collectively everyone in this room and everyone of our colleagues around the world are working on women peace and security and whatever sector they're in we are in a state of great ambiguity because we're in a state of great creative chaos we're in a creative process of evolving and I would say it's not just evolution but it's revolution and what really the call for unity from so many different sectors and different people to me is quite interesting because it shows to me this is an organic movement we often talk about we need top down and bottom up pressures to change things but the conversation itself has started to shift to where is our unity of vision where is our unity of effort how can we share more how can we collaborate more on the same page and so my interest and I think my partner's interest in doing the conversation yesterday was to say okay let's take some of that energy and see what we can do let's just plant the seed and now I think it's up to all of us to say we want to continue the conversation and we may not be sure about what that's going to look like but let's try it let's just try it because that's the state we're in women peace and security didn't come about with people saying we're going to strategize we're going to have this network and we're going to do it this way it came about because these women in these conflicts we're all facing the same issues and we're saying this doesn't work anymore we need to change it and it was I think through their courageous action and vision that they were able to say we don't know what that's going to look like but we have some ideas about what we want to see change we have some strategies we want to try to push that forward and because they did that we're all here today so I think we can pick that ball up and we can say and admit to ourselves yeah we're in a state of ambiguity but we're doing it we're doing the work and we can do it better if we did it together so I know that doesn't answer your question about what's next what's the implementation but this is also a question we had in the very beginning what is the outcome of this do we need to have a concrete action outcome does it have to be very specific but I think what I learned yesterday from my colleagues is that just the fact that we started having a conversation with kids we reached some agreement on some things and also agreed that we want to further the conversation in professionalizing the field and perhaps having a network and how do we extend that to other people in itself is an outcome and I think a very positive positive point


يجب علينا أن نتكلم في هذه الثلاثة عبادات أين نتكلم عن هذه الوصول ماذا is the distance between me and my Lord ونستطيع أن نتكلم نستطيع أن نشعر one of the ways of measuring the level of faith and commitment to God is at the time of sins if you want to know your relationship how is your relationship with God examine yourself at the time of sin if the power of resistance is great the power of resisting the sin is great then your distance is also great the distance is very close with Allah SWT so this is what we have to work at the relationship with Allah Allah SWT has to be the focal point of our life this is number one the Hadith says من أصلح فينا بينه وبين الله أصلح الله فيما بينه وبين الله if you take care of this relationship between you and God God is going to take care of your relationship with people أصلح أمر آخيرته أصلح الله له أمر دنيا if you take care of your affairs of the Akhir you are concerned about them you prepare for them أصلح الله له أمر دنيا the worldly affairs in this life Allah is going to take care of them Allah says put your focus like the father like the mother who say to their children you focus on your school on your studies we will take care of your life don't worry about your life don't worry about your expenses we want you to focus on your school on your future الله سبحانه وتعالى says focus on the Akhir I will take care of your dunya don't worry a lot about the dunya we always worry about the dunya our main concern in this dunya is the sustenance the risk how can I protect my family myself how can I make money how can I live longer these are our concerns Allah says don't put this as your concern I am there I will take care of you think about the Akhir this life is short lived this life is short lived you are going to pass it through this life don't make this life your focal point concentrate on the next chapter of your life on a chapter that has no end an endless chapter that one has to be your concern not this life do you want to be protected there is a good way of protecting yourself a protection by God that's the best type of protection when you keep reminding yourself وَمَنْ كَانَ لَهُمْ إِنْ اَفْسِيْدِ وَعِفْ we have to keep reminding ourselves we have to keep telling ourselves what is right and what is wrong we have to keep advising ourselves if we advise ourselves then Allah is going to protect us against deviations against dangers that is the first part of this relationship the second part is yourself I mentioned last night is that the most important thing in this universe is yourself your soul to work on your soul to train your soul your nerves to control yourself the reason why we fast for 30 days is mentioned in Surat Al-Baqar is mentioned why do we fast there is a goal there is an objective for that there should be some result لعلكم تتقون عليكم الصيام كما كتب على الذين من قبلكم لعلكم تتقون تتتقون here the meaning of تتتقون is self-control you attain self-control you are able to watch what you say what you do your behavior your relationship this is the second area where we have to work on our relationship ourselves and then أمير المؤمنين علي صراك والصناب says بنتسالا يوماه فهوم اقون do not let your two days be equal equal in achievement don't every day is an opportunity for us every day is a day of growth and development and maturity philosophers say in this universe there is the microcosm and macrocosm microcosm is me and you human beings but the macrocosm is this universe this universe is developing growing day by day hour by hour this universe is growing and expanding we have to do the same also the human being also have to grow we are growing we are becoming older day by day and we have to grow also spiritually and mentally and religiously and ethically we have to grow when you look at your age there should be a difference between this year and last year this year in terms of contact in terms of أخلاق manners relationship has to be better than last year and next year has to be better than this year when تساوى يوماه فهوم اقون if your two days are equal then you had you had done nothing to yourself وَمَنْكَانَ أَمْسُرُهُ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ يَوْمِهِ فَهُمَنْعُونَ if if your yesterday was better than today last year was better than this year then you are a real loser وَنْعُونَ is someone who did not receive God's mercy and God's blessing that's the second area the first area is not Subhan Allah the second is ourselves and third is the people around us we are fathers we are mothers we are family members every Muslim I say to those who fast those who don't want to fast don't want to pray they don't know God I can't address them I have no access to them but those who fast those who recite the Qur'an some of you recite the Qur'an once whole cycle during the month of Ramadan some of you twice some of you three times those who read the du'a during the nights of Ramadan they have to realize that they have a bigger responsibility than others a believer has a bigger responsibility in this life than non-believers why? because you are connected to Allah you are connected to the source of guidance you are connected to the source of love to the source of compassion to the source of forgiveness therefore you have to be the jewel in your family if you are ten people in your family ten brothers and sisters you have to be the best of them the best does not mean that you are the most handsome although Alhamdulillah all of you are handsome I don't mean economically you are the best I mean morally and ethically and Islamically and religious and social you are the best in the family the mu'min is the one who is the jewel of his family the jewel of his family and his family so you have to be the bridge builder bridge builder in your family if two people in your family they don't talk to each other you have to be the ambassador ambassador of peace reach out to them don't say I'm busy with my life this is none of my business let someone else do that you are doing the du'a you are doing the pu'an you are performing the salat the fasting so we have to see the result in your life in your practical life what's the point of all those to head to the du'a if my life is the same or similar to someone who does not know God what's the point so you have to reach to others your family should be the strongest family in the community the healthiest family in the community your children should be the best your husband should be the best your wife should be the best because of you you can make a difference my friends we are the ones who can make a difference in this life not these buildings we the humans when you carry human heart there is nothing similar to your heart nothing similar nothing more sacred more important in the eyes of Allah than your heart لا تسعني أرضي وسمائي ولكن يسعني قنب عبدية المؤمن somewhere that God chose to live in your heart is living in your heart so that heart has to be a functioning heart a heart that reaches out to others and build peace and compassion and forgiveness how many times we asked Allah last night during the nights of Qadr and also the last 10 days of Ramadan to forgive us oh Allah forgive me I did this I did that please forgive me shouldn't I be a forgiving person too I have to forgive also but if I keep the grudge in my heart and the hate against this person and that person and that person and this family then God is not going to listen God says listen to me I will listen to you you need my forgiveness you need my forgiveness I will give you my forgiveness you have to be forgiving too you have to be forgiving too these three relationships we have to work on that we have another other nights of Qadr coming the night of it could be the 23rd which is Saturday the 25th the 27th the odd nights in the month of Ramadan the last 10 days of Ramadan anyone of them could be later to Qadr the night of destiny the night that determines our destiny our fate our journey our happiness in this life let's go back to our Allah let's go back to our Allah these 10 nights don't miss out on these 10 nights there are a lot of grants and blessings Allah will offer so you have to be smart you have to be smart to be able to get them to receive them it depends on you it depends on your effort on your sincere effort what is required here two main things our intentions has to be true and honest and the heart has to be cleansed and clean and you ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والأصلي إلا الذين أملوا أملوا الصالحات وتواصلوا بالحق وتواصلوا بالصب وصفوا الله وسلم على سيدها محمد وأهل بيجتها الطيبين اقفاهرين