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and joining me as always are my co host

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ladies, Hey leving

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up. In segment two, we are chatting with Lieutenant

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General Jody Daniels in honor of this Sunday's

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game against the Giants, being our salute to service.

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She has more than thirty six years of active

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and reserve military service and recently

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assumed the role of Chief of Army Reserve and Commanding

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General for the US Army Reserve Command.

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And her civilian career, Daniels was the director

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of Advanced Programs for Lockee Martin's Advanced

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Technology Laboratories. She gets it all around,

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a WOW woman and a true American hero

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role model. Stick around for that that's coming up,

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but first let's chat about this game that's

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coming up. We are coming off a bye week and heading

0:51

into a big rematch against the New York Giants.

0:53

Quick refresher in case you missed it. We lost twenty

0:56

twenty to nineteen after Rivero

0:58

Ron went for two on the gambled denied playout.

1:01

It's a big divisional rematch, and let's not forget

1:03

the NFCS is still up for grabs. After

1:05

watching Monday football, I'm not gonna lie.

1:07

I'm a little nervous. I don't think it's going to be a kid

1:09

walk anymore. The Giants overall looks pretty

1:11

good. What do you guys think, Well,

1:14

yeah, we're rested. Hey bye

1:16

week. You know I'll give us that right

1:18

there. Yeah,

1:20

I mean you're right, so we are restis I think

1:22

that that's to our advantage. The Giants, they

1:25

did look pretty good, right, but they lost

1:27

at the end of the day, and ironically

1:29

they lost because they couldn't get the two point

1:32

conversions to tie the game. Meanwhile, when we played

1:34

them last we couldn't get the two point conversions

1:36

to get the win. So I just thought that

1:38

that was kind of interesting last night I was watching

1:40

the game. But I think overall, we just

1:42

have to get after Daniel Jones. Like, we have

1:45

one of the best four front four

1:47

on our defense in the NFL and the

1:49

Giants have i'm pretty much a bottom

1:51

tier offensive line. So we've got to use this matchup

1:54

to our advantage. We've got to put pressure on Daniels

1:56

and force some turnovers and then we obviously

1:58

have to convert on those turnout. So I think it's very

2:00

doable for us. I think it's coble.

2:03

And also, yes, Daniel Jones, I

2:05

mean he can throw some dimes. Let's not take that away

2:07

from him or just credit him, but he's turnover

2:09

machine. Jones has onceptions

2:11

in the first twenty one starts as well. You

2:13

know, I'm gonna say it, I feel like we

2:15

have another Kendlefuller pit coming this

2:18

weekend. Absolutely, And

2:20

I just you know, Coach

2:22

Rivera talked about the yaha moments that happened

2:24

at our last game, that things are clicking

2:27

and the and the players are finally like, oh yeah,

2:29

that's what you wanted us to do. And so I

2:31

just want more of those moments, more awesome

2:34

Logan Thomas moments. I think he is just

2:36

growing and growing here with us. And then

2:38

obviously, Terry McLaurin, you got to get him that ball

2:40

because good things usually happen when he gets the ball.

2:44

Yeah, and Gibson too, right, So I just feel

2:46

like, you know, putting him in the passing

2:48

game, line him up out wide, match

2:50

him up one on one with the linebacker. I'm Gibson

2:53

will win that matchup more

2:55

times than not. So I think there's a lot of

2:58

opportunities coming up and

3:00

I'm looking for the W. We need to get that W

3:02

because I know we all debated the

3:05

last time when we were talking about Giants on whether

3:07

or not they should have gone for the extra point

3:09

and what they should have done. And I think

3:11

at the end of the day we were disappointed for that

3:14

loss. But now we have the chance

3:16

to get the win and we just need to do it. Yeah,

3:18

we controlled the ball that whole second half,

3:21

so we just control the ball again,

3:23

get off quick and we've got

3:25

this. Yeah, and it's time. I mean Jones

3:28

is through, you know, against us, like he

3:30

thinks he's got a pretty pretty much in the

3:32

bag, and I think we showed especially with

3:34

um I mean Chase Young. But we have the pressure me

3:37

col holcome, we'll come to step up, Like we need

3:39

to add that pressure because he is quick

3:41

to extend plays. He wants to be the

3:43

playmaker, and that's why we see a lot of those picks

3:45

because he's trying to be that guy

3:48

and unfortunately he might not be and

3:50

he can't be this weekend so we really need our defense

3:52

to step up and create that pressure and make

3:54

sure that we get our win against

3:56

the Giants and take take the division. This

3:59

year, it's up for grabs to anybody's

4:01

game. There's a lot of fresh teams out there

4:04

and we're seeing it. And like you said, brom

4:06

Rivera's teams are notorious for being

4:08

a second half of the season team and

4:11

like you said, it's all should be clicking. And we decided

4:13

to watch this matchup. Yeah, and we're

4:15

gonna have some fans yay, I'll

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be there, the first ladies will be there able luck

4:22

Yeah, and that could be to our advantage too. You

4:24

know, the players might be feeling the adrenaline with having

4:27

I think it's over three thousand fans there, so just having

4:29

that atmosphere at FedEx Field, I definitely think it's

4:31

going to help us. And the weather is supposed to be beautiful,

4:33

so it's just going to be a beautiful

4:37

football Sunday at FedEx Field, all

4:40

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Welcome to the wild Spotlight. Today we have joining

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s Lieutenant General Jody Daniels. She has

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more than thirty six years of active in reserve

6:44

military service and recently assume the role

6:46

of Chief of Army Reserve and Commanding General

6:49

for the US Army Reserve Command. She completed

6:51

a civil affairs deployment to Kosovo, as

6:53

well as an deployment to Iraq, where she served

6:55

as the Chief of Plans and Integration

6:58

and then as a Director of Intelligence Multinational

7:00

Security Transition Command Iraq. And

7:03

her civilian career, Daniels was the director

7:05

of Advanced Programs for Lockee Martin's Advanced

7:07

Technology Laboratory Laboratories. Wow,

7:11

you are very, very impressive when we are so

7:13

honored to have you here in a while. Welcome, absolutely,

7:16

thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Yea.

7:18

And what's crazy about this is that's

7:21

the very condensed version of your bio.

7:23

There was so much you

7:28

were in the midst of an impressive civilian career Lockeed

7:30

Martin. I want to know what cauled

7:32

you away into full time military service rather

7:34

than the reserves. So in

7:37

fact, I had done seven and a half years

7:39

on active duty. Then I converted

7:42

from the active component into the Army

7:44

Reserve when I decided to go after graduate school.

7:46

And I did that for a number of years, and then I joined lockeed

7:49

Martin while continuing my reserve career.

7:51

And then when I made general officer, I

7:54

had an opportunity to go on a full time position

7:56

while still in the Army reserve. So

7:58

I went off and did that, and

8:00

so I did some some quick math,

8:03

and I have, um, I've served

8:06

in four countries, ten states, with

8:08

you know, over twenty of different assignments, primarily

8:11

in intelligence, but also in civil affairs

8:14

and in training. Wow,

8:19

I don't even feel worthy to even interview you

8:21

at all. But

8:25

but I'm also you know, but I also do take time

8:27

out for family and for football, you

8:29

know. So my my personal preference is in fact

8:31

for the Washington football team. That

8:35

was one of my questions. So that's

8:37

that's not an Army reserve position, but it's certainly

8:39

mine, and it's also not my husband's position,

8:41

who's a Giants fan. So we are as divided

8:46

for you to be on. Yeah, with the game coming

8:48

up this weekend. While those are

8:50

always fun, we actually have a have a

8:53

nice wreath that we hang on our door. We

8:55

got from my stepdaughter, and half of it has the Washington

8:58

colors and half of it has the Giants, you

9:00

know, New York Giants colors, and it flips, so

9:02

it's a lot of fun to put up. That's

9:05

also well, obviously we're hoping for when for the

9:07

Washington football team. Absolutely they

9:10

got us by a point last time, and that was

9:12

just that hurts so hard. It

9:15

hurt a lot, it did. It did. So

9:18

talk about you received the

9:20

combat Action badge, So one, can you

9:22

talk about and share what that is for those

9:25

that don't know, and in what deployment

9:27

was that and then can you just tell us how that impacted

9:30

you personally? So

9:32

that was from my about eleven

9:34

months over in Iraq, I

9:37

went over and was serving as part of a survey

9:39

team to look at what forces

9:42

did we the army need to take over to support

9:45

the training mission that

9:47

we were doing for training the Iraqi Army and the

9:49

Iraqi soldiers. And so I went

9:52

over with a group something about me and fifteen

9:54

me and me and twelve dudes go to

9:56

a foreign country. UM. I did the same thing when

9:58

I went over to Savo in

10:00

ninety nine and we did a survey of what

10:03

was needed to support that training mission.

10:05

And it was a tremendous experience

10:08

in helping the Iraqi stand

10:10

up their professional education system,

10:13

their different specialty courses for whether

10:15

or not it was you know, the military, their military,

10:18

police, or intelligence or logistics

10:20

or all the other different branches

10:22

that they were putting together, and so it

10:25

was during that time that I did, in fact received

10:27

the award. That

10:29

is really impressive. I

10:32

was in Kosovo on a tour when

10:34

I was in the NBA, so in

10:36

two thousands. So I wonder if we crossed

10:38

paths. How long were you there? No? I

10:40

was. I was probably only there. I was there on the summer

10:43

of ninety nine from

10:45

July to September. Awesome.

10:47

So another question for you, being the first

10:49

woman who serves as a thirty fourth Chief

10:52

of Army Reserve in the

10:54

ninth Commanding General for the US Army

10:56

Reserve. These are recent positions

10:58

since twenty twenty, are you able

11:00

to sit back at all and recognize the

11:03

importance of this position as a pioneer for other

11:05

women. It's really

11:07

important that I look at it from

11:10

a variety of perspectives. So I learned when

11:12

I was over as the you know, the principal

11:15

intelligence officer for the Africa Command,

11:18

that not only was I was representing the

11:21

intelligence field, I was representing

11:23

the Army Reserve. I was representing the Army.

11:25

I was representing senior leaders, I was representing

11:28

women. I had a whole bunch of different

11:30

roles that I took on,

11:32

and so it's kind of interesting to sort of

11:34

realize that you're not just you're

11:37

you, and you're not just you know, whatever rank

11:39

or all these other positions that you're representing,

11:42

and that is a little bit heady. And

11:45

so being you know, head of the Army Reserve, which

11:47

is about two hundred thousand soldiers and

11:49

civilians spread across twenty

11:51

time zones, it's kind of like, oh my,

11:54

that's kind of big and it's important. But

11:57

I've done a lot of jobs leading up to this

12:00

that positioned me well and gave me different

12:02

experiences and exposures along the way.

12:04

So this was, well, there's a learning curve. It's

12:06

not outrageous. So I've

12:09

been sort of preparing up to this

12:11

time. But it's great.

12:13

Let me follow up with that. Then, you said

12:16

you were positioned for this by your previous

12:18

careers. Was there a mentor that helped

12:20

you that you can think of on the top of your head. I've

12:22

had a number of fabulous mentors,

12:26

one of which is retired lieutenant

12:28

retired Major General leslie Purser.

12:31

She was a boss and she helped me out when

12:33

I was a colonel taking

12:35

care of you know that I was

12:37

looking in the right direction and doing the correct sorts

12:40

of things and was always there as an outlet.

12:43

I also had my very first boss was

12:46

at the time was a major. His name was Rushfrew,

12:48

and he did a smart thing, was saying, well, you should

12:51

go to graduate school and you should go do these other

12:53

things that I had never thought of,

12:56

and so he was opening to my eyes into

12:58

what I could do as well is giving

13:00

me confidence in what I was doing.

13:04

I love that in confidence in what you were

13:07

Yes, that's and

13:09

following up on that, do you feel

13:11

like what you say or are the actions you

13:13

take are judge differently because you are a female in this

13:15

position, and also does it give you the edge

13:17

sometimes to have that female touch

13:20

as a leader. So over

13:22

the years, as you would progress in rank,

13:24

you learn that your words are taken very

13:27

carefully and literally, and sometimes

13:30

people over react and what they

13:32

thought they heard you say, and so you have to over

13:35

time, I have become very careful

13:37

about things that I say so

13:40

that I don't send people scurrying off to do

13:42

additional work that I didn't really

13:44

intend. So like, oh that's kind of interesting, Oh

13:46

well we're gonna go, and I'm like, no, no no, No, it's just interesting.

13:50

So I have to be careful about that and

13:54

making sure that I'm not inadvertently sending

13:56

people off and tasking them.

13:59

But the same time, I also have to be careful in a room

14:01

full of primarily men, in

14:04

terms of when do I speak and what do

14:06

I say, to make sure that my words are

14:08

impactful and aren't

14:11

sort of left aside. And that's

14:13

something that in both of my careers I've

14:15

had to be careful about. Yeah,

14:18

and touching on that a little bit. When you know the

14:20

power of your words and you know the

14:22

power of your actions and how that

14:24

can be taken by an observer or

14:26

a listener, what would you say,

14:28

just over the course of your career, are three

14:30

tips or three lessons that you've

14:33

absorbed and that you've taken in from

14:35

your experience, either with someone

14:38

your mentor or just the experiences

14:40

being out in the field. So

14:43

one thing that I encourage

14:45

people to do is sort of to look two decisions

14:47

ahead, not just one. People

14:50

tend to look sort of at the first one, but

14:52

if you look a little bit further out, you

14:54

think about what are the I guess someone to help you

14:56

think about, what are those different options what could

14:58

I do the think closer

15:01

in of what do I need to do to be able to get there,

15:03

because we tend to sort of focus in on well what's

15:05

next. Well, now I'll really look a little bit a little bit

15:08

further, set your sights a little bit bit further

15:10

out. Um. Another tip

15:12

that I give is, delegate,

15:14

delegate, delegate, m as

15:16

much as possible, and to that

15:19

effect, step away from email.

15:21

It's too easy to get sucked into it

15:24

and to be, um, you

15:26

know, driven by it. And

15:28

so when I go on vacation, my cell phone

15:30

it goes, it goes into the safe, it

15:33

goes into you know some places, it gets turned

15:35

off, and I go off and have fun. My

15:37

subordinates are positioned

15:39

to run the world without me. Um,

15:42

That's why we have them. I trust them, and

15:44

I'm demonstrating that trust by by stepping

15:47

away from the cell phone

15:49

and letting them take charge. So

15:51

I hope I hit I hit three. I hope within that that collection

15:53

of things. Yeah, And it's so interesting

15:56

because when you said delegate, delegate,

15:58

delegate, all three of us were like, oh

16:00

my gosh, because that's something that all three of us need

16:02

to work on life. We hold responsibility

16:05

really tight and close one because

16:07

I think it's ours,

16:09

it's our baby. We feel like we can do it best, and we

16:12

just have trouble sometimes allowing people

16:14

to help us, or even asking people

16:16

to help us. So how do you kind of break

16:18

through that mindset of you

16:20

having to be the strong woman that can do all things

16:23

and not need the help and just realizing

16:25

that it's okay to receive help.

16:28

I think it's empowering to be able

16:30

to ask for help, to show the

16:32

strength of courage that I'm

16:34

not perfect, I don't know everything, I can't

16:37

possibly know everything. I need some

16:39

assistance. I don't have to be the smartest person

16:41

in the room, but I gotta have the smart people with

16:43

me, you know. And who are those people

16:45

that I can leverage that I can take advantage of

16:47

their skills their strengths. So I

16:49

think it's empowering to be able to

16:51

delegate. And I was recently told

16:54

do those things that only you can do,

16:57

and then that frees up the rest of the time

17:00

for the other things that you want to be able to

17:02

do instead of those things that you're thinking

17:04

that you must do. If

17:07

I go with the email that I know you said,

17:09

like you step away from it when you're on vacation,

17:12

But do you step away from your emails

17:14

to do what you're saying so you can focus on bigger

17:16

pictures or things that you want to do well. I

17:19

also sort of limit time

17:21

on email. Okay, so you know when

17:23

the military we call it, we have a battle rhythm. So

17:25

how much time you know when you do certain things

17:27

on a regular basis. So I allocate

17:30

certain blocks of time to reading email,

17:32

and I go in and I tree ash and I delete

17:34

like nobody's business. You know what can

17:36

I get rid of? What can I send onward? And

17:38

sort of you can always sit

17:40

there and wait for the next message to come in. It's too

17:42

easy. Um, but but to limit

17:45

how much time and focus and attention it's

17:47

allowed to have tough,

17:50

but it's but it's so worth it. Yeah,

17:52

it's great advice. Down all

17:54

these tips like

17:57

that. I know. I'm like, can I get my note book?

18:01

As we enter into the game this weekend,

18:03

as we brought up with the Giants, it is our salute to service

18:06

game and we are celebrating such to service the entire

18:09

month with watching a football team. What would you

18:11

like to say to the NFL fans as well as civilians

18:13

as we recognize military service this month,

18:16

so in reserve side, not

18:18

only the soldiers and the civilians, the

18:20

family members, but also our employers

18:23

who allow us to go off and serve and

18:25

recognize that we are having dual careers.

18:28

So you know, thank you, you know, to all of those

18:30

groups for all that you do and all

18:33

the sacrifices you make and the service

18:35

that you have given to our nation. So thank you very much.

18:40

Dual careers. And then how about as a

18:42

woman, then what or anybody dual careers

18:44

with the reserves, your career and then family

18:47

to talk about three major things

18:49

in your life? Holy cow? So

18:52

yes, a bit of a bit of a collection

18:54

of things. That's we try to work

18:56

on balance. And it's not I wouldn't

18:58

necessarily it's certainly not pity, but

19:00

it's trying to to, like I said, step away

19:02

from the email, you know, and to go off and do

19:04

those fun things that that your family enjoys.

19:07

Um, it's

19:09

tough, but it's but it's but it's it,

19:12

it's it. I think it has helped

19:14

me in terms of being able to keep

19:16

my sanity. And so I go out and I do

19:18

workouts, I run, I lift weights.

19:21

Um, I do all kinds of other interesting different

19:23

exercises. I like to flip tires.

19:26

Um, you know I do. It's crazy,

19:29

Um, but I think that helps with my endurance

19:31

and my ability to do all the things that I want to do.

19:34

Yeah, well, you probably have to flip tires because

19:36

you live with the Giants fan. You gotta get that agression

19:39

out. I

19:42

was gonna ask, how, how are how are

19:44

you planning to watch the game this Sunday with your

19:46

husband? Any any any game day traditions.

19:49

Um. So he has a Giants gnome

19:52

that I try to like turn upside down or hide

19:54

or something, you know, so that it's not visible. Um.

19:57

But now we sort of keep you know, we keep to our separate corners.

19:59

And as long as it's a good game,

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we're both happy. You know, some you

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know, one of us is a little more than the other. But as

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long as it's a it's it's a it's a well officiated

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game, we both enjoy it. That's

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good. That's good to know. I'm sure coming

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off on a night football he feels a little bit better and

20:16

probably a little frustrated about his Giants. That

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we look forward to the matchup to Sunday.

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of the Washington Football Team. We're

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heading into Wow Overtime, brought to you

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by Fresh Fine Lines. What an

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incredible interview we just had.

22:39

She is all around such

22:41

an oppressive person and mentor.

22:44

I know me and James Stephan you were joking. We were writing

22:46

down notes, especially right before

22:48

we started Goodbye to her. We were like, waitait, what was

22:50

that thing you said about, you know,

22:52

emails and taking time for yourself. And it's

22:55

just I know for me, especially like

22:57

I love reading books about tools of

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success us and about habits of successful people

23:01

in leaders and it's really inspiring

23:04

to hear different tactics that people do and

23:06

and I just want to applaud the

23:08

Washington football team as well

23:11

as I'm gonna just brag

23:13

about us, the first Ladies of Football, for all

23:15

that we do to engage with the

23:17

military service.

23:20

And I know I have been on six

23:22

military tours overseas

23:25

and seeing it firsthand. It is seeing

23:27

firsthand what the men and women of this country

23:30

are doing to protect us. It's

23:33

humbling experience. It's a life changing

23:36

experience. It's something that I'm forever grateful

23:38

for the Washington football program for allowing me to

23:40

be a part of. And I just think we

23:43

should use this opportunity to brag about

23:45

just all the work that we are doing

23:47

to make that to that engagement. Yeah,

23:51

no, I agree. I mean when I was a first

23:53

Lady that you know, after the first

23:55

game. I tell this story like after my very first game

23:58

coming out of the tunnel, like if anyone to add would

24:00

have asked me then my most memorable

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experience was coming out of the tunnel for the first

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time as a first lady of football. But once

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I went on my first tour overseas,

24:09

that became the most memorable and meaningful

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experience for me. Being able

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to go to Kastovo, Afghanistan, Bosnia

24:17

and just being able to connect with

24:19

the men and women that serve our country in a very deep

24:22

way and knowing that they appreciate

24:24

us so much. Meanwhile, we're the ones

24:26

that appreciate them. And I

24:29

think it's so important what the Washington

24:31

football team is doing, even what Washington Salute

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does on a regular basis, to make sure

24:36

that our men and women know that we care and

24:38

that we support them and that we are here for

24:40

them. And just being able to have that experience

24:42

to go overseas, I mean even just you know, Walter

24:44

read and do community service within this area within

24:46

the military has literally been

24:48

a life changing experience for me personally.

24:51

Yeah. Absolutely, I mean I've been on tours

24:53

like you guys are talking about with the

24:55

First Ladies, and I

24:58

remember actually going into coast Bosnia

25:02

right when the war ended and seeing you

25:04

know, the Olympic symbols all shot up

25:06

and the runway with the plane crashed

25:08

on it, and just you know, visiting

25:11

the men and women that were serving at that time.

25:13

It was so difficult for them and they

25:15

had lost some people, and just you know,

25:17

working from six in the morning till midnight

25:20

to make sure that we said hello to every

25:22

single person, trying to you know, bring

25:24

a touch of home to them. So every

25:26

tour means so much. And as you

25:28

mentioned, Jenny, are Washington Salute.

25:30

It's the NFL's largest military fan club.

25:33

So the Washington Football team from the First

25:35

Ladies to Salute to our players were

25:37

committed to honoring our troops and empowering

25:40

military organizations for

25:42

this month. If you go to Washington

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Football dot com the Salute page, you'll

25:46

see all the different events that are being held

25:49

for Salute to Service. And I know, Jennie, you could

25:51

probably touch on a few of them that you've been involved in. Yeah,

25:54

I mean, there's so much coming up as I've definitely

25:56

want to plug connecting generations,

25:58

so be on the lookout for that interview. I had

26:00

the honor and the privilege to

26:03

interview on Brigadier General Charles McGee.

26:05

He has retired American fighter pilot

26:07

who was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen.

26:10

It was absolutely amazing conversation.

26:12

He is a career officer in

26:14

the United States Air Force with more than thirty

26:17

years and he I think flew

26:19

in three wars and had

26:21

four hundred and nine combat missions. And

26:23

so that conversation with him, along

26:26

with Doug Williams and Jason Wright,

26:28

was just amazing because we literally were

26:31

connecting three generations,

26:33

but then allowing and enabling

26:35

other people outside of these three generations

26:38

to connect with them as well. And so it

26:41

was just I mean, I shared with you all that

26:43

after that conversation, when we

26:45

ended the interview, I literally was so emotional

26:47

that I started to cry because just knowing

26:50

what General McGee went through

26:53

as a Tuskegee Airman and the sacrifices

26:55

that he made for us, and the sacrifices

26:57

that all men and women make for us day in and day

27:00

out, not even thinking about it. It's just because

27:02

what they were called to do. It was

27:04

just so amazing to know that I was a part of

27:06

that conversation, so definitely be on the lookout

27:09

for that one, and then we will be you

27:11

know, doing a virtual event at WAL three.

27:13

There's just so much coming up, so just

27:15

really appreciate Alec for everything that he's doing

27:18

with Washington Salute and putting all of these amazing

27:20

events together that really touched the lives

27:22

of everyone. And

27:24

before we go, I want to leave with something that's leave

27:27

everyone with. Something that stuck with me from Lieutenant

27:29

Daniels is her comment

27:32

about yes, she might

27:34

be the only woman in the room, but making sure that

27:36

what she's saying is impactful and being

27:38

thoughtful about what she's saying and the impression that

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she is making because of the role that she makes

27:43

or the role that she has taken on. I think that's

27:45

something that I took away from this interview and something that I want to

27:47

be more thoughtful about moving forward as

27:49

we are women in leadership roles in this

27:52

world and this role. Well, thank

27:54

you all for an amazing show and can't

27:57

wait to see the Giants game in our Salute to Service

27:59

game and all all the great things of the Washington football team

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