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umayrkhan
by Umayr Khan
I'm fascinated by "why we (humans) do the things that we do?" In my quest to understand this, I present this endeavor of mine...Please subscribe, share and provide feedback for continuous improvement!!!
Episodes
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When Boys Are Forced to Marry | Impacts on Trust, Bonding & Accountability
In this episode of Boys Don’t Cry, we tackle a sensitive but important topic: the impacts of forcing boys into marriage. This conversation is deeply personal to me, and I share why before offering practical action items for parents. 💭✨ We explore three major consequences. This episode is about...
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Educators & Boys' Mental Health: Classrooms as safe havens
In this episode of Boys Don’t Cry, we explore the vital role educators play in shaping classrooms into safe havens for boys. 🏫✨ This conversation covers: • 🧠 Why boys need emotionally safe spaces in schools • 👨🏫 How educators can foster trust, vulnerability, and healing • 💬 What's the line...
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Role of educators and its impact on boys
In this powerful episode of Boys Don’t Cry, I sit down with a former teacher, principal and an administrator (and an Influencer in her own right) to explore the often-overlooked emotional influence educators have on boys during their formative years. From classroom discipline to hallway...
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Healing from abuse: From accountability to therapy
Healing from abuse is not a straight line — it’s a deeply personal journey that requires courage, support, and intentional action. In this video, we explore the key pathways to healing after experiencing emotional, physical, or psychological abuse: 🔹 The role of therapy in processing trauma 🔹…
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Abusive men: Monsters or product of generational conditioning
Are abusive men born this way or are they made to become so they dish out the most gruesome of treatment to others. As I venture out to start conversation around Men's Mental Health, I start with this all important question for in case of an abusive male, whose finger is being used, who loads the...
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Why men's mental health is still a difficult topic
I speak with my first guest Sohail Bukharee on men's mental health podcast titled "Boys don't cry". Join the conversation as we reflect on: - Why this is such a difficult topic not just for men but for muslim men specifically - Why is it hard for men to open up and consider mental health issues...
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Leadership Agility - Keys to organizational progress
What is business agility? Is it fast decision making or is it decision making at the very operational level? How much impact does positive mindset have on business and organizational agility? Let's talk...
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Scrum Master & Product Owner - One Person Two Roles
Scrum Master and Product Owner are two distinct roles within agile framework that ensure planning and delivery of work in a methodical and seamless fashion. Can one person be both product owner and scrum master? I share my perspective and would love to hear from you.
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Is your organization suffering from Framework Syndrome?
Is your organization suffering from framework syndrome as to which framework to use, whether to stay waterfall or to try embracing agility in mindset and practice adoption?
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Agility & Non - IT Organizations
I speak about how non IT organizations can embrace agility by virtue of a collective people, product and process approach.
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So You Want To Be A Scrum Master !
This episode covers competencies you will employ in order to become a good scrum master. What are those character traits that you will need to excel at your job as a scrum master? How can you anticipate various dependencies arising in team of teams environment? What knowledge gap you need to...
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Surah Qalam (33-52) #68 - Allah's questions to non believers
This third and final part of Surah Qalam/Nun deals in how Allah repeatedly asks Kuffaar questions which within themselves are statements in relation to Allah's grandeur and omnipresent status. Allah wraps up this surah with mention of Prophet of the whale and how repentance can work wonders to...
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Surah Qalam (17-33) #68 - Warning through storytelling
This part of Surah Qalam reflects upon Allah's story telling technique used to warn people of Makkah for their behavior towards Prophet Mohammad who like People of Garden transgressed and deemed themselves beyond reproach eventually to repent.
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Surah Qalam (1-16) #68 - Allah's mic drop moment
This first of three parts of Surah Qalam is about how Allah is comforting Prophet Mohammad when people (Kuffaar) of Makkah have started calling him a madman in light of him spreading word of Allah and practices taught by Allah to people of Makkah. This also covers personality traits of…
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Surah Alaq (6-19) #96 - Transgressor & Prostrate Oh Prophet
This second part of Surah Alaq is for when Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) started praying according to how Allah taught him which instigated Kuffar, especially Abu-Jahl and he became enemy number one for Muslims and Prophet Mohammad Source: Quran.com Sunnah.com The Quran, Translation by M.…
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Surah Alaq (1-5) #96 - Beginning of the end: Read !!!
This episode covers first five ayaat of Surah Alaq (96) of Quran as part of my journey through understanding of word of Allah in context of events surrounding revelation.
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Tale of two words
This is inspired from my humble understanding of influence and significance of these two words in the life of a muslim. What is perceive for these two words to mean and reflect towards a muslim's life. Furthermore, how these two words form the cornerstone of our life along with everything else…
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Dependency Management & how it impacts organizational culture
This was a webinar I did on June 01 2023 but never got around editing it. The topic is Dependency Management and how it impacts organizational culture where I share my personal experience working dependencies on team, program and enterprise level.
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Scrum Master: From good to a great one !
This episode encapsulates one key factor, (based on my experience in the field working as a scrum master, with scrum masters as an agile coach and RTE and even as product owner) paying attention to which can help a scrum master moving the needle from being a good to a great one at it. What is…
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Scrum Master: What drives your success in this role...
This track deals with what makes for a relatively successful transition into the role of a scrum master providing you a platform for ongoing success. This is by no means a silver bullet and like any other role and you need constant learning and evolution to impact incremental relentless improvement.
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Agile Transformations : Top down or Bottom up?
I speak about top down and bottom up transformation and what they mean. We further explore why top down or bottom up change may work for your specific organization.
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Postpartum Depression With Hafsa Farrukh
In this episode of Talking Mental Health, Hafsa Farrukh sheds light on aspects of Postpartum Depression. She speaks about: - What is postpartum depression? - How is it different from baby blues? - How can we identify it? - How does it affect new parents and their relationships? - How can we as...
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Raising Muslim Kids In LGBTQI World With Dr. Sheeza Mohsin
Dr. Sheeza Mohsin uses her experience of working with individuals, families and professional on both sides of the east/west coin to share some of the very basic ways parents can navigate through "What is gay?" question. She sheds light on: How parents can initiate the conversation? How to react…
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Depression In Children with Dr. Amamah Ahmed
In this episode of Talking Mental Health, Dr. Amamah Ahmed responds to audience questions from around the world in relation to depression in children. - Teen depression - Depression due to different social classes - Time to intervene - How joint family system helps or worsens depression in children
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Fear Of Failure with Hafsa Farrukh
In this episode of Talking Mental Health, Hafsa Farrukh sheds light on failure as a concept; and - How we as parents and guardians educate children about failure - What can we we do to counter such fear of failing - What can we do to help children get over such fear of not being successful
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Depression with Dr. Amamah Ahmed
In today's episode covering Depression, I ask Dr. Amamah Ahmed about: - Depression; what is it and what is it not? - Why are we fearful of accepting that it can happen to us? - What kind of red flags can we identify in our friends or family members? - How can we be the support that anyone in...
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Conscious Parenting With Hafsa Farrukh
I speak with Hafsa Farrukh in the aftermath of Dua Zahra case. - Where do we as parents let our guard down? - What are certain red flags that we as should not take lightly? - Why is it harder for girls in our society to open up about their personal lives to their parents than it is for boys?…
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Lifestyle Modification - Talking Mental Health
My conversation with Dr. Omaima Mehmood who speaks with me about the application of her experience, education and exposure in the form of a comprehensive Lifestyle solution to most of the issues facing her patients. This also includes a focus on mental health as importantly as there is on other...
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Interview - Salman Bhojani (Candidate for Texas State House District 92)
My conversation with a successful former Euless City Council Member who is now running for Texas State House (District 92). - Why Salman suspended his run for Senate? - Why he chose to run for State House for Texas instead? - What is the exercise of Re-Districting after each Census? - How has…
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Educational Institutes & Psychology
My conversation with a guidance counselor of over fifteen years and clinical psychologist of over six year. We talk about different aspects of educational institutes and how psychology plays an important part in building the character and personalities of students (if used the right way).
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Raising Boys (Talking Mental Health)
My conversation with a Riffat Yusaf who is a registered psycotherapist and a certified hypnotherapist in Canada in addition to having practiced in Pakistan in relation to various mental health domains. We speak about the challenges faces parents in raising boys in this day and age as we answer...
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Parenting & Psychology: Talking mental health with Misbah Khan
I speak with Misbah Khan about the attitude of desi parents towards mental health help for children, their involvement and how parental roles vary in terms of approaching mental health help for children. Furthermore, we touch base on: - How early is it for parents to introduce the concept of...
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Texas sized hypocrisy: Fetal Heartbeat Bill
- Why do we force the right to exist on a six week old fetus but not on a school going child? Why the discrimination? - Why would so many women in Texas legislature vote for the Abortion Ban? - Why is it that Governor of Texas calls President's business vaccine mandate an 'assault on freedom" but...
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Minar-e-Pakistan Incident: Symptoms Of A Sick Society
Why Minar-e-Pakistan incident is reflection of a sick society in context of victim blaming. - Would you blame Ayesha if it were your mother, daughter, sister or wife in her place? - Why it is not about religion and more about or moral and social values? - Why we should not rely on leadership?…
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Mental Health with Riffat Yusaf - 2
In this follow up to my first conversation with Riffat Yusaf, we explore how to tackle if male household leaders face mental health issues in Desi communities. - How can we help them? - How to make mothers understand that their sons need help just like in any other health issue? - Why are we…
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Mental Health with Riffat Yusaf
This is a new series I've started where I will speak with a mental health professional of many years; Riffat Yusaf. I ask her questions that I have received from people of different backgrounds pertaining to religion, behaviors, child therapy, how to help friends through therapy and how to not...
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Interview - Child abuse survivor : A Generation lost...
I speak with another brave individual who decided to share her account of what pushed her to attempt to take her life after years of child abuse and inability or intentional ignorance of her family members towards this abuse. - Why she wanted to do this? - What pushed her to this extreme? - How…
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Human Value Bundle: Which value drives your personality!
I explore different forms of value each one of us possesses and utilize in different situations during the course of our lifecycle. From mental/psychological value to being able to translate our skillset into financial success (financial success), humans present various value bundles. Which one…
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The Urban Affair - Is our relation with cities a two way street!!!
Is it just the different cities that impact our behaviors, personalities or do our decisions also leave a mark on the cities and how they evolve? - Which city you've lived in struck you with character? - Is there a city that left an indelible mark on your personality? Take a listen, share and…
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How Doing Inventory results in great customer experience
I follow up why doing inventory is important for a business with this brief but very crucial episode focusing on how doing inventory can result in good customer experience. - How does it result in increased sales? - How does it impact bottom line of the business? - How does it contribute towards...
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The Divided Patriot
- What is a divided patriot? - Do expats relinquish their birth right over their native countries? - What drives people to either become part of the melting pot culture or be part of a kaleidoscope culture? This topic came about my discussion with my friends around March 23 (Pakistan Day) in 2021...
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Marketing Or Process Improvement...
In today's cut ever evolving environment of financial uncertainties, businesses often have to decide whether to spend money on marketing to bring more customers in or to funnel some part of their revenue back into their business to improve some processes. - Which action is a targeted one with...
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3 Ps Of Business
In this episode, I cover three Ps of business as I have come to work with. What are those three pillars that a small business can base their strategy on and deliver an extraordinary customer experience.
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Customer Experience; Really, Why!!!
Why is customer experience so important that businesses (even small businesses) should pay attention to it. I take a look at why it is important, when customer experience is in full flow, where it happens the most and very importantly, who owns it.
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Churails, Why it's a must watch!!!
- Why most of the people I've spoken to about this show hate it? - Why PEMRA (Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority) banned this show in Pakistan? - Why Pakistani audiences don't show outrage at vulgar dance stage shows, ridiculous morning show but hate a masterclass by Asim Abbasi? This...
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Racial Privilege - Breaking The Barrier
It happens again. A white man goes on a killing spree, successfully kills six asian women in Atlanta, GA, gets arrested without any physical abuse, without having his head under the knees of law enforcement officials. The question is not why this happens. The question is that how do we get out of...
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Pakistan Day - Naan & Rape Culture
On this Pakistan Day, the news of culprits of Motorway rape case being sentenced to death comes as a relief. Does it really? Will a mere capital punishment be able to change the culture that we have developed over more than last seven decades? What's the naan connection in this?
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Why should we vote (In context of US Election 2020) !!!
I recorded this video for US Presidential Elections 2020 but I believe it will serve well to share it for my global listeners as context can help for voting anywhere around the world. Why we should vote is a question every voter in the world asks them. The answer to this simple question is not as...
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Barzakh - Ep. 9 (Acts That Benefit The Dead - 2)
Episode 9 wraps up the acts that can be gifted to a deceased muslim. There has been conflict on whether qirat-e-Quran can be gifted. - What do four Fiqh leaders say about it? - What do other scholars have to say about gifting of deeds? - How many deeds should one gift? - Do we have any right over…
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Barzakh - Ep. 8 (Acts that benefit the dead - Part 1)
Episode 8 covers those acts that benefit the dead. Those acts can either be such that were initiated by them while they were alive or by others. - What are those acts? - Could those be just farz acts or nafl too? - When can Hajj-e-Badl be done by someone? and more questions... Urdu translation of...
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