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Briefing Topic: What’s Your 20? Jan 17, 2019

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10-20 in cop speak (in my area) means, “what’s your location?” Goals are great. They’re important. But it’s impossible to know where to go if you don’t know where you’re coming from. When you respond to a call, your route will depend on whether you’re coming from the north, south, east, or west. You can’t […]

Ep 93: Practicing Resilience and Creating an Emotional Survival Plan with Dr. Diego Hernandez Jan 14, 2019

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Dr. Diego Hernandez is a clinical psychologist and trauma expert who focuses on wellness, human performance and and health. He frequently works with Army Special Operations and their training cadre to address the trauma rehabilitation of elite warriors. He regularly treats veterans and first responders. Dr. Hernandez is also the Clinical Director of the Accelerated […]

Ep 92: The B.A.D.G.E.S. of Your Life. Jan 07, 2019

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We need leaders. Leaders at every level and in every organization. The absolute truth is that no one else is coming, and it’s up to us to step forward and fulfill our obligations. But before you lead others, you need to be able to lead yourself. In this episode, I introduce the concept of BADGES, […]

Ep 91: From Mogadishu to Music: Life Lessons from a Delta Commando with Brad Thomas Dec 03, 2018

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When Brad Thomas’ music career didn’t take off out of high school he choose the next most obvious career path. He enlisted in the Army with a Ranger contract with the goal of making it into the elite and secretive special operations force known as Delta Force. Brad spent several years in the Rangers and […]

Ep 90: Post-Traumatic Stress to Post-Traumatic Growth with Shaun O’Gorman Oct 22, 2018

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Aussie cop Shaun O’Gorman returns with some strategic actions you can take to identify, manage, and most importantly, use the traumatic experiences we all deal with. Shaun was a K9 officer who never let off the gas pedal for his entire career. It wasn’t until he stood on the ledge of a 26th floor balcony […]

Ep 89: Briefing Topic: We Need a Better Marketing Plan Sep 14, 2018

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Last week, Nike managed to piss off approximately 50% of the country with their new ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick. In this Briefing Topic episode, I share my opinion on the whole event and explain why you should not care about this, or waste one second of your time upset about it. Please support our […]

Ep 88: Nothing Happens on the Sidelines with Seal Team 3 Sniper JP Dinnell Aug 27, 2018

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JP Dinnell is a veteran of three combat deployments in the Global War on Terror. Most notably, he served with Seal Team 3 Task Unit Bruiser in the Battle of Ramadi as a sniper, working right next to the world’s most famous sniper, Chris Kyle. Kyle was in Charlie Platoon, and JP was in Delta […]

Ep 87: Be the One: Stepping Up During the Vegas Massacre with Sgt. Larry Hahn Jul 18, 2018

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Sgt. Larry Hahn has done many things throughout his career with one of the largest sheriff’s department’s in the country. But it was what he did off-duty on the night of Sunday October 1, 2017 that will show you how he is the kind of leader I talk about when I ask you to be […]

Ep 86: Building Resilience from Personal Tragedy with Eric Hodgdon Jun 21, 2018

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Eric Hodgdon is a resilience coach, author, and speaker. I first met Eric in October 2017 at a workshop and was immediately drawn to how him. He just exudes being a good guy. In March of 2018 I got to spend a few days with him a a leadership retreat in Florida and it was […]

Ep 85: Chasing Cartels and Congress with DEA Chief James Capra May 30, 2018

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James Capra is the retired Chief of Global Operations for the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Before his retirement, James testified to congress as he had done before, but this time he went off-script and spoke from the heart. It ended up on YouTube as “DEA Official Freaks Out at Senate Hearing.” But to hear James […]

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