Episode 11: How Active Listening Plays An Important Role in Life with Carrie Braun, Director of Public Affairs and Community Engagement at the OC Sheriff's Department

Student host Audrey Norton gets the lowdown from Carrie Braun, Director of Public Affairs and Community Engagement at the Orange County Sheriff's Department. She is also a former adjunct professor in the Communication department at ⁠Vanguard University⁠. One of the most important aspects of Carrie's job is to engage in active listening especially in the field of policing and maintaining community safety. She also contends that sometimes it might take us awhile to find our true calling as it did her, but in the end, it's well worth the wait. Listen as she shares how her greatest communication challenges aren't always from the job, although there are quite a few tough scenarios, but from being a parent and wife who is on call 24/7.