Get Out Of Your Own Way | Bruce Cardenas, USMC + LAPD

Bruce Cardenas grew up in a New Jersey steel mill town of 1,200 people. He wanted one thing: a badge. The police chief looked at him and said "you're young, dumb and immature." Then he told him exactly where to go instead. The Marine Corps. What happened after that doesn't make sense on paper. LAPD, January 1988, right before the most chaotic decade in the city's history. The riots. Rodney King. The earthquake. Every single day of the OJ trial, standing at the courthouse. He was involved in all of them, and what he says about the officers he knew will stop you cold. Then he walked away from full-time patrol and everything changed again. A gym conversation with a woman making protein bars in her kitchen turned into Quest Nutrition. Celebrity protection turned into a multi-million dollar company. Mariah Carey. Ricky Martin. J-Lo. Today he's with Legendary Foods, a snack company spending $20 million a year of its own money on cancer and heart disease research. He's a patient in one of the studies. He'll tell you why. And he's still a cop. Seven dollars a month. This episode is about what happens when somebody tells you no and what it costs to prove them right about where to go instead. ️ Vegas Veteran Voices Stories Over Stigma