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Conversations in Close Protection — 100 episodes
Shop Talk: September 2025
Resilience: Robin Stearns and & the Changing Threat Landscape
Home Base, Hard Truths, & Father's Day
'Seguridad Cuantificada': Kevin Palacios on Data Driven Close Protection
Shop Talk: January 2025
Promethean Pathways: Tristan Flannery on Advancing the State of Close Protection
Shop Talk: October 2024
Colloquium: Unpacking Recent Security Conferences
Shop Talk: August 2024
Shop Talk: July 2024
Erudite: The Making of a Protection & Intelligence Specialist
Intermediary: the conundrum of management in security
Dionysian Discourse: Geopolitics & Gin's Dr. Treston Wheat
Shop Talk: March 2024
'Napredak': A conversation w/ Ivan Ivanovitch
Quantification: Realizing metrics with Jim McConnell
Through the Threat Palindrome: Navigating 2024 with 2023's rollover risks
Dyad: Insights from the Close Protection and Security Journal and the Close Protection Conference
Shop Talk: November 2023
Fortitude: Managing self with Katherine Luther
Shop Talk: October 2023
Synchronicity in Security: A Conversation with Ed McCormack
Multifaceted: Dr. Michael Guirguis on medical strategies within tactical operations
Shop Talk: August 2023
Cogitation: Reflecting on Risk Intelligence with Ross Hill
Unyielding Resilience: The Journey of a Human Intelligence Specialist
Shop Talk: July 2023
Cognizance: Situational Awareness from former Marine Corps Hunters
Force Majeure: Keeping Momentum with Alana Stott
Shop Talk: May 2023
Shop Talk: March 2023
Eponymous: The Making of Shawn Ryan
Diversity: Enabling critical thinking, outreach, and the future of the security industry.
Shop Talk: February 2023
Bodyguards for Kids: Protecting our future, raising awareness, and educating the industry.
Tom Kopecky and the Entrepreneur's Mindset
January 2023: ShopTalk
Scientia: Maximizing Training Through a Science-Based Philosophy
2022 Holiday Movie Watch: The Way of The Gun
The 2022 Close Protection Conference: CiCP's hot wash
From Close Protection to Organizational fixer and media founder: The Journey of Oron Ben Simon
Persistence: Maintaining your value in the face of setbacks
Synchronicity and Risk Vectors
Shop Talk: October 22 (It's been a minute)
Imminent Threat: Donna Miles on Developing a Hard Target Lifestyle
GSX 2022 Wrap-Up
Shop Talk: September 2022
Scalability & the Making of a Security Leader: Matt Bohatch
Shop Talk: August 2022
Clarity, Integrity and Communications: A Conversation with CSO Wendy Bashnan
Being Water: MMA Champion Eric Utsch on becoming a Protector
Shop Talk: July 2022
CiCP Archives: Bryan Flannery
Polymaths: CiCP on the Sum of Your Business Pod
Mission Ukraine: Brad Shepherd
Passion, Professionalism, and Fortitude: Lessons Learned from Natasha Ryan
Close Protection Industry Shop Talk: May '22
CiCP Archives: Clint Emerson
Listener Q and A Time
Well Rounded and Driven: Critical Solutions Protective Security Group's Mark Mireles
Close Protection Industry Shop Talk: April '22
CiCP Archives: Marcus Torgerson
Training Mindset with AS3 Driving's Pablo Ortiz-Monasterio
Evolving in Security - A discussion with PICCT Security Solutions' Thomas Geppert
Perspectives on the Security Industry from Mike O'Neill
Close Protection Industry Shop Talk: March '22
Helping Others with Protective Intelligence: Heather MacDonald
Evacuation Operations: Ukraine w/George Taylor from Exlog Global
From Military Intelligence to Managing Protective Intelligence and Executive Protection Operations: Github's Dean Baratta
Close Protection Industry Shop Talk: Chuck and Chris Discuss Current Events
Review: Managing Workplace Violence from Circuit Magazine's WPV Panel
What You've Learned vs What's Possible: A Great Conversation with Sage Group's Ron Worman
Why a Company's 10K Report is Valuable for Security Practitioners
Close Protection Industry Shop Talk: Chuck and Chris Discuss Current Events
Developing Processes for Success: Personal, Protective Operations and Consulting
Addressing "Benign" Threat Vectors with Raysecur's Will Plummer
Twenty Twenty Too? Episode One Protection Talk
2021 Year in Review
Close Protection Conference: CiCP Live from Vegas!
Christmas Special: 3rd Annual Protectors Movie Review
Redux: Close Protection with Former UK Operative Niell Davis
2021 Close Protection Conference Preview
Close Protection Industry Shop Talk: Chuck and Chris Discuss Current Events
[UPDATED] Conversation with Crazy Prepper: Brian Duff from Mind 4 Survival
The Book of 5 Rings (Redux): Purpose and Profession
Close Protection Industry Shop Talk: Chuck & Chris Discuss Current Events
The Culture of Close Protection (Redux)
Close Protection Industry Shop Talk: Chuck and Chris Discuss Current Events
Industry Standards Panel Review from GSX
Q & A Time!
GSX 2021 Review
Close Protection Industry Shop Talk: Chuck and Chris Discuss Current Events
Explosive Ordinance Disposal to ...Mail: Raysecur CSO Will Plummer
9/11: Its Impact on the Security and Protection Industries
Where security, risk and human behavior intersect… : Miranda Copoolse
Close Protection Industry Shop Talk: Chuck & Chris Discuss Current Events
Mid Summer Reading List: A Collection and Analysis with Elijah Shaw, Fred Burton, Spencer Coursen and Ryan Long
A Tasmanian Devil with Tourette's Syndrome: Self Defense with Marcus Torgerson
Threat Intelligence: Janet Lawless, CEO and Founder of Center for Threat Intelligence
Running the Haitian President's Security: Pierre St. Remy