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The Northern Sentinels Podcast — 163 episodes
Episode 55 - Darcy Molstad
Episode 54 - Eliot Pence
Episode 53 - Mel Crocker
Episode 52 - Kevin Ford
Episode 51 - Bruce Moncur
Dragged Behind a CC-130 Hercules
Send It - Canada's Snipers at War in Afghanistan
Episode 50 - Billie Flynn
The Complexity of Dropping Bombs
Just Don't Quit
Episode 49 - Dan Gardner
The Tombstone Mentality
Getting Big Canadian Things Done
Episode 48 - Whitney Lackenbauer
The Gift of Intellectual Discomfort
Building in Canada's North
Episode 47 - Gary Forward
Keep Calm and Carry On
The Rookie and The Right Thing
Episode 46 - Mary Ann Barber
The costs of service to something bigger
Life in a combat emergency room
Episode 45 - Dr. John Whelan
PTSD Medicalization
The power of the shared experience
Paddle for Resilience
The Politics of National Defence
Defence Policy for Dummies
The Navy as an Instrument of National Defence
The F35 Investment for National Defence
Arctic Security as a Pillar of National Defence
New Forms of Investment for Improved National Defence
Building Deterrence for National Defence
Life in Rotations: an interview with the author, Farid Yaghini
Episode 44 - Peter Devlin
The bureaucracy facing Canadian colleges
Transition is tough, even for Army Commanders
Episode 43 - Rahul Goel
Investing in Canada
Building a Canadian Rocket Company
Episode 42 - Brice Scheschuk
The Canadian Telecom Oligopoly
The Unicorn Myth
Episode 41 - Wayne Goranson
Serving Your Community
Humanity Over Profit
Episode 40 - Scott Moore
Invictus Saves Lives
Episode 39 - Mark Bluvshtein
Blitz Chess and Growing the Audience
Becoming a Grand Master
Episode 38 - J. Paul Haynes
The Real Impacts of a Cyber Attack
The Cyber Kill Chain
Episode 37 - Richard Fadden
Understanding bureaucracy as a war fighting function
Foreign interference is eroding the foundations of our democracy
Episode 36 - Paul Maddison
Stopping the slide to strategic irrelevance
Why the Indo-Pacific matters to you
Episode 35 - Russ Vida
No Names, No Pack Drill: An Oral History of Canadians at War in Afghanistan
Episode 34 - Christian Lillington
Episode 33 - Cole Rosentreter
Episode 32 - Bona Normandeau
The power of honest communications
Is happiness a choice?
Episode 31 - Mubin Shaikh
Loyalties
De-radicalized by 9/11
Episode 30 - Chris Taylor
Illegal Firearms in Canada
Growing up in Queens, New York
Episode 29 - Tim Powers
Talking about mental health
Politics and the Lowest Common Denominator
Episode 28 - Kevin Newman
The Cost of War
The impact of money on Canadian politics
Episode 27 - Melanie Nadeau
The Innovation Mindset
Is work-life balance a real thing?
Episode 26 - Perrin Beatty
How businesses help build communities
Political Accountability
Episode 25 - Mike Jeffery
Does the military have an addicted culture?
Canada's Defence Procurement Problems
Episode 24 - Sheldon Fernandez
The Grind - getting to good and then great
Regulating AI
Episode 23 - Alaina Mundy
The Graceful Leader
The Curious Leader
Episode 22 - Tim Fleiszer
Advice to parents on concussions in youth sports
Becoming a Champion
When Canada had a seat at the table
Leaving a successful career to help others
A masterclass on the UN Security Council
We bought a boat?
Escape from Iran - smugglers, guns, and freedom
Episode 21 - Arjun Grewal
What the heck is a polyglot?
The Rewards of Service
How to lead with humility
Episode 20 - Stephanie Shapiro
Surviving the Holocaust
Turkey for Vegetarians
Episode 19 - Sarah Goldfeder
Transition to emission free vehicles
Your past does not define your future
The power of the Peace Corps
Episode 18 - Randy Turner
The Evolution of Thinking
The Power of Perseverance
How the elite set goals
A Eulogy of Brian Mulroney
Episode 17 - Karen McCrimmon
Integrity and politics - an uncommon pairing
The Morning Routine - taking care of yourself to serve people better
Learning to Lead
Looking to the past to secure the future
Episode 16 - Calvin Chrustie
An orca and the art of negotiation
A summer job, a punch in the face, and lessons for life - NSP Shorts (Calvin Chrustie)
Episode 15 - Peter Tilley
Looking for life's purpose - NSP Shorts (Peter Tilley)
A Life's Journey; from addiction, to sobriety, to fulfillment
Who is guarding the Canadian way of life? Well...it's you!
Surviving a helicopter crash...and a pitchfork
Alone in a crowd
Episode 14 - Jennie Carignan
To mentor or not to mentor, that is the question!
A chainsaw, a bridge, and a lesson in surviving failure
No one is good at everything; fail, recover, and excel
What to do when a bomb destroys your apartment; a user's guide
Episode 13 - Peter MacKay
How getting fired might have launched this famous Canadian
Gratitude, anti-fragility, and prosperity for our children
The tipping point; a journey to a balanced life
Episode 12 - Alastair Luft
Getting out of your own way to improve happiness and resiliency
A first hand account of the realities of war
Renting two airliners without permission and not getting fired
The moral compass in combat
Joining the Army on a bet
A machine gun, a broken ankle, and a lesson on failure - NSP Shorts (Steve MacBeth)
NSP Shorts - Introduction
Surviving extreme adversity - NSP Shorts (Walt Natynczyk)
Episode 11 - Michel Maisonneuve
Episode 10 - Robyn Hulan
Episode 9 - Steve MacBeth
Episode 8 - Robert Fowler (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 7 - Farid Yaghini
Episode 6 - Walt Natynczyk
Episode 5 - Colleen Forestier
Episode 4 - Shoaib Rahim
Episode 1 - Robert Fowler (Part 1 of 2)
Episode 3 - Marie-Claude Arguin
Episode 2 - Austin Douglas
Why am I doing this?
What is the NSP all about?