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The Squad Room — 195 episodes

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John Delony Just Wants You to Chill Out: Tools for Building a Non-Anxious Life

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What I’ve Learned: The Impacts Can Last Forever with Jeff McGreevy

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Where Do Cops Go When They’re The Ones That Need Help? with Shawn Thomas

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12 Warrior Principles to Reclaim and Recalibrate Your Life with Travis Mills

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What I’ve Learned: Travis Gribble on How Your Career and Life Can Change on One Call

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Are We Lonely? How Loneliness, Disconnection, and Isolation Are Becoming the Silent Killer of First Responders with Jeremy Nobel

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Becoming Anti-Fragile: Confronting Fears and Insecurity to Become a Better Version of Yourself with Sabrina Reich

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Facing Evil: Confronting the Deadliest Mass Shooter in History and the Aftermath of What Followed with Josh Bitsko

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You Are a Work In Progress: Evolving and Reclaiming Your Identity Outside Public Service

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My Bad Haircut: What Trivial Things Can Teach Us About Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience

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How I Fell Apart. PLUS Details On Our Men’s Retreat for First Responders and Veterans in November

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Coming Home: From Combat to Car Stops and Finding the Strength to Walk Away to Save Yourself with Dave Boyd

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What Eddie Van Halen Taught Me About Self-Awareness Before He Died

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18 Lessons from 18 Years as a Cop: What I Wish I Knew, Mistakes Made, and Lessons Learned

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Matthew Thomas on Successful Marriages, Working Through Hard Things, Promoting and Leading From Any Rank

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This is Your Brain on Cop Work with Dr. Rick Hanson: Processing Stress and Trauma, How to Find Gratitude for the Hard Parts, and How to Survive Your Career

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The Heart of a Warrior: Finding Purpose After Your Own Death with Brandon Griffith

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Are You Worried You’re a Micromanager? Stop Doing These Things Right Now!

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Dealing with Death: Navigating Grief and Guilt to Find Joy After The Death of a LEO Spouse with Whitney Allen

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Just Got Promoted? Don’t Make These Mistakes: 11 Tips for New Supervisors to Help You Ease the Transition, Build Trust, Establish Your Presence, and Lead.

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Olivia Mead of Yoga For First Responders on Destigmatizing Warrior Cultures, Improving Resilience Through Physical Work, and Reducing the Stress of Police Careers

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Jason Piccolo of The Protectors On Leaving Law Enforcement, Transitioning to Civilian Life, Finding Purpose and Meaning in Our Work.

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4 Conversations You Should Be Having as a Leader (and 4 You Should NEVER Have!)

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You Only Have 4000 Weeks in Your Life. Don’t Spend It Paying Your Agency When You’re Off Duty. Try This Instead.

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What I’ve Learned: Cultivating Resilience by Doing the Work with Kyle Stubbs

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You Must Lead Yourself to Lead Others with Errol Doebler

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Storytelling School: Become a Fearless Public Speaker to Accelerate Your Career with Kymberlee Weil

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3 Universal Laws of Leadership You Must Know to Succeed as a Cop

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Navigating the Hard Parts: How to Suffer Well and Build Resilience with Richard Goerling

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Need More Work/Life Balance? Listen to This!

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15 Secrets of Leadership That No One Wants to Tell You About

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Will to Thrive: How Humor and Music Can Create Resilience After a Line of Duty Death with Charlie from Ten Eight Memes

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5 Ways to Deal with Negative People at Work

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161: 9 Tactics of Positive Discipline to Get Massive Results From Your People

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160: Creative Cop: Chasing Suspects and Spotlights and Why Creativity is Important for Cops with Tyler Ashley

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159: Crucial Communication: How to Be a Better Leader, Boss & Partner Using Uncommon Skills and Technologies with Jeff Halstead

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158: Mastering Mindfulness: How to Create Your Own Practice to Improve Your Life with Wendy Hummell

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157: 8 Ways to Detach from Work After Your Shift

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156: What I’ve Learned: Cancer, Addiction, Death and Divorce Can’t Keep Me Down with Sgt. Mike McGrew.

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155: 7 Discipline Failures You Might Be Making

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154: Can You Be Happy? How to Fight Negativity, Cynicism, and Anger to Live a Fulfilling Life with Bridget Truxillo

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153: Briefing Topic: 6 Ways to Boost Your Resilience

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152: The Future of Training: How Networking and Online Training Will Change Law Enforcement

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151: The Brain Behind the Trigger: How Neuroscience is Builds a Better Shooter with Dustin Salomon.

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150: What I’ve Learned From a Life Undercover: Dope Buys, Gun Rips and Learning From Your Mistakes with Jeff Smith.

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149: Is Anger Ruining Your Life? How Stress, Vices, and Agency Politics Can Kill You with The Angry Viking Dr. Trevor Wilkins

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148: Porn Addiction, Policing and PTSD: How to Take Control of Your Demons, Lead, and Succeed with Scott Medlin.

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147: We’ve Always Done It This Way: Bringing Police Training Out of the Dark Ages with Adam Haidary of @PolicePosts and Be Effective.

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146: From Widow to Warrior: How Her Husband’s Suicide Showed Her How to Save Others with Kim Colegrove

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145: Mindfulness Saved My Life: Breaking Misconceptions from Spec Ops to Cops with US Navy SEAL Commander (ret) Jon Macaskill

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144: Married to a Cop: How Your Job is Affecting Your Relationships, Your Communication, and Your Future with Cyndi Doyle of Code 4 Couples

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143: Leadership Masterclass: How to Handle Promotion, Demotion, Failure, Media Scrutiny, and Tough Decisions with Nick Metz

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142: Changing a Broken Culture: How One Officer’s Suicide Changed an Entire Department with Lorenzo Glenn

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141: Longevity and Health Through Nutrition with Robb Wolf

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140: Creating a New Model of Peer Support Using Technology with Bruce Valles

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139: When the Warrior Comes Home: Confronting Trauma, Stress & PTSD with Jen Satterly

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138: Winning the War Inside Your Head with Delta Force Veteran Tom Satterly

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137: How to Have a Successful Marriage with Victoria Newman

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136: Protecting Your Privacy with Pete James of OfficerPrivacy.Com

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135: The Stoic Cop with Bill Mauro: How an Ancient Philosophy Is the Perfect Antidote to Modern Times

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134: Serving Those in Service with James Geering of the Behind the Shield Podcast

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133: Dealing with Toxic People at Work: What to Do When You Have an Arsonist in the Office with Pete Havel

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132: How to Lead Yourself First with Mike Doyle of Tactical Tangents

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131: What I’ve Learned: Dennis Benigno of Street Cop Training

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130: When Your Trauma Explodes with Nick Wilson of The Resiliency Project

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129: A Widow’s Journey with Carmen East

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128: Creating a Winning Mindset with Brian Willis: Leadership Lessons For Police.

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127: Be Your Own First Responder with Tony Blauer

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126: How to Move Forward, Lead & Win with Dakota Meyer

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125: You Can’t Out Train a Bad Diet with First In Nutrition’s Jonathan Montgomery

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124: Building Resilience with JP Dinnell

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123: What I Wish I Knew: Mistakes, Lessons & Hard Wins with SWAT Officer Justin Walker

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122: Where Do We Go From Here?

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121: Deliberate Discomfort: Overcoming Fear, Creating Courage, and Winning Your Battles with Jason Van Camp

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120: Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement with Dr. Kevin Gilmartin

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119: Leading Yourself Through Change with NYPD Sgt. Aaron Lohman aka Huge Fat Loser

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118: Creating Calm: PTSD, War Trauma and Healing with Tom Voss

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117: Ryan Michler on How to Win When Others Are Falling Apart

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116: Briefing Topic: Are You in the Arena?

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115: Making Yourself Hard to Kill with Matt The Operational Athlete

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114: Leading Ourselves and Others During a Crisis with Traver Boehm

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113: Cardiologist and Police Lieutenant Jon Sheinberg on Heart Health for First Responders.

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112: Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman on Being a Modern Sheepdog

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111: Live from ProForce with @911Strong and @DispatcherKristen

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110: Shots Fired, Officer Down with Officer Josh Comitale: Will to Survive, Winning Mindset, and the Warrior Spirit

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109: Longevity, Seeking Promotions, Leadership and Advice with Jason Hoschouer

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108: From Hard Charging to Hard Drinking: Alcoholism, Treatment and Recovery with Sgt. Joey Rafferty

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107: Your Mindset is Everything with POW Capt. Charlie Plumb | Cultivating Resilience, Gratitude & Awareness

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106: Building Strength in Your Brain and Biceps with Mark Bell

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105: Creating a Legacy by Serving Something Bigger Than Yourself with Special Forces Lt. Col. Scott Mann

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104: Excuses, Obstacles, and Living a Fearless Life with Miranda and Julian Alcarez of Street Parking

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Ep 103: Becoming Mindful Warriors with Lt. Richard Goerling

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Ep 102: Briefing Training: What’s Your Oath? How to Identify Your Personal Values

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Ep 101: Lt. Jim Glennon of Calibre Press on Surviving the Streets

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Episode 100! Learning from Your Failures and Moving Forward with Traver Boehm

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Ep 99: Ending First Responder Suicides with Dan Jarvis of 22Zero.Org

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Briefing Topic: Why Are You Here Redux

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Briefing Topic: Held Assumptions vs. Opportunity Statements

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Ep 96: Training Your Mind to Train Your Body with Officer Greg Parker

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Briefing Topic: The S.W.A.T. Analysis

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Briefing Topic: What’s Your 20?

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

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Ep 92: The B.A.D.G.E.S. of Your Life.

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

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Ep 90: Post-Traumatic Stress to Post-Traumatic Growth with Shaun O’Gorman

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Ep 89: Briefing Topic: We Need a Better Marketing Plan

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Ep 88: Nothing Happens on the Sidelines with Seal Team 3 Sniper JP Dinnell

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

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Ep 86: Building Resilience from Personal Tragedy with Eric Hodgdon

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Ep 85: Chasing Cartels and Congress with DEA Chief James Capra

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EP 84: Thriving After an Officer-Involved Shooting with Chuck Rylant

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Ep 83: What Makes an Uncivilized Man with Traver Boehm

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Ep 82: Rob Shaul of Mountain Tactical Institute on Physical Training for Tactical Athletes

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Episode 81: Kelly Starrett on Lifestyle Optimization for Tactical Athletes, Sheepdogs and Warriors

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Ep 80: SEAL Team 6 Vet Andy Stumpf with Lessons from Hostile Territories

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Ep 79: Briefing Topic – Be The One

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Ep 78: Q&A How Do I Get Hired?

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Ep 77: Sgt. Kevin Briggs, the “Guardian of the Golden Gate” on Suicide Intervention and Resilience

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Ep 76: Developing Your Warrior Mindfulness with Lt. Richard Goerling

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Ep 75: Going Undercover and Through Hell with ATF Agent and Best Selling Author Jay Dobyns

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Ep 74: Traver Boehm and 8 Steps for Overcoming Divorce and Dealing with Grief

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Ep 73: Developing Self-Awareness and Leadership with Bernard Melekian

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Ep 72: Major Josh Mantz Was Shot and Killed in Iraq, and He’s Here to Tell the Story

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Ep 71: Shots Fired, Officer Down with Bulletproof Fitness Creator Shelby Luttrell

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Ep 70: Adam La Reau of O2X on Performance for Tactical Athletes

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Ep 69: Building Resilience and Defeating Negative Behavior with Dr. Jay Nagdimon of the LAPD

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Ep 68: Briefing Topic: Why Are You Here?

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Ep 67: Ryan Michler of Order of Man on Being a Modern Warrior

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Ep 66: Tony Horton, Creator of P90X on Living Large

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Ep 65: Winning the Gunfight Before It Starts with LAPD SWAT’s Scott Reitz

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Ep 64: My Dark Companion: PTSD, Depression and Suicide with Shaun O’Gorman of The Strong Life Project

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Ep 63: Instagram Sensation @PoliceFitnessNutrition Founder Sgt. Wilson on Community and Accidental Leadership

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Ep 62: Lt. Colonel Dave Grossman on the Bulletproof Mind

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Ep 61: Briefing Topic: Can You Fight in the Shade?

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Ep 60: Chief Steve Pitts on Resilience and Taking Care of Your Officers

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Ep 59: Portland SWAT Officer Nick Frankus on Confidence: How to Get it, Keep it, and Make Sure It’s Real.

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Ep 58: A Passion for Helping Cops with Chief Jeff Halstead, Founder of Hope4Blue.org

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Ep 57: Tony Blauer on Violent Aggression and Managing Fear

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Ep 56: Briefing Topic: The 5 Questions

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Ep 55: Mark Rippetoe and Strength Training for the Tactical Athlete

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Ep: 54 Briefing Topic: Why You Should Be Obsessed with Failure

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Ep 53: The Will to Survive with Green Beret Kevin Flike

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Ep 52: Shift Briefing: Turning Pro

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Ep 51: Shots Fired! with Sgt. Rick Burkmier of Scottsdale Police Department

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Ep 50: I Was a Dirty Cop with Former LAPD Officer Ruben Palomares

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Ep 49: Greg Amundson on Building a Positive Practice and Following Your Path

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Ep 48: 2016 Year in Review

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Ep 47: Developing the Mindset of a Modern Gunfighter with Green Beret Aaron Barruga

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Ep 46: The Return of Traver Boehm: Darkness, Wilderness and Living with Death

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Ep 45: John Welbourn NFL Veteran, Founder of CrossFit Football and Power Athlete HQ on How To Be A Tactical Athlete

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Ep 44: Dr. ACE on Naturopathic Medicine, Fake Sugars and How Your Body Can Heal Itself

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Ep 43: UFC Star and Green Beret Tim Kennedy On Being Hard to Kill and How He Almost Became a Cop

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Ep 42: The Journey from Fat to Fit with @huge_fat_loser NYPD Ofc. Aaron Lohman

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Ep 41: Doc Parsley Returns! Sleep, Adrenal Fatigue, and Why Your Hypothalamus Gives You Man Boobs

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Ep 40: Lt. Col. Scott Mann on Trust, Leadership, and Why Its Your Job to Rebuild America

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Ep 39: CrossFit Games Winner and OPEX Founder James FitzGerald

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Ep 38: Dr. David Klinger, former LAPD, on Officer-Involved Shootings, Managing Stress and Visualizing Success in Lethal Encounters

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Ep 37: MotorCop Wants to Know How Is Your Financial Health?

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Ep 36: Green Beret Aaron Barruga Knows What Its Like to Get Shot At

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Ep 35: Cardiologist and Lieutenant Dr. Jon Sheinberg on Heart Health

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Ep 34: KP from @FitCops on Creating a Social Media Movement

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Ep 33: Navy SEAL David Silverman on Leveling Up, and Working with High Performing Teams

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Ep 32: Creating from a place of scarcity

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Ep 31: George Vrotsos of PremeditatedFitness.com and author of Lean & Fierce: Tactical Fitness for Sheepdogs

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Ep 30: Whole Life Challenge Tips and Recap

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Ep 29: Become a Culinary Ninja with Paleo Nick

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Ep 28: Getting Strong & Lean w/ RP Strength CEO Nick Shaw

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Ep 27b: 8 Minute Guided Meditation

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Ep 27a: An Intro to Guided Meditation

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Ep 26: Between Chief and Coach with Chief Jim Band

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Ep 25: The Photograph

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Ep 24: CrossFit Games Athlete and Hayward PD Chief Diane Urban

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Ep 23: Traver Boehm on the Year to Live Project

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Ep 22: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of 2015 w/ Traver Boehm

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Ep 21: Navy SEAL Clint Bruce on Leadership, Mentorship, and Being Better Than Excellent

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Ep 20: Andy Petranek on CrossFit, Performance Optimization and the Whole Life Challenge

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Ep 19: SWAT Sergeant and CrossFit Games Athlete Freddy Camacho on Night shift, and the importance of Beer and Kool-Aid

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Ep 18: Minisode “The One You Feed”

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Ep 17: Navy SEAL Mikal Vega on Traumatic Brain Injury, Surviving PTSD, and How Doctors Nearly Killed Him

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Ep 16: Scott McGee: SWAT Officer, Wodcast Podcast co-host and Eternal Optimist

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Ep 15: Living a CrossFit life with Sergeant, CrossFit Games Athlete and Entreprenuer Bryan Wadkins

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Ep 14: Get Your Grill On with Chef Joel Chapman

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Ep 13: Mobility, Stability and Your Front Butt w/ Dr. Steve Politis

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Ep 12: Change is Hard and I’m Being a Baby About It

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Ep 11: Finding Balance in Life and Leadership with Ed Aceves

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Ep 010: Doc Kirk Parsley and Optimizing Your Sleep

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Ep 009: “Better is Better” w/ Traver Boehm

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Ep 008: Healing your Back and Your Body with Foundation Training w/ Dr. Eric Goodman

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Ep 007: With Help, Life Gets Better. PTSD with Dr. Joel Fay

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Ep 006: “Maybe It’ll Save My Life”

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Ep 005: The Excuses We Tell Ourselves

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Ep 004: You Are an Athlete, You Need a Coach!

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Ep 3: Greg Amundson – You as a Tactical Athlete

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Episode 002: The Affliction of My Current Condition

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