The Squad Room

    The Squad Room is a podcast devoted to optimizing the physical, mental, and emotional health and wellness of police officers, and law enforcement personnel. We tackle any subject that might improve first responder wellness and commitment to ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities we serve. Physical fitness, sleep and sleeping disorders, identifying PTSD, mindfulness and meditation, the importance of mentors and coaches - the list goes on!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • You Must Lead Yourself to Lead Others with Errol Doebler

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

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

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

  • Need More Work/Life Balance? Listen to This!

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

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

  • 5 Ways to Deal with Negative People at Work

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

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

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

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

  • 157: 8 Ways to Detach from Work After Your Shift

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

  • 155: 7 Discipline Failures You Might Be Making

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

  • 153: Briefing Topic: 6 Ways to Boost Your Resilience

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 141: Longevity and Health Through Nutrition with Robb Wolf

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

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

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

  • 137: How to Have a Successful Marriage with Victoria Newman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 129: A Widow’s Journey with Carmen East

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

  • 127: Be Your Own First Responder with Tony Blauer

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

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

  • 124: Building Resilience with JP Dinnell

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

  • 122: Where Do We Go From Here?

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

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

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

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

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

  • 116: Briefing Topic: Are You in the Arena?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Ep 103: Becoming Mindful Warriors with Lt. Richard Goerling

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

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

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

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

  • Briefing Topic: Why Are You Here Redux

  • Briefing Topic: Held Assumptions vs. Opportunity Statements

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

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

  • Briefing Topic: What’s Your 20?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Ep 86: Building Resilience from Personal Tragedy with Eric Hodgdon

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

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

  • Ep 83: What Makes an Uncivilized Man with Traver Boehm

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

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

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

  • Ep 79: Briefing Topic – Be The One

  • Ep 78: Q&A How Do I Get Hired?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Ep 68: Briefing Topic: Why Are You Here?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Ep 57: Tony Blauer on Violent Aggression and Managing Fear

  • Ep 56: Briefing Topic: The 5 Questions

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

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

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

  • Ep 52: Shift Briefing: Turning Pro

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

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

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

  • Ep 48: 2016 Year in Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Ep 39: CrossFit Games Winner and OPEX Founder James FitzGerald

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • Ep 32: Creating from a place of scarcity

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

  • Ep 30: Whole Life Challenge Tips and Recap

  • Ep 29: Become a Culinary Ninja with Paleo Nick

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

  • Ep 27b: 8 Minute Guided Meditation

  • Ep 27a: An Intro to Guided Meditation

  • Ep 26: Between Chief and Coach with Chief Jim Band

  • Ep 25: The Photograph

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

  • Ep 23: Traver Boehm on the Year to Live Project

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

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

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

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

  • Ep 18: Minisode “The One You Feed”

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

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

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

  • Ep 14: Get Your Grill On with Chef Joel Chapman

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

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

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

  • Ep 010: Doc Kirk Parsley and Optimizing Your Sleep

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

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

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

  • Ep 006: “Maybe It’ll Save My Life”

  • Ep 005: The Excuses We Tell Ourselves

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

  • Ep 3: Greg Amundson – You as a Tactical Athlete

  • Episode 002: The Affliction of My Current Condition

  • The Squad Room Episode 001: Hello, My Name Is…

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