Send a text In this episode we speak with Gil and Meagan Guthrie. A young couple, still newlyweds and how Gil’s sudden cancer diagnoses turned their lives upside-down. It is not just the physical that can cause the most trauma but the sudden reaction that life as you know it has changed. Plans, dreams, hopes not as certain as they once were. Fear and anxiety an understandable side effect when life has pulled the rug from under you. An understanding that resilience is not just overcoming, it i...
May 12, 2025
1 hr 15 min
Send a text We continue our underlying theme of forgiveness in this powerfully emotional episode. We interview Kasey Ladd who grew up in the small town I police. Kasey lost his mother in the Who concert tragedy. He growing up in pain and anger set my personal car on fire in the police department parking lot while I was on duty. Kasey walks us through his healing. Anger-to-pain-to-wisdom. I held no anger towards Kasey. We never talked about that day with my car or the loss of his mother ...
Jan 24, 2025
1 hr 32 min
Send a text This is an astonishing story of tragedy and equally an astonishing story of resilience. Jeff shares a story of what the world saw was not what his home was. His brother punching a hole in the wall, his mother covers it up with a picture of the family smiling. A prophetic gesture that would dictate much of Jeff’s life. Some ask how much can one person take? Jeff Higgins lived that question as one-by-one his mother died after drinking and driving. Followed by his brother facin...
Dec 5, 2024
1 hr 13 min
Send a text It is so hard to forgive when someone betrays you, life doesn’t meet expectations, your world unexpectedly changes or when someone takes away the very thing you cherish the most. In a world of choices and consequences, the death of a son leads a father from picking up the shattered pieces, to his sons life being a beacon of hope and forgiveness, even for the person that sold the drugs ending his sons life. In this episode we explore the power of faith, hope and forgiv...
Nov 3, 2024
1 hr 8 min
Send a text Police reform has become a hotly debated topic in policing, public and politics. There are controversies on all sides. Is it divert or invest in police? Should reform include our communities and society? Has the role of policing changed so much that the term law enforcement is not enough to describe the need and service provided? Are police warriors or servants? Can they be and do it all? Our guests join us for one of the most comprehensive discussions on police reform...
Jul 31, 2023
1 hr 47 min
Send a text There was a time psychedelics were used to escape reality. Now they are being used to heal reality. In this episode we talk to Diane Goldstein with Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP). Sarko Gergarian, LEAP speaker and Peter Grayson, Director of Addiction and Recovery at Nushama psychedelic wellness clinic. Our guest discuss the use of psychedelics for first responder and military treating PTSD, depression, anxiety and other mental health treatment. What was once a drug seen...
Jul 7, 2023
1 hr 13 min
Send a text The Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio, Center for Social Justice- Gabriel Fletcher and Fanon Rucker join us to have an open, raw, sometimes uncomfortable conversation about police accountability, race and community. We ask the questions- is the criminal justice system fair and just? What is justice? How can we collaborate to improve policing as well our communities?
Jun 1, 2023
1 hr 23 min
Send a text For this episode we are joined by former General Counsel to the White House Office of Drug Policy Robert Kent. Drug policy in the U.S. has been shifting from enforcement to diversion, deflection and treating addiction as a chronic health condition. Robert takes inside national and international drug policy. Impact of illegal drug supply. Why his work is so important to him and the importance of treating the person, not just the addiction.
May 9, 2023
1 hr 24 min
Send a text This is a real, raw and perfectly imperfect conversation of policing, being a police leader and what it all means to be the human under the uniform. There are not enough words to thank and express my gratitude to Chief Thomas Wells, Chief Scott Hughes and Capt. Steve Saunders; for their incredible insight and opening up about their police careers, how the job has impacted their mental health as well the officers they serve with and the human journey. Thank you! This was re...
Mar 2, 2023
1 hr 38 min
Send a text Fentanyl: What is real? What is myth? Dr. Ryan Marino, Addiction Specialist and Toxicologist joins us via Zoom to discuss what fentanyl is and what it isn’t. His passion to ensure the media doesn’t help spread the myths. Which has gained the attention of high profile national media personalities. And, setting the record straight about fentanyl.
Jan 16, 2023
1 hr 19 min
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