Episodes
#177: Personal Safety with The Braid Babes
Aug. 17, 2022
Today we are talking to Tori, Emmily, and Chelsea from an amazing company called Braid Babes. We brought them on the show because they have an in-home service business where they send women to your house to braid your hair a…
#176: Hunting Killer Bigfoot
Aug. 10, 2022
Today we are teaching you how to hunt the elusive “killer bigfoot.” The method we are using to hunt this creature is of course, our own selective reality! So, for todays show we are talking about the different cognition bias…
#175: Texas Association of School Psychologists
Aug. 3, 2022
This week we are releasing a podcast we did with Christopher Ponce, Brook Roberts and Dr Rachel Team from the Texas Association of School Psychologists, who have their own podcast called TASP Talks. We recorded this episode …
#174: Good Samaritan or Vigilante?
July 27, 2022
Today we are talking about a recent trend that we’ve noticed where armed civilians are intervening in situations that would normally be handled by the police. In the episode we bring up examples that show the benefit of this…
#173: The Illusion of Choice
July 20, 2022
Today we are talking to our friends and former guests on the show, Andy Riise and Jon Macaskill. Both of these gentlemen, which is a term I use lightly in this case, bring a wealth of knowledge and experience they have gaine…
#172: The Guarantee On The Box
July 13, 2022
Today we are talking about a problem that we have noticed in several different industries that involve an over reliance on certification to the point where certificates have more to do with comfort than they do with complian…
#171: Insider Threats with RaSheed Lemon
July 6, 2022
Today we are talking to RaSheed Lemon. RaSheed has an incredible amount of experience as a Marine, Soldier, State Trooper and now as a supervisor at a federal law enforcement agency. RaSheed first met Greg in Afghanistan whe…
#170: Places We Don't Expect Trouble
June 29, 2022
Today we are talking about different locations that people frequently travel to that don’t seem like they could be dangerous, even though they often attract criminal activity. The main location we focus on in this episode is…
#169: Training To Make Better Decisions
June 22, 2022
This week we are publishing an episode that we originally recorded for the Excellence in Training Podcast that our friend and colleague Brian Willis hosts as part of his Excellence in Training Academy. Brian originally reach…
#168: Chasing Symptoms
June 8, 2022
Today we are going to be talking about mass shooting events, and specifically school shootings, through the lenses of HBPR&A. We are doing this in order to explain, as best as we can, how and why these events occur in the fi…
#167: Self Inflicted Cognitive Dissonance
June 1, 2022
This week we are discussing the concept of Cognitive Dissonance and how it affects our perception of events. During the conversation we talk about things like perception, orientation, stereotypes, and how individual expressi…
#166: Perceptions & Consequences
May 25, 2022
This week we are talking about perception, second and third order effects, and how ideological analysis causes us to misinterpret events. We explain these concepts by using two recent police officer involved shootings that h…
#165: Broken Like Me
May 18, 2022
This week we are talking to Joseph Reid who is the founder and executive director for an international mental health support group called Broken People. Joseph is also the best selling author of Broken Like Me; an Insiders t…
#164: Words That Influence Behavior
May 11, 2022
This week we are talking about how words can influence your behavior. Now, most of you know that we typically care more about what someone DOES, rather than what someone SAYS but obviously, the words that people choose to us…
#163: Adam Blanton
May 4, 2022
This week we are joined by long time listener and friend Adam Blanton to talk about the work he has been doing to combat school violence and he explains how violence prevention works at the community level. Adam is a ten-yea…
#162: Lantern Rescue
April 27, 2022
This week we are joined by Gabrielle and Whitney from Lantern Rescue who we had the pleasure of meeting when they attended one of our in-person training courses not long ago. Lantern Rescue is a US based, non-profit that fig…
#161: Chasing Physics
April 20, 2022
For this weeks episode we decided to release a conversation that we had with police trainer and former Left of Greg podcast guest, Brian Willis. This conversation was originally recorded last year for Brian’s Excellence in T…
#160: Meet Your Friends Cortisol and Dopamine
April 6, 2022
In this weeks episode we are talking about Adaptability and Resilience within the context of learning, survival, and training for the real event. In our discussion, we give our definitions of these terms and we talk about ho…
#159: Is it a WEAPON or a TOOL?
March 23, 2022
In this weeks episode we are once again talking about the importance of understanding a persons INTENT rather than focusing on their motive. For this episode we are talking about how the difference between a weapon and a too…
#158: A Responsibility and a Duty
March 16, 2022
In this weeks episode we are talking about the legal rights and responsibilities that schools have when it comes to the safety and security of the children who attend those schools. Although we start the discussion talking a…
#157: It Depends
March 9, 2022
In this weeks episode we are answering a question that was sent in by one of our listeners. Since the question deals directly with law enforcement training we decided to bring on a very special guest and friend, Brian Willis…
#156: Challenging Your Assumptions
Feb. 23, 2022
In this weeks episode we are talking about challenging our assumptions, specifically when it comes training and education. Due to the fact that we all fall victim to confirmation bias, we tend to assume that some events or o…
#155: People Want Their SAY Not Their WAY
Feb. 16, 2022
In this weeks episode we are diving deep into a descriptive term we use all the time on this show that many of you are probably familiar with called “People want their say, not their way.” At the beginning of the episode Gre…
#154: Don't Turn This Robbery Into a Homicide
Feb. 9, 2022
In this weeks episode we are talking about inevitability, and how our own perspective and biases can become a contributing factor to the outcome of a situation. During the episode we talk about how personal attitudes combin…