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We hear it all the time. The “Culture” of the organization is responsible for …. The “Culture” is the reason why we are facing the challenges with, recruitment, retention, leadership, camaraderie, mental health, physical health … and the list goes on and on. The truth is exactly that. The culture of an organization is a byproduct of the behaviors its members are willing to accept. For you to change the culture of the organization you first must change the culture of you. If w

For first responders, the job doesn’t end when the shift does. The calls, the images, the responsibility all come home with you. Inside and outside the yellow tape, many carry the weight of what they’ve seen and experienced in silence. In this profession, strength has long been measured by endurance. Push through. Keep moving. Don’t let it show. Those expectations are reinforced early and rewarded often until the cost becomes impossible to ignore. The warning signs rarely app

You don’t walk away from a thirty-year career in law enforcement without a few scars to show for it. The unfortunate truth for most of us is that those scars and wounds were self-inflicted. I hear it all the time from first responders how the job did this and the job did that… The truth is, we have been blessed with the best job in the world; noble, filled with meaning and purpose. If it’s anything less than that for you, the likely culprit is the person staring back at you i