Hard Corners with Tom Synan
Hard Corners is a term we used on SWAT when clearing buildings and rooms. Soft Corners were the things you could see, this was not the biggest concern. It was the Hard Corners that had the hidden dangers and challenges. Focus on the Hard Corners and you expose those challenges.That is what we will be doing with this Podcast. Exposing the tough, challenging and dangerous conversations. The conversation that make us uncomfortable and vulnerable. Rhetoric simplifies a topic in order to win an argument. I don’t care about winning arguments. I want to get into all the complexities of an issue. The raw, real and honest layers of an issue. That’s where understanding is found. Understand the human in each issue and we will learn the stories of humanity.
Episodes
14 episodes
Beyond Remission: A Story of Love in the World of Cancer
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:15:22
The Unspoken Forgiveness
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...
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1:32:58
The Resiliency of Forgiveness.
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 pic...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:13:36
The Faith of Forgiveness
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:08:05
Police Reform or Redefine Modern Policing?
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 cha...
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1:47:54
Understanding Psychedelics as Treatment
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...
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1:13:25
Social Justice
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...
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1:23:21
Understanding National and International Drug Policy
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 ...
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1:24:24
The Chiefs Roundtable
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, Chie...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:38:59
Fentanyl: What's Real? What's Myth?
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. Whic...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:19:26
Serial Killers & Mass Shooters: How Do People Get There?
Serial killers and active shooters fascinate us in part because most of us are not capable of comprehending how someone can be driven to commit such heinous acts of inhumanity. In this follow up to the “Super power of empathy” episode,...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:00:43
The Super Power of Empathy
Empathy can be both emotional and cognitive. A conscious decision to understand the plight of another. Empathy has been called “the currency that can change the world.” If it is so valuable, worth sharing, such a superpower; then why do w...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:06:12
Confidence in the Media?
The Founding Fathers believed one of the most critical principles to maintaining a democracy was a free press. So important they made it part of the 1st Amendment. As confidence in many institutions has diminished, including the ne...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:23:27
Generational Addiction and Empathy
I have often told the story of an entire family, an entire generation in my community dying from addiction, it changed my life as a cop and human being. I wanted to know how it impacted the third generation of addiction as a human being. <...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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