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.
Hard Corners with Tom Synan
Generational Addiction and Empathy
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Jesse
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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.
Not everyone that deals with addiction makes a choice. Shelley was exposed to the family “normal” of substance use at the age of 12. By 14 she was addicted to heroin, then fentanyl and on the streets. Today she helps others to be inspired in recovery.
Our host Tom Synan shares his side of the story and the empathy he felt for her, her family and others like her struggling with addiction.