Blue Grit Radio: the Police Performance Podcast: Mindset, Wellness, Leadership
Welcome to Blue Grit Radio: the podcast for police officers, first responders, and service-minded leaders who want to elevate their performance in career and life. Hosted by Eric Tung, an active police leader, trainer, and mentor, this show explores topics, lessons, and resources, for listeners with to achieve professional excellence and personal resilience.
Each episode features raw conversations, actionable insights, and interviews with leaders in law enforcement, wellness experts, veterans, and high performers who share their lessons on overcoming adversity, leading with purpose, and creating positive change in their first responder and organizational culture.
Whether you’re a rookie, veteran officer, aspiring leader, or just passionate about growth and service, Blue Grit Radio will help you strengthen your mindset, improve your health, and elevate your impact on the job and in life.
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- Police leadership and team building
- Officer mental health and wellness
- Navigating toxic police culture
- Resilience, mindset, and Stoicism
- Career development and promotion
- Fitness, family, and fulfillment beyond the badge
Host Eric Tung is an 18-year police officer currently serving as a Patrol Operations Commander and wellness coordinator in Washington State. He is an author, host, speaker, and industry voice focused on building critical mindset, wellness, recruiting, hiring, retention, police leadership, organizational health and community engagement.
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Blue Grit Radio: the Police Performance Podcast: Mindset, Wellness, Leadership
308: Why Police Fail: Media, Public Relations and PIO, w/ Julie Parker
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In this conversation, Eric and Julie discuss the evolution of law enforcement communication, emphasizing the importance of transparency, authenticity, and community engagement. Julie shares her journey from media to law enforcement and highlights the need for police departments to take control of their narratives through effective use of social media. They explore the challenges of communicating during crises, the role of public information officers, and the significance of understanding the audience. The discussion also touches on the importance of sharing positive stories to build trust within the community.
- Effective policing requires strong communication and trust-building.
- Law enforcement has evolved significantly in public information sharing.
- Police departments should be the first to share news, good or bad.
- Authenticity in communication fosters credibility and trust.
- Transparency is crucial, even when sharing negative news.
- Crisis communication requires urgency and authenticity.
- Elected officials should allow law enforcement to lead during crises.
- Community engagement is essential for building trust.
- Public information officers play a critical role in communication strategies.
- Storytelling is key to effective communication in law enforcement.
Julie's unique career path spans from an Emmy & Edward R. Murrow Award-winning Washington, DC, television news reporter to the world of law enforcement media relations, where she served two large suburban DC departments as a lead spokesperson and communications strategist. Julie began training police public information officers across the country in 2012, became a regular guest lecturer at the FBI National Academy, served as Senior Media Advisor for the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and now focuses full time (and then some) on Julie Parker Communications.
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policing, community engagement, law enforcement communication, public information officers, crisis communication, transparency, trust building, social media, storytelling, leadership
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