Hey Chaplain: The Police Wellness Podcast
The Hey Chaplain podcast is where cops encourage each other by sharing their wisdom and experience with the Chaplain. On Hey Chaplain you'll hear from dispatchers and federal agents, Sheriffs and US Marshals, as well as local detectives and patrolmen. From the LAPD to Scotland Yard, the guests on Hey Chaplain deliver advice and insights so that police officers everywhere can survive and thrive. The host, Jared Altic, has almost 30 years of experience serving and counseling military and law enforcement families. The show looks at both the humorous and traumatic sides of police life, sharing wisdom to create healthy cops both at work and at home. New podcast episodes about police life and chaplaincy are available on first, third, and fifth Mondays of each month. Look for occasional special bonus episodes! Share this podcast with a cop or someone who loves a cop.
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Text a Message to the Show This is a special milestone episode: number 099 (of the enumerated main episodes)! So here are ninety-nine ideas that I have not yet made into podcast episodes. Enjoy the look into the future publishing schedule and please keep an eye out for a topic for which you may be able to assist in m
Text a Message to the Show Steve Kellams from Blue Canary has devoted this season of his show to leadership topics and he brought me on to talk about informal leadership, because as a chaplain I have influence but no actual authority. We ended up talking about several wellness topics and some of my philosophy of chapl
Text a Message to the Show In this episode we"re talking to police Chief Kendra Brown. She"s one of over 300 police chiefs in America who happen to be women. She"s also happens to be a former participant in the Miss America pageants – not the usual starting place for most cops. So I wanted to talk to Chief Brown abo
Text a Message to the Show Every cop has a bump in the night story; sometimes those bumps happen in broad daylight. Today I"m talking to a veteran homicide and cold case detective from Kansas City named Stuart LIttlefield. Detective Littlefield was recommended to me because he"s a great story teller with a great stor
Text a Message to the Show When you first became a cop, you probably had a goal. You wanted to become a homicide detective, or a K9 handler, or you wanted to make the SWAT team. Maybe you"re on track to achieve that goal, but even if you do make it, what then? How do you go about getting promoted later in your caree
Text a Message to the Show Today we address one of the most frequent topics that I hear about in the police station, the great difficulty in recruiting Gen Z. My friend Jim Dudley co-authored a recent book on the subject, called "Recruitment & Retention of Gen-Z Law Enforcement Officers" and I brought Jim and his co-a