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I didn’t want to create another women’s conference where women spend three days talking about what it’s like to be a woman in law-enforcement.

They already know. Duh.

What I kept hearing was that women wanted opportunities to get better at the actual job where they could train, hard practice skills, form, better connections, and be placed in rooms where they didn’t have to be the odd woman out or prove that they deserve to be there.

So that’s exactly why I built the Women in law-enforcement performance summit.

BJJ. Defensive tactics. Vehicle searches. Criminal interviews. Performance. Nutrition. Burnout. Mobility. And a network of women who take getting better very serious.

The women in law-enforcement performance summit is December 9-11 in Tempe, Arizona.

Comment SUMMIT and I’ll send you the training flyer and travel details so you can submit your training request today. 

I can understand why this Commander was so annoyed. He’s cleaning up after a Captain that he can’t fire.

This says a lot.

And, I know he’s not the only one dealing with this which is why we are running a leader survey on our website. It’s anonymous and it’s for leaders only.

Want to weigh in? Comment ROUNDTABLE to join our virtual roundtable discussion on Aug 24th.

I didn’t want to create another women’s conference where you leave inspired for 48 hours and then go right back to work with nothing you can actually use.

I wanted women to leave BETTER at the job.

Better prepared when s**t hits the fan.
Better connected to women they can call long after the conference ends.
Better equipped to navigate the career without letting the career consume their entire life.
And carrying practical skills back to their department that make the next training request easier to justify.

Because a well-connected woman is dangerous—and a well-trained one is even more so.

December 9–11 in Tempe, AZ, we’re doing it again: the Women in Law Enforcement Performance Summit.

If you’re on the road and want training that treats you like a cop first, get your training request in.

CTA: Comment SUMMIT and I’ll send you the details you can forward directly to your admin/training unit. Then send this to the women at your department you want sitting next to you in December.

HASHTAGS:

“You’ve never been a cop, so you wouldn’t understand.”

Peer supporters hear some version of this all the time.

And sometimes there’s something underneath it that the officer can’t—or doesn’t know how to—articulate yet.

Maybe they don’t have the language for what happened.
Maybe they don’t trust what will happen if they say it out loud.
Maybe explaining the culture feels exhausting.
Maybe “you wouldn’t understand” is simply easier than trying to figure out whether you’re safe enough to understand.

Shared experience can help create connection. But it isn’t the only way trust gets built.

Your job as a peer supporter isn’t to prove that you understand everything they’ve experienced. It’s to know how to listen, ask better questions, stay curious, recognize what isn’t being said and create enough safety for the conversation to keep going.

That is a skill. And it can be learned.

We teach this in the Advanced Peer Support Playbook.

Comment PLAYBOOK and I’ll send you both upcoming options: Oct. 20 virtual single-day training + Dec. 14–15 two-day in-person training in Chandler, AZ.

Everybody supports officer wellness until the budget meeting starts. 😂

And listen—I get it. Municipal budgets are finite. Departments have competing priorities. Not every wellness request can get funded.

But if burnout, turnover, injury, morale, peer-support overload and retention are showing up in your agency, wellness isn’t just a nice thing to do when there’s money left over.

Those problems have a cost too.

The better question isn’t: “How much are we spending on wellness?”

It’s: “What is it already costing us not to?”

👉🏽Send this to the person who has to defend the wellness budget every year.

If you wear body armor, stare at screens, drive for hours, clench your jaw, or spend half your shift with your shoulders somewhere near your ears…

your neck would like a fu***ng word. 😂

The small muscles at the base of the skull can hold a ridiculous amount of tension, and for some people that tension can contribute to headaches that seem to start around the base of the skull and travel upward.

Try this after shift:

Massage ball + yoga block.

Position the ball in the soft tissue just below the base of the skull, let the weight of your head create the pressure, and breathe.

This should feel like pressure—but do not press your head into the ball - no extra pressure needed.

Our approach to wellness is offering a few tools that help your body recover from what you repeatedly ask it to do.

Want more?

Comment GUIDE and I’ll send you our recovery guide.

You don’t wake up at year 20 with high blood pressure, poor sleep, chronic stress and a nervous system that forgot how to shut off.

You practiced your way there.

Police work asks your body to get very good at activation: elevated heart rate, increased vigilance, rapid decision-making, s**tty sleep schedules, adrenaline and repeatedly preparing for what might happen next.

And your body adapts.

Research has consistently found elevated cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular disease among law-enforcement officers compared with the general population.

So waiting until retirement to start caring about recovery is like standing at the bottom of Mt. Everest and finally deciding you should probably start training for the climb.

I’m not asking you to hold hands with your co-workers while I play the guitar but you need to start practicing the things you want your body to still be capable of doing 10, 20 and 30 years from now.

We teach officers how to do exactly that.

Comment NY and I’ll send you the details for our upcoming Burnout Recovery training in Erie County.

Police wellness programs be like:

“We know you’re understaffed, working mandatory OT, getting wrecked by court on your days off, afraid to use the resources we already have, and your supervisor is making everyone miserable…

…but have you tried ✨self-care✨?”

There’s nothing wrong with wellness resources.

The problem is expecting individual wellness tools to solve organizational problems.

Some problems require better coping skills and better systems.

Follow for more 😄

You don’t have to have a “bad call” to come home completely fu***ng exhausted.

Sometimes nothing happened.

But your brain still spent 10 hours scanning, predicting, assessing, listening, watching and preparing for what could happen.

That’s the part of hypervigilance we don’t talk about enough.

Eventually, being “on” can become your baseline—even when the situation no longer requires it.

And sitting on the couch scrolling for three hours isn’t necessarily recovery if your nervous system never got the message that the shift is over🫢

We unpack this (and a hell of a lot more) in Burnout Recovery for First Responders.

Comment ERIE or HOPEWELL and I’ll send you the info for our October trainings.

I’m blaming it on Clear+ but actually, you can probably travel just fine without a DL and cc but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you don’t need a rental car and have an amazing assistant back home.

Faaaack.
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