Be The Voice Podcast

DAMIAN IRVINE is a police veteran with 41 years of service. In this episode, George and Damian had an in-depth conversation about Damian's career in law enforcement, including his experiences with operational challenges, and career progression through various police roles. Damian shared insights about managing high-performing units, transitioning between specialised and general duties, and his...

CLEVE SALMON is a police veteran from Victoria, Australia. He is the founder of TJF | The Journey Forward, an organisation that began as a blog and way for Cleve to deal with the trauma of policing work through writing. It has now evolved into something much bigger, becoming a powerful community that is doing amazing work to help emergency service / front line workers deal with the effects of some...

ADRIAN CASEY is a police veteran with a long and distinguished career here in Australia. His 35 years of experience includes uniform work, rural policing in one officer stations, undercover activities, criminal investigation and other forms of investigative work. He has stories to tell that are the stuff of movies. His experience is also a credible basis from which to give sound advice to other fr...

DAVE RAYMOND BM APM is recently retired police officer with a distinguished career of 36 years. He is a decorated officer recognised for his bravery and recipient of numerous awards including Australian Bravery medal, QPS Valour Award, Australian Police medal, Commendation for Brave Conduct, Meritorious Service Medal and a range of other commendations. George and Dave engaged in a detailed discuss...

KEITH BANKS is best selling author of the books titled Gun to the Head and Drugs, Guns and Lies. Keith is also one of Queensland’s most decorated police officers with a twenty year career in the QPS. Today he is a highly regarded keynote speaker and mental health advocate.  In this episode we spoke about his role with the Police Veterans of Victoria association and work as a peer support, and also...

DALE WEIGHTMAN, aka Zulu, is a police veteran and long serving member of the Queensland Police Service. He worked in uniform for a short time, then embarked on a remarkable career in criminal intelligence, undercover, and special operations. In this discussion with George, Zulu speaks about his career which began in the mid 1970s, his various postings, stories of operations he was involved in, and...

DON MCKAY has been a police officer for many years and is a close friend with whom George worked back in his special operations days. In this episode Don talks about his experience surviving cancer, specifically Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. The discussion, which took place in 2021 evolved around a range of related topics such as going through chemotherapy, maintaining a positive attitude and healthy min...

KEITH BANKS - This is a follow up conversation with Keith, this time in reference to his second book titled ‘Gun To The Head’  George talked with Keith about his experience in tactical operations, touched on Operation Flashdance, and delved into his experience dealing with the aftermath and years of PTSD. Thankfully Keith came through the ordeal and now his contribution to mental health and well-b...

CASSANDRA ALEXANDER RN (aka Cassie) is a nurse.  She spent ten years of her career working in a burns ward of a US hospital, loving her job and the tough but important role of caring for burns victims. Then we were all struck by the COVID19 pandemic in 2020.  So Cassie took her skills working in what are referred to as isolation wards, to become a COVID ward nurse.  That’s when things changed. So...

KEITH BANKS is the author of the best selling book titled ‘Drugs, Guns and Lies’. For this episode, Keith sat with George and discussed his life as an undercover cop during Queensland’s most notoriously corrupt period in history that ended with the Fitzgerald Inquiry. Keith describes what it was like to live life as an undercover agent, building relationships with people he would have to ultimatel...

GEORGE LEE SYE is host of the Be The Voice podcast. In this very first, and short episode he explains what the intention of this podcast the the book of the same name is about and why each has been named Be The Voice. Please leave comments as you see fit, we’d love to get your feedback. FOR MORE INFORMATION about George you can visit his web site of the same name - https://georgeleesye.com/   BE T...