The Quiet Professional

Original Recording Date: 2025SEP03.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest - Michael W. Brown - A former DEA Senior Special Agent with 32 years of experience. Mike spent 20 years working overseas in the Middle East, Southeast Asia and his last foreign tour was as the DEA Country Attaché for Myanmar. Now, he's the global d...

Original Recording Date: 2025AUG25.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest - Nikki Burgett - A behavioral threat assessment specialist with a background in law enforcement, corporate security, and international counterterrorism. Nikki has worked in 24 countries as a contractor for the U.S. Department of State, instructing...

Original Recording Date: 2025AUG20.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guests Robert "Bobby" Ledogar - Navy veteran and former Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal. Author of LED: Being Brooklyn; release date TDB. Recent guest of the Urban Valor podcast! Peter "Pete" Forcelli - Retired ATF Deputy Assistant Director and former NY...

Original Recording Date: 2025AUG11.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Dennis Murphy – A 27-year member of the Government of Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE) where he conducted and led operational activities in national security. Now, Dennis is the Executive Vice President for Strider Technologies...

Original Recording Date: 2025JAN16.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Co-host John Simpson. Views and opinions of the participants are their own, unless otherwise stated. ----more---- TOPICS: Author Mark Grdovic speaks about his new book and a missing chapter in U.S. military history. Those Who Face Death: The Untold Story of Special Forces and the Iraqi Kurdish Resistance. A small group of Speci...

Original Recording Date: 2025JAN16.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Co-host John Simpson. Views and opinions of the participants are their own, unless otherwise stated. ----more---- TOPICS: Author Mark Grdovic speaks about his new book and a missing chapter in U.S. military history. Those Who Face Death: The Untold Story of Special Forces and the Iraqi Kurdish Resistance. A small group of Speci...

Original Recording Date: 2025APR11.  Views and opinions of the participants are their own, unless otherwise stated. ----more---- TOPICS: A discussion on transit safety from all angles. It's hard to beat the knowledge and experience contained by this group: David Cooper, Principal, Leading Mobility Consulting. Sarah Hamilton, Councillor, City of Edmonton. Keith Johnson, Superintendent, Edmonton Pol...

Original Recording Date: 2025JUL24.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Benjamin Freedland – Ben is a law enforcement consultant and founder of Strategic Informant Solutions, through which he trains agencies in informant management, intelligence collection, and operational integrity. Prior to this, Ben was a mid-level...

Original Recording Date: 2025JUL24.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Stephen Nagy – Stephen is a Professor at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the International Christian University. He is a senior fellow with several top-tier institutions focused on Asia-Pacific policy. Stephen was selected...

Original Recording Date: 2025JUL10.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Co-host John Simpson. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Jeff Felts – After 12 years of service in the U.S. Army and 20 years policing in metro Detroit, Jeff is now the President of Center Mass, Inc. and an advisory board member of the American Sniper Association. He speaks nationa...

Original Recording Date: 2025JUL09.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guests: Alan Treddenick - is the President and CEO of ATNOH Group, a global risk and public safety consulting company. Alan retired from CSIS and the RCMP with 30+ years in intel operations both domestic and abroad specializing in counter terrorism inves...

Original Recording Date: 2025JUN25.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Dr. Rodney Schmaltz – Dr. Schmaltz is a public speaker, author, and Professor of Psychology at MacEwan University. His insights have been featured at TEDx, international psychology and business conferences, and in media outlets including The Globe...

Original Recording Date: 2025JUN17.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Co-host John Simpson. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Bob Lewis – gave 30 years of service with the Collier County Sheriff's Office, in Naples, Florida (26 of which were spent within special operations). This included extensive experience in the areas of SWAT and Bomb Squad. Bob...

Original Recording Date: 2025JUN23.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Mubin Shaikh - a former under undercover human source for CSIS and agent with the RCMP Integrated National Security Enforcement Team. Mubin has infiltrated ISIS social media networks from 2012-2018. He is a SME who has spoken with both U.S. and Ca...

Original Recording Date: 2025JUN17.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guests: Prairie Region Directors Kevin Halwa and Jeff McGowan. National Police Federation: is the sole certified bargaining agent for regular Members and reservists of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police below the rank of Inspector. The National Police Fed...

Original Recording Date: 2025JUN09.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guests: Albert 'Jits' Hobaugh II - Served in the 12th Special Forces Group and later with the 75th Ranger Regiment. Albert's public service continued as he went on to be a paramedic, special agent, and tactical operator with the ATF. After a career-endin...

Original Recording Date: 2025MAY22.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guests: President Brandon Sontag and Treasurer Kenny Van Dyke – California Force Instructors Association (CALFIA) - As a non-profit organization in California, our mission is to develop balanced and educated Use of Force Instructors. We do this by provid...

Original Recording Date: 2025MAY14.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guests: Executive Director Jean Bota and Director Becky Wylie-Jardine - Alberta Community Crime Prevention Association - ACCPA's goal is to ensure safety to Albertans and their communities through education and crime prevention awareness. They are the co...

Original Recording Date: 2025MAY14.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Detective-Sergeant John Khoshandish - unit commander for the York Regional Police Tactical Intelligence Unit, leading intelligence development on organized crime, and supporting national security, counter-terrorism, and foreign interference invest...

Original Recording Date: 2025MAY15.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Jonathan Berkshire Miller – is the co-founder and principal of Pendulum Geopolitical Advisory, Senior Fellow at the Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI), and holds concurrent fellowships with the Japan Institute of International Affairs...

Original Recording Date: 2025APR29.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Mark Messina - Vice President for QRFup and a retired US Army Veteran whose organization and strategic leadership will bring the vision of QRFup across the nation. Mark's deference for the mission of this organization is bar none, and his determin...

Original Recording Date: 2025APR28.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Luis Horacio Najera - is an acclaimed journalist and crime analyst from Mexico who has lived in exile in Canada since 2008. He was the PEN Canada-George Brown Writer in Residence in Toronto, and recipient of the 2010 CJFE International Press Freed...

Original Recording Date: 2025APR14.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: Arno Michaelis – filmmaker, speaker, and author of My Life After Hate and co-author of The Gift of Our Wounds. Arno WAS a founding member of what became the largest racist skinhead organization in the world and lead singer of the race-metal band C...

Original Recording Date: 2025APR03.  Co-host John Simpson. Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own, unless otherwise stated. ----more---- TOPICS: Guest: John G. Peters, Jr., Ph. D. - serves as president and Chief Learning Officer of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, Inc. A former administrator of a medium-sized police department,...

Original Recording Date: 2025APR04.  Audio editing by Stephanie Bosch. Views and opinions of the participants are their own, unless otherwise stated. ----more---- TOPICS: Guests:  Margarito "Jay" Flores Jr. - Jay and his twin brother were steeped in the narcotics business, establishing a pivotal distribution network for the Sinaloa cartel across North America. On the path of redemption, Jay now ad...