Hosted by Shannon Burgess · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 16 episodes
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Beyond the Spotlight is a podcast that shares stories, insights, and experiences from life beyond the professional realm. Each episode delves into the personal lives, hobbies, passions, and challenges of LEO’s Community Leaders, Elected and Appointed Officials just to name a few when they are not on the job. We want to offer a unique perspective on the individuals behind their public persona, showcasing their diverse interests, talents, and experiences outside of work. This is our opportunity to get to know these individuals “Beyond the Spotlight”.
Shannon Burgess hosts Beyond the Spotlight, a society show with 16 episodes published.
Newly hired Coach Troy Gardner gets to tell his story of redemption in this episode. Get to know the man and his beginnings on what led him to his career and the decisions he made that nearly derailed him on that path an
New series for 2025. We will be meeting and interviewing all of our School Resource Officers (SROs) who work in our schools throughout out parish. This episode we meet SRO Amanda Westmoreland who works for the DeRidder C
Sheriff Mark Herford and Chief Craig Richard come back for our Christmas episode to discuss their friendship, the year 2024 for their agencies, and looking ahead to 2025 for the Sheriff's Office and Police Department and
Meet Deputy Joy Gaspard who technically is assigned to customer service but actually does SO much more for our office day in and day out. She describes herself as simply a "helper" and she definitely has lived up to this
Dive in and get to know the City of DeRidder Police Department Chief Craig Richard. Really enjoyed getting to know the chief even better and also learning about how passionate he feels about some aspects of his job. He i
Meet the Beauregard Parish Sheriff's Office Deputy of the Month David Price. A very humble, caring, hardworking guy that our office is lucky to have. We get to know him a little better outside of his day to day work he d
Meet Rosepine Head Baseball Coach and teacher Jeff Smith. A very humble educator and decorated coach but more importantly a mentor to so many during his 27-year career. Join us as we learn more about his career, values,
Meet our Deputy of the Month for September Deputy T. Bailey. We got to sit down with this honest and hard-working guy and learn some interesting facts about his life before working at the Beauregard Parish Sheriff's Offi
City of DeRidder Fire Department Chief Ken Harlow sat down with us to discuss his life on the job, the paths it has taken him along the way, and the lessons learned. Also, being born abroad and his life growing up in DeR
A MUST listen to episode with the August Deputy of the Month Lt. Jim Cheever. Recently retired 34-year veteran at the Beauregard Parish Sheriff's Office. Long time DARE officer, Chaplain, Jail Ministry, and US Army Veter
Meet Beauregard Parish Sheriff Mark Herford pt.2. We continue this great interview with Sheriff Herford discussing later parts of his career and the state of his office today.
Meet Beauregard Parish Sheriff Mark Herford as he is beginning his second term in office and reflects on his first term, career in law enforcement before he became Sheriff, and some of his life and times outside of his p
Meet recently promoted Lt. Brent Hudson. He has been a School Resource Officer for the Beauregard Parish Sheriff's Office for over 11 years now and was recently promoted to Supervisor over the division. Brent is a vetera
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Welcome to our podcast Beyond the Spotlight! Meet your host, two friends reconnecting after job paths took them in different directions yet somehow manage to come back together for an idea they shared over a decade ago.
A sneak peek into our podcast that gives our listeners the opportunity to hear from and about, not only the professional lives of community leaders and elected officials, but also their personal lives, hobbies, passions,
Dr. Craig Richard
President and CEO · Tampa Hillsborough Economic Development Council
1 appearance on this show
David Price
Chief Transformation Officer · Beauregard Parish Sheriff's Office
1 appearance on this show
Jeff Smith
head of product for meetings, spaces, and workplace AI · Boulter Industrial Contractors
1 appearance on this show
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Beyond the Spotlight is hosted by Shannon Burgess. The show is categorised under society (culture) and has published 16 episodes.
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