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Courageous Leadership with Dr. Travis Yates Podcast examines what it means to be a Courageous Police Leader. Join us weekly as the concepts of Courageous Leadership are detailed along with interviews with influencers that are committed to leading with courage. You can find out more about Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates at: www.TravisYates.org
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Signup to Generate a PitchCourageous Leadership with Dr. Travis Yates Podcast examines what it means to be a Courageous Police Leader. Join us weekly as the concepts of Courageous Leadership are detailed along with interviews with influencers that are committed to leading with courage. You can find out more about Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates at: www.
Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates is hosted by Travis Yates. The show has published 158 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Decision Tactical: The Future Is Now" (9 September 2026, 31 minutes), "The Path To Purpose with Doug White" (2 September 2026, 57 minutes), and "Chaos inside NYPD with Lt. John Macara" (27 August 2026, 42 minutes).
Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 158 episodes.
Booking probability for Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates are Courts, Police & Public Safety. Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates has a business audience.
Travis Yates hosts Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates, a business show with 158 episodes published.
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Episode #160
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever watched bodycam footage and thought, “Why didn’t they just…?”, you already know the hard truth: under extreme stress, the brain does not behave as it does in a classroom. Today we sit...
Episode #159
Send us Fan Mail The job ends for everyone, and sometimes it ends fast. That’s where our conversation with Doug White starts: why police officers and first responders need to prepare for retirement and identity change...
Episode #158
Send us Fan Mail A police officer can be cleared for a shooting in a deadly-force fight, but still face prison for trying to control a suspect without firing a gun. That’s the core contradiction we dig into with retired...
Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates
Send us Fan Mail Retiring with a pension is the plan, but what if the system quietly assumes you will not live long enough to enjoy it? I sit down with Dr. Mark Sherwood, a retired police sergeant turned functional...
Episode #156
Send us Fan Mail We talk with Dr. Michael Howell about earning a PhD and why his dissertation targets a neglected gap in active killer research: how churches train and prepare to stop violence. We connect his findings...
Episode #155
Send us Fan Mail We sit down with retired Chief Scott Hughes to talk straight about why police morale, culture, recruiting, and training are sliding at the same time and why leadership choices are the common...
Episode #154
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Your career and reputation can be taken away from you without a guilty verdict, without a complaint, and without evidence. If you find that shocking, you don't understand the state of law...
Episode #153
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In this special episode, we talk with Doug Larsen about why police staffing shortages keep getting worse even when agencies spend big on recruitment marketing. </p><p>Doug has spent the last 5...
Episode #152
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Accreditation in law enforcement can feel like a four-letter word, especially when you’ve only experienced it as paperwork dumped on patrol. We talk with Kevin Rhea, co-founder and executive...
Episode #151
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We talk with longtime EVOC instructor and author Hugh Anderson about why emergency driving remains one of the biggest and most preventable threats to officer and public safety. We dig into what...
Episode #150
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We sit down with retired Air Force intelligence officer and leadership coach Chris Russell to unpack the leadership lessons behind his book More Than a Mission. We talk followership, purpose...
Episode #149
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Officer assaults are at an all-time high, and it seems like no one is discussing this dangerous trend. In this podcast, Dr. Travis Yates will discuss his personal path that brought him to...
Episode #148
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We trace the journey of John Leas from a San Diego Police Lieutenant to MLB security director and unpack the real work behind safe, seamless large-scale events. We share hard lessons on...
Episode #147
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Pilate has authority, facts, and options, yet he still folds when the crowd gets loud, showing that leadership failure is often a failure of courage. Travis Yates and Dr. Greg Amundson connect...
Episode #146
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We dig into why police staffing shortages persist even when plenty of people still want to serve, and why slow, confusing hiring pipelines push good candidates out. Brian Ellis explains how...
Episode #144
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We examine how counterfeit sheepdogs infiltrate agencies, the media, and leadership spaces, why strong leadership and vetting matter more than charisma, and how to trust intuition without...
Episode #143
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>A jury cleared Deputy Anthony Gann of a manslaughter charge in two hours, but the path to that verdict is the part that America must understand and public safety needs to be warned about...
Episode #142
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>This is not just the story of Deputy Anthony Gann facing 20 years in prison for following his policy and training, but also about a much darker issue affecting law enforcement across the...
Episode #141
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We sit down with Craig Floyd to trace his journey from building the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial and Museum to rallying public support through Citizens Behind the Badge. He lays...
Episode #140
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>A high-profile kidnapping exposes how leadership decisions drive investigative success or failure. We unpack missteps in Pima County, the cost of sidelining experienced detectives, the silence...
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retired Air Force intelligence officer and leadership coach, Spire Hospitality
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Retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Lieutenant, Founder of The Wounded Blue, author of Rescuing 911: The Fight for America’s Safety, The Wounded Blue
Retired police lieutenant and positive psychology practitioner, Six4 Consultants
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