Conversations in Close Protection

Rory Steyn sits down with Chuck and Chris to reflect on his career, including his time as one of President Nelson Mandela's security team leaders.  From a young boy to his current role as co-founder of NSA Global Security Consultants’, we discuss his career and perspectives as an observer and participant to historical racial change. It is a captivating discussion that includes everything working across divides to internal and external threat assessment to accomplish a protective mission for one of the greatest leaders in history in a period of great transition.

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In this episode we talk to Filippo Marino, one of the protective industry's foremost thought leaders on risk, both personal and organizational levels. Risk is not only Filippo's expertise, but his passion.

Filippo gained a lot of experience over the course of his career in the Italian military and furthered it in corporate environments for global brands and organizations. This week, he guides us through high level approach to thinking about and mitigating risk from an executive  protection perspective. Join us as we explore and discuss risk and data in making security decisions for our clients.

We discuss training a lot on this podcast because we need to continually hone our skills. As we face some very interesting challenges these days we have to ask ourselves if we are properly prepared for them. Sure we can survive them, but how many of us truly challenge ourselves to gain the capability to face a myriad of issues with multiple tools and honestly measure our success in them? This week we talk to Josh Burmeister about exactly those issues and more. Josh has been on before talking about preparedness. Join us to hear what he has to say about training and standards.

Lee Oughton, the COO of Fortress Risk Management based in Mexico, is a security thought leader. Recently he challenged the industry and those in it to think bigger and be better in everything we do. That challenge almost demanded we speak to him to get his perspective and its a positive one. Lee's tag on his LinkedIn page is Framing Futures. In this interview you understand why he has this as a focus, what he means by being better, conducting operations in Mexico and why he is focused on making security sexy.

This week we talk to former US Department of State Diplomatic Security Service Agent Fred Burton, best selling author of "Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent". Fred's career spans some of the most interesting times and terror events in history. We talk to Fred about the evolution of protective security and protective intelligence throughout the years and what we should look for in the future as well and technology's impact on security. Fred is a wealth of knowledge. Listen in as he shares with us.

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GHOST: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent

Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent's Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice

Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi

Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America

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This week we look to the other side of protection as we get perspective from former property manager/estate manager turned Property Butler, Lucien Boivin III. A second-generation estate/property manager, Luc takes great pride in delivering on service. His customers and their repeat business are a testament to his service focused success. Close Protection professionals can learn a lot from how he approaches service from delivery to metrics. Join us!

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This week we talk Close Protection with former UK Intelligence and Close Protection Operator Neil Davis, Managing Director of Go Noisy in Bulgaria. Go Noisy was created to raise the standards of both those who wish to pursue a career in the Close Protection industry or improve on Essential Skills for High Risk environments.

Neil has been employed around the world in austere and challenging environments. He shares that experience with us and his students through his CP courses.

We also discuss his incredible attempt at walking across America to raise awareness of PTS.

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One of the many great presentations at the Close Protection Conference is the Lessons Learned Series, where we talk to a protector that has dealt with extraordinary circumstances in the commission of their duties. This week we hear Martin Kirsten talk about dealing with a stalker and what he did to keep his principal from a committed adversary all while staying visible. It is an incredible story.  Let us know what you think [email protected].

Jason Falla is a former member of the Australian SAS and former Australian Commando who trains elite military, law enforcement and select civilians in current, relevant lifesaving tactics, techniques and procedures in mobile force protection, high risk vehicle tactics, night vision tactics and other weapons courses. As most attacks happen in and around vehicles Jason was the guy to talk to about vehicle tactics. Join us a Jason breaks down actions on contact in a motorcade and a myriad of other topics in this episode.

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This week we talk more celebrity protection with Chris Sipe about his journey from the U.S. Marine Corps into the celebrity protection part of the industry. From learning the ropes on the fly, self discovery and self management to working with many different personalities, Chris shares his perspective on what it takes to be successful in the hectic world of celebrity protection and close protection in general.