For 25 years, Jim Lawler's job was to sit across from someone and understand them better than almost anyone else in their life ever had. As a CIA case officer, Jim spent a career in human intelligence... the people side of the work, not the gadgets. He served under diplomatic cover across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, played a role in the operation that helped dismantle the A.Q. Khan proliferation network, and spent nearly two decades afterward teaching thousands of CIA, DIA and FBI officers how to build trust with the people they need most.

Today he writes spy novels and still, by his own admission, dreams about running operations. We skip the standard résumé walk and goes straight at the interior: what genuine empathy actually costs a person, why he says he never once recruited a happy person, and what separates the merely good officers from the very few who change history.

Jim breaks down his ten qualities of a great recruiter: curiosity, listening, patience, persistence, creativity, a few that make people uncomfortable, and describes what he calls "the metaphysics," the invisible link between two people that makes the rest of the room disappear. Along the way: how a morning run in Paris ended at the Pasteur Institute and earned him the nickname "Mad Dog." Why he gives a talk called "My Favorite Failures." The dozen red roses that turned an operation into an accidental dinner date. The first big approach of his career — the one that got turned down flat on moral grounds, and what happened at the second dinner one week later. And the phrase every officer lives by: it's okay to get turned down, but not turned in.

Two operators, two systems, one conversation about reading people, and about what an insane career like that takes from you while you're too busy loving it to notice.

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THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl."

GUEST: Jim Lawler is a CIA Officer (ret.) and the author of the spy novels LIVING LIES and IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, with more on the way. He speaks at Valerie Plame's "Spies, Lies and Nukes" conference in Tucson, Arizona. WEB: Jim's Author Site: https://www.theguildlibrary.com/

Jim's Books: "Living Lies": https://www.amazon.com/Living-Lies-Iranian-Nuclear-Weapons/dp/1098391675/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1706563107&sr=8-1
"In the Twinkling of an Eye": https://www.amazon.com/Twinkling-Eye-Biological-Terror-Espionage/dp/1667809482/ref=pd_sbs_d_sccl_1_2/138-3227309-3318737?pd_rd_w=cY1UE&content-id=amzn1.sym.aa738fbd-ad05-4d11-aae2-04b598db6305&pf_rd_p=aa738fbd-ad05-4d11-aae2-04b598db6305&pf_rd_r=EG9JVH1HMBT351009MYF&pd_rd_wg=o6mUv&pd_rd_r=a0de10c4-8797-41ce-8e56-dbbbeb078d49&pd_rd_i=1667809482&psc=1
"The Traitor's Tale": https://www.amazon.com/Traitors-Tale-Guild-James-Lawler/dp/B0DX8MS6YW/ref=rvi_d_sccl_4/138-3227309-3318737?pd_rd_w=pb0qH&content-id=amzn1.sym.f5690a4d-f2bb-45d9-9d1b-736fee412437&pf_rd_p=f5690a4d-f2bb-45d9-9d1b-736fee412437&pf_rd_r=DA9RYPADC9MGNB36261S&pd_rd_wg=10S6A&pd_rd_r=e14a6f2c-7eda-4eb1-9528-2452c03a4acc&pd_rd_i=B0DX8MS6YW&psc=1

Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood"
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624

HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com

SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com

MUSIC: Tee Cad Website: https://teecad.com

To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: [email protected]

Roger Reaves was a dirt-poor Georgia farm boy with an alcoholic father who started running moonshine to save the family farm — and ended up flying planeloads of marijuana and cocaine for some of the most powerful traffickers on earth, including Pablo Escobar himself. In this episode, Roger sits down with Tegan and tells it all: getting shot out of the sky over Mexico with 80 bullet holes in his plane, being tortured in a foreign prison, smuggling by air, land, and a hollowed-out shrimp boat around the world — and the day pilot Barry Seal, his friend, flipped for the DEA and helped bring his whole world crashing down.

Escobar trusted him. Barry Seal ruined him. What follows is 33 years locked up across three countries, including 19 years where Roger and his wife Mari could only press their hands to opposite sides of the glass... yet she never left. This is a raw, unbelievable, and surprisingly redemptive conversation about crime, faith, consequences, and a love that outlasted three decades apart. You won't hear a story like this one anywhere else.

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THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl."

Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood"
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624

GUEST: Roger Reaves
WEB: https://roger-reaves.com/

HOST: Tegan Broadwater
WEB: https://teganbroadwater.com

SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) WEB: https://www.TSNLLC.com

MUSIC: Tee Cad
WEB: https://teecad.com

To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: [email protected]

He was a rookie FBI agent, barely off his first assignment, when they handed him the number-one grossing strip club in America... and the millions in cash it was skimming straight to the Gambino crime family in New York.

That was just the beginning.

Mark Sewell went from an oil refinery in Houston to the Marine Corps to twenty years in the FBI, working organized crime, public corruption, dirty cops, and a rape covered up from a police officer's own dinner table. Then he became the Bureau's go-to on stolen valor, hunting down the men who wear uniforms they never earned, starting with a fake Marine who slipped onto an Air Force base two months after 9/11, and what was hidden in that man's house.

We get into how the game is really played: how you flip a witness, why the best agents have the best informants, what the media never understood about the Gold Club, and how a lie about military service can end in a felony conviction.

Mark's book on the Gold Club case is out now, with his stolen valor book on the way.

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THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl."

Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids):
"LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624

HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com

T's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!) Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves

SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com

MUSIC: Tee Cad
Website: https://teecad.com

To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: [email protected]

You're smarter than the people who join cults... and that's exactly why you're easy to recruit.

Dr. Christine Marie had a knack for languages, a faith she'd kept since childhood, and four kids she'd have died for. None of it protected her. A man who gazed without breaking eye contact told her he was the prophet she'd seen in a dream — and step by tiny step, she lost her money, nearly lost her children, and came within a protective order of losing her life.

This is the part most people get wrong about cults: it isn't weakness that lets them in. It's the certainty that it could never be you. Christine survived a manufactured "marriage" to a con man, a police system that filed her trafficking case as a bad romance, and a public docudrama that turned her trauma into entertainment and slut-shamed her in front of the world.

Then she did something almost no one does — she went back. Armed with a PhD in media psychology and an emotional-support farm's worth of animals, she embedded in Short Creek, earned the trust of an FLDS community everyone else had written off, and helped bring down self-proclaimed prophet Sam Bateman, working undercover alongside an FBI agent who finally moved "at the speed of a bullet train."

Tegan sits down with Christine for a conversation about the architecture of manipulation, the fundamental attribution error, why separation — not argument — breaks groupthink, and what it actually costs to be the person who goes back into the dark to pull someone out.

Two people who've lived undercover, holding the line between who you have to become and who you actually are.

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THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl."

Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood"
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624

HOST: Tegan Broadwater
https://teganbroadwater.com

GUEST: Dr. Christine Marie
WEB: http://www.christinemarie.com/
Instagram: @dr.christinemarie
LinkedIn: @christinemarie
Her Charity: www.voicesfordignity.org

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MUSIC: Tee Cad
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T's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!) Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves

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E: [email protected]

Bobby Rock has held down the kit for Lita Ford, Nelson, and Vinnie Vincent Invasion. He's toured arenas, run drum clinics around the world, and stayed clean for nearly 50 years. But underneath the career is a man whose life has been shaped by things most people never have to survive.

In this conversation, Bobby opens up about getting sober at 13 through a 12-step program — and the insight that changed everything: addiction wasn't the problem, it was a symptom of a misdirected addictive personality, one he learned to point at discipline, craft, and health instead. He walks us through the surreal audition that launched his career, the maddening reverse-order recording of a record he tracked three separate times, and what it actually feels like to walk up the stairs to an arena stage for the first time.

Then there's the hardest part of his story: the violent loss of his pregnant girlfriend in 1993, the public act of forgiveness that followed, and the rage underneath it he spent years learning to face honestly. Three decades later — to the very day — he and his partner brought home their son. Now a first-time father at 62, Bobby reflects on softness, presence, and why staying hungry never left him.

A conversation about resilience, reinvention, and what it takes to keep showing up — for the work, and for the people who depend on you.

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THE PURPOSE: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl."

Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids):
"LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-...

HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com
T's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!)
Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves

GUEST: Bobby Rock
WEB: https://www.bobbyrock.com/

SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com

MUSIC: Tee Cad
Website: https://teecad.com

To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES, contact Hannah Clark: [email protected]

What does it feel like to sit across from a man who got people killed... and earn his trust anyway?
Eric O'Neill was 26 years old, newly married, going to law school at night, when the FBI handed him the most dangerous assignment in their history.

His target: Robert Hanssen — a 25-year FBI veteran who had been secretly selling America's most classified secrets to Russia for over two decades. Nuclear blueprints. The bin Laden surveillance system. The names of American assets who were then executed. The damage was almost too big to calculate.

⭐Eric sat across from him every single day. And Hanssen never saw it coming. His story became the Hollywood thriller Breach — but in this conversation, we go way beyond the movie.

This is not just a spy story. It's a story about deception, trust, marriage, faith, and what it costs to live inside a secret.

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THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl."

Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624

HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com

T's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!) Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves

GUEST: Eric O'Neill, FBI SSD, retired - Cyber Security Expert, Author
WEB: https://ericoneill.net

SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com

MUSIC: Tee Cad
Website: https://teecad.com

To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: [email protected]

️Johnny Mitchell built one of the most respected true crime podcasts on the internet by interviewing kingpins, cartel insiders, and some of the most dangerous people alive. BUT WHO TURNS THE MIC ON JOHNNY?
In this episode, I sit down with The Connect's Johnny Mitchell for a conversation, one where HE is the one answering the questions.

We get into:
~How hip-hop and crime movies shaped a middle-class white kid into a million-dollar drug trafficker
~The business ethics of the illegal drug trade — and why paying on time and keeping your word mattered more than anything
~The moment Johnny tried to bribe three Portland cops while they carried out half a million dollars of his cash
~What it actually feels like to hit that jail cell on night one & why he slept better than he had in years
~Why American prisons are broken — and what actually needs to change
~Stand-up comedy, bombing on stage, and why learning to live in silence in front of 200 hostile people is the most powerful skill he has
~What comes next when The Connect wraps — and who Johnny Mitchell actually is when the show is done

Two guys who've both lived double lives, built something real out of the wreckage, and have no reason to sugarcoat anything. This one went deep.

️Follow Johnny Mitchell:
YouTube:  ⁨@theconnectpod⁩ 
Instagram: @iamjohnnymitchell & @nottheconnect
Days of the Trap (his book) is coming back to print soon

️Follow Tegan Broadwater: https://teganbroadwater.com
YouTube: @TeganBroadwater
Instagram: @teganbroadwater
SOFREP: teganbroadwater.com

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THE PURPOSE of this PODCAST: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl."

Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids):
"LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624

Tegan's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!) Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves

SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com

MUSIC: Tee Cad
Website: https://teecad.com

To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES:
Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: [email protected]

Tracy Lynn Curry — The D.O.C. — helped write some of the most iconic albums in hip-hop history, co-founded Death Row Records, and went platinum at 21. Then a car accident took his voice in a single night.

This conversation covers it all — growing up bouncing between homes in Dallas, battle rapping Erykah Badu as teenagers, moving to LA on a handshake with Dre, inventing his own notation system to keep writing when he could barely whisper, and the decades-long fight to find purpose after losing the thing he was built to do.

Today he's building schools, mentoring kids, and making music again. You don't want to miss this one.

MY PURPOSE: From musician to FBI-assigned undercover, to CEO and author, I’ve learned that the most powerful stories happen when unlikely worlds collide. My goal is to unite independent thinkers through extraordinary stories, inspiring positive change, and exploring what connects us all. --Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl."

Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids):
"LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624

HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com

T's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!)
Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves

GUEST: Tracy Curry - "The D.O.C."
SM: @TheRealDOC

SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com

MUSIC: Tee Cad
Website: https://teecad.com

To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: [email protected]

She toured with Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera & Britney Spears — appeared in major films.
35 years ago, she was my high school drum student!
But that's not the story...

From Texas grit to LA world tours and big screens, Nancy Anderson breaks down what success in entertainment really takes: relentless work, real relationships, and the kind of “create-your-own-luck” courage that gets you in rooms you weren’t even invited to.

In this episode of TeeCast / Uncommon Souls, we go past the highlight reel—into the doubts, the hustle, the auditions, and the mindset shifts that turn talent into a career.

You’ll hear about:

Showing up anyway (and landing American Beauty + major commercials)

Why relationships matter—but authenticity matters more

Touring with Christina Aguilera, working with Britney, and chasing the dream gig with Justin Timberlake

Handling rejection, staying professional, and finding your “why” again

Motherhood, discipline, and the long game of creative life

If you’ve ever chased a dream—or tried to understand what drives someone else—this one’s for you.
Like, subscribe, and drop a comment: What’s one moment where you “created your own luck”?

Former FBI Deputy Director and founder of the elite Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), Danny Coulson, sits down to discuss fear with me: how to recognize it, harness it, and overcome it. From lying to his team about bulls in a terrorist compound to pushing a frozen operator off an 11-story building, Danny shares raw stories about what fear really looks like at the highest levels of special operations, and how preparation, brotherhood, and faith carry you through.

Topics covered:
The difference between real fear and unwarranted anxiety
Subliminal judgments and trusting your intuition
Why physical training reduces the effects of adrenaline dumps
Fear of failure vs. fear of death
How elite teams handle weak links
The largest tactical operation in US history you've never heard of

Whether you're preparing for a high-stakes interview, training for special operations, or just want to travel with more confidence — this one's for you.

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THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: From musician to FBI-assigned undercover, to CEO and author, I’ve learned that the most powerful stories happen when unlikely worlds collide. My goal is to unite independent thinkers through extraordinary stories, inspiring positive change, and exploring what connects us all.
--Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl."

Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624

HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com

T's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!) Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves

GUEST: Danny Coulson
WEB: www.CoulsonSecure.com

SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com

MUSIC: Tee Cad Website: https://teecad.com

To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity
E: [email protected]