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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

934. A Day in the Life of a Sheriff, with Leon Lott

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5618 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott leads one of the largest sheriff’s departments in the Southeastern U.S., and is one of the regularly featured law-enforcement agencies on A&E’s television series LIVE PD. In 2010, Lott traveled to Iraq at the invitation of the Iraqi government to help that country establish its first-ever female police academy. Under Lott’s leadership, RCSD was the first LE agency in the nation to establish a pre-PTSD conditioning program for deputies. 

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0:00.0

Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.

0:14.2

I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

0:16.1

Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work

0:22.2

they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. On Fridays, I interview an

0:28.7

individual with many years of experience from one of the top-ranked occupations or professions

0:33.9

who share an insiders look at what it's really like to do what they do.

0:38.4

If you're really interested in law enforcement, just contact your local law enforcement ASE and go by and visit them.

0:44.0

Do ride-alongs.

0:45.2

I did a write-along when I was in college, and we do ride-alongs with students now all the time.

0:50.3

And it kind of gives you a view of what a real police work is all about. You know,

0:55.9

live PD TV show will also give you an idea of what we do. You can see the danger,

1:00.4

you can see the excitement, you can see some of the stuff that we have to deal with.

1:04.6

You know, do your research, but there's not a more rewarding career than being in law enforcement

1:09.7

because you really can't change people's lives and you can't save lives.

1:13.5

Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Sheriff Leon Lott, and our topic, A Day in the Life, what it's really like to be a sheriff.

1:23.9

Welcome, Sheriff Lott.

1:25.3

Thank you.

1:25.8

Good to be with you.

1:26.8

Thank you, sir.

1:27.9

Sheriff Lott, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

1:31.1

Yes, I am.

1:32.5

All righty.

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