Episode 1015: The Second Shift: How Steve Hickey Built a Life Beyond Policing
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Dennis sits down with Steve Hickey to talk about life after law enforcement. Steve shares his journey from policing the streets to building a career in real estate, the mindset shifts required to leave the badge behind, and what officers should consider when preparing for a second career.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, guys, if you're not a member of the Streetcop community, you are missing out. |
| 0:02.6 | It is where you can find all the e-books and all the resources that I put out to help you do your job better. Check it out at Streetcopcom or Streetcop.com. Just look for the link there, and we'll see you inside the community. You know, I started down this path, roughly 2021, kind of pandemic era, maybe a little bit before that. My background, I was a real estate developer and home builder for a lot of years. |
| 0:23.2 | And I'll throughout the Seattle 2021, kind of pandemic era, maybe a little bit before that. My background, I was a real estate developer and home builder for a lot of years. |
| 0:23.5 | And out throughout the Seattle market, I know that business quite well. |
| 0:27.3 | You do anything for long enough, you're going to become good at it because you hone that |
| 0:32.2 | skill and you continue to refine that skill. |
| 0:34.4 | When I got into the work, we'll talk about afterwards, you know, this is when I |
| 0:37.8 | finally found my talent. That thing that just kind of comes naturally doesn't feel like work. Building |
| 0:41.8 | and development felt like work. It was that snowball you're pushing up the hill. You always get it |
| 0:45.6 | to the other side. But every time it takes a little bit more out of you. |
| 0:58.6 | You're trying to be a street cop. |
| 1:01.3 | See, guys, what this episode of the Street Cop Training podcast? |
| 1:02.8 | Myr was the founder and CEO of Street Cop Training. |
| 1:06.6 | As a matter of fact, the person who's editing this podcast, whether it's R.L. or Mark, |
| 1:46.5 | do me a favor of the banter that Steve and I just discussed prior to me saying that I'd like to keep in here. Because it was fun. I'm running three podcasts today. Oh, no worries. I'm trying to make this one the easy one. No, no. Honestly, they're all easy. You know what it is? It's funny because people, you know, probably aren't familiar with it because they don't do podcasts. But they exhaust the piss at them. So weird. I tried it for about six months. And I, you know, I have people on. I found interesting that I knew. And it's, it's a very different skill set to keep a conversation driving where I just kind of want to listen to them. I'd sit there just listening. Like to get that engagement and get the back and forth. There's a whole another part of the brain that's got to get tickled or something to make that work. |
| 1:55.4 | I have extreme attention deficit hyperactive disorder. As long as I have a pen and paper, |
| 2:00.6 | I can corral all those great questions that I have back into this. And that's how I make this whole thing work. And you know, it's crazy. It's profound how many people listen to this fucking podcast. It's actually wild to me. I remember the first time I, I, like, if we were just doing it, somebody's like, look, I got a guy working for me. He's like, yeah, he's like, two million downloads last, like, last month. |
| 2:17.6 | I'm like, what do you mean? |
| 2:18.1 | It's like, like, 7.2 million this year. |
| 2:19.5 | And I'm like, what do you mean? |
| 2:20.9 | I don't even look at these things. |
| 2:22.7 | We were, dude, we were, uh, at one point before, like, the catastrophic events that happened in my life. we were beating Tony Robbins in the education space on the regular. |
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