Episode 836: Picking Up The Pieces and Moving Forward with Joseph Malone
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Dennis speaks with former Spec Ops MARSOC Raider & CEO of Southern Cross, Joseph Malone. Joe is the CEO of Southern Cross. After 13 years in the Marine Corps, most notably under the Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC Raiders), where he spent the majority of his time in service.
In total, Joe conducted 7 deployments overseas; 4 in combative theatres (Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan), and 3 in non-combative theaters in support of humanitarian-aid and intelligence-led operations.
During his tenure, Joe spent time attached to the Tier 1 Special Missions Unit, and worked closely with the CIA, DIA, Department of State, British Commando Units, as well as other Foreign Government Special Operations Forces. Joe was awarded on multiple occasions for his contributions to the battlefield.
After 13 years Joe left the Marine Special Operations Command to pursue a career in helping American citizens prepare for the worst, and increase their understanding of one another through leadership workshops and cultural assimilation programs.
Joe has a Bachelors in Science in Homeland Security and Emergency Management, is a Nationally Registered EMT, an NAUI certified Rescue diver, and a technical rescue certified team leader.
He is board certified through ASIS International’s board of Certified Protection Professionals (CPP) and is a mobile forensics Cellebrite Certified Mobile Examiner (CCME).
Since leaving the military he has trained thousands of police officers and detectives that work for various agencies across the country, as well as foreign government officials. He spends his time now growing Southern Cross, and spreading his training and safety messaging across the country to create a safer and greater America.
Today, Dennis and Joe discuss his time in the Marines and his battles both physically and mentally, his struggle with drug addiction, the death of his best friend and the impact it had on his life and purpose today with Southern Cross.
Find out more about Joe here: https://southerncross.company/about-us/
Follow Joe on Instagram: @joseph_malone_official
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| 0:00.0 | the that I've ever had in my entire life has been the greatest thing that has ever happened to me up |
| 0:14.7 | but to that point in my life. You training up be a street cop. |
| 0:25.0 | This episode of the street cop training |
| 0:29.0 | podcast. I'm your host, founder and CEO of street cop training. |
| 0:31.5 | My name is Dennis Benino and today we have Joe Malone on the podcast and he's got a great story good mission, good objective and we're going to talk about suicide and people are, you know, I don't think this is a topic we can cover enough, but I appreciate |
| 0:46.2 | you being here, Joe. |
| 0:47.2 | Maybe you could tell the street cop audience a little bit about who you are and where you've |
| 0:51.8 | been and what you've done and what you're at now and what the |
| 0:53.7 | fuck you're trying to do. |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah, thanks man. I really appreciate you know being on the show I've watched you know |
| 0:58.7 | your your episodes and you had definitely had some pretty heavy hitters on here so I'm |
| 1:02.0 | definitely humbled to be a part of that group. |
| 1:06.1 | My name is Joe Malone. I was raised in Chicago, and I just had some, I had some really bad influences at a really early age. |
| 1:12.4 | Heroin was a huge problem where I grew up and of course it still is, but specifically the area of the neighborhood that I was in there's a lot of heroin traffic through the area and I just thought that you know the 50 year old |
| 1:24.3 | sleeping with you know the 16 year old chick that I wanted to sleep with was cool because |
| 1:29.2 | he was sleeping with her and and that really just led me to this warped perception of what cool was. |
| 1:33.8 | So I got hooked on some hard substances at a really early age. |
| 1:37.0 | And I was able to turn it around, followed my best friend into the Marine Corps. |
| 1:42.2 | And this was 2006 and became a eventually became a |
| 1:46.4 | Marczoc Marine. You know had a little bit of a broken stint where I worked on an |
| 1:50.5 | ambulance but when Marczoc opened selection, I went back in and made it through that. In total, I did seven deployments all over the world. Three of those are with Marsock, and I got to work alongside some really great units, some really great people. |
| 2:06.0 | But ultimately when I was leaving the military I had a really tumultuous transition to say the least. I went to the traumatic brain injury |
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