Episode 903: Hope Beyond The Badge with Linda Kokoros
Street Cop Podcast
Street Cop Training
4.9 • 967 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, Dennis speaks with Linda Kokoros, Mother of officer Alex Kokoros, an officer who tragically took his own life On Oct. 29, 2018.
Today, Linda shares her story of her son Alex, her mission to help first responders through tough times, stopping the stigma, and making it a norm to talk about your feelings and getting help if you need it.
We apologize for our audio quality, we ran into some technical issues during recording.
Read the full story of Alex here: https://www.patriotledger.com/story/news/2021/08/26/braintree-walk-raises-awareness-kokoros-law-enforcement-suicides/5581670001/
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on on, Street Cop Fam? I'm Frankie Rodriguez. I am the podcast producer for the Street Cop |
| 0:04.5 | podcast. Unfortunately on this episode you'll notice that our audio and our end, we had some technical difficulties |
| 0:09.9 | it doesn't sound the best. However, after discussing with Dennis, we wouldn't want to keep this |
| 0:14.4 | episode from you guys. It's a really impactful episode with a lot of great information and |
| 0:18.8 | nuggets and an important message. So thank you guys all for your continued support and again our apologies for the technical difficulties. We hope you enjoy the |
| 0:27.8 | episode and thank you for your support. Very quickly from them |
| 0:32.4 | sharing their stories with me. |
| 0:35.0 | I realized that there was a lot of force responders struggling. |
| 0:39.0 | I didn't realize it until then, until after we lost Alex, that there was a lot of |
| 0:46.9 | force responders struggling with mental health, trauma, picking up |
| 0:51.0 | different, you know, filling up that backpack as they say, right? |
| 0:55.8 | compacting whatever they see on the job on an everyday basis and not sharing it with anybody |
| 1:04.0 | holding it in. One another one testing. |
| 1:06.0 | A. |
| 1:08.0 | H. |
| 1:10.0 | H. |
| 1:11.0 | You trying to be a street cop? |
| 1:15.0 | Hey guys, welcome this episode of Street cop |
| 1:17.0 | training podcast, me the host, founder and CEO of street cop training. |
| 1:20.0 | My name is Dennis Bonino and today me up with us |
| 1:22.0 | Linda Jell. And Linda has a... My name is Dennis Benino and being with us from the gentleman. |
| 1:23.0 | And Linda has a really important cause and story to tell. |
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