Episode 980: Entrepreneurial Insights - Growing Your Business w/ Leonard Stock

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

Education

4.9 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Leonard Stock, creator of the Grappler Police Bumper, shares his experiences as a successful entrepreneur—from the device's conception, to its distribution, to the tribulations of owning a business.

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Teaser

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Intro

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Leonard’s background & his groundbreaking invention: the Grappler Police Bumper

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The risk factor

00:22:16:29 - 00:26:15:14

The purchasing and installation process of the Grappler

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Midroll

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The entrepreneurial process

00:30:26:21 - 00:41:27:26

The importance of customer service

00:41:27:26 - 01:01:12:15

How does Leonard train Law Enforcement Officers to use to Grappler?

01:01:12:15 - 01:15:42:10

The joys and pains of owning a business

01:15:42:10 - 01:16:50:03

Outro

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0:00.0	Hey guys, make sure you check out streetcop.com for all of our upcoming courses in person,
0:04.4	our online courses, and Streetcop University.
0:07.1	You have training right at your fingertips, and we've made it so affordable, so reasonable,
0:10.7	that everybody can get an opportunity to train because we know you guys need to help.
0:14.4	We design this for you.
0:15.7	Make sure you check out Streetcop.com.
0:18.0	I invented the Grappler Police bumper.
0:20.5	It's that device that cops are using that deploy a net
0:23.7	and wrap up a suspect vehicle's tire and bring that vehicle to a stop. It doesn't matter if
0:29.0	99% of police officers say they would never use the grappler. The 1% is a huge number. You don't
0:35.5	start a business like this thinking, I'm doing this so I can get rich.
0:39.7	You're going to be poor for a while. So you have to love it. I was at that point where I had to either
0:45.2	give this whole idea up or I got to go after it. And it all came down to this one question.
0:51.0	When I'm on my deathbed, am I going to be wishing I had done something?
0:56.3	You have to have a lot of nerve to do something crazy like this.
1:05.0	You're trying to be a street cop.
1:10.7	Hey guys, welcome this episode of the Street Cop Training podcast. My host founder and CEO Street Cop Training. You're training to be a street cop.
1:13.1	Hey guys, welcome this episode of the street cop training podcast.
1:16.5	My host founder and CEO of street cop training, the one the only.
1:18.2	Well, I don't know from the one and only.
1:20.8	There's another guy with my name, but he's a brain surgeon.
1:22.6	He's about 30 years older than me.
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