Episode 989: The Healing Process - Being the Best Version of Yourself w/ Rob Poynter

Street Cop Podcast

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4.9 • 933 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Retired Deputy Sheriff Rob Poynter shares his experiences about healing from his parental issues, The S.I.R.E.N. Project, and learning how to be the best version of yourself to the ones you love the most.

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Teaser

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Intro

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Rob’s background

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Parental issues & damaging your family

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Being the best parent you can be

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Forgiveness & trauma

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Growing up with an alcoholic parent

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Midroll

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Having a partner to help you navigate trauma

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“We are the worst versions of ourselves to the ones we love the most.”

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Filling voids with material possessions

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The stigma against medication in law enforcement

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The S.I.R.E.N. Project

01:18:40:06 - 01:19:21:20

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 Streetop University, you have training right at your fingertips,
0:08.7	and we've made it so affordable, so reasonable that everybody can get an opportunity to train
0:12.8	because we know you guys need to help. We design this for you. Make sure you check out
0:16.4	streetcop.com. You know, we all have trauma. We all have it. But the thing with first responders is, you know,
0:22.1	if you get hired at 2021, it just pushes the accelerator on everything. You haven't really had a
0:28.3	lot of life experience yet to learn how to deal with trauma. And then all of a sudden,
0:32.2	you're running and gun and going to 10 to 15 calls a night. All that trauma builds up. So you've
0:37.4	got 100 pounds of shit in a 10
0:39.6	pound bag because it just keeps overflowing and overflowing. And, you know, protecting and serving,
0:45.6	protecting is, that's really straightforward. But the whole serving part, that, like, they just
0:50.7	keep throwing different things on you. And so it's just constantly changing and evolving.
0:56.0	And if you don't have the right mindset or understanding,
0:59.0	we're able to embrace change, you're going to have a hard time.
1:03.0	One 117.
1:05.0	One time.
1:06.0	You're trying to be a street cop.
1:14.2	Hey guys, welcome this episode of the Street Cop Training podcast.
1:16.6	We host Founder and CEO Street Cop Training.
1:18.2	My name is Dennis Benino, and today I have with us a guy who came to me, and we had him on
1:21.8	the show.
1:22.4	He's got a cool story and doing good things to the world.
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