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Steve Padulo, who is a former NYP. with Ian Bick. On this week's episode, I interview our first member of law enforcement,

Steve Padulo, who is a former NYPD police officer. We all make mistakes, experience failure,

and fall down in life. But if you decide to get back up and use it as fuel to your fire,

you can choose to not let it define you. You can make it through to the other

side and turn it into an opportunity. I went from owning a popular nightclub when I was 19 years old

to becoming a federal inmate by the time I was 21. Join me, Ian Bick, as I interview people from

all over the country who have experienced the rock bottom of the American justice system.

Steve, welcome to Lockton with Ian Bick. Thanks for having me, man. It's great. You are our first

law enforcement officer. I'm excited to be a man. It's great. It's fantastic. Yeah, we're

excited to get like your perspective and being an officer in like one of the biggest cities in the

world in New York City like that crazy. The stories I'm sure you have for us are going to be insane. I have so many. I've probably probably forgotten half of them because I'm so used to it over the years. Yeah. But some, I'm sure a lot of things will come back to my mind and we can definitely discuss a lot of that. Awesome. So starting from the beginning, where are you from south of nassau county long

island uh married married father two little kids um surfed in new york city police department i

16 years of service and uh here we are today how old are you when you decided you wanted to be a cop

um ever since i was a little kid i I always had that intuition, that six sense of if something was wrong, I knew it. I just went with it as a kid as a guy, I got feeling. So I could say probably I was like five, six years old. I knew I wanted to be a cop. It's back in a day I used to watch at show TJ Hooker. You know what I'm talking about? Well, I'm

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