Hey everyone and welcome to our throwback episode. In our throwback episodes, we are reintroducing you to some of our most popular episodes.

This is great for new listeners who want to learn more about the work we've done in the past. And it's a great refresher if you've been a listener for a long time. Enjoy.

Dean, thanks for joining us today. I'm happy to be here. Thank you for having me.

Yeah, it's our pleasure. So how about you get us started by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you do?

All right. Well, by day, I am a police officer. I am a sergeant for a town that's about 30 minutes south of

Boston called Stoughton.

I am, I wear a bunch of different hats.

I do accreditation.

I do training.

I do public records request.

And I am also a defensive tactics instructor.

And if that's still not enough, I'm also a member of the regional crisis negotiation team.

Fantastic.

When you started it off and sounded like you were going to describe yourself as a superhero,

which you did.

By day, I'm this, but it sounds like by day, you're actually a superhero.

Well, that's only by day. Well, what brings me it today is what I do the rest of the time,

which I am the CEO of a company called Supply the Why. And one of the things

that we do is we have podcasts that focus on having difficult conversations. So that's what brings us,

that's what brought us together. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. This is great. That's great. And so Supply

the Y is the name of the podcast as well.

So the name of the podcast is difficult conversations by Supply the Y, but Supply the Y is the actual company name. So, you know, we do trainings and facilitate DNI conversations and whatnot as well. So we offer a lot of different products.

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