Scott Walker | A hostage negotiator on staying calm in a crisis and the many ways you can look at risk.

The Emma Guns Show

Emma Gunavardhana

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🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

If you’re a long-time listener then you’ll know I love tapping into other people’s expertise, especially when it’s sp specific yet somehow incredibly applicable to everyday life. Case-in-point: hostage negotiator Scott Walker.

We obviously enter this conversation via Scott’s insights on risk, which when you consider what he does for a living, is truly fascinating. I can’t even imagine what risks one has to consider when bartering with kidnappers but Scott actually thinks there’s more than one way to look at risk, which is a perspective I really appreciated.

Scott’s book Order Out of Chaos is available now.

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0:00.0	With my background in the police in the military, it came with a certain skill set.
0:05.2	A particular set of skills. Sorry, had to be done.
0:10.8	In every single case, we're like, an extortion kid napping.
0:14.8	Even though I'm like a swan, sliding along gracefully, but my heart's going 10 to the dozen.
0:20.1	And if I loud the ego to show up, all I have my nerves to get the better of me,
0:25.1	and ultimately, you know, people could die.
0:27.2	There was going all over the place, saving other people's lives.
0:32.2	You know, I couldn't save the one life that mattered.
0:35.1	And I'm working with Dave Asprey and part of Body Proof,
0:38.6	coaching and Tony Robbins, setting up my own business in the
0:42.2	kidnapping negotiation field, helping out charities and crisis hotlines,
0:47.0	and going into schools about talking about mental health and
0:50.2	keynotes and writing the book. So none of that would have happened.
0:53.4	Had those tragedies not happened the way they did.

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