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Welcome to Iron Sights podcast hosted by Scott Howell. This podcast candidly seeks to create opportunities and deliver impact by sharing the experiences and wisdom of successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders who unapologetically aim to WIN in health, fitness, business, and life. Welcome to old school meets new school, tradition meets innovation, and imperfection meets excellence.
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- 3 days ago2h 25m
#221 After Dark: From Bethlehem to Covert Ops: Yousef Sansour on Explosive Breaching, Elite Unit Culture, and Building Esoteric LLC
You think you know how someone ends up as a counter-terrorism operator, explosive breaching expert, and founder of their own tactical training company. You don't know Yousef Sansour's story. Born in Bethlehem, he drove his college roommate to a police academy sign-up. What followed was thirty years of patrol, narcotics, federal task forces, the 9/11 investigation, a selection process that controlled every detail down to the airport pickup, and deployments across six or seven continents workin...
- 1 weeks ago11 min
#220 Six Years In: Why I Built The Capable Standard (And What It Means for You)
Something has been coming together behind the scenes at Iron Sights, and in this episode I finally say it out loud. No launch video, no hype reel, no sponsor read. Just me, talking to you the way I would if you were sitting right across from me. It's called The Capable Standard and I want to walk you through it myself. If you already hold the standard, if you're already doing the work and being serious about it, this isn't about me selling you on becoming something. It's me recognizin...
- 1 weeks ago2h 1m
#219 After Dark: How One Line-Level Officer Rewrote the Qualification and is Shifting His Whole Agency's Shooting Culture with The 9mm Musashi
You've heard the complaint a thousand times: law enforcement qualifications are a joke. A static firing line, a generous time window, a pass or fail check mark, and everyone goes home. Nothing changes. Nobody improves. Nobody cares. So what actually moves the needle? Joey, an ISP repeat offender guest and the host of the Sketchy Boyz Watch Club podcast, sits back down at the Iron Sights table to walk through exactly what he did at his agency to change that, and the answer is smaller and smart...
- 2 weeks ago2h 35m
#218 After Dark: John Constantine: What 15 Years on the Secret Service Counter Assault Team Taught Him About Leadership, Identity, and Letting Go
John Constantine is retired US Secret Service and author of Hallways and Stairwells. This is a long-form conversation that moves from presidential protection to personal identity and back again. John spent roughly 23 years in the service, 15 of them on the Counter Assault Team, the guys in the black BDUs running motorcades and stacking up for the worst day that hopefully never comes. That particular mission, always training, always ready, almost never firing a round operationally, turns out t...
- 3 weeks ago1h 57m
#217 After Dark: Guild Solutions Group Live: Breaching, Barricades, and the Brotherhood Behind the Work
This one's with the full Guild Solutions Group crew, including founder Shane Foster, Director of Training Jason "Jabo" Long, lead instructors Matt Petaki and Jeremy Nash, and Pryme Infil CEO Jarred Pereira. The conversation goes everywhere it should. You will hear how Jarred Pereira built Pryme Infil out of a 65-page PowerPoint written at 2 a.m. on FMLA leave after surviving a federal deposition he was never prepared for, and why documentation is now the front line of officer protection. You...
- Oct 9, 20261h 57m
#216 After Dark: How Kim Pastore Built the Jorge Pastore Foundation From Grief Into a National Training Movement for Law Enforcement
You don't have to wear a badge to fight for the people who do. Kim Pastore, founder of the Jorge Pastore Foundation, lost her husband Jorge, an Austin PD SWAT officer, in the line of duty in 2023. What she built in the aftermath, in a remarkably short amount of time and entirely from the outside looking in, is one of the most honest, boots-on-the-ground efforts to close the training gap facing law enforcement in this country. This conversation is long overdue, and it goes deep. Kim and I tra...
- Oct 2, 20262h 35m
#215 After Dark: Sean Bonilla on Building Predictability, Leading from the Front, and Cleaning Up Your House Before You Call in a Third Party
I sat down with Sean Bonilla, founder of Ready and Able Defense and a law enforcement officer who came up through the fight world, and we dig into a question that doesn't get asked enough: are you even cleaning up your house before you try to fix it? Sean lays out a framework that cuts through the noise, starting with the one thing competitive fighting taught him that most cops never get: frequency of consequence. When you fight, you feel the cost of skipping training. In law enforcement, yo...
- Sep 25, 20262h 24m
#214 After Dark: How Austin PD SWAT Built a Team That Measures Everything, Argues About Nothing, and Keeps Getting Better With Ryan Nichols
Ryan Nichols doesn't talk about what his team used to do. He talks about what they're doing right now, why they do it that way, and exactly how they got there. That's rare. I sat down with the Austin PD SWAT team leader after months of back channel conversations, TTPOA matches, and a long overdue calendar alignment, and the result is one of the best practitioner conversations yet. You'll hear how a 21-officer full-time team turned a reserves program into a defined developmental pipeline, bui...
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About Iron Sights
Welcome to Iron Sights podcast hosted by Scott Howell. This podcast candidly seeks to create opportunities and deliver impact by sharing the experiences and wisdom of successful entrepreneurs and thought leaders who unapologetically aim to WIN in health, fitness, business, and life. Welcome to old school meets new school, tradition meets innovation, and imperfection meets excellence.
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