Is self-doubt killing your law enforcement leadership potential?

Relentless pressures like community unrest, staffing shortages, and self-doubt can fracture teams and erode trust. In Episode 38 of Elevate Your Call to Service, we reveal how personal leadership conquers chaos.

Learn practical tools to overcome impostor syndrome, build trusted teams, and lead with resilience. This episode offers actionable strategies to strengthen your agency leadership and restore community confidence.

Don’t let self-doubt derail your legacy—tune in to unlock your potential and lead with purpose.

Overwhelmed by agency chaos or self-doubt?

As a law enforcement executive, you face relentless pressures—protests, staffing shortages, and budget cuts that erode team morale and community trust. Episode 37 of Elevate Your Call to Service equips you with proven tools to conquer overwhelm and lead with confidence. Join hosts Mike and Cathy McIntosh as they share the CALM framework—a repeatable system to control what you can, assess with clarity, lead with integrity, and move forward deliberately.

Drawing on real-life crises, like a line-of-duty death and a US Navy tactical pause, this episode delivers actionable strategies to build trusted teams, restore community confidence, and transform your agency.

Don’t let uncertainty derail you.

Tune in to lead proactively and leave a lasting legacy.

Exhausted from endless shifts? Can't shut off your brain after a high-stress call?

Discover why sleep deprivation is the silent epidemic plaguing law enforcement and how you can reclaim your health, resilience, and edge on the job. In Episode 36 of Elevate Your Call to Service, we dive deep into the critical role sleep plays in officer wellness with insights from Dr. Chris Winter’s The Sleep Solution.

Learn battle-tested strategies to conquer sleep debt, boost performance, and thrive in your career and personal life. From crafting a sleep hygiene routine to optimizing your environment, we share practical tools tailored for shift workers. Stop running on fumes—sleep is your secret leadership weapon!

Tune in to transform your rest and elevate your service.

Is Your Agency Bleeding Talent? Stop Toxic Systems from Sabotaging Your Team!

Toxic workplaces are crushing your best officers, and Episode 35 of the Elevate Your Call to Serve Podcast shows you how to fight back.

We dive into the leadership traps—like vague directives, politics over people, and silenced voices—that fuel officer burnout and drive good cops away.

Our proven ASSESS framework provides you with the tools to rebuild trust, restore purpose, and enhance retention. Ready to lead with heart and end the sabotage? Tune in to transform your agency now!

Why do 80% of leaders overestimate their self-awareness, burning bridges with their teams?

In Episode 34, we uncover the hidden test most leaders fail—and how to pass it by boosting self-awareness. With raw vulnerability, we share our own struggles and growth, revealing practical tools to overcome blind spots, build trust, and strengthen law enforcement teams.

This episode equips you to lead with clarity and impact. Join us for a weekly challenge to kickstart your self-awareness journey and transform your leadership, career, and community today!

What does it take to lead when the stakes are life-or-death, and hope hangs by a thread? In Episode 33 of Elevate Your Call to Service, we unravel the heart-pounding story of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition, where one leader’s grit and empathy saved his stranded crew from an icy fate. Paired with hard-earned law enforcement wisdom, this episode reveals why people-focused leadership builds stronger, more unified teams than task-driven management ever could. This is a must-listen episode for anyone who wants to strengthen their leadership.

Ever wonder why half your team stays silent while the other half won’t stop talking—and how that’s quietly sabotaging your leadership?

Join us as MBTI expert Mary Thompson unpacks the introvert-extrovert divide, revealing why these misunderstandings derail communication, fracture trust, and leave your team running on half power—especially in high-stakes fields like law enforcement. Tune in to discover practical, game-changing strategies to bridge the gap, unlock every voice, and transform your team into a cohesive, resilient unit ready to tackle any challenge.

If you want to walk away with tools to lead smarter, connect deeper, and turn personality clashes into your team's greatest strength, you won't want to miss this episode!

Feeling worn out, disconnected, or like emotional weight of the badge has drained you dry? You’re not alone—and this episode offers hope.

In this gripping episode of Elevate Your Call to Service, hosts Mike and Cathy McIntosh tackle the silent wellness crisis in law enforcement. With nearly 40 years of experience, Mike reveals how neglecting his wellness nearly broke him—and their marriage.

Cathy, a branding expert with a front-row seat to the human toll, shares how they clawed back from the edge. Together, they unpack five aspects of wellness that help you survive the job: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and relational. Strength in each element will help you thrive and lead stronger teams.

Discover actionable frameworks and hear raw stories of burnout, sleepless nights, and a family on the brink.

Ready to transform from ash to iron? Listen now. Take the five-step challenge and find out how small moves ignite big change.

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