The Tegan Broadwater Podcast

Tegan Broadwater
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"I don't try to change minds, just deepen them." - Tegan Incredible stories from people who impact the world and deepen our perspective. TRUE CRIME like John Kiriakou (CIA ret.) to Pablo Escobar's son, Danny Coulson (Dep. Director of the FBI / Hostage Rescue Team founder, ret.), Mike Ritland (podcaster & Navy SEAL ret.) Det. Jason White (The First 48), Joe Pistone (Donnie Brasco), and Hector Berrelez (undercover DEA ret. / Prime documentary "The Last Narc") MUSICIANS like Jon Button (The Who), The D.O.C. (N.W.A.), Band of Heathens, Bobby Rock (Lita Ford, Nelson, Vinnie Vincent), and Dug Pinnick (King-X) ENTERTAINERS like Barry Corbin (actor), Jordan Harbinger (social guru), Johnny Mitchell (podcaster & comedian), Nanci Anderson (dancer - Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Brittany Spears), and Charleston White (comedian/activist) True Crime, Music, Entertainment, and Entrepreneurship.

  1. 4d ago

    The Real Narcos - Hunting the Deadliest Man on the Planet - Guest Steve Murphy

    JOIN US: "The Perspective Architect" is our exclusive email community. Members get to watch episodes BEFORE they release, see behind the scenes content, and enjoy exclusive stories & articles: SIGN UP FREE: http://eepurl.com/itcbEE GUEST, STEVE MURPHY - The world knows him from Narcos. The DEA knew him as one of two American agents on the ground hunting Pablo Escobar, with a bounty on his head the whole time. I know him as a friend. He was on that rooftop in Medellín, and today he tells you what the show left out. ElevenLabs: Powering the best enterprises, creators, and developers. From ElevenAgents for customer experience, ElevenCreative for content creation, to the leading AI voice generator. Check it out: https://try.elevenlabs.io/r04lce4o274n BLACKLAND DISTILLERY This stuff is AMAZING! If you sip...this is a must (I personally recommend the Blackland Prairie Gold): Check it out: https://blacklanddistillery.com THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl." Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624 HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com GUEST: Steve Murphy (DEA, ret.) LINKS: Website: GameOfCrimesPodcast.com and DEAnarcos.com YouTube: Game of Crimes Podcast Instagram: GameOfCrimesPodcast and DEAnarcos Facebook: Game of Crimes Podcast and DEA Narcos and Steve Murphy TikTok: GameOfCrimes LinkedIn: Stephen Murphy and DEA Narcos X: GameOfCrimes and DEAnarcos Patreon: Patreon.com/GameOfCrimes SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com MUSIC: Tee Cad Website: https://teecad.com To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: hannah@parkdalepublicity.com

    The Real Narcos - Hunting the Deadliest Man on the Planet - Guest Steve Murphy

  2. Sep 15

    Barry Seal's Son Forgave His Father's Assassins | Guest: Aaron Seal

    "Is he definitely dead?!" Aaron Seal was nine years old the evening he called his father's phone and nobody picked up. His dad was Barry Seal — the pilot Hollywood turned into American Made, the man who flew for the cartel, then flew for the government, and became the most protected... and least protected... witness in America at the same time. Aaron grew up inside the open secret: helicopter rides from the park across from his elementary school, half the parents saying no thanks, and FBI agents in the treeline photographing him and his brother hunting snakes. Then he did the thing almost nobody does. He tracked down the men responsible for his father's death, sat across a table from one of them for an entire day, and forgave him. And somewhere in there, he became a brother to Pablo Escobar's son. This is the boy behind the headline, the mother who never remarried, and what it actually takes to step out of a cycle you never asked to be in. "I don't try to change minds… just deepen them." - Tegan JOIN US: "The Perspective Architect" Our exclusive newsletter subscribers get to watch episodes BEFORE they release, see behind the scenes content, and enjoy exclusive stories & articles: SIGN UP FREE: https://teganb.substack.com/subscribe GUEST: Aaron Seal Socials: FB: Aaron Seal | IG: real.aaron.seal | TikTok: Aaron_Seal Aaron's Podcast - 'Smuggled Truth' on YouTube: @AaronSealOfficial ElevenLabs: Powering the best enterprises, creators, and developers. From ElevenAgents for customer experience, ElevenCreative for content creation, to the leading AI voice generator. Check it out: https://try.elevenlabs.io/r04lce4o274n BLACKLAND DISTILLERY This stuff is AMAZING! If you sip...this is a must (I personally recommend the Blackland Prairie Gold): Check it out: https://blacklanddistillery.com THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl." Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624 HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com MUSIC: Tee Cad Website: https://teecad.com To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: hannah@parkdalepublicity.com

    Barry Seal's Son Forgave His Father's Assassins | Guest: Aaron Seal

  3. Aug 26

    CIA's Master Spy Recruiter: ''I'm Probably a Sociopath'' - Jim Lawler

    For 25 years, Jim Lawler's job was to sit across from someone and understand them better than almost anyone else in their life ever had. As a CIA case officer, Jim spent a career in human intelligence... the people side of the work, not the gadgets. He served under diplomatic cover across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, played a role in the operation that helped dismantle the A.Q. Khan proliferation network, and spent nearly two decades afterward teaching thousands of CIA, DIA and FBI officers how to build trust with the people they need most. Today he writes spy novels and still, by his own admission, dreams about running operations. We skip the standard résumé walk and goes straight at the interior: what genuine empathy actually costs a person, why he says he never once recruited a happy person, and what separates the merely good officers from the very few who change history. Jim breaks down his ten qualities of a great recruiter: curiosity, listening, patience, persistence, creativity, a few that make people uncomfortable, and describes what he calls "the metaphysics," the invisible link between two people that makes the rest of the room disappear. Along the way: how a morning run in Paris ended at the Pasteur Institute and earned him the nickname "Mad Dog." Why he gives a talk called "My Favorite Failures." The dozen red roses that turned an operation into an accidental dinner date. The first big approach of his career — the one that got turned down flat on moral grounds, and what happened at the second dinner one week later. And the phrase every officer lives by: it's okay to get turned down, but not turned in. Two operators, two systems, one conversation about reading people, and about what an insane career like that takes from you while you're too busy loving it to notice. JOIN US: "The Perspective Architect" is our exclusive email community. Members get to watch episodes BEFORE they release, see behind the scenes content, and enjoy exclusive stories & articles. SIGN UP FREE: http://eepurl.com/itcbEE ElevenLabs: Powering the best enterprises, creators, and developers. From ElevenAgents for customer experience, ElevenCreative for content creation, to the leading AI voice generator. Check it out: https://try.elevenlabs.io/r04lce4o274n BLACKLAND DISTILLERY This stuff is AMAZING! If you sip...this is a must (I personally recommend the Blackland Prairie Gold): Check it out: https://blacklanddistillery.com THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl." GUEST: Jim Lawler is a CIA Officer (ret.) and the author of the spy novels LIVING LIES and IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, with more on the way. He speaks at Valerie Plame's "Spies, Lies and Nukes" conference in Tucson, Arizona. WEB: Jim's Author Site: https://www.theguildlibrary.com/ Jim's Books: "Living Lies": https://www.amazon.com/Living-Lies-Iranian-Nuclear-Weapons/dp/1098391675/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1706563107&sr=8-1 "In the Twinkling of an Eye": htt...

    CIA's Master Spy Recruiter: ''I'm Probably a Sociopath'' - Jim Lawler

  4. Aug 11

    Shot Down, Tortured, Locked Up, Escaped Prison 5 TIMES — Roger Reaves

    Roger Reaves was a dirt-poor Georgia farm boy with an alcoholic father who started running moonshine to save the family farm — and ended up flying planeloads of marijuana and cocaine for some of the most powerful traffickers on earth, including Pablo Escobar himself. In this episode, Roger sits down with Tegan and tells it all: getting shot out of the sky over Mexico with 80 bullet holes in his plane, being tortured in a foreign prison, smuggling by air, land, and a hollowed-out shrimp boat around the world — and the day pilot Barry Seal, his friend, flipped for the DEA and helped bring his whole world crashing down. Escobar trusted him. Barry Seal ruined him. What follows is 33 years locked up across three countries, including 19 years where Roger and his wife Mari could only press their hands to opposite sides of the glass... yet she never left. This is a raw, unbelievable, and surprisingly redemptive conversation about crime, faith, consequences, and a love that outlasted three decades apart. You won't hear a story like this one anywhere else. JOIN US: "The Perspective Architect" is our exclusive email community. Members get to watch episodes BEFORE they release, see behind the scenes content, and enjoy exclusive stories & articles: SIGN UP FREE: http://eepurl.com/itcbEE ElevenLabs: Powering the best enterprises, creators, and developers. From ElevenAgents for customer experience, ElevenCreative for content creation, to the leading AI voice generator. Check it out: https://try.elevenlabs.io/r04lce4o274n BLACKLAND DISTILLERY This stuff is AMAZING! If you sip...this is a must (I personally recommend the Blackland Prairie Gold): Check it out: https://blacklanddistillery.com THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl." Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624 GUEST: Roger Reaves WEB: https://roger-reaves.com/ HOST: Tegan Broadwater WEB: https://teganbroadwater.com SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) WEB: https://www.TSNLLC.com MUSIC: Tee Cad WEB: https://teecad.com To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: hannah@parkdalepublicity.com

    Shot Down, Tortured, Locked Up, Escaped Prison 5 TIMES — Roger Reaves

  5. Jul 14

    The Strip Club That Funded the Mob | Mark Sewell

    He was a rookie FBI agent, barely off his first assignment, when they handed him the number-one grossing strip club in America... and the millions in cash it was skimming straight to the Gambino crime family in New York. That was just the beginning. Mark Sewell went from an oil refinery in Houston to the Marine Corps to twenty years in the FBI, working organized crime, public corruption, dirty cops, and a rape covered up from a police officer's own dinner table. Then he became the Bureau's go-to on stolen valor, hunting down the men who wear uniforms they never earned, starting with a fake Marine who slipped onto an Air Force base two months after 9/11, and what was hidden in that man's house. We get into how the game is really played: how you flip a witness, why the best agents have the best informants, what the media never understood about the Gold Club, and how a lie about military service can end in a felony conviction. Mark's book on the Gold Club case is out now, with his stolen valor book on the way. Don't be the one who misses new episodes of The Tegan Broadwater Podcast. Subscribe and turn on notifications. This stuff is AMAZING! If you sip...this is a must (I personally recommend the Blackland Prairie Gold): BLACKLAND DISTILLERY WEB: https://blacklanddistillery.com JOIN OUR COMMUNITY to watch episodes BEFORE release, and for exclusive stories and articles: http://eepurl.com/itcbEE THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl." Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624 HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com T's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!) Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com MUSIC: Tee Cad Website: https://teecad.com To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: hannah@parkdalepublicity.com

    The Strip Club That Funded the Mob | Mark Sewell

  6. Jun 30

    Taking Down 'The False Prophet' — The Man With 22 Wives - Guest: Christine Marie

    You're smarter than the people who join cults... and that's exactly why you're easy to recruit. Dr. Christine Marie had a knack for languages, a faith she'd kept since childhood, and four kids she'd have died for. None of it protected her. A man who gazed without breaking eye contact told her he was the prophet she'd seen in a dream — and step by tiny step, she lost her money, nearly lost her children, and came within a protective order of losing her life. This is the part most people get wrong about cults: it isn't weakness that lets them in. It's the certainty that it could never be you. Christine survived a manufactured "marriage" to a con man, a police system that filed her trafficking case as a bad romance, and a public docudrama that turned her trauma into entertainment and slut-shamed her in front of the world. Then she did something almost no one does — she went back. Armed with a PhD in media psychology and an emotional-support farm's worth of animals, she embedded in Short Creek, earned the trust of an FLDS community everyone else had written off, and helped bring down self-proclaimed prophet Sam Bateman, working undercover alongside an FBI agent who finally moved "at the speed of a bullet train." Tegan sits down with Christine for a conversation about the architecture of manipulation, the fundamental attribution error, why separation — not argument — breaks groupthink, and what it actually costs to be the person who goes back into the dark to pull someone out. Two people who've lived undercover, holding the line between who you have to become and who you actually are. JOIN OUR FREE COMMUNITY to watch episodes BEFORE release, and for exclusive stories and articles: http://eepurl.com/itcbEE THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl." Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624 HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com GUEST: Dr. Christine Marie WEB: http://www.christinemarie.com/ Instagram: @dr.christinemarie LinkedIn: @christinemarie Her Charity: www.voicesfordignity.org This stuff is AMAZING! If you sip...this is a must (I personally recommend the Blackland Prairie Gold): BLACKLAND DISTILLERY WEB: https://blacklanddistillery.com SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Protection Details, Armed Personnel) https://www.TSNLLC.com MUSIC: Tee Cad Website: https://teecad.com T's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!) Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: hannah@parkdalepublicity.com

    Taking Down 'The False Prophet' — The Man With 22 Wives - Guest: Christine Marie

  7. Jun 10

    Bobby Rock: Addiction, Loss & the Art of Staying Hungry at 62

    Bobby Rock has held down the kit for Lita Ford, Nelson, and Vinnie Vincent Invasion. He's toured arenas, run drum clinics around the world, and stayed clean for nearly 50 years. But underneath the career is a man whose life has been shaped by things most people never have to survive. In this conversation, Bobby opens up about getting sober at 13 through a 12-step program — and the insight that changed everything: addiction wasn't the problem, it was a symptom of a misdirected addictive personality, one he learned to point at discipline, craft, and health instead. He walks us through the surreal audition that launched his career, the maddening reverse-order recording of a record he tracked three separate times, and what it actually feels like to walk up the stairs to an arena stage for the first time. Then there's the hardest part of his story: the violent loss of his pregnant girlfriend in 1993, the public act of forgiveness that followed, and the rage underneath it he spent years learning to face honestly. Three decades later — to the very day — he and his partner brought home their son. Now a first-time father at 62, Bobby reflects on softness, presence, and why staying hungry never left him. A conversation about resilience, reinvention, and what it takes to keep showing up — for the work, and for the people who depend on you. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY to watch episodes BEFORE they release, and for exclusive stories and articles: http://eepurl.com/itcbEE THE PURPOSE: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl." Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-... HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com T's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!) Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves GUEST: Bobby Rock WEB: https://www.bobbyrock.com/ ...

    Bobby Rock: Addiction, Loss & the Art of Staying Hungry at 62

  8. Apr 21

    Spy Hunter: How A Rookie Trapped America’s Greatest Traitor ⁉️ - Guest: Eric O'Neill

    What does it feel like to sit across from a man who got people killed... and earn his trust anyway? Eric O'Neill was 26 years old, newly married, going to law school at night, when the FBI handed him the most dangerous assignment in their history. His target: Robert Hanssen — a 25-year FBI veteran who had been secretly selling America's most classified secrets to Russia for over two decades. Nuclear blueprints. The bin Laden surveillance system. The names of American assets who were then executed. The damage was almost too big to calculate. ⭐Eric sat across from him every single day. And Hanssen never saw it coming. His story became the Hollywood thriller Breach — but in this conversation, we go way beyond the movie. This is not just a spy story. It's a story about deception, trust, marriage, faith, and what it costs to live inside a secret. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY to watch episodes BEFORE release, and for exclusive stories and articles: http://eepurl.com/itcbEE THE PURPOSE of this CHANNEL: Undercover operative, CEO, Author, musician. I’ve lived in worlds most only judge from the outside. I don't try to change minds, just deepen them. -Tegan Broadwater, Author | "Life in the Fishbowl." Tegan's BOOK (Profits donated to charities mentoring fatherless kids): "LIFE IN THE FISHBOWL. The Harrowing True Story of an Undercover Cop Who Took Down 51 of the Nation's Most Notorious Crips, and His Cultural Awakening Amidst a Poor, Gang-Infested Neighborhood" https://www.amazon.com/Life-Fishbowl-undercover-gang-infested-neighborhood/dp/0578661624 HOST: Tegan Broadwater https://teganbroadwater.com T's FAVs: My VUORI Collection (These are badass...I own all of them!) Please use this link to shop: https://shopmy.us/tb/shelves GUEST: Eric O'Neill, FBI SSD, retired - Cyber Security Expert, Author WEB: https://ericoneill.net SPONSOR: Tactical Systems Network, LLC (Security Consulting, Armed Personnel, & Investigations) https://www.TSNLLC.com MUSIC: Tee Cad Website: https://teecad.com To BOOK TEGAN or for GUEST INQUIRIES: Hannah Clark with Parkdale Publicity E: hannah@parkdalepublicity.com

    Spy Hunter: How A Rookie Trapped America’s Greatest Traitor ⁉️ - Guest: Eric O'Neill
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"I don't try to change minds, just deepen them." - Tegan Incredible stories from people who impact the world and deepen our perspective. TRUE CRIME like John Kiriakou (CIA ret.) to Pablo Escobar's son, Danny Coulson (Dep. Director of the FBI / Hostage Rescue Team founder, ret.), Mike Ritland (podcaster & Navy SEAL ret.) Det. Jason White (The First 48), Joe Pistone (Donnie Brasco), and Hector Berrelez (undercover DEA ret. / Prime documentary "The Last Narc") MUSICIANS like Jon Button (The Who), The D.O.C. (N.W.A.), Band of Heathens, Bobby Rock (Lita Ford, Nelson, Vinnie Vincent), and Dug Pinnick (King-X) ENTERTAINERS like Barry Corbin (actor), Jordan Harbinger (social guru), Johnny Mitchell (podcaster & comedian), Nanci Anderson (dancer - Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Brittany Spears), and Charleston White (comedian/activist) True Crime, Music, Entertainment, and Entrepreneurship.

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  • Creator
    Tegan Broadwater
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2021Tegan Broadwater
  • Show Website
    The Tegan Broadwater Podcast

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