What If Real Reform Starts With You

What If Real Reform Starts With You

June 20, 2026 · 26 min · Season 6 · Episode 18

About this episode

The episode explores how personal reform can lead to broader change through ethics, community engagement, and maintaining professional boundaries.

We dig into what reform can look like on the ground: showing respect to every person who walks through the door, holding boundaries, and refusing to let cynicism turn you into the kind of officer the public fears. Nancy shares how she teaches students to make change the slow way, like turning a battleship, by holding the line on ethics and professional conduct. Then we shift into the human side of heavy work: how to “recharge the battery” with friendships, community volunteering, and routines...

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