Colonel Orlando Lilly — head of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police and 32-year law enforcement veteran — sits down with host Dominick Watters for a direct, detailed conversation on the realities of leadership in public safety.

The episode begins where his career did: a 1979 hospital room, a box cutter wound that nearly killed a 10-year-old boy, and a police officer who showed up and cried. That moment of vulnerability from a stranger in uniform permanently shaped how Col. Lilly understands command, service, and purpose.

Topics include the five levels of leadership in a law enforcement context, emotional intelligence as a career skill, navigating race and institutional bias in policing, the difference between relational and transactional leadership on the street, and a framework for decision-making under pressure. He a ...