The Defuse Podcast: Feel Safer in Public Life
🎙️ Prominent families face threats that very few people properly understand.
Most are not dramatic. They arrive quietly.
• A fixation
• An online campaign
• A trusted insider
• A family member under pressure
• A reputation damaged in hours
The sort of problems most advisers never see until it is too late.
👤 I'm Philip Grindell.
After 35 years at Scotland Yard and in government protection, including building Parliament's specialist threat assessment team after the murder of Jo Cox MP, I founded Defuse Global.
🎧 This podcast is a series of honest conversations with the people who deal with risk, crisis, and the pressure of prominence at the highest level.
🧠 Former FBI behavioural specialists
⚖️ Crisis advisers
🛡️ Reputation lawyers
🧬 Forensic psychologists
🏛️ Family office leaders
Occasionally, principals themselves speak candidly about what prominence costs.
🚫 No drama.
🚫 No fearmongering.
Just practical insight from people who have spent years dealing with real threats.
Because the real subject is not security.
➡️ It is helping people feel safer in public life.
🌍 Defuse Global works quietly with a small number of clients worldwide.
If this world feels familiar, the conversation need not end with the podcast.
The Defuse Podcast: Feel Safer in Public Life
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