The Defuse Podcast: Beyond Security - The Science of Feeling Safer
🔊 The Defuse Podcast: Personal Threat Management for High-Risk Lives
How do you keep high-profile people safe in a world of escalating threats, online hostility, and real-world harm?
Hosted by Philip Grindell, former Scotland Yard detective and author of Personal Threat Management: The Practitioner’s Guide to Keeping Clients Safer, The Defuse Podcast goes behind the scenes of elite protective strategies used to safeguard prominent individuals, executives, and private clients.
Each episode features candid, expert-led conversations on topics including:
- Stalking, fixated threats, and insider risk
- Protective intelligence and behavioural profiling
- Workplace violence and reputational harm
- Digital vulnerability, doxxing, and OSINT
- Crisis leadership and executive resilience
Whether you're a security professional, family office advisor, C-suite leader, or someone responsible for protecting others, this podcast will give you real-world insight into what works — and what doesn't — when lives and reputations are on the line.
Subscribe now and learn how to manage threats before they become crises.
Podcasting since 2021 • 39 episodes
The Defuse Podcast: Beyond Security - The Science of Feeling Safer
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Reputation Management with Andrew Sanderson – Part 2
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Reputation Management with Andrew Sanderson - Part 1
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Right of Bang – Post Incident Lessons with Dr. Gene Deisinger
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