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What Happens When Your Job Is Your Identity (And Then It’s Gone) - with Patrick Faulkner (Part 1)
What happens when the job that shaped your identity disappears overnight?
In Part 1 of this conversation, Patrick Faulkner shares the moment his law enforcement career ended — not with ceremony, but with a quiet reality check. After being cleared to return to work following an off-duty injury, he was told his sergeant stripes had been given away, his K9 reassigned, and there was no position waiting for him.
What followed was a decade-long reckoning.
Patrick walks through the identity loss many first responders experience after leaving law enforcement or military service, the overwork…
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