Coaching a Marine Turned Priest Teach How to Begin Again in His Fifties | David Couper | Ep 1036

Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong · Sep 18, 2026 · 37m

"When you teach your vision, it's got to be the thing you remember when you wake up in the morning." — David Couper

Join Niiamah (@niiamahashong) and David Couper. David is 88 and still working. He ran the Madison Police Department for 21 years, went to seminary in his fifties, and is fifty years into a fight he has not finished.

This one is about leading a system you inherited and refuse to accept as it is.

Three things you leave with:

Hand decision power to the people fighting you, and watch what happens to your authority

Trust first, or spend your whole career using force to get compliance…