The Courage To Live
The Courage to Live podcast is hosted by retired Police Captain Josh Bitsko and his wife Jenna, and it explores resilience, leadership, and the real stories behind critical incidents and everyday challenges. Each episode blends lessons from Josh’s career in law enforcement including his response to the 1 October mass shooting in Las Vegas with honest conversations about trauma, growth, and the courage it takes to face both professional and personal battles. The show covers everything from leadership and decision making under stress to mental health, family, and the daily choices that help us live with purpose.
Episodes
In this Courage Cast, retired Police Captain Josh Bitsko talks about how to be the calm in the room when stress is high. Whether it’s a critical call, a family emergency, or a tough moment at work, your presence influences everyone around you.
Josh shares lessons on emotional regulation, how calm leadership is a learned skill, and why people remember leaders for how they made them feel. Drawing from his own career, including the 1 O...
In this Courage Cast, retired Police Captain Josh Bitsko explains why slowing momentum in high-stress situations can save lives. When adrenaline pushes you to move fast, tactical patience allows for better decisions and safer outcomes.
Josh shares tools like box breathing to regulate stress and tells a story from his early days as a sergeant, where slowing down changed the outcome of a barricade call. This episode is a reminder that...
On October 1, 2017, Las Vegas was shattered by the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. In this episode of The Courage to Live Podcast, Josh and Jenna revisit that night from inside Mandalay Bay, where Josh responded as one of the officers racing toward the gunfire. He reflects on the split-second leadership decisions, the fear and courage of those moments, and the weight that lingers yea...
In this episode of The Courage to Live Podcast, retired Police Captain Josh Bitsko explains the difference between wellness and resilience. Wellness is your foundation: sleep, nutrition, exercise, and daily habits that keep you healthy. Resilience is your ability to face stress, trauma, and high-pressure situations and still perform when it matters most.
Josh shares lessons from his career and personal journey on how to build both. ...
Most people at their lowest won’t reach out for help. In this short episode, Josh Bitsko shares why real culture change happens when we have the courage to reach in and start the hard conversations.
Grand plans usually collapse. Josh reflects on his own mistakes chasing big changes, and why slow, steady consistency always wins.
Just like calm can spread in chaos, vulnerability spreads too. Josh shares why showing your emotions can give others permission to do the same.
Whether in law enforcement, business, or family life, chaos will find you. Josh shares how leaders can project calmness that brings order to any situation.
Negative self-talk can break a leader. Josh explains how building faith in yourself, even after failure, creates confidence others can rely on.
In the very first episode of The Courage to Live Podcast, Josh and Jenna Bitsko open up about their careers in law enforcement, the culture they experienced, and the unseen toll of critical incidents. Josh shares his path from an eager cadet at 18 to handling some of the most difficult moments in policing, including the Route 91 shooting in Las Vegas. Jenna offers balance and context, while bringing her perspective as a manager of...
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