S5:E181 (VIDEO)🎙️ LIVE with CDR Swift Sanchez, USN

S5:E181🎙️ LIVE with CDR Swift Sanchez, USN

⚓️ From the Badge to the Silver Oak Leaf: Two Uniforms. One Calling. SERVICE. 🇺🇸

 

I could not be more proud to introduce my next guest—my mentee, CDR (SEL) Swift Sanchez, U.S. Navy! ❤️🙏🏾

Swift has spent more than two decades serving her community and our nation—first across two uniforms, and now preparing for a new chapter as a senior Navy officer.

And she has just been SELECTED FOR PROMOTION TO COMMANDER! ⭐️⚓️🎉

 

📅 Mark Your Calendars!

Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ — Season 5, Episode 181 🎙️

 

📅 Monday, August 31, 2026

⏰ 3:30 PM PT (San Francisco, CA / Port Angeles, WA) | 6:30 PM ET (Washington, D.C.)

📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion

⚓️ INTRODUCING MY GUEST

Swift's leadership journey is remarkable.

She served 22 years in civilian law enforcement, progressing through positions including patrol officer, detective, sergeant and Deputy Chief before retiring from law enforcement. Her work included felony and homicide investigations, crimes against children, critical incidents, tribal law enforcement and victim-centered, trauma-informed investigations.

Simultaneously, she built an extraordinary Navy career—beginning in the Master-at-Arms community before transitioning into Naval Intelligence and becoming an Information Warfare-qualified Intelligence Officer.

🇦🇫 In Afghanistan, Swift led a multinational team of 24 intelligence analysts supporting more than 140 combat operations.

🌊 At Commander THIRD Fleet, she served as Operations Officer and Interim XO for a 187-member unit and led intelligence planning for nine Fleet-level exercises.

🇺🇸 She has also supported THREE Presidential Inaugurations, most recently serving as Intelligence and Operations Resource Planner for the 60th Presidential Inauguration.

Now the Navy has entrusted her with the next level of leadership:

COMMANDER. ⭐️

 

🎯 What You Will Learn…

✨ What 22 years of policing taught Swift about leadership that the Navy could not—and what the Navy taught her that policing could not.

✨ Leadership lessons from Afghanistan, where incomplete information, uncertainty and consequential decisions were everyday realities.

✨ How detective work, intelligence analysis and trauma-informed policing shaped her approach to judgment, empathy and trust.

✨ What serving at THIRD Fleet taught her about moving from personally accomplishing the mission to enabling entire organizations to succeed.

✨ Lessons from supporting three Presidential Inaugurations about joint leadership, interagency cooperation and service above politics.

✨ How mentorship helped shape her journey—and why successful leaders must eventually become developers of other leaders.

✨ What selection to Commander means to her personally and professionally.

✨ Most importantly: What must change when a Lieutenant Commander becomes a senior Navy officer?

Promotion doesn't mean:

“I have arrived.”

It means:

“I have been entrusted with more—and therefore I must grow more.”

That is the conversation I want to have with Swift. ❤️🙏🏾

 

💬 Join the Conversation!

🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!

🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?

💬 Got a leadership, mentorship, intelligence, military transition, or career question for Swift? Post it below—we will answer as many as we can LIVE!

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👇 Your Turn:

➡️ What are your three takeaways from this episode?

➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?

➡️ Tag a colleague, Sailor, junior officer, law-enforcement professional, veteran, or teammate who could benefit from this conversation. ❤️🙏🏾

Two uniforms. One calling. SERVICE.

Congratulations again, CDR (SEL) Swift Sanchez, USN! ⚓️⭐️🇺🇸

The silver oak leaf isn't the destination.

It's an invitation to serve at an even higher level.

Mission FIRST. People ALWAYS. ⚓️❤️🙏🏾

 

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