{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"You're Allowed*","title":"S1E2 Carmen Best | You're Allowed* to Lead on Your Own Terms ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1768,"description":"S1E2 — Carmen Best | You're Allowed to Lead on Your Own Terms\nCarmen Best — Former Chief of the Seattle Police Department, Speaker, Author, Changemaker\n\nGuest: Carmen Best, former Chief of the Seattle Police Department, author of Black in Blue, and one of the most recognizable voices on leadership to come out of 2020.\nEpisode Description\nPeople told Carmen Best she'd never be Chief. She mostly found out afterward — the doubt was happening in rooms she wasn't even in, about a career she hadn't started yet. She became Chief of the Seattle Police Department anyway.\nIn this episode of You're Allowed, Carmen traces the whole arc: a loving, lower-middle-class childhood in Tacoma where she was given permission to dream as big as she wanted, a \"why not\" decision in 1992 that turned into nearly 30 years in law enforcement, and the year the entire world was watching her city. She's honest about being the only woman — and often the only woman of color — in the room, the mentors who reminded her she wasn't alone, and the slow boil of experience that became her book.\nThen she gives away the hard-won wisdom: how she knew when to walk away, why \"if you need the job, maybe you shouldn't take the job,\" what she'd whisper to herself the day she got appointed, and what she's still allowed to want. It's an episode about permission and access — the story and the pathway — and it ends on the line that defines the whole show.\n\nIn This Episode\nThe craziest thing people said would never happen — and why \"people aren't always right\"\nGrowing up in Tacoma with strict rules but unlimited permission to dream\nThe 1992 \"why not\" that became a 30-year career\nBeing the only one in the room, and turning that pressure into purpose\nThe mentors who taught her \"you're not alone in this\"\nWriting Black and Blue after the slow boil of 2020\nLeading Seattle through a mass shooting, a pandemic, George Floyd, CHOP, and the defund movement\nThe council cuts, and protecting a department she'd just diversified...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KH5oXpWT3HXawYd8lSUeg2-bHfxx6wBIJziXaMnPYww/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wOWI1/MDdjZDI1MTg0OTI2/NjNjMWI5MDY5YTA3/MmY0Ny5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}