What Does the FBI Teach You About Being Human? From Pastor to FBI: Faith, Trauma, Survival & Human Behavior with Eric Robinson
Descripción del Episodio
What happens when a pastor trades the pulpit for a 24-year career inside the FBI?
Eric Robinson spent 12 years in Christian ministry before becoming an FBI Special Agent, eventually serving 15 years as a SWAT operator and working investigations involving counterterrorism, crimes against children, gangs, drugs, financial crime, civil rights violations, political corruption, and national security.
But this conversation isn’t really about badges, guns, or cases.
It’s about what happens to your understanding of human beings when you’ve spent decades sitting across from victims, informants, criminals, survivors, and people living through some of the darkest circumstances imaginable.
In this episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy and Eric Robinson talk about:
• Going from the pulpit to the FBI
• 24 years inside federal law enforcement
• What ministry taught Eric about interviewing, trust, and human behavior
• Witnessing trauma without losing your humanity
• Why context matters when we judge another person’s choices
• The relationship between trauma, circumstance, crime, and survival
• Why mentorship and nonjudgmental support matter
• The psychological weight of believing you have to be perfect
• Dropping the mask Eric wore as a pastor
• Fear, competence, repetition, and learning to trust yourself
• Why making the “wrong” decision doesn’t have to destroy your life
• Humanizing people without excusing harmful behavior
• Choosing curiosity over judgment
• Why Eric believes we need more kindness in difficult conversations
• His upcoming book chronicling the unlikely journey from preacher to FBI Special Agent
Eric’s story is a reminder that people are almost always more complicated than the headline, the crime, the job title, the mistake, or the label we’ve been given.
Sometimes understanding another human being starts with getting curious enough to ask what happened before we decide who they are.
Connect with Eric Robinson:
https://preachertobreacher.com
Connect with Lisa Lacy:
What did you perform in order to survive?
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