Chris Voss
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Being an FBI agent wasn't even a goal.
Kind of found myself there by the circumstances lined up.
When I applied for federal law enforcement, I originally applied for the Secret Service because that's what I heard about.
And I was told Secret Service traveled all over the world.
I'm like, wow, that's cool.
While I grew up in Iowa, it was a big deal going to another state.
I crossed the river into Illinois.
That was a big deal.
That was a big deal.
So I traveled, and Secret Service wasn't hiring me.
I was.
I put in my application.
I was slated to go to the SWAT team in the police department just before I left.
If the Bureau would have delayed by three weeks hiring me, I'd have stayed with the PD because I was two weeks away from going to the SWAT team.
Got on the SWAT team in Pittsburgh and
I remember an exercise we did, you know, it was this supposed bad guy takeover of a nuclear facility.
We got negotiators inside.
And I can remember being on the outside on a SWAT, knowing that we had somebody in there that was supposedly a negotiator.
And just like, oh, okay, somebody's talking to him on the phone.
That's a negotiator.