Surviving the Job: Tom Lake on Life After the Badge | Built Different ep 22

In this week’s episode of Built Different, Colin Ledbetter sits down with retired St. Louis Police Sergeant Tom Lake for a raw and powerful conversation about resilience, duty, and life after trauma.

Tom reflects on his 23-year career in law enforcement, including his time in internal affairs and narcotics, and the shooting in 2016 that nearly took his life. He opens up about the physical and emotional aftermath, the PTSD diagnosis he initially resisted, and the path to healing that followed.

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