by Larae Quy | Dec 3, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Trauma is experienced in many different ways. Soldiers can experience it on the battlefield, healthcare workers in hospitals and emergency rooms, and law enforcement officers when they pull out a gun. You and I can experience it when we lose a job, get a divorce, lose...
by Larae Quy | Oct 10, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness
One of my investigations in San Francisco targeted a foreign spy who hated the United States. I’ll call him Agent X. He worked for a hostile intelligence service headquartered in Asia. Silicon Valley was a hotbed of foreign spies trying to steal classified and...
by Larae Quy | Aug 20, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
I worked as an FBI counterintelligence agent for twenty years and loved the challenge of being a spy catcher. However, when I was offered the position of spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California, I jumped at the chance. It felt like the next step in...
by Larae Quy | Aug 1, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology
Raise your hand if you’ve experienced burnout at some point. I spent the last four years of my career as the spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California. The news cycle doesn’t recognize weekends, vacations, or time at the beach. I was on-call 24/7 for the entire...
by Larae Quy | Jun 27, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Before my first undercover assignment, I was sent back to the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy for a series of psychological tests to determine my level of self-awareness. I was disappointed because I expected to learn how to scissor-kick in high heels to...
by Larae Quy | Jun 3, 2024 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
A runt of a Shetland pony named Socks helped teach me how to overcome adversity. We lived on a remote cattle ranch in Wyoming, and my grandfather bought him for me when I was four years old. Socks had a hard and dry little heart; he only wanted to terrorize his rider....
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