Here’s the updated **tonight** version.

🎙️ Tonight on The Above The Bar Podcast

📅 Wednesday, July 15
🕗 8 PM EST

Tonight’s guest is **Raymond E. Foster**, a retired **Los Angeles Police Department Lieutenant**, **U.S. Coast Guard veteran**, author, educator, and public safety consultant with more than four decades of leadership experience.

Raymond’s career has taken him from patrol and investigations in Los Angeles to international justice reform, higher education, civic leadership, and moral philosophy.

He has served in law enforcement, taught criminal justice and leadership, consulted on public safety reform, and written extensively on policing, service, ethics, and character.

But this conversation is not just about a career in uniform.

It’s about leadership, integrity, service, and the lifelong work of building character from within.

Raymond is also the author of **The Temple Within**, a philosophical exploration of Freemasonry as a system of moral architecture, self-mastery, discipline, reflection, and personal responsibility.

His work challenges us to look at leadership not simply as authority, but as something built through conduct, restraint, accountability, and service to others.

We’ll discuss:
• Raymond’s career with the LAPD and service in the U.S. Coast Guard
• Lessons learned from decades in law enforcement and public safety
• Ethical leadership and decision-making under pressure
• The connection between service, discipline, and character
• His work in education, consulting, and justice reform
• Freemasonry, symbolism, and the meaning behind **The Temple Within**
• Why true leadership starts with the person you are when no one is watching

💡 Tonight’s big question:

**What does it take to build the kind of character that can carry the weight of leadership?**

Pull up a stool and join us live tonight, Wednesday, July 15th at 8 PM EST.

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