Welcome to One CA Podcast. Today we have Dale Yeager, CEO, Seraph the Problem Solving Company, provides tips to keep you safe when traveling abroad.
Host John McElligott.
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podcast. My name is John McElligot, your host for today's episode. We have a special guest, Mr. Dale Yeager, who is a forensic profiler and CEO of Serif, the problem -solving company. Dale's been working with clients for, I think it's about over 20, 25 years now. Your company, Serif, focuses on specialized consulting and training in the spaces of legal eye -building security. And the firms that you deal with tend to be in education, legal, business, law enforcement, and government. And the tie for today is discussing tips that you and the company could provide regarding travel safety. And since this audience is civil affairs and national security, we want to talk about tips that you may have for civil affairs folks, if they are operating or if they're government employees traveling abroad, how they can reduce their footprint, pack you know the right way how they can try to reduce their profile and as a target so um we want to welcome mr dale yeager to the podcast thank you hi john how you doing thank you for having me doing very well you know we've known each other for a couple years now and um really enjoyed hearing everything that serif has been doing over the last uh several decades could you tell people about the history of the company briefly well back in uh
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Washington, D .C., and the program was shut down. And I ended up, through a very close family friend meeting, Sam Sullivan. And for those of you who don't know, if you've ever watched the...
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That's great. Congratulations in 20 years. Thank you. Thank you. So you and the company put out a lot of travel tips. You have an amazing Twitter feed. You have blog posts that you put up. And some of the content focuses on travel safety. What are the questions that your clients bring to you regarding travel safety? And they're probably connected to what we want to talk about for civil affairs. Several years ago, I just... conflicts of Okay.
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And so how does it start? For example, if you're in the military, if you have a security clearance, you need to, whether it's personal or professional travel, you have to get a clearance briefing with the intel person. Let's go to the S2, for example, and say, hey, I'm going to travel, take a vacation to go to Costa Rica or Canada or got some work. I'm going to go to this country. Then you have to get a brief, and they have to say, okay, yeah, it's secure enough for you to go, or when you go, you need to keep these things in mind. When clients come to you, where do you start in that conversation? Which country do you want to go to, but how do you prepare for it? Well, forget the...
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Most countries are not ADA compliant or care about that. Correct. Right. So that's number one is your medical issues, your body, and all the people traveling with you. Next thing is, what are you going to wear? So there's a concept called the everyman.
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The everyman is preppers do this, people that are waiting for the zombie apocalypse. So how do you dress like an everyman? Anybody that's an intelligence officer has learned how to do this.
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They start looking at you from the bottom up sometimes. Look at your shoes first, right?
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Those are great points, Dale. So one thing I wanted to bring up with you is the off -duty operator. The concept of the clothing that 511 Tactical or some other related companies that are outdoor -ish, very functional, great pockets. So if you're a concealed carry or if you've got some wallets that you want to add somewhere else or whatever it is, a key for something, you're not going to have a ball cap that has the Fort Bragg 5K. Written on the back of it. Yeah. So the military, for the military folks listening, the military has some descriptions of what those items and what that attire would be. Are you recommending just throw that out the window and get into a country and buy local clothing? Or buy the, what is the nondescript? No, you don't have to buy local clothing. You don't have to buy local clothing, but the pocket pants, that is not something people generally wear overseas. It'll make you stand out. Yeah. Now, if you don't care, that's your business. But if you want to travel safely, you don't want to stand out like that. And by the way, nobody's buying that you're Canadian, so please don't try that either. But I think that you have to do some homework.
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some homework.
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It's not a big leap, but it's different. I have to humble myself and say, okay, these people know this weapon because I don't know this weapon. I know the M16. So humble yourself. You've been listening to the 1CA podcast and our interview with Mr. Dale Yeager. When we come back, we'll ask Dale about the importance of culture and other tips to keep you safe when traveling abroad.
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Welcome back to the 1CA Podcast. I'm your host, John McElligot. We continue the conversation with Mr. Dale Yeager of SARA.
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Carry yourself. How would a person, especially if they had military experience, there's a tendency that even regardless of the clothing that you're wearing, there's a way that you may carry yourself with your shoulders and your head up that will kind of give it away that, oh, he's a person who's military trained or maybe American. Are there ways that Americans walk on a street that other people don't? And how would you change the way that you carry yourself to blend in?
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Yeah. Don't they have an inside voice? I go, no, that's their voice. And they were bad people. I mean, it's just that they were talking very loudly inside what is basically a museum. Yeah. So, again. Quaker or not.
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You're just asking for trouble. Yeah, nothing good happens after midnight. Yeah, nothing good happens after midnight. And people say, oh, that's nonsense. I go, well, okay. You look at the crime statistics, most violent crime on the streets is happening after midnight. So I think the stats tell the story.
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They do. Well, Dale, this has been a fascinating discussion. ask you where people could go to follow the company to get more information about Seraph, and if they're a potential client, where they can go to contact you? My email is very simple. It's dale, D -A -L -E, at seraph .net. And we have a website, seraph .net, S -E -R -A -P -H .net. We're pretty easy to find on Google. And the last thing I would say to you is get to know the staff. Yes. Please, I beg of you, when you travel, even if it's on government business, sign up for STEP. Literally, it will save your life. It's free.
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Exactly. Thank you. Dale, thank you very much for being here. Serif provides legal liability and security problem solving for the education, legal, business, law enforcement, and government communities. You've been doing this for the last 20 years. Congratulations on 20 -year anniversary. And if people have more questions, they can email Dale and go online to serif .net. There's also another website, which is serifproblemsolving .com. So check out their information. Check out the Twitter feed with free information about travel tips. And if you ever want to know a lot more about Dale's background, his bio and everything is online. It's quite extensive. And the company he's been leading for the last 20 years is amazing. Dale Yeager, thank you very much for being on the 1CA podcast. Thank you very much.
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