The Team Room LIVE · 1ST & 3RD TUE · 2000 ET

Every profession has a back channel. This is ours.

A standing team room for experienced protectors — law enforcement, military, security, and intelligence. Every specialty teaches the others, so everyone leaves sharper. It's the camaraderie of a good unit, kept alive past the unit. Live the 1st & 3rd Tuesday nights. No hype. No gurus.

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The ODA model

Built like a team.

On a Special Forces team, the medic teaches the team medicine. The weapons sergeant runs the weapons block. Engineer, commo, intel — each man owns his craft and cross-trains the rest.

Nobody's only a student. Nobody's only an instructor. That's how twelve operators carry the capability of a hundred. The Team Room runs the same way. You bring the specialty you've spent a career earning, you teach it to the room, then you take a seat in someone else's block and learn theirs. You leave more complete than you came — and teaching sharpens the teacher: laying your craft out for sharp peers is how you master it a second time.

It's for the professionals who still want a team. The ones who earned their expertise and aren't done sharpening it — or handing it down. Working or retired, uniform or plainclothes: if you've got a craft and the itch to keep getting better at it, pull up a chair.

Who's in the room

Not an audience. A roster.

These aren't spectators — they're working practitioners who show up Tuesday nights and talk shop. A sample of the active membership:

Andrew I.
Andrew I.Retired Green Beret · 5th Special Forces Group

Retired Team Sergeant with 8 Deployments, now owns security consultancy

Terry B.
Terry B.Vice President, CSO · CSP, CBCP, CPP, PE, C.Eng

NHI Certified Instructor and DuPont Certified Safety Training Instructor, TLO

Randy M.
Randy M.Certified Threat Manager

Retired JTTF Officer leading Crisis Consulting International which rescues Christian missionary hostages

Cleve C.
Cleve C.Sergeant, Massachusetts State Police (ret.)

Retired JTTF Officer with 37-years of law enforcement experience

Steve L.
Steve L.US Marshal (ret.) · Healthcare CSO

27-Years federal service · Judicial Security Unit · DT & Active Shooter Instructor

Sunny Y.
Sunny Y.BJJ Blackbelt, Gracie Combatives

Gracie Combatives Instructor, LE Chaplain, Former UNC Professor

Holly R.
Holly R.K-12 Threat Manager

National Certified School Psychologist & Threat Assessment Specialist

Mike M.
Mike M.Retired US Army 1SG, Ranger, LEO & K9 Officer

XVIII Airborne Corps Long Range Surveillance Company 1SG; 24 years Army + 16 Years LE

Birdy
BirdyExecutive Protection · 12-Years British Army

Former British sapper and Ranger Regiment · EP Officer

Mark M.
Mark M.Healthcare CSO · Former Executive Protection

USMC · Protected Bill & Melinda Gates, Henry Kissinger & multiple Olympics

Steve C.
Steve C.Certified Threat Manager State Level Threat Assessor

Terrorism & extremism SME · Advises state & federal LE · Certified Master Trainer

Scott L.
Scott L.President of Stratasite · Police Lieutenant (ret.)

Former SWAT Officer & founding partner of platform focused on emergency preparedness

Recent guests in the room include Fred Burton, Scott Stewart, Rener Gracie, Jim Wendler, Steve Crimando, and Steve Linder.

Who convenes it
Matt Wainscott

The best learning of my career never happened in a classroom. It happened in the team room afterward — where people who'd actually done the work talked straight about what worked and what didn't. When I came out, I couldn't find that anywhere in the civilian security world. So I built it.

Matt Wainscott — Founder
U.S. Army Special Forces (18D) · Police Sergeant · BTAM Program Lead, Healthcare System · CPP, CHPA
Membership

Two seats at the table. Pick yours.

Different rates for a simple reason: protectors get the peer rate because they are the room. Business operators pay a little more because they're here for that expertise.

Peer rate

Protector

$9 /month
or $99/year

For serving and prior-service professionals — law enforcement, military, security, and intelligence.

You bring the experience. The peer rate keeps the room full of people worth learning from.

Join as a Protector
Access rate

Business Operator

$17 /month
or $170/year — 2 months free

For executives, consultants, and business owners who need protector-grade insight without wearing the badge.

Direct access to working practitioners — the kind of counsel that usually bills by the hour.

Join as a Business Operator

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