
Change Agents with Andy Stumpf
-New Episodes Every Wednesday- Find out what takes to solve some of the world's seemingly impossible problems. In each episode, SEAL Team 6 veteran and "Cleared Hot" podcast host Andy Stumpf interviews a new "agent of change" who is enacting real change to understand the scope of their work, how it can be replicated, and the unimaginable stakes of their everyday lives. An IRONCLAD Original.
Latest episodes

Jun 12, 2024 • 1h 17min
Is the Government Hiding Alien UAP Technology? (with Dr. Garry Nolan)
Dr. Garry Nolan, a leading immunologist, discusses hidden UAP knowledge, societal openness, alien technology vs. anecdotes, Arrow's role, government programs on UAP technology, fitness programs, self-defense, unknown realities, and alien technology implications.

Jun 5, 2024 • 1h 2min
Mike Baker Returns: Putin, Iran and What Comes Next
Mike Baker is a former CIA covert operations officer and a security expert.
He is the CEO of Portman Square Group, a global investigations and strategic communications company and is the host of the show Black Files Declassified on the Discovery Channel and The President’s Daily Brief podcast, which recently launched its new Weekend Special Edition interview series. He is also the author of the book COMPANY RULES: Or Everything I Know About Business I Learned from the CIA.
You can check out The President’s Daily Brief podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbWraa1DoXrFwX3oK1zattQ
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May 29, 2024 • 1h 12min
The Violent Mexican Cartels Preying on Elderly Americans with Time Share Scams
Today on Change Agents, Andy Stumpf learns about how the violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel is raking in millions by preying on elderly Americans with elaborate phone scams.
His guest, Steve Fisher, is an investigative reporter based in Mexico City who covers organized crime in Mexico for outlets including the New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post and the LA Times.
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May 21, 2024 • 1h 1min
Special Operations Pirate Hunters & Exposing Crime on the High Seas (with Ian Urbina)
Today’s guest is Ian Urbina.
He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who left The New York Times in 2019 to start The Outlaw Ocean Project. The Project’s mission is to produce ”investigative stories about human rights, environment and labor concerns on the two-thirds of the planet covered by water.”
On today’s show, he and Andy discuss investigating murder on the open ocean, forced labor on fishing vessels, the special operations veterans who now hunt pirates, and more.
You can learn more about his work at https://www.theoutlawocean.com/
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May 15, 2024 • 1h 12min
The Dark Side of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg (with whistleblower Frances Haugen)
Today's guest is Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen.
Frances Haugen is a specialist in algorithmic product management, having worked on ranking algorithms at Google, Pinterest, Yelp, and Facebook. In 2019, she was recruited to Facebook to be the lead Product Manager on the Civic Misinformation team, which dealt with issues related to democracy and misinformation, and later worked on counter-espionage.
She became alarmed over Facebook’s prioritization of profit over safety and security, and finally blew the whistle by providing the Wall Street Journal with a series of alarming internal documents about the company’s practices. The series of articles that resulted are now known as THE FACEBOOK FILES. She has testified in front of the US Congress, UK and EU Parliaments, the French Senate and National Assembly.
She recounts the story in her book, The Power of One: How I Found the Strength to Tell the Truth and Why I Blew the Whistle on Facebook
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May 8, 2024 • 1h 5min
The Asian Meth Super Cartels Operating Out of a Remote Narco-State
Today’s guest is writer and investigative crime journalist, Sean Williams. Sean is the co-host of The Underworld Podcast.
On this episode, Sean and Andy discuss the world of Asian meth cartels operating out of Myanmar’s remote Wa State, where an autonomous government and military protect massive super labs.
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May 1, 2024 • 1h 9min
Exposing the Real Yakuza (with ‘Tokyo Vice’ Author Jake Adelstein)
Jake Adelstein is an investigative journalist and the author of several books about Japanese organized crime including Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, which is currently being adaptation into a TV series by HBO Max.
His latest book, The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld, is out now. He is a board member for Lighthouse: Center for Human Trafficking Victims and hosts the podcast The Evaporated, about the countless people who vanish in Japan every year.Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original.
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Apr 24, 2024 • 52min
Snipers, Cyberattacks, and Fire: America’s Power Grid Is in Danger
Today’s guest is award-winning journalist Katherine Blunt.
She is a Wall Street Journal reporter and author of California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric and What it Means for America’s Power Grid, a national bestseller, and winner of the 2022 Golden Poppy award for nonfiction. She was also a part of the reporting team that uncovered how Instagram’s algorithms promoted disturbing underaged content.
On this episode, she and Andy discuss vulnerabilities to America’s grid, the danger these vulnerabilities present, and what can be done to fix them.
Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original.
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Apr 17, 2024 • 1h 17min
The Reality of the Mental Health Crisis (with Dr. Paul Conti)
Today on Change Agents, Andy talks with renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Conti.
Dr. Conti holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine and is the former chief resident at Harvard Medical School. He is an expert on mental health and understanding the root causes of issues like anxiety and stress, as well as creativity, leadership, and discipline. He is the author of the best-selling book Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic which seeks to understand “How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal It From It”
His unique approach to psychiatry has led him to work as a consult for major corporations and he is known for his frequent media appearances on shows, including a recent 4-part series about mental health with Stanford Neuroscientist, Andrew Huberman.
Change Agents is an IRONCLAD Original.
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Apr 10, 2024 • 1h 4min
How Gangs, Cartels, and Prison Breaks Spiraled Ecuador into Violence
Today on Change Agents, Andy sits down with investigative reporter CD Goette-Luciak to discuss the violent situation in Ecuador.
CD Goette-Luciak is a reporter for the Latin America Advisor, and freelance writer for publications outlets including Vox, The Guardian, The Washington Post, with extensive experience reporting on civil conflict, politics, and corruption from Central America. In 2018, he was even abducted by government forces and expelled from Nicaraguan for his reporting on the administration of Daniel Ortega, who accused CD of working for the CIA.
Recently, he turned his attention to Ecuador, where armed, cartel-affiliated gangs have terrorized the public. In recent weeks, Ecuador has seen a dramatic increase in violence, including the storming of a hospital by 68 gang members and the live broadcast attack on a local TV station by armed men.
Today, we’re talking with CD about what’s going on in the country, who’s behind the violence, and what happens next.
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