ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Three retired federal agents. Three voices. Zero agency talking points.
From career advice and retirement conversations to unforgettable investigations and the stories behind the cases, FEDChicks explores life on both sides of the badge. FEDChicks is a life podcast with federal law enforcement as the backdrop. Hosted by Heather, Mary, and Clare, each episode explores careers, retirement, leadership, true crime, current events, and life beyond the badge—with humor, honesty, and zero sugarcoating.
From unforgettable investigations and behind-the-scenes case stories to candid conversations about career transitions, identity, and purpose, FEDChicks delivers real women, real life, and real talk.
New episodes every other week.
Update frequency:
every 13 days
Average audio length:
49 minutes
English
United States
14 episodes
since June 12, 2026
episodic
explicit content
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Federal Retirement Secrets: Can You Afford to Retire? | Chris BarfieldCan you really afford to retire from federal service? Thousands of federal employees may be working longer than necessary because they don't fully understand their FERS pension, TSP, retirement supplement, or what their actual ta…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Episode 12
Work-Life Balance Is a Myth: Choose Your Imbalance Instead
Work-life balance for working women sounds great—until career burnout, motherhood, relationships, and the mental load make it feel impossible. For women in law enforcement and other demanding careers, unpredictable schedules and …
Episode 11: Clarice Starling Inspired Her FBI Career. The FBI Inspired Her Reinvention| Shayne Buchwald-Nickoles
What happens when The Silence of the Lambs inspires a young woman to join the FBI? Twenty-one years of investigations, a few hilarious misadventures, and eventually a whole new chapter s…
Episode 10: Michele Rigby Assad: Breaking Cover, Getting Off the X & Starting Over
Former CIA intelligence officer Michele Rigby Assad returns to FEDChicks for Part 2 of our conversation about life inside—and after—the CIA. This time, Michele takes us behind the story of her books Breaking Cove…
Episode 9: CIA Officer Michele Rigby Assad: Undercover, Underestimated & Unafraid
Former CIA intelligence officer Michele Rigby Assad spent nearly a decade serving undercover, much of it in some of the most challenging parts of the Middle East. In this episode, she takes us beyond the Hollywood…
Episode 8: “9/11, 25 Years Later: The Day That Changed Us”
Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, Heather, Mary, and Clare reflect on the day that changed America—and shaped the rest of their federal law enforcement careers.
They share where they were when the attacks began, the assignments th…
Episode 7: She Helped Jodie Foster Become Clarice Starling — But That Was Just the Beginning
What happens when a young FBI agent gets called into her boss’s office and is told she’s been selected to help with a movie?
For Mary Ann, that movie turned out to be The Silence of the Lambs.
Early in her …
EPISODE 6: DON’T LOVE YOUR AGENCY TOO MUCHWhat No One Tells You Before Becoming a Federal Agent — Part 2
Becoming a federal agent is only the beginning. Building a long career without losing your identity, relationships, or sense of balance is the harder part.
In Part 2 of “What No One Tells You Be…
What do three retired federal agents wish they knew before the job, the academy, the badge, and the endless paperwork? In Episode 5, Heather, Mary, and Clare talk about FLETC, fitness, long hours, surveillance, leadership, people skills, women in federal law enforcement, and the lessons that only c…
Our first guest is here!
In this episode of FEDChicks, we sit down with Tammy Flanagan, founder of Retire Federal and one of the nation's leading experts on federal retirement benefits. Over cocktails and plenty of laughs, Tammy answers some of the biggest retirement questions facing federal employ…
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