did a bit of reading on the WP site and figured it out
function get_staff( ){
// Return the staff
return get_posts(array(
“post_type” => “staff”,
“posts_per_page” => 10,
“post_status” => “publish”,
‘meta_query’ => array(
array(
“key” => “featured”,
“value” => “1”,
)
)
));
}