Podcast Episodes

S6 E31 Inside the 343-Mile Ride for 9/11 First Responders — Suzanne Stone, Livestrong CEO

Twenty-five years later, 343 still means something. It's the number of FDNY members lost on 9/11. Now it's also the number of miles a five-day ride w…

2 months, 1 week ago

S6 E30 Clinicians Guide to Cultural Fluency and Moral Injury with Dr. Brooke Bartlett

"Cultural competence" gets thrown around a lot in mental health circles. Dr. Brooke Bartlett has a harder definition: specialized, ongoing training p…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

S6 E29 Ibogaine Treatment for First Responder Addiction — Carmine Fiore & Candace Maisel, LCSW

What happens when every traditional treatment fails — and a first responder is still drowning?

Retired FDNY-EMS paramedic and Army combat medic Carmin…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

S6 E28 Grief and Suicide Loss in Law Enforcement — Dr. Erie Crawford

She lost him. Then she found a way through.

Lt. James Crawford (Ret.) of the Chicago Police Department was a pastor, a mentor, and the man everyone le…

3 months ago

S6 E27 A Retired FBI Agent on Why First Responders Should Tell Their Story — Jerri Williams

After 26 years as an FBI Special Agent — investigating fraud, corruption, and the schemes that cost people everything — Jerri Williams could have wal…

3 months, 1 week ago

S6 E26 The Truth About American Fire Culture — Dr. Burton Clark, Fire Service Educator

The United States has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialized world. Not because the firefighters aren't good enough. Not because t…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

S6 E25 Spiritual Survival for Law Enforcement — Chaplain Cary Friedman, FBI Behavioral Science Consultant

A senior FBI agent heard Chaplain Cary Friedman deliver a eulogy. He was struck by something he couldn't quite name — the message was spiritual, but …

3 months, 3 weeks ago

S6 E24 The First Responder Wellness Program Other Agencies Are Adopting — Dr. Carla Moore

Most psychologists who work with first responders come from the outside — and spend years earning trust. Dr. Carla Sutton Moore built her career from…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

S6 E23 UnStuck: A Retired Firefighter's Framework for Breaking Reactive Patterns — Daniel Sundahl

Daniel Sundahl ran calls for twenty years. As a career firefighter and advanced care paramedic in Alberta, Canada, he saw what the job builds in you …

4 months ago

S6 E22 Training First Responders to Perform Under Pressure — Khalil Zahar, FightCamp

Most fitness products make you a promise. And most of the time, six weeks later, they're collecting dust in a corner.

Khalil Zahar built something dif…

4 months, 1 week ago