What happens when the person who's spent years saving lives suddenly becomes the one who needs saving?

For years, Kim answered emergency calls as a paramedic, helping people through the worst moments of their lives. Then one ordinary day, without warning, her own heart stopped.

In this conversation, Kim shares what it's like to survive sudden cardiac arrest, the unimaginable experience of her mother performing CPR to save her life, and the emotional aftermath that no one prepares you for.

But this episode isn't just about surviving.

It's about identity, guilt, healing, therapy, and learning that even the people everyone depends on sometimes need help themselves.

If you've ever carried responsibility, struggled in silence, or wondered what it really means to get a second chance, this conversation is for you.

In this episode:

• Becoming the patient after years as a paramedic
• Surviving sudden cardiac arrest
• How trauma affects families differently
• Why first responders often avoid asking for help
• The power of therapy and healing
• Living with a second chance

BE ALL IN is a podcast about pressure, responsibility, resilience, and what it means to live well while carrying the weight of modern life.

What happens when the person everyone turns to for answers still wrestles with uncertainty?

In this episode of BE ALL IN, I sit down with Dr. Heidi Abraham—Emergency Medicine physician, EMS Medical Director, and one of the most respected leaders in Texas EMS—to talk about the realities of carrying responsibility over the long term.

But this conversation goes far beyond medicine.

We explore the hidden cost of leadership, the danger of letting a career become your identity, the pressure that reveals who we really are, and the role faith plays when the answers aren't always clear.

One of the most powerful moments came when Dr. Abraham admitted that despite years of experience, leadership, and responsibility, she still walks into difficult situations praying for wisdom and guidance.

This episode is about more than EMS.

It's about pressure.

It's about purpose.

It's about learning how to carry responsibility without losing yourself in the process.

Topics discussed:

• What pressure reveals about character
• Growing up in a large faith-centered family
• Why she chose emergency medicine and EMS
• When work becomes your identity
• Leadership and self-doubt
• Boundaries, burnout, and sustainability
• The sacrifices made by the people who love us
• Faith under pressure
• Building a life that can sustain responsibility over the long term

If you're carrying a lot right now—at work, at home, or in life—I think you'll find something in this conversation that resonates.

BE ALL IN is a podcast for people carrying responsibility who want to build clarity, resilience, and self-leadership without sacrificing their health, relationships, or integrity.

Most of us don't choose our first identity.

We inherit it.

From our families, our environment, our experiences, and the stories we've been told for years.

Over time, those stories can become so familiar that we stop questioning them. We start treating them like facts.

In this episode, I explore a simple story from Anthony de Mello about an eagle that spent its entire life believing it was a chicken—and why I think that story explains something important about the way many of us live.

I also share the story of starting BE ALL IN, the self-doubt that almost stopped me before I ever recorded the first episode, and why the voice telling us we're not qualified is often louder than the evidence in front of us.

This conversation is about identity, self-leadership, and the stories we carry about who we are.

Because maybe the biggest limitation in your life isn't your ability.

Maybe it's a story you've never stopped to question.

In this episode:

• The eagle and the chicken story from Anthony de Mello
• Why most of us inherit our identity
• The invisible stories that shape our lives
• Self-doubt and starting something before you feel ready
• Why growth begins by questioning old beliefs
• How to separate who you are from who you've been told to be

BE ALL IN is a podcast about pressure, responsibility, resilience, identity, recovery, leadership, and the realities of modern life.

New episodes every week.

What story have you been telling yourself about who you are?

Most people know me as a paramedic.

Some know me as a husband, a father, or the guy behind BE ALL IN.

But very few people know the story that shaped how I see the world.

In this episode, I share the experiences that built the foundation for this podcast:

• Growing up in Monterrey, Mexico
• Watching my parents lose everything and start over in the United States
• The friendships that changed my life during high school
• Volunteering at CAMP and learning the meaning of service
• Wanting to join the military and being unable to pursue that path
• Finding purpose through EMS
• My father's battle with colon cancer and stepping in to help support my family
• Marriage, fatherhood, and learning what responsibility truly means

This isn't a story about success.

It's a story about sacrifice, service, identity, resilience, and the people who helped shape the person I've become.

If you've ever felt behind, uncertain, or like life didn't go according to plan, I hope this conversation reminds you that some of the most meaningful things in life come from the paths we never expected to take.

Thank you for listening.

Be All In.

ost people are okay talking about failure until it happens to them.

In this episode, Raul Flores explores the emotional side of failure people rarely talk about honestly:
ego,
identity,
self-worth,
overthinking,
confidence,
and rebuilding after life humbles you.

This conversation looks at what failure actually reveals about a person and why rebuilding quietly may matter more than success itself.

Topics include:

• performance-worth
• emotional maturity
• self-trust
• fear of embarrassment
• rebuilding after failure
• resilience and identity
• pressure and modern life

BE ALL IN is a podcast about pressure, identity, resilience, and learning how to carry the weight of modern life without losing yourself in the process.

I never thought I’d talk publicly about getting fired from San Antonio AirLife.

For a long time, I thought the story was about losing a job.

Looking back now, I think it was really about ego, ownership, identity, and emotional maturity under pressure.

This episode is an honest reflection on failure, leadership, preparation, and rebuilding after one of the hardest professional moments of my life.

Gleidson Cutis joins the BE ALL IN Podcast for a deep conversation about discipline, pressure, identity, and the reality of rebuilding your life through struggle.

This episode goes far beyond martial arts.

We talk about:

• growing up in Brazil
• chasing the UFC dream
• failure and financial hardship
• cutting extreme weight for fights
• marriage and sacrifice
• faith
• leadership
• and why the real fight begins outside the cage.

Gleidson opens up about the moments that nearly broke him, the lessons fighting exposed, and how building Fighteria Academy became something much bigger than competition.

This is a conversation about becoming stronger without losing yourself in the process.

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After 25 years as a paramedic — ground EMS, flight, ER — I sat down and got honest. Not about the glory moments. About the things I got wrong, the lessons that came the hard way, and what I'd tell my younger self walking into this career.

This one's for the new EMT figuring it out alone. The seasoned medic running on empty. And anyone in between who's ever wondered if they're doing this right.

In this episode: — Why your body is your most important tool on this job — Sleep, recovery, and why ignoring both will catch up with you — How your mindset on shift shapes everything — including patient care — The calls that follow you home, and what to do about them — Finding mentors who match who you want to become — Staying sharp when the job makes it easy to coast

This job will shape you. Make sure you're paying attention to how.

BE ALL IN is a podcast for first responders, leaders, and anyone who carries responsibility under pressure. Hosted by Raul Flores — paramedic, father, and someone who's still learning.

In this episode of BE ALL IN, Raul sits down with Kim Pastore to talk about what happens after the worst day of your life.

After losing her husband, Jorge Pastore, in the line of duty, Kim was faced with a reality most people will never fully understand—grief, identity, and the responsibility of moving forward when everything changes.

This conversation is not about the moment itself. It’s about what comes after.

We talk about:

• The emotional weight first responders and their families carry
• What grief actually feels like beyond what people see
• The decision to turn loss into purpose through the Jorge Pastore Foundation
• What people misunderstand about the cost of this job
• How to keep going when there’s no clear path forward

This is a conversation about responsibility, resilience, and what it means to carry something heavy—and still move forward.

If you’re in a high-pressure role, or you’ve ever had a moment that changed everything, this one will stay with you.

There are calls you never forget.

Not because they were the worst—
but because they were the quietest.

In this episode, I break down two calls that stayed with me and what they reveal about how repeated exposure shapes the way we see people, responsibility, and the world around us.

If you’ve ever had a moment that stuck with you for no obvious reason… this is for you.