Dragon's Den

Nate Carn is a truck company captain in Deland, Fl. He's got roughly 20 years on the job. He's a FLorida Smoke Diver, OBT founding member, teaches with the Proactive Rescue Operations cadre and has taught for many organizations and places, including FDIC and many places throughout the state of Florida and the Nation. More importantly, Nate cares deeply about the fire service and improving the lives of the people he has the chance to impact.

On this episode, we explore an upcoming class that Shannon and DJ will be delivering at the LIFT conference in South Louisiana.

Welcome to the next episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today we are doing an episode of The Debrief, where we break down a successful rescue from South Carolina. We are joined by Brock Patterson and Brian McClendon. They set scene and discuss the good, bad and ugly of a realistic fire ground rescue, so that hopefully others can learn from their unique experience. Thanks for listening.

Welcome to the next episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today we have on Paul Watlington, out of North Carolina. We discuss spousal support, fire ground decision making, scene leadership, officer's role in managing fire house morale and embracing the target that you receive when you start voicing your passion for the job. Thank you for listening.

Today we have on Chief Mark Ware. Chief Ware hold multiple college degrees in the fire service and is a doctoral candidate. He is the first black fire Chief in his parish's history. He currently serves as the Chief of the Carlyss fire department, a small department outside of Lake Charles, Louisiana. We talked about his history, mental health, mentorship and work life balance. Hope you enjoy.

Welcome to the next episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today we have on Chris Tennyson. Deputy Chief of Training for Summerville Fire. He's a Georgia Smoke Diver. Tennessee Smoke Diver. GA FLAMES graduate. NC Breathing School Graduate. Taught at various places around the country, including FDIC. We discuss fitness standards, training, accountability and touch on things like mental heath and being a Type 1 diabetic. We didn't get into it for this episode, but Chris has a deeper personal story that doesn't necessarily involve the fire service that we will share at Carolina Fire Days, this November. We hope you enjoy the episode.

Welcome to the next episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today we have on Louisiana native, David Douget. David is the fire Chief of the Iota volunteer fire department and on the career side he is a Chief of St. Martin Parish, in charge of training. He started the Central Acadiana Fire Symposium, is a plank member of the Cajun FOOLS. He is unsuspecting and quiet, but his love for the job and the amount of effort he pours into being good at what he does is undeniable. We discussed the importance of training, outside conferences, starting a conference, work life balance and volunteer vs paid. We hope enjoy listening.

Welcome to the next episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Toady we are joined by Arkansas Legend, Ryan McCormick. Chief McCormick, most notably, started the First In conference, within his home state, but he also joined us to talk about haters, limited staffing, the 48/96 schedule, the power of networking, getting outside of your bubble and much much more. Hope you enjoy listening.

Welcome to the next episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today we have on Stephanie White, Corley Moore and Nick Ledin to have a casual conversation about AI in the fire service and even digging a little deeper on the overall picture of AI. What's good? What's Bad? What does it mean to be an "artist"? How do they use AI in their daily life? We didn't solve any of the worlds problems, but I thought it was a fun way to burn an hour. We hope you enjoy the episode, even if we probably didn't have all of the perfect answers. Thank you for listening.

Welcome to the next episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today we have on Chief Wayne Prejean. Chief Prejean started with the Lafayette Fire Department in the early 60's and spent 20 years with Lafayette, serving 10 of those years as the Fire Chief. Chief sat down with us to tell us about his rookie year, his time in fire prevention, battling the administration and trying to fight the good fight, as the president of the Union. His time was not "all sunshine and rainbows" and there were a lot of battles and struggles as a young fire Chief in the early 1970's. We were honored to get a chance to sit down while he let us document that history. This isn't my "standard" episode, but it one that's important to me. I hope you enjoy it.