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Enduring the Badge is a podcast series that explores the personal side of first responders. In this episode, me and  DuWayne Schwartz from Operation K9 Hero talked about his and Tio's (his K9 therapy dog) mission on how they shed light on PTSD and mental health issues of first responders. This is a great episode for anyone interested in learning about how dogs can be used to help others cope with mental health issues.

The power of dogs in healing has been around for centuries. Dogs like Tio (who you can see on picture here) and DuWayne Schwartz' K9 hero dog handler are there for you whether for therapy or just companionship; They will provide much more than protection but also bring great joy into someone’s life by simply being there.

 
ABOUT THE GUEST

DuWayne Schwartz

I am with the Professional Firefighters of Wisconsin Local 275, Neenah, WI. I have been there going on 21 years. My rank is a Fire Inspector.

The well-being of our military personnel and veterans, as well as our professionals in public safety has been a passion of mine. With PTSD and suicides on the rise over the last couple of years, I wanted to come up with a way I could give back and volunteer my time. Something different and laid back. Something less formal.

So I did a lot of research on service dogs and how a Facility Dog could benefit these individuals. I did a lot of networking and collaborating with professionals in this area and different organizations. Through that I made some connections and decided the best route would be for me to start a nonprofit organization.

So that’s when a started the process to come up with “Operation K-9 Hero”, a volunteer based nonprofit organization dedicated to our military, veterans, police, fire and paramedics who might need a little extra support through a K9 Therapy Dog. Starting a nonprofit organization and to become a 501.c.3 charity is not an easy task and is time consuming.

I figured a Facility Dog being utilized as a Therapy Dog would be a great conversation started and an ice-breaker to help be there for someone in need.

So I came across “Tio” who was in service dog training as a puppy. Tio and I started training together and he seemed to be the perfect match for me and Operation K-9 Hero and our mission. From there we became a certified Therapy Dog team, and he is now my partner.

This is our journey….helping others through a K9-human partnersh

As a First Responder, you are critical in keeping our communities safe. However, the stress and trauma of the job can take a toll on your mental health and family life.

If you're interested in personal coaching, contact Jerry Lund at 801-376-7124. Let's work together to get you where you want to be and ensure a happy and healthy career.


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This podcast episode of Enduring the Badge with guest Flight Nurse/Life Coach Janessa Dean shared how she finds balance as a working mom of 4 with a twin. She brought tips on how to avoid mom guilt especially when she's working on holidays.

Moreover, Janessa pointed out the importance of accepting help and when to serve people. This strong woman also lost a military brother due to alcohol addiction.

Those things and her personal experience led her to be a life coach. This empowered woman might be the life coach that you are looking for!

ABOUT THE GUEST

Janessa Dean

Life Coach/Flight Nurse

I am a mother of 4 children ages 15, 13, 13, and 8. I have been married for 17 years. I have worked as a Registered Nurse for the last 9 years. 4 of those years were in the ICU and the last 5 have been as a Flight Nurse. My life experiences and obstacles I have faced have made me the Flight Nurse, mom, wife, and person I am today. They have all lead me to Life Coaching and serving other Healthcare workers and first responders. My goal is to help you make decisions and challenge your beliefs about yourself to empower you to overcome obstacles and accomplish your goals and dreams confidently.
https://www.instagram.com/janessadeancoaching/

As a First Responder, you are critical in keeping our communities safe. However, the stress and trauma of the job can take a toll on your mental health and family life.

If you're interested in personal coaching, contact Jerry Lund at 801-376-7124. Let's work together to get you where you want to be and ensure a happy and healthy career.


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Personal Coaching https://calendly.com/enduringthebadge/15min
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 In this podcast episode with Bridget Truxillo, we talked about her program called Protective Wellness which offers tactical training wellness and legal advices from attorneys. This effective program is strengthen by her experience as Deputy Sheriff and as attorney. Bridget also emphasized the three pillars of physical, mental and spiritual health - Stimulation, Nutrition and Rest. 

ABOUT THE GUEST

Bridget Truxillo

CEO, Founder

Law enforcement officers who are overwhelmed and frustrated are able to leverage Bridget’s 30 years of wellness, leadership, law enforcement and legal training for a blueprint on how to easily feel more comfort, ease and support for increased balance and joy in life. Bridget is passionate about helping law enforcement officers discover the ability to find happiness on a daily basis, no matter what the environment is, or circumstances are, surrounding them. She is an attorney and former Deputy Sheriff (SWAT and undercover narcotics), and the founder and CEO of Protective Wellness.

Are you interested in Protective Wellness Program? They offer founder's discount for a limited time only! Head over to:

https://www.myprotectivewellness.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/protectivewell1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/protectivewellness/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProtectiveWellness/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bridgettruxillo?

As a First Responder, you are critical in keeping our communities safe. However, the stress and trauma of the job can take a toll on your mental health and family life.

If you're interested in personal coaching, contact Jerry Lund at 801-376-7124. Let's work together to get you where you want to be and ensure a happy and healthy career.


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This podcast episode features an interview with Rocio Calenda. We talk about the ambulance tech side of EMS and she shares her knowledge with us on how to become a paramedic. Moreover, we discussed the pros and cons in working for a private ambulance company. Rocio is passionate as a first responder and she felt like being an EMT is her calling.

As a First Responder, you are critical in keeping our communities safe. However, the stress and trauma of the job can take a toll on your mental health and family life.

If you're interested in personal coaching, contact Jerry Lund at 801-376-7124. Let's work together to get you where you want to be and ensure a happy and healthy career.


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Podcast Calendar https://calendly.com/enduringthebadge/enduring-the-badge-podcast
Personal Coaching https://calendly.com/enduringthebadge/15min
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Even professional life coaches once needed coaching. In this inspiring episode with Life Coach Officer Autumn Clifford, you will learn that bad experiences could mold you into a better person when you master to fail forward.

She rose back from the bottom of an emotional pit that threatened to swallow her very identity. She had put so much into her identity as a police officer that she couldn’t even image herself as anything else. She spent 6 months couch ridden and unable to do anything other then be on my phone or laptop. 

Her success as a podcast host in Changing the Culture for First Responders, being a life coach for over a hundred people, and her club Lady Sheepdog Club can attest to that.

ABOUT THE GUEST

Autumn Clifford
Coach/Officer/Speaker/Professor/Sensei/ Business Owner/LEOW

I’m Autumn and …
I am the queen of BREAKING THROUGH all the barriers put before me. I have dedicated my life’s mission to Changing the Culture for First Responders. I have been coaching professionally for the last over 7 years and have been focused on first responders for the last 4.

I am a speaker, coach, soon to be author and podcast host. If you are here reading my content because you are stuck, please go to my podcast to binge the over 125 episodes I have created for you there or go to my “free shit” tab where you will have access to some of my free courses.
If you are looking for a dynamic, fun and attention grabbing speaker on your podcast or in person to give your audience a new perspective on first responders, mindset and failing forward, email us: [email protected]

I now certify people to be life coach for first responders with my unconventional coaching system.

Website: https://autumnclifford.com/

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/autumnlclifford

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As a First Responder, you are critical in keeping our communities safe. However, the stress and trauma of the job can take a toll on your mental health and family life.

If you're interested in personal coaching, contact Jerry Lund at 801-376-7124. Let's work together to get you where you want to be and ensure a happy and healthy career.


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Have you ever wondered what its like to be away from home fighting fires for weeks at a time, leaving your wife and kids behind? 

In this episode on Enduring the Badge Podcast, we will be talking about my wildland deployment in California and how that felt for my lovely wife Annie and how it felt for me to be gone those days. Find out what its like to be deployed at a time, and how you can help your spouse cope with the challenges. This episode is about the life of firefighters, wives, and families.  

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Your host Jerry D. Lund can be reached at 801-376-7124 or email at [email protected] or voice message use the icon microphone at www.enduringthebadgepodcast.com. Please feel free to give my information to anyone that might be feeling down or anyone you would like to be on the podcast. Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review wherever you listen to your podcast.  If you like the podcast please share it and join the online community at www.instagram.com/enduringthebadgepodcast.

As a First Responder, you are critical in keeping our communities safe. However, the stress and trauma of the job can take a toll on your mental health and family life.

If you're interested in personal coaching, contact Jerry Lund at 801-376-7124. Let's work together to get you where you want to be and ensure a happy and healthy career.


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In this episode, we discuss..

1. How First Responder Sleep Recovery started (1:40)
   
   
2. “Sean, how did how did she inspire you to like move forward to create this, this company in on this get on this journey of helping first responders out?” (4:42)
   
   
3. The importance of sleep (9:34)
   
   
4. “And when we take away sleep, we're taking away the tools that our body has to defend against and prevent the onset of all of the leading causes of first responder mortality from metabolic disease to cardiovascular disease to suicidal ideation and action and even cancer.” (11:23)
   
   
5. “But what if I'm like that guy that like, well, I need four hours, because that's just the four hours I just been, I've been doing that for 30 years. Now. That's all I need.” (11:34)
   
   
   
6. “You know, when I met Jacqueline, I thought everything was great. I felt strong, I felt energetic. I felt like I was getting a lot accomplished. But it took somebody with an outside perspective to look at me and say, like, You're, you're not doing as good as you think you are.” (12:37)
7. A 3000 year old sleep practice, Nidra Yoga- asleep based meditation essentially helps you turn off the busy, busy brain and just drop into a deep restorative sleep (14:32) and (26:27)
   
   
8. Are taking sleeping pills and other sleep suppressants just masking the sleeping problems? (18:20)
   
   
9. “Sleep is a super active process. From the time we wake up in the morning, every action that we take is going to play a role in the quality of our sleep from the beginning of the day until it's time to lay down at night.” (21:13)

1. “The focus that we set out to kind of build the program around was looking at how we utilize this practice to optimize the quality of sleep, not just the quantity of sleep.” (31:39)
   
   
2. Class and teaching setup of First Responder Sleep Recovery (32:55)
   
   
3. Benefits of blue blocking glasses, alcohol free night cap, and tart cherry juice (41:59)
   
   
4. How and where can people take First Responder Sleep Recovery (46:29)

As a First Responder, you are critical in keeping our communities safe. However, the stress and trauma of the job can take a toll on your mental health and family life.

If you're interested in personal coaching, contact Jerry Lund at 801-376-7124. Let's work together to get you where you want to be and ensure a happy and healthy career.


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In this episode, we discuss..

1. Justin’s military life and when did he realized that he wanted to excel other than military service. (1:35)
2. Justin’s job in Intel and starting up his first ever computer repair business (5:03)
3. How he got into real estate business and had a major debt (7:37)
4. Started again a new company in Lead Generation – Hitfinity earning $10 million per year (9:10)
5. “So I'll go back to like one specific problem I found in the military. So we had these target, I was an F16 Avionics.” (12:15)
6. “But you started this other great company Patriot Supreme. Let's learn a little bit about that. Why and why Patriot Supreme?” (15:15)
7. All veterans and first responders can avail themselves of a discount on all Patriot Supreme’s CBD products. (33:14)
8. Justin’s entrepreneur mindset (34:33)
9. “But I think it just kind of was in me it was like, I needed I had this desire and I realized I wanted to do something I wanted to do something more than just be told” (37:06)
10. “How did you handle those failures? When you're going through something like this, these challenges?” (37:52)
11. “Did you ever have like, second thoughts? Like, why am I doing this? Why am I starting this another company I like I've had some successes, I've had some failures.” (40:07)
12. Justin’s own racing team (41:34)
13. The importance of time with family, business, and “me time” (46:27)
14. Written goals as an important factor (49:32)

As a First Responder, you are critical in keeping our communities safe. However, the stress and trauma of the job can take a toll on your mental health and family life.

If you're interested in personal coaching, contact Jerry Lund at 801-376-7124. Let's work together to get you where you want to be and ensure a happy and healthy career.


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April Katherman-Redgrave is an author, speaker, blogger, and founder of Beauty for Our Ashes Ministry. As the surviving widow of fallen San Jose Police Motors Officer Michael J. Katherman, April experienced unimaginable brokenness and despair but also witnessed how God redeemed a terrible situation into one of great beauty and joy. Once a school teacher and aspiring educational administrator, April now writes and speaks to encourage law enforcement, the grieving, the divorced, blended families, and finding love after loss.

Book Brief
April Katherman-Redgrave is the surviving widow of fallen San Jose Police Motors Officer Michael J. Katherman, who was struck by another vehicle in 2016. Six months later, their dream home was flooded during the 2017 winter storms in Hollister, California-not once but five times-destroying their house and forcing April and her two sons to rely on the kindness of friends, community, and family to pick up the pieces. Through Hell and High Water chronicles unimaginable tragedy, loss, heartbreak, and loneliness, yet also how God faithfully brought her family through the other side of a tunnel where once there was no light to be seen. Told with rawness, transparency, and humor too, this is a story of redemption, courage, strength, forgiveness, and blessing, as God began to make all things new in ways she could never have imagined.

Though we may never understand why God allowed these tragedies to happen to the Kathermans, Through Hell and High Water shows He has been and will always be in control, even down to the smallest detail. God's love and purpose is still shining brightly in April, as she shares her beauty-from-ashes, redemptive story to encourage others, honor her husband in heaven, and glorify all God has done in her life.

This book speaks to the heart of the grieving, law enforcement families, divorced or blended families, or anyone who has experienced loss and is struggling to find hope in a broken life. May you find encouragement, strength, and purpose through April's story, God's story.

Book Link
https://www.amazon.com/Through-Hell-High-Water-Redeeming/dp/1646452275/ref=sr_1_3?crid=SHIS8EE1FFBZ&dchild=1&keywords=through+hell+and+high+water+april+katherman&qid=16246511

As a First Responder, you are critical in keeping our communities safe. However, the stress and trauma of the job can take a toll on your mental health and family life.

If you're interested in personal coaching, contact Jerry Lund at 801-376-7124. Let's work together to get you where you want to be and ensure a happy and healthy career.


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Originally from SoCal, Corey Sierra grew up in Las Vegas where he lives with his wife and two daughters. He served 6-years on active duty with the United States Navy. He chose to pursue firefighting as a post-military career. After obtaining his NREMT certification, he worked with the BLM on a Type-2 crew. As a national resource, the Southern Nevada interagency hand crew fought fire on large-scale incidents in the Southwest region. During the off-season, he worked part-time with the ambulance in Vegas and went to college to obtain his IFSAC firefighting certifications.
In 2012 he left the BLM to accept the job at MCLB Barstow Fire & Emergency Services
and has been there ever since. He has advanced certifications as a Hazmat & Rescue Technician, Fire Instructor I, Fire Inspector I, & Fire Officer I & II. He is also a Driver/Operator for the Department. He has a passion for training and enjoys mentoring probationary firefighters.
In 2018, he started First Tuesday Training (FTT). A multi-agency training initiative aimed
toward improving mutual aid emergency operations & relationships in the North Hi-Desert of SoCal. The initiative has partners from the surrounding area participating in the FTT program.
Partners include, paid and volunteer Fire Departments, private ambulance, air transportation
service, sheriff, and local businesses. Agencies meet on the First Tuesday of every month to
work on an area of training relative to the calls ran together. Each agency alternates as a lead
instructor so relative knowledge can be dispersed.
Propelled by a strong desire to do more, FF Sierra founded the Silver Valley Fire Alliance (SVFA) to assist the volunteer fire departments in the region obtain training, equipment, and recruitment. Still, in its first year of operating existence, SVFA has become a pillar of improvement for the Daggett, Yermo, and Newberry Springs Volunteer Fire Departments. With donations from local businesses and generous individuals, SVFA has been able to provide new hand tools, gloves, various hose fittings, uniforms, badges, helmet shields, assorted PPE, boots, bottled water, bedding, and tuition/book reimbursements for the hardworking and well-deserving
departments.
The Silver Valley Fire Alliance is very grateful and proud of the impact it has had in the
North Hi-Desert thus far. There is still much work to be done, we can “Do More”

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Facebook: SilverValle

As a First Responder, you are critical in keeping our communities safe. However, the stress and trauma of the job can take a toll on your mental health and family life.

If you're interested in personal coaching, contact Jerry Lund at 801-376-7124. Let's work together to get you where you want to be and ensure a happy and healthy career.


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Personal Coaching https://calendly.com/enduringthebadge/15min
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