One word to describe Fire Chief (Ret.) Pat Kenny’s story is heartbreaking. But you could also describe it as raw, honest, inspirational, optimistic, and most of all…a call to action.

In this episode, we talk to Pat about his son’s mental illness, Sean’s suicide, and the helplessness that he and his wife felt trying to save their son. We also talk about how he balanced (or didn’t) his family life and work life as a fire chief. It’s an emotional discussion in which Pat admits that his “firefighter” mindset failed him many times; both at home and at work. This isn’t an easy episode to listen to as you can hear in his voice that Pat continues to struggle with the grief of losing his son to mental illness and then his wife to cancer. But we think this episode is also one of our most important for you to hear. Listen for Sean.