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Katie and I are on the back patio, mini solo stove going and champagne in hand.  We're celebrating some regular stuff and talking about some of it too.

Vanderpump, trauma bonding, 24/48 vs 48/96, Post Conference Report, New podcast logos, and her love of criminal minds.

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If you are looking for a speaker for your conference, I'm back on the market!  email me [email protected] or find me on social @4thShiftFitness and lets talk!

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Molly Jones is back and giving us a preview of a brand new presentation she will be debuting in South Bend during a First Responder Conferences event on May 15th and 16th.

After that she humors my questions with professional answers.

Molly works for Advanced Recovery Systems and dedicates a bulk of her time to educating and presenting on behalf of ARS and the IAFF Center of Excellence.

Reach out to Molly if you are in need of care or want to learn more about the IAFF Center of Excellence or Advanced Recovery Systems. Email her at [email protected] and listen to the end of the episode for her phone number.

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Tim Sears takes us on an incredible journey that started 44 years ago as a volunteer fireman, continued at ground zero of the pandemic, and brought him to the Stronger Families organization in retirement.

The road was anything but straight and smooth and Tim is an excellent speaker and storyteller.

You can find him on IG, Linkedin, or email him at [email protected] pleas also look at the srongerfamilies.com website for information on all of their programs and offerings.

You can see Tim and I in South Bend on May 15 and 16th when we present for First Responder Conferences.  Check out that event page here: https://events.humanitix.com/1rcsouthbend2023

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Personal one today as I tell some stories about recent calls that went my way, and one that I'm still working out.

VTach with a pulse, a head trauma that needed pacing, and a throwback to a few years ago when I wished I had gone to electrician school.

Mindfulness is a practice.  Just like yoga or medicine, you just keep working on it and see what days it clicks, and endure the days it doesn't.

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Karl is a retired police officer who made some serious life changes following a massive heart attack.  After his heart attack he started paying close attention to the way he eats, moves, his relationships, stress, and sleep.

Don't be fooled though, as you'll hear in the episode, anything short of his heart attack would not have convinced him to make these adjustments.

Karl is presenting at the First Responders Conference in South Bend, Indiana on May 15th and I'll be presenting on the 16th.

Find Karl on IG and Linkedin @KarlKarch and see what he's up to in retirement.

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Christy Lister is a volunteer for First HELP which is a foundation offering training and support for the families and departments that have suffered a suicide.  She is also the host of the Beyond The 1st Response podcast which focuses on bringing first responders, families, and mindset together for serious and humorous conversations on mental health.

Christy and I are both presenting at an event put on by 1st Responder Conferences in South Bend, Indiana on may 15-16th and you get a preview of our presentations here.

We also talk about her ability to speak with these groups because of her experience with her own loss, some parenting tips, and a lot of figuring it out on the fly.

Please check out her show https://beyondthe1stresponse.buzzsprout.com/

and the First HELP website https://1sthelp.org/

1st Responder Conferences https://www.1strc.org/

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Call it Spidey Sense, cynicism, or reality, but there are going to be people in this world that you just can't care to like.

In terms of firefighters, we mostly all have a common thread of service, interest, or at least complaint that can bond us together.  But there will always be someone that you'd rather not know.

Curt and I are sharing some thoughts on the situation.

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In my 38th year I had to re learn the use of inter vs intra.  After the episode was finished of course.

Training is a staple of the fire service but also approached differently by every department, crew, and individual.  Through my career as a firefighter and coach I've seen and made plenty of mistakes but in this episode I share some ways that I've seen work.

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Dear Chief, nobody was as surprised as me when I went to go look for the recording that Curt and I had done, and found nothing.

So there I was, 3pm, recordingless, and out of time to re-do it.  Enter the IG poll to save the day.

Not only did I get todays episode topic, but several others for the future.  So thank you.

Spring4Change is starting in a couple weeks and this episode is a quick look ahead to what you can expect.  What I DIDN'T tell you is that it'll take place primarily on IG and use the @Spring4Change banner.

That box was already closed when I recorded.

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It's 8:30 pm, I'm 38 years old, Katie is getting over being sick, we have two microphones and 20 minutes worth of steam.

Welcome to our kitchen.

This one is light on the firefighting, but heavy on the banter.

Correction- my socks were from Target.

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