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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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Alex Jabr of @EmergencyResilience wants to prepare you for when the patient dies.  More specifically, how to stand in front of the patients family and deliver the news.

Please enjoy the first 45 minutes of her flawless maneuvering around my ambush-like question asking on random yet pertinent studies, observations, and theories.

But DO NOT miss the second 45 mins of this episode.  Alex takes us on an incredible journey through her past and how she has expertly tied her personal experience into an immense resource for first responders.

Thank you, Alex, so much for taking the time to educate us on one of the most overlooked and simultaneously stressful tasks of our careers.

Find Alex on IG under the @EmergencyResilience banner and eventually on TikTok...after she figures out how to set the clock on her VCR.

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Monday and Tuesday I attended the AFFI Health and Safety Conference.  This was one of the first appearances by the Resiliency Committee that Joe Galli had founded and spoken about on previous episodes.

The speakers, content, and experience was excellent and in this episode I do my best to explain why it was so different than any other conference I've been to.

If you're an Illinois Firefighter, you're in great hands.  Be on the lookout for some big things from the AFFI this year.

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The decision to workout or not when you're sick can be an extremely easy one, or a real hand wringer.  But, in this episode I give a couple simple tips and guidelines to keep in mind.

We're also talking about a very common theory that suggests you are more prone to sickness and infection following bouts of intense aerobic exercise.  This has a strong foothold in the endurance world but there is a large body of evidence to dispute it.
Here is a great paper that goes into way more detail on the subject https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2018.00648/full

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