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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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Absent might be a tough label but it also might be uncomfortably true for firefighters and paramedics.

Katie and I are in the thick of the nasty with some an almost 2 and almost 4 year old running the house.  We've had to drastically alter...everything...in our best attempt to maximize the good times and mitigate the tough.

This just scratches the surface of our lives, but it's the most we could muster at 7pm after the daily meltdowns and tantrums, from the kids.

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From hockey, to CrossFit Football, to the Firefighter.

We have several opportunities to try on some different personalities during our career.  In this episode I'm telling a few stories about the hockey days, some lessons learned from Raph Ruiz in the CrossFit Football days, and then tying it together on how we operate as Firefighters.

Thank you so much for listening and I'd love to hear from you.

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You might be pleasantly surprised that a conversation about diets and their pitfalls starts with DumDums, Butterbeer, and Dairy Queen Mini's.

80/20, Keto, Whole 30, Intermittent Fasting, Buzzword, Fad, Sales Pitch.  There are so many options out there and we do our best to narrow down our thoughts on them. But we get sidetracked by the Glycemic Index, Ozempic, Food Poisoning, Seafood Pizza, and Lucky Charms vs Steak.

Look for the poll that Curt mentions towards the end, we are gearing up for several more diet/nutrition conversations.

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Risky statement here but I don’t think you’ve convinced anyone of anything ever, in your life. But maybe you presented some info and that person was willing to convince themselves.

Conversations, arguments, disagreements, debates, and diatribes.  Hallmarks of the fire service and some of the most entertaining but horribly useless things in our industry.

In this episode I’m talking about what we do wrong when we sit at the table and spin our tales.  Things that I’ve done and continue to do. But things we can do a little different.

Then some things to try next time you see the conversation going south.

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Megan is a career Firefighter and Paramedic.  She recently submitted her final paper for her masters program on the topics of firefighter fertility issues, pregnancy considerations, return to work, and policy issues.

Megan brings a level of diplomacy and understanding to these conversations that we could all learn from.

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Yes We Can!

Firefighters are excellent at distilling down complex structures to simple rules and operational tasks.  we are even better at taking simple tasks and turning them into rocket surgery requiring weekly meetings.

Complexity bias, Neophiles, and the most simple way to adjust any program or activity to meet your goals, bicycle component reviews and coffee brewing strategies.  This episode has it all.

Keep it simple in 2023 and let's all keep working towards being more capable and durable both on shift and away from it.

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