The Emergency Mind Podcast

Kevin Cyr, LL.M., is a SWAT Commander with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a deep thinker about managing risk in complex, rapidly adaptive environments, and an overall epic individual.

In this episode, Kevin talks about leading a SWAT team operating in high-threat environments, the absolute value of making a problem boring, critical factors in decision making, building decision-making leaders, and much, much more. It's legitimately a master class in operating under pressure with so much to learn

Dr. Seth Collings Hawkins is an anthropologist, writer, and physician, double boarded in emergency medicine and EMS and specializing in wilderness medical care. He is an associate professor of emergency medicine at Wake Forest University and the founder of the Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship, a program we will be talking about today. He’s also the editor of Wilderness EMS, the primary textbook for formal wilderness medical operations. He serves as a medical director or advisor for numerous organizations including NC Outward Bound, REI, the National Association for Search & Rescue, the US Forest Service, the National Park Service, multiple wildland fire medical support teams, and many others.

In this episode, we talk about experiential learning, working to be rather than appear to be, swarm teaming as both leader and follower, and much more.

For more lessons about performance when it matters most and applying knowledge under pressure from the emergency department and beyond, check www.emergencymind.com.

You can also find the Emergency Mind book: The Emergency Mind: Wiring Your Brain for Performance Under Pressure at https://www.emergencymind.com/book

Will Greenberg is a strength and conditioning/performance development coach, currently with the Buffalo Bills. Over the last 15 years, through diverse experiences in various sports, he has gained expertise in cultivating environments that allow athletes and teams to thrive.

In this awesome conversation, we talk about the power of compounding good training, treating every event like a rep, balancing tension and relaxation, leveraging scarce training resources, and growing elite cultures. We dig into what excellence looks like for a highly-resourced intact team focused on peak performance, and it's seriously cool.

Dr. Jen Wager is a pediatric anesthesiologist, an expert on human performance, and the founder and CEO of PROSPER, a team devoted to wholistic women's performance and helping women thrive. In this episode, we get into women's performance, how organizations can attract, develop, and retain high performing women, how to build environments that help women achieve, and so much more. You can find out more at www.weprosper.co

Kim “KC” Campbell is a retired Colonel, serving in the Air Force for 24 years as a fighter pilot, a senior leader, and the Director of the Center for Character & Leadership Development at the Air Force Academy. She is the author of Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot’s Lessons on Leading with Courage. In this episode, we talk about training to perform under pressure, overcoming fear and chaos, and the power of storytelling in training the next generation of operators.

Dr. Glenn Fox on the neuroscience of emotion, feeling, and decision making, the power of gratitude to transform performance, and much more.

Excellence doesn't happen by accident. Dr. Dan Dworkis on searching for and building excellence in crisis.

Paul Swinton, National Education Lead for the Scottish Air Ambulance Service and co-inventor of SCRAM™, on designing for crisis and fostering innovation.

Dr. Drew Cathers, ER doc + flight physician, on critical teamwork, building learning organizations, and high-level flight medicine.

Dr. Trish Muganthan, pediatric + neonatal retrieval expert, on inter-team operations, managing complex situations, and the power of kindness.