The JEMS Report

How does an 18 year fire captain become a substance abuser and on the most wanted list? Hear the captivating story of Jill Engle.

Christian Ventura chats with Jason P. Stopyra, MD, MS, FACEP, FAEMS, associate professor of emergency medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Health, about the role of i-STAT in the prehospital setting.

Christian is currently seeking guest speaker nominations. Email him at [email protected].

Project Mayday was founded by three first responders. Get to know their stories on their first podcast and learn their motivations behind the project. Stay tuned for other first responder stories about their journey with mental health.

Check out their website, and be sure to follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

Project Mayday is a research company that was founded to improve the mental wellness of our first responders. Project Mayday has created a platform for first responders to share their stories while promoting mental wellness resources.

Check out their website, and be sure to follow them on Facebook and Instagram.

Host Brett Lyle connects with Dr. Victoria Reinhartz, PharmD, CPh. They explore how Reinhartz and her team are driving change in the industry through a unique community paramedicine model. Reinhartz is a consultant pharmacist, an assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (FL), and founder of Mobile Health Consultants, Inc.

Welcome to Emergent Leadership where we connect with passionate leaders who just have to share their stories, perspectives, and most importantly, lessons learned.

The need is urgent, the events are critical, and the you of tomorrow is just an episode away!

Join the conversation: If you have a leadership topic, experience, or lesson learned you would like to share or hear more about, send an email at [email protected] or use and follow #emergentleadership to join the conversation. You can also connect to Brett directly through LinkedIn or follow her journey on YouTube.

Evidence-Based EMS takes the research articles to the ambulance and discusses best evidence based practices in pre-hospital care based on trending science.

Hosted by author and EMS scientific researcher Christian Ventura, NREMT, EMS-I, along with special guest speakers in all aspects of healthcare— this show aims to bridge the gap between the lab and the rig.

In this episode, Pearland (TX) Fire Department’s Battalion Chief Jacob Johnson joins host Brett Lyle to share his personal journey and lessons of humility, mentorship and leadership.

In a fascinating account, Chief Johnson helps his father lead guided duck hunts at only three years old, becomes a volunteer firefighter before being old enough to drive, and through those experiences develops into the respected 20-year firefighting veteran he is today.

During the discussion, Chief Johnson opens up about overcoming an early setback in his career that left him doubting his ability to coach and lead his team.

Through reflection of what he calls a “failure,” he circled back to the fundamentals that made his mentors successful: love, accountability and providing the why.

Jacob shares his epiphany during training that it was leaders failing his profession’s newest members, as opposed to the current generation’s unwillingness to learn.

As a proposed solution, an instructor challenged him to attack the problem and develop a mentorship class that the Chief eventually cultivated into a proven program designed to help leader be better mentors to their crews.

Please join in and listen. What type of hardships or failures have you overcome as a leader that better equipped you to develop others?

Welcome to Emergent Leadership where we connect with passionate leaders who just have to share their stories, perspectives, and most importantly, lessons learned.

The need is urgent, the events are critical, and the you of tomorrow is just an episode away!

Join the conversation: If you have a leadership topic, experience, or lesson learned you would like to share or hear more about, send an email at [email protected] or use and follow #emergentleadership to join the conversation. You can also connect to Brett directly through LinkedIn or follow her journey on YouTube.

Host Brett Lyle talks with David Blevins, director of EMS Education Programs for Roane State Community College (TN). They talk about legislation that have shaped the industry, education in the times of stay-at-home orders, and how to show that you care and lead through effective communication.

Welcome to Emergent Leadership where we connect with passionate leaders who just have to share their stories, perspectives, and most importantly, lessons learned.

The need is urgent, the events are critical, and the you of tomorrow is just an episode away!

Join the conversation: If you have a leadership topic, experience, or lesson learned you would like to share or hear more about, send an email at [email protected] or use and follow #emergentleadership to join the conversation. You can also connect to Brett directly through LinkedIn or follow her journey on YouTube.

Jonathon Feit interviews Joshua Parish, Deputy Chief of Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Milwaukee Fire Dept.

Deputy Chief Joshua Parish of the Milwaukee (WI) Fire Department checks multiple "diversity" boxes as a Black man in an overwhelmingly white industry, who has risen through the ranks as an unabashed iconoclast.

He has a master's degree from the venerable London School of Economics in an industry that is torn about the fundamental question of whether post-high school education should be considered a "must have."

He is passionate about honing a worldly perspective and loves losing himself in new locales with no choice but to adapt and seek empathy.

It turns out, this same blend of characteristics makes for an excellent medic, because in the real world, biology and chemistry often come secondary to psychology and sociology: understanding human nature.

Following a deep-dive into his origin story, Chief Parish discusses strategies for turning "samurai swords" into "Gerber tools" when training team members – evolving from experts in a single function to team members who can flex as a community's needs evolve – as a way of "future-proofing ourselves." 

Also: Ensuring that mobile medical personnel, in management and on the line alike, reflect -- and embrace -- the mosaic of the communities in which they operate is "good for business" when it comes to recruiting high-potential candidates.

It helps when, say, convincing citizens to stay inside and wear a mask; or to manage diabetes both as a matter of self-care and as a way to show appreciation for their caregivers.

Perhaps most poignant, he reminds us that we need to talk about failures if we are going to learn from them.

In this timely, no-holds-barred interview, Chief Parish explains his approach to language and culture, to relationship-building, and to research (including the need for additional rigor) – these have swirled into a strange brew against the backdrop of the COVID-19 crisis, particularly in Wisconsin, where racial and socioeconomic tensions followed a shooting during protests in nearby Kenosha. 

On this episode, host Brett Lyle is joined by Health Care Visions President Steve Athey. Steve has spent more than four decades in EMS and 30 years as a respected industry leaders and consultant. They discuss the differences between leading with and without titles, the power of influence and how time has affected the effectiveness of varying leadership and management styles and strategies. Steve offers some insight into his years of market research and leaves you with some powerful words of wisdom.

Resources mentioned: Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore; Go for No!: Yes Is the Destination, No Is How You Get There by Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton; Course: The Science of Well-being, led by Dr. Laurie Santos of Yale University via Coursera.

Welcome to Emergent Leadership where we connect with passionate leaders who just have to share their stories, perspectives, and most importantly, lessons learned.

The need is urgent, the events are critical, and the you of tomorrow is just an episode away!

Join the conversation: If you have a leadership topic, experience, or lesson learned you would like to share or hear more about, send an email at [email protected] or use and follow #emergentleadership to join the conversation. You can also connect to Brett directly through LinkedIn or follow her journey on YouTube.