The Ladd Life

You read that title correctly! We are so excited to have our first guests on todays episode! Alex and Emily are our very good friends that we met through the fire department. Alex is Shane’s partner on the ambulance and Emily also had the same cancer as Michelle with a very similar story. This episode really shares what life through their one eye is like. Be sure to stick around for the end where we all get extremely vulnerable in sharing how Michelle and Emily’s cancer has affected each of us.

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You can also watch or listen to Emily’s Ted Talk linked here —> https://youtu.be/Qkdng_j7Fzk

An AMRAP in the gym stands for as many rounds (or reps) as possible in a certain time frame. We spun that and made this one as many random (questions) as possible in 30 minutes. We answered 11 thought provoking questions like:

“What do you feel is the biggest waste of time?”

“Do you work to live or live to work?”

“What is a question that you think most people will lie in their response?”

and so many fun others! Join us as we share our throughs!

Join us for a fun game of true or false! I took a bunch of your commonly asked firefighter / paramedic related questions and turned them into true or false questions for Shane to answer to the best of his knowledge!

One of our favorite topics is conflict.. our first year of marriage was full of it. It’s not something we’re proud of but we wouldn’t change it because we know it only made us stronger. Listen along as we share some helpful tips on how you can have healthy conflict within your relationships.

Having a purpose helps us live our lives to the absolute fullest! In this episode we talk about how you can establish your “why” in 3 main areas of your lives, your relationship, your health & fitness journey and in your job.

Have you ever wondered about the calls Shane runs on and what he does? In this episode he’s spilling the beans! In Part 2 of this series Shane talks all about the signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose and cardiac arrest. He shares what happens when you call 911 and what you can do as a bystander as you wait for 911 to arrive. He also shares some shocking statistics about each medical emergency.

Our goal though this “Medical Emergencies” series is to bring awareness to some of the most common medical emergencies so you can be more aware and proactive in the case they may arise to you or someone around you.

The documentary Shane mentions is Heroin(e) and can be found on Netflix.

On Instagram we asked you to share with us your favorite quotes and verses and we are sharing our thoughts on them! We talk about the faithfulness of Jesus, our favorite quotes and Shane drops some knowledge on several of them!

We believe communication is necessary for any relationship to be strong and successful. In this episode we share 4 tips on how you can build a strong foundation of communication for any of your relationships- marriages, friends family. We also talk about the areas we fell short but provide hope in any circumstance.

Michelle is answering your fire wife questions! She shares some advice for new fire wives (seasoned fire wives, it’s for you, too!), she talks about how she copes with spending lots of time apart and how they deal with tough conversations with little time together. Shane also chimes in on many of the questions! They both share their vulnerability about the ups and downs of being a fire family.

In this episode we are picking up right where we left off on last weeks episode (if you haven’t listened to “Nutrition Part 1”, be sure to listen to that first!). In part 2 we talk about 10 ways to lose weight without dieting and Shane shares the best way to read nutrition labels.