The Next Rung Podcast

Are you passing the things on that you have the privilege of experiencing, learning, and being a part of? If we don't they die with us, so we must come up with a plan to pass it all forward.

In this episode we talk about chosen suffering and unchosen suffering. What you have been through in life prepares you for what's ahead. Sometimes we choose that suffering/challenge and sometimes it comes unwanted. We hope you enjoy the episode and it brings about some conversation for you and those you know.

We all have something that we should get better at, if we are honest. Maybe it's something obvious or maybe its a venture we want to start. Getting good at other things in life will only stregnthen what you are already good at. We hope you enjoy this episode.

I talk about MAFFC, elevator work, tech rescue, family, and life priorities. I may ramble a little, but I hope you enjoy it.

Welcome to the first Friday Field Notes. This is a short recording with a goal in mind, to address one topic and shed some insight on it. We hope you enjoy it and we look forward to doing this weekly!

On this episode, we talk about our time at FDIC 2025 and much more. We cover a few things on mental health and how it relates to those who are instructing, lecturing, and podcasting. We want to make a wave in the Fire Service and we are on the hunt to make it happen. We talk about a future idea called "The Traveling Kitchen Table". So if you steal our ideas, we will find you!!!

In this episode, Blake and Charlie talk about being refined by the fire service. How you enter, versus where you are, versus where you end up. There are some great aspects of it, but you have to be careful of some of the negative potentials, too. They cover leadership, mentorship, changes they've seen in themselves, and much more in this episode.

This episode we talk about Blake's on the job accident and what that looks like from both his perspective and Charlie's perspective. We also talk about mindset, what mental health issues really are (not just call related trauma), and expressing what it looks like to pour into others on and off the job. We hope you enjoy it!