Episode 7: In Honor of Those Who Have Gone Before...

Episode 9 What About the Ride Home?

As we finish up our conversation on mental and physical well being - we shift the focus to who should be monitoring our moods and our emotional health?  Who knows us best, and sees us at our worst?  We need to track each other, and we need to depend on and rely on our brothers... We then talk about a post made by the wife of a LEO, and the emotions that they experience every time their loved one walks out the door.  While it may be LE geared, it should be an eye opener for anyone of us in emergency services and emergency management as to what our families, partners and friends are seeing and feeling as they watch us coping with the stresses of the job.

Episode 8: Physical to Go with the Emotional...

Tonight, we continue the discussion of responder self care and well being with a discussion of some of the effects of the bad crap we do and what it does to our bodies... While more specific to firefighting due to the extremes that we face, the nutritional aspects also effect long-term, high stress environments such as disaster response withing emergency management, sleep deprivation due to rotating schedules or emergency call-outs and long term well being.  By understanding some of the physical stressors, as well as the psychological aspect we introduced last episode, we can start to understand what we are putting our bodies and minds through, and start to better prepare ourselves before the 'tones drop'

Episode 7: In Honor of Those Who Have Gone Before...

In honor of Memorial Day, and those who have given the ultimate sacrifice, we look at the importance of realizing the stress that comes hand in hand with working, or loving someone that works, in emergency services.  Understanding the stresses of the job, both mental and physical, and the effects that they have on both responder health and safety, as well as their relationships with families and loved ones is a part of the job that not enough of us are talking about. Come listen as we set the stage for discussions over the next several episodes of what we can do to help protect ourselves and be at our best for the entirety of our careers.. and beyond.

Episode 6 - Meet Ava and Cora!

Continuing the Episode 5 discussion on technological advances, and more specifically A.I., we are talking with Wes Jones of Aurelian and the products that they have developed to support the work of PSAP's and dispatch centers.  Aurelian has developed technology solutions that help support telecommunicators and assist with information gathering.   Aurelian's solution integrate within current workflows to seamlessly support operations and staff.  Wes is a public safety professional with over 30 years of experience spanning emergency communications, emergency management and public-private collaboration. He spent more than 25 years in New York State in 9-1-1 and emergency management roles, including 12 years as a 9-1-1 center director, where he was responsible for operations, staffing, technology and service delivery in high-pressure, mission-critical environments. Wes currently serves as Public Safety Engagement Lead at Aurelian, where he works closely with emergency communications leaders to apply conversational AI in ways that support 9-1-1 professionals, reduce non-emergency call burden and strengthen emergency response. His approach is grounded in firsthand operational experience and a deep respect for the realities of public safety work.

Episode 5 - The Challenges of AI and Social Media

A.I. Good or bad?   As technology and AI begins to creep into all segments of everyday activities, have you welcomed it?  Or do you avoid it the best that you can? In Part 1 of this two part episode, we look at how AI and technology effects what we do as emergency responders and some of the challenges that we have encountered.   We are joined by Wes Jones, a long time emergency manager and 911 Center Director, who is now with a new company that is embracing some of this technology.  Episode 2 will look at how this is being done, and how AI is helping 911 Centers across the country...