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Welcome to Beneath the Helmet, a podcast about firefighter well-being and everything beneath the helmet.
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Yoga for Firefighters That Fits the Shift With Hannah Flahr (opens the original)
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Yoga can feel out of reach when your pager is on, your shift has run long, or you think you need to get flexible first. Hannah Flahr, founder of Regulate the Responder, joins Arjuna George to talk about bringing yoga into fire halls and meeting firefighters where they are. They explore the movement patterns Hannah considered in designing her sequence, her four-week pilot, breathing practices, and what a first class actually feels like. Hannah also offers a realistic starting point for a tired fi
When the Uniform Becomes Your Identity: Kerry Campbell on First Responder Identity Erosion (opens the original)
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What happens when the uniform stops being something you wear and starts becoming your entire identity? RCMP Sergeant and mindset coach Kerry Campbell joins Arjuna George to explore identity fusion, identity erosion and the slow changes that can follow first responders home. After years of policing, Kerry found himself emotionally disconnected, constantly alert and unable to appreciate the life around him. His family noticed the change before he did. Kerry shares how coaching helped him separate
The Fires Inside the Station with Jerry Streich (opens the original)
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The fireground demands preparation, practice and clear command. Inside the station, leaders are often expected to manage complex human behaviour with far less training. In Episode 117 of Beneath the Helmet , Arjuna sits down with retired Fire Chief, Army veteran, author and organizational development practitioner Jerry Streich. Jerry’s new book, Dealing with Difficult People: For Fire and EMS Organizations , grew out of a personnel crisis that affected his leadership, sleep, family, and sense of
When the Job Comes Home: A Firefighter Widow’s Story of Love, Loss, and Finding Herself Again (opens the original)
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Shelley Hegedus thought she understood the demands of the fire service. Then she began noticing subtle changes in her husband, Ron. More vigilance. More irritability. Less sleep. Less desire to leave home. Small changes that were easy to explain individually, but together were changing their relationship. Then came another life-altering blow. In May 2023, Ron was diagnosed with stage four gallbladder cancer. He died in August 2024. In this deeply personal episode of Beneath the Helmet , Shelley
The Invisible Injuries of First Responders: Burnout, Trauma & Moral Injury (opens the original)
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Nobody signs up for this job expecting to carry it home. Clinical social worker Iris Waichler has spent over 40 years sitting with people in the worst moments of their lives, first on a hospital burn unit, and later interviewing hundreds of firefighters, EMTs, and paramedics for her book Burnt Out . In this conversation, Arjuna and Iris get honest about the difference between burnout and trauma, the quieter wound called moral injury, and why so many first responders wait years before they can ev
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