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The Disaster Tough Podcast is for emergency managers, by emergency managers. We share stories, lessons learned, and tips to help you make informed decisions. Our host, John Scardena is a former Federal Emergency Response Official with Type 1 response experience. He now leads Doberman Emergency Management, from which this is being recorded. Our guests are also field experts who provide their insights in our conversation based podcast.
Discussions with emergency managers revolve around the entire disaster life-cycle. We provide solutions based on training and backed by data. We share experiences of emergency response and identify the lessons learned through our own version of after action reporting. This is conversation mode activated. We are known for flipping from serious to humor without warning. Try to keep up in our weekly podcasts!
About Doberman Emergency Management. We provide customized plans, mitigates hazards, delivers training, and supplies emergency products to meet the unique needs of clients. We identify and solve the Nation’s most complex incidents. That’s our job.

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Latest Episodes:

Dual Threat Response: Hurricanes & COVID-19 Pandemic Preparations with Cam Starrett Jul 10, 2020

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Emergency mangers must be training for a hurricane response in a pandemic environment. The Seven Community Lifelines will be impacted. Safety and Security, Food Water Shelter, Health and Medical, Energy, Communications, Transportation, and Hazardous Materials. We address general public situational awareness, and our role in deescalation.

Military Veteran, Emergency Manager, Tactical Firearm Response Trainer & Owner of Gladiator Gunz Training Group William Jackson Jr. Jul 04, 2020

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Emergency management is a natural progression for many military vets. Will talks about his experiences with anti-terrorism CBRNE missions, the skills required to transfer into emergency management and his prestigious tactical firearm response training for law enforcement (police), military, and civilian members. If you are in the military and thinking about emergency and disaster services, this is the podcast for you. Will also addresses how the police need more training and how Gladiator Gunz Training Group can help through their scenario based courses.

Interview with Public Safety and Professional Communications President at L3Harris Nino DiCosmo Jun 26, 2020

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L3Harris has almost 50,000 employees and does 18 billion dollars in revenue, annually. Nino DiCosmo joined the company as the President of Public Safety and Professional Communications at L3Harris nearly 4 years ago. He has ample experiences leading large teams and major contracts with the Department of Defense and First Responder agencies by providing technologies like our favorite radio app, BeOn PPT. We ask Nino about his expertise in leadership, responding to
the COVID-19 Pandemic, preparing for Hurricane Season and ask him questions about the contracting process to help emergency managers work better with vendors like L3Harris.

Response, PTSD, and Prevention with Human Trafficking Expert - Mary Kent Jun 19, 2020

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In this episode we talk with Mary Kent. A professor, public speaker, victim advocate responder, and intelligence asset to help identify human trafficking and provide disruption assistance. She talks about her experiences in the field and provides emergency managers the insights required to find, address, and help survivors of forced servitude and sexual exploitation.

Tactical Level Disaster Drones! Jun 13, 2020

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We talk about the inaugural use of sUAS drones from the federal disaster perspective. Our Host, while serving on the National Strike Team developed the first tactical level team in response and provides numerous applications for this asset. While talking about providing situational awareness, John talks about civil unrest, George Flyod, and reform. This is the official statement of Doberman Emergency Management Group llc and the Disaster Tough Podcast.

Hurricane Season and the Emergency Management Need to Knows Jun 05, 2020

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The episode highlights the major components of a hurricane, how to better communicate and understand the numerous complexities in with a hurricane response. Good luck this Season- it's likely going to be a busy one!

Catastrophic Dam Failures in Michigan May 30, 2020

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During this episode we talk about the Michigan Dam Failures. We talk about how to work with leadership or partners who don't want to spend the time or money to mitigate issues, a constant battle for emergency managers to climb, and we talk about how to create a proper emergency plan for Dams.
Disclaimer: Our host, John Scardena, is from Ohio- he does his best to hold back feelings on the Buckeyes vs the Wolverines, though the jokes do spill over now and then. Please note, this has no reflection on how we feel about helping people in the State of Michigan, this is only a sports related banter between the States.

Lessons in leadership with the expert emergency manager Rodney Melsek May 15, 2020

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Mr. Rodney Melsek has served over 20 years as a Type 1 Planning Section Chief on the National Strike Team, planning for and responding to the most catastrophic disasters in modern U.S. history. Rodney's experience goes beyond the federal emergency response official experience, as he also served for 15 years in international humanitarian aid, including The Balkans, Asia, and Africa. Rodney's unique perspective has provided him opportunity to train and lead countless emergency managers who have, through his guidance, prepared for and responded to chaos. He is a subject matter expert and a great friend to Doberman Emergency Management. He currently advises the organization to ensure best practice. Come check out the episode in order to hear how he lead throughout his career.

PART 2- The Peace Corps & Cornavirus Emergency Evac , Interview with Cam Starrett May 01, 2020

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Part 2- Cam Starrett shares his experience as a Peace Corps Member in Panama. He talks about the people, his projects, the living conditions, and the lessons learned during his deployment. We dive into the details of the blog post he wrote for Doberman Emergency Management and the struggle to get back to the states while countries were shutting down due to the Coronavirus.

PART 1 The Humanitarian Life, Interview with Cam Starrett Apr 30, 2020

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What drives someone towards service and what keeps you going when things become difficult? In this 2 part episode, Cameron Starrett shares his experiences with multiple volunteer based or organizations. We talk about disasters and lessons learned working in the US together, and his journey of volunteering over the past several years. Come listen to Part 1 The Humanitarian Life with Cam and I.

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