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#279 Resilience & Mental Fitness with Hadleigh Fischer Jan 29, 2024

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Too often, we hear that we need to have a ‘problem’ or a ‘diagnosis’ before we can start taking an active interest in our mental health – how do we shift this ?
What does resilience mean?
What are the key components of resilience?
How do we get people talking openly about improving their Mental Fitness?
At Resilience Agenda, we envision a world where people imagine their mental health just like their physical health.

Hadleigh Fischer created the Resilience Agenda where they envision a world where people can talk about mental health in a language that is free from stigma and that is more relevant, engaging and empowering.

They help everyone start talking openly and proudly about what they are doing to improve their Mental Fitness, just like they do their Physical Fitness.
Find out more about Resilience & Mental Fitness HERE
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#278 The Antarctic Fire Angels - Ordinary Women doing extraordinary things Jan 26, 2024

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Hear how Georgina Gilbert & Rebecca Openshaw-Rowe AKA The Antarctic Fire Angels completed a 1,230km ski across the Antarctic in temperatures as low as -50 degrees completing there journey to the south pole in 52 days on January 12th 2024.
Go back and listen to them on episode #57 from Jan 2021. Inspiring every girl and young woman who's ever been told they can't participate because of their gender they want to inspire them to find their courage, change the narrative of what it means to be a girl, and achieve great things far beyond what their own as well as others expectations are.
You can find out more about their journey & support and donate to their fund for the firefighters charity HERE
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#277 Navigating Change with Joe Hassell Jan 22, 2024

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Joe completed 31 years in the Fire and Rescue Service, having served in both Essex, and Devon & Somerset. He has extensive experience at all levels of command and retired as Deputy Chief Fire Officer.

Joe is a highly qualified commander, trainer and assessor, and he has instructed and been part of Incident Command teams in across the UK, an abroad.
Today we speak a lot about CHANGE as Joe has extensive experience in organisational transformation setting up and developing Organisational Development and Programme Management teams involving wide-scale public consultations and implementation of new, ground breaking service delivery models.
You can find Joe HERE
We mentioned a few books - links for them are below
Switch: How to change things when change is hard
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work
Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking
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#276 How we determine the fitness levels required of Firefighters with Tom Ashworth Jan 18, 2024

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How are firefighter fitness standards developed in the UK ?
What is the data behind them ?
How do they compare to other parts of the world ?
& What are some of the testing methods we have used and still use for firefighter fitness testing and selection ?
My guest today Tom Ashworth is Retired Watch manager from Lancashire Fire and Rescue in 2018. He spent 2 years as fitness advisor for greater manchester FRS and is now Managing Director of Fire and Fitness Ltd & Trainer at sim trainer UK
He also serves as Vice Chair of FireFit Steering Group - reference holder for retired personnel and healthy ageing.
You can connect with Tom HERE
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Highrise Firefighting - The History, Lessons learned & what you need to know about how far we have come Jan 15, 2024

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Today is all about Highrise Firefighting. We cover aspects on the History, Lessons learned & what you need to know about how far we have come.
References for this episode have come from Steve Dudeney which you can find HERE and also from www.highrisefirefighting.co.uk
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#275 Lars Axelsson The Swedish Fire Nerd Jan 08, 2024

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Excited to be sharing this episode with Lars Axelsson AKA Swedish Fire Nerd.
Lars is an evidence based firefighting instructor, Firefighter and former battalion chief. In our chat today we go into so so many great areas of Firefighting, Instructing, Physics, Learning & with Lars having taught instructors from all over the world he has seen the good the bad & the Ugly and we go into all those areas with tips, best practice and the pros and cons for the approaches we see in different part of the world.
You can find out more about Lars onHis website HERE
His YOUTUBE channel HERE
His LinkedIn HERE
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Shirley Towers 6th April 2010 Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service - Incident Debrief Jan 03, 2024

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Incase you missed it: Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service were called to a fire on the 9th floor of Shirley Towers at 20:10 on the 6th April, 2010. This incident resulted in the deaths of Firefighters Alan Bannon and James Shears.
With more Debriefs stacking up we intend to start putting out a monthly debrief starting 2024 as we know how popular they are so we wanted to re-release some of these lessons learned from previous debriefs.
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#274 John Gregory & The British Firefighter Challenge 2024 LAUNCH Jan 01, 2024

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British Firefighter Challenge 2024 has now launched. This years event will be held at Water Street, Liverpool, Pierhead underneath the iconic Liver Building on the SATURDAY 27TH & SUNDAY 28TH of JULY.
Today i catchup with John Gregory one of the lead organisers for the event as we talk tactics, training, community and the growth of firefighter challenge events in the UKFRS
You can now register for the 2024 event HERE
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Reflections, Ideas & book recommendations for 2024 Dec 30, 2023

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Some quick thoughts and things to consider for 2024 & also reflections from 2023.
Also see book a couple of book recommendations for 2024 as we get asked a lot for these.
Would you like more of this, book recommendations for emergency services operators perhaps, I do have a list. Reviews of specific books and also more debriefs as we have a lot on file to get through if the appetite is there.
Email us with your thoughts & feedback at thefirefighterspodcast@gmail.com
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#273 Ryan Phillips - Creativity, being an oddball & How joining the fire service brought out the best in me Dec 28, 2023

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Ryan is a Crew manager in the UK FRS. In this episode we talk about aspects of creativity & how finding outlets for this can bring out the best in us.
Ryan is part of a band known as Habilis & on the 28th of December 2023 they released their new song “Rise or Fall” and accompanying music video which you can view HERE
For Ryan this has become the perfect way to merge two important aspects of his life: his career in the fire service, and his need for creativity, music and collaboration with others.
The music video follows Ryan on his journey to prepare for the British Firefighter Challenge as he is "coached" in person by singer, Gavin, and in spirit by his bandmates. The video is sprinkled with comedy and homages to iconic movie moments.
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