Category Archives for "Emotional"
November 4, 2020
- in Emotional , Recovery , WYE Podcast
Post Election Mood Cleansing Shenanigans
In an effort to bring on the end of life, the universe, and everything, your hosts record a show the day before the election to go live after the election, and avoid politics. No, seriously. Why so serious? In an effort to try to turn a sour election season sweet and a dark week bright, […]
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October 21, 2020
- in Emotional , Response , WYE Podcast
Honoring Fallen Firefighter/Paramedic Jason Cortez
On October 7th, I received a frantic call on my work phone, “Is it true Jason Cortez was knocked off the training tower?” Then almost immediately another call, “Jason is at General, I need to go be with his family,” said one of his first partners on the job. Of course I sprung her to […]
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September 16, 2020
- in Education , Emotional , WYE Podcast
CBD – Helpful or harmful? – with Thaddeus Setla of Wicked Root
As a basic rule, you should always know what you’re putting in your body. You want to know that the food and medicine you buy at the store actually contains what it says it does. Is the same true for CBD? With so many different products online it can be easy to get lost when […]
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July 29, 2020
- in Education , Emotional , WYE Podcast
Advice for a new first responder parent…Global Pandemic or not
Working in the disciplines of police, fire and EMS lets us branch out into our community and serve as a parent or older sibling sometimes. However, at some point in your life you might find yourself going from being a parent to a few thousand people occasionally to being an actual parent, like, all the […]
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July 15, 2020
- in Emotional , Response , WYE Podcast
A Career in the Rear View: What Will We Miss?
In the wake of recent protests and calls for extensive reform of policing, in some cases abolishing it, law enforcement is seeing a rash of retirements and folks hanging up their vests. In this week’s episode Justin tries to get Jason, our law enforcement expert, to think about the things he’ll miss when he retires […]
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April 29, 2020
- in Emotional , Family , Response , WYE Podcast
Parenting Emergencies: Raising Lions with Joe Newman
No this isn’t some variation on the oddly popular Tiger King, the guys are actually discussing raising lions. This week we address a common emergency in many families: children. It sounds funny, but some children are different than others and finding a strategy to successfully deal with the children can be a challenge. Just ask […]
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April 22, 2020
- in Emotional , Prevention , Professional , WYE Podcast
Rights, Responsibility and Reason. Or not.
If your feed is anything like ours, it is filled with people suddenly afraid that staying at home to stop the spread of a pandemic is a violation of their civil rights. The guys discuss recent state house protests and how most people who try to exercise their rights forget something else that goes along […]
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February 26, 2020
- in Emotional , Family , Recovery , WYE Podcast
Do You Want to Play a Game? – Stress Relief WYE Style
Checkers? Chess? Backgammon? Dungeons & Dragons? What games do you play to relieve stress? This week your fire and police experts talk about what they do to get rid of the stress from the job. Games. Lots of games. The guys talk about the games form their pasts that still bring them joy as well […]
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December 11, 2019
- in Emotional , Family , WYE Podcast
Was Elsa Right?! Should we just Let It Go?
Our special in-studio guest for this episode is the Wife…better known as Katie from KatieCanHelp.com. Other than being a stellar wife and mom, Katie is also a Certified Professional Organizer. She recently spoke to a MOPS group (that’s Mom’s of Pre-Schoolers) about when Enough is Enough. You’ll hear her talk about: How to be the […]
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November 27, 2019
- in Emotional , Response , WYE Podcast
He’s Dead Jim – Dealing with the Deceased
In Paramedic School, EMS and Fire expert Justin Schorr learned all manner of keeping people alive but very little about how to deal with the deceased. In the three disciplines we encounter deceased persons more often than we’d like and making a death notification is not a benign procedure. What we say and how we […]
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