Crew 1st Culture Podcast

Once again I’m joined by a great guest for this episode, Sean Duffy. Sean shares my passion for firehouse culture and is all over social media. We dive into several different areas concerning culture…

Monday Mindset Check - If you could put words to what the perfect culture at your firehouse would be what would that look like? Next step, put it in writing. 

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I’m very honored to be joined by Brian Brush today to discuss a “Road Map to a Successful Fire Service Career”. This was a topic requested by a listener and I immediately thought about bringing Brian…

Monday Mindset Check - We have all heard the statement that “a bad attitude is more contagious than a good one.” Honestly I don’t know that I agree completely with that statement. Although I would ag…

Joining me today are 2 guys that are passionate about the culture of fitness; Aaron Quinn of Live.Serve.Thrive and Ian Palmer of Thin Line Fitness. We dig into the road blocks that keep departments f…

Today’s Monday Mindset Check focuses on taking a break from the world and taking time for your family and for yourself. We have so step away and spend time with our families and on ourselves sometime…

I am joined by a very special guest today, Justin Mann. Justin discusses with me the idea of competency based safety. This competency is gained through regular and purposeful training. We have a very…

On this Monday Mindset Check I want us to think about the one person that we have to focus most on leading, that is ourselves. It starts with leading one. This thought was spurred on by a quote from …

Motivation and inspiration, what do those terms mean to you? Are they the same and basically interchangeable or are there drastic differences in the 2? This discussion is one that I have begun to gai…

Last week I saw a post by Mark Vonappen from @fullyinvolvedofficial and it really spoke to me so I wanted to share it and a few thoughts. Changing culture isn’t something that’s just happens, it’s a …

Every one of you out there have something to give, something that someone else needs to hear to be inspired or to just not feel alone. With all of the negativity that we are bombarded with constantly…

It’s so easy for us to become burned out, negative, and complacent at our job. Literally as I am releasing this episode I am coming off of a night on duty consisting of 2 full arrests including one i…

John Sahatjian from Jersey Shore Emergency Training joins me today to dig in to a statement he brought to my attention a little while back. “Lions don’t lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.” This s…

Your mindset is a choice, your perspective is a choice, your attitude is a choice, and whether or not you grow is a choice. So what are you choosing today? We can easily fall into the trap of blaming…

Corley Moore join’s me today to dig into the topic of hope so we inspire and rekindle the passion for the job in those that may have lost it. This was a very eye opening conversation for me and I hop…

No matter how busy your department and firehouse is chances are you have some downtime each day and sometimes quite a bit. What are we doing with that time? Is the time we spend growing, learning, an…

Today I have a guest Aaron Quinn with me. Aaron is an 18 veteran firefighter with the Oakland Fire Department. We discuss the roles and responsibilities of the senior firefighter and the informal lea…

A little late but I wanted to give appreciation to all the Dad’s out there including mine who I love very much. I’ve never had a more exhausting, stressful, nerve racking, and irritating at times job…

There can be no personal growth without humility. I experienced a little bit of a lightbulb moment in my way home from work and felt like I needed to sit down and record some of my thoughts. No one w…

There are so many people out there just fighting to survive, I’ve been there and some days I still feel that way. Our stories are all so different yet there are always others that are fighting simila…