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Hosted by Steve Bisson · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 295 episodes
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Discover practical resilience strategies that transform lives. Join Steve Bisson, licensed mental health counselor, as he guides first responders, leaders, and trauma survivors through actionable insights for mental wellness and professional growth. Each week, dive deep into real conversations about grief processing, trauma recovery, and leadership development. Whether you're a first responder facing daily challenges, a leader navigating high-pressure situations, or someone on their healing journey, this podcast delivers the tools and strategies you need to build lasting resilience. With over 20 years of mental health counseling experience, Steve brings authentic, professional expertise to every episode, making complex mental health concepts accessible and applicable to real-world situations. Featured topics include: • Practical resilience building strategies • First responder mental wellness • Trauma recovery and healing • Leadership development<br
Steve Bisson hosts Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health, a health show with 295 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail A career can end without a single bad call. Sometimes it’s the station politics, the paper trail, and the quiet retaliation that do the damage and it can hit your mental health just as hard as anything o
Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to miss someone in pain is to only believe the “approved” version of distress. We sit down with Liana Lucine, a former UK London Met police officer and trainer, to unpack how stereotypes
Send us Fan Mail If you’ve ever wondered why some calls escalate fast while others calm down in minutes, the answer usually isn’t “more force” or “better scripts.” It’s the human skill that gets trained the least and jud
Send us Fan Mail Your body can hit full panic speeds while your brain has to make courtroom-clean decisions. That tension sits at the center of my conversation with Eric Robinson, a former pastor turned FBI agent who spe
Send us Fan Mail He walked away from the pulpit because the stress would not let his body rest, then spent the next two decades staring straight at humanity’s darkest corners. I’m joined by Eric Robinson, newly retired a
Send us Fan Mail If peer support is supposed to be a safe place, why do so many first responders avoid it because they’re afraid their story will end up in the station, the briefing room, or the chief’s office? Stephanie
Send us Fan Mail The job trains you to scan for danger, move fast, and stay ready, but nobody hands you a clean off-switch when you walk back through your front door. We sit down with Dr Stephanie Conn, a former dispatch
Send us Fan Mail One small action can change a whole community, and sometimes even rewrite what the next generation learns in school. We sit down with Brad and Kira Newberry to unpack the idea behind their book, The Save
Send us Fan Mail A call can end, the scene can clear, and your body can still be on the call months later. We sit down with clinical psychologist Dr. Stacy Raymond to talk about what actually works for first responder me
Send us Fan Mail A lot of first responders can talk anyone through a crisis, then go home and quietly self-destruct. That tension sits at the center of my conversation with Joe Smarro, a former cop known for crisis work
Send us Fan Mail A “mental health call” rarely looks like a calm conversation in a quiet office. It looks like uncertainty, pressure, split-second decisions, and a room full of risk factors that do not fit neatly into a
Send us Fan Mail Five years ago, I hit publish with a simple goal: make mental health easier to talk about and easier to access. Now, Resilience Development in Action is built specifically for first responder mental heal
Send us Fan Mail One call can change the way you breathe, drive, sleep, and even trust your own judgment. I sit down with paramedic Emma Irwin to talk through a suicide scene that hit hard, the moment she cried on scene,
Send us Fan Mail A lot of people assume first responder stress is mostly about what you see on calls. Emma Irwin, a UK paramedic who worked both London and Kent, helps us name the other half of the story: the system you
Send us Fan Mail The day you retire, the job doesn’t just end. Your identity can crack wide open. I sit down with Kemmi Sadler, a recently retired law enforcement professional, to talk about what it really feels like to
Send us Fan Mail The job can send you to the hardest places on earth, then expect you to come home and act like nothing followed you back. We talk with Kemmi Sadler, a retired supervisory special agent from the U.S. Stat
Send us Fan Mail Supervision used to be something you could reach for without fear or apology, and a lot of us built our careers on that kind of steady mentorship. Recording with Dennis Sweeney, Chris Gordon, Bob Cherney
Send us Fan Mail If you think police wellness is mostly about eating better and “handling stress,” this conversation will challenge you fast. Kevin Gilmartin returns and gets blunt about what the job does to the body and
Send us Fan Mail A lot of police wellness talk starts after something terrible happens. We wanted to start earlier and go deeper, into the daily mechanics of the job that slowly shape sleep, mood, relationships, and long
Send us Fan Mail You can do everything “right” on the job and still end up quietly falling apart at home. Part two with Nikki Mason gets real about what first responder mental health support actually needs to look like w
Joe Smarro
founder and CEO · SolutionPoint+
2 appearances on this show
Kemmi Sadler
retired supervisory special agent · U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service
2 appearances on this show
Chris Gordon
Bain Capital
1 appearance on this show
AK Dozanti
former deputy sheriff, bestselling author, nationally recognized speaker
2 appearances on this show
Bridget Truxillo
Lady Law Shield
1 appearance on this show
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