Fire Rescue Wellness

Updated: 19 Nov 2024 • 132 episodes
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Welcome to the Fire Rescue Wellness Podcast! My name is Annette Zapp (or AZ), and I'm a Retired Career Firefighter on a mission to ensure that every firefighter feels physically, mentally, and emotionally supported in their work. Join my guests and me as we have the critical conversations that help firefighters stay healthy and well.

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Jenna Yentes is an incredibly kind and fun nerd with whom to share grocery store beers! In this week"s episode, hear about our outing to the grocery store bar in College Station, Texas. We also talk about science, of course! Dr. Jenna Yentes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management

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Announcement: If you want to get on the reminder list for the Women"s Tactical Summit registration, click here. Joel and I talked about one of my favorite topics (sleep) and he has some tremendous insight into FD shift schedules, alerting systems and organizational impacts on sleep. Joel M. Billings, PhD is an assistan

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Cindy McKnight is an incredible human and great supporter of the fire service! Make sure to listen all the way to the end for an wonderful piece of advice regarding compassion fatigue. (After the music outro...) Cindy McKnight is a National Certified Counselor (NCC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC)

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Sign up to hear Drs. Lockie and Dawes speak at the ISSN Virtual Tactical Summit Dr. Bob Lockie does great tactical research, is a great friend, and his sock game is unparalleled.    Dr. Robert Lockie is an Associate Professor of Strength and Conditioning at California State University Fullerton and has been a sports an

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Before you listen, download the PDF! Last week, Andy Scott spoke about mobility training, and one of my listeners requested more information. Thanks for another great question, Paul. You can hear more of Paul"s questions on this previous episode. So what, now what?!? We can"t prevent injuries, but we might be able to d

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Fill out this form to get a reminder when registration for the Women"s Tactical Summit opens on 12.1.24! The Associated Firefighters of Illinois (AFFI) established the Resiliency Committee at their 2022 Convention. On today"s episode, I interviewed Chairman Joe Galli, Co-Chair Andy Scott, and Dani Cook of Naperville Lo

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