First Responder Wellness Podcast with Conrad Weaver
The First Responder Wellness Podcast with Conrad Weaver is where mental health, resilience, and real solutions meet for police, fire, EMS, dispatch, and the families who support them. No fluff. No corporate wellness speak. Just honest conversations with first responders, mental health professionals, and leaders who've lived it — covering burnout, PTSD, suicide awareness, peer support, shift work, marriage, and what it actually takes to have a long, healthy career in this profession. Every episode is designed to leave you with something you can actually use. If you serve, lead people who serve, or love someone who does — this podcast was made for you.
Episodes
What does it really mean to save a life?
In this powerful episode of the First Responder Wellness Podcast, Conrad Weaver sits down with veteran firefighter-paramedic, EMS educator, entrepreneur, and author Brad Newbury for a deeply human conversation about mental health, resilience, leadership,...
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Walking Through Grief: Healing After First Responder Suicide.
In this deeply emotional episode of the First Responder Wellness Podcast, host Conrad Weaver sits down with Marchelle Farmer, widow of retired police sergeant Scott Farmer, to talk about love, trauma, loss, and healing after first ...
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132 - Lead Anyway, Even When Leadership is Broken - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
Everyone talks about bad leadership.
But very few people take responsibility for becoming better leaders themselves.
In Part 2 of this conversation, Conrad continues w...
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131 - You're Not Broken, You're Leveling Up - Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
What if the very thing you’ve been told is breaking you… is actually making you stronger?
In this conversation, Conrad sits down with Dave Grossman to unpack what really happens in...
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130 - Mental Warfare is Part of the Path - with Rob Magao
This conversation begins with a hard truth: most people will experience a ha...
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129 - The Emotional Toll of Life in the Trauma Unit with Dr. Alicia Mangram
What happens when the people trusted to save lives have nowhere safe to process their own pain? In this episode, Conrad Weaver talks with tra...
"Better sleep often starts with a better environment." - Taylor Montey
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SLEEP! Stop Counting Hours, Count Cycles with Taylor Montey
In part two of this conversation, Conrad Weaver and Taylor Montey get practical about sleep in the first responder world. They talk about how to create a better sleep environment in bunk rooms...
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In this episode, Conrad Weaver sits down with Dr. Jon Sheinberg for a powerful conversation about one of the most overlooked threats to first responders: heart disease. What makes this discussion especially compelling is Dr. Sheinberg’s rare perspective. He has spent decades both as a physician and as a sw...
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127 - SLEEP! Stop Counting Hours, Count Cycles (Part 1 of 2)
In part one of this two-part conversation, Conrad Weaver sits down with firefighter, lieutenant, counselor, and sleep specialist Taylor Montey to talk about one of the most overlooked issues in first responder wellness: sleep. But this episode goes far beyond bed...
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126 - The Hidden Injury Behind the Anger with Jeff Casselman
What happens when the trauma isn’t just emotional — but neurological? In this powerful episode, Conrad Weaver talks with retired police officer and Army veteran Jeff Casselman about the devastating intersection of PTSD, cumulative concussions, and traumatic bra...
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SPECIAL EDITION: A Proactive Peer Support System First Responders Can Trust
What if peer support in your agency didn’t depend on chance, availability, or who happened to answer the phone? In this episode of the First Responder Wellness Podcast, Conrad Weaver talks with Nik Fiorito of Peer Connect about a system designed to make peer support more proactiv...
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125 - You Can't Fix Your Family Until You Fix Yourself - Gregory Seibert
What happens when a career built on strength, control, and service slowly hardens your heart? In this episode, Conrad Weaver sits down with former law enforcement officer and criminal justice instructor Greg Seibert for a raw conversation about trau...
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124 - First Responder Trauma and Marriage with Erin Jane EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode, Conrad sits down with Erin Jane for a conversation that feels both deeply personal and quietly important. Erin is a former police officer and detective from Australia, now living in Boston as the wife of an active-duty firefighter, ...
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Marriage, Badges, and Breakthroughs
In this conversation, Conrad sits down with Dylan and Kella Bates—two first responders who’ve worked in very different worlds, from the nonstop pace of the DC area to the isolation and intensity of rural Alaska. They talk candidly about what the public doesn’t see: the whiplash of g...
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Episode 122 - Unlearn Survival, and Relearn Peace - with Kevin Barnhill
This episode is a raw conversation about what happens when the job doesn’t just change your schedule—it changes you. Conrad Weaver sits down with Kevin Barnhi...
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Episode 121: You're Only as Sick as Your Secrets - Matt Bloesch
Retirement is supposed to feel like relief. For Matt Bloesch, it does—but not because he simply “made it to the finish line.” After 26 years in the San Francisco Bay A...
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120 - You Don't Have to be Falling Apart to Need Healing - Kemmi Sadler
In this episode of the First Responder Wellness Podcast, Conrad sits down with Kemmi Saddler, a former local law enforcement officer who went from dispatch to ...
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The Moment We Arrive On Scene, We Become a Part of Their Story - Lt. Sarah Shendy
Some people wear the uniform and slowly disappear inside it—hardened, exhausted, running on fumes. Sarah Shendy is the opposite. Nearly 18 years into law enforcement, she still talks about the job with the kind of awe most people lose after ...
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EPISODE 118:
Bulletproof: Staying Human on the Job with Dan Willis
What happens to a good heart after years of walking into the worst moments of other people’s lives?
In this episode, Conrad Weaver sits down with retired Captain Dan Willis, a 30-year veteran of the La Mesa Police Department (San Diego area), to talk about...
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I Built My Recovery Like an Investigation - with Craig Semple
Craig Semple served 25 years as a detective in the New South Wales, Australia Police Force—homicides, drug squads, outlaw motorcycle gangs, the kind of work that runs on adrenaline and silence. But behind the scenes, PTSD and burnout were stacking up: sleepless...
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