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Behind The Shield

David Rhodes II (Innovations at FDIC, the Firefighter Workweek and Organisational Betrayal) - Episode 1145

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9667 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

David is a 39-year fire service veteran retired from the Atlanta, Georgia Fire Department. He currently works for Clarion Events as the Vice President of Education for Clarion Fire Rescue Brands, editor in chief for FireEngineering magazine and the educational director for the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC).

In this second coversation, we discuss the importance of real world leadership, some innovations coming to FDIC, the impact of orgaizational betrayal, the firefighter workweek, PFAS, special operations training and much more.

He is a Chief Elder for the Georgia Smoke Diver Program, a served on the Fire Department Instructors Conference (FDIC) Executive Advisory Board, was the Hands-on-Training Coordinator for the FDIC conference, and author for Fire Engineering Magazine, and Fire Apparatus and Equipment Magazine, authored the Hump Day SOS column for Fire Rescue, served as an adjunct instructor for the Georgia Fire Academy, and is an Advisory Board Member Emeritus for Underwriters Laboratory Firefighter Safety Research Institute and current Board Member of the Firefighter Air Coalition.

He served as an Incident Commander for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency – Type III All Hazards Incident Management Team was a Task Force Leader for the Georgia Search and Rescue Team.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

whose products I truly swear by. Now, we are an overworked and underslept population,

0:11.7

especially those of us that wear uniform for a living. And trying to reclaim some of the

0:16.9

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0:22.4

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0:27.9

neuroacoustic software beneath that is tapping into the actual frequencies of your brain,

0:34.9

whether to upregulate your nervous system or downregulate.

0:39.2

Now for most of us that come off shift, we are a exhausted and B, do not want to bring what we've

0:44.4

had to see and do back home to our loved ones. So one powerful application is using the program

0:51.1

PowerNap, a 20-minute session that will not only feel like you've had

0:55.6

two hours of sleep, but also downregulate from a hypervigilant state back into the role

1:02.0

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1:05.3

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1:10.1

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1:11.9

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1:21.0

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1:26.7

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1:29.2

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1:35.3

life-changing software. And you can find even more information on newcom.com. Welcome to the

1:43.5

Behind a Shield podcast. As always my name's James Gearing and this

1:46.5

week it is my absolute honor to welcome back onto the show, education director for FDIC, editor-in-chief

1:53.9

for fire engineering and chief elder for the Georgia Smokediver Programme, Chief David Rhodes.

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