Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. My name is James Gearing and this is episode 39. And to summarize

what the whole show is about, this is a show aimed at improving wellness, wellness amongst first

responders initially, police, fire, EMS, military, people in the medical community, nurses, doctors,

and everyone else on the planet. The people that we had on the show so far from authors to farmers, to Navy SEALs, to UFC fighters,

they've all taught things that specifically our community can gain from, but obviously anyone can gain from.

We have waited to talk about this specific subject until now.

I had a project that I was working on a while ago, the Darkside project, which is a

Facebook page, where we touched on PTSD and mental health.

Well, my next guest, Dustin Hawkins, is a man who has literally been put through the ringer

by God, by the universe, however you want to describe it.

This man has been tested physically to the lengths that very few people on this planet,

I think, have been tested so far.

He got to a very dark place where he made the decision

to end his life, was intercepted luckily by his family and friends, lost one of those close friends

since then and has now made it his goal to improve mental wellness within our community.

Now Dustin is going to have an announcement about a project called Red Line Rescue.

I'm here to spread the word.

I'm using this medium to try and get this to as many people as possible.

But Red Line Rescue and then ultimately Blue Line and Green Line,

which are going to be the police and the military,

I'm guaranteeing are going to be the solution to the problems that we're having at the moment

with so many first responders feeling like they, A, can't talk to anyone, and then B, are

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