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Good evening, Akal. Welcome again. Welcome to episode 202. If you haven't listened to Episode 201, it is with Michael Sugru. Great interview.

We talk the importance of treatment for mental health, for particularly first responders,

and prevention would talk about acute stress disorder, among other things, so go listen to it.

But episode 202 will be with Kevin Corning.

Someone else I met through online, sent out a who wanted to be on my podcast to a bunch of first responders in a group with clinicians. And he decided to

respond. And I was very happy to talk to him. The interview is already taking place. I'm breaking

down a wall here. But he was a captain battalion chief for Highlands country fire for about 15 years

currently in the process of obtaining his master's in mental

health counseling.

Who would want to go in that field?

Right.

He has a bachelor's science and industrial psychology.

He is firefighter paramedic and brings one of the most important things that we're

going to talk about probably is cultural competency because I think that's important in this field.

So we're going to definitely talk about that. And here's the interview.

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