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Resilience Development in Action

E.232 From Chief To Healer: A First Responder’s Journey Through Loss, Addiction, And Resilience (Part 1)

Resilience Development in Action

Steve Bisson

Religion & Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Psychology, Counseling, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Honest, Substance Use, Social Sciences, Science

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Send us a text The story begins where many first responder lives converge: relentless calls, court dates, and a small department that never truly sleeps. Then the personal hits. Former New Hampshire police chief Doug Wyman opens up about parenting through a son’s addiction at the height of the opioid crisis, supporting a younger child through identity shifts, and the morning that changed everything—when his wife died by suicide with his duty weapon. What follows is a rare, unguarded look at p...

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0:00.0

Welcome to Resilience Development in Action with Steve Bisson.

0:06.1

This is the podcast dedicated to first responder mental health, helping police, fire,

0:11.4

EMS, dispatchers, and paramedics create better growth environments for themselves and their teams.

0:17.5

Let's get started.

0:40.6

Okay. their teams. Let's get started. You know, you've heard me talk about this before. Getfree.a.I. Great for your note-taking, good for your transcript, good for your goals, good for everything that you do in a hippocomplying nature.

0:47.6

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1:02.3

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1:06.6

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1:12.6

Well, hi, everyone, and welcome to episode 232. If you haven't listened to Episode 231, it was with Lisa Truisus. And I hope you'd listen to both episodes, because that was a great episode.

1:18.1

She talks about this batch, but her own personal story was amazing, and I hope you get to listen

1:22.7

to that. But episode 232 is with someone I just met, I feel like we're like bonding already and I truly

1:29.3

enjoy everything we talked about. I think that's the longest pre-interview I've ever done and

1:34.7

I think if we could have done it another hour we would have and now that's a good thing right

1:39.2

but I want to say hi to Douglas Wyman. Welcome to resilience, development, and action.

1:47.0

You know, like, I feel like I'm getting to be your friend already, and I appreciate that.

1:52.2

But I don't think that the audience might necessarily know who you are.

1:55.4

So if you want to tell them a little bit about who you are, that would be great.

1:58.1

Great.

1:58.4

So, again, my name is Doug Wyman, and I served 32

2:02.4

years in the state of New Hampshire as a police officer. I retired in 2020 as the chief of

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