E.233 Building Real Mental Health Support For First Responders (Part 1)

Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

Steve Bisson

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

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Send us a text What does it take to build mental health care that first responders actually trust? We sit down with former Revere police officer Joe Rizzuti, whose journey from stacked line-of-duty trauma and alcohol use to peer support leadership strips away the clichés and gets to what works. Joe’s story starts with a tough childhood, a military turnaround, and a policing career shaped by high-stakes cases and a deep love for community. It also includes administrative betrayals, devastating...

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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.
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0:57.9	including work on other passions.
1:02.3	So get freed to do your notes, get freed from doing your goals.
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1:12.7	Well, hi, and welcome to episode 23 of resilience, development, and action.
1:16.1	If you haven't listened to episode 232, it was with Douglas Wyman.
1:26.3	I don't know if you know him, but he's a police chief, correctional staff guy, he's a trainer, he's been in the military, he's got all this experience, so it's really cool.
1:27.9	So I hope you enjoyed that episode. But episode 233 is going to be with Joe Razuti. Joe, Joe and I have been trying to get
1:34.1	in contact for years. Yeah. We've known each other. You know what's funny is I share this story
1:39.8	because I think it's funny. They say the same thing about me, so that's why I like that. I was like, here's Joe's number. He's a little rough around the edges, but you can give him a call. And I'm like, oh, okay, that's not a good presentation. I call you up, and we had a conversation for 30 minutes the first time without even stopping. Yeah. So for me, I always think, like, do people really, like, pay attention?
2:01.9	I wear this a badge of honor.
2:04.3	I grew up in the city of Rivier.
2:05.6	I was a Rivier police officer, one of the greatest police departments.
2:09.2	I think in the country, I've been to a lot in my life.
2:12.5	I got into mental health to help the first responders.
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