Jason Villeggiante and Christina Dizon (Addressing Sleep Deprivation in the Fire Service) - Episode 1001

Behind The Shield

James Geering

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Fitness

4.9 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Jason Villeggiante and Christina Dizon are career firefighters and founders of Tactical Sleep Rescue. We discuss their respective journeys into the fire service, the impact of sleep deprivation on acute and chronic health, yoga, breathwork, the firefighter work week, their programme and so much more.

Christina is the founder of Biohacked Firefighter and the developer of Tactical Sleep Rescue. She has certifications in Sleep Coaching, Health & Wellness Coaching, and is a Yoga Nidra facilitator. Her mission is to provide firefighters and first responders practical, simple, and real life tools to mitigate the negative impacts of shift work and sleep debt, and feel amazing for their personal lives.

Jason Villeggiante is a Firefighter Paramedic with the Los Angeles City Fire Department since 2015. He lives with his wonderful girlfriend, Hayley, and their dog, Dallas. In his spare time he enjoys reading books, exercising, and spending time in nature. He’s a member of the LAFD Peer Support Team, and advocates to improve his departments’ firefighter wellness program.

https://www.tacticalsleeprescue.com/

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1:38.3	323 of the Behind the Shield podcast with Joel Totoro and Wes Barnett. Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. As Titoro and Wes Barnett.
1:49.5	Welcome to the Behind the Shield podcast. As always, my name's James Gearing, and this week it is my absolute honor to welcome on the show, career firefighters and founders of Tactical Sleep
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