Life, Leadership, and Leaps of Faith

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 11K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Returning to the Flames: A 40-year-old husband and father recounts his journey from being a wildland firefighter to working in the non-profit sector, and now, the opportunity to return to his fire-fighting roots. He seeks advice on effective leadership styles, particularly when leading volunteers in high-stress environments. How do you inspire and guide a team with no formal obligation to follow?

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0:15.0	Well, hello everybody. We're back. Regularly scheduled programming this Friday. Before I get into it, yeah I know. I look like shit. I've lost a ton of weight. It's almost like they cut me open and pulled all my intestines out and now I can't do shit and I can't eat very much. So yeah, everybody's telling me that I already know I'm going to come back better, I'm not sure how, I'm going to be
0:18.9	stronger, I don't know, but it's going to be okay and we're still here for our
0:22.0	regular schedule programming. So let's just to be okay and we're still here for our regular scheduled programming.
0:23.0	So let's just get into it and leave all that other shit for what it actually is.
0:28.0	Three questions today, very different topics, away we go. Okay, got the wave smoke.
0:34.0	Son runs, north and south, west of the smoke.
0:40.0	Okay, copy, west of the smoke.
0:42.0	I'm looking at danger close now.
0:44.4	I'm on one of them, to give it to me, I need it.
0:47.0	You're clean hot.
0:48.0	Cap' be clear hot.
0:50.0	All right everybody, I'm going to try to keep this as short and sweet as possible because it is Friday
0:54.7	Which means the next day is or Saturday and Sunday which should be hopefully your day off so let's get you into your day off maybe with a little bit of food for thought.
1:03.0	Email number one. I'm a 40 year old husband and father.
1:06.6	Years ago I worked as a wild and firefighter on a shot crew, which is a type one crew.
1:10.9	I don't know what that is.
1:12.1	With some of the best friends you could ask for.
1:14.3	I left that occupation and the state to marry my wife.
1:18.3	Against all my teenage thoughts, I now live in the same town where I grew up.
1:21.9	I tried to put wild and fire behind me and found a meaningful job in the non-profit sector.
1:27.0	Fast forward, 14 years.
1:29.4	And I have the opportunity to go back into Wild and Fire locally. The family is on board and I'm pumped. That's
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