March 5, 2025 • 15 mins
In this engaging episode focused on mental health and resilience, we reflect on the evolution of our podcast as we shift towards the theme of "Finding Your Way: Resilience Development in Action." Therapy plays a crucial role in not only individual growth but also in creating strong support systems for professionals—particularly first responders who encounter daily challenges that others may not understand. Join me as I share my personal journey and insights on how therapy can demystify the path towards mental wellness.
Our conversation delves into why mental health must be treated with the same importance as physical health, and I'm passionate about advocating for regular check-ins and open dialogues. With over two decades of experience working closely with first responders, I strike a balance between discussing their unique challenges and conveying the importance of resilience in cultivating coping strategies.
As we explore these pivotal subjects, I invite the community to engage with us, share stories, and provide feedback on future topics. The purpose of this episode is to spark conversations that lead to real change in life perspectives, routines, and understanding towards mental health and therapy. Subscribe to our podcast for more enlightening discussions, and enjoy a journey towards improved mental wellness!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi and welcome to Finding your Way Through Therapy
.
A proud member of thePsychCraft Network, the goal of
this podcast is to demystifytherapy, what can happen in
therapy and the wide array ofconversations you can have in
and about therapy Throughpersonal experiences.
Guests will talk about therapy,their experiences with it and
(00:24):
how psychology and therapy arepresent in many places in their
lives, with lots of authenticityand a touch of humor.
Here is your host, steve Bisson.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
GetFreeai.
Yes, you've heard me talk aboutit previously in other episodes,
but I'm going to talk about itagain because GetFreeai is just
a great service.
Imagine being able to payattention to your clients all
the time, instead of writingnotes and making sure that the
note's going to sound good, andhow are you going to write that
note and things like that.
Notes, and making sure that thenote's going to sound good, and
(01:05):
how are you going to write thatnote and things like that?
Getfreeai liberates you frommaking sure that you're writing
what the client is saying,because it is keeping track of
what you're saying and willcreate, after the end of every
session, a progress note.
But it goes above and beyondthat.
Not only does it create aprogress note, it also gives you
suggestions for goals, givesyou even a mental status if
(01:26):
you've asked questions aroundthat, as well as being able to
write a letter for your clientto know what you talked about.
So that's the great, greatthing.
It saves me time, it saves me alot of aggravation and it just
speeds up the progress noteprocess so well, and for $99 a
month.
I know that that's nothing.
(01:48):
That's worth my time.
That's worth my money.
You know the best part of it,too, is that if you want to go
and put in the code Steve50 whenyou get the service at the
checkout, code is Steve50, youget $50 off your first month and
if you get a whole year, yousave a whole 10% for the whole
year.
So again, steve50 at checkoutfor getfreeai will give you $50
(02:13):
off for the first month and,like I said, get a full year,
get 10% off, get free fromwriting notes, get free from
always scribbling while you'retalking to a client and just
paying attention to your client.
So they win out, you win out,everybody wins, and I think that
this is the greatest thing.
And if you're up to a pointwhere you got to change a
treatment plan, well, the goalsare generated for you.
(02:34):
So, getfreeai code Steve50 tosave $50 on your first month.
Alors, re-bienvenue à notrenouveau début.
Welcome back to our newbeginnings.
My name is Steve.
This is episode 194 of Findingyour Way Resilience, development
(02:56):
and Action.
Yes, that's the new name I'vebeen dropping, as someone else
told me.
One of your listeners said oh,you've been dropping Easter eggs
, so I guess there were Eastereggs across there.
It talked about resiliency,development and action, and so
that's going to be the new namein about a month and a half a
month around there, but rightnow we're going to transition
from finding your way to findingyour way resilience,
(03:17):
development and action.
If you haven't listened toepisode 193, go back and listen
to Lisa Manka with specialco-host Courtney Romanowski.
It Go back and listen to LisaManka with special co-host
Courtney Romanowski.
It was a great interview Talkabout dance movement and I hope
you enjoy it.
So, as we go along here, Iwanted to talk a little bit
about the rebranding, becausethat's important for you guys to
know what my thought processwas.
So when I started Finding yourWay Through Therapy, obviously
(03:39):
go listen to episode zero andone and my God, do I sound
different than I sound today.
In episode zero and one and myGod, do I sound different than I
sound today there was a lot ofnervousness, a lot of
unhappiness, like notunhappiness, but you know you're
not sure of yourself.
I don't know if I'm more surenowadays, but I sound more
confident, which probably isreflected.
But when I started Finding yourWay Through Therapy podcast, it
(04:00):
was really about from my bookand someone said talk about
therapy.
And I really wanted to talkabout therapy because I think I
wanted to demystify therapy,which is part of the intro right
, if you go listen to it, that'swhat it said.
And so the journey for the lastthree and a half years has been
wonderful, went from limiteddownloads to right now I'm
(04:21):
looking at a little more thanabout 300 downloads per episode,
which is a fantastic growth,and I want to continue growing.
And some people don't talk aboutthe numbers.
I really don't care.
I want my numbers to be higherfor the record, so I'll share
this with everyone.
But I grew it and how I grew itwas talking about therapy in
general talking about sometechniques, talking to different
(04:41):
people that I enjoy talkingabout some techniques, talking
to different people that I enjoy.
One of the things I developedduring that course of time not
only did I have more listeners,I also saw what I really enjoyed
.
I enjoy doing therapy.
Obviously I enjoy talking abouttherapy.
And for those who have reachedout to me and said you really
made me less scared of therapy,thank you, appreciate it, but I
(05:02):
think I've evolved.
Thank you, appreciate it, but Ithink I've evolved, and the
reason why the evolution hascome up to that is I think
resilience is particularly oneof my favorite things to talk
about, as I've worked withtrauma for 25 years give or take
between the crisis team and mylicensure, my master's level
stuff and the other jobs I'vedone, as you've heard on the
(05:24):
show licensure my master's levelstuff and the other jobs I've
done, as you've heard on theshow, whether it's the crisis
team, jails, police, what haveyou.
I really enjoyed working withgrief and trauma because it's
something that's near and closeto me.
Some of you again have heardthe show when I was 12, lost my
best friend in a fire and I feltvery alone for a long time and
I never want people to feelalone.
(05:45):
So that's why when there'strauma and grief, it's
particularly something I enjoy,so to speak, which sounds weird,
but I hope you understand thespirit of it really helping
people getting there.
And then the resiliency todevelop those strategies,
develop how you can be moreresilient in regards to all this
, and which leads me to theother couple of focuses that I
(06:07):
really want to do with thispodcast.
The first one is firstresponders.
As you clearly have said,you've seen in the beginning of
this year, I really focus mostlyon first responder trauma and
grief, and the reason why is Ireally have this passion to work
with first responders?
Why I like to think that I'mtrying to make mental health as
important as physical health forthem, trying to make mental
(06:28):
health as important as physicalhealth for them.
And not all therapists want totake their guns away, want to
keep them from their job andwhatever other preconceived
notions they have.
But I really work with my firstresponders, I think, because I
feel closer to them, and what Imean by that is you know, you've
got to be quite a professionalto get there.
I know people like oh, they'renot the most educated people in
the world.
I've heard that before fromfirst responders.
By the way, this is not thegeneral pop, but they're very
(06:51):
smart and I respect that.
Just like you know, I mighthave a master's.
I don't consider myself supersmart, but I have some logic and
I'm myself, and I think one ofthe things that first responders
are kind of known for most ofthe time is that you know
outside of, maybe, the hardstuff that you, you know when
they happen during the job, theyare themselves, they, they just
(07:12):
learn how to do that and Ireally enjoy working with them
because of that, just like oneof the other things that we'll
see the develop across thecourse of this podcast is what
they consider.
I don't even know what to callthem I hate these words, but I
guess it's the corporate world.
So the C-suite people.
And why do I work with peoplewho are from the C-suite?
I really think that they'revery close to the first
(07:34):
responder.
They're used to having peoplebeing polite, or they've been
polite and they've grown, butthey also have a lot of their
own stuff that's really hard totalk about, including mental
health and working on that.
A lot of them need coaching andI do coaching, obviously, which
is part of why I want torebrand a little bit and talk
about my company.
But I also think that people inthe C-suite world they have the
same problems that most of usdo.
(07:54):
We just don't recognize it andthey do have some self-doubt,
they have some resiliency issuesand it's really building those
things up so they can be evenmore successful in their lives,
and that's why I really want towork with them and the trauma
survivors as well as the firstresponders.
I've worked 20 years in thefirst responder world, plus
actually right If you count mycrisis clinician years.
(08:18):
Our crisis triage was 1999 whenI started there.
We're in 2025, so 26 years.
I really enjoy it.
Has it been hard sometimes?
Yeah, I want to make sure thatpeople know it's hard, but that
being hard doesn't mean I reallyenjoy it.
Has it been hard sometimes?
Yeah, I want to make sure thatpeople know it's hard, but that
being hard doesn't mean youdon't enjoy it, and I truly do
enjoy it and that's why I thinkit's going to go towards that in
(08:38):
the first responder world andthere is the words resilience,
development and action is prettyself-explanatory to me.
We need to develop resiliencewhen we're first responders.
When we grow in a corporateworld, more and more people,
especially with bigger companies, they're not happy with the
higher ups.
So you got to create someresilience there and I'm going
to commit to the same corevalues being authentic, being
(08:59):
myself, honest, real change iswhat my motto was when I first
started in my private practice.
It hasn't changed.
I don't use those words anymore, but it certainly hasn't
changed.
That's who I am, and I'mcommitted to make mental health
a part of day-to-day life, andwhat I mean by that is I want
mental health to be seen likephysical health, and if you
(09:20):
don't need it every week orevery day, or every month or
every three months, whatever.
That's great.
Once a year, though, go do yourmental health check, and I
still commit to mental healthbeing as important as physical
health.
That won't change for me, but Iwant to give you practical
resilience strategies, and whatI mean by that is I want to talk
about real stuff that you canput in place in your life in
(09:41):
order to move your life in theright direction or direction you
want to go.
So let's you know, hopefullyI'm going to have some guests
that talk about that.
I'm going to talk about it.
I'm going to talk about thosedifferent parts of their lives.
You know, I'm going to have afew people who talk about their
trauma, and it's not alwaysgoing to be trauma first
responders.
It's not always going to begrief first responders, and
(10:03):
certainly won't be C-suitetrauma and first responders and
everything, but I will make surethat the resiliency development
will be part of pretty much notpretty much.
They will be part of everyepisode that we do.
So that's why we're going.
So what do you think?
One of the things I really wantyou to tell me is do you think
this is a good idea for me tochange, is it not a good idea?
(10:24):
And if you're watching onYouTube, should I be wearing my
Montreal Canadiens hat?
I know I'm in the old studioagain still working out the
kinks and, frankly, my timemanagement has been terrible in
the last few weeks, so this iswhy we're doing it from this
studio again, a lot easier forme to go to than the other
studio.
But please, you know, let meknow what you think you can do
(10:44):
it through here.
There's, you know, if you go toany of the main platforms
whether it's Spotify, applepodcasts you can go and there's
a button that says, uh, contactme, or something like that, and
that's going to contact medirectly.
So please, give me feedback asto what you think about this.
Is it good, is it bad?
Did I did not explain itproperly?
Let me know.
Am I still reaching too big?
(11:04):
Tell me too big.
Tell me, I want to hear aboutit.
You don't have that.
Go to my social media handlesInstagram and X and, I believe,
TikTok.
I'm under real Steve Bisson,r-e-a-l, steve B-I-S-S-O-N, so
you can go check me out andwrite a DM there too if you want
to.
That would be great to hearfrom you and then on Facebook
(11:25):
it's Steve Bissau Services andthat's because they got me under
podcaster.
They have me under therapistauthor, so that all things I've
done, obviously, but you can gothere and obviously I want to
continue to promote the things Iwant.
So when you're going to hear mepromote, for example, how much
I've promoted freeai, I reallyuse that service.
(11:46):
You've heard me talk aboutfreeai.
I really use that service.
I use it every time I dotherapy, and the reason why?
Well, again, with client'sconsent, of course, but it's so
helpful in so many ways.
It helped me write my notes soI can concentrate on my client.
It helps me with goals when Ineed to set goals.
It even creates a letter if Ineed to send it.
But freeai is a great partnerand will that continue?
(12:10):
Because we're going more forresilience, development and
action?
Probably because I really likethem a lot.
But am I going to be lookingfor other sponsors or people who
can do affiliate programs?
Of course, and I'm actuallyactively looking for those and,
but I'm freeai.
I hope that partnership neverdies.
I really enjoyed talking tothem.
And so what's coming up?
(12:31):
We're going to talk abouttrauma.
I'm going to talk aboutrecovery.
We're going to talk about grief.
I definitely will have moresolo episodes where I talk about
my own stuff.
You guys know, know I'm workingon a book on uh first
responders, and it's not onlyfor a therapist.
You go see my, my one hour cuclass for nbcc and licensed
(12:51):
mental health counselors.
You can go check that out.
Did that with the fabulous lisamustard.
But I'm also writing a book onhow first responders think about
mental health and for them tokind of like.
They ask me all the questionswell, what does you know?
One of the common questions isam I going to be hospitalized to
go to therapy?
I'm going to save you theanswer, although for some of you
you already know the answer butultimately I want to be able to
(13:15):
also, kind of like, continuebeing more of a brand, which is,
I know you know, taboo to aboutit.
But I really think that I'vemoved to a point in my life
where I want to do more teaching.
I want to be doing morecoaching.
I want to be able to be helppeople.
It's not I'm getting away fromtherapy whatsoever, but I just
want to move to that and have acouple of ideas that I'll
(13:36):
probably talk on this podcasthere and there that I will put
in place eventually.
But, you know, ultimately Iwant to know more about what you
think I should evolve to what Ishouldn't do, what I should do.
Um doesn't mean I'll follow it,but I certainly respect people's
opinions.
So, yeah, just write back to meon the platforms, or even on uh
.
Just respond to this on themajor platforms, so it's a
(13:59):
Spotify and uhs, among others.
Go to YouTube.
Write back to me.
There's a direct message.
You can reply also directly inthe comments.
So please do that.
And then I told you about myInstagram, facebook, twitter,
instagram, twitter X, I'm sorryas well as TikTok.
So a couple of things.
We're going to keep on havingthe mental men on.
(14:20):
I don't know what we're goingto talk about, but mental men
aren't going anywhere.
And then you know, next episodeI'm going to have Jennifer
Schrapp I hope I'm pronouncingthat right and we're going to
talk a lot about trauma,personal loss and grief, as well
as where she's at in her careerand how we can, you know, help
ourselves get there too.
So I hope you join me, thenhelp ourselves get there too, so
(14:41):
I hope you join me then.
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Hi and welcome to Finding your Way Through Therapy
.
A proud member of thePsychCraft Network, the goal of
this podcast is to demystifytherapy, what can happen in
therapy and the wide array ofconversations you can have in
and about therapy Throughpersonal experiences.
Guests will talk about therapy,their experiences with it and
(00:24):
how psychology and therapy arepresent in many places in their
lives, with lots of authenticityand a touch of humor.
Here is your host, steve Bisson.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
GetFreeai.
Yes, you've heard me talk aboutit previously in other episodes,
but I'm going to talk about itagain because GetFreeai is just
a great service.
Imagine being able to payattention to your clients all
the time, instead of writingnotes and making sure that the
note's going to sound good, andhow are you going to write that
note and things like that.
Notes, and making sure that thenote's going to sound good, and
(01:05):
how are you going to write thatnote and things like that?
Getfreeai liberates you frommaking sure that you're writing
what the client is saying,because it is keeping track of
what you're saying and willcreate, after the end of every
session, a progress note.
But it goes above and beyondthat.
Not only does it create aprogress note, it also gives you
suggestions for goals, givesyou even a mental status if
(01:26):
you've asked questions aroundthat, as well as being able to
write a letter for your clientto know what you talked about.
So that's the great, greatthing.
It saves me time, it saves me alot of aggravation and it just
speeds up the progress noteprocess so well, and for $99 a
month.
I know that that's nothing.
(01:48):
That's worth my time.
That's worth my money.
You know the best part of it,too, is that if you want to go
and put in the code Steve50 whenyou get the service at the
checkout, code is Steve50, youget $50 off your first month and
if you get a whole year, yousave a whole 10% for the whole
year.
So again, steve50 at checkoutfor getfreeai will give you $50
(02:13):
off for the first month and,like I said, get a full year,
get 10% off, get free fromwriting notes, get free from
always scribbling while you'retalking to a client and just
paying attention to your client.
So they win out, you win out,everybody wins, and I think that
this is the greatest thing.
And if you're up to a pointwhere you got to change a
treatment plan, well, the goalsare generated for you.
(02:34):
So, getfreeai code Steve50 tosave $50 on your first month.
Alors, re-bienvenue à notrenouveau début.
Welcome back to our newbeginnings.
My name is Steve.
This is episode 194 of Findingyour Way Resilience, development
(02:56):
and Action.
Yes, that's the new name I'vebeen dropping, as someone else
told me.
One of your listeners said oh,you've been dropping Easter eggs
, so I guess there were Eastereggs across there.
It talked about resiliency,development and action, and so
that's going to be the new namein about a month and a half a
month around there, but rightnow we're going to transition
from finding your way to findingyour way resilience,
(03:17):
development and action.
If you haven't listened toepisode 193, go back and listen
to Lisa Manka with specialco-host Courtney Romanowski.
It Go back and listen to LisaManka with special co-host
Courtney Romanowski.
It was a great interview Talkabout dance movement and I hope
you enjoy it.
So, as we go along here, Iwanted to talk a little bit
about the rebranding, becausethat's important for you guys to
know what my thought processwas.
So when I started Finding yourWay Through Therapy, obviously
(03:39):
go listen to episode zero andone and my God, do I sound
different than I sound today.
In episode zero and one and myGod, do I sound different than I
sound today there was a lot ofnervousness, a lot of
unhappiness, like notunhappiness, but you know you're
not sure of yourself.
I don't know if I'm more surenowadays, but I sound more
confident, which probably isreflected.
But when I started Finding yourWay Through Therapy podcast, it
(04:00):
was really about from my bookand someone said talk about
therapy.
And I really wanted to talkabout therapy because I think I
wanted to demystify therapy,which is part of the intro right
, if you go listen to it, that'swhat it said.
And so the journey for the lastthree and a half years has been
wonderful, went from limiteddownloads to right now I'm
(04:21):
looking at a little more thanabout 300 downloads per episode,
which is a fantastic growth,and I want to continue growing.
And some people don't talk aboutthe numbers.
I really don't care.
I want my numbers to be higherfor the record, so I'll share
this with everyone.
But I grew it and how I grew itwas talking about therapy in
general talking about sometechniques, talking to different
(04:41):
people that I enjoy talkingabout some techniques, talking
to different people that I enjoy.
One of the things I developedduring that course of time not
only did I have more listeners,I also saw what I really enjoyed
.
I enjoy doing therapy.
Obviously I enjoy talking abouttherapy.
And for those who have reachedout to me and said you really
made me less scared of therapy,thank you, appreciate it, but I
(05:02):
think I've evolved.
Thank you, appreciate it, but Ithink I've evolved, and the
reason why the evolution hascome up to that is I think
resilience is particularly oneof my favorite things to talk
about, as I've worked withtrauma for 25 years give or take
between the crisis team and mylicensure, my master's level
stuff and the other jobs I'vedone, as you've heard on the
(05:24):
show licensure my master's levelstuff and the other jobs I've
done, as you've heard on theshow, whether it's the crisis
team, jails, police, what haveyou.
I really enjoyed working withgrief and trauma because it's
something that's near and closeto me.
Some of you again have heardthe show when I was 12, lost my
best friend in a fire and I feltvery alone for a long time and
I never want people to feelalone.
(05:45):
So that's why when there'strauma and grief, it's
particularly something I enjoy,so to speak, which sounds weird,
but I hope you understand thespirit of it really helping
people getting there.
And then the resiliency todevelop those strategies,
develop how you can be moreresilient in regards to all this
, and which leads me to theother couple of focuses that I
(06:07):
really want to do with thispodcast.
The first one is firstresponders.
As you clearly have said,you've seen in the beginning of
this year, I really focus mostlyon first responder trauma and
grief, and the reason why is Ireally have this passion to work
with first responders?
Why I like to think that I'mtrying to make mental health as
important as physical health forthem, trying to make mental
(06:28):
health as important as physicalhealth for them.
And not all therapists want totake their guns away, want to
keep them from their job andwhatever other preconceived
notions they have.
But I really work with my firstresponders, I think, because I
feel closer to them, and what Imean by that is you know, you've
got to be quite a professionalto get there.
I know people like oh, they'renot the most educated people in
the world.
I've heard that before fromfirst responders.
By the way, this is not thegeneral pop, but they're very
(06:51):
smart and I respect that.
Just like you know, I mighthave a master's.
I don't consider myself supersmart, but I have some logic and
I'm myself, and I think one ofthe things that first responders
are kind of known for most ofthe time is that you know
outside of, maybe, the hardstuff that you, you know when
they happen during the job, theyare themselves, they, they just
(07:12):
learn how to do that and Ireally enjoy working with them
because of that, just like oneof the other things that we'll
see the develop across thecourse of this podcast is what
they consider.
I don't even know what to callthem I hate these words, but I
guess it's the corporate world.
So the C-suite people.
And why do I work with peoplewho are from the C-suite?
I really think that they'revery close to the first
(07:34):
responder.
They're used to having peoplebeing polite, or they've been
polite and they've grown, butthey also have a lot of their
own stuff that's really hard totalk about, including mental
health and working on that.
A lot of them need coaching andI do coaching, obviously, which
is part of why I want torebrand a little bit and talk
about my company.
But I also think that people inthe C-suite world they have the
same problems that most of usdo.
(07:54):
We just don't recognize it andthey do have some self-doubt,
they have some resiliency issuesand it's really building those
things up so they can be evenmore successful in their lives,
and that's why I really want towork with them and the trauma
survivors as well as the firstresponders.
I've worked 20 years in thefirst responder world, plus
actually right If you count mycrisis clinician years.
(08:18):
Our crisis triage was 1999 whenI started there.
We're in 2025, so 26 years.
I really enjoy it.
Has it been hard sometimes?
Yeah, I want to make sure thatpeople know it's hard, but that
being hard doesn't mean I reallyenjoy it.
Has it been hard sometimes?
Yeah, I want to make sure thatpeople know it's hard, but that
being hard doesn't mean youdon't enjoy it, and I truly do
enjoy it and that's why I thinkit's going to go towards that in
(08:38):
the first responder world andthere is the words resilience,
development and action is prettyself-explanatory to me.
We need to develop resiliencewhen we're first responders.
When we grow in a corporateworld, more and more people,
especially with bigger companies, they're not happy with the
higher ups.
So you got to create someresilience there and I'm going
to commit to the same corevalues being authentic, being
(08:59):
myself, honest, real change iswhat my motto was when I first
started in my private practice.
It hasn't changed.
I don't use those words anymore, but it certainly hasn't
changed.
That's who I am, and I'mcommitted to make mental health
a part of day-to-day life, andwhat I mean by that is I want
mental health to be seen likephysical health, and if you
(09:20):
don't need it every week orevery day, or every month or
every three months, whatever.
That's great.
Once a year, though, go do yourmental health check, and I
still commit to mental healthbeing as important as physical
health.
That won't change for me, but Iwant to give you practical
resilience strategies, and whatI mean by that is I want to talk
about real stuff that you canput in place in your life in
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order to move your life in theright direction or direction you
want to go.
So let's you know, hopefullyI'm going to have some guests
that talk about that.
I'm going to talk about it.
I'm going to talk about thosedifferent parts of their lives.
You know, I'm going to have afew people who talk about their
trauma, and it's not alwaysgoing to be trauma first
responders.
It's not always going to begrief first responders, and
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certainly won't be C-suitetrauma and first responders and
everything, but I will make surethat the resiliency development
will be part of pretty much notpretty much.
They will be part of everyepisode that we do.
So that's why we're going.
So what do you think?
One of the things I really wantyou to tell me is do you think
this is a good idea for me tochange, is it not a good idea?
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And if you're watching onYouTube, should I be wearing my
Montreal Canadiens hat?
I know I'm in the old studioagain still working out the
kinks and, frankly, my timemanagement has been terrible in
the last few weeks, so this iswhy we're doing it from this
studio again, a lot easier forme to go to than the other
studio.
But please, you know, let meknow what you think you can do
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it through here.
There's, you know, if you go toany of the main platforms
whether it's Spotify, applepodcasts you can go and there's
a button that says, uh, contactme, or something like that, and
that's going to contact medirectly.
So please, give me feedback asto what you think about this.
Is it good, is it bad?
Did I did not explain itproperly?
Let me know.
Am I still reaching too big?
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Tell me too big.
Tell me, I want to hear aboutit.
You don't have that.
Go to my social media handlesInstagram and X and, I believe,
TikTok.
I'm under real Steve Bisson,r-e-a-l, steve B-I-S-S-O-N, so
you can go check me out andwrite a DM there too if you want
to.
That would be great to hearfrom you and then on Facebook
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it's Steve Bissau Services andthat's because they got me under
podcaster.
They have me under therapistauthor, so that all things I've
done, obviously, but you can gothere and obviously I want to
continue to promote the things Iwant.
So when you're going to hear mepromote, for example, how much
I've promoted freeai, I reallyuse that service.
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You've heard me talk aboutfreeai.
I really use that service.
I use it every time I dotherapy, and the reason why?
Well, again, with client'sconsent, of course, but it's so
helpful in so many ways.
It helped me write my notes soI can concentrate on my client.
It helps me with goals when Ineed to set goals.
It even creates a letter if Ineed to send it.
But freeai is a great partnerand will that continue?
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Because we're going more forresilience, development and
action?
Probably because I really likethem a lot.
But am I going to be lookingfor other sponsors or people who
can do affiliate programs?
Of course, and I'm actuallyactively looking for those and,
but I'm freeai.
I hope that partnership neverdies.
I really enjoyed talking tothem.
And so what's coming up?
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We're going to talk abouttrauma.
I'm going to talk aboutrecovery.
We're going to talk about grief.
I definitely will have moresolo episodes where I talk about
my own stuff.
You guys know, know I'm workingon a book on uh first
responders, and it's not onlyfor a therapist.
You go see my, my one hour cuclass for nbcc and licensed
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mental health counselors.
You can go check that out.
Did that with the fabulous lisamustard.
But I'm also writing a book onhow first responders think about
mental health and for them tokind of like.
They ask me all the questionswell, what does you know?
One of the common questions isam I going to be hospitalized to
go to therapy?
I'm going to save you theanswer, although for some of you
you already know the answer butultimately I want to be able to
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also, kind of like, continuebeing more of a brand, which is,
I know you know, taboo to aboutit.
But I really think that I'vemoved to a point in my life
where I want to do more teaching.
I want to be doing morecoaching.
I want to be able to be helppeople.
It's not I'm getting away fromtherapy whatsoever, but I just
want to move to that and have acouple of ideas that I'll
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probably talk on this podcasthere and there that I will put
in place eventually.
But, you know, ultimately Iwant to know more about what you
think I should evolve to what Ishouldn't do, what I should do.
Um doesn't mean I'll follow it,but I certainly respect people's
opinions.
So, yeah, just write back to meon the platforms, or even on uh
.
Just respond to this on themajor platforms, so it's a
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Spotify and uhs, among others.
Go to YouTube.
Write back to me.
There's a direct message.
You can reply also directly inthe comments.
So please do that.
And then I told you about myInstagram, facebook, twitter,
instagram, twitter X, I'm sorryas well as TikTok.
So a couple of things.
We're going to keep on havingthe mental men on.
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I don't know what we're goingto talk about, but mental men
aren't going anywhere.
And then you know, next episodeI'm going to have Jennifer
Schrapp I hope I'm pronouncingthat right and we're going to
talk a lot about trauma,personal loss and grief, as well
as where she's at in her careerand how we can, you know, help
ourselves get there too.
So I hope you join me, thenhelp ourselves get there too, so
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I hope you join me then.
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