FirefighterToolbox Internet Radio Show
Firefighter Training Podcast - The FirefighterToolbox Podcast and Internet Radio Show is for those firefighters who want to take their firefighting and leadership skills to the next level. We will be interviewing top firefighters, experts and leaders to learn what it takes to be a great firefighter and leader in the fire service.
Episodes
In this episode, David gives us a taste of his new project with Dan Kerrigan & Jim Moss – the Firefighter Functional Fitness book and program.
Here’s what you need to know to start your fitness journey:
- What are the changes and challenges we face off the Fireground?
- How do we develop the habits and disciplines of healthy firefighters?
- What are “career side effects” and what can we do to mitigate them?
- How do we equip ourselves...
In this episode, David and Deputy Chief Frank Viscuso discuss the various challenges leaders face in dealing with their team, and becoming a role model in the fire service and the community.
Defining the 3 Us: Unaware, Unable, Unwilling and a guide to dealing with them.
Social media etiquette and how it reflects on you and your team.
What is the biggest challenge that leaders face? Credibility.
How do you deal with conflict?
The im...
Becoming a great firefighter and leader requires a consistent and sustained effort. You have to instill and implement the HABIT of excellence in your career and your life. In this episode, David breaks it all down for you.
What are the 3 habits of great firefighters and leaders?
- The Habit of Training (often and continuously).
- The Habit of Teaching and Training Others.
- The Habit of Being Prepared.
In this episode, we welcome back Camille Gallinger of Vitality Exchange to help us shed stress and pressure from our lives by taking better care of our bodies with 3 simple changes in our diets.
We discuss:
- What is the most important key to removing stress from our body?
- Why should we eliminate dairy from our diet?
- What are alternatives to everyday dairy products?
- How do we minimize exposure to pesticides/herbicides in our foo...
Welcome to the first episode of Firefighter Toolbox for 2016! In this episode David guides us as we go through this new year and take advantage of this opportunity to get the best out of your firefighting career and life. Stay tuned for what David and the Firefighter Toolbox team has in store for 2016!
Ask yourself:
- What are you grateful for?
- What's great about gratitude?
- What drives you? What do you want to accomplish?
- Where/...
In today’s episode, David Soler and Lt. Jim Moss talk about how being able to do our job on the fire ground hedges on staying motivated to take care of our health.
We discuss:
- What keeps you motivated about firefighter fitness?
- How do you get in to the right mindset?
- What does your workout consist of?
- How do you stay motivated?
- What are some examples of real health risks we face everyday?
- Some tips/ways to keep yourself motiva...
In today’s episode, David Soler shares years of field experience, training, and interviews with great and respected firefighters and thought leaders through his book and audio program, “Firefighter Preplan.” He gives us a glimpse of what it takes to be a great and respected firefighter and how to earn it in the fire service.
David tells us about his book:
- What is Firefighter Preplan about?
- How did the book come about?
- How did ...
In this episode, Camille Gallinger and David Soler discuss firefighter nutrition to help you take care of your body better and become more effective on the fire ground and in life.
We discuss:
- What is the #1 thing we need to know about nutrition?
- What are the side effects of not working to replenish the vitamins/minerals we use up?
- Why do we need to pay attention to building our adrenal glands?
- Why do we need to take better ca...
In this firefighter training episode we had Lt. Jim Moss spend some time with the next generation Halligan bar, the Maxximus Rexx, a tool widely raved about as the new ultimate tool for forcible entry. Jim Moss and David Soler shares their review of the Maxximus Rexx to see if it’s up to the task and if it lives up to its reputation.
In this review we discuss:
- What are our initial impressions of the Maxximus Rexx?
- What are t...
In this firefighter training episode Darren Dake and David Soler talk about the field of fire death investigation, and what we, as firefighters, need to know about how we can h...
In this firefighter training episode, Anita Brooks and David Soler gives us some tools to help others and ourselves through the emotional battles we go through. We learn about secondary traumatic stress, how constantly dealing with death and destruction affects our people in the fire ground, and how we can properly prevent the stress from building up and breaking us down.
We discuss:
- What is Secondary Trauma?
- What do we need t...
In this firefighter training episode Lt. Scott Ebbert and David Soler share with us how firefighters can do their part in helping investigators in dealing with situations at the fire ground.
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In this firefighter training episode Jim Moss and David Soler maximizing your potential and being the best that you can be by pouring in to each other.
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In this firefighter training episode Aaron Zamzow and David Soler share with us why and how members of the fire service should train, eat, and treat our bodies as if we're athletes.
We discuss:
- How vitally important is stretching for firefighters?
- What's the proper way for us to stretch and when do we stretch?
- What are some things we can do to stretch and warm up before we go in to the field?
- How important is hydration?
- How do...
In this Firefighter Training Episode, we have a 15-minute training clinic with Captain Brian Smith about the importance of the primary attack line in having a safe fire ground.
We discuss:
- Why is getting the attack line and service vitally important?
- How can we best get that attack line in service quickly and efficiently?
- Why is training important to having an effective attack line?
In this Firefighter Training Episode, David interviews Chief Les Karpluk, author of “Leadership Prescribed,” about the challenges in fire service leadership and some rules to l...
In this Firefighter Training Episode, David interview’s author and Deputy Chief Frank Viscuso about his book Step Up Your Teamwork.
Item’s discussed:
- Why did he write step up your teamwork ?
- Who can this book help?
- What are the team building stages and how do they relate to the stages of fire?
- The "What about me?" mindset and how it is destructive to teams.
- How the Best ideas have to win for teams to be great.
- The 6 rungs of l...
Chief Bobby Halton, Capt Angela Hughes and David J Soler discuss 2-3 successful traits of leaders as well as successful habits. They also discuss this years FDIC 2015 and iWomen Conference 2015.
- What you can look forward to in this year’s FDIC 2015 Conference and the 2015 iWomen Conference
- Things up and coming leaders should be focusing on this year.
- Developing and cultivating the right habits.
- Qualities of a successful leader...
Firefighter Training Episode 055 of the FirefighterToolbox podcast is about the relationship between a fire department and its community.
Capt. Greg May shares how the Fort Lauderdale City Fire Department had earned the support and admiration of its community by going above and beyond just doing their job.
Greg May Discusses
1. How good community relations can impact your fire department.
2. 4 Ws of building great community relations.
3...
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