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Silverback Leadership
by Across the Street Productions
Silverback Leadership is B-Shifter's deep dive into command-level leadership in the hazard zone and beyond. Rooted in the teachings of Alan Brunacini, this series explores what it means to lead with calm authority, operational competence, and cultural responsibility. This isn’t about rank. It’s about responsibility.
Episodes
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How Leaders Interact and React
This episode features Nick Brunacini, Terry Garrison and John Vance We dig into why reactions make or break leadership, how to de-escalate without dodging accountability, and why the best chiefs manage problems early and at the lowest level. Stories from the fireground and the station show how...
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Bonus: Ask the Chiefs with John Vance
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Perspective Part 2
John Vance, Nick Brunacini, and Terry Garrison explore how fire service leaders can lend perspective to firefighters who possess education but lack experience, focusing on effective leadership approaches that protect firefighters while enabling them to deliver service. We want your helmet (for…
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Perspective Part 1
This episode features Nick Brunacini, Terry Garrison, and John Vance. We want your helmet (for the AVB CTC)! Check this out to find out more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5_ZwoCZo0 Sign up for the B Shifter Buckslip, our free weekly newsletter here:...
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Anatomy & Physiology of Leadership: Ears
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Push Brooms and Leaf Blowers
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The Silverbacks on Perspective (Part 1)
This episode features Nick Brunacini, Terry Garrison, and John Vance. We want your helmet (for the AVB CTC)! Check this out to find out more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg5_ZwoCZo0 Sign up for the B Shifter Buckslip, our free weekly newsletter here:...
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Eight No-Brainer Boss Strategies
This episode features Nick Brunacini, Terry Garrison and John Vance. We want your helmet (for the AVB CTC)! Check this out to find out more: https://youtu.be/-Wb5lA6f1uw Sign up for the B Shifter Buckslip, our free weekly newsletter here: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/fmgs92N/Buckslip…
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Ask The Chiefs; Pretty Good Career Advice
This week, we will be hosting a Q&A session with the chiefs - Terry Garrison, Nick Brunancini, John Vance, and Greg Timinsky, to answer questions submitted by B Shifter listeners. We understand that dealing with a non-progressive fire chief who denies outside training requests can be challenging,...
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Ask The Chiefs - The Lost Episode
Somehow we misplaced this episode, but hallelujah- we found it! That means three more B Shifter's get a t-shirt! We asked for questions for the chiefs and we received some good ones! This episode we discuss the paramilitary structure of fire departments, officers who push back on good radio...
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ATC - Arbitration Overturned Firing & Keeping Passion for the Job!
This is another round of Ask The Chiefs! We asked for questions for the chiefs and we received some good ones! Every question we use will get a Bruno OG IC T-Shirt. This time around we discussed dealing with those who get their jobs back trough arbitration and keeping the passion for our jobs in...
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Ask The Chiefs Part 1
Part 1 of 2 We asked for questions for the chiefs and we received some good ones! Every question we use will get a Bruno OG IC T-Shirt. This episode features Terry Garrison, Nick Brunacini and John Vance. We want your helmet (for the AVB CTC)! Sign up for the B Shifter Buckslip, our free weekly...
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Boss Behaviors - It's About the Work!
Alan Brunacini left a lot of unpublished materials and programs that were in the progress of completion when he passed away. Terry Garrison and Nick Brunacini are putting all of those works together for a leadership program for the fire service using the "Brunacini model" of fire department...
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Leadership Thursday
It's Leadership Thursday so we gathered the chief's around the table to talk about stuff on the strategic level and tell a few light hearted stories too. It like having microphones at a support group for chief officers (and you are invited too!). This week we talk about ballistic protection for...
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Leadership Thursday; Being Nice, Second Chances and a lot of A-holes
We say a-hole in this episode a lot. So much so that instead of heavy editing we embraced it and let our unfiltered selves fly. We cover continuing Bruno's work, retirement, "call fatigue", lessons learned as chiefs, how we should behave, second chances and being nice. Is it nice to call 'em like...
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Building
If you want light hearted (at times) serious fire service leader talk - we have it for you here! This time Nick Brunacini, Pat Dale and John Vance delve in to building a staff as a new Fire Chief. We get "off topic" a lot and may not even answer Nick's opening question at anytime during this...
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Labor
If you want light hearted serious fire service leader talk - we have it here for you! This time Nick Brunacini, Terry Garrison and John Vance delve in to labor relations, particularly the Chief - Union relationship. We hit on some other stuff too. If you like this and don't want to miss an…
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Culture
We are talking culture. How to capture it, improve it and make it authentic. In 2007, Terry Garrison retired from the Phoenix Fire Department after serving more than 30 years. Working for Alan Brunacini and reaching the level of assistant chief of operations helped shape Terry’s consistent…
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Welcome to The Chief's Challenge
In 2007, Terry Garrison retired from the Phoenix Fire Department after serving more than 30 years. Working for Alan Brunacini and reaching the level of assistant chief of operations helped shape Terry’s consistent values: firefighter safety and customer service. After a long weekend of…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Silverback Leadership is B-Shifter's deep dive into command-level leadership in the hazard zone and beyond. Rooted in the teachings of Alan Brunacini, this series explores what it means to lead with calm authority, operational competence, and cultural responsibility.
This isn’t about rank. It’s about responsibility.
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Across the Street Productions
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