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Tailboard Talks Firefighter Podcast — 214 episodes
Big City Big Problems, Chicago FD, Confessions, Good Chiefs.
Morale Comes From the Middle
Tailboard Confessions and Cranky Co-workers
Frontline Optics and Why We Don't Like the CPAT
Firefighter Performance with Dr Daniel Higuera
Special FDIC Edition with Stephanie White and Jon Vought
Women Only Fire Conferences Have a Problem
FEMA and NFA Issues, Chat GPT suggestions for Firefighter Sleep
Firefighter diets, GLP-1s, and how Nutrition tanked my gravel race
What Makes a Good Leader?
A Better Way to Workout in Gear
What Doesn't Cause Cancer These Days?
A toast to keeping it simple in 2025
Ultimate Last Minute Budget Firefighter Gift Guide
Introducing, Beyond The Headlines with Chris and Angie
Nobody Can Ruin This Job For You, If You Don't Let Them
Squat Ones Episode 1
Should You Workout When Feeling Sick?
Firefighters Have to Lead in the Station to Lead in the Streets
Firefighters Need a Long List of Good to Offset the Bad
Firefighters Love a Challenge and Hate a Threat
Stephanie White Literally Wrote the Manual on Navigating Pregnancy in Firefighting
Suffering Is Not a Prerequisite
4 Ways to Improve your HOT Drills
Tips For Teaching New Firefighters
The Job is Great, It's The Other Stuff That's Not.
Evolve or Fade Away. The Show Goes On.
Robots vs Firefighters with CoHost Nathan
Fix Your Back Pain With One Small Step
I Broke A Rule and Now I'm Paying For It.
New Firefighter Career Path Planning w/ Curt (race week repost)
Your Fitness is Not Your Fire Departments Responsibility
Things Get Weird Around Promotional Testing Season
Your flexibility is bad but your mobility is probably worse
Firefighter Fitness Fails
Firefighters, be Calculated at Tactics and Aggressive at Tasks
Is it Ok to Criticize your Fire Department?
Firefighters have about 10 feet of influence
FF Career Advice from the Garage Floor
The Fire Service Needs Mentors More Than Ever
Firefighters and Hangovers
Firefighters, Diversify Your Happiness
Firefighters, This Paramedic Can Teach Us Some Things
Firefighters, It's Easy to Get Stuck in the Stuff.
Raina, @shift.work.dietician understands the firefighter struggle
Firefighter Strength Standards w/ Curt
Rescue 1 CBD is Still Changing the Game For Firefighters
How to Influence Change in Your Department w/ Curt
Maintain 3 Points of Contact on the Firefighter Wellness Ladder, Revisited
Avoid Burnout and Compassion Fatigue by Finding Your Thing.
Think Small For Big Results
Better Policies for Women Means Better Policies for All
Exectile Dysfunciton
In-house Training vs Outside Certs
The Best Advice You've Gotten
Is Seniority Really the Problem?
The Earth is Slow, but the Firefighter is NOT patient
Flex on your crew, not the public
Yes, good job, now zip up your boots
If you have to tell the world you're an Alpha, you're not.
You Stayin' Out of Trouble?
New Firefighter Career Path Planning with Curt
Firefighter Accountability Equals Freedom
Let's Light This Dumpster!
The Grinch was a Firefighter
A Firefighter Christmas Carol
Curt's New Baby, FMLA, Firefighter Xmas gifts
So, What's the Worst Thing You've Ever Seen?
Firefighters, It's Grazing Season (The most wonderful time of the year)
PTSDecember with Captain Matt Spaid
Firefighters, it's ok to care
More Firefighter Happiness, Less Firefighter Heart Attacks
Firefighter Leadership and Conflict
Keys to the Gatekeepers
Mandatory Fitness Assessment, So What?
Taylor Goodman: Mentors Ruin Imposters
Just Eat the Pizza
Highland Park Parade Incident Breakdown w/ BC Jeff Marusich
4th Shift Firefighter Daily DOSE
Stephanie White: Better Policies for Women= Better Policies For All
The Illusory Truth Effect and Firefighters
Having One Of Those Days?
Unexpected Positives Of The Fire Service
The Cost Of Nothing
Know It All vs Do Nothing
You Screwed Up, Now What?
127: Firefighters Are Not Tactical Athletes, w/ Vanessa Frost
126: Is The Fire Service Lacking Manliness?
The Only Ship Worth a Hoot: Relationship
Heroes Get Remembered But Mentors Never Die
Ep 123: The Job Changed Me
Ep 122: The 14-ish and My Relationship With Alcohol
Firefighter Fitness Industry Secrets
Big, Weak, and Undisciplined w/ Chris and Curt
Our Kids Bring Out The Worst In Us.
Firefighters Are Just Squirrels in a Grocery Store
Wednesdays with Katie
Your Childhood Made You The First Responder You Are Today, w/ Molly Jones
Tim Sears Walked a 44 Year Path to Stronger Families
Emotion Wheels and All The Feels
Karl Karch Had to Nearly Die, To Start Living
Christy Lister is Going Beyond The 1st Response
You Can't Like Everyone
3 Ways to Make Your Training Work
The Episode That Shouldn't Have Been
Katie Should Have Her Own Show
@EmergencyResilience Wants to Prepare You For The Inevitable
AFFI Health and Safety Conference After Action Report
Should You Exercise When You're Sick?
Solo Parent vs Absent Parent w/ Katie
Be The Firefighter You Know You Are.
Your Diet is Making You Fat w/ Curt Hanson
You Can Lead A Firefighter to Thoughts, But You Can’t Make Them Think
Firefighter Fertility, Pregnancy, and Policy Issues w/ Megan Frillman
2023: Make Fitness Simple Again
I have a problem with gratitude
Uncomfortable Conversations Replay
Matt Mangum: Be Known as The Hardest Worker in The Room
We're going deep, not wide.
Joe Galli is running for AFFI Dist 4 VP part 2
Joe Galli is back! DVP run part 1.
Kate Fosters first fire, and being a female firefigher.
Rescue 1 CBD is Changing The Game
The Circle of Trust
Halloween Spooktacular With Curt
Rising Above My PTSD, Matt Spaid First Appearance Reissue
Matt Spaid is back and he's taking over
We're Trying Our Best. Conversations With Katie.
Combating Bad Fitness Advice For Firefighters
Promotional Testing Season w/ Patrick Rasmussen
Joe Galli is making a difference for Illinois Firefighters
Molly Jones is here for firefighters
Tailboard Talks Firefighter Podcast Premiere
Dr. Creatine AKA Dr Scott Forbes
Listener Questions w/ Curt
Have you been influenced?
Austin Womack has heard your dad jokes.
Listener Questions Lightening Round w/ Curt
Kat Pope, @Forensics_Found, is the last responder you need to know.
An unadvertised pillar of the fire service: The Sunk Cost Fallacy.
I was a jerk on a camping trip, now Katie gets to talk about it.
Gym Etiquette
Couch+Wine+Katie
Returning to Work After Injury
Fitness After Fatherhood
2 App Floor Workouts
Officers, Lead The Conversation
Uncomfortable Conversations
Fitness Footwear (Not Vans)
FD Weightroom Equipment Dump
2 Free Workouts w/ Curt
2022 S4C Finale: FITNESS
MINDFULNESS, S4C 2022 with Annette Zapp
NUTRITION, S4C 2022 With Annette Zapp
SLEEP, Spring 4 Change week 2
Spring 4 Change Kick Off with Annette Zapp
How to Build Workouts W/ Curt
How Important Is Deadliftng, Really?
The False Dilemma. Either/Or Thinking.
Managing Expectation vs Reality
Firefighter Pocket Dump
Fitness FRAUDS
Intermittent Solo Parenting With Katie
Un-Scientific Review of Scientific Study: Fatigue
On Shift Workouts With Curt
Co-Host Katie Continued
IG Questions With Katie
Your Questions, Our Answers
Different Date, Same You.
Crew Gifts, Donuts, Fritters, YouTube Videos
Working Out on Vacation: Needed or Overrated?
Holiday Eating, Food Shame, Jeremy Shockey, Horses, Bubbles, Brain Stuff.
Devote December Launch Party! Feat Annette Zapp
No Place Like Home For The Holidays
Home Gym Essentials by Chris and Curt
Devote December 2021 Preview
3 Gaps in Your Training- Chris and Curt
The Morning After, With Co-Host Katie
Mobility for Firefighting
Top Ten Bodyweight Movements
Why We Left CrossFit
Co-Host Curt Hanson
A Real Take on Firefighter Fitness, Just Don't Be The Weak Link
Warm Ups And Movement Prep For Fire And EMS
Mobility, Stability, Flexibility
6 Keys to Better Coaches
One Year of Tailboard Talk
Katie Questions: Intermittent Fasting
Whoop, there it isn't
Compensations, Questions, Tantrums
You Can and Should, Squat.
Failure is Always an Option
My EAP Experience
Advice for Imposters, Nate Palin and Hunter Schurrer Takeover
DUTY TRADE: Annette Zapp, Why your fire department does not need a 'fitness' program.
What to Look For in A Coach
Grip Strength is the X Factor
Ryan Mains is Run(ning) For Our Lives
Your Topics and Hot Takes
The Vaccine Episode
The Most Misunderstood Supplement: Creatine IS For Firefighters!
Be Known As... Interview with Matt Mangum
2020 Wrap Up! DABDA
Rising Above My PTSD Part 2, Matt Spaid
Rising Above My PTSD, Matt Spaid
Ep 9: Interview with Kelsey Wittmann
Ep 8: COVID + Update, Incentivized Fitness Program Update, #DevoteDecember Replay
Annette Zapp, Tiny Habits, #DevoteDecember Warm Up
Ep 6: Interview with Dr. Brigitta Ziemba, ND @dr_brigitta_nd
Ep 5: You Should Be Using Submaximal Training!
Ep 4: Interview with Aaron Quinn @Live.Serve.Thrive
Ep 3: FD Incentivized Fitness Programs, Devote December, Spring 4 Change
Episode 2: Are Fitness Trackers for First Responders? A Whoop Review
Episode 1: A re-introduction to Chris, 4th Shift Fitness, and Tailboard Talk