Self-Improvement Episodes

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Peter Cachia Host: Travis McGaha Podcast: All Clear Firefighter Wellness Podcast Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the fire service continues to live with the lessons of that day. In this powerful conversation, retired FDNY firefighter Peter Cacia takes us back to September 11—from hearing the first radio transmission to arriving at the World Trade Center, witnessing the collapse of the South Tower, and ultimately being buried beneath the debris. Peter descri...

In this episode of the All Clear Firefighter Wellness Podcast, Travis talks with Ashley Dillard, a retired firefighter-paramedic who now works in mental health with first responders, military personnel, and their spouses. Ashley brings both fire-service experience and clinical experience to a conversation about changing the way firefighters think about therapy, mental health, peer support, and personal wellness. Mental health as maintenance Ashley challenges the old image of therapy as simply si...