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Ep 25: What Stayed With Us – A look at trauma, suicide, and mental health in first responder work
Episode 25 marks the end of Season 1 of The Other Side of the Call. In this episode, Amelia sits down with Rebecca and Kathy Ann to revisit the moments that stayed with them most— pulling together…
Ep 24: Badge, Burden & Breaking: Andrew McLean on the Cost of Policing
Andrew McLean is a former police officer, author of Beaten Black and Blue, and mental health advocate. This conversation is not about a single traumatic call. It is about accumulation. The slow,…
Ep 23: Flames, Fallout, and Finding Himself: Firefighter Rob Leathen on Service, Survival, & Starting Over
In this episode of The Other Side of the Call, In this episode of The Other Side of the Call, we sit down with retired firefighter Rob Leathen for a direct and unfiltered conversation about what the…
Ep 22: Private, Practical, Proven: Accessible Mental Health for First Responders (PSPNet Explained)
Where do first responders actually go for support when they’re not ready, or not willing, to sit across from a therapist? In this resource-focused episode, we sit down with Dr. Heather…
Ep 21: The Weight of the Work: Dispatch, Distress & Recovery (Part 2 of 2)
In part two of this National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week roundtable, the conversation shifts from what dispatch is to what it can do to the people doing it. Featuring dispatchers from…
Ep 20: The Toll of the Tones: Truths of 911 Dispatch (Part 1 of 2)
In recognition of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, this special roundtable brings together dispatchers from police, fire, and paramedic services across Canada and the United States.…
Ep 19: First Responder Families: Separation, Healing & Life After Crisis (part 2 with Parul Shah)
First responder work does not stay at the station, the hall, the hospital, the prison, or the dispatch centre. It comes home. In Part Two of this conversation, psychotherapist and doctoral…
Ep 18: First Responder Families: Stress, Warning Signs & Life at Home (Part 1 with Parul Shah)
First responder work does not stay at the station, the hospital, or the dispatch center. It comes home. In this first part of a two-part conversation, trauma therapist and doctoral candidate Parul…
#17 – North of Normal: Fighting Fire in the Far North (Part 2)
What does it mean to fight fire in a place where everyone knows everyone, resources are stretched, and you may be on call any time you are in town? In Episode 17 of The Other Side of the Call, we…
#16 – North of Normal: Becoming A Northern Firefighting Family
What does firefighting look like in a town where everyone is a volunteer? In Episode 16 of The Other Side of the Call, we travel to Fort Smith in Canada’s Northwest Territories to speak with longtime…
#15 – Hidden in Plain Sight: The Research Behind Military & First Responder Families in Canada
Families connected to military, Veteran, and public safety service carry responsibilities that often go unseen. Shift work, mobility, operational stress, caregiving demands, and identity strain shape…
#14 – The Personal Price: Progress, Prevention, and the OPP
In this episode, we sit down with Jason MacKenzie, the husband of OPP Constable Cindy MacKenzie, who died by suicide while serving. Rather than revisiting institutional failures of the past, this…
#13 – Resilience Reimagined: Lt. Col. Steven Boychyn on Trauma, Training, and the Future of Care
Today we’re at CFB Kingston with Lt. Col. Steve Boychyn of Wounded Warriors Canada. Wounded Warriors Canada offers trauma and resiliency programs across the country. For clarity and length, today…
S1E12 #12 – Mind Over Fire: The Michael Laughlin Story (Part 2)
Michael Laughlin had already fought his way back more than once, but then, a motorcycle accident changed everything again. In Part II of Mind Over Fire, Michael speaks candidly about the aftermath of…
S1E11 #11 – Mind Over Fire: The Michael Laughlin Story
Early in his career, Kingston firefighter Michael Laughlin was seriously injured in a snowmobile accident that threatened not just his physical recovery, but his place in the fire service itself. In…
#10 – Shaun Taylor: Paramedic, Peer, and Purpose – The #IGYB911 Story
Shaun Taylor is a working Ontario paramedic and the co-founder, alongside Jill Foster, of #IGYB911, one of Canada’s most recognizable and trusted grassroots peer support movements for first…
#9 – Hooked on Healing: Mindful Fishing for First Responders with Christine Lapeer
A trauma-informed conversation on stress injuries, nervous-system regulation and the power of nature-based recovery,
#8 – The Night the Sky Turned Orange
As Fire 52 intensified near Hay River in the Northwest Territories, evacuation orders were issued and Highway 2 became a narrow, smoke-filled corridor of stalled vehicles, poor visibility, and…
S1E7 #7 – Processing & Possibility
In Part II of this deep and honest conversation, psychotherapist Brittnee Stewart takes us further inside the world of EMDR, low-dose ketamine work, and trauma integration. If you’ve ever wondered…
S1E6 #6 – Processing and Possibility: Exploring the Promising Future of Psychedelic and EMDR Therapies – with Psychotherapist Brittnee Stewart
When the nervous system holds the story, healing has to start deeper than words. In this episode of The Other Side of the Call, our hosts sit down in studio with Brittnee Stewart, psychotherapist and…
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