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Welcome to another episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today's guest is Lt. Jimmy Gregory from Cobb County Fire. He's a loving husband and father of 6. He's got about 17 years of fire service experience, served in the Army and currently still serves with the Air Force. He's taught at multiple conferences, including FDIC. He's a Georgia Smoke Diver and one the main reasons that I reached out to him was that he is the current Lead Instructor for the Cobb County Recruit Search School.

In all honesty, I was looking forward to this conversation for MANY months and it was genuinely one of the best conversations I've had to this point. The Cobb recruit search program holds a special place in my career development and I owe a lot to it and the people that developed it and maintain it. I hope you enjoy the episode.

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Welcome to the next episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. On today's episode we have Chief David Pruitt. Chief currently holds the position of Chief of Emergency Management and Innovations for the City of Hillsboro Texas. He's been there for 23 years and is clearly passionate about the fire service. He was gracious enough to give me a couple of hours of his time, right before teaching at the LIFT conference. Although he really enjoys talking about acquired structures and training, he's also a master of rabbit holes and we got side tracked pretty often. I'm not sure we ever fully talked about what I thought he would talk about. Regardless, I love his passion. Side note: You will see me look to my left pretty often. I'm making sure my PC or the audio mixer didn't crash. Skippy wasn't able to make it to LIFT to run the boards, so I was nervous we would lose the it. Thank you for listening.

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Welcome to the next episode of the Dragon's Den podcast. Today we have another episode of The Debrief with Shane Murray. Shane only has a couple of years on the job and while working at his part time department, he found himself in a situation where he could make an impact. While fighting a fire, he was given a report of a victim and in a low manpower scenario asked a Chief Officer if he could do a solo search. He searched and with a little help at the end of the recovery, rescued the person. He now joins us to tell his story and see what lessons we can learn from it. Thank you for listening.

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Welcome to the another episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today's guest is Captain Ragan Underwood. He currently serves as a Training Officer for the St. George Fire Department. He is a loving husband and father of 3 children. He's a combat veteran, cadre member with Insight Fire Training, has taught at many conferences, including FDIC, and was involved in a Mayday during a training burn of an acquired structure. We are glad to have Capt. Underwood on the podcast and hope you enjoy it. Side note: This was my first remote podcast and my camera lags from time to time. I'll get the kinks worked out for the next one.

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Welcome back to another episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today's guest is Deputy Chief Mike Dragon. Yes, his real name is Dragon. Chief Dragon popped up in a firefighter fitness page that I run, a couple a years ago. He was contributing his thoughts into the group and you could tell he was deeply committed to fitness. I later found out that his name was actually Dragon, so once the podcast started, I figure it was no brainer to have him into the Dragon's Den. I didn't know much about more about him, but after this conversation, I'm incredibly glad he decided to drive a couple of hours to sit down and talk with us. We did talk about fitness, but we also covered his father, the family the fire service created for him, but most importantly, his own family. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording it.

Welcome to another episode of the Dragon's Den podcast. Today we have with us Tucker Royer, for our 2nd Debrief. On our last episode of the Debrief, I said that I would keep an ear out for any grabs that were made in our area and I'd invite them on to come and talk about their experience, so we can learn. I figured it would be many months before we'd have another one, but it didn't take long. While Tucker was visiting his volunteer department, the tones dropped, preparation met opportunity, and he had a chance to make a difference. We appreciate firefighter Royer coming in to talk about this rescue. It's a very short episode, but we hope you enjoy it. Thanks for listening.

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Welcome to another episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. Today we are joined by Engineer Josh Bourque. Josh is a 2nd generation firefighter, with 11 years of service. He spent almost 10 of those years at the busiest station: Station 2, also known as "Pelican". He recently became a Mississippi Smoke Diver and to my knowledge is the first person in the department, and probably the region, to ever attempt or complete any smoke diver course. We originally planned to have Josh on at a later time, but with this achievement, we decided to move him up on the guest list. We touch on his faith, family, fire service and all things in-between. Josh is a guy that I have looked up to for long time and I was excited to finally get to sit down and have him tell his story. I hope that you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording it.

Today we talked to Chief Ray Landry. Ray joined the Lafayette Fire Department in 1965 and spent 23 years with the department, ultimately retiring as a District Chief. He was with the department during times where there was a lot of change and growth. When trying to document the firefighting history of our area, there aren't too many that are better than Ray. It was pleasure to have him on and tell the stories that he wanted to tell. Some were fun and some were serious. We talked about cooking at the station, training, rescues and station culture and much more. We hope you enjoy the episode. And Yes, we know there's a pop in the audio. We think it's cables the new boom mics. We'll get it sorted out. I promise. Thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy.

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On this episode we speak with an Engine crew from my department that recently made a grab on a house fire. Although this was never the intended purpose of this podcast, I believe there was an opportunity to use this platform as an educational tool and learn from the fireman that recently had a experience that very few of us have an chance at.

As I learn about grabs that we make in our area, I'll try to continue to reach out to those who made them and let them tell their stories so that we can hopefully learn from them.

I hope you enjoy this episode and we'll return to your regularly scheduled program, shortly.

On this episode we talk to 4 retired fireman that combine for over 125 years of service. These 4 guys worked at the same station for several years and Troy Martin was the main inspiration for the stories that I wanted to try and preserve. He's a people person who is 100% positive on the fire service and he was always fun to work with. The cast of characters around him have some fond memories. We know that a lot of these conversations were "You had to be there" moments, but it's important for me to get the guys together and joke around with the nonsense that would happen at the station. We hope you enjoy.

Welcome back to another episode of the Dragons Den podcast. On today's episode, we have Chief Sam Sparacello. Chief currently serves as the Chief of Training for the Hammond Fire Department. After screwing up the first attempt, we were lucky to have Chief give us another shot in his very busy schedule and during the Small Town Job Town Conference, which he's mostly responsible for running. I always enjoy talking to Sam any chance that I get. I haven't run across many people who have his level of passion for the fire service. We hope you also enjoy the conversation.

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In this episode, we sit down with Jacob Auzenne. He has almost 10 years in the fire service and owns the training company "First Due Fitness". He's deeply passionate about physical fitness as a foundation of the first responder community. Seth Richard also came in and filled a seat for Skippy, who was out of town. It was a little longer than expected, but I enjoyed the conversation and we hope you do also.

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In this episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast we had the honor of interviewing retired Chief Gerard Sonnier and retired Chief Lonnie Spell. These 2 combine for 70 years of firefighting experience. We were barely able to scratch the service of what they had to offer and there's no way that we won't have them back, at some point. We hope that you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it.

Welcome to the pilot episode of the Dragon's Den Podcast. It's a very short video on who we are, how we got here and our general idea of what we would like to do with this podcast. If you think you might be interested, please like and subscribe to the Pod.

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