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Behind The Shield

Bringing the greatest minds in mental and physical wellness to the men and women who serve our communities.

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115:40

Ryan Provencher (First Responder Fitness Standards,...

Behind The Shield ·

2025/07/29

Ryan Provencher is currently serving as an Operations Battalion Chief in his Fire Department, he is the founder of Firefighter Peak Performance and Executive Fitness Advisor for CRACKYL Magazine. He worked as a Health/Fitness Specialist before beginning his professional fire service career in 1996. He has experience as a Volunteer Firefighter, Firefighter/EMT, Firefighter/Paramedic, Company Officer, and Training Division Chief/Health Safety Officer before promoting to his current position. He has

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115:49

Brian Kleindienst (Virtual Reality, Psychedelics and...

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2025/07/27

Brian Kleindienst is a devoted student to mindfulness and discovered plant medicine in 2018 as he began his own personal healing journey in incorporating acupuncture, breath work, meditation, leadership and facilitator development, holistic health, immersion into psychotherapy, men’s work, and microdosing.Certified Psychedelic Integration Coach: Third waveAdvisor – Flow Integrative (Psychedelic wellness clinic with Ketamine)Operational Volunteer and Surf Coach – Veterans / Waves of ValorWellness

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96:31

Ernie Colling (Peptides, Hormone Therapy, Bloodwork...

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2025/07/26

Ernis Colling served in the United States Army as an 11B infantryman from 2000-2004. He spent almost a decade as an overseas contractor working for a variety of agencies. Ernie quickly realized that service members and private contractors, as well as himself, were constantly feeling sluggish and unable to achieve peak performance. Ernie found that it was often viewed as an unnecessary issue and that medical establishments were unable to address many of the issues. This void provided the framework,

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112:52

Justin Sheehan (Forging Performance at DEVGRU,...

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2025/07/24

Justin Sheehan is a Michigan Native of the Whittemore-Prescott Area, and graduated High School in 2003. Following the horrific events of 9/11, he enlisted in the US Navy with ambitions of becoming a Navy SEAL. After an arduous two-year pipeline, he graduated with BUDS Class 261 and earned the right to carry that title, and wear “The Trident”.Justin received orders upon graduation to report to SEAL Team Two, Little Creek, Virginia. While assigned there he deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and

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107:40

Ian Thurber (Gut Health, Water Rescues and...

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2025/07/22

Ian Thurber is a 17 year veteran of the fire service and health coach. We discuss his journey into the fire service, water rescue, his health decline, healing the gut biome and so much more. "Health and fitness has always been important to me but I've alwaya felt that something was missing, especially in the first responder community. Over the past year and a half, I've dived deep in the world of gut health and now share it however I can as the missing link in first responder (and general) health

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120:04

Paul Hutchinson (Combating Human Trafficking,...

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2025/07/20

Founder of the Child Liberation Foundation, Paul Hutchinson, is a dedicated philanthropist and entrepreneur. He has committed his life to protecting vulnerable children. With experience in over 70 undercover rescue missions across 15 countries, Paul has played a vital role in combating human trafficking. Additionally, as an Executive Producer of the impactful film “Sound of Freedom”, he raises awareness and inspires action against child trafficking.Paul’s journey took a transformative turn when he

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115:46

Dr Bonni Goldstein (Medical Cannabis, Cancer and...

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2025/07/19

Dr Bonni Goldstein is a Pediatric Emergency physician, Cannabis Medicine physician and author of "Cannabis Revealed". We discuss emergency medicine, modern chronic disease management, cannabis medicine successes, CBD and much more.A native of New Jersey, Dr. Bonni Goldstein received her undergraduate education at Rutgers College. She pursued her medical degree at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Her post-doctoral education included

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98:45

Adam Boyd (Ultra Running, Breathwork and First...

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2025/07/17

Adam Boyd is a law enforcement veteran, Leadership & Wellness Expert and the Founder & CEO, Soleful Training A distinguished leader in resilience training and wellness, with a career spanning over a decade as a police officer, SWAT operator, and Detective. As the founder and CEO of Soleful Training, Adam leverages his extensive experience to equip first responders, military personnel, and professionals with the tools to build physical, mental, and emotional resilience.Throughout his law

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132:27

Patrick Mullen (Rural Firefighting, Mental Health and...

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2025/07/15

Patrick currently serves as a Firefighter/Paramedic for Wapakoneta Fire-Ems in Wapakoneta, Ohio. He has eleven years in the fire service. He is married to his wife Ashley and has three children Haley, Ethan and Ava. Patrick has a Bachelor’s of Fire Science degree from Columbia Southern University and an Associates of Applied Science in Ems from the University of Toledo. He also serves as the Coordinator for the PALS program and AHA outreach for Lima Memorial Health Systems. Patrick Is also a

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139:10

Hunter Jones (Counter Intelligence in War, Domestic...

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2025/07/13

HUNTER K. JONES, Lt Col (Retired), U.S. Air Force Lt Col (Retired) Hunter Jones currently serves as Owner & CEO at Jones & Associates – Consulting & Concierge Services, LLC. He previously worked as Director of Business Development & Sales at Liberty Source, PBC; Account Executive & Business Development Manager at Babel Street; VP – Federal for Red Vector. Prior to Red Vector, he served as a Strategic Security Consultant at Chameleon Consulting Group, Fortem Technologies, System

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91:53

Joel Salatin II (Holistic Farming, The Food Supply...

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2025/07/12

Joel Salatin is a world renowned holistic farmer, author and speaker. We discuss COVID and a fragile population, factory farming, abattoir monopolies, the obesity epidemic, resilience through nutrition, school food, lowering the carbon footprint and much more.Joel calls himself a Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer. Others who like him call him the most famous farmer in the world, the high priest of the pasture, and the most eclectic thinker from Virginia since Thomas

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105:56

Dr Nicole Bowles (Sleep Research, Firefighter...

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2025/07/10

Dr. Nicole Bowles, OHSU’s 2021 Women in Academic Health & Medicine Emerging Leader, and Assistant Professor in the Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at Oregon Health and Science University, received a BS in Chemistry with a minor in Mathematics at New York University and obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroendocrinology from The Rockefeller University. She then went on to obtain her MS in Clinical Epidemiology from Weill Cornell Medical College. Her research is supported by the Ford

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98:29

Angela Skudin (Healing Disease with Ibogaine,...

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2025/07/08

After battling Lyme Disease and debilitating co-infections that left her bedridden for over a year, Angela turned to alternative healing modalities and psychedelic-assisted therapies when Western medicine failed to provide relief. By 2022, her health was fully restored, and she has remained prescription-free and active ever since.On June 17, 2022 at 3:43pm, while on a family vacation celebrating her husband Casey’s upcoming 46th birthday and Father’s Day, a tree fell on their vehicle. Casey, guided

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103:38

Richard Kelley (The Oklahoma City Bombing, Leadership...

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2025/07/06

Fire Chief Richard A. Kelley has led the Oklahoma City Fire Department since September of 2017. A member of the department since 1991, Chief Kelley promoted through the ranks in the Fire Operations division having held positions as Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Special Operations Coordinator, Technical Rescue Station Officer, and Battalion Chief of two distinct fire districts. Chief Kelley then promoted to Deputy Chief of Support services before becoming Deputy Chief of Operations in

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83:38

Dr Michael Lange (Eye Health, Vision Testing and...

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2025/07/05

Dr Michael Lange is an optometrist, nutritionist and radio personality. We talk about vision, eye health, physicals, nutrition and much more.Dr. Michael Lange, optometrist has worked extremely hard at developing one of the top eye care centers in the country. Lange Eye Care and Associates was started on March 15, 1993 by Dr. Michael Lange. Ocala Florida was his very first location and the beginning of his dream to build a state of the art eye care center utilizing the latest in technology.Lange Eye

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118:51

Mark Bouchard (Mental Health in Law Enforcement,...

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2025/07/03

Mark Bouchard has over 15 years of experience in law enforcement, including 10 years of ERT / SWAT work. He also has a master’s degree in leadership studying police culture and police officer mental health. His goal is to provide educational content for law enforcement.Mark is the author of Setting My Sights on Stigma: Thoughts From An Injured Mind, which he wrote to help police officers prepare for the psychological challenges of a career in

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93:51

Marc Creswell (Aviation Paramedicine, Hurricane...

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2025/07/01

Marc Creswell is a 33 year veteran of EMS and Air Medicine. We discuss his journey into prehospital care, responding to Hurricane Katrina, the Deep Water Horizon tragedy, drones for EMS and much more.Marc began working with Acadian in 1990 in Abbeville, Louisiana. He worked in human resources, education, communications, and was the first training officer for Air Med Services. He now manages the day-to-day operations of the Air Med’s rotor-wing division, Operational Control Center and other

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146:37

Alan Shebaro II (Violence in the West Bank, ICE Raids...

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2025/06/28

Alan Shebaro has trained a broad spectrum of operators during his deployments to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. These operators included U.S. Army Special Forces from all Groups (Active Duty and National Guard), U.S. Army Rangers, U.S. Navy SEALs, U.S. Air Force Special Operations, Tactical Air Control Party (TACPs), Combat Controllers (CCTs), and U.S. Marine Force Recon.Professor Shebaro earned his Black Belt from Carlos Machado in 2004 and is currently ranked as a 4th degree Black

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100:45

Julien Pineau (Strongman Training, Muscle Imbalances...

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2025/06/28

Julien Pineau is a world renowned movement specialist and innovator. Julien specializes in getting athletes out of pain my identifying muscle imbalances and correcting them with functional movements.Sports have been a part of Julien’s life since he was young and he’s been a state and national champion in a number of sports including soccer, swimming and wrestling. As an adult, he really found something he liked with MMA (he’s a brown belt) and Ju Jitsu (black belt equivalent in the no-gi category)

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115:53

Christian Lane (Border Patrol, Immigration and...

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2025/06/27

Christian Lane is a former Canadian Border Services Chief officer and the man behind the 10-8 Podcast. We discuss his journey into law enforcement, immigration, drug prohibition, human trafficking, transition and so much more."As a former law enforcement and intelligence professional, I built my career on a foundation of integrity, trust, and unwavering commitment to service. Throughout my years of conducting hundreds of interviews, I developed a deep ability to listen, analyze, and truly understand

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