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Disaster Tough Podcast

By: The Readiness Lab
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  • The Disaster Tough Podcast is for emergency managers, by emergency managers. We share stories, lessons learned, and tips to help you make informed decisions. Our host, John Scardena is a former Federal Emergency Response Official with Type 1 response experience. He now leads Doberman Emergency Management, from which this is being recorded. Our guests are also field experts who provide their insights in our conversation based podcast.
    Discussions with emergency managers revolve around the entire disaster life-cycle. We provide solutions based on training and backed by data. We share experiences of emergency response and identify the lessons learned through our own version of after action reporting. This is conversation mode activated. We are known for flipping from serious to humor without warning. Try to keep up in our weekly podcasts!
    About Doberman Emergency Management. We provide customized plans, mitigates hazards, delivers training, and supplies emergency products to meet the unique needs of clients. We identify and solve the Nation’s most complex incidents. That’s our job.
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Episodes
  • Leading the way with Colorado DHSEM Director Michael Willis

    Leading the way with Colorado DHSEM Director Michael Willis
    Apr 30 2024
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    “They are a mile ahead” is a common way to describe when someone is doing things more effectively than others.

    In Colorado, this saying is true every day just by their location. The way they operate their Emergency Management and readiness efforts is another way they make this statement come to fruition.

    Under the guidance of Director Michael Willis for the past six years, the department has had to deal with disasters and emergencies of all varieties, from the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020 to a major cybersecurity breach of the Department of Transportation in 2018, and various wildfires and other major weather events.

    As a Retired Brigadier General in the US Air Force, Director Willis brings an extensive background to his role as Colorado’s Director of Emergency Management. Before retirement from the military, Brig. Gen. Willis was deployed in Desert Storm, Bosnia, and Iraq along with multiple years in the National Guard.

    In this episode, he shares the leadership lessons he has learned over his decorated career in the military and the public sector.

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    43 mins
  • Leading the Right Way with Chief Walt Lewis

    Leading the Right Way with Chief Walt Lewis
    Apr 23 2024
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    Doing the right thing even when no one is looking is often believed to be the best way to determine a person’s true character.

    In this episode of the Disaster Tough Podcast, we learn more about how frequent guest, Chief Walt Lewis of the Orlando Fire Department lives by this mantra both professionally and personally.

    Chief Lewis has been with the Orlando Fire Department for nearly 30 years and currently serves as a Board Member and Conference Chair for the State Urban Search and Rescue Alliance. As such, he is heavily involved in the planning, organization, and execution of the Annual National US&R and Medical Special Operations Conference in Orlando.

    In this episode, Chief Lewis provides a brief look-ahead to the 2024 edition of the conference happening in November of this year.

    He and host, John Scardena also reflect on the people who have made a difference in their professional and personal lives and how gratitude, humility, and paying it forward are the best ways to find success and fulfillment in your career.

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    38 mins
  • Emergency Management in Dynamic Populations with University of Kentucky's Sarah Razor

    Emergency Management in Dynamic Populations with University of Kentucky's Sarah Razor
    Apr 16 2024
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    American humorist, Sam Levenson once wrote, "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

    This week's guest on the Disaster Tough Podcast, Sarah Razor has been living this reality in her first year as the Crisis Management and Resiliency Advisor at the University of Kentucky.

    In 2023, Sarah took her talents from Churchill Downs Racetrack to the University of Kentucky.

    After a year on campus, Sarah shares her experiences, and the importance of synergy when executing Emergency Management plans for a major university with so many different venues and moving parts.

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    40 mins
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