Outside the fire bays are stories that most first responders don’t want to talk about and share. These are private stories that guided them to and through their public service. Adversity, leadership, loss, strength, tragedy, sleepless nights, fire family vs. blood family, cancer, suicide, line of duty deaths, training, pranks, and politics- rookies to officers to retirees. No one is left unaffected, but almost all make it ‘through the fire’ with the bond and support of the brotherhood. The mission here is to share these personal experiences from individuals inside and outside the service to entertain, educate, and enable the first responder community to be a just ‘little more’ than the day before.
Happy Holidays and welcome back to Outside the Bay! Please excuse the delay in episodes, but real life has been uber busy. Stay tuned as we’ll be ba...
Welcome back after a brief summer break...On OTB's 10th episode, recorded pre-COVID about a year ago, I sat down with now 30-yr veteran Lieutenant Dot...
On this episode, I sat down with my friend (and attorney) Josh DiYanni, at the law offices of Bailey Cavalieri in Downtown Columbus. As a practicing ...
***Originally recorded live on June 8th, 2019***On this episode, which has a live-interview feel (before Coronavirus social distancing), my family and...
On this episode (recorded in September 2019), I sat down with special guest, Dr. Robert Merritt. Dr. Merritt is the Director of Thoracic Surgery at t...
On this episode, I get to sit down with a living legend of the fire service and genuinely great guy- Retired Assistant Chief Dave Whiting from the Cit...
On this 2nd episode discussing mental health, I sit down with special guest, Dr. Kenneth Yeager. Dr. Yeager is the Director of the STAR program, shor...
Heith Good is a 22+ year veteran Firefighter-Paramedic serving at Norwich Township in Central Ohio. At Norwich Township, Heith was instrumental in de...
Happy New Year! On this special episode, I get to sit down with Columbus, OH NBC4’s very own Morning Anchor and reporter extraordinaire, Hattie Hawks...
On this episode, I get to sit down with my good friend and client, Lieutenant Anthony Torres of Mifflin Township. Since we met over 10+ years ago, we...