Trauma Recovery Episodes

Killer Shot a Police Officer In The Face. Shocking Treatment By The City. Former Police Officer Cheryl Nici-O’Connell is our guest. She tells about being shot in the face, her recovery and the shocking treatment by the City g...

My Hardest Day as a Police Officer. Life After A Career Ending Injury. Leah Anaya is our guest. She is a retired police officer, her career was ended by a permanent injury. Leah talks about her law enforcement career and her ...

9 Firefighters Killed During Fire. PTSD Recovery. Travis Howze is our guest. He was a member of the Charleston, SC Fire Department. Travis talks about the horrible fire at the Sofa Store that claimed the lives of 9 heroic br...

Carlos Farina, MS, MCAP, NBCCH, is our guest. Carlos is the Program Director at the Help For Our Heroes Program at Transformations Treatment Center . He is also a Military Veteran and Retired Law Enforcement Officer. Carlos d...

Police Officer at a Terror Bombing, His Life Afterwards. Peter Killeen, Ed. D is our guest. He is a former police officer and was on scene at the LaGuardia Airport terror bombing attack. Peter talks about working the scene a...

Domestic Violence, including a Murder Suicide Attempt. Meriwether Ball is our guest. She talks about what it took for her to break free from a violent marriage. Meriwether also details the events of an attempted murder - su...

PTSD Led To Homelessness, Alcoholism. Police Officer's Recovery And Mission To Help Others. Erika Unberhagen is our guest. She is a former law enforcement officer. Erika's career as a police officer led to PTSD, which in turn...

Retired Police Officer Stars On Naked and Afraid to Prove a Point. Retired Police Officer Gwen Grimes is our guest. She was retired due to a permanent disabling line of duty injury. Gwen talks about her career policing in Ala...

Police Officer Husband Died by Suicide Just Before Retirement. Molly High is our guest. She shares their tragic story. Her husband Phil High died by suicide just months before reaching retirement from his career in law enforc...

Trauma for Police Officers, First Responders And Veterans. Ace Baker is our guest. Ace is a former police officer and spent years teaching military at S.E.R.E. School. He talks about the unspoken traumas he faced and many oth...

Heroin and Opiods Battle, Effects of Trauma on First Responders. Filmmaker Conrad Weaver and Police Officer Desiree Palmer are our guests. While filming the documentary Heroins Grip , Conrad met Desiree. They describe the de...

9-11 Pentagon Terror Attack Brought Him To Brink, Healing from the Trauma. Sheriff’s Captain J.P. McMichael is our guest. He talks about responding to the Pentagon after the 9-11 terror attack. J.P. discusses the scene and ho...

Music, Healing for Police Officers, Veterans and First Responders? Michael Caimona President of the Warrior Music Foundation is our guest. He is a US Navy veteran he has deployed throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia. M...

State Trooper Brother Died By Suicide. Changed Him as a Cop and in Life Jim Banish a 20+ year patrol officer for the Warren County New York Sheriff’s Office is our guest. In 2008 his life and career took on a whole new path a...

State Trooper Brother Died By Suicide. Changed Him as a Cop and in Life. Retired Montgomery County Md. Police Officer Mollie Stone is our guest. She talks about growing up in a law enforcement family and her career as a polic...

Police Officers Abandoned after Being Wounded in the Line Of Duty. Retired Police Lieutenant Randy Sutton is our guest. In addition to being retired from the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, he has starred in the television...

Shooting, Violence and Trauma, Life After his Police Career. Retired Police Sergeant Michael Sugrue is our guest. Michael talks about his career in law enforcement and his life afterwards. He discusses the call when he was fo...

Police Officer Attacked Viciously, Lifelong Injuries, City Says They're Too Broke To Retire Her. Bri Kaplan, L.A.P.D. was permanently injured in a vicious assault. As a result she sustained life long permanent injuries. After...

Police Officer Shot Twice, Including The Face, She Chased And Caught The Suspects. Police Officer Ann Marie Carrizales is our guest. She talks about the night she was shot during a car stop. Although shot twice, including onc...

His Badge, My Story, Life For Police Officer's Families. Vicki Gustafson is an author, a Christian life coach, a public speaker and has been married for decades to Jay, a Law Enforcement Officer. She shares insights into the...

Is Recruiting and Retaining Police Officers A Big Problem? Sheriff Timothy Cameron, leader of one of our nation’s oldest departments , and John O’Connor a Police Officer and St. Mary’s County Commissioner join us on the show....

Trauma for Police Officers And Other First Responders. Cathy and Javier Bustos, a married couple, have both been law enforcement officers with more than 45 years combined experience. During their police careers they have both...

Traumas And Stress as a State Trooper, Became A Top Charity Fundraiser. The scars created by his career in the Md.State Police nearly cost him everything, including his marriage. George Wooden talks about the long term effect...

NASCAR Plus A Police Officer Plus Children Equals? Within 10 minutes of Police Officer Todd Smith’s first visit to a NASCAR race, he knew he had to do something with motorsports to help children succeed, especially at risk y...