
Improving Life Balance with Ryan Rodriguez
12/05/22 • 54 min
Gain helpful insight and strategies for tackling life's challenges from a Firefighter perspective with Ryan Rodriguez of Ignited Firefighter.
On this episode we discuss.
- Improving Life Balance
- Rescources for leading at work and at home
Join host Chris Ruano as he and Ryan Rodriguez provide valuable insight and tools for you to continue to evaluate life's current priorities and ways you can increase your success.
♦️ Free Customized Periodized-Hybrid Training Guide
Our crazy First-Responder lifestyle makes it so difficult to improve our strength and physical performance.
Periodized-Hybrid Training is a unique year-round fitness strategy that I discovered through years of leading wildland fire crews as I struggled to stay prepared for fire-season not just once, but year after year.
By following this strategy, you’ll increase your strength and year-round performance, because its specially developed for the challenges and commitments of our first-responder lifestyle.
Gain helpful insight and strategies for tackling life's challenges from a Firefighter perspective with Ryan Rodriguez of Ignited Firefighter.
On this episode we discuss.
- Improving Life Balance
- Rescources for leading at work and at home
Join host Chris Ruano as he and Ryan Rodriguez provide valuable insight and tools for you to continue to evaluate life's current priorities and ways you can increase your success.
♦️ Free Customized Periodized-Hybrid Training Guide
Our crazy First-Responder lifestyle makes it so difficult to improve our strength and physical performance.
Periodized-Hybrid Training is a unique year-round fitness strategy that I discovered through years of leading wildland fire crews as I struggled to stay prepared for fire-season not just once, but year after year.
By following this strategy, you’ll increase your strength and year-round performance, because its specially developed for the challenges and commitments of our first-responder lifestyle.
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Fire Captain Don McLaughlin - Peer Support Firehouse Dogs
Join the conversation with
Fire Captain Don McLaughlin
@firehousedog_ava
as he shares about;
- Firehouse Dogs
- Peer Support and Mental Wellness
- US Marine Corps Service
- Adventure Racing
- Leadership
and more
The following are the links to support the foundations that train and prepare the 6 peer support dogs that “DonnyMac” mentions in this episode:
“Ava” the Firehouse dog
@firehousedog_ava
https://pawsforlifek9.org/
“Echo” the Dog
@echothefiredog
@22tozerodogs
https://www.patrioticservicedogfoundation.org/donate.html
“Tiller” and “Ember”
@vipdogteams
https://vipdogteams.org/
“Milo” and “Jackson”
@performancek9training
https://performancek9training.com/
♦️ Free Customized Periodized-Hybrid Training Guide
Our crazy First-Responder lifestyle makes it so difficult to improve our strength and physical performance.
Periodized-Hybrid Training is a unique year-round fitness strategy that I discovered through years of leading wildland fire crews as I struggled to stay prepared for fire-season not just once, but year after year.
By following this strategy, you’ll increase your strength and year-round performance, because its specially developed for the challenges and commitments of our first-responder lifestyle.
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We describe in more detail Our Goal building and equipping Purpose Driven Men to become more;
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"Coach Roo" discusses his refined focus toward his mission to provide real world strength and conditioning programs as well as Leadership and Coaching resources.
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