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Interview with Max Cottingham, Firefighter, Paramedic and Peer Support Volunteer.
Maxwell Cottingham is a Firefighter and a Paramedic. Now part of the Rescue team at Bankstown Fire Station and before that a retained Firefighter for 5 years in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. If that is...
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Talking with Firefighter Jason Strong, Rescue Station Officer, City of Sydney Fire Station.
Jason Strong is the Rescue Station Officer for City of Sydney Fire Station, C Platoon. A career Firefighter Jason has worked for over 25 years for Fire + Rescue New South Wales and before that over 12 years as a...
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Celebrate every win, no matter how small.
Happy 1st Birthday to us! Podcast 52, how did that happen? As we celebrate every win, we reflect back on how we had no idea how to start a podcast, yet here we are now with a full year of episodes that have been...
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New beginnings require a new mindset, get your mind right so you don’t fall back into old patterns.
This week Maxi was lucky to talk Leadership at The Burnbright National Leadership Camp and support the amazing work they do. Our unfortunate event was technical difficulties as our Intern Monica tried to join us from...
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
4 days in far North Queensland, 6 flights that were supposed to be 4, and a solid day of rain on a beach, this week we talk about resilience. We talk about meeting the amazing Raven Cook at ABC Cairns and meeting the...
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Change is learning. Learning is growing. Growing is living…. So Live.
Back on the road we have just arrived in Cairns so we're telling you all about Tropical North Queensland and it's natural beauty. Maxi had a big week at the Fire Station and we can wait to see the school assembly...
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Change in all things is sweet.
So many changes in the world right now and for us at Live Learn Survive so how do we learn to embrace it. Maxi tells us all about his ‘man down’ drill at the Fire Station this week, we talk about wild surf at Bronte...
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Taking a few minutes in the day to be grateful is always a good idea! Great to get our fast 5 questions in from Monica in Los Angeles so we talk about what bring us joy, what new skill are we learning and what are we...
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
This week we hear all about the drill onboard the ship and how this type of training prepares Maxi and First Responders for real life situations and we celebrate everything from a Birthday to a Jubilee and passing the...
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Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.
Breaking News, after months of saying something big is coming we can finally announce it, and perfect timing as we also celebrate Leigh’s birthday, then finally Maxi can now claim to be a true Firefighter as this week...
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Never a failure, always a lesson.
It’s National Volunteers Week and we talk about the benefits of volunteering, for yourself as well as others. Maxi has a busy night at the Action Station and we could not be more excited about having an Intern join us...
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I trust the next chapter because I know the author.
Back home in Australia we talk about the joys of Jetlag and turn serious as we talk about possible one of the most important Rescue Squad videos ever, Cold Water Shock and what it did to Maxi. ‘At least now I can talk...
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