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Behind The Shield

James Geering

Bringing the greatest minds in mental and physical wellness to the men and women who serve our communities.

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  • #1267
    July 17 · 2 hr 28 min

    Keith "Flip" Griffin (Navy Search & Rescue, Austere Medicine and Fire Service Leadership) - Episode 1267

    During his service, Flip participated in more than 75 real-world rescue and medical missions and served as a lead advisor for MEDEVAC operations during the Fukushima disaster response. He also supported large-scale emergency planning initiatives, operational readiness programs, and leadership development efforts across organizations totaling more than 4,000 personnel. Following retirement from military service, Flip founded Firehouse Freedom, an accountability and organizational development company focused on helping fire service leaders strengthen culture, communication, accountability, and crew performance through practical, immediately applicable leadership frameworks. His work centers on modern firehouse leadership challenges and emphasizes actionable next-shift implementation strategies designed to create measurable cultural improvement at both the crew and organizational level. Flip currently works with career, volunteer, combination, rural, and urban fire departments nationwide and is also a columnist for Firehouse Magazine, where he writes on leadership, accountability, communication, and firehouse culture. His presentation style combines operational credibility, relatable storytelling, and practical leadership tools designed to create immediate impact both inside and outside the firehouse. Flip Griffin is a retired U.S. Navy Command Master Chief with over 23 years of leadership experience serving in high-performance operational environments, including Search and Rescue, special operations, aviation operations, disaster response, and senior enlisted leadership roles. Throughout his military career, he led teams in complex, highrisk environments where accountability, communication, leadership, and operational execution directly impacted mission success and the lives of those on the line. https://firehousefreedom.com/

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  • #1266
    July 14 · 1 hr 43 min

    Andy Prisco (Crisis De-escalation, First Responder Safety and Reducing Recidivsm) - Episode 1266

    Andrew Prisco is the founder of Jumpstart Mastery, an elected Fire Commissioner, and a nationally recognized authority on human performance, leadership, crisis de-escalation, and organizational culture. For more than 25 years, his career has been dedicated to improving how people and organizations perform when the stakes are highest. Since beginning his behavioral health career in 1999, Andrew has worked at the intersection of behavioral health, public safety, and organizational leadership. From 2011 through 2022, he simultaneously served as a Firefighter and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) while advancing through leadership roles within Washington State's behavioral health system. This unique combination of public safety and behavioral health experience shaped his philosophy that exceptional performance under pressure depends on the integration of operational readiness, human behavior, leadership, and communication. During his nearly fourteen years with Washington State's behavioral health system, Andrew founded Washington State's Psychiatric Emergency Response Team (PERT) program. The program integrated behavioral health principles with first response principles, creating a practical model for safely engaging individuals experiencing psychiatric and behavioral crises while supporting responders in making effective decisions under pressure. The program evolved into a statewide service supporting both of Washington's state psychiatric hospitals, as well as numerous institutional and residential treatment settings, demonstrating that compassionate care and operational safety are complementary disciplines. Andrew later served as Clinical Training Manager for Washington State's forensic behavioral health system, where he expanded his work beyond traditional behavioral health settings by partnering with public safety agencies, healthcare organizations, correctional systems, juvenile justice programs, and other publicserving organizations to strengthen leadership, crisis response, communication, and workforce performance. These experiences laid the foundation for Jumpstart Mastery, which Andrew founded in 2021 and launched in 2022. Through Jumpstart, he partners with behavioral health organizations, juvenile justice systems, corrections agencies, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and public safety organizations throughout North America to strengthen leadership, improve communication, reduce workplace violence, and build resilient organizational cultures. Andrew is the developer of the Advanced Crisis Intervention Training (ACIT) methodology, an evidenceinformed framework that integrates behavioral science, trauma-informed practice, communication strategy, operational decision-making, and leadership principles into practical skills that professionals can immediately apply. Today, ACIT is delivered to organizations throughout North America, equipping leaders and frontline professionals to safely navigate conflict, crisis, and high-risk human interactions. As an elected Fire Commissioner, Andrew continues his commitment to public service by providing strategic governance and oversight for his community's fire district while advocating for responder wellness, organizational excellence, and community safety. https://www.jumpstartmastery.com/

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  • #1265
    July 12 · 1 hr 34 min

    Brain Sipe (Movie Make up, Horror Movies and the Power of Storytelling) - Episode 1265

    Emmy® award winning makeup artist Brian Sipe has been working professionally since 1989 as a freelance artist and through his company, Gamut Studios. Several Hollywood makeup effects companies and production studios have taken advantage of his extensive knowledge and experience as a character effects designer and project manager. Brian has had his professional makeup work featured in films and television projects like Jennifer Lawrence / Mystique in the last three X-Men films, Syriana, Ali, Friends, several Terminator films, Big Momma's House 1 and 2, Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Black White to name a few. He has also been the prosthetics makeup department head (as well as makeup artist) on several large-scale films like Guardians of the Galaxy - Volume 2, Avengers - Infinity War, Avengers – Endgame, X-Men - Dark Phoenix, Captain Marvel, and the Star Wars project The Mandalorian. Brian's groundbreaking makeup design for the FX Network's reality television show Black, White personally garnered him an Emmy Award in 2006. In 2013 he was also nominated for his work on How I Met Your Mother. Brian's work on David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, helped nab the BAFTA and Oscar for Best Makeup. Brian is very proud of the work that he, representing Legacy Effects, and the entire team did for the Guardians of the Galaxy - Volume 2. A tremendous amount of work went into the film as his team took over from the first in the series, and it had the honor of making final 7 for the Oscar Bake Offs.

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  • #1264
    July 11 · 2 hr 7 min

    Frank Meeink (Escaping Neo Nazi Life, Ice Hockey and the Power of Mentorship) - Episode 1264

    Frank Meeink became a skinhead at thirteen. By eighteen, he was roaming the country as a skinhead leader and neo-Nazi recruiter with gangs that would beat people indiscriminately. In Illinois he had his own cable-access TV show, “The Reich.” He was finally arrested and convicted of kidnapping and beating a member of a rival skinhead gang. While in prison he befriended men he used to think he hated, men of different races. After being released from prison, Mr. Meeink tried to rejoin his old skinhead pals, but couldn’t bring himself to hate those whom he now knew to be his friends. He now regularly lectures to students about racial diversity and acceptance, author and founder of Harmony Through Hockey, Mr. Meeink’s life stands for tolerance, diversity, and mutual understanding in racial, political, and all aspects of society.

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