Leveraging Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Funding
Emergency management is primarily known as a profession that responds to disasters. Another very important aspect of the discipline of emergency management is disaster mitigation. This podcast focuses...
6 Apr 202141min
Disaster Readiness in the Pacific Northwest
What does disaster readiness look like for the Pacific Northwest from a person coming to the topic with a fresh point of view? Brian Landon, an attorney, writer and director is working on a master’s d...
30 Mars 202132min
Virtual ICS Trainings
One of the outcomes from the coronavirus pandemic is that our normal training sessions have been disrupted. People can’t gather into classrooms. A solution to that issue, and one that will be used goi...
23 Mars 202143min
The Social Impacts of the Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has multiple impacts to our society, ranging from medical, economic, education—you name it, nothing has remained the same. All this physical change has impacted how people int...
16 Mars 202137min
Blood Donations, Disasters and Covid-19
The blood supply for a community, region or state is critically important. This podcast is an interview with Curt Bailey, President and CEO of BloodWorks Northwest Their territory covers eight millio...
9 Mars 202126min
Conducting Virtual Disaster Exercises
One of the outcomes of the coronavirus pandemic is the need to maintain social distancing. An innovation borne out of this is organizations have begun using technology to conduct virtual exercises. My...
2 Mars 202135min
Everyone is in Sales
No matter who you are and what you do, there is an element of salesmanship to how you interact with other people and organizations. This podcast is an interview with Jeff Kirchick, author of the book ...
23 Feb 202141min
Personal Reflections on Major Disasters
Mike Byrne, the podcast guest has been at the center of emergency management and homeland security for decades, both in responding and recovering from major disasters while holding senior positions re...
16 Feb 202145min
