Arjuna George
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Welcome to Beneath the Helmet, a podcast about firefighter well-being and everything beneath the helmet. Join our host, retired Fire Chief Arjuna George, as he interviews firefighters, leaders, and experts on the topics of mental health, physical health, and spiritual health, always with a lens of leadership and self-development. Our goal is to take a holistic approach to understand what it takes for firefighters not just to survive, but to thrive in their careers.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Beneath the Helmet turns fire-service experience into candid conversations about trauma, recovery, leadership, and pressures carried home.
Arjuna George keeps Beneath The Helmet Show - Firefighter Wellness & Mental Health (mind-body-spirit) focused on what fire-service work asks of people beyond the emergency itself.
A firefighter hears his air warning whistle at Grenfell; you hear what survival can leave behind.
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A plainspoken look at PTSD, a WorkSafe disability ruling, and the hard work of healing after the fire service.
Brad Robinson's story sits with the cost the fire service can leave behind once the alarms fade: PTSD, a WorkSafe permanent disability ruling, and the slower task of building a life outside the job.
A grounded look at moral injury in first responder work.
The episode treats moral injury as a real occupational burden for first responders, and Dr. Lorraine Smith-McDonald gives the idea practical weight by linking it to public safety work and the term peemies, or potentially morally injurious events.
A plainspoken look at the strain of staying always on in first responder work.
Episode 105 stays with the strain of being always on in first responder work. Dennis Carradine gives the topic a plainspoken shape, and the conversation lands because it treats repeated critical incidents as something that wears people down over time, not as a neat problem with…
A practical look at yoga for first responders, grounded in breath and body awareness.
A former police officer turned yoga teacher makes a practical case for yoga as a tool for first responders, with the focus kept on breath, body awareness, and getting the mind and body back in sync.
A grounded launch episode that leans on first response realism and plainspoken behind the scenes detail.
Beneath the Helmet uses a bonus episode to mark the launch of Code 3 and talk through how the film came together with Arjuna George and Patrick Panetta.
A grounded firefighter-focused discussion of sleep tracking, wearable data, and brain health.
Beneath The Helmet keeps its focus on practical resilience for firefighters, with brain health and mental stamina hanging in the background. The guest walks through how he got into neurotech and how Circle began, but the real throughline is simpler: sleep data can surface…
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Three hosts and psychologist Dr Emily talk vulnerability, therapy, and imperfection with guests.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Justin Bruner, CEO of DesaSolve, a school professor, and a firefighter, explains how AI can support firefighter wellness, training, and paperwork on Beneath The Helmet with host Arjuna George.
Arjuno George sits down with Vance Rowe of Yoga Rescue and follows his path from police work into yoga teaching.
AK Dozanti traces her path from undercover online investigations at 19 to deputy sheriff work, officer of the year in 2015, and a severe burnout collapse a few months later.
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Arjuna George talks with Brad Robinson, a former Team Canada baseball player, retired lieutenant, owner of The Complete Athlete, and mental performance coach, about the road into and out of the fire service.
Arjuna George of Beneath The Helmet Show speaks with Doug Allen, a combat veteran, trauma therapist, educator, and creator of Nervous System Recalibration, about why trauma work for first responders and military starts with the body.
Beneath The Helmet Show episode 101 features retired lieutenant fire officer Annette Zapp, owner of Fire Rescue Wellness, explaining why she moved from Illinois to Oklahoma and started a PhD at Oklahoma State University in fall 2024.
Arjuna George, a former fire chief and host of Beneath The Helmet Show, interviews South Florida firefighter John Vote, founder of Rescue One CBD, about CBD, THC, and first responder wellness.
Beneath The Helmet Show episode 97 features host Arginio George with Dr.
Justin Champion says he was in the fire service since 2006, served in two Iraq tours and one Bosnia tour, and later stepped away from the job because burnout and trauma were piling up.
Host Arjuna George reflects on Season 3 of Beneath the Helmet, highlighting key insights from guests on firefighter wellness, including blind spots, resilience, community healing, stress management, and health as a duty.
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Arjuna George opens season four, episode 105 by welcoming Dennis Carradine, a licensed mental health professional who works with first responder trauma and co-founded the Trauma Survivors Foundation.
Arjuna George sits down with Nolan Bison, a PhD biochemist and co-founder of Circle, to talk about mental resilience for firefighters.
This bonus episode looks closely at *Code 3* and the first responder world it tries to capture.