Wildland Firefighting and the Importance of Nutrition, Stress Management, and Overall Health, Fitness, & Wellness:

Scott Mulvaney and Jesse Thomas discuss their backgrounds in wildland firefighting and their transition to health coaching. Jesse emphasizes the importance of sustainable wellness, linking nutrition to environmental impact. They highlight the challenges of maintaining health in high-stress environments like firefighting, advocating for nutrient-dense food and avoiding toxins like glyphosate. Jesse shares her experiences with physical fitness and nutrition, stressing the need for long-term lifestyle changes over short-term diets. They also touch on the broader impact of environmental toxins on human health and the importance of local, sustainable practices in agriculture and wellness. Scott Mulvaney and Speaker 1 discuss their shared passion for health and fitness, emphasizing the importance of nutrition over exercise. They criticize the use of creatine and whey protein, citing their dubious benefits and high costs. Scott shares his experience with the carnivore diet, highlighting the balance between methionine and glycine. They also discuss the mental health challenges faced by firefighters, including addiction and suicide, and the importance of diet and lifestyle interventions. Scott’s charity, Field Foundations, provides high-quality boots to firefighters, having donated 11 pairs so far. They both stress the need for personal accountability and sustainable wellness practices. Scott Mulvaney and his guest co-host discussed the importance of personal responsibility in health and wellness. Scott shared a story about a fellow athlete who faced significant challenges but never gave up. The guest emphasized the significance of aligning with one’s heart and passions, and the responsibility to oneself and future generations. They highlighted the role of foundational health and wellness in achieving personal and societal goals. Scott concluded by thanking the guest for his contributions to the wellness community and encouraging listeners to prioritize their health and legacy.

Quote: “We are the agents for change in our internal ecosystems and the ecosystems in the world around us. We aren’t separate. It’s time to stack the deck in favor of both.”

Your Co-Host Today:

Jessie Thomas, owner of Sustainable Wellness, a health consulting business dedicated to helping people achieve better foundational health through nutrition and lifestyle. After 15 years as a wildland firefighter in region 1 and 4, I pivoted and went back to my roots in nutrition to start a health coaching business.

Outside of fire, I have a background in ultra running, nordic and alpine skiing. I am now raising kids with my smokejumper husband, Jake Besmer. Presently, I work with clients 1 on 1 and with groups of people interested in learning more about how nutrition and lifestyle can improve health outcomes and make their experiences as productive as possible.

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

1. The connection between Nutrition and Environmental impact.
2. Challenges in the Health and Wellness Industry
3. Environmental Toxins, for example, the negative impacts of glyphosate.

Today’s Guest Co-Host Links:

• https://www.sustainablewellness.net
• Instagram: @sustainablewellness

Watch us on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/psCgwJdNxzc

Timestamped Show Notes:

17:40 – So your eyes picked up on that, you had the senses that picked out that. I think that’s the thing, is when people are buying crapola from Costco, and they don’t really actually know what low quality food is. When you don’t have the experience of knowing what real nutrient dense food looks and it feels like your senses are completely turned off.

22:25 – That is an important point when you’re in Fire and you’ve got those store stops that may be in a Walmart, or they may be in some rural Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California, environment where you’re subjected to whatever is available. Eggs are always going to be more nutrient dense than Hot Pockets. Eggs are a Superfood.

25:25 – The government just ensures basic food safety. Those are huge food sourcing contracts that go to the lowest bidder, and they can get around all kinds of logical things about bringing in actual good food by quoting food safety laws. So they’re like, oh, we’ve got to make it shelf stable, otherwise people are going to die of food poisoning. What are those chances?

49:44 –  Ben Lynch is the doctor, he’s the one that wrote the book Dirty Genes, where I learned about that genetic marker regarding patients with gray hair.

50:35 – I didn’t know anything when I started, and then I started to feel like, oh, you know, things could be better. Just before I did fire, I worked for a woman who was a physician. She quit her medical practice to open up a business. She opened up a restaurant that was all about using nutrition to support people with chronic health conditions. Impacting areas like Cancer, it was so amazing. So this is like in the late 90s, when the Institute for Functional Medicine was just starting. So we were really lucky, because we got to work there, and we got to have people come in and talk to us about inflammation, which at the time was as evolved as a conversation could possibly be, and now it’s evolving.

01:10:15 – It’s a lot of people in fire, I think, you and I have a very dopamine dominant brain type. So they love that high energy input, those kind of big exposures, those big experiences, to keep them up, up, up. Then, once it’s over, those inputs are gone and they’re left to their own devices. So what do you do in that situation? Will you drink because you’re still trying to get so much? I think you know, when you understand certain mechanisms about mental health and how to support it using just diet and lifestyle interventions that are really specific to somebody in that lifestyle, then you really have a different outcome and a different experience. I put on a webinar this last I guess it would be spring, where I was talking about the foundations of mental health, using nutritional considerations for firefighters. It was great. It was well attended.

01:22:10 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

So emotional regulation, the children just lacked so many things that will just contribute to their ability to function in society. You can see that on them still, like they’re going through grades, and they’re just like, kids that are just groups of kids that are just fucked up, or total fucking assholes, and it’s just like, we did this. We did this. People just went along with it and they were like, it’s for public health. So I started arguing with the school board and medical providers in the community, because I’m like, you guys got to show me some information. I mean, doing a simple study on do masks work or not? That’s not hard, because there were schools everywhere else that were not wearing masks, and did they have worse outbreaks?

Positive Action Forward:

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Hotshot Life, Fire Fitness, Injury Comebacks, and more:

Chris Ruano currently serves on and leads teams in the Wildland and Municipal Fire-Service in Southern California. Having served as a Forest Service Hotshot and more recently, as a leader on Wildland and Municipal fire crews; “Roo” is especially passionate about fitness leadership and training methods. He draws his unique perspective from serving over 23 yrs in the Fire-Service. Chris is on a mission to build and equip firefighters and their leadership to be the most Capable, Functional, and Durable personnel on the fireground and beyond.

“I am currently mentoring and coaching athletes and leaders that are interested in building teams that are more functionally relevant for the demands of an arduous career or active lifestyle”

Podcast – Chris is the creator and host of the Prep and Defend Show; a podcast inspired by Tactical Athletes and their lifestyles.

Quote: Stay Hungry, Be Humble, Do Hard-Work! ~ Chris Ruano

VenturAthlete.com

Chris has developed a proven program through trial and error, and various Programming and Coaching courses.
In order to share what he’s learned with other athletes and leaders, Chris created VenturAthlete.com.
Chris now specializes in preparing and training Fire Service Athletes for the arduous duties that their careers demand. As a current Wildland Training cadre member he is especially interested in helping out and physically preparing many of the young athletes that are striving to enter fire Department and Wildland and Fire Service careers.

“Leading and training our crews required developing high-level fitness programming that would create athletes that are extremely durable and well-rounded. I’ve worked hard to design and implement year-round training that provides the necessary balance of strength and conditioning for my entire team.”

The Prep and Defend Show – Podcast

Learn helpful workout, leadership, and lifestyle strategies, insights, tips and hacks for you and your team. Join guests and hosts on this deep-dive into the fitness-leadership lifestyle of the Career Tactical Athlete or arduous lifestyle.

Guests and hosts will draw from their experience on Wildland Fire Crews, Municipal Fire Departments, and the greater Tactical Athlete and Fitness community in order to better equip the Tactical Athlete Community for the challenges of an arduous, high-commitment lifestyle.

With long-term fitness and lifestyle goals in mind, you will learn helpful workout and life strategies, insights, and tips that you and or your team can apply as you push yourselves to exceed the standard on the “Fire-Line” and beyond.

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

1. Stay Hungry
2. Be Humble
3. Do Hard-Work

Today’s Guest & Resource Links:

• linktr.ee/venturathlete
• VenturAthlete.com
• https://marketplace.trainheroic.com/workout-plan/team/dirtydozen?attrib=31074-ig
• prepanddefend.buzzsprout.com

Watch us on YouTube:

Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30 – Introduction

10:00 – I have been involved with a lot of training academies, training the people that we hire, I’ve done several. You get to week three or so and you start to learn that people’s personalities are the ones that are going to actually stick around and graduate. A bunch of them get nicknames and that nickname for sure follows them to their first assignment. A lot of times, you know, quite a ways through their career.

20:00 – The first time I have ever went on an airplane was there were fires are burning in Florida in 1998. And we flew, we went to Florida, in all parts of Florida, northern Florida and Flagler County there. And we got our R&R in Florida. So a whole bunch of you know, 21 year old kids, you know, going to check it out places we never been Cocoa Beach and mandatory days, days off. You go to the south Daytona. No, we were up in the middle of the state, though. We made it to Daytona. We did. We rented a car and went to we rented a t top trans-am. Anybody here ever heard of a car company called Pontiac,

31:20 – on those tragic events, and you know, we’re kind of talking, you know, about, like you said, people that are closest, how hard it is for them. And when I would use it as a training tool, and this is a great discussion, just for everybody listening out there. And if you haven’t seen the movie, I definitely recommend recommend it as just a way to honor those, those guys that are no longer with us, but but it’s the human factors, right. Like you mentioned, there’s, there’s policies, and there’s procedures, and then there’s science, right, there’s the weather that we can’t always predict. But really, we specialize and when we’re training people, you know, we can’t control all those other factors. But we’re trying to teach people the human factors.

40:00 – In reference to Situational Awareness, a lot of times I try to recognize when things aren’t going like they should. Or if somebody needs help in a certain area, I’m kind of that for them, but who’s watching my back? So that’s her, she’s seeing the whole picture.

50:00 – I post a lot about fitness because like you, it’s just kind of over time, that’s kind of what I became known for. At work, that was part of my passion, that’s just who I am. So that’s the business side of it, the podcasting, and even the business side with VenturAthlete. I actually started first programming for our teams that I worked with are paid, hand crews, trying to come up with something that we can do at work that would still allow us to work. Because you can go hardcore on a lot of this programming that you can find online nowadays.

01:02:00 – Final Words Shown Below…

Our Final Words of the Show:

At this point, what I would like to be known for and what I would like to pass on even to my sons that they would be known for, and I kind of got it just in three little little short blurbs. It’s to Stay Hungry, to Be Humble, and to Do Hard-Work. You’re never going to reach the pinnacle. You’re never going to get to the top of the ladder. Staying hungry all the time, but doing it in a way that has humility and not arrogance. That means you can help other people and then doing the hard work recognizing when there’s hard work and not passing it up to let somebody else handle it. But you get in there and do the hard work and so that’s what I would drop on the audience. I hope it’s helpful to you and thank you so much Scott for having me on the show.

Positive Actions:

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Help us reach more listeners with a 5-Star Review on iTunes and Submit a Review

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Enjoy This August 2021 Book Launch Throwback Episode:

I took a big break during 2021 to ensure we could finish launching my first book, “So You Want To Be A Hotshot” and well, we did it! This podcast episode was originally a Facebook LIVE video on my personal feed there during our book launch day. So please listen in with my editor and publisher partner, Hilary and I celebrate and discuss lessons learned. With 20+ years in the digital marketing trenches, J . Hill Marketing & Creative Services is the expert. Period. Here is Hilary’s bio below.

Quote: You OWE it to your book to take time and not rush it!

~ Hilary Jastram

I am the founder of J. Hil Creative, a marketing agency specializing in premier copywriting, editing, and book editing for Fortune 500 brands and the “one-percent” superstar entrepreneurs. Bookmark Publishing House, a division of J. Hil Creative, was born out of necessity when the inquiries I put out to help authors publish their masterpieces gained traction. Now, it is Bookmark that demands most of my time–and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Authors who come to me get a genuine assessment of what they need to do to reach the book publishing finish line. I am qualified to teach them as this is a road I have traveled myself.

It’s important that an author works with an editor who has been in the book writing trenches–who is an author themselves. So the process is one of not just empathy but sympathy. When I tell authors I understand their confusion and overwhelm, their fear of releasing their book baby into the world, I absolutely mean it. This is why I love being a book coach so much! There is nothing like being witness to a writer’s strength growing in ways that surprise even them. I tell myself every day that I have the best job on the planet.

Since 2016, Bookmark has helped over 100 authors everywhere get published! That’s a number I’m pretty proud of. I attribute our success to my incredible team of experts ranging from proofers, formatters, designers, marketers, copywriters, and editors.

Another one of my labors of love is the Go Book Yourself podcast that allows authors to master writing, marketing, and publishing one byte at a time. It’s my hope that this podcast will provide peace of mind through the sharing of relevant and road-tested tips, tricks, and industry insights, so authors can gain the confidence they need to move forward on the steps to publication.

As you are about to learn, there’s no feeling like becoming an author in the entire world. Wearing the crown of authorhood belongs solely to you. Nothing can ever take it away. And in my eyes, nothing can ever beat it.

Although my time is dedicated mainly to Bookmark, I am available for copywriting, publishing, and marketing consultations. Please reach out using the Contact option on the menu at the top of the page. I can’t wait to speak with you soon!

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

1. Be patient with the process, even a Hotshot can struggle.
2. Stay inspired to ensure your motivation to the end.
3. Partner with the right professional to push you to the finish line

Today’s Guest & Resource Links:

• https://jhilcreative.com
• https://www.instagram.com/j_hil_creative/

Watch us on YouTube:

Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30 – Introduction

10:25 – I have to stay sane and married. So I’m gonna make a command decision right now to do those things. I admired your dedication. I admired your focus, and you came back to it. So some people don’t come back to it. I don’t know why this is.

17:10 – You already had that commitment. I think he was robbed but what stuck out for me and what I just kind of chuckled over and I really enjoyed watching you get into and wade around in… You fully immersed yourself in the total geekiness of living as a minimalist. That that was joyful for me.

22:30 – So I do mention that in the book. There’s already been a movie about the Granite Mountain Hotshots who passed away June 30, 2013. I got to serve alongside of them with my crew Pleasant Valley Hotshots in 2010, 2011, on different fires. Then, unfortunately, when I stepped away from the profession, they ended up passing away. 19 of the 20 men lost their lives on the Yarnell Hill fire on June 30, 2013 trying to protect the town of Yarnell outside of Prescott, Arizona.

30:35 – It’s not you, it’s me. I think my line was, man I was such a douche, I think my line was, was like, listen, I can be gone for a month at a time or two months at a time. It’s not fair to you or I to take those matters of the heart like that so lightly. Honestly, deep down, I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to risk my heart, I was shut down. I saw people on my crew struggling, being engaged, being married, worrying about people cheating on you while you’re gone. So I was like, dude, this is only for like, sometimes four to six weeks. I can’t imagine people in the military what they go through. It took a lot of years of work to pull my head out of my ass after this.

40:00 – Well, I’ll tell you what I think what you’re doing here is right. So when you take on a book, it used to be, I’m going to write a book and that’s going to be the focus. I’m going to write a book and then I’m going to do this, then I’m going to do this, and I’m going to do this, once you’ve done “this”, you launch a multi-prong campaign. That is exactly what you should be doing. So if there’s anything that I want people to take away today, it is to wrap your mind around the fact that you’re not just an author, you are a marketer, you will be whether you’re self-publishing, going with the publisher or a traditional publisher, whatever the case is. You will be expected to come to the table as a marketer.

50:00 –

46:15 – Final Words Shown Below…

Our Final Words of the Show:

If you can’t sell your own book… Alright. So my friends, my family, my followers, please help push this out there. Now again, all profits go to charity, I’m not messing around. It tells you right an Amazon. It’s literally on the back of the book. I started my own foundation, that was one of the things that happened because of writing the book. I want to be able to make sure and guarantee people that money is going to charity.

FUEL Foundations is legit 501-C3 nonprofit that I registered over a year ago. I didn’t plan on doing it until writing the book because then I realized, wait a minute, what if certain firefighting benefiting communities or charities either go defunct, or all of a sudden get shady. I need to ensure that people’s money is being put in the right hands. If I only aligned with one charity on the book, well, then I can’t help others. So this is one way that we can literally ensure that this book’s success can be benefiting multiple organizations for years to come!

Positive Actions:

My New Book is LIVE! Go get “So You Want To Be A Hotshot”!

https://amzn.to/3tnCIcT

Please don’t forget a positive book review after your purchase too. The Kindle and Paperback are up and the Audiobook book version for Audible is coming soon!

Help us reach more listeners with a 5-Star Review on iTunes and Submit a Review

Please consider supporting our 501c-3 non-profit and visit http://fuelfoundations.org

Join our private Facebook community The FUEL UP Mindset

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UPDATES FOR HOTSHOTS BOOK EDITING, FUEL FOUNDATIONS LAUNCHES, AND JORDAN CREEK SINGLETRACK:

Scott Mulvaney is your host and founder of the LIVETHEFUEL Podcast Show as well as a former member of the Hotshots world. This show launched in September 2016. He’s your CEO aka Chief intrEpid Officer of the LIVETHEFUEL lifestyle brand and FUEL Marketing solutions. We’ve also now founded the new 501c-3, FUEL Foundations as our non-profit arm to create more positive change!

Today’s podcast is a welcomed return since we’ve taken at least 6 weeks off of airing a new show. I promised I dig deep into our non-profit projects, mostly the Hotshots book editing but also to ensure the new FUEL Foundations was getting off strong. So enjoy the updates and stay tuned for new upcoming guest cohosts to come in the following weeks!

“You too can LIVE THE FUEL!” – Quoted: Scott Mulvaney

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

1. Give Back
2. Dare To Change
3. Keep Going

Today’s Resource Links from the Podcast:

• Today’s Podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/npyd29aH_jk
• Visit our new FUEL Foundations: http://fuelfoundations.org

Our Mentioned Influencers:

• Brian Strauser of The Strauser Project

You Too Can LIVETHEFUEL! @livethefuel

Timestamped Show Notes:

• 00:30 Introduction
• 11:24 I have got the Hotshots book that’s going to benefit my new FUEL Foundations. I’ve got the annual fallen firefighters workout that we do in the F13 Performance, and more. All of this is now benefiting the foundation and then obviously the foundation will be able to give back as we see fit. I now even moved our Jordan Creek Singletrack projects under that because I’ve been paying out of my pocket forever and I still will. However, we need a foundation to build support and positive charitable growth.
• 10:30 I’m not taking any profit. Let’s be real here, one thing I’ve learned in this self-publishing school mastermind group and learn from other authors, is that you’re not going to become rich. It’s just a passion project to give back.
• 20:00 My wife calls me on my shit and loves to quote Joe Rogan.
• 23:28 As we continue to grow and succeed, you will attract the haters along with the lovers. You have got to sort through the mess, keep rolling with it, keep punching through it, and keep taking that imperfect action.
• 28:30 Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

You have got to figure out your day. You have got to figure out what fires you up. Maybe you have a side hustle in you. Maybe you have a business in you that you’ve always wanted to kind of play around with.

You know what, life is short. If you don’t like your job, or your career, CHANGE IT! It might not happen in six months or two years, but at least you will have something going on that helps you feel free. Find that free time that fires you up. If anything, I find too many things to fire me up these days.

Action Steps:

• Support our 501c-3 non-profit and visit http://fuelfoundations.org
• Help us reach more people with 5 Star Reviews, visit iTunes and Submit a Review
• Join our private Facebook community The FUEL Tank, at https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheFUELTank/

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Our Part III One-On-One Holiday Episodes, Catching You Up on the Hotshots Book Project:

Scott Mulvaney is your host and founder of the LIVETHEFUEL Podcast Show as well as a former member of the Hotshots world. This show launched September 2016. He’s your CEO aka Chief intrEpid Officer of the LIVETHEFUEL lifestyle brand and FUEL Marketing solutions.

Today’s podcast is a third, back-to-back, one-on-one format. We normally record with guest co-hosts but for this holiday season, Scott wanted to do a few personalized episodes to catch you up on things. So podcasts 232, 233, and 234 are a Thanksgiving Trifecta of shortened podcasts. Each episode is focused on three areas, Thanksgiving Philanthropic Charity efforts, the health of his Calvin The Coonhound, and this episode is about the upcoming Hotshots book.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

• [spp-timestamp time=”00:30″] Introduction
• [spp-timestamp time=”01:25″] Catching up from podcast 233, Calvin The Coonhound’s bloodwork has returned to 98%!
• [spp-timestamp time=”02:50″] Reminder to listen to episode 232 for Thanksgiving Charity and Philanthropic Inspirations.
• [spp-timestamp time=”03:30″] Scott becomes an author with Network Magazine.
• [spp-timestamp time=”05:05″] Scott speads up his book writing by purchasing membership into the Self-Publishing School online mastermind group. It was time to put $ Skin In The Game!
• [spp-timestamp time=”06:35″] Where LIVETHEFUEL came from, it’s Hotshot Wildland Firefighting roots.
• [spp-timestamp time=”07:17″] Reflecting on this years’ tragic wildfires in California, the Paradise Fire, Woolsey Fire, and Camp Fire. Hundreds of lives were lost, thousands of homes and structures gone.
• [spp-timestamp time=”08:15″] Reflecting on WUI awareness, the Wildland Urban Interface.
• [spp-timestamp time=”10:15″] Speaking vs Writing a book with Otter.ai
• [spp-timestamp time=”12:00″] App hacks including Otter.ai, Evernote, and Microsoft Word.
• [spp-timestamp time=”12:10″] The origins of the upcoming book title. Hotshots are no joke and you’ll learn this in the book. You gotta suck it up, Buttercup!
• [spp-timestamp time=”14:20″] Inspiration to share life lessons learned along the Hotshots journey.
• [spp-timestamp time=”15:25″] Leaving the cubicle life in the corporate world for pack testing and Subaru minimalism. Rookie to Snookie.
• [spp-timestamp time=”16:20″] Getting humble, sup-truck bitches, Integrity, the loss of Dalton Lasater, and situational awareness.
• [spp-timestamp time=”20:00″] EAR MUFFS for your kids hear, Shits Hitting The Fan!
• [spp-timestamp time=”21:30″] Father inspired work ethic.
• [spp-timestamp time=”22:38″] Final Words

“Live The Fired Up Epic Life!”

~ LIVETHEFUEL – Scott Mulvaney

[spp-tweet tweet=”The #Hotshots #Book is coming along and I’m apart of the #SelfPublishing School! @livethefuel “]

Watch On YouTube:

Links and Resources:

• So You Wanna Be A Hotshot
• Podcast 233: Our Calvin The Coonhound Battles Cancer
• Podcast 232: Wishing a Happy Thanksgiving & NY Charities
• Self-Publishing School
• Voice Transcription App Otter.ai
• Follow Scott on LinkedIn
• Follow Scott on Twitter
• Follow Scott on Facebook
• Follow Scott on Instagram

Mentioned Influencers:

• Network Magazine

Final Words:

I have to embrace the suck, I have to jump over these walls, these hurdles. I have to let the shit hit the fan and spray all over the place. Then go through the problems of cleaning all of that up because that’s where the lessons in life are going to come from.

Action Steps:

• Submit an iTunes Review. More 5 Stars reaches more people!
• Visit our Resources page and a reminder to LIVE-THE-FUEL my friends!
• Join my private Facebook community THE FUEL TANK!

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