Whole House Counseling & Consultation

03/09/2025

The fire service doesn’t need another conference with stale coffee and recycled slides. It needs THIS.Nick Magoteaux and Jim Burneka built the Firefighter Health & Wellness Conference to be real, raw, affordable, and life-changing. In this episode, we talk about mental health, brotherhood, and why spouses belong in the room too.
Episode 121 is live: https://www.afterthetonesdrop.co/nick-and-jim

29/08/2025

Strong leadership isn’t about having all the answers.
It’s about creating space where people can show up fully human.

Here’s what vulnerability in leadership really looks like:
👥 Solving problems together as a team
⚡ Pairing competence with honesty
🤝 Building trust through authenticity
🔥 Letting shared struggle become shared strength

This is how leaders earn trust—and how departments build resilience.

🎧 Tune into Episode 120 with Scott Booth:

👉 https://www.afterthetonesdrop.co/scott-l-booth

27/08/2025

🔥 New Episode: Scott Booth on Leadership & Vulnerability 🔥

We’ve all heard it:
“Don’t let them see you sweat.” But what if that’s the very thing holding us back?

In Episode 120 of After the Tones Drop, I sit down with Scott Booth—Deputy Chief of Health and Safety at Gig Harbor Fire and Medic One—to talk about why vulnerability isn’t weakness, it’s strength.

Scott shares his journey from a tough childhood to over 35 years in the fire service, and why he now sees vulnerability as a leadership superpower.

We talk about:
✔️ Why “me too” might be the two most powerful words in our line of work
✔️ How shared struggle builds stronger, more resilient teams
✔️ What it really looks like to lead with both competence and compassion

This episode is about leadership, healing, and the courage it takes to be real in a profession that often rewards silence.

🎙️ Listen here: https://www.afterthetonesdrop.co/scott-l-booth

25/08/2025

Cleveland! She’s coming!

Cinnamon will be presenting
with 1st Responder Conferences on November 3&4 with a great lineup of speakers.

For the details and registration, click the link.

Co-hosted by Cuyahoga County Fire Chiefs Association, Cuyahoga County Police Chiefs Association, Chagrin Valley Dispatch Endorsed by Cleveland Department of Health, University Hospital Critical Care Team Transport Team, Cleveland Division of Police, Cleveland Hopkins Airport Fire, Independence Polic...

22/08/2025

Departments spend months preparing for every operational scenario—why not prepare for life outside the job?

Adam Boyd of Soleful Training shows how to make resilience part of the culture.

🎧 Full episode here → https://www.afterthetonesdrop.co/adam-boyd

21/08/2025

New Episode 109 Just Dropped!

Resilience Starts at Home

We train for danger, but what about the wear and tear at home?

Adam Boyd of Soleful Training joins me to talk about building resilient first responders—physically, mentally, and in the relationships that matter most.

🎧 Listen now → https://www.afterthetonesdrop.co/adam-boyd

📩 Connect with Adam: solefulwarrior@gmail.com | www.solefultraining.com

12/08/2025

We can’t keep pretending this is just bad luck or bad genes. Cancer is now one of the leading causes of death for law enforcement officers—and too many are finding out too late.

In this week’s blog, I’m sharing my conversation with Vickie Speed, founder of Blue Cancer Connect. Her mission is simple but urgent: educate, support, and stand with officers and families facing cancer—before and after the diagnosis.

💙 How departments can make screenings and education standard
💙 What families need when the unthinkable happens
💙 How you can help make “no one fights alone” more than a slogan
Read the full blog and listen to the episode
Blog 👉 https://www.afterthetonesdrop.co/blog/behind-the-badge-cancer-doesnt-discriminate/
Episode 117 👉 https://www.afterthetonesdrop.co/vickie-speed/

10/08/2025

It’s been 6 days since Tony Manfredi, age 37, left his beautiful wife, soon-to-be-born son, his family, and his brothers and sisters in the fire service. Tony was a guy you would describe simply as “a good dude all around.” Every time I went to the station, he was ready with a warm greeting, and a welcoming attitude. In the 8 years I have served Hamilton Fire as a clinician, supporter, patron and friend, HFD has had more loss than any one department should. Please keep all who love Tony in your hearts this week as they lay him to rest. E.O.W. 08/04/2025

View Anthony Phillip Manfredi's obituary, send flowers, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

07/08/2025

“Cancer’s not waiting until retirement.”
It’s showing up earlier. Hitting harder. And too many departments still don’t have a plan.

In this episode of After the Tones Drop, Vickie Speed shares 4 simple but powerful ways agencies can actually fight cancer in law enforcement—starting now.

✅ Educate officers from day one
✅ Make screenings standard practice
✅ Connect families to real help
✅ Provide compassionate peer support

If you work in this world—or love someone who does—this is a conversation you need to hear.
🎧 Full episode: https://www.afterthetonesdrop.co/vickie-speed

05/08/2025

We don’t need more awareness. We need a damn roadmap.

First responders are drowning in one-liners about “breaking the stigma.” But catchy slogans don’t rebuild nervous systems. They don’t repair marriages. And they sure as hell don’t stop people from spiraling.

In the latest After The Tones Drop episode, I sit down with Matty Fiorenza—retired firefighter, founder of the First Responder Peace and Refuge Foundation, and someone who’s lived every layer of the job, the trauma, and the healing.

We talk about what actually helps:
⚡️ Stella Ganglion Block (SGB)
⚡️ Neurofeedback
⚡️ Twelve-step meetings
⚡️ And the hard truth that healing isn’t a checklist. It’s a commitment.

If you’re a responder, a leader, or someone trying to hold it together while helping everyone else—you need to read this.

The blog includes the full episode link.
This is what real support looks like. No fluff.

📖 Read the blog now 🔗 https://www.afterthetonesdrop.co/blog/first-responders-dont-need-more-mental-health-awarenessthey-need-effective-blueprints-and-tools-for-healing/

01/08/2025

Did you miss this one? Because if you’ve ever carried more than the job asked you to— you need to hear it.

🚨 Unpacking the Armor: When Childhood Trauma and First Responder Trauma Collide with Ci “Cindy” Rodriguez isn’t just another mental health chat. It’s a raw, honest look at what happens when trauma stacks up—first as a kid, then as a responder.

We talk survival skills that outlive their usefulness. We talk the weight under the badge. We talk what it means to finally, finally take the armor off.
This one’s not about being tough. It’s about being free.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: 👉 https://www.afterthetonesdrop.co/cindy-ci-rodriguez-unpacking-the-armor-childhood-trauma-leadership-and-life-after-law-enforcem/