The Current of Emergency Management Podcast
1) S3: E3; Faith, Friendship, and Burnout (2nd Episode in Burnout Series)
In this conversation, Maribel and Cody discuss various topics, including their faith and how it keeps them grounded and helps with their work-life balance in the field of emergency management and how ...Show More
2) S3: E2; LTE Outage and Importance of Backup Communications
In this episode, Cody and Maribel discuss the recent AT&T outage and its impact on voting sites during an election. They introduce their guest, Daniel Blount, who has extensive experience in radio com...Show More
3) S3: E1; Kicking off 2024!
SummaryIn this episode, Cody and Maribel discuss their absence from the podcast and express gratitude for the continued support from listeners. They reflect on the passage of time since the COVID-19 p...Show More
4) S2: E6 Summer Conferences, Summer Heat, and Wildfires
On this episodes we talk about why we took a summer break which has a lot to do with summer conferences. We discuss the ones we went to, the benefits and some unconventional conferences that EMs may n...Show More
5) S2: E5.2 Part Two: Interview with USMC Master Gunnery Sergeant (Ret.) Justin Aiken
This is the second of two episodes with recently retired Master Gunnery Sergeant Justin Aiken who served in the United States Marine Corps for 31 years. Our initial plan was for this interview to be m...Show More
S2: E5.2 Part Two: Interview with USMC Master Gunnery Sergeant (Ret.) Justin Aiken
1:04:59 | Jun 2nd, 2023
6) S2: E5.1 Interview with USMC Master Gunnery Sergeant (Ret.) Justin Aiken
This is the first of two episodes with recently retired Master Gunnery Sergeant Justin Aiken who served in the United States Marine Corps for 31 years. Our initial plan was for this interview to be mo...Show More
S2: E5.1 Interview with USMC Master Gunnery Sergeant (Ret.) Justin Aiken
1:37:28 | May 30th, 2023
7) S2: E4 Interview with Julie Elliot; The Role of Faith Based Organizations in Disasters
There were some audio quality issues on the recording for this episode... The quality improves at around the 15 minute mark. In this episode, we interview Julie Elliot about her research and recently ...Show More
S2: E4 Interview with Julie Elliot; The Role of Faith Based Organizations in Disasters
1:15:37 | Apr 30th, 2023
8) S2: E3 Interview with Jennifer Dunn from NWS
On this episode, we had the opportunity to sit down with Jennifer Dunn, Warning Coordination Meteorologist from the Fort Worth Office of the National Weather Service (NWS-FW). We discuss her role with...Show More
9) S2: E2 What is an EM?
On this episode, we talk about defining what an Emergency Manager is and discuss the reasons why defining out job and scope of practice is becoming a topic of conversation more and more often. Additi...Show More
10) S2: E1 Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster- 20 year Anniversary
Our first Episode of Season 2 covers the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster on the 20 year anniversary. We had the opportunity to interview Irish Hancock, EM Administrator for the Arlington Fire Departme...Show More