Guest Interviews
Preparing for an Active Assailant on Campus | Morgan Ballis Interview | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #117 [Podcast]
[Podcast] As a school crisis develops, more time means more options. This episode’s guest works to put seconds back on the clock by teaching people steps to improve their chances for survival during a chaotic situation. DIRECT LINK to MP3 of this Episode: https://tinyurl.com/SDP117-AUDIO ABOUT MORGAN BALLIS Morgan Ballis is the Director of Strategic Planning &…
Read MoreBuilding Your Legacy | Interview with Rob Says | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #116 [Podcast]
[Podcast] What is legacy? What isn’t legacy? Is a Danish a donut with no hole? Listen to guest Rob Says from Robsays.net as this episode of The Safety Doc Podcast addresses agency, purpose and legacy. DIRECT LINK to MP3 of this Episode: https://tinyurl.com/SDP116-AUDIO YOUR ANCESTORS ARE NOT YOUR LEGACY Defining your legacy by either your ancestry…
Read MoreNick Schulaner | The Jagged Intersection of Marketing and School Safety | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #114 [Podcast]
[Podcast] Nick Schulaner is a 21-year-old guitar-playing Digital Marketer and Mechanical Engineering Student. He has instructed in 2 programs teaching people how to do digital marketing so they can either promote their own small business or get jobs marketing for other people. He also has his own YouTube channel where he interviews other successful marketers…
Read MoreSAFETY DOC PODCAST #113 | Spelunker Atham Aldecua on Psyche, Soma & STEM [Podcast]
[Podcast] Atham Aldecua’s safety advice is to assume that you are always alone and that anyone else that can help you during a crisis is a bonus. Trust gut instincts and rely upon yourself to make decisions and find options within chaos. A caver, climber, hiker, and snowboarder, Atham’s forded the divide from self-similarity to…
Read MoreSAFETY DOC PODCAST #111 | Interview with Max Eden | Education Policy Expert and Coauthor of Why Meadow Died [Podcast]
PODCAST: In this episode of The Safety Doc Podcast, I talk with the co-author of Why Meadow Died: The People and Policies That Created The Parkland Shooter and Endanger America’s Students. He discusses student discipline reform, student disability policies, abeyance agreements, and pressures on institutions to ‘look as though they have no problems,’ and more…
Read MoreAnn Marie Cotman Interview – How Zero-tolerance Discipline Policies Undermine School Safety | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #110 [Podcast]
[Podcast] In 2013, A 7-year-old Maryland kid chewed his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun at school and wound up with two days suspension. The pastry in question was not named, but it’s gotta be a Pop-Tart, right? This dubious outcome, and others like it, are often the result of what is known…
Read MoreInterview with Effin’ Birds Author Aaron Reynolds | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #108 [Podcast]
[Podcast] AARON REYNOLDS is a humourist, professional speaker, and the man behind the @EffinBirds and @swear_trek Twitter accounts. When he’s not on Twitter, you can find him producing a series of podcasts and at ComicCons dressed as George Lucas. He has been a baseball writer, a fine art printer, and a mall Santa Claus photographer.…
Read MoreTragic Truth About Bahamas Hurricane Devastation with Katie Pechon and German Parodi [PODCAST]
[Podcast] As Bahamian officials continue to sort through the widespread destruction left by Hurricane Dorian, confusion and uncertainty has been rampant during much of the initial recovery process. Guests Katie Pechon, German Parodi and Shaylin Sluzalis bring awareness and urgency to the untold stories of the Bahamas and the oft-overlooked impact disasters have on persons…
Read MoreThe Perilous Practice of Exempting Disabled Students from Safety Drills | Attorney James Sibley | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #95
[PODCAST] Attorney James Sibley is a potent advocate for special needs students and their families fighting for fair treatment. In this episode of the Safety Doc Podcast, Attorney Sibley and host David Perrodin discuss the sprawling practice of limiting or exempting students with disabilities from school safety instruction, drills and access to threat reporting systems.…
Read MoreGiles Rhys Jones Interview | Addressing the World | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #90 [Podcast]
PODCAST – Giles Rhys Jones, Chief Marketing Officer for what3words, was interviewed for this episode of The Safety Doc Podcast. Dr. Perrodin contacted Giles after recently learning about what3words and instantly realizing its potential to recast swaths of school safety protocols. Giles and David discuss how w3w has interfaced with, and improved, rescue platforms and…
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