Our 100th episode of The Courage Wolf podcast was dedicated to a fallen hero: Police Service Dog Troy! Join us for this replay of our 100th episode where we spoke with Paul Johnston and honoured the memory of Troy. On the 25th of February 1992 Constable Paul Johnston was dispatched to a domestic violence call...

Randy Papple was a paramedic for 42 years, ending his service in 2019 as Deputy Chief of Brant County EMS. Randy has seen Post Traumatic Stress takes its toll on many first responders. He has made it his passion to bring resources together so first responders can deal successfully with the challenges that they face...

Al Romano was a 26 year veteran police officer who by his own admission did not take care of himself physically or by eating properly.  When he and Debbie got married and he retired, their lifestyle packed 50 lbs on Al’s already unhealthy frame. Al’s wake up call came in the form of a near fatal...

Have we got a great guest for you today!  Dave Muller spent over 33 years in policing with Peel and Guelph Police and he retired almost 5 weeks ago today. Dave’s story’s is nothing short of a miracle in that he fully recovered from a head on collision in 2007 in which he should have died.  The...

David Richman used to be a sedentary, overweight smoker who transformed himself into an ultra endurance athlete. David lost his beloved sister to terminal brain cancer in 2007 and he’s hosted a number of fundraisers in her memory to raise funds for various cancer organizations. Over the past 10 years David’s completed over 50 triathlons...

I’d like to dedicate this episode of the podcast to all of our listeners who’ve lost someone special and are feeling it more as these holidays draw near. May this episode help you in some way and make it just a little easier for you, for us, to make it through. The podcast you’re about...

A few months ago I was honoured to have been asked to be a guest on a podcast called Live your SPA life with Diane Halfman who is a former police officer and who is now a successful entrepreneur. Diane and I had a great conversation and we talked about a number of things including...

This episode of The Courage Wolf podcast is a very short update on the next two episodes, what we’re doing over the holiday season, and more.

We’ve been honoured on past episodes of having paramedics, police officers, firefighters, correctional officers, military personnel and civilians on the podcast, as well as a number of people from the healing professions who help us to heal from our traumas. But we’ve never had an emergency communicator, or dispatcher as they used to be called,...

On today’s short solocast I’m going to talk about something that makes us older prematurely, and, what to do about that. And I’m also going to introduce our guest for next Monday.  Nadine Leduc was an emergency service communicator and recently completed her Master’s thesis on toxic environments within first responder organizations and how they...

This episode’s going to be fun.  To be honest, I hate board games.  I haven’t always been this way and when today’s special guest approached me about doing a podcast on board games, my first thought was “I don’t think so!” But, Diana Indries has changed my thinking about board games and I’m glad she did and...

In this short solocast I want to tell you about a world renowned Canadian artist who I had the privilege of meeting last month. And, I want to tell you about a few changes to the podcast over the next three months.

Terry Oliver here with this edition of The Courage Wolf podcast. We’ve got a knockout of an episode for you today as you’ll probably be able to tell when you start listening to the podcast. Today I am going to be talking with 4 people who are living their best lives in spite of having...

On the 22nd of April 2006 Cpl Matthew Dinning made the ultimate sacrifice for his country. Matthew was killed along with 3 other Canadian soldiers when a roadside bomb exploded, killing all four instantly. The Courage Wolf podcast and myself are honoured to bring you our first podcast honouring a fallen Canadian soldier. Please join...

Today I’ll be talking with Diane Halfman, who among other things is a former Seattle police officer and a current consultant, trainer and podcaster herself. This is going to be a very interesting conversation in which we’ll unpack some great advice from Diane that she learned in policing and brought over to the private sector....

Sometimes all the cosmic tumblers in the universe align and something magical happens.  And sometimes that something magical is a person’s life being saved, or your own life being saved. Today you’re going to hear how a number of things happened, one right after another to save Charlene Madden’s life, and then you’re going to hear...

When you become a first responder you don’t know how you’ll react in a real situation until it happens.  And for the most part, first responders do not get very much training to handle what they’ll experience, if any at all. So that means that the great majority of first responders are not prepared for the...

Hello everyone.  Just a short and sweet podcast to thank everyone for listening for the past two years and hopefully for listening to us over the next year and beyond.

Today’s guest is the Director of Sales and Affiliate Marketing for the Inspired Performance Institute. Mark Aylward is part of a team that is dedicated to helping people heal from post traumatic stress and other OSI’s. We’re going to start with finding out more about Mark and his story and we’re going to end with finding...

About three months ago I had the pleasure of being a guest on The Femininja Project podcast. The host is Cheryl Ilov who was my guest on episode 145 of our podcast. Cheryl is a great host and I thought that I would publish this episode for your listening pleasure. You might find out more...