Resilience Development in Action

E.227 How A Trilingual Clinician Bridges Police, Families, And Mental Health

• Steve Bisson, Amanda Rizoli • Season 12 • Episode 227

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The hardest conversations often happen in the quiet minutes between calls. We sat down with clinician and co-response partner Amanda Rizoli to explore how real support for first responders is built—on language, trust, and the discipline to show up when services are thin and the need is loud. Amanda works alongside the Milford Police Department’s Family Services Unit and partners with Community Impact, Chris’s Corner Recovery Resource Center, and New England Medical Group to create a wraparound model that meets people where they are.

We talk through the realities of police and EMS life: constant hypervigilance, the pull toward numbing after shift, and the challenge of switching from fight-or-flight to family dinner. Amanda breaks down how she approaches alcohol as a coping strategy without judgment, how she teaches practical skills like structured decompression and tactical breathing, and why brief, timely check-ins during ride-alongs can open doors that a formal office visit can’t. She also shares how a therapy canine lowers defenses on scene, and how clinicians earn credibility by respecting patrol’s turf and knowing when to step back.

Culture and language shape access. As a trilingual clinician, Amanda navigates the nuances of Portuguese and Spanish dialects across Portugal, Brazil, and Latin America, where stigma can be high and immigration status complicates care. We dig into the shift among younger parents willing to break cycles of silence, and how targeted outreach, transparent pathways, and confidentiality build trust. Families matter here: spouses can act as early warning systems, keeping communication open and knowing when work stress is spilling into home. Periodic joint sessions help couples tune the signal without turning the house into a clinic.

If you care about officer wellness, community trust, and practical ways to prevent burnout, this conversation delivers a grounded playbook: co-response done right, multilingual services, stepped care from outpatient to IOP, and the small, repeatable habits that actually make a difference after shift. Subscribe, share with someone who needs it, and leave a review to help more first responders and families find these tools.

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SPEAKER_02:

Welcome to Resilience Development and Action with Steve Beast Home. This is the podcast dedicated to first responder mental health, helping police hire EMS, discounters, and paramedics create better growth environments for themselves and their team. Let's get started.

SPEAKER_00:

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SPEAKER_03:

Thank you, Steve. I appreciate the invite to come on your podcast.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, let's let's start off with uh an easy one. Why do you think I harass you?

SPEAKER_03:

Because you're good at it. Okay. Um, you know, you just know what you want. So it's I wouldn't really say it's harassing. You're persistent, you know, and making sure that you can get who you need or answers to what you need. So I wouldn't really say harassing.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I only harass the people I want to talk to regularly. So Perfect. It's pretty good, right? Uh Aaron complains about that. Alexa from our beh Behind the Badge and Beyond group. Uh and if you ask Lisa, I bother her all the time. Uh Lisa Truces, who works with you. But all joking aside, um I tell us a little bit about yourself. I obviously know you. I feel like I really know you, but obviously not everyone knows you on the podcast, so please go ahead and introduce yourself.

SPEAKER_03:

Um so I am an outpatient therapist. I have a master's in social work. I have my LCSW. I am the clinical program coordinator and co-response clinician for Community Impact and the Milford Police Department's Family Services Unit. And we also partner with Chris's Corner, as you had mentioned. We have New England Medical Group right here in town with a partial hospitalization program and an intensive outpatient program. So I assist anyone in the community, being trilingual, um, Portuguese being my first language and also knowing Spanish. I go out with the PD and I assist in whatever way that I can, whether it's connecting people with mental health services, detox, you know, domestic violence and things like that. And you know, we're also involved in the schools as well. If they need um any assistance, we do have a therapy canine Piper who tags along with us. She's great. And um, yeah, that's kind of what I do. I'm just a girl of all trades.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, but see, this is what you typically you do, Amanda.

SPEAKER_03:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

You you tell me about what you do in life, but you didn't tell me anything about you other than you're trilingual.

SPEAKER_03:

Myself.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, because trilingual is the first, like, oh, I did I knew you spoke two languages. Uh I did not not know three, so I've learned something.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

But what about Amanda? I mean, did she like who is she?

SPEAKER_03:

I am a wife, uh married to this world. My husband is a sergeant with the police department. We have three beautiful children, all girls, and we have a dog. Um, you know, I just like to do what I do for work and just be that, you know, attentive mom at home as much as I can. We have both very strong um families, him being Italian and Irish and me being 100% Portuguese. So um we mesh very well and families everything.

SPEAKER_00:

How are the arguments? I mean, Jesus.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, when I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I'll admit to it, but we all know that's far and few in between. So they're great. Of course.

SPEAKER_00:

And I'm sure he'd say the exact same thing.

SPEAKER_03:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

But no, I think that that's always uh cool when you I think about like Portuguese uh and uh Italians, I don't really want to argue with either or. So that's why like I'm like although I'm a Quebec, we we are very stubborn people.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Um But you know, like you said I harassed you, but you know obviously the mission of this podcast, and you've obviously listened to a little bit of the podcast. So what really besides harassment, what made you decide to come on here?

SPEAKER_03:

I wanted to come on here to talk about um, you know, the importance of treating and providing services for our first responders. It's it's an area that you know not many people are well-versed in or well trained in. Um and also there's that stigma of first responders seeking mental health treatment. So being able to make that um option available to individuals is key, but also knowing how to approach it and assist them. So I wanted to really like dive into that and kind of just talk about what I do.

SPEAKER_00:

And you do so much. I mean, like, you know, again, um, should probably shout out Amy, Amy Leone.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, Amy is my uh clinical director. She owns um Community Impact and Christ's Corner, and she, you know, started up the family services unit with the Mulva Police Department. Um, you know, she part own co-owns um New England Medical Group. She also has her own um sober house as well, and she is, you know, a woman of many expertise, and I wouldn't be where I am today without her. So um she's definitely someone that I enjoy um highly working with, and she is always there to encourage us to do what it is that we want to do and support us in our journeys.

SPEAKER_00:

I've um I met Amy years ago, I can't even remember how long ago, uh, and we were talking about Reiki at the time, and I don't think community impact existed too too long before we talked. Okay. And we look at JAG today, which works with the juvenile uh advocacy group, which we do uh quarterly. A little more than quarterly, but every other month, yep. Yeah. Um but you know what I've always found fascinating is uh Amanda, you were sitting there in that group. I remember being at the police station and and I saw you there for the first time, and you have this energy about working with this community in general. And for me personally, that's always something admirable because as much as I am a pain in the butt and I certainly talk the way I do, I also believe in the community for first responders, but to help first responders, we gotta help the community too. Uh, because if we're not helping the community, please the first responders have it worse. Correct. So you gotta find a way to kind of find a balance.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, what made you like what possessed someone to become a mental health counselor, work in the community with what I consider sometimes the people who are the most needy, but will never reach out for help?

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, I mean, for me, I've always just been a helper, you know, growing up, um, first generation born here, um, you know, my family didn't know much of English. So having to help my parents with that process, you know, whether it was filling out forms, going to doctor's appointments and things like that, to, you know, growing up and helping my grandmother when she was ill and things, I always just had that niche for wanting to help individuals. And, you know, there's a huge stigma with mental health with um, you know, individuals whose primary language isn't English, but there's also a lack of services for those individuals. So I figured, you know, why not can't be that voice and that support for those individuals so that they can also get um proper support and treatment as well.

SPEAKER_00:

And I think it's speaking Portuguese in the what I consider in Massachusetts, Marlborough, Framingham, Milford, kind of that triad is so essential.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, I remember having therapists who are Portuguese speaking, they would be full in about two seconds.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh and when we talk about Portuguese, a lot of people misunderstand that they think it's Brazil and Brazilians, which is fine, but there's also a large number of Portuguese from Portugal that are in the area that people don't understand. And there are cultural differences between hundred percent. How do you kind of like manage that? Because when people know I speak French, they like they go into Parisian French or something about Paris. I'm from Quebec. That's all all fine and good. I'm not putting France down, kind of. Uh but I'm not from there.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm from Quebec, which is a little more gritty, a little more New England-ish, but we speak French.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, how do you navigate these cultural differences? Because it is like I you know, you don't you don't discuss the same thing like you show up 20 minutes late in Brazil, who cares? Right. You show up 20 minutes late in Portugal? Okay, it's a little off. Right. But that I'm talking about very, very uh big, very small things, but I'm sure there's different Yeah, so I mean just there's different dialects, you know, obviously between Portugal and Brazil, but even just if you look at just Brazil or just Portugal, from north to south, there's different dialects.

SPEAKER_03:

You know, look at the United States. You have us New Englanders up here, and you know, we can't pronounce our Rs, but you have someone down south and you may not even understand what they're saying. So it's it's kind of like that, and just understanding the different like lingo terms and and learning those things, and just evolving in and educating yourself about the different norms and you know what's culturally accepted and not within all these different communities. And that goes for the same for the Spanish population. I mean, um Milford has a very strong um Ecuadorian population here in town, and you know, they all have different dialects, and that that goes just you know, whether you're from Spain or you know, Puerto Rico or you know, El Salvador, they their dialects are all different, and it's learning those different dialects.

SPEAKER_00:

So don't call someone from Costa Rica El Salvadorians, is that what you're saying? Right. Well, and that's something that's seems very uh intuitive for people who speak two languages.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

But um as we don't pronounce our Rs here, and I mean we over, you know, and I need to see Dorchester, that's uh for someone who's in the other side of this window, and you just need to say Dorchester.

SPEAKER_01:

Dorchester.

SPEAKER_00:

Just to say it properly. But um I think that it's also thinking about how you approach things, because I think that when I worked, I worked in Framingham for several years on the crisis team and approaching uh the Brazilian population about domestic violence, approaching them in regards to getting their own rights when they you know they have those uh statuses in this country that are different. And I'm trying to be as politically freaking correct as I can right now. Um how do you uh uh you know really approach that differently? Because I I see even the difference you said El Salvador, you know, Costa Rica, don't tell someone from Chile that they're from Spain.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, but also like these logistics are difficult because technically Portuguese are and again, percentage-wise, this is not me making it up, most of them are here more legally than Brazil. How do you navigate those things? Because that's tough.

SPEAKER_03:

Right. So the issue in regards to that is you know, you have to just offer what is available. And you know, you're gonna end up with barriers, whether it's language, whether it's health insurance, or whether it's just not something that's culturally accepted. And you know, a lot of um these immigrant communities, they mental health isn't a thing for them. It's you know, suck it up, buttercup, you know, move on, like you'll be fine kind of thing. Um I think that you're starting to now see this younger generation of parents starting to be a little more accepting and open to these services because they now see their kids going through it, and it's starting to trigger their own generational trauma. And they're like, okay, so this actually isn't okay. It wasn't okay to be this way. And you know, a huge mentality with you know this generation is trying to break that generational trauma and being bigger and better than what your parents were. And I feel like that's something that every parent strives to be is always better than what their parents were. What for good or you know, whether their childhood was perfect or you know, if there were some downfalls, they just want to be better. Um and I think that you're starting to see that a little more now with the this up-and coming generation of parents.

SPEAKER_00:

And I and it's good to see that there is some barriers that are being broken. I mean, I I see people reaching out a little more, uh, not seeing the police as the enemy all the time, although it still occurs, but oh I just being truthful. Um But you know, when you're facing so many barriers, so many difficulties, you know, first first uh generation born here, uh Portuguese, how what keeps you going? I mean, for me, I think that's one of the questions that comes up constantly for people. These are a lot of barriers. When I worked in the the social services field, um barrier after barrier after barrier after barrier, and it was so freaking like aggravating for me. How do you like what keeps you going? Because this is not easy. I see all of you go on, and Chris is corner and community impact and the New England Medical Group. Everything's getting bigger in the Milford, Massachusetts area with that.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

But at one point you gotta like it it gets exhausting. I don't know about you, but that's how I felt sometimes.

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, for me, it's just, you know, I want it even if it's just one family, one person, if I can turn their day around or be of that support, like that's that's my my end goal. Um, you know, working um, you know, in various jobs, you know, between the states and the schools, and now here, um, you know, there were those cultural barriers because of whether it was status or you know, language capabilities and things like that. And the way I look at it is I was one of those kids growing up, you know. Um, my parents migrated here, and you know, I had that language barrier issue growing up because my parents didn't know. They know now because they learned. But, you know, if I can be that pivotal uh pillar for them to make that shift so that they can get what they need, why not be that person for them?

SPEAKER_00:

Wow, you have a lot of passion. You know, um it's good that it keeps you going and helping one person. It's a little bit of what I say about this podcast, too. If only one person listened to this and got something out of it, I'm very happy. It means I've done my job. Um but sometimes it gets exhausting.

SPEAKER_01:

It does.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh and as I record this, I'm actually on vacation from work, but I'm so happy to do the podcast, so it's still not work for me. Is it there are times, is there times where you're working and you're like, oh, this doesn't feel like work. This is actually enjoyable.

SPEAKER_03:

For the most part, that's how I always feel at work. Um, because I just I love doing what I do. Um, I love again, I love helping people. I think the only time that it gets frustrating is when there isn't that specific service attainable or reachable for those individuals, and it's like I have to dig deep to try to find it, but also kind of being that um intermittent person to help keep them, you know, at bay, not not at bay, but help them, you know, stay in a positive environment in the meantime till we can get them um connected with the appropriate service. So just trying to be that uplifting person while they're kind of in limbo.

SPEAKER_00:

And being uplifting is so easy yet difficult.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Because they face barriers that we do. Uh a lot of people face barriers. And you know, you talk about helping them through. I remember getting a call at 11 o'clock at night. Um where can you get someone in a homeless shelter at 11 o'clock at night in Massachusetts? A prayer.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Um and you got to be creative, which is the other part too that I give you a lot of credit for. You are a very creative person with um the stuff that you do. Is that the other part too to continue to be creative, not only helping one person, but being creative when a problem occurs? Because I've been in that vehicle with the officer turning around, like, what the hell are we supposed to do with this? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03:

Yeah, and and and you have to be. You have to be creative. You have to, you know, sometimes you just gotta think on your toes because granted, a same the same call may come in, but every scenario is different. Um, every person's view is different of, you know, when we respond and you know, what they're willing to accept and what they're not willing to accept. So you kind of have to be creative in your approach and how you're gonna get them to engage.

SPEAKER_00:

And how do we get people to engage in general? I mean, it to me that's the that's the hardest part, not only about our work with the community, but I think that even like again, you were we work together, I'm sure we're gonna talk about a little more, but but working with the first responder group, getting to them to engage. I mean, I found my own techniques, but I'm wondering if you have found things that really do work with because the cultural competency of working with first responders, I think is the same cultural competency working with Brazilians, Portuguese, El Salvadorians. Um, and again, I'm talking about people around even Puerto Rico, because sometimes people consider like again, sorry to break a wall here, but Puerto Rico is part of the US. Please remember that. And a lot of people treat it like it's a different country.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh I I mean you're you need to adapt all the time. So how do you keep going? How do you do that and keep people going and helping the first responder world, helping the different cultures? But I think that for me it's really engaging into um it's it's hard. I I I don't know how to put it in words right now. It's really hard for me to, but it's it's just so difficult because my first responder people are different than uh I've had a couple of French Canadians come in for therapy. And it's different than working with my Americans from here. And working for the Americans I've got a few in California that I do over the phone.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And the Colorado people, and again, sorry for the general uh stereotype, but sometimes I'd be like, okay, just don't smoke weed four minutes, four hours prior to our session.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

Um first responders are the same thing. How do you deal with the cultural differences with from day day to day because they change constantly?

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, with the first responder population, it's not just being culturally competent in what their day-to-day typically entails, it's also how they process things. Their mentality is extremely different than just, you know, a a regular person, you know, they are constant fight or fighting.

SPEAKER_00:

Wait, let me write that down.

SPEAKER_03:

They're constantly fight or flight mode, you know. They see things that not a typical person sees in their day-to-day. And it's understanding how they process those things, how they deal with those things, and how they continue to move forward. You know, are they isolating? Are they, you know, turning to poor coping skills, whether it's avoiding or, you know, substances or infidelity, whatever those things may be to kind of get their minds off of things, you know, what is it that they're doing, and then how can we reframe that mindset?

SPEAKER_00:

And how do we reframe that mindset? Because for me, like I it's hard for them for me to tell them, don't have a drink after work to calm your nerves.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

I mean, that's sometimes as simple as that. And it's not about calming your nerves for the record only from work. Sometimes it's the stress coming home and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_03:

Right. I mean, I think it's definitely figuring out how they cope first and then figuring out why they cope the way that they do and how they want to improve those coping skills. So whether, I mean, we'll bring it back to the drinking. Is that the only way they know how to cope? So that's all they do? Is it because they don't know any other skills? Do they want to learn any other skills? Is it even an issue? You know, are they just having like one drink just to take the edge off to just calm their nerves and then be done? Or is it, you know, they're downing a bottle? You know, like what where is that line of um, you know, using that mechanism as a coping skill? But then also looking at the bigger picture. What are they coming home to? You know, are they coming home to kids, to an empty house, a wife, a girlfriend? How are they of support? And that's also another important thing about treating first responders is also, you know, making sure that their loved ones also know how to support them because it's just it's different because again, they see things and not a typical person sees on a day-to-day. Um, you know, their lives are threatened on a daily. And, you know, when they walk out that door to go on shift, you know, you don't know if they're coming back home that day. And that's the unfortunate reality of the first responders in this world in today's day and age. Um, I mean, not to say that isn't for everybody. I mean, we could be driving down the street and have a freak accident. Like we all don't know, but it's more heightened for them, essentially. And being able to support those individuals themselves and also their significant others or their family members at home is like huge to have that, you know, what we call the wraparound service.

SPEAKER_00:

The wraparound service, yes. I it is very important. I think that one of the skills that I've developed over the course of the uh time I worked with first responders is to bring in the spouses. Not for the whole, like not for like every week. Right. But you know, once every three months, every two months, every six months. Hey, how's everything going? How's the com communication at home? Uh sometimes I've been successful, sometimes I haven't been as successful. Um you have a particular position on that uh that we haven't brought up here, obviously I know this, but um as a spouse of um first slash emergency responder, because I hear that's a thing now that call it emergency responder.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh but just saying that someone said that to me. Um but um how unique are the challenges, especially for you? With th you got three girls, we said?

SPEAKER_03:

Yep, three girls.

SPEAKER_00:

Three girls, you your poor husband is like already like outnumbered. Correct. Um but how do you deal with this? Like you have a specific exp experience with that house, so how do you deal with all that stuff?

SPEAKER_03:

I mean, for us, it's just you know, having that open line of communication and it's learning how to communicate, especially during like certain um events, like whether it's a traumatic call or just like a crappy day at work, you know. Sometimes he doesn't want to talk about it, and that's fine. But I just leave the door open being like, you want to talk about it? I'm here. You know, I always have to remind him like I'm coming at you as your wife, not as a clinician, so remember that. I was like, but if you want me to put my clinician hat on, I'll gladly do that. Um, but it's just, you know, keeping that open line of communication and just sometimes they just need to decompress and like last thing they want to do is come home and talk about work, you know. But once it starts affecting the home life, whether it's, you know, the intimacy at home, whether it's the communication, whether it's the children in their presence, whether they're just physically there, but their mind is somewhere else, then that as a spouse is when you need to learn when it is that you need to step in.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. And do you have any advice as to when to step in for anyone?

SPEAKER_03:

Um as a f as a wife of a first responder, for me, um it's more so when I start seeing that whatever it is that he's going through, or even other first responders, because you know, I do ride along with the police, so then we know we do talk about these things. And you know, with other officers that I have been out on calls on, it's you know, when you start seeing that work is spilling over to home and you can't leave it at the door, that's when it needs to be talked about. Whether it's, you know, you're just having a real tough time at work and you don't know how to leave it at the door, or you know, you're upset about something at work and then you're taking it out on your loved ones at home who have no fault in any of that. Um so I think recognizing those signs is is important in knowing how to approach your loved one about that. Because again, you also don't want them to feel attacked. Um, you know, you want to approach it in an appropriate way so that they will open up to you. Because again, first responders are hesitant to seek treatment as it is. And you know, never mind just opening up to a loved one at home. So making sure that you know how to do though that that appropriately and learning those skills is imperative.

SPEAKER_00:

And not come up come off as the mental health counselor, which is very important too, because I think that that's what some spouses who are not in our field, you know, oh you should go talk to someone or whatever. They the the way to present the message is so important because um you know, me sitting around um with some ride-alongs or whatever you want to call it now, because it they they change the name constantly. Um I remember that most of the time I'd end up going on two or three calls, but the rest of the time is two to three hours of an officer opening up about different things. And that's the unique um perspective that I got, and I and I'm sure that you get not only as a spouse of but also being in the ride-along and going on a call and being able to talk between calls because it's not always as dramatic as we sound.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

But we also have some calls that are like, wow, that's really screwed up.

SPEAKER_03:

Right. And and we do, especially when our unit first started, we did do that a lot. I mean, and we still do now, you know, we would process that call, like, hey, how do you think that went? You know, and again, it's also learning each other's style and learning, you know, where that fine line is of, you know, this is the clinician's aspect of it, this is where the clinician steps in. But then once things are no longer being effective, now the police needs to step in and do their part. So it's also as a clinician, learning that line of not of staying in your lane, essentially, you know, doing what it is that you're there to do. But if if the message isn't being um accepted and they're just not getting it, now the police need to step forward and you need to take a step back and let them do what they need to do.

SPEAKER_00:

I remember years ago when I started, it was 2006, that's how old it is. Um, one of the things that uh Sarah Abbott, who has done it's great. She's awesome, has said, remember you're on their turf.

SPEAKER_01:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

And to me, that's the great lesson to learn is that you're on their turf. Respect or turf. So you talk about staying in their lane, I say respect or turf. You know, so you don't you they say, hey, you know what, back off, you don't go well. I think no, no, no, you don't think anything, you sit back and you do it. You can have that conversation after.

SPEAKER_03:

Yep.

SPEAKER_00:

But sit back when they tell you to sit back.

SPEAKER_03:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00:

Um as we run out of time again, um I think this went really well. I hope that you can come back at some point.

SPEAKER_03:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Um, because I like the setup and really like talking to you. But is there any particular things you want to talk about?

SPEAKER_03:

Want to make sure that people know about that you're doing right now or um again, so I I am the the clinician here with the family services unit. I do respond out in the Milford community. Uh we do assist with other um local towns surrounding us if needed. Um we do have our recovery resource center, Chris's corner, as well. Um we have therapists, case managers down there, and recovery coaches. Um we have New England Medical Group with the PHP IOP as well for mental health as the primary, um, which is a great resource here in the area. And community impact for our outpatient therapy that we offer as well. Um so I'm very accessible, whether it's calling the PD and asking to be connected with me. You can find us on the Milford PD's website, or you can call over to Community Impact. That's where my office is located. So that's where you can find me if you need any assistance or being connected with resources. Um but yeah, I mean I'd love to come back so we can dive in some more into you know treating our first responders and supporting their loved ones.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I know about all those services, they'll be in the show notes.

SPEAKER_01:

Awesome.

SPEAKER_00:

Uh make sure people click on it. And Amanda, you are truly someone that again, um I never got this conversation with you per se. Um very happy. And I know that uh our group uh behind the badge and beyond uh we're getting to know each other really well, and it's nice to have people who think similarly. Correct. Uh so I do appreciate you, really appreciate your time, and uh, can't wait to have you. Have you back on.

SPEAKER_03:

Thanks, Steve. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00:

And for those of you who will be joining us, hopefully you'd enjoy episode 227 with Amanda Rizzoli with at onesie. Um and I hope that you come back next time for episode 228. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_02:

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Steve Bisson

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Courtney Romanowski

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Amanda Rizoli

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