In this episode, Devin sits down with Cody — Assistant Fire Chief of Sugar Creek Fire & Rescue and a flight paramedic for the Cleveland Clinic's Critical Care Transport Team — to talk about what it means to serve a small community where every call hits close to home.

Cody opens with a powerful analogy: after a traumatic incident, your brain is like an airport receiving too many planes — nothing can move, and you feel locked up. The answer isn't to stop living; it's to move those planes out a little at a time and let normalcy bring you back.

They get into the reality of rural EMS — running calls on people you know, delivering babies across the street, and driving past the scenes of the ones that didn't go right. Cody shares the story of a trauma arrest that turned out to be a coworker's brother, and the full-circle moment when a lo ...