Leadership Conversations @ The Kitchen Table
Oct 19, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 13 segments
John Walters, retired FDNY Rescue One firefighter and former chief of the Port Washington Fire Department, shares hard-earned lessons on resilience, peer support, and the brotherhood that sustains the…
Well, I mean, I know there's a lot of, I mean, because you advocate now, right? You're big on peer support.
Did you write the article or was there an article written about you? Um, but a lot of the work that you do now is revolved around helping people build community, helping people, um, you know, foster good relationships and, and you talk about your journey, you know, after.
it's kind of a, it's kind of a long story and it didn't get put, the pieces didn't come together for me at first.
Um, and we had a counselor assigned to the firehouse and it, and it did happen that we special operations takes people from the field, not from the academy.
You have to have some time under your belt and you have to go for an interview.
Um, so we had some new guys coming over that were, you know, young guys that were hard chargers that wanted to, uh, fill a void.
Well, I mean, I know there's a lot of, I mean, because you advocate now, right? You're big on peer support.
Did you write the article or was there an article written about you? Um, but a lot of the work that you do now is revolved around helping people build community, helping people, um, you know, foster good relationships and, and you talk about your journey, you know, after.
it's kind of a, it's kind of a long story and it didn't get put, the pieces didn't come together for me at first.
Um, and we had a counselor assigned to the firehouse and it, and it did happen that we special operations takes people from the field, not from the academy.
You have to have some time under your belt and you have to go for an interview.
Um, so we had some new guys coming over that were, you know, young guys that were hard chargers that wanted to, uh, fill a void.
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