Panama City Fire Department · Provided for All Personnel

The tones keep dropping. Train for what they do to you.

Mission-Based Resilience is a 7-chapter online course built by Dr. Ed Naggiar — PhD, retired US Navy SEAL — and your department has covered a seat for every member. Train stress the way you train everything else on this job: as a skill, with reps.

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Self-paced · on shift or off · AI coaching included

Your alarm system runs more calls than you do.

Twenty-four-hour shifts. Sleep cut apart by tones. Calls that come home with you and don’t get talked about. The stress response that makes you good at this job — fast, locked-on, all-in — doesn’t stand down just because the shift did.

Cumulative stress is an occupational hazard in the fire service, same as smoke. This course treats it that way: not something to tough out, but something to train for — with the same seriousness you bring to every other skill that keeps you and your crew going home.

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Your Instructor

From one operator to another.

Dr. Ed Naggiar spent his career where resilience was the job — as a US Navy SEAL. He knows what shift work, adrenaline, and carrying hard calls do to a person, and he built this course for people who run toward what everyone else runs from. No lectures about bubble baths. Tools that hold under load — tested from BUD/S to the boardroom.

Retired US Navy SEAL | PhD | Co-author, The Suit & The SEAL

What you work on stays yours.

Rule one of this course is confidentiality — and it’s built in. The department provides the seat. What you do in it is your business.

Individual & self-paced
No group shares. No shift-room spotlight. Your own screen, your own speed.
Not an evaluation
Your stress inventory and your answers aren’t graded, ranked, or part of any personnel review.
The AI coach is private
Talk it through straight. What you share stays between you and the work.
The Curriculum

Seven chapters. One mission.

01 — Intro to MBR
Rules of engagement, your first stress inventory, and the four Pillars of Resilience.
02 — Stress
The science of the alarm — why it still fires at home, and the 25-tool kit for standing it down.
03 — SMART Goals & Mind Maps
Turn managed energy into targets — on the job or off it.
04 — Spiritual Pillar & Creed
Find the why that holds the other pillars up. Write your Personal Creed.
05 — Coping & Cognitive Retraining
Audit how you actually cope. Retrain the automatic thoughts that steer you.
06 — Resilience
The deep dive — training all four pillars on purpose.
07 — Your Resilience Plan
Put it all together. Life is a perishable skill — rinse and repeat.
Q&A — Every Chapter
Every chapter ends open-floor: ask anything, get answers grounded in Ed’s material.
Included With Every Lesson

A coach at the station, 24/7.

Every lesson comes with a personal AI coach — trained on Ed’s lectures, his frameworks, and his book The Suit & The SEAL. It answers the way he teaches: direct, practical, zero fluff.

It’s not Ed, and it’s not a therapist. It’s a training tool that’s awake whenever you are.

Any hour, any shift
A question at 0300 after a rough call? It’s awake. Ask as many times as it takes.
Built around your real stressors
The job, the family, the money — sort what’s actually on your plate into a plan.
It builds your documents
Your SMART Goal brief, Emergency Quad Chart, and Personal Creed — generated and delivered to you.
Straight answers, Ed’s style
Direct. Practical. No judgment, no corporate wellness-speak.

What you walk out with.

A named, sorted stress inventory — the real list
Tools to stand the alarm down after the call — not just during it
An Emergency Quad Chart, built calm, for the day that isn’t
A SMART goal with a full mission mind map — on or off the job
A written Personal Creed — who you are when the gear comes off
A complete Resilience Plan that survives shift work

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You don’t rise to the occasion. You fall to your training.

That’s true on a fireground, and it’s true at 0300 when you can’t sleep. This is that training — and your seat is already paid for. Claim it.

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Provided for all Panama City Fire Department personnel · [access code / enrollment instructions]