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The Season 4 Sampler lets you get a bit of each episode: 1. Anthony’s Story 2. Constructive Coercion Pt 1 – Dr. Jeremy Milloy 3. The New PPE (C. Michael Kinsella’s Story) 4. 100 Good-bye’s with Dr. Nicole Anders 5. James’ Story (Pain BC) 6. Constructive Coercion Pt 2 – Jeremy Milloy While Season 4 spanned a wide variety of expertise and geography, the themes of pain, lo

James Boseley grew up in rough and tumble rural Alberta. Pain or having an IV plugged into his arm was no reason to stop working. Dealing with pain on a daily chronic basis, James’ mental health rapidly deteriorated to where he was considering suicide. Because of his severe pain, James left Alberta to haul disposal bins in BC for half of what he was making in AB. Here James was i

Dr. Jeremy Milloy tells us about constructive coercion: a concept created in the 1960's and 70's from concerns that Vietnam veterans would return from war unable to navigate the workplace due to opioid addiction. Industry leaders believed that people (primarily men) would be incentivized to get treatment through the workplace in order to keep their jobs. Assessment of who had probl

Constructive Coercion Is a Thing features scholar Dr. Jeremy Milloy who studies the history of how we got to have the kind of workplaces we have (good and bad). His work is motivated by the fact that our jobs have a such a huge effect on our lives, our identities, our health, and our life outcomes. Jeremy’s original work started by studying the concept of violence in the workplac

Season 4, Episode 3 In this episode, construction safety officer and carpenter C. Michael Kinsella, shares how he owes his whole life to his Red Seal. When school wasn’t working out so well in junior high, Michael went straight into construction at the ripe old age of 14. ​He loved it. After an overdose at 16, Michael found a father figure in the industry and formed a chosen "f

When psychologist, Dr. Nicole Anders, lost her beloved brother Cody to overdose, she navigated her grief through writing daily love letters to Cody. Her book, One Hundred Goodbyes is a collection of those love letters, bridging the personal and clinical dimensions of her grief. Nicole discusses that she frequently talks with her kids about their Uncle Cody. She suggests answering q

Anthony shares his story of growing up in a family of tradesmen where hard work and thick money were at the center of their way of being. And with the hard work came hard substance use. As a teen, addicted to alcohol and cocaine, Anthony went to his parents to ask for help when he realized he was in more trouble than he could handle. His father’s solution was to send him to Fort

The Season 3 Sampler lets you get a bite of each episode: 1. Shawn's Story 2. Aeris' Story Part 1 3. Jason's Story 4. Superintendent Summit 5. Losing Someone to Overdose 6. CSO Shane's Story 7. Aeris's Story Part 2 Covering lots of really tough stuff, and emerging with our humanity intact, this sampler is all about connecting to each others' stories. Off The Clock Toolbox Talk Men

Aeris’s Story Part 2 picks up where Aeris is just coming back to reality after being in a coma for a month. His steadfast family helps him slowly recover from kidney, liver and brain damage. Advocating on his behalf, his family asks the doctors for a pain specialist as they believe Aeris consumed poisoned drug supply because he was attempting to self medicate his pain from multip

As rod buster Aeris Finch refers to partway through his story, his struggle really began at age 11, when he lost his older brother to an MDMA accident. But some of the effects of that trauma didn’t emerge until he began experimenting with substances himself as a teenager. Another layer of complexity emerged when Aeris developed painful and debilitating Crohn’s disease while wor