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“You don’t get smarter in the crisis. We use what was built beforehand.”

In this episode of Shared Ground, Sean and Allan talk with Dr. Dan Dworkis -emergency physician, performance coach, and author of The Emergency Mind - about what it means to prepare for, move through, and grow after high stakes moments. Dan speaks of individual, community and systems level approaches to developing resilience.

We explore how communities process trauma, build systems that can hold under pressure, and why resilience sometimes looks like crying at a commercial and still showing up the next day. Dan shares stories from emergency medicine, high performance teams and personal reflections. He offers clarity, perspective, and hard-won kindness.

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Shared Ground is produced by Sean Knierim and Allan Marks. Thanks to Cory Grabow, Kara Poltor, Corey Walles (from The Recording Studio) for your support in launching this effort.

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