RISEUP: Voices From the Frontlines

🎙️ NEW EPISODE: “From Rescue to Recovery – A Heart-Witness Account from the Texas Hill Country Flood” This isn’t just a report—it’s personal. In this week’s episode of RISEUP Voices from the Frontlines, I take you inside our boots-on-the-ground experience responding to the devastating flood in the Texas Hill Country. This is a raw account of what it really means to pivot from search and rescue to...

New Episode: Performative Boundaries – Safety or Sabotage? Just dropped on RISEUP Voices From the Frontlines. What happens when healing becomes a performance? When boundaries become barriers? When “protecting your peace” is actually just emotional avoidance in disguise? In this episode, we unpack the sneaky transformation of boundaries from tools of connection into weapons of control—and how traum...

NEW EPISODE “Spiritual Bypassing – The New Language of Avoidance” 🎙️ RISEUP Voices From the Frontlines Podcast Host: Krista Fee Sometimes what sounds like healing is actually emotional avoidance dressed in affirmation robes and yoga pants. We go deep into the science, the patterns, and the tools to help you shift from performative to present. If you’ve ever caught yourself or someone else using “h...

🎙 Just a Drop: The Story That Sparked a Movement I used to think I was just a drop—too small to matter, too damaged to heal, too invisible to be seen. This podcast episode is the origin story I’ve never fully told. Not the polished bio. Not the headline-grabbing highlight reel. The truth. The hell before the healing. The scream behind the smile. The little girl with starfish dreams and a nervous s...

NEW EPISODE: “The High of Healing” is LIVE 🔥 Let’s get honest about the dopamine rush of self-discovery—and what happens when healing becomes our next addiction. In this episode, we break down how the nervous system can confuse activation for growth, and why chasing the “high” of healing can derail the actual work. If you’ve ever felt like you were doing all the “right” things but still stuck… th...

Episode Title: Woke But Weaponized – When Healing Becomes a New MaskPodcast Mini-Series Episode 1 of 7 Episode Description: You started your healing journey with good intentions—self-awareness, empowerment, peace. But somewhere along the way, it got… rigid. Judgmental. Maybe even performative. In this unfiltered kickoff to the Woke But Weaponized series, we explore how genuine growth can quietly m...

🔥 NEW EPISODE JUST DROPPED! 🎙 RISEUP Phoenix: Voices From the Frontlines: RISEUP Responder EditionEPISODE: The Financial Trauma No One Talks About — First Responders in Survival Mode We talk about trauma after the calls. But what about the trauma happening between the shifts? The one sitting at your kitchen table, staring back at you from overdue bills, second jobs, and financial stress that neve...

🎙 RISEUP: Voices From the Frontlines: RISEUP Coaching AcademyBeyond Trauma-Informed: The Leadership Gap No One's Talking About We keep hearing the term “trauma-informed” everywhere. But too often, it stops at surface-level awareness. 🧠 Real trauma work requires something deeper. It requires skill. It requires embodied leadership. It requires the ability to operate inside real human dysregulation...

RISEUP Voices From the FrontlinesThe Quiet Collapse: When High-Functioning First Responders Break Behind Closed Doors They look fine. They’re getting the job done. They’re still showing up. And yet… many first responders are breaking. Quietly. Privately. After the shift ends. We don’t talk enough about what happens when high-functioning survival turns into silent collapse. In this episode, we’re p...

RISEUP Voices From the Frontlines When Praise Becomes Pressure A KidSAFE Building Blocks Kids episode We all want to encourage our kids. But what happens when praise becomes performance? When “You’re so mature” turns into “You’re not allowed to struggle”? When achievement becomes the only language for love? In this episode, we explore how well-intended compliments can accidentally teach kids to si...

Title: The Silence Before the SpiralTheme: KidSAFE™ / Children’s Resilience Some children don’t scream. Some don’t act out. Some never say a word. And those are the ones we lose. Today’s episode is one of the hardest we’ve ever released—and one every parent, teacher, responder, and caregiver needs to hear. We’re talking about suicide in children. The quiet kind. The kind that hides in “good behavi...

IGY6: I REFUSE TO GO QUIETLY This isn’t just a saying. It’s a sacred vow. A tattoo. A battle cry. A blood oath to stand in the gap for our brothers and sisters when the systems fail and the silence gets loud. In this raw and unapologetic episode, I go deep into: ⚠️The battles we face after the sirens fade ⚠️The violence against those who serve ⚠️The rising suicide rates and line-of-duty deaths ⚠️W...

🎧 New Podcast Episode: Your Nervous System Doesn’t Care About Your To-Do List You’re probably not lazy. You’re not doomed to be scattered. You’re not failing. You’re probably just dysregulated. And your nervous system? It doesn’t care about your planner, your pressure, or how many podcasts you’ve listened to about time management. It cares about one thing: safety. In this episode of RISEUP: Voice...

🎧 New Podcast Episode: The Art of Repair – What Actually Heals After Conflict   You’re not failing because you fight. You’re struggling because no one ever taught you how to repair.   In this episode of RISEUP: Relationship Reset, we’re pulling back the curtain on what actually heals after conflict—not just the apology, but the nervous system work, the accountability, and the return to connection...

🎧 New Podcast Episode Released: Tactical Soft Skills – The Silent Armor That Saves Relationships You were trained to survive the worst. But were you ever trained to connect? In this episode of RISEUP: Voices From the Frontlines, we’re pulling back the curtain on the emotional battlefield nobody talks about—the one at home, in your relationships, with your team, with yourself. Tactical soft skills...

New Podcast Episode Just Dropped! Title: Regulation is Contagious: Why Your Nervous System Is the Lesson What if the most powerful parenting tool you have… isn’t a script or a consequence? It’s your breath. Your tone. Your nervous system. This episode explores how your emotional regulation becomes your child’s emotional blueprint. You’ll learn how co-regulation, mirror neurons, and nervous system...

New Episode Just Dropped: “We Don’t Rise In Crisis -We Fall to Our Training” What if your child’s greatest safety tool wasn’t a rule or a lecture, but a rehearsed response embedded through calm, playful Practice? In this episode of RISEUP: Voices From the Frontlines, we explore how children’s brains and nervous systems process crisis, and why traditional “scare-and-command” methods fall short. Thr...

New Podcast Episode: Repair Is the New Resilience You’ve heard it before: Resilience is bouncing back. But here’s the truth most people miss: Bouncing back without repair isn’t resilience. It’s residue. In this episode of RISEUP: Voices From the Frontlines – Phoenix Woman Edition, we unpack what it really means to reclaim your story, your safety, and your self after trauma—not by pushing through,...

🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE Healing Isn’t Pretty, It’s Powerful 🎧 Listen now → RISEUP Voices From the Frontlines You don’t need to be healed to be whole. You don’t need to be calm to be worthy. You don’t need to be perfect to be powerful. This week’s episode is for every woman who’s been told she was too much—too loud, too emotional, too messy—when all she was doing… was surviving. Inside this episode...

🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE Busy Isn’t Brave: How Over-Functioning Covers Unhealed Wounds 🎧 Listen now → RISEUP Voices From the Frontlines You don’t need another productivity hack. You need permission to rest. If slowing down makes you anxious… If you feel guilty when you're not "doing something"… If you crash hard after carrying everyone else’s weight… This episode is for you. Inside this conversatio...

🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE JUST DROPPED "Leading at Home: Responder Tools for Safer Relationships" 🎧 Listen now → RISEUP Voices From The Frontlines You know how to lead a scene. But when it comes to hard conversations at home? You freeze, shut down, or go silent. This isn’t a flaw. It’s a training gap. In this episode, we’re breaking down how emotional safety isn’t soft—it’s strategic. Because connec...

🎧 NEW PODCAST DROP –Building Blocks KIDSAFE™ Edition The Mirror Effect – How Kids Learn Emotional Safety from Adults 📢 Listen now → RISEUP Voices From the Frontlines Telling a child to “calm down” without showing them how is like expecting a wildfire to stop because you said please. The truth is: 🧠 Children don’t learn regulation through lectures. They learn it through your nervous system. In t...

🎙 NEW PODCAST DROP When Chemistry Is Chaos: Trauma Bonding isn't Love 🎧 Listen now → RISEUP Voices From the Frontlines Ever feel like you're addicted to someone who keeps hurting you? That push-pull. The highs that feel like euphoria. The lows that leave you questioning your worth. 💥 That’s not soulmates. That’s a trauma bond. And it doesn’t mean you’re broken—it means your nervous system learne...

🚨 NEW EPISODE DROP 🚨 🎙 RISEUP: Voices From the Frontlines presents:“Always On, Always Alone: The Hidden Cost of Constant Readiness” 🎧 Listen now → RISEUP Voices From the Frontlines You take care of everyone else. But when the call ends and the uniform comes off—your nervous system doesn’t. This episode hits deep for first responders, veterans, dispatchers, and anyone whose job demands constant...

🎧 NEW PODCAST EPISODE The Stories We TellHow Narrative Identity Shapes Healing, Power, and Purpose 🔗 Listen now → RISEUP Voices From the Frontlines We don’t just have stories—we live by them. And some of those stories? They’re keeping you small, stuck, or silent. This episode is your invitation to take back the pen. In this week’s podcast, Krista Fee unpacks the psychology and neuroscience of na...