Derek O. Hanley

The DOHP Signal

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Through The DOHP Signal, Derek O. Hanley sits down with medics, educators, veterans, founders, creatives, and leaders to explore what makes people trust, perform, adapt, and find meaning in an increasingly artificial world. Topics include: • Operational life • Leadership • Systems thinking • Human behavior • EMS and public safety • Storytelling and media • Authenticity in the AI era • Meaningful work and identity Signal over noise. You can feel when it's real. DOHP is a reality-focused media platform exploring operational life, authenticity, leadership, systems, storytelling, and meaningful wo...

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Derek O. Hanley

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How Compassion is Changing Policing | Ernie Stevens (HBO's Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops) 10.07.2026 59:13

In this episode of The DOHP Signal , I sit down with Ernie Stevens , the San Antonio police officer featured in HBO's award-winning documentary Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops . Rather than revisiting the documentary scene by scene, we explore the experiences behind it: building one of the nation's pioneering Mental Health Units, responding to people in crisis, leading cultural change insid...

Strengthening Responder Resilience | David Dachinger 03.07.2026 32:42

In this episode our guest David Dachinger talks with host Derek O. Hanley about the many ways he endeavors to strengthen the resilience of first responders since retiring from the fire service. From his "Responder Resilience" and "Igniting The Shift Within" podcasts, his books "Helping the Helpers" and "Live Calm With Cancer (...and Beyond), to his work as a pee...

Critical Incident Response K9s | Healing the Heroes | Janeen Baggette 23.06.2026 56:46

The conversation explores the role of Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) K9s and the unique ways animals can help people during moments of extreme stress and vulnerability. Founder Janeen Baggette discusses how these dogs are a tactical Swiss army knife for public safety in areas like: first responser & Veteran mental health and wellness, crisis negotiation, critical incident response and...

A One-Pointed Mind: Attention, Focus, & Meditative Psychology | Steven Lawrence 23.06.2026 52:12

The DOHP Signal host Derek O. Hanley interview with Steven Lawrence, the founder of One Pointed Inc. They talk about attention and how difficult it can be to maintain focus in the modern digital age, how micro-meditations can be an effective tool in anyone's daily regimen to help with distancing from one's thoughts, and the 'I Love You' project and it's impact on the local...