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Beau Porter is a veteran Los Angeles firefighter and the man behind "Firefight Mentality".
We discuss his multi-generational firefighting family, his own journey into the fire service, homelessness, addiction, gang violence, his powerful perspective on the pandemic, losing his best friend, his own mental health story, the genesis of his project and so much more.
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