The tones keep dropping. Train for what they do to you.
Mission-Based Resilience is a 7-chapter online course built by Dr. Ed Naggiar — PhD, retired US Navy SEAL — and your department has covered a seat for every member. Train stress the way you train everything else on this job: as a skill, with reps.
Your alarm system runs more calls than you do.
Twenty-four-hour shifts. Sleep cut apart by tones. Calls that come home with you and don’t get talked about. The stress response that makes you good at this job — fast, locked-on, all-in — doesn’t stand down just because the shift did.
Cumulative stress is an occupational hazard in the fire service, same as smoke. This course treats it that way: not something to tough out, but something to train for — with the same seriousness you bring to every other skill that keeps you and your crew going home.
From one operator to another.
Dr. Ed Naggiar spent his career where resilience was the job — as a US Navy SEAL. He knows what shift work, adrenaline, and carrying hard calls do to a person, and he built this course for people who run toward what everyone else runs from. No lectures about bubble baths. Tools that hold under load — tested from BUD/S to the boardroom.
What you work on stays yours.
Rule one of this course is confidentiality — and it’s built in. The department provides the seat. What you do in it is your business.
Seven chapters. One mission.
A coach at the station, 24/7.
Every lesson comes with a personal AI coach — trained on Ed’s lectures, his frameworks, and his book The Suit & The SEAL. It answers the way he teaches: direct, practical, zero fluff.
It’s not Ed, and it’s not a therapist. It’s a training tool that’s awake whenever you are.
What you walk out with.
“Professionalism, Selflessness, Commitment, Knowledge, and Friendship. These are just a few words that come to mind when I look at my ongoing experience with Ed Naggiar and HPC.
I began my journey with HPC in 2012 when I was referred by a mutual friend. I was looking for a specific kind of training. I needed someone who could relate to and understand the mission I had set for myself. Physical training was an absolute, but the least important of the 4 disciplines for me at the time, that HPC teaches and lives by. HPC teaches that you need Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual training to truly be at the top of your game.
Dr. Naggiar realized how important this journey was to me and spent countless hours preparing me for what was the biggest professional challenge of my career. It wasn’t the pull ups or the push-ups, the planks or the pool that fully prepared me. It was everything that goes on in between. The physical stress was an avenue that was used to prepare me mentally and emotionally, how to use your mind to push farther than any physical conditioning could take me.
The experience and knowledge that I gained from the HPC team goes so much further than just learning a few necessary things to get through a couple challenging courses. I continue to learn and understand things that make us more resilient to ALL aspects of our lives like raising a family, organization skills, and expanding our boundaries by setting goals that are outside our comfort zone.
Whether you’re in the military, a first responder, or a stay at home mother, HPC can influence your life in a positive way and set you on track to conquer your fears and help guide you to see your goals become reality!”
— Kevin Lolley Panama City Fire Dept. (Lt.) Georgia Smoke Diver #900 Georgia FLAMES #188
You don’t rise to the occasion. You fall to your training.
That’s true on a fireground, and it’s true at 0300 when you can’t sleep. This is that training — and your seat is already paid for. Claim it.