Firehouse Roundtable

About Firehouse Roundtable

Real talk for fire wives, firefighter partners, and first responder families. Fire Family Collective is the podcast for fire wives, firefighter spouses, and first responder families navigating the realities of life in the fire service. Formerly the Firehouse Roundtable, each episode features real conversations about firefighter marriage, fire wife mental load, parenting through shift work, and building community when isolation feels like part of the job. You'll hear from real fire spouses — new and seasoned — sharing honest stories about mental health, trauma, resilience, and the unique pressures of loving someone in the fire service. No topic is off-limits: shift schedules, deployments, marriage strain, identity outside the "fire wife" role, grief, and the small moments that make fire family life worth it. This podcast is an extension of the Fire Family Collective, a nationwide community built to support fire wives and firefighter families and break down the isolation so many face. Whether you're brand new to this life or a decade in, you're not alone — come as you are, and find your people.

Publisher

Fire Family Collective

Category

health & fitness · kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Oct 2022

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

78 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Signs Your Fire Marriage Needs a Reset

   Licensed marriage and family therapist and fire wife Rebecca Graves comes back to the mic with a story from the very morning she recorded. Her husband missed their son's last day of preschool, a detour to see him led nowhere, and she carried every feeling in the car alone. That one rough drive opens a bigger question. Does your fire marriage need a reset? Rebecca and host Heather walk through the daily signs of a healthy partnership, why the job gets blamed for everything, how to repair after...

2. 

   24 Sept 2026

   What Nobody Tells You About Fire Family Life

   Nobody hands you a manual for growing up as a fire daughter, and definitely nobody warns you that you might marry right back into the same life. Taylor Hernandez did both. Talking with Heather, she gets into things she never saw coming, like how Starlink and FaceTime have quietly changed the anxious wait during a wildfire deployment, and why finding a marriage counselor who works only with first responder couples turned her marriage around. She's honest about the mental load of homeschooling ...

3. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Running a Business as a Firefighter's Wife

   Jenny Santamaria didn't wait around for a good moment to open her pelvic floor physical therapy practice. She started it while she was still dating a rookie firefighter, then kept building right through the wedding, motherhood, and a schedule that flips every month. In this episode she gets straight about the nanny math that never quite adds up, the color coded shared calendar that nearly started a fight, and the point where she finally stopped calling herself type A. If you're trying to run ...

Who has been a guest on Firehouse Roundtable

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Amanda Pridgeon
• Ashley Pridgeon
• Stephanie Lievense
• Dan Lievense

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

24,195

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

19 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 68 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

54

Social presence

94

YouTube

76

Engagement

82

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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