One 911 Dispatcher's Compassionate Response Rock Your Kindness with Tracey Ferrin Presented By: Love What Matters

Rock Your Kindness highlights extraordinary stories of everyday people experiencing life-changing kindness. Whether it's a random act, saves a life, or helps you be kinder to yourself, these stories will increase empathy, compassion, and hope. You never know how your kindness can change the trajectory of your life or the life of another.
Rock Your Kindness is hosted by Tracey Ferrin. Tracey is a mother, wife, best-selling author, and TikTok superstar. She is often called a "breath of fresh air" by those who know and meet her. She is a mom of 4 and has been married to the love of her life for 18 years. Together, they call Texas home.
In this episode, Tracey and Diana talk about Chad’s devastating diagnosis of Pancreatic cancer, Diana's experience making tough decisions while also respecting her husband's wishes, and ultimately how one dispatcher's compassion led Diana to create a course to teach all dispatchers in training.
“We don't think of dispatchers as heroes, but that night Jeff was mine.” -Diana
Show Notes: 

[0:00] Welcome back to Rock Your Kindness Podcast, hosted by Tracey Ferrin

[0:39] Introduction to episode with guest Diana

[1:13] Tracey: “This is their story…”


[2:11] “I don't know very many 30 year old men that come in and say: ‘Hey, I wanna come in and take care of you. And I know you're broken and let me piece you back together. And by the way, I'll take care of your kids.’ “


[2:57] What Diana wrote to Love What Matters


[4:00] Question: Did the doctors expect Chad to make a full recovery?

[11:33] Tough but necessary decision for Diana to make

[12:50] Respecting wishes of the one you love

[15:46] “My name is Jeff. Tell me exactly what happened.”

[17:38] “We don't think of dispatchers as heroes, but that night Jeff was mine.”


[20:31] Up Struggle


[21:14] Thanks for listening to this episode of Rock Your Kindness. If you know someone this story might resonate with, send them a link to this episode. Also tag me Tracey Ferrin on Instagram at @Traceyferrin and let me know what part of this story resonated with you the most. The best way to help support this show is to rate, review and subscribe. :) Until next time.. Rock Your Kindness

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