Mission Fields To Fireground: The Life Of Trevor Williams

About this episode

Trevor Williams shares his life-changing experiences during the 2010 Haiti earthquake and how it influenced his career as a firefighter and entrepreneur.

Trevor Williams takes us inside the moments that reshaped his life and explains how surviving Haiti’s 2010 earthquake set the course for his career as a Los Angeles County firefighter and entrepreneur. We walk through the quake in vivid detail: blocked roads, aftershocks, food distribution that turned dangerous, helicopter drops, and the raw urgency of a field hospital where he learned procedures on the fly under the watch of exhausted doctors. Trevor talks about PTSD, why sharing his s...

People in this episode

Host: Tyra Valeriano

Guest: Trevor Williams

Topics covered

• earthquake survival
• firefighting
• entrepreneurship
• PTSD
• personal transformation

Keywords

• Haiti earthquake
• firefighter
• entrepreneur
• PTSD
• field hospital
• survival
• aftershocks

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Haiti, Los Angeles County

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