Crew 1st Culture
The pursuit of daily growth through humility, Connection, and hard work.
Lead - Train - Execute - Have Fun
Our Mission
To share the importance of value driven leadership.
To spread positivity in a negative world.
To add value to as many lives as we can.
To share our mistakes and victories in order to help others become better leaders at work and at home.
The Underground Leadership Movement
This movement is our statement that we will no longer wait or depend on anyone to develop us as leaders. We are taking on that responsibility for ourselves and will pursue that growth and development through any means necessary. We will also do everything that we can to share what we have learned with others in order to build a better fire service by building one leader at a time. No ones efforts, actions, or inactions will stand in the way of that because for us to become better leaders at work and at home we now know that we have to do the work.
Jeremy Sanders - Bio
Jeremy Sanders is married to his beautiful wife Erika who he has 8 kids and 1 grandson with. They live on a small farm just outside of Tulsa. He has served for 21 years on a suburban career fire department in central Oklahoma where he currently holds the rank of Captain. In that station officer role, Jeremy has gotten the opportunity to gain experience first-hand how much hard work and dedication it takes to completely rebuild a broken firehouse culture. Now after almost 5 years at his current station, Jeremy and his crew are starting to see the rewards of all that challenging work.
In 2020 Jeremy created Crew 1st Culture and the Crew 1st Culture Podcast in which he shares the importance of the pursuit of daily personal growth. This daily growth has helped him to not only become a better firefighter and officer but also a better dad and husband at home. The podcast now has reached over 140,000 downloads in more than 80 countries. In 2021 he began to speak and teach publicly at venues such as Honor the Fallen Fire Conference in OKC, Revolutionary Fire Tactics at the Lake in Missouri, Mid-America FOOLS Conference in OKC, SAFRE Conference in Raleigh NC, Pittsburg FD – Kansas, & Edmond FD – Oklahoma, MAFFC - Atlanta GA, NFFX - Okaloosa Island FL, and more.
His lectures/classes focus on Character, Leadership, Mentoring, Personal Growth, Pursuit of Purpose, Making an Impact, & Firehouse Culture. He has also instructed Forcible Entry & Engine Operations Hands on Training at multiple locations in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, & Missouri working with instructors such as Josh Pearcy with 405 Training Solutions OKC, Steve Robertson with Stretching For Success, & Justin Mann with Wood’s Forcible Entry.