Rescue Ready, Writing, Training and Preparing Emergency Teams with Jesse McNeilly

Jesse McNeilly is the Founder of Rescue Connect and also mentors Industrial Emergency Response departments. Having trained over 20,000 students with his work globally, Jesse is passionate about sharing knowledge so rescue teams can be safer, more capable and better prepared. Jesse holds a Medical Science Masters Degree in Disaster and Emergency Response. He has dedicated his professional life to his vocation of emergency response and rescue. Jesse has worked in eight countries in a range of military, private security, disaster response, training and leadership roles. Jesse continues to develop his industry networks so rescue workers can learn from and help each other.

In the 182nd episode of The HYBRID Author Podcast host Joanne Zara Ellen Morrell, author of young adult fiction, women’s fiction and short non-fiction for authors, chats to Jesse about:

• the inspiration and personal experience behind his guidebook 101 Rescue Scenarios: Mines Emergency Respond, 2025 edition and why it is so critical for today’s industrial emergency response teams
• the interactive elements of the work
• AI training and creation of images
• Jesse’s overall advice to leader’s in their field or authors in general looking to utilise their skillset to give back to their departments and create and publish a guidebook and much more.