Mastering Risk

Send us Fan Mail Seize the Day, choose to be responsible for your outcomes and dominate this world. We hear that all the time, but how? Three free ways: First, own your life - your physical, mental and financial health are all your responsibility, no one is coming to save you and it is your responsibility to pay your bills. Second, know the rules - the political and economic overlords / owners wil...

Send us Fan Mail The pressure is relentless, to adopt even the most unique offerings of AI, under the symbolic - or real - threat of corporate irrelevancy. Whether presented in the form of the latest influencer YouTube video, an offering to learn AI in 28 days, or the advocacy for the firing of the entire white collar workforce, we are inundated with the threat of being at the precipice of a revol...

Send us Fan Mail Creating your own business and generating income is your get to be resilient in a world of AI business and employment disruptions. There are only three ways to earn an income. First, a profession with its rules, regulations, training standards and membership requirements. Second, is an entrepreneurial venture where you solve a problem people hav in exchange for money. If you do no...

Send us Fan Mail Entrepreneurs are great dreamers, pouring exceptional time and resources into their dream, often without understanding the risks they chose to accept, willingly or not, when they jumped in. Strategic, Operational, Cyber and Reputational Risk. That's it. Embrace, understand, mitigate and launch your dream. https://preparednesslabs.ca Support the show https://preparednesslabs.c...

Send us Fan Mail How do we ready our entrepreneurial ventures to succeed and excel in these times of increased political, economic and natural disasters? Understanding your risk profile across strategic, operational, cyber and reputational areas is key. Knowledge is power, learn about how to identify risk and be aware of what risks exist because of how you choose to do business. Embrace risk, buil...

Send us Fan Mail From the A1 to C3, the newspaper is drowning in chaos, disturbances and the growing call for significant change in our world. For those who never had the pleasure of reading a full newspaper over morning coffee, that’s the meat, before the comics and entertainment sections, though they might just be a better, more sane bet these days. Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambigu...

Send us Fan Mail Life evolves, as the world changes around us, we need to periodically verify that we remain a value added to the population. Inside My Canoehead has been on the air for over 5 years, throughout the pandemic and will continue to live on, but under a new name, similar concept, but retaining the values of integrity and keeping our mission: Non-apocalyptic, evidence-based, risk, resil...

Send us Fan Mail When we consider financial resiliency in this modern era, we first need to accept resiliency means to you. There are no shortages of definitions of resiliency, in my humble opinion, it is the most abused term in the discipline. As a social scientist, I often lean to our natural scientist colleagues to seek clarity, for their world is far more binary and straightforward, at least i...

Send us Fan Mail Conspiracy Theorist? Crazy Trucker dude in Ottawa? Anti-Government Mafia, Antifa? Or maybe just a normal person, living in suburbia who accepts responsibility for their outcomes, understands there is a possibility that one or more sectors of critical infrastructure main fail for an extended period and that the government is not coming to save their family. We begin with a rant on...

Send us Fan Mail Forests are an incredible creation of nature, a magical blend of species - sustainable, resilient and awe-inspiring beauty. Only humans would have the audacity to harm such a brilliant resource. The intentional destruction of the boreal forest in Canada has been a sustained effort of governments for decades. The wildfires of 2023 and 2025 are the foreseeable result of policy failu...

Send us Fan Mail Etsy Store, Shopify or 1 Mil per year service business, they're all exposed to risk - cyber, reputational and operational. What strategies help in mitigating exposure to nefarious actors. How, as a solo entrepreneur, can you protect your online store and business from harm, when you don't have a high priced consultant, nor response teams embedded in your operation. You d...

Send us Fan Mail Every anniversary deserves celebration, we have so much to be thankful for: friends, family, accomplishments and reaching goals. We should never lose the childish joy of horns, goofy hats, paper plates and cake.  Today, July 28th, marks the five year anniversary of my company, Preparedness Labs Incorporated (PLI). It was born from the realization that Canadians were abjectly unpre...

Send us Fan Mail Pugilism was an art, the settling of disputes with honour and integrity. We didn’t kick somewhen when they fell, we asked if they had enough and if so, we helped them up, dusted them off and headed to the bar to resume our drinks. Simple life, we all understood the rules and the rationale, an almost egalitarian time. The human animal was designed for physical combat, to strike and...

Send us Fan Mail We’re comfortable, enjoy being coddled and taken care of, whether that is by family or the government. We exist in a period of time with access to the entire knowledge of the species in the palm of our hand, yet we choose to remain stuck in place. Feel free to disagree, maybe you’re the outlier, but statistically speaking, you prefer to be in stasis of certainty and low risk.  Ant...

Send us Fan Mail A bit cheeky, yes. The point is that many roads lead to resilience, I’ve written a five part series on Substack about this, drawing a clear route to creating a more resilient and less susceptible life. However, many recent tragedies, like the flooding in Texas, reminds us of the fragility of life, how quickly it can all change and what really does matter.  Modern day minimalism ha...

Send us Fan Mail As many bemoan the chaos of this decade, Dr. Steven Pinker reminds us that this is, by a significant margin, the safest and most productive age of the human species. The calamities we face are minor irritants in comparison to those surmounted by our fore fathers; we have difficulty overcoming a few degrees of warmth, let alone a host of real and impactful calamities that used to k...

Send us Fan Mail How long can you survive if the power fails? A few hours, days, weeks, months? Are you self reliant or self sufficient, maybe a combination of both? We outline the strategies for navigating an extended power loss, speak to the types of prepared individuals and the difference between the concepts of self reliance and self sufficiency. Sit back, grab your favourite beverage - We bel...

Send us Fan Mail You'll only be successful when you choose to try. A life strategy is the operationalization of choosing to improve your fitness, mental health, financial condition, personal relationships, professional life, community relations and overall, your role on this planet. Full stop, no one is coming to help. It is not someone else's responsibility to pay your bills or create a...

Send us Fan Mail Business Continuity is disaster preparedness for business, often misunderstood and ignored by SMB. Most businesses dont survive one year after a disaster, and many are utterly unprepared for a significant event. Look how many needed immediate intervention from govnement to survive even the first few months of the pandemic.  Learn about strategic, cyber, operations and reputational...

Send us Fan Mail Chaos and disorder are what we normally correlate with an evacuation. Wildfire on the doorstep, screaming family members, driving from the scene through fire and haze. Let's not forget the hours long bumper to bumper traffic going somewhere, for who knows how long. Uncertainty reigns. But it is a choice, executing a well rehearsed and understood evacuation plan means order in...

Send us Fan Mail I’ve written at length about the need to incorporate all sectors of society in disaster response and recovery operations. For each significant event, there are four unique and often uncoordinated responses: the not for profit (NFP) industry ramping up services for their clients, the private sector enacting continuity operations and extending support to their network, the residents...

Send us Fan Mail According to Global Velocity , in the USA there are 59 million workers in the freelance or gig economy, earning over 500 million, with an estimated 50% of American workers completing at least one external independent contracting assignment this year. While grounded in the transportation industry, the emergence of consultants, IT, AI curators and a host of independent contractors i...

Send us Fan Mail Resilience is intentional and requires commitment. We often pursue ideas and strategies that are one and done. I’ll put in the effort, achieve the standard and we’re all good, nothing else to do. Being ready for the unknown, embracing uncertainty and navigating the unexpected is a skill set, one that requires regular maintenance and sharpening. Resilience is likely one of the most...

Send us Fan Mail Anthropological and sociological research has reasonably defined the spheres of influence in your world, a concept design, sometimes referred to as spatial. In simplest terms, it is a division of interests, those that motivate us and classify arenas in which we operate. While never homogenous, the literature reasonably agrees that political, economic, cultural, familial and natura...

Send us Fan Mail Further research grounds that even with a series of hazards, in some areas communities face a host of differentiating risks, there are limitations to the choices at hand. When drilled to the simplest form, humans have only two distinct choices, shelter in place or evacuate. Irrespective of the hazard or impact, the resulting decision for communities is what to do, limited to a bin...