Mastering Risk

Send us Fan Mail Defining individual responsibility is more than just go do everything, it is about a plan, strategy to meet your core requirements in life, with back-ups to navigate disruptions so that you can rock an incredible life.   We discuss the four elements of a blanket of preparedness, your animalistic needs, financial independence, physical and mental health.  If you have these sorted,...

Send us Fan Mail Preparedness is about taking the steps to be ready to navigate disruptions, while continuing to rock an incredible life in the urban and suburban world.  It is about accepting responsibility for your outcomes, understanding your basic needs and then seeking knowledge about how to set yourself up for success Finance - Dave Ramsey, Tony Robbins and Paul Jarvis Attitude - Ryan Holida...

Send us Fan Mail The Lamb lifestyle is for the wealthy right?  No, its for those who wish to take responsibility for their outcomes, refuse to be victims and want to be responsible for their preparedness and create multiple lines of income.  A quick look into how starting a business is really cheap and easy, simple and the only route to owning - or having the financial ability to own a Lamborghini...

Send us Fan Mail We live in collective societies where the random application of violence on each other is regulated through the collective morals expressed in our laws.  But man is an animal in the ecosystem and violence is kept at bay by the distribution of resources.  Our morals keep society reasonably free of violence because we can eat, find shelter and carry on with our lives.   We discuss a...

Send us Fan Mail The last in our series on information sources, this is a discussion on the value of independent media in understanding the world around you, updating your world and local situational awareness and learning about quality local journalism that may be flying under your radar.  Where is the source statistical information that is without bias?  How do I look at the indicators for my in...

Send us Fan Mail Universal Health Care in Canada is in crisis, if not failed already.  This is significant for preparedness as you probably believe or expect a healthcare system to be ready to receive patients in a major event, or when you or your family is in crisis.  This is not the case, so to understand what is the issue we break down the healthcare system into 3 primary areas: primary care, p...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season five of the podcast, where we will dive into you living through the difficult 2020s while chasing your dreams and living an incredible life, wrapped in a blanked of preparedness.  The principle of simplification supports this endeavour, reminding you that all the issues in life are simple to solve - difficult yes, but simple.  When we position issues in the dicho...

Send us Fan Mail Where do you go to find the most accurate and up to date information in a crisis?  What mediums do you choose, do you have alternate, processes that do not require power?  This week's discussion is all about the crisis information process, finding your trusted sources, having multiple mediums upon which to draw the information - the Internet can go away, we saw this in Canada...

Send us Fan Mail Twitter is the modern incarnation of the city square, where people gather to exchange ideas, seek information, draw conclusions and confirm opinions.  Except the civil discourse of the past is rare.  This week we discuss the value of Twitter for preparedness, the ability to spew without accountability, the fights - both useless and intelligent exchange of ideas and how Twitter can...

Send us Fan Mail This episode was recorded during an 18 hour loss of the Internet in Canada, which affected close to 45% of the population.  A quick look at what a world without internet might be, what considerations are available for your family and how we move forward.  What's your plan for the loss of the Internet.  18 hours is fine, chatted with humans in person and advanced through my re...

Send us Fan Mail Globalism is dying and will be replaced by a new organizational governance by 2030.  This decade will be messy and difficult for us all.  Humanity, about every 80-90 years re-constructs the global order, the systems by which we operate, integrate, coordinate and fight.  We look at Trade, war, pandemics, government control and culture as frameworks for this struggle.  The world tha...

Send us Fan Mail You've got a passion, a cause that drives your inner soul, gets you riled up and is the basis of a number of your conversations online and in groups.  You have a message for the world, but how to get them to hear it?   Or you have a passion for physical creation - woodworking, crochet, knitting, painting, models- whatever and you want to see if you could sell one to the world...

Send us Fan Mail None of us get out of this life alive, no matter who we are or the assets we have.  So what is your plan for when you die?  Today we chat about the considerations of your physical assets, financial, investments and distribution of goods when you expire.  The planning for this is like the rest of preparedness, it's free.  Invest the time to determine what your death looks like...

Send us Fan Mail The intro to a new series, with weekly episodes on Mondays, on the changing world order and how this influences your preparedness decisions.  How does conflict in Ukraine affect your plan, or devaluation of currency in the US, or the re-organization of the global supply chain?  These are important major events that will have impacts on your life, so this episode talks about two ma...

Send us Fan Mail Inflation is hitting everything, the Internet is on fire with calls to stock up on everything and you're looking at a very tiny bank balance, if not overdraft.  So what do you do, well its time to consider that preparedness is indeed possible on a zero budget and that socio-economic barriers to preparedness are not barriers or obstacles, but considerations in developing a pla...

Send us Fan Mail Every once in a while we need to pause and take stock of the world, the issues and how they affect me and my family.  There are the things that are beyond our control to individually influence, but they have an impact on how I live my life.  I cannot stop war, but war affects my access to products.  I cannot cease inflation, but it affects the amount of products I can acquire with...

Send us Fan Mail This week we return to preparedness through the lens of adventurism.  The idea that we as humans need to experience new places and new people to grow, to become better humans and contribute to a greater society.  I am back from an epic back country 7 day canoe trip in northern Saskatchewan, where I met 8 new people and has an amazing adventure.  We discussed my research, I was cha...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to one of the most contentious episodes on emergency preparedness, challenging the holy grail of 72 hr kits.  Yes there are times where some form of kits are necessary, for specific and well defined circumstances.  They are simple, easy to assemble and absolutely free.  There is nothing you need in your kit that you do not already own. But if you were to peruse Amazon, tha...

Send us Fan Mail No one wakes up and thinks today is the day I get fired, or that today my boss will shut down the company.  But these shocks happen daily and the pandemic proved that even the most basic of service industries are exposed to closure and ultimately failure.  So, being a self-reliant individual, you need a plan for when you get fired.  Not if, but when.  We discuss the idea behind ha...

Send us Fan Mail People often find it difficult to wrap their heads around preparedness - what could happen to me and my family? If they immediately turn to the most dangerous possibility, well it becomes too overwhelming and then the population simply avoids the conversation and carries on with their lives. If the immediate thought is a minor inconvenience, one through which they have navigated m...

Send us Fan Mail We know that Critical Infrastructure sectors are the foundation of our modern interconnected society.  So what does it look like when things begin to not work as intended.  Today we chat about the 5 Levels of failure in CI and what that looks like for you.  How do we address the loss of CI, which is completely out of our control, but has a a significant effect on our lives.  We di...

Send us Fan Mail This week marks  Emergency Preparedness Week, where public agencies offer ideas and suggestions to help you build a more prepared life.  However, they are unfortunately built on strategies that are decades old and have failed to move the yardsticks on preparedness behaviour adoption.    Our societies are wonderful constructions of inter-connected systems that we all take for grant...

Send us Fan Mail Two years in and 100 episodes down, thanks to all the contributors, supporters and those who think this message matters.  We chat about the "why" this podcast was created, the mess of the current preparedness landscape and the reasons why I think this channel is positioned to help.  Plans for the future about the ebook, video course, consultancy and episodic continuation...

Send us Fan Mail Planning is an art, where intuitive, inquisitive, creative thought provoking and charismatic people excel.  We plan everything, mostly without considering the process we follow.  This week we talk about deliberate planning to answer an important question in our lives.  Whether it is to buy a new house, to move to a new town, to choose a cooking method for food without utilities or...

Send us Fan Mail As we gather information to inform our preparedness planning, we look at the government's response capacity.  Best done as a per capita ratio of fire, EMS, police to population served.  The research is ongoing to understand what is the correct level, but knowing that there is an ambulance on duty for each 50K citizens informs you of the likelihood of receiving EMS support in...