Mastering Risk

Send us Fan Mail Far too many preppier channels are profiting on fear mongering, raising stress in the population and therefore causing far more harm than any of their preparations would solve.  They simply are attempting to provide information and shows that will raise revenue, subscribers, Ad revenue and otherwise improve their bottom line.  Now profiting of your skills is the very essence of ca...

Send us Fan Mail A slight change of focus, but necessary as there is too much hype in the preparedness community about inflation and the terror it will bring.  This is reality, a bit of a boring but necessary explanation of what inflation is, how it is created and how the government acts to lower inflation.  No politics, just facts on how this happens.  Then a short but important reflection on how...

Send us Fan Mail Too many "experts" are selling the notion that the global and North American supply chains are at risk of collapse and therefore a pending catastrophe for food and necessities.  This pandemic has caused disruptions in corporate supply chains, as have recent geo-political issues across the globe.  In this episode, we explain why food supply chains and other necessities wi...

Send us Fan Mail 72 hrs, 60 days, one year?  How much or how far should your preparedness supplies reach out?  When do you have enough and how do I determine what is the correct set of parameters for my family?  This week we consider the most important question after you decide to become responsible for your outcomes - how long should I be self-sufficient for?  This is about building your self rel...

Send us Fan Mail This week is emergency preparedness week in Canada, the one week a year where the government attempts to focus your attention on their ideals and suggestions about preparedness.  This week's episode takes a non-sheep approach to the tag line - be prepared for anything.  This is a poor choice of wording and while it may be build on a foundation of encouraging citizens to consi...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks to all the folks who listen, comment and suggest.  I appreciate all of you, from every corner of the world who listen and participate in this journey.  I tell the story of IMCH, the origins, name, why the subject matter and how to start a podcast.  Thanks everyone, one year down, many more to come.   Support the show https://preparednesslabs.ca/

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about thinking how preparedness and travel come together.  As the world will eventually emerge from this pandemic and restore some basic travel, maybe even total global excursions, how do we embrace that possibility while remaining prepared.  If you have 60 days of supply in your house, you cannot take that on an airplane - so what are the best moves for you to con...

Send us Fan Mail A fun episode, for all those living at 100 MPH who don't have time to consider our 12 step plan and still wish to just buy some stuff to be better prepared.  We discuss what are the simplistic realistic things for home, car and evacuation.  Simple, but necessary in a modern developed and connected world.  No bug out bags here, no saws, canned food, axes, shelters, sleeping ba...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing our discussion on emergency preparedness, this week we offer some thoughts on those disruptions the are not fixed after the first 72 hours.  The utilities do not come back on, or whatever element of critical infrastructure that has failed.  What is your plan for after that government recommended 72 hour kit is expired?  Have you a community plan, do you know your neighb...

Send us Fan Mail A quick reminder that preparedness is cheap, simple and easy for everyone to embrace.  When we consider the basic animalistic requirements of the human species and the fact that they are readily available everywhere in the developed world, then we cannot use the financial excuse as a barrier to becoming prepared.  It is a question of your own self-reliance, how much of your needs...

Send us Fan Mail Collapse is a popular topic in today's preparedness media, many foretelling of the end of the current financial system, the Great Reset or some other apocatalk.  The reality is that every single civilization in history has terminated and to some degree, because of the decisions they made.  Through an examination of historical evidence, modern theories we discuss collapse and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I put together the micro plans from the 10 individual sectors of critical infrastructure and present my personal individual emergency preparedness plan for my family.  By navigating our dependancy on the CI that keep society running, we are poised to mitigate specific and identifiable areas where we would have a shortfall and determine the appropriate measure to mi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we conclude the examination of individual sectors of critical infrastructure with food and water.  These are often considered at the beginning of preparedness, as other than thermoregulation of core body temperature, they are the two principle elements of survival.  They represent your ability to continue to function and therefore require far more consideration than just...

Send us Fan Mail This week we forgo a repetition of each individual step for each consideration within a CI, hence we cover 6 CI sectors in one episode.  By now you know how to plan, conduct the analysis, ask the "so what" questions and develop the micro plan for each CI.  If not, go listen to the previous 2 episodes where it is painstakingly detailed.  At first glance, many will conside...

Send us Fan Mail This week we continue the development of your individual emergency preparedness program through the analysis of dependancy on critical infrastructure (CI).  Finance and the financial services industry are subject to infrequent outages that may cause significant disruption in your life dependant on your reliance on the immediacy of access to money, or simply bad timing.  When the p...

Send us Fan Mail This episode outlines the process for evaluating and developing a plan based upon your reliance and dependancy on the sectors of critical infrastructure.  We examine energy and utilities to look in detail at hydro, natural gas, fuel oil, propane and containerized gas.  Looking at each one of these elements of the energy sector, we ask the important question: "what does my wor...

Send us Fan Mail Step one launches our series on how to become a prepared individual.  We focus first on your acceptance of personal responsibility for your outcomes and not adopting a victim mentality.  Does the world happen to you and you blame everything or everyone else for the current state of your life, or is that a result of decisions you made before the event - including the decision not t...

Send us Fan Mail The social media space is full of well intentioned corporations, groups, individuals, experts, professionals, preppers and survivalists who produce a plethora of content on what you need to do NOW to be prepared for the coming storm.  However, the likelihood of their catastrophic scenarios being realized is nominal, with the vast majority of citizens simply wishing to continue the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season 2 of IMCH !  After a 45 day break to recharge and ramp up for season 2, we are going to focus on the 12 steps of emergency preparedness - yes, a detox of sorts.  The plan is for 30 minute episodes with subject matter experts on the individual pillars of critical infrastructure that keep our society going.   Support the show https://preparednesslabs.ca/

Send us Fan Mail 72 Hr kits are useless and there is zero empirical evidence to demonstrate that at anytime, in any known disruption or disaster, a human or family of humans had a better outcome due to the possession of this equipment.  They are peddled as an easy excuse to justify that municipalities and other governments are addressing preparedness.  Whereas the literature, the nerdy stuff from...

Send us Fan Mail Conspiracy theories are everywhere, seemingly based on incredibly shallow interpretation of events and assigning weak causation.  We do not know whether there is necessary or sufficient grounds for these to be true unless we investigate and evaluate available information.  Theory tells us that conspiracy theories fill the void of information, where there is no counter-proof or val...

Send us Fan Mail COVID-19 communications have been fragmented, disjointed and often supported by questionable evidence.  Governments have been using the pandemic to explore expansion of powers, specifically under public health orders, to immediately influence public behaviour.  To some extent this is warranted, but government's have never given up these powers easily when the emergency passes...

Send us Fan Mail This week we take a lighthearted, but serious look at the world on fire.  How do we, as prepared individuals, deal with the chaotic and crazy events filling our newscast?  What about the US elections, COVID-19, Social Media censorship - generally those around us who hold seemingly ridiculous beliefs.  Are you a libertarian - don't like being told what to do?  Listen to my tho...

Send us Fan Mail This is the first episode in our new series called "A Prepared Life".  It is all about taking the preparedness community out of the fear bunker and towards an incredible and amazing life. We live in a chaotic and disrupted world - full of expectations, norms, cultures and family rules that govern how we conduct our lives.  The number one question for preparedness is: Who...

Send us Fan Mail Mental health is not often seen as a critical element to your preparedness agenda.  However, when we examine the human animal and our interactions, we understand that mental health is the foundation for a prepared life.  Without mastering our emotions, understanding what we can and cannot control we are doomed to expend energy reacting to and making poor decision about things whic...