Mastering Risk

Send us Fan Mail Leadership is the art of persuasion and influence, to encourage and motivate employees and colleagues from compliance to commitment. Our episode on becoming the CEO of your life was the foundation of leadership, this episode discusses the how - how do we "do" leadership. Strategic thinking is the skill, the competency to look forward, to see the world for what it is, not...

Send us Fan Mail Whether you're new to preparedness or you consider yourself a prepper, we should periodically reflect on our why, what is it that we're doing and the reasons for the efforts, a first principles review. That means returning to the foundation of the idea, that preparedness is about accepting responsibility for your outcomes, that it is about insulating you and your family...

Send us Fan Mail In a rut? Cannot see the forest for the trees? Buried under pressure? Imagine a roadmap to a place you want to be, a five year plan to extricate you from your now to a place you design, along a pathway you create, with goalposts you set. This is the application of corporate strategic thinking to your life, to preparedness. The education strategy designed by Preparedness Labs Incor...

Send us Fan Mail Every Day Carry. What do I carry and why? What is the thesis behind my decision to carry a wallet, phone, flashlight and pocket knife? That's the entire system I have, supported by the decision to always wear climate appropriate clothing and consider whether I am equipped to walk home from wherever I'm going or anywhere enroute. A simple concept, born from experience.  P...

Send us Fan Mail We are bombarded by communications, either through legacy or social media that we are on the precipice of calamity, that the global order is teetering on collapse and was such, it intentionally induces fear - the most powerful of emotions. In the early months of the pandemic, the population feared the virus, until we understood the vitality, death rate and transmission. Once a tar...

Send us Fan Mail Napoleon is famously quoted as stating that an army marches on its stomach. Cooks are important, we wouldn't be here if we didn't have at least one. For preparedness, we view food as a system, with several stages: acquire, store, prepared and dispose. Non-perishable food is good for a few hours, but on day four of no power and you try to hand out granola bars, you'l...

Send us Fan Mail Back on air after a short break, we discuss the powerful stress imposed by war, hate, racism, inflation, economic loss and a myriad of other exogenous shocks. Sometimes we need to return to basics, to first principles and re-invent ourselves. No one is coming to help you, it is up to the incredible person in the mirror. My recent trip to Banff was not only a conference, but a time...

Send us Fan Mail The term prepper means something significantly different to individuals in the preparedness field. We provide a definition based upon research and a logical linkage to the sectors of critical infrastructure and the replication of one or more sectors or integral elements for the medium to long term. We discuss the differentiation in the prepper planning for the most likely and lost...

Send us Fan Mail The world is chaotic, crazy and seemingly coming undone. You feel helpless, under significant pressure from natural, financial and conflict hazards. How are you supposed to win or at least survive under these circumstances? Preparedness. Having a preparedness plan, grounded in a shelter-in-place strategy, with the trifecta of plans will set you up to best navigate the disruptive 2...

Send us Fan Mail You've accepted personal responsibility, identified those for whom you'd be responsible along with their personal needs, created a shelter in place plan for 14 days to provide the six animalistic requirements for those individuals and now you want to know what to plan for. Scenarios are numerous and if you consider every possibility, there will be dozens. Research tells...

Send us Fan Mail Marcus Aurelius is quoted as, "you always own the option of having no opinion" and "things are not asking to be judged by you". You are responsible for your mental health and the amount of stress and anxiety in your world. You can control the stimuli and remove those to the greatest extent possible, as well as offering no opinion on any cultural, ideological, p...

Send us Fan Mail Preparedness is a lifestyle, a way of navigating life, through the lens of adopting a prepared life, being ready to manage chaos, find solutions and bounce back better and faster, all while wrapped in a blanket of preparedness. Stockpiles are not a strategy, it's a commercial journey, exchanging money for protection. This leads to a false sense of security and may facilitate...

Send us Fan Mail Much maligned and misused, the word priority does not have a plural. This is a principal rule in preparedness, that you cannot have multiple priorities, you have many tasks that you're undertaking, but there can only ever be one priority - you may shift it upon review, but that is your main effort, the thing that will take resources away from all your other plans and activiti...

Send us Fan Mail Stress, necessary for life and an important element in the human animal's response systems. However, high degrees of or sustained stress is harmful and can lead to coping measures that are themselves causing harm. Life can be tough, stress can be debilitating for some - so how do you deal with this? You are in control of what you do and how you act. You have no control over t...

Send us Fan Mail The first step in preparedness is accepting responsibility for your outcomes. For some that may be difficult, they don't have the belief they can learn, they may be in a culture with well defined roles or they may not be supported by those around them. Building self confidence through the adoption of skills is free. In preparedness we champion first building you through physi...

Send us Fan Mail Order into chaos, assuming a leadership role for you, your family and the community. When exogenous shocks happen and tough times surface, are you capable of assuming a leadership role for your family, to execute the tasks within your family preparedness plan? Your children are learning, how you react, how you choose to respond to tough situations teaches them what is acceptable i...

Send us Fan Mail On Sept 14-16 I rode out Hurricane Lee with family in Nova Scotia. While the hurricane became a tropical storm upon arrival, the lessons from being ready and what communications were issued is important. We discuss what it was like, the damage to a few trees, the need to understand your preparedness support equipment in advance and the vague and generalist nature of public sector...

Send us Fan Mail Hurricane season is well underway, that means time for some specific planning for those living on the eastern seaboard of North America. Hurricanes begin in the warm waters of the South Atlantic and are influenced by a number of weather phenomenons that steer them towards a destination, determine the strength of the storm and velocity. The predictability allows for deliberate plan...

Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder how the military is organized rot respond to an emergency, or who controls the deployment? What can they do and how do they execute a task? This conversation breaks down the organization, command and control, explanation of Notice To Move (NTM), how provinces request assistance and the infamous DART for international aid. The CAF is the force of last resort, there is n...

Send us Fan Mail Sorry, but contrary to YouTube Preppers and click bait journalism, the world is not coming to an end. We are facing clarion calls for the coming disruptions from the Ukraine War, Rise of China, Climate Change and Economic Collapse. None of these will result in armageddon or Revelations, but the world is undergoing the 80 year cyclical re-organization of humanity. Every 70-80 years...

Send us Fan Mail Evacuations are the most dangerous emergency event a family can experience, having a plan that is well built and understood by all family members is critical. We outline the steps to create a plan in detail, what to consider and a myriad of details. You are responsible to evacuate yourself and those for whom you're responsible. It is not the government's job to do so, th...

Send us Fan Mail Canada's second largest and most densely population territory is having a record wildfire year. We discuss the demographics, layout, political and economic factors that govern life and inform emergency management. The evacuations serve as an example for us to use in our own planning, to consider routes, responsibility to self-sustain throughout the travel period and the diffi...

Send us Fan Mail It's here, the launch of our most impactful and robust season for IMCH. We are going live on Instagram, giving away copies of our book, long form videos on YouTube and podcast episodes entered on 3 themes: Disaster event assessments : What went right, wrong and lessons for everyone; Planning scenarios : How to navigate situation X, whether it be natural, economic or political...

Send us Fan Mail This 199th episode, the last of the summer bonus series, is a description of my preparedness journey and my current plan. From how I become a preparedness guy, to my shelter in place plan, my days of supply, mobility, bug out locations and my personal plans for the trifecta of pain - utility failure, evacuation and income loss. I discuss why I have chosen these plans, and what I a...

Send us Fan Mail Preparedness is a framework to facilitate and support you rocking an incredible life. It is not meant to be all consuming and to fuel paranoia. Preparedness, through planning for the trifecta of strife - utility loss, evacuation and loss of income, enables you chasing your dreams. Minimalism is not about a number of items, but having your life in control, doing what you want and h...