Mastering Risk

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...

Send us Fan Mail Your government sends out information with regards to emergency management, the standardized message: have a plan, be informed and make a kit.  That is messaging, not communicating.  If the government wants to be a trusted sources when the world goes pear shaped, they need to establish a relationship with citizens.  Become informed of the wishes and desires of the community - what...

Send us Fan Mail Preparedness is trying to or has taken a seat at your table.  That small set of ideas that reside in your life, so why is it there?  We explore the reasons why by examining your theoretical lens on the world, the frame through which you examine the world around you, understand events and make decisions.  You need to self reflect on who you are and how you view this world in order...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to season 4 of IMCH, where we will be focussing more on conversations with people, building your skills sets for disruptions and becoming a more informative and interactive show. Today is about the human networks, your social capital.  The value of people around you, their skills and personal resources that you get access to by meeting your neighbour.  The most important p...

Send us Fan Mail With all the preparations and craziness in the world today, we often forget that there is a limited time here and we should be rocking an incredible life, full of the experiences and people that bring us joy.  So this week we talk about the foundation of developing these preparedness plans, which is a great life that is worthy of protection.   Why are we doing this preparedness jo...

Send us Fan Mail Emergency preparedness communications are normative - they tell a story of the intent of professionals to help, all the wonderful things they have done to be ready to assist, but almost all of the communications lack positivism - they don't tell the reality of municipal emergency management.  The limitations, the extent to which they can provide services to the community and...

Send us Fan Mail There are a spectrum of people involved in preparedness, from the blissfully unaware to the dire hard survivalist.  Who are they and where do you fit on the spectrum?  What does that mean for your outlook on life?  When we think about kits, EDC and a myriad of bug out bags, why do we always think its necessary to have a kit?   In this week's episode we explore the different s...

Send us Fan Mail Preparedness costs are everywhere, the Internet and experts are telling you to buy kits, build stockpiles and a myriad of other advice, all designed to get a piece of your disposable income.  Preparedness is free, at the most basic and simplistic animalistic requirements, there is no requirement to outlay funds.  Period.  There are no socio-economic barriers to adopting an individ...

Send us Fan Mail OPSEC, should everyone know that you are into preparedness and therefore probably have some Gucci kit in the basement and tons of food when the shizzy hits the fizzy?  The reality is that most don't care and those that do likely don't live that close to you.  So in reality it is not a huge issue, but one that cannot be ignored.   Do you advertise?  Do you tell everyone? ...

Send us Fan Mail These are turbulent times, no one needs to remind you.  If you're a business owner, public manager or anyone who has a legal responsibility for humans at work, you need to consider investing in their preparedness.  In the business continuity community, there is a professional certification to help organizations and companies to build plans to navigate disruptions and to survi...

Send us Fan Mail This week we return to the basics, water.  Seems easy - bottle and store, but life makes this far more complex.  What to do when your potable water sources is contaminated and the options for purifying.  We chat about the types of contamination, reasons they occur and how you can mitigate that through the options for purification and storage.  Simplicity.  Lets not over complicate...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is for a friend, someone who is working in Western Ukraine to alleviate suffering and provide assistance to the IDP and refugees.  She is doing so in a confused and fluid environment.  In this episode I offer ways to identify information and fuse together a picture of what is actually happening on the ground.  How to determine where the enemy is and where...

Send us Fan Mail This one feels different, this may actually affect me and potentially at a level I never thought possible.  How do we understand the world events and the impact on our lives?  We conduct the preparedness planning evolution of considering what we would do when the most impactful event occurs.  That event is defined by you, for your family, what would be the worst case scenario, the...