Mastering Risk

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...

Send us Fan Mail Throughout this podcast we have outlined the necessary steps to become prepared.  Today's episode brings us to the far end of the preparedness spectrum to discuss what it takes to adopt a survivalist's viewpoint on the world - the skills and focus required to prepared for a society altering event.  Survivalists are far more educated and knowledgeable than most give them...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode discusses the history of pandemics as part of the human experience.  We examine the early emergence of public health agencies, pandemic preparedness as part of statecraft and the divergence of authoritarian and democratic responses to illness.  What is the role of institutions and a free press in holding politicians to account for their response - and do w...

Send us Fan Mail This concluding episode provides an overview and summary of the all the episodes on emergency preparedness and allows the listener to hit the main points and seek the detailed episodes on specificities topics for more detailed analysis.  We cover the main question, 5 elements of survival, your plan, simplicity, best case scenario, worst case scenario and a reminder on the benefits...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is a look into moving from a prepared individual, which is the goal and focus of this podcast, to a prepper.  We present definitions of preppers and survivalists, contrast the two, while outlining what separated preppers from the remainder of society.  We discuss skills management, consistent stockpiling and the need for community.  Prepping is about havin...

Send us Fan Mail In the second part of this episode, we discuss the foundations for individual emergency preparedness and consider two scenarios.  First, the most likely, COVID-19 restrictions until 2022.  Based upon science and the logistics of developing, distributing and immunizing hundreds of millions of people, the current restrictions related to the pandemic will be tightened and be part of...

Send us Fan Mail In this first part of a two part episode, we discuss the upcoming winter as one with exceptional challenges to our normal lives.  The US election, climate change related storms, the normal influenza and COVD-19.  There is a great potential for disruption in the Labour markets, as well as the delivery of CI to society.  No tin foil hats here, just a methodology to analyze what migh...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is timely and topical, a logical and factual driven conversation about evacuations and how they may become a reality for you.  We cover what evacuations are, how to conduct a threat analysis for your area, choose routes, destinations, equipment that is reasonably necessary and above all - reduce stress.  This is not a case for an INCH bag, or living on the...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, we explore what it would look like if the critical infrastructure you rely upon went away.  Beginning with the loss of power, cascading to others such as water, sewer, gas and transportation (fuel); how would cities react? What would your life look like and how does this affect your preparedness plans.  This is a logical non-tin foil hat discussion bas...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we explore what safety and security means for those interested in individual emergency preparedness.  We discuss the reality of what really happens to crime levels in emergencies, what a threat profile might look like for you and what does academic examination of disaster / emergency settings reveal.  What is your plan for making your home a hard target to...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is dedicated to determining what your threat profile is for your residence and family, your evacuation plans and determining the equipment necessary to facilitate the execution of the plan you developed.  Simply buying what you see on YouTube will lead to failure or extreme difficulty, as evacuations are always under high stress environments, where without a strong fo...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is about having fun with some of the most ridiculous conspiracy theories that are out there today - about societal control, grand "reset plans", the anti-vac movement and many others that seem outrageous, but seem to have traction online.  As well, we discuss some strategies as to how to investigate the source materiel, how to be wary of the phra...

Send us Fan Mail The final episode of the series on adopting a simple existence and life is entered on you as a human being in this wide wonderful and chaotic world.  We discuss attitude, emotional control, basic life skills, learning to say NO to people you love, goal setting and learning to forgive yourself.  To lead a self-reliant and more sufficient lifestyle we must understand and accept that...