Mastering Risk

Send us Fan Mail Evacuation is the most dangerous event in preparedness for a family, the most impactful and life changing. Have a plan - a well rehearsed plan that you and your family understand. Evacuations are mandatory or voluntary, immediate or slow burn and they happen at the most inconvenient of times. The only practical advice is to have an evacuation plan as part of your trifecta of prepa...

Send us Fan Mail The totality of scenarios that may affect a family are on a spectrum, from the most likely, power loss, to the most dangerous, evacuation. We have all watched the panic evacuations from wildfires online, seen the interviews with families that have lost everything - this is terrifying for anyone. Hence, a well understood evacuation plan is one of the trifecta of preparedness plans...

Send us Fan Mail This first week of practical preparedness comes to a close with a discussion of a power loss scenario and the cascading impacts on families and society. Considerations from access to cell and internet, to point of sale systems, transportation, fuel, potable water in high density housing and a host of other impacts. Your employment may pause and in these times of increased inflatio...

Send us Fan Mail Power is the most important sector of critical infrastructure, the one that supports all the others and facilitates our modern integrated and technologically enabled society. Without it, we have significant disruption in our lives, so what can you do? These 5 practical tips, based upon understanding your minimum power profile, are the foundation of developing a plan that includes ...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year. Welcome to season 9, where we bring the theory and ideas from the first 8 seasons and translate those into a practical, 10 week presentation of actual and reasonable executable tasks for you to build a household emergency preparedness plan. We've spent the last 3 seasons championing the idea of personal responsibility, that you and you alone are responsible fo...

Send us Fan Mail Every year comes to a close, some with great memories and some with significant challenges. If we wish to grow and learn, we need to reflect on the year that was, warts and all, embrace decisions made, opportunities turned away and in essence, review to our best ability our annual performance.  If you did not have a personal strategic plan, then you're left with a bit of a da...

Send us Fan Mail Rocking 2024 requires no money, only an investment of time.  Economic barriers are a myth. This is the time where the social media feeds are deluged with ideas and recipes for everyone to become their greatest self in 2024. Happens every year, non stop. However, each one of these are not based upon you, your dreams, or your definition of success. Our recipe is for you to determine...

Send us Fan Mail We're going there, the quintessential preparedness foundation, the ubiquitous bug out bag that is the gold standard of idiocy in the prepper space. The kits are constructed principally for mental health, to provide a sense of security, the idea that you've taken steps to ready yourself and your family to navigate disruptions. But you haven't. Preparedness is about e...

Send us Fan Mail Leave the World Behind is a popular new film on Netflix, depicting the failure of modern society, the collapse of communication and the struggle of seven humans to navigate a situation. We discuss the film through the lens of each character representing an element of US society, and the greater western world, and how each of those choose to react to the world, the challenges prese...

Send us Fan Mail Community is your sense of belonging, of place; it's spatial, not bounded by geography, but crossing municipal boundaries. It may be based upon a faith group, service organization, extended family or your physical neighbourhood. Knowing that preparedness is the totality of attitudes and actions that empower you to navigate exogenous shocks, connecting you to the space in whic...

Send us Fan Mail Preparedness is a foundation, a lens through which you examine the world. The future is unknown, though 2024 will be a challenging year with economic, conflict, political and humanitarian strife. These are difficult things to navigate, the shocks are impactful and significant. They are also beyond your control.  In this episode we examine what is likely to occur in 2024, why your...

Send us Fan Mail Thriving vs surviving - our goal is to encourage you to thrive, to provide advice that will encourage you to create a preparedness plan that facilitates thriving in an emergency, vice surviving. Thriving is achieved when you are capable of conducting your full suit of normal activities despite the incident, your personal and professional life remains unaffected by the event and yo...

Send us Fan Mail Stress is worrying about the future, something that has yet to happen, likely will not and in any event, is probably beyond your control. In fact, we as individuals control a scant amount of events that we're expose to, an incredibly tiny fraction of what is going to happen is within your control, yet most of people choose to worry, stress and fret. Do you live in the positiv...

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...