All right, everybody welcome back to the Ottawa studios of inside my canoe head This is the one hundred and ninety ninth episode of inside my canoe head So today we're gonna talk about my state of preparedness to give you a laid-out example of what a preparedness plan looks like and what? Adopting a prepared life is so sit back grab yourself your favorite beverage. Let's get at it. I Will never stop saying I love guitar wrists.
I mean they're just incredible. It's a great way to start you day So thanks again for joining us here at inside my canoe head today. We want to talk about my state of preparedness I get a lot of questions about what about this? What about that?
What are you doing type of thing? So I figured I would wrap up the summer bonus episodes with a detailed discussion through logically formatted my state of preparedness How I rock an incredible life while wrapped in a blanket of preparedness what adopting a prepared life looks like and hopefully to lay out and give you Some hints and ideas that may help your decision making as you're along this road to taking greater Rep of your life and things pointed out and as I said, this is the one hundred and ninety ninth episode Which means we will be taking a ten day pause at inside my canoe head and launching season eight with the two hundredth rockin episode Of this podcast is going to come out late next week I am off to the wonderful east coast of Canada because I have been invited to a privileged Platform to be a guest on the matter of facts podcast out of Halifax as a global blue-noser I am utterly absolutely proud of my heritage on the east coast so having that kind of opportunity extended you darn right I reached out book myself a flight and I'm headed to the east coast I need some salt air some cabin coffee and some good old tunes down at the lower deck Let's go and some cows ice cream to have it. So sit back get ready We are gonna talk about my state of preparedness and it all begins as we know every time I talk about preparedness It's about accepting personal responsibility. So how did I get there?
How did I look this incredible person in the mirror and realize that the world is chaotic? There's so very little within it that I have the capacity to influence and therefore I am likely for the rest of my life to be Subject to the effects of decisions of others big middle and small whether it be governments or neighbors things that are beyond my control Can impact me and there's nothing I could really do to affect or to stop that from happening So I sat down it was really 2012 sitting in the wonderful capital city of Afghanistan, Kabul What it wasn't run by the Taliban and that's really when I had my epiphany moment It was the start of my journey into emergency preparedness and I've been at this for over a decade now And it's where I realized that you know I'm not going to rock an incredible life I'm not gonna be absolutely certain that I can take care of the people for whom I'm responsible the people I love and that matter to me Unless I accept responsibility because even if I believe That the good benevolent government is going to help me I can't make it help me and if I put all of my cards or even some of my cards Into the basket of that the government is going to come help me and the government is gonna give me a place to live And they're gonna help me pay my bills and they're gonna carry me through life with wonderful programs But what if they don't I can't then yell at them and force them to I am but one voice and then what do I do? I become a victim I sit on the side of the road complaining that nobody funds me and that nobody gives me stuff and that nobody's taking care of me And I realized that especially because I was a type A and it still am type a personality army guy No, it's nobody else's responsibility. So that was the first part really about 11 years ago when I realized sitting Yeah, it's pretty much about this time 11 years ago sitting a couple that if I was gonna fix this if I was gonna fix this spiral This world that I was living in and it was becoming more and more chaotic in my second combat tour It just tells you that or my second tour the first one was combat second one was training I was doing contracts for living the the whole point of the matter was I realized the world was becoming more and more of a chaotic place And I was going to be able to exert less and less control in my environment So therefore I needed to accept responsibility.
So that's really where it starts and it starts with you But this is where it started with me. I accepted responsibility So then I needed to learn I knew what I didn't know and that was pretty much everything about the world of preparedness, right? I needed to figure out what it was what the world existed how it was organized and what are all these elements? So what did I do I needed to learn so the following year I started a master's degree in disaster and emergency management at Royal Roads Completed that in 2015 and I'll tell you life comes full circle I start lecturing as a professor in that program beginning in February next year, so I think that's possible, but number one that was it so I live now in the city of Ottawa I'm unapologetically clear about that whether you like the city or not is where the army drop me and it's where my kids are reasonably close So that's where you live right?
I could tell you a million places that I would probably rather be but where I want to be is near my family and my kids So here I am so the number two thing to do in state in your state of preparedness is understanding your environment I choose to live here. I have the freedom to move so because I choose to live here I look and the data that I saw it was what is the state of the first responders your traditional first responders? Which is your police fire in EMS? I looked at the local emergency management ratios.
I looked at local emergency management plans as they're set out on the website So the city of Ottawa has the office of emergency management. I sought out their plans I looked to see what they would do at various different events if I had questions I reached out and posed questions to the people involved I basically needed to know exactly what my local emergency management intended to do when the world went pear-shaped because that provides me the necessary information to help formulate my own plan. I then had to understand a threat profile And this is the first part of a business continuity emergency preparedness plan Whatever it may be is your threat. What am I exposed to now?
The threats can be both human-induced and they can be nature-induced. So here in the city of Ottawa We are at a threat from a nature-induced earthquake. We have a lot more tornadoes than we used to we have can have pretty significant winter storms Including multi-day ice-sets. We have flash flooding to where I specifically live it won't flood.
I'm on a hill So if it floods we're having a no-it type event right a significant no-it type event But we can have flat and do regularly have flash flooding on a lot of lines of communication so potential evac routes potential work So I may be out during a rainstorm and not be able to get back to my residence through the normal route because of flash flooding So it's understanding where we flash flood and where it is understanding that I am at Nature's purview of an earthquake or tornado or a wicked winter or summer windstorm We have hail that type of thing so if you understand we don't have like my home is not at risk of being flooded right unless it bursts Like a pipe from the inside or my neighbor versus a pipe. That's a different discussion altogether I'm not at risk for being hit by a hurricane or a typhoon, but I have and they're from a hazardous risk No, there's nothing nearby industrial wise that would pose I do not live near a rail line that carries hazardous and dangerous goods Though I have identified that one of my evacuation routes out of the city of Ottawa does cross a rail line that is regularly used For freight traffic, which means it could be blocked by a derailment But that's just an idea So I've gone through the possible threat analysis and I understand the threat except because I choose to live here I then understood the third part of that understanding your environment is how people are going to communicate to me in times of an emergency So the Ottawa City Emergency Management has a communication plan. They've stated how they're going to talk and reach out to people So I've set up my Twitter feed Twitter. I don't care what you think about the crazy Elon You got to be mature enough to park that stuff aside Twitter is the best on Mistakably the best Superior social media site for accessing emergency management feeds I have blogs on it at preparedislabs.ca and I've done a podcast episode on it look through the history Podcast episode is there on Twitter.
I know what radio stations the city of Ottawa will use to communicate with me now I understand that that information I'm going to get from the city Ottawa It's kind of vague right because they're speaking to a city of a million people on one radio channel So I live in a little community with a name that name is probably not going unless we're the epicenter of the event We're probably not going to get very very specific local information But I will get general big picture understanding information So as I'm executing my family emergency preparedness plan the information I'm gathering from official sources helps to inform if I need to pivot or make a change That's the value of that information. So the number three part of your emergency preparedness plan after you've accepted person or responsibility You understand the environment that you live in is Defining my family and those who I'm responsible for we are a family of three adults plus one elderly in a care home that lives about 40 minutes away You must include people who are vulnerable within your family today's families are often multi-generational and often multi-location on mine is both Multi-generational but sitting in multi-location I know that in significant emergencies the limited ability of care homes to take care of the elderly and we saw this during the pandemic here in Ontario In Canada we had significant loss of people because of the lack of preparedness the lack of the robust Responsibility within that sector So I've added that individual to my own family emergency preparedness plan because in the middle of a shelter-in-place order I may have to go get them and return them with all of the situation that brings in to my house to take proper care Or at least be bouncing back and forth to make sure they're good to go with that is understanding everybody's individual special needs I'm over 50 that comes with needs my wife is 19 But everybody comes with a set of special needs that you got to take care for so number four is your shelter in place plan Now that I understand all those three previous I can build a shelter in place by we talk about here and inside my canoe head to go for 14 days and the reason we say 14 days I'm providing your six animalistic requirements for your family with this food water shelter health safety and security The reason for that is is the stats continue to develop We're working on this research project to be published in our in preparedness labs incorporated has a journal That's coming out in November 15th. It'll be available for free on preparedness We're working on this scenario and it's turned out it used to say is about 97 percent It's actually about 92 percent of all Emergencies all the critical infrastructure is back up and running within 14 days That's why the 14 day we sell 14 days we tell people on 14 days because it's based upon hard research Everything we do here is based upon hard research So if you're ready to shelter in place for your animalistic requirements for the people that you're loving responsible for 14 days You are going to meet 92% of the situations and that for most people is good to go They are happy with that now There's an extra 8% if you want to deal with that in my house We do I have a basic 30 day shelter in place plan So I can disconnect completely unquestionably from the grid in all manner in respects including sewage and everything else For 30 days and I can provide everything for my family as necessary while sheltering in my house now We've built it beyond that and we talk about this in our in some of our upcoming material that's gonna come out in Stuff we have later this year to be a bit vague, but we have I have an additional 60 days and it's mobile And the reason for that is is based upon the situation threat analysis around me and my continued plans I've decided that I actually have a 90 day shelter in place plan 30 day the first 30 days is grounded to my physical house that I live in The other 60 days is 100% mobile. We also have an evacuation We call it a bug out location You can call it whatever you will an alternate site that is known and understood There's a group of people that we that will use that site if necessary So at a certain point when it becomes time to evacuate the city after 30 days of critical infrastructure not being returned I have 60 days of mobility 60 days of supply that is mobile that will go to that alternate location where we will set up long term Preparedness and take it from there.
So that's my shelter in place plan for my trifecta of pain As I call it or your three main scenarios that you need to be replying before the first is a power outage It is your most likely I have debt I've gone through my minimum power generation profile is four amps I don't need anything more than that so I have the ability to in my home to generate four amps time immemorial through solar generation I have a jackeree portable power system and a couple of other backup battery systems I have 200 watts of portable solar so basically I can meet my ability to generate power in the long term But for my 30 day shelter in place I need to be able to generate four amps for one hour a day That is my minimum power profile and as long as I can do that I can keep everything up and running in my residence and keep everybody from muting and getting rid of me But it also means I have the systems covered when we talk about this in detail in the book But this the big things are food and water like shelter your analyst requirement is shelter you have the clothes You have a bed you have blankets you have a home, right? That's your shelter in place plan health safety and security is just about locking doors lighting having your firefighting equipment like it's there And there's nothing additional that's really going to change I have the ability all of my lights in my house are rechargeable and I do that because I'm not a battery guy I really rely on nothing in my house that runs on batteries That's a choice that I make because then when I have to then go mobile I don't need to take a stock of batteries with me I need to take a couple of lithium power generators and a couple of solar panels and wherever I go in the world I can generate power time and moral and I don't have to carry double A's with me every place I go But the point is water and food are a system, right? So when you think about it, I don't have 30 days of pot of a water stored in my house So if you have three people say the fourth and at four liters a day per person for all your needs That is 16 liters a day times 30. That's 160 times that is a lot of freakin water I don't store that so I have a system of collecting water through rain barrel and a way to purify it through two different purification systems One is a just one of those push filters where you kind of like soil your squeeze But a bit of an industrial thing and the other one is through tablets and iodine drops, right?
So I have the ability to I have a couple hundred liters of pot of a water stored in the house But when it comes to really the longer term stuff, it's about the ability to collect it and preserve it So I have that but food is a system as well I not only have to be able to store it in a good port of my minimum power profile is dedicated to keeping a freezer running that keeps all of my My food stored and that's really only four amps one hour every two days to keep the freezer frozen The weather the other four hours an amp every second day is to charge all the rechargeables That would be the lights the satellite communication devices my communication devices and our cell phones But I have to have the ability to not only store the food But I have to have the ability to cook the food So I cook on either jet boils or the other fuel canis system that I have is the old Coleman peak one multifuel single burner stove The thing is indestructible it'll run on almost anything from gasoline to nap that almost anything that'll burn white gas You put it all in the kerosene you put it all in there and it will burn Takes a little bit of clean it because she can be a little bit frustrating at time But can't we all be a bit ornery at times? But really it's almost a bulletproof stove and it gives me the ability to cook food for my family because again I've said this before and it is absolutely true I love my coffee my wife loves her tea and if I cannot make her a tea in the middle of an emergency We will have a mutiny on our hands and I will be really ugly if I can't have coffee So you've got to remember your food if you're 14 days shelter in place that is a perfect system 92% effective the point is is that you have to be able to take care of your full spectrum and the other end of it is food and water has to be Disposed of which means you have to have a sanitation now. I have a portable toilet system that allows us to create store and take care of Human waste if the toilet system is not available. It may be disgusting and whatever But let me tell you nothing nothing causes more disease and more struggle than the loss of sanitation in a society As well, it is how do you dispose of garbage right if it's a hot summer day You can't put 30 days of food waste in a composter not expect the entire world distinct to high heaven So and again that all influences people think of the system map it out as a system So the other one that is a power outage for 14 days.
My other one is evacuation again. I have a evacuation plan that has three sites This is not my bug outside. That's a completely different plan. The first one is I have a friend that lives about 150 kilometers away We have a reciprocal agreement.
I talk about this regularly I could show up at his place with my family and my mobile equipment and we are good to go in their basement No questions asked and then I can sort the world out from there They can do the same in my basement The other one is I have friends and family all around the city of Ottawa So if my vehicle is not available and I have to walk somewhere I and it's a localized emergency I have another residence to go to and as a third back out in about it's about 18 kilometers from my house We have access to a piece of vacant land that has the minimum acceptable standard of stuff on it that the owner has allowed us to move to So if I literally have to do one of those bushcrafty things where for a short period of time my family has to live in a bushcraft situation I actually have an identified piece of off-grid land rural undeveloped land that the owner has already given me permission to go to So again, it doesn't cost me any money But it's about reaching out and setting up these things So my family can evacuate to two different routes by two different means of transport to three different locations And I haven't even touched my bug out plan yet all of that costs no money whatsoever All I have to remember is to make sure that I have a half a tank a gas in the car to get where I need to go So that's my evacuation plan and for the economic loss, right? This is the other trifective pain losing your job and getting fired is just as painful as having your house burned down to your family as an overall long-term situation If I lose my income, I have a plan to pivot to an alternate source of income It's all perfectly laid out. I have a look at it every couple of months as part of my preparedness plan review It will take me approximately three months to move to that alternate line of income Therefore, I have four months and I like a little bit of fudge factor because let's not get it down to the rail So because I will take me three months to pivot to in a different line of income that is sufficient to pay my bills I therefore have four months of full-on emergency fund available. That's how you lay out your emergency fund How big should your emergency fund be?
Well, it's based purely on my performance or my preparedness plan and my ability to pivot to my next line of income So I have that done. I'm ready to go It requires a bit of skill and I do practice it periodically not very often But periodically so that I know within three months I can be up and running and earning a couple of thousand dollars a month to pay my basic bills And so therefore I have my full set of bills covered for a period of four months sitting in a high interest savings account today because of inflation It's earning a good five percent. It's not a bad day and the last one is your death plan Nobody likes to talk about it But none of us get out of this wonderful thing alive and therefore the final part of your preparedness plan should be What is going to happen when you die because you will and if you have a spouse you have to do the same thing So basically I have an envelope in my desk that is entitled when I am gone and inside of there is my will and the plan And I have typed out a word document and printed it off to tell my executor exactly what has to happen This is where my bank accounts are. This is where I'm investments are when I die These are the first people you have to call.
Here's the number you have to call Here's the information you'll need to tell them This is the benefits that have to stop because you're not entitled to them after you're dead And that this is the exact outcome of the call here of my life insurance numbers This is the company you have to call. This is the insurance policy number And by the way, there's a copy of the insurance policy in the envelope This is the outcome of that phone call that you must have so that is clearly laid out So as the executor is probably also sad that I'm not here the very very clear plan Okay, now here are the next steps These are all the things that I own where ownership will have to be changed over to somebody else Here is how you do it These can take a little bit longer take a breath get me in the ground and bury me And oh by the way, this is where I want to be buried Really simple, but it does not complicate it My plan is like two pages a couple of nice little notes for my family Etc, but it's done So when I die because I will the envelope is there Everybody knows where it is including my kids They pull it out and I get on with it, right? They absolutely get on with it because that's what they need to do It's not a freaking shit show as to benefits and stuff here and stuff there And I've seen far too many people even recently very close friends family members pass away And it's a total utter catastrophic nightmare as trying to sort out the benefits and then the hilarity And I never understand as why people want to surprise other people when they're dead, right? So you're going to wait until the unveiling of the will to see who gets what why would you do that?
If I have one wife, right? Thank God. One's enough. But she gets everything.
If I'm not here, I have two kids. It splits between them. If all of us seem to go in the same time, it all gets sold and liquidated and given to the following list of organizations and human beings done over with. Everybody knows there's no secret.
I'm not leaving a secret unknown property to somebody. I'm not giving somebody more than a fair share as a party gift. Don't be a jerk. Make sure everybody's aware.
So that my friends is my preparedness plan. So we go through first my story of how I accepted responsibility What I've done to understand the environment in the place that I choose to live Defining my family and whom responsible for my shelter in place plan My trifecta of pain as I call it, the three main plans, my evacuation, my power laws and my economic loss plan, my death plan. And here we are. So the last part that I want to touch on is your preparedness plan is a living breathing document.
Okay, it's something that you work on regularly. I talk about it in my book that I believe and I suggest once a month for an hour on a Sunday morning Stick it in your catalog, whatever. So I use I break it down into three areas. I love the idea of threes and you'll see this throughout the theme and podcast the book everywhere else.
There are three things you need to work on and there are three pillars to each one of those. It's beautiful. So there's a personal life, there's a preparedness plan, and then there's a community. So in each one of those, I have three things.
So in my personal life, we break it down to my physical health, my mental health, and my financial health. For my physical health, I'm working on getting fit and losing weight. Coming up to some health challenges in my fifties, I got to sort that out. If my physical body is not in tip top shape as best it can be, then I am pretty useless to everybody else.
And the number one thing you can do for your mental health is actually to be physically fit and exercise. So for my mental health, I'm working on kind of two things. One, my calendar. To get an appointment on my calendar, you need to be a pretty freaking important person.
Let's be frank, right? I protect my calendar religiously and I kick toxic people out of my life, friends, family relatives, whoever you may be. If you don't bring me happiness and joy, okay, but if you actually bring me pain and drama, I'm just going to fire you. You could be a relative and I'll simply fire you.
Now I don't make a drama queen about it. I just stopped talking to you. I just stopped texting you off you go. Wish you the best of luck.
Maybe I'll attend your funeral. Maybe I won't. No, I don't keep toxic people in my life and on my financial health. I'm building an entrepreneurial business on the side as the principal researcher, preparedness labs incorporated a Canadian research and education firm into emergency preparedness where we work with businesses.
So I'm building that on the side. So of those three, we talk about it in the book, there can only be one priority. And right now in my personal life, it's my physical fitness. So that trumps everything else.
Now when we talk about my preparedness plan, again, I look at it every single month. I'm working on three things again, three things, right? I'm increasing the mobility of my 60 days of supply. I'm trying to work on shrinking down the amount of stuff I have, right?
The more prepared you are, you will realize the far less equipment you need, the less prepared you are and the less skilled you are, the more equipment you need. So I'm really working on building that in my medical skills to try to reduce the size of equipment I will need, which makes me more mobile and as well myself and a couple other folks have some plans coming up to work on the bug out location to figure that puzzle out a little bit better. But again, you can only have one priority, right? And so the priority is the mobility of my 60 days of supply.
So I'm really pairing that down, donating a lot of extra stuff, giving it away. Because if it doesn't really serve what my plan says, then I just don't keep it what is, maybe I need it, maybe I don't know, I don't live that world. Minimalism, simplicity, essentialism, decluttering, all of that matters in preparedness. I just did a podcast episode last week on that.
Go have a listen. You don't need very much as your, it's inverse relationship as your skills go up, your supplies go down. And then the last in community. So I'm working on increasing three things.
One is increasing my free in-person presentations. I like to do those in the community to help spread the word of preparedness free of charge. I like to do that online and I like to help community organizations. All of it is free.
I don't charge any of that because it's part of my raison d'etre. It's what I'm trying my mission in life. My 30 second mission is about helping my community and building the idea of preparedness. That's what this podcast is about.
It'll be free forever and ever. Amen. In Shalah, we will be here for decades providing the best possible education and research based preparedness information to the world. Now of those, what I'm really working on and my priority is increasing my free online presentation.
So you'll see in the rollout of season eight that starts in the podcast late next week. We're starting to roll out free online. I'll leave it at this. We're going to start doing free online preparedness sessions.
So something you can just sign up for free across different social media channels. It'll be at a certain given time and a night and I'll just hop on there and if you're there, we'll chat and we'll just chat free of charge just to increase the awareness of preparedness. Give you more information the best I can free of charge the way it should be. So if you think about that, I have a priority in personal, which is my physical health.
I need to lose weight and get myself sorted out. In preparedness, it's the mobility of my 60 days of supply and in my community, it's providing more free education. I have now priority can only be singular. So in reality, I only have one priority.
So of those three things that are the top tasks in each one, I have one priority. And right now that's sorting me out my physical health. If I don't sort me out, I am useless to everybody else. This whole preparedness plan goes to hell in a hand basket when the world goes pear shaped.
If I'm not mentally and physically fit, if I'm not sound of mine and peace and calm, then none of this crap I talked about for the last 30 minute matters. It'll all go nowhere down the toilet, dangapubel, whatever you want to say, if I don't tear it, so my number one personal priority is that it's simple. It's unquestioned. It is getting myself physically fit.
Now that's not crazy religious. What I do for physical fitness and people like specifics, and I got to learn to do more of this instead of talk generalities. And I get it. I get the feedback, my friends.
I really do that I talk a lot and generalities are not specific. My physical fitness program is simple. I get up every day. I go out for a walk.
I wear a 40 pound weighted vest and I go for a brisk walk. I try to get it out to 45 minutes. I time it. When I get back to my house, I take the vest off and I owe myself a push up for every minute I'm out there.
So if I go really fast and hard and drive the body and I get back two minutes faster, I save myself two push ups, but I probably burned. I crapped on extra calories doing that. So today, for example, I went out and I was gone 20 sorry 30 minutes bang on the nose. So I gave myself 30 push ups.
That's it. I eat healthy. I fast 16 and eight. So I break my fast at noon every day and I eat calories.
I eat healthy. I make my own bread. I eat fruit. I eat vegetables.
I eat meat. I just eat real food. I don't really have a religious diet to stick to. I've kind of moved away from the carnivore diet because it's simply got too expensive.
And so I eat basic real food. I only eat the bread that I make. I use when I'm cheating. I eat a lot of toast, but I make my own bread from scratch.
It is so simple. Shout me out if you want me to do a video on that. Actually, what I'm just going to do. I'm just going to do a video I'm making homemade bread for guys who don't know anything about baking.
That's it. That's what we do. It's that simple. Right?
I take care of me. I do a simple exercise every day. I don't worry about it the rest of the time. I don't try to count my steps.
I'm mobile. I walk. I do what I can. I eat healthy and I fast 16 and eight.
And that my friends is my number one priority of trumps everything else. Me first, then everybody else. So hopefully this little right through the idea of my state of preparedness told you what I've done and gives you a background of what I talk about. Hopefully that gives you some ideas and some layouts for your own personal preparedness plan and getting yourself in a state of preparedness.
And I'm going to end today's episode with a huge heartfelt thank you. 199 episodes. We've been on the air since 28 April 2020. 2020 the start of the pandemic.
This whole inside my canoe head began because of how shocked I was at the lack of preparedness in the population to deal with a major event like a pandemic. So many people were caught off guard. So many people were put into significant difficult positions. And some to this day still haven't recovered.
So I began this journey. What I tell you here at Inside My Canoe Head is based upon research. It's not apocalyptic. Apocatoc.
The end of the world is not coming. I do a lot of episodes on I did a couple on Putin's War, which did very, very well. I talked about why 2020 is going to be the most it is the most disruptive decade since the 1940s. And there's a very good reason for that.
About every 70 or 80 years humanity goes through a reorganization of ideas and structures in the world. That's what the 2020s is. That's what the pandemic is about. That's what the global conflicts are about.
That's what the end of globalization is about. That's what the rise of ideologies are about. So how do you navigate that? That's the idea of preparedness.
But an incredible thank you for allowing me into your living rooms, your cars, your morning walks, whatever it may be. We are seeing a growth across the world, but especially in our friends in the South Americans. I love you all down in the States. I shoot a lot of dirt with a lot of American soldiers, even some Marines.
I was lucky enough. A lot of Europeans. I owe my life to a Dutch F-16 pilot. That's the story I may tell someday.
But let's end in an American Black Hawk Apache pilot, Black Hawk and Apache pilot in another situation. But I've spent a lot of time in the United States. I love Americans. I know what you're about.
And I know the beacon of hope that you spend for the world is often misunderstood by the rest of the world. But we understand that we get it together. We will grow this preparedness message together. We will help our fellow citizens navigate the 2020s and set ourselves up for ultimate success in the world that emerges in 2030 and beyond.
So again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you very much for all the words of encouragement and everything that you've given me and the continued decision to download. The only favor I ask is that you continue to spread the message. If you like what you hear and inside my canoe head, tell others.
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We are coming for the world of preparedness. Nobody will know what hit them. So thanks again. Have yourself a great week and a bit and we'll see you for the launch of season eight of Inside My Canoe Head and the 200 episode late next week's Take Care.
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