Prepping Academy
by Prepping Academy
The Prepping Academy Radio Show is a live broadcast aimed at discussing various topics related to prepping, survival, and self-reliance, while also serving as a platform for preppers to unite. Our ultimate objective at The Prepping Academy Radio Show is to broaden your perspectives and inspire you to take action, as we strongly believe that preparedness is of the essence. We welcome preppers of all levels to join us on preppingacademy.com and PrepperNet.com.
Episodes
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Free 4-Night Family Preparedness Training—Sign Up and Spread the Word!
In this short public service announcement, Forrest Garvin invites listeners to join him and Patrick for PrepperNet’s FREE four-night live Family Preparedness Training series: “Prepare for 3 Days. Let’s Get Started!” Learn practical steps to prepare your household, gather essential supplies, stay...
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You've Been Hacked! 10 Things You Must Do Immediately to Protect Yourself
You've Been Hacked! 10 Things You Must Do Immediately to Protect Yourself What would you do if hackers accessed your email, bank account, passwords, or personal information? Would you know how to protect yourself before it's too late? In this episode of The Prepping Academy Podcast, cybersecurity...
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Prepping on a Budget: What I Would Buy First With Just $500
Prepping on a Budget: What I Would Buy First With Just $500 If you had to start your preparedness journey over with just $500, what would you buy first? In this episode of The Prepping Academy Podcast, preparedness expert Forrest Garvin breaks down the essential survival supplies every prepper...
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Why Every Prepper Should Attend a Preparedness Expo | Survival Shows & Events
Why Every Prepper Should Attend a Preparedness Expo | Survival Shows & Events Have you ever attended a preparedness expo or survival show? In this episode of The Prepping Academy Podcast, host Forrest Garvin explains why every prepper should attend at least one preparedness event each year.…
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Why PrepperNet Is Different | The Power of Community in Emergency Preparedness
Why PrepperNet Is Different | The Power of Community in Emergency Preparedness What makes PrepperNet different from other prepper communities? In this episode of The Prepping Academy Podcast, host Forrest Garvin explains why building real-world relationships is one of the most important parts of...
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10 Things Every Family Should Do Before 2027 | Emergency Preparedness Checklist
10 Things Every Family Should Do Before 2027 | Emergency Preparedness Checklist Is your family prepared for 2027? In this episode of The Prepping Academy Podcast, Forrest Garvin shares 10 essential emergency preparedness steps every family should complete by year's end. Whether you're new to...
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10 Skills More Valuable Than Stockpiling More Gear
10 Skills More Valuable Than Stockpiling More Gear One of the biggest misconceptions in preparedness is that the person with the most gear wins. Gear has its place, but when an emergency happens, knowledge, training, and practical preparedness skills can be far more valuable than another gadget...
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Home Security for Normal Families: Practical Upgrades That Work
Home Security for Normal Families: Practical Upgrades That Work Home security doesn't require turning your house into a fortress or spending thousands of dollars on expensive equipment. Some of the most effective ways to protect your home and family are surprisingly simple. In this episode of The...
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The Next Financial Crisis: What Preppers Should Be Doing Right Now
Is the next financial crisis closer than most people realize? In this episode, Forrest Garvin discusses the warning signs he's watching, the lessons learned from previous financial downturns, and what preppers should be doing right now to strengthen their financial preparedness. From inflation…
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National Preparedness Month: Why Most People Still Aren’t Ready
National Preparedness Month: Why Most People Still Aren’t Ready September is National Preparedness Month, but despite years of warnings about hurricanes, power outages, winter storms, cyberattacks, supply chain disruptions, and other emergencies, millions of Americans are still unprepared. In…
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Building a MAG: Finding Good People Before You Need Them
Building a MAG: Finding Good People Before You Need Them Building a Mutual Assistance Group (MAG) is one of the most important—and often overlooked—parts of preparedness. Food, water, gear, and supplies are important, but no one can do everything alone. In this episode, Forrest Garvin explains…
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Is Your Information on the Dark Web? Here's How to Find Out.
Is your personal information already on the dark web? In this episode, Forrest Garvin explains what the dark web is, how stolen email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, and personal information end up there, and what you can do to protect yourself. You'll learn how data breaches happen, warning...
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What Threats to Communications Systems Should We Prep For?
What Threats to Communications Systems Should We Prep For? On this episode of the Prepping Academy Podcast, Grid Down Comms Up takes on a listener question. A PrepperNet member asked me, "What communications threats should we prep for?" I realized this was a great topic for a podcast. All of us...
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The Five Threats I'm Watching Most Closely Right Now
The world is changing faster than ever, and the biggest risks aren't always the ones making headlines. In this episode, Forrest Garvin shares the five threats he's watching most closely right now and explains why every family should be paying attention. From economic uncertainty and cyber attacks...
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Choosing Land for Preparedness in 2026: The Biggest Mistakes Most People Make
Choosing Land for Preparedness in 2026: The Biggest Mistakes Most People Make Thinking about buying rural land for preparedness? Don’t sign the paperwork until you hear this. In this episode of The Prepping Academy Podcast, Forrest Garvin explains how choosing survival property has changed in…
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Bug In vs. Bug Out: Which Survival Strategy Actually Works?
Bug In vs. Bug Out: Which Survival Strategy Actually Works? Should you stay home during a crisis or grab your bug-out bag and leave? The answer isn’t as simple as most people think. In this episode of The Prepping Academy Podcast, Forrest Garvin cuts through the myths surrounding bugging in and...
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Area Study Map Training | The Prepping Academy Podcast
Area Study Map Training | The Prepping Academy Podcast Most people know almost nothing about the area they live in. In this episode of The Prepping Academy, Forrest Garvin explains how Area Study Map Training helps preppers, homesteaders, and families understand their local area, identify…
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From Overwhelmed to Prepared
From Overwhelmed to Prepared | The Prepping Academy Podcast Millions of people know they should prepare… but most never start because they feel overwhelmed. Feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world? In this episode of The Prepping Academy, Forrest Garvin breaks down how to move from fear and...
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JJS founder of AmRRON, American Redoubt Radio Operators Network
Join Grid Down Comms Up for another episode of The Prepping Academy. Today, JJS, founder of AmRRON (American Redoubt Radio Operators Network), joins us for an update on AmRRON's annual grid-down exercise, T-REX. A national exercise where radio operators take to the airwaves for a three-day event...
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AI - The End of the World As We Know It
AI, will it bring about the apocalypse, or just change the world? AI is making headlines daily. It is changing how we create online content, make web pages, buy products, receive medical care, invest in the stock market, etc. Will this tech bring about the end of the world if left unchecked? Will...
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Skynet Is Here — Your Every Move Is Being Tracked
Skynet Is Here — Your Every Move Is Being Tracked Forrest and Patrick join forces to dive into the current privacy issues facing the globe. AI, age verification, new vehicles, and big data are all working together to make privacy a thing of the past. Forrest offers some great tips for maintaining...
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What Will SHTF Really Be Like the First Year
What Will SHTF Really Be Like the First Year Forrest and Patrick join forces to discuss what the first year of a national grid-down situation might be like. The EMP Commission states that 90% of the population wouldn't make it through the first year. How would you survive the first year of chaos?...
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Biblical Preparedness with Forrest Garvin | Interview on Church Dads Podcastd Episode
In this special episode, Forrest Garvin joins the Church Dads Podcast for a powerful conversation about biblical preparedness, Christian leadership, family legacy, entrepreneurship, and living intentionally in uncertain times. Forrest shares his personal journey of faith, how preparedness aligns...
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Food Security in Today’s Economy
In this episode, we discuss one of the most important preparedness topics facing families today — food security in today’s economy. With rising grocery prices, inflation, supply chain disruptions, economic uncertainty, and increasing concerns about the stability of the food system, more Americans...
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Solar Cooking with the My Solar Oven
In this episode, we dive deep into the world of solar cooking with the new My Solar Oven — a family-owned, veteran-owned, Made in the USA solar oven designed for preparedness, off-grid living, homesteading, emergency cooking, camping, and self-reliance. If you have ever wondered how solar ovens...
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Communications Vunerabilites
Our critical infrastructure faces multiple threats from physical security, cyber security, rust, and corporate profit over resilience. In this episode of Grid Down Comms Up, we discuss some of the threats our communications systems face to better understand how they might fail and how we can plan...
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2FA: The Simple Step That Stops Most Hacks
In this episode of the Prepping Academy Podcast, Forrest Garvin breaks down one of the most important—and overlooked—steps you can take to protect your digital life: Two-Factor Authentication (2FA). Most people rely solely on passwords, but they get stolen every day through data breaches…
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Stay the Course
In this episode of the Prepping Academy Podcast, Forrest Garvin discusses one of the biggest problems in the preparedness community: people stop preparing when things feel normal. When shelves are full and life feels stable, most people drift away from preparedness. But that’s exactly when you...
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7 Steps to Take Back Your Online Privacy
In this episode of the Prepping Academy Podcast, Forrest Garvin breaks down 7 simple steps you can take right now to regain control of your online privacy. Most people don’t realize how much of their life is being tracked, stored, and sold—from emails and searches to phones and smart devices.…
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The Last Scenario: The Ultimate Prepping Game That Tests Your Survival Strategy
In this episode of the Prepping Academy Podcast, Forrest Garvin introduces The Last Scenario—a preparedness game he created to train decision-making when everything goes wrong. This isn’t entertainment. It’s a real-world simulation designed to expose the gaps in your planning before a crisis...
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Preppers Will Starve!
In today's episode, we discuss the impacts of food production caused by the war in Iran. Natural gas from the Middle East is a key component in chemical fertilizers. What would a world without chemical fertilizers look like? How long would it take us to convert to regenerative farming practices?...
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Patrick from Grid Down Comms UP looks at an Awesome New Software - Area Study Map
In this episode, Patrick from Grid Down Comms UP looks at an awesome new software to move your Area Study into the 21st century. No more kindergarten crayons and construction paper, a real solution to your Areas Study mapping needs. Area Study Map is a personal reconnaissance tool that runs...
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Encore Episode - Selco Begovic PART 2 - Survivor of the Balkan War - SHTF Expert!
Selco Begovic - Survivor of the Balkan War - SHTF Expert! PART 2 Interview Selco Begovic, a survivor of the tumultuous Balkan war in the 1990s, endured the daunting challenges of living in a besieged city without access to necessities like electricity, running water, and food distribution. Today,...
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Patrick with @griddowncomms - Winter Storm Fern
Patrick with @griddowncomms - Winter Storm Fern Patrick with @griddowncomms takes the microphone again for an after-action report on winter storm Fern and a few rants along the way. In the communications portion of today's show, we discuss shortcomings of some popular but perhaps misguided online...
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Encore Episode - Selco Begovic PART 1 - Survivor of the Balkan War - SHTF Expert!
Selco Begovic - Survivor of the Balkan War - SHTF Expert! PART 1 Interview Selco Begovic, a survivor of the tumultuous Balkan war in the 1990s, endured the daunting challenges of living in a besieged city without access to necessities like electricity, running water, and food distribution. Today,...
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Patrick - Grid Down Comms Up discusses Verizon Wireless & Snowmageddon
In today's episode, Patrick with Grid Down Comms Up discusses winter preps and observations from last week's Verizon Wireless outage. With a massive winter storm on the horizon, determining how much heat and fuel you need is critical to being prepared. Electricity for critical power needs from...
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Encore Episode - Selco Begovic - Survivor of the Balkan War - SHTF Expert!
Selco Begovic, a survivor of the tumultuous Balkan war in the 1990s, endured the daunting challenges of living in a besieged city without access to basic necessities like electricity, running water, and food distribution. Today, he shares his firsthand experiences through physical courses…
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Encore Episode: Dr. Arthur Bradley – NASA Engineer & EMP/CME Expert
Dr. Arthur Bradley - NASA Engineer & EMP / CME Expert Dr. Arthur Bradley is a NASA engineer and the bestselling author of the Handbook to Practical Disaster Preparedness for the Family, the Prepper's Instruction Manual, Disaster Preparedness for EMP Attacks and Solar Storms, and the...
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Privacy Email — Taking Control of Your Inbox
Privacy Email — Taking Control of Your Inbox In this episode of The Privacy & Freedom Podcast, Forrest Garvin pulls back the curtain on one of the most overlooked privacy vulnerabilities — your email address. That single piece of digital identity connects your banking, shopping, social media, and...
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Anonymous LLCs — Separating Your Name from Your Assets
Anonymous LLCs — Separating Your Name from Your Assets In this episode of The Privacy & Freedom Podcast, Forrest Garvin takes you deep into one of the most powerful — and misunderstood — tools for modern privacy and asset protection: the Anonymous LLC. Also known as a “Ghost LLC,” this structure...
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Your Car Is Spying on You
Your Car Is Spying on You In this episode of The Privacy & Freedom Podcast, Forrest Garvin exposes a truth most people never consider — your car is one of the most powerful surveillance devices you own. From built-in GPS trackers and microphones to data-sharing apps and telematics, modern…
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Grid Down Comms Up Holiday Gift Podcast
In today's episode, Patrick with Grid Down Comms Up lists some of his favorite prepper Christmas gifts. If you are looking for a present for your significant other, children, mag group member, or anyone else on your gift list, there is something here for you! We focus on practical gifts that have...
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A Spy Christmas – Privacy & Security Gift Guide - Black Friday
This special “Spy Christmas” episode is your complete holiday guide to the best privacy, security, and spy-themed gear of the year. Forrest breaks down over 30 hand-picked tools and gadgets for anyone who loves preparedness, digital security, or covert everyday carry. Whether you’re protecting…
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Having the Privacy Mindset
Having the Privacy Mindset In this episode of The Privacy & Freedom Podcast, Forrest Garvin dives into the foundation of digital privacy — the mindset. Before you install a VPN, delete social accounts, or buy a Faraday bag, you must first understand how to think privately in a world built to…
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VPNs Explained – The First Line of Defense for Online Privacy
Podcast Summary – Prepping Academy Podcast: “VPNs Explained – The First Line of Defense for Online Privacy” In this powerful episode of The Prepping Academy Podcast, host Forrest Garvin exposes the truth about VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) — what they really do, how they work, and which ones…
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The Truth About Internet Browsers
Podcast Summary – Prepping Academy Podcast: “The Truth About Internet Browsers – Which Ones Keep You Safe?” In this episode of The Prepping Academy Podcast, host Forrest Garvin breaks down one of the most overlooked areas of online privacy — your internet browser. Every click, search, and website...
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Data Breaches & Hacks Update – Protecting Your Digital Life
Podcast Summary – Prepping Academy Podcast: “Data Breaches & Hacks Update – Protecting Your Digital Life” In this week’s episode of The Prepping Academy Podcast, we dive deep into the world of data breaches, cyberattacks, and online privacy — and what you can do right now to protect yourself.…
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Radio Interference - Patrick with Grid Down Comms Up
Today, Grid Down Comms Up takes the microphone again for another great episode of the Prepping Academy. We do a short after-action report on the Eastern Tennessee Homestead Alliance festival, revisit a few items as we approach the one-year anniversary of the historic disaster caused by Hurricane...
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PrepperNet Leaders Needed, PrepperFinds.Com Launch,Hurricane Readiness, and Building a Nonprofit for Disaster Relief
Prepping Academy Podcast: PrepperNet Leaders Needed, PrepperFinds.Com Launch, Preparedness Month, Hurricane Readiness, and Building a Nonprofit for Disaster Relief Support PrepperNet’s mission to become a nonprofit by sending your donation via PayPal to [email protected]. You may also contact…
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Patrick Interviews Forrest Garvin founder of PrepperNet
The Prepping Academy welcomes Forrest Garvin, founder of PrepperNet, Garvin Academy, and other entrepreneurial ventures that are countable. In today's episode, Forrest updates us on what he has been up to over the last year. We also discuss the current happenings in PrepperNet, where PrepperNet…
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The Prepping Academy Radio Show is a live broadcast aimed at discussing various topics related to prepping, survival, and self-reliance, while also serving as a platform for preppers to unite. Our ultimate objective at The Prepping Academy Radio Show is to broaden your perspectives and inspire you to take action, as we strongly believe that preparedness is of the essence. We welcome preppers of all levels to join us on preppingacademy.com and PrepperNet.com.
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