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Mastering Risk — 406 episodes

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Most Founders Ignore These 6 Risks… And Pay for It Later

2

If Your Business Went Dark Tomorrow, Would You Survive the First 72 Hours?

3

The Silent Killers of Your Business: Cyber, Supply Chain & False Confidence

4

One Outage. One Hack. One Mistake… That’s All It Takes to Lose Your Business

5

If Your Business Burned Down Tonight, Could You Reopen Tomorrow? (Build a Continuity Plan in 60 Min)

6

Gulf War Chaos Is Here: 3 Downstream Risks That Could Cripple Your SMB (And How to Fight Back Now)

7

Global Conflict: Protect Your Small Business: 8 Evidence-Based Risk Controls for SMB

8

Survive the Chaos: A Chief Risk Officer is the Fractional Solution Every SMB Needs in 2026

9

Cyber Risk, Cash Crunch, Cancel Culture: The 3 Systems That Protect Your Side Hustle or Startup

10

Why Most $1M Advice Will Fail You: The 4 Risk Spheres Every Small Business Must Master

11

Chaos 2026: 5 Free Ways to Bulletproof Your Business Against Cyber, AI, Tariffs & More

12

Why Talking Politics Online Is Killing Your Business & the Smarter Way to Turn Chaos into Leverage

13

Prepare Your Family for 2026 Chaos: 100% Free, Evidence-Based Strategies

14

Why Most Small Businesses Will Fail in 2026 – The 4 Risks You're Probably Ignoring

15

How to Launch a Profitable Side Hustle for Under $300 in 2026 (No Experience Needed)

16

I Run a 100% Digital Small Business – Here’s Exactly How I Stay Operational During a Prolonged Power Outage

17

Forget Goals in 2026: The Exact Daily System I Use to Grow My Business Consistently

18

I Ditched New Year’s Resolutions and Did This Instead… My Life Changed Forever

19

How I Went From Losing $28,000 to a Profitable 5-Figure Business – The 4 Trust Hacks You’re Missing

20

The Top 6 Preparedness Mistakes Most Entrepreneurs are Making (And How to Fix Them Fast)

21

Embrace the Suck in 2026: The No-BS Survival Strategy for Real Small Businesses

22

The Hidden AI Danger Every Small Business Owner Is Ignoring (And It Could Destroy You)

23

90% of Small Businesses Get Hit Every 90 Days: Here’s My Near $0 Cyber Defence That Actually Works

24

2026 Is Coming: How Small Businesses Survive the Next Global Shock

25

The Ultimate Differentiator: Honesty in a World of Business BS

26

Why “Million in Your First Year” is a Lie – A Realistic 5-Figure Business in 2026 Instead

27

The 5 Strategies I Use to Protect My Business in 2026

28

Why Solo-Entrepreneurs Win with a Risk Community

29

4 Steps to Crisis-Proof Your Small Business

30

10 Reasons Why a Start-Up Fails

31

8 Free Ways to Dominate 2026

32

Top 3 Risks for SMB and Solo-Entrepreneurs in 2026

33

AI Employment Tsunami - Is it Coming for You?

34

Placing Order Into Chaos - The Purpose of Risk & Resilience Education

35

3 Free Ways to Win at Life and Business

36

Managing Risk in the Age of AI

37

Entrepreneurship Costs $72 Per Year

38

Why Entrepreneurs Must Understand Risk

39

Embracing Risk for Small Businesses

40

Risk in a VUCA Environment

41

Launching: Mastering Risk - The Podcast

42

Financial Resiliency for your Online Business

43

Who is a Prepper?

44

Wildfires are a Policy Failure

45

Is Your Side Hustle Risk Resilient?

46

5 Years of Preparedness - Are You Ready?

47

Throwing Hands - Are You Ready to Fight?

48

Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone

49

Simplicity & Minimalism - Road to Resilience

50

Your Secret Weapon for Resilience

51

Extended Power Outage - Self Reliance vs Self Sufficiency

52

Life Strategy - No One is Coming to Help or Pay for You

53

Disaster Proof Your Business

54

Calm Evacuations Are a Choice - Choose Wisely

55

Economic Recovery Task Force

56

Generalist vs Specialist & the GIG Economy

57

Roadmap to Resilience - Part Five - Advanced Resilience Strategies

58

Roadmap to Resilience - Part 4 - Risk

59

Roadmap to Resilience - Part 3 - Trifecta of Preparedness Plans

60

Roadmap to Resilience - Part 2 - Responsibility for Your World

61

Roadmap to Resilience - Part 1 - The World Around Us

62

You Cannot Save FEMA

63

5th Anniversary Episode - Lesson Learned, Barriers and the Way Ahead

64

Close of Season 13 and The Future of Preparedness

65

Emergency Management Lessons from Rural Ontario

66

The Power of Community

67

Get Ready to Be Punched in the Face

68

This Chaos - Your Plan, Finding Your Strategy to Win

69

Non-Government Resources in a Disaster

70

Tariff Land - Opportunities in Chaos

71

Visionary Leadership - We Need Options, not Complaints

72

Preparedness 101 for 2025 - It Looks Different

73

Build Canada - Options

74

Transparency, DOGE & Preparedness

75

Side Hustles, GIG Economy and Work / Life Balance

76

Steel, Aluminum and Preparedness

77

Interview with Disability Advocate, Mark Jenkins

78

Trade Wars and Your Family

79

Why the Public Ignores Preparedness Week

80

What is the Role of Emergency Management?

81

Is FEMA Fit For Purpose?

82

Why the Government? The Evolution of the Dependasaurus

83

Risk, Resilience and Preparedness in a Chaotic World

84

Vacations Matter & Close of Season 12

85

Economic Preparedness - Are You Ready for Disruption?

86

Becoming a Prepper - The How, When and What

87

Holiday Series - Preparedness for Seniors

88

Setting 2025 Up For Success

89

Our Holiday Series - Thriving Not Just Surviving

90

Our Holiday Series - Personal Responsibility

91

Healthcare and Preparedness Funding - We Don't Need More $$$

92

Engaging all Societal Sectors to Build Resilience

93

Interview with the Preparedness Guy, Nat Sellers

94

Economic Barriers to Preparedness are Creations of the State

95

Scalpel or Chainsaw - Emergency Management Governance

96

National Preparedness - The Goal of the Incoming US Administration

97

Bureaucracy in Burying Hope

98

The Purpose of Preparedness

99

Putin, Nukes and Preparedness

100

Government ≠ Insurer of Last Resort

101

Communities Win the Preparedness Race

102

Interview with Ginny Katz, Co-Founder of Hazadapt, the Preparedness App

103

The Reality of Sheltering in Place

104

The Entrepreneurial Journey in Preparedness

105

Preparedness and the US Election

106

Preparedness and the American Dream

107

300th Episode: Preparedness Education

108

Our Need to Be Right - Why We Want to Win the Argument

109

What Are Your Preparedness Goals?

110

Why Preparedness is So Elusive

111

Trust in Emergency Management & Hurricane Preparedness

112

Season 11 Wrap, Hurricane Helene and Conventions

113

Canada's Incredible Preparedness Opportunity

114

Your Preparedness Superpower

115

Preparedness and Critical Infrastructure

116

How to Build Community Resilience

117

Relationship Between Preparedness and Recovery

118

A Culture of Preparedness

119

We've Lost the Ability to Debate

120

Political Interference in Preparedness

121

We Cannot Prevent Disasters

122

Whole of Society - That Means Everyone

123

Learning From Loss - Do We Change Behaviours?

124

Communicating the Truth about State Capacity

125

Labour Market & Preparedness

126

Uninsured Disaster Losses - When Government Ceases to Pay

127

Global Conflict & Your Personal Strategy

128

Recovery is Unnecessarily Painful

129

Wildfires - Learn or Lose Everything

130

We Don't Vote for Preparedness

131

IT Systems Failure & Preparedness

132

Evolution of Preppers

133

Season 11 - Economic Preparedness

134

Season Ten Wrap - A review of Major Topics

135

Trust in Government Communications

136

Evacuations and Traffic Jams

137

Preparedness - Beyond Shelter in Place

138

Preparedness, Resilience and Cyber Security

139

Interview with Janet from Natural Disaster Survival Products

140

Do Titles Matter? Hi, I'm Jeff the Backcountry Paddler

141

Preparedness is the Art of Placing Order Into Chaos

142

State of Emergency - For You or the Politicians?

143

Interview with Kris Liivam - Contract Firefighting

144

Community Preparedness Mindset

145

Designing a Simple Life - Purposeful Preparedness

146

Preparedness, Exercises and Adventure

147

Preparedness Planning Options

148

How I Changed My Future Path - Becoming a Veteran

149

Preparedness - Beyond Disasters

150

Entrepreneurship in Emergency Management

151

Crazy Tough World - How to Understand Your Risk

152

The Hard Choice to Change - My Story

153

Journalism is Struggling, How to find Trusted Information

154

Don't Let Political Turmoil Affect Your Life

155

Word Salad - Mitigation, Preparedness and Resilience

156

Season 10 Intro and Reflections

157

The Story of Inside My Canoehead - Episode #250

158

Becoming Prepared - Navigating the Chaotic 2020s

159

Safety & Security - When to Fight

160

You Are the Most Important Asset in Emergencies - Invest in You

161

Don't Be A Liability to Your Future Self

162

Why You Own Stuff - Preparedness & Possessions

163

Kit, Equipment & Preparedness

164

Communications on the Move

165

Mobile Preparedness - On the Move

166

Risk Tolerance and Your Life

167

Your Personal Risk Profile - Navigating Chaos

168

Better Post Event Outcomes

169

Preparedness and Critical Infrastructure

170

Networking for Preparedness

171

Financial - The Overlooked Key to Preparedness Planning

172

Evacuate Now! - Scenario Planning

173

Most Dangerous - Evacuation - 5 Practical Tips

174

Power Loss - The Scenario and Impacts

175

Power Loss - 5 Practical Evidence Based Tips

176

Season 9 Intro - Practical Preparedness

177

2023 in Review - Preparedness & Life

178

Rock 2024 - A Free Strategy

179

How to Build a Go / Bug Out / Get Home Bag & Why

180

Leave the World Behind - My Thoughts

181

Preparedness and Community - Your Secret Weapon

182

Your 2024 Recipe for Success

183

Survival Minimums - Weather & Risk Specific

184

Be Prepared and Live Stress Free

185

Leadership and Preparedness

186

Preparedness - What is It and Why? A First Principles Review

187

Preparedness is Strategic Thinking - Become the CEO of Your Life

188

EDC and Preparedness

189

Hoarding in Preparedness

190

Food - A System for Preparedness

191

Overwhelmed and Stressed - Go to the Mountains

192

Transitioning to a Prepper

193

Chaos - Natural, Financial and Conflict Hazards - How to Navigate

194

The Trifecta of Preparedness Plans

195

You Have the Right Not to Have an Opinion

196

Preparedness - It's a Lifestyle, not a Stockpile

197

Priority & Preparedness

198

Overwhelming Stress

199

Self Confidence and Preparedness

200

Order into Chaos

201

My Experience in a Hurricane

202

Hurricanes - Sheltering in Place & Evacuation

203

The Canadian Armed Forces & Disasters

204

Apocalypse vs. Reality

205

Evacuation - A Detailed How-to Guide

206

Wildfires & Evacuation - Canada's Northwest Territory

207

Season 8 Kickoff - The Fall Line Up

208

My Personal State of Preparedness

209

Preparedness, Minimalism and Simplification

210

3 Rules to Life

211

Your 5 Step Grid Down Plan

212

Top 5 Sources of Information in an Emergency

213

Bonus: The Power of Water - Floods & Preparedness

214

Bonus - Top 10 Items for Sheltering in Place

215

Bonus: The 10 Truths of Emergencies

216

Season 7 Wrap Up - What's Your Preparedness Why?

217

Artificial Intelligence and Preparedness

218

Preparedness and Societal Collapse

219

Preparedness Skills

220

Preparedness & Summer 2023 - Let's Get Ready

221

A Reflection on Division - Ideology & Politics

222

The Power of Fear

223

Communication in Chaos

224

Politics and Preparedness

225

The Last House Standing - Interview with George Siegal

226

Spectrum of Preparedness - From Blissfully Unaware to Survivalist

227

Reviewing Your Preparedness Plan

228

NS Wildfires and Evacuation

229

Preparedness and Financial Health

230

The Power of Routine

231

How Long to Prepare for? - Your Timeline

232

Preparedness and Mental Health

233

Preparedness & Evacuation

234

Physical Health and Preparedness

235

Preparedness: It's No Joke

236

Sheltering in Place - The Rationale

237

Personal Responsibility - Your Foundation for Preparedness

238

Introduction to Season 7 - The Way Ahead

239

Close of Season 6 and a Look Ahead

240

Location - How to Navigate this Crazy World in the 2020s

241

Rocking an Incredible Life - Carving Out Your Dream

242

Preparedness and Money

243

Public Transit, 15 Min Cities and Preparedness

244

Preparedness Supplies

245

Preparedness and Hardship

246

Preparedness on the Move

247

Censorship and Free Speech - A Creator's View

248

Becoming a Survivalist

249

Food Security & the 100 Mile Diet

250

Becoming a Prepper - WTF is that?

251

Sheltering in Place - Your Animalistic Requirements for Preparedness

252

Reflections on War - Ukraine and Global Conflict

253

Preparedness Communications and You

254

3 Steps to Preparedness

255

Financial Health & Preparedness

256

Lessons from an Earthquake

257

150th Episode, Preparedness and Planning for a Crazy 2023

258

On A Hamster Wheel? You're Not Alone

259

Hydro - Are You Ready for an extended Outage?

260

Public Policy Processes and Emergency Management

261

Community vs. Public Sector Response

262

Conversation with Perron Goodyear - Emergency Management Consultant

263

The Argument for Preparedness

264

Season 6 Introduction - The Way Ahead

265

2022 - The Year in Review

266

Preparedness - Education and Business Optimism for 2023

267

Preparedness - Optimism for 2023

268

Preparedness - Rocking an Incredible Life

269

Preparedness and Political Turmoil

270

Preparedness and Online ID Theft - A Real Tale of Loss

271

Preparedness and Research

272

Preparedness and Coffee

273

Preparedness - Bug Out / Evacuation / INCH / Go Bags

274

Preparedness - Pre-Winter Logistics Assessment

275

Preparedness - Considerations for a Nuclear Detonation

276

Preparedness - Winter 2022-2023 Preparations

277

Preparedness - Disaster Response - Evidence Vs. Opinion

278

Preparedness - A Hurricane is Coming

279

Preparedness Information - A Conversation with Sharon, an Urban Preparedness Enthusiast

280

Preparedness Goals - How to Guide

281

Preparedness & Becoming a High Value Human

282

Preparedness & Reassessing Your Priority

283

Preparedness on the Move

284

Avoiding Panic in Preparedness

285

What is a Blanket of Preparedness? - Individual Responsibility

286

Riding the Wave of a Chaotic World - Finance, Attitude and Knowledge

287

Preparedness and the Lamborghini Lifestyle

288

Preparedness and Violence

289

Preparedness & Independent Media

290

Preparedness & Health Care

291

Season Five Intro and Simplification

292

Preparedness: Crisis Information

293

Twitter & Preparedness

294

Preparedness: No Internet

295

The 2020s - Re-Organization of the World Order

296

Side Hustle - What, Why and How

297

Preparedness: Your Death

298

Preparedness and the Changing World Order

299

Preparedness: Feeling Stressed & Broke? - Do This

300

Preparedness and the State of the World - Inflation, Supply Chain, Conflict & You

301

Adventure, People, Challenging Ideas and Preparedness

302

Emergency Kits - When They are Necessary and Why They are Free

303

Preparedness - You're Fired, So What's Your Plan?

304

Scenarios for Planning - Hazards and the Real World

305

Levels of Societal and CI Failure - Disruption to Full Spectrum Collapse

306

Critical Infrastructure is Preparedness

307

The 100th Episode - The IMCH Why & Future Plans

308

Preparedness: The Art of Planning

309

Preparedness: Government Capacity

310

Preparedness: Government Communication

311

Preparedness: Your Why

312

Preparedness: Your Human Networks

313

Preparedness - Rocking a Simple Yet Incredible Life

314

Normative vs Positive - Why EM Struggles with Reality

315

Preparedness Personalities, EDC, Kits and You

316

Preparedness, It's Free - Animalistic, Complex and Opportunity Costs

317

Preparedness: OPSEC and You

318

Public Policy: Investing in Employee Emergency Preparedness

319

Preparedness - Water

320

Escape and Evasion in Ukraine: How to Plan and Become Informed

321

Preparedness: Planning for and Personal Impact of Low Probability / High Impact Events

322

Implications of Putin's War - Preparedness, Your Life and the End of Peace

323

Preparedness: Considerations for War

324

Preparedness: Fitness - It's Simple and Free to Achieve

325

Preparedness - Food - What's Your Risk Exposure?

326

Big Rigs 2022 - Discourse in Canada, The Messy Middle and Use of Force

327

Preparedness: What's Your Apocalypse?

328

Preparedness: How Long Should I Be Ready for? 72Hrs, 14 Days, 2 Years?

329

Preparedness - Mental and Physical Security

330

How Much Authority Should the Government Have? Enforcement of Moral Standards

331

Preparedness - Your Dependancy on the Grid

332

Why Canada Doesn't Need a FEMA - The Proposed Solution

333

Preparedness - Let's Save Our Community: The Govt Initiated Us and Them Society

334

Why Canada Doesn't Need a FEMA Part 3: Actors & Orientations

335

2021 Year in Review - Lessons, Pandemic, Preparedness and Goals for 2022

336

Preparedness: Holidays - What to consider for these festive times

337

Why Canada Doesn't Need a FEMA Part 2: Issues, Solutions and Roadmaps

338

Preparedness: A Conversation with Lynn Guitar from Bucket List Homestead

339

Why Canada Doesn't Need a FEMA Part 1: Defining the Problems in EM

340

Preparedness: 2022 Threats and Opportunities

341

Preparedness: Multi-Level Governance & Preparedness Messaging

342

Preparedness - Sanitation & You Need to Have a Plan to Do #2

343

Preparedness Conversation with Sandra Riches, the Executive Director of AdventureSmart BC

344

Preparedness: How to Know if You're Ready?

345

Preparedness: Vulnerable Populations

346

Preparedness: Municipal Emergency Plan - Know What Your City Expects you to do...

347

Blunt Public Policy - Why Canada Will Lose the Fight Against COVID-19

348

Preparedness: Understanding Critical Issues and Not Losing Your S&%$

349

Preparedness: A Conversation with a Millennial Emergency Preparedness Enthusiast - Sharon Lécuyer

350

Preparedness: Building Community, Anti-Vax, Politics and Exclusionary Thought

351

Scenario Planning & Preparedness

352

A Preparedness Conversation with one of Canada's Leading Experts - Ian Foss

353

The Solution to Climate Change is Simple

354

Creating Your Dream Life - Balancing Minimalism and Preparedness

355

Preparedness - What the *&^% is it?

356

Preparedness - 10 Steps Simple, Brilliant & Cheap

357

Preparedness, Simplicity and Evacuations

358

Preparedness: Roaring 2020s or Societal Breakdown?

359

Preparedness, Pandemic, Big Government and Individual Agency

360

Preparedness and Navigating the Fear Mongering on Prepper Channels

361

Preparedness and Inflation - ECON 101

362

Preparedness - The Supply Chains are NOT Failing

363

Preparedness - How Much is Enough?

364

S2 E13 Emergency Preparedness Week - Be Prepared for Anything

365

One Year of IMCH - The story...

366

S2E12 Travel and Preparedness

367

S2 E11 Preparedness - Just Tell Me What to Buy !

368

S2 E10: Preparedness Beyond the First 72

369

S2 E9 Preparedness is Cheap and Simple

370

S2 E8 Societal Collapse - Why and How We Might Go Down

371

S2 E7 Step 12 Dependancy on CI - The Plan

372

S2 E6 Steps 10 & 11 Dependancy on CI - Food and Water

373

S2 E5 Steps 4-9 Dependancy on CI - Transport, Govt, IT, Health, Safety & Manufacturing

374

S2 E4 Step 3 - Dependancy on CI - Finance and Your Income Security

375

S2 E3: Step 2 - Dependancy on Critical Infrastructure - Energy and Utilities

376

S2E2: Step 1: Personal Responsibility, Why and How to Plan

377

S2E1: The Case For Our 12 Step Plan for Individual Emergency Preparedness

378

Season 2 Introduction

379

Ep 27: 72 Hr Kits are Useless

380

Ep 26: What if Trump is Right?

381

Ep 25: COVID-19 Communications - Why the Gov't Gets it Wrong

382

Ep 24: A Prepared Life - Watch it Burn

383

Ep 23: A Prepared Life - Unapologetically You

384

Ep 22: Mental Health and Preparedness

385

Ep 21: So You Want to Become a Survivalist?

386

Ep 20: P3 - Politics, Pandemic and Preparedness

387

Ep 19: Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - The Final Summary

388

Ep 18: Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - So You Want to be a Prepper, eh?

389

Ep 17: Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - Winter is Going to Be Hard Pt 2

390

Ep 16: Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - Winter is Going To Be Hard Pt.1

391

Ep 15: Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - Evacuation

392

Ep 14 - Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - 30 Days Without Public Services

393

Ep 13: Safety and Security

394

Ep 12: Bug Out Bags - Reality versus YouTube

395

EP 11: Tin Foil Hats

396

Ep: 10 Simplification Skills

397

Ep 9: Simplification of Your Physical World

398

Ep 8: Foundations for Simplification

399

Episode 7 Trip Report, Gear Review and Next Adventure

400

Episode 6 Thriving in a Pandemic

401

Individual Emergency Preparedness 101 - Maintaining Course & Avoiding Pitfalls

402

Individual Emergency Preparedness 101 - Becoming Prepared, First Steps

403

Individual Emergency Preparedness 101 - No One is Coming to Help You

404

Individual Emergency Preparedness 101 - Why People are not Prepared

405

Individual Emergency Preparedness 101 - Attitude and Government

406

Channel Introduction