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Mastering Risk — 418 episodes
The Cybersecurity Risk Hiding in Your Old Software Connections
Your Supply Chain Can Be Failing While Everything Looks Normal
Know Your Breaking Point Before Costs Spike
Could Your Business Survive If One Key Employee Disappeared Tomorrow?
The Hidden Cost of AI: Your Business Is Becoming Dependent
AI Isn't Your Problem. Your Business Is.
Would Your Business Survive the Next Crisis? Most Owners Get This Wrong
How Fragile Is Your Business? The 4-Step Framework Every Owner Needs Before Disaster Strikes
Your Business Isn’t Resilient Until You Understand These 4 Risks
The Competitive Advantage Your Competitors Don't Know They Need
Why Some Businesses Survive Crisis and Others Never Reopen
What Happens When Your AI Stops Working? The Risk Nobody Is Planning For
Most Founders Ignore These 6 Risks… And Pay for It Later
If Your Business Went Dark Tomorrow, Would You Survive the First 72 Hours?
The Silent Killers of Your Business: Cyber, Supply Chain & False Confidence
One Outage. One Hack. One Mistake… That’s All It Takes to Lose Your Business
If Your Business Burned Down Tonight, Could You Reopen Tomorrow? (Build a Continuity Plan in 60 Min)
Gulf War Chaos Is Here: 3 Downstream Risks That Could Cripple Your SMB (And How to Fight Back Now)
Global Conflict: Protect Your Small Business: 8 Evidence-Based Risk Controls for SMB
Survive the Chaos: A Chief Risk Officer is the Fractional Solution Every SMB Needs in 2026
Cyber Risk, Cash Crunch, Cancel Culture: The 3 Systems That Protect Your Side Hustle or Startup
Why Most $1M Advice Will Fail You: The 4 Risk Spheres Every Small Business Must Master
Chaos 2026: 5 Free Ways to Bulletproof Your Business Against Cyber, AI, Tariffs & More
Why Talking Politics Online Is Killing Your Business & the Smarter Way to Turn Chaos into Leverage
Prepare Your Family for 2026 Chaos: 100% Free, Evidence-Based Strategies
Why Most Small Businesses Will Fail in 2026 – The 4 Risks You're Probably Ignoring
How to Launch a Profitable Side Hustle for Under $300 in 2026 (No Experience Needed)
I Run a 100% Digital Small Business – Here’s Exactly How I Stay Operational During a Prolonged Power Outage
Forget Goals in 2026: The Exact Daily System I Use to Grow My Business Consistently
I Ditched New Year’s Resolutions and Did This Instead… My Life Changed Forever
How I Went From Losing $28,000 to a Profitable 5-Figure Business – The 4 Trust Hacks You’re Missing
The Top 6 Preparedness Mistakes Most Entrepreneurs are Making (And How to Fix Them Fast)
Embrace the Suck in 2026: The No-BS Survival Strategy for Real Small Businesses
The Hidden AI Danger Every Small Business Owner Is Ignoring (And It Could Destroy You)
90% of Small Businesses Get Hit Every 90 Days: Here’s My Near $0 Cyber Defence That Actually Works
2026 Is Coming: How Small Businesses Survive the Next Global Shock
The Ultimate Differentiator: Honesty in a World of Business BS
Why “Million in Your First Year” is a Lie – A Realistic 5-Figure Business in 2026 Instead
The 5 Strategies I Use to Protect My Business in 2026
Why Solo-Entrepreneurs Win with a Risk Community
4 Steps to Crisis-Proof Your Small Business
10 Reasons Why a Start-Up Fails
8 Free Ways to Dominate 2026
Top 3 Risks for SMB and Solo-Entrepreneurs in 2026
AI Employment Tsunami - Is it Coming for You?
Placing Order Into Chaos - The Purpose of Risk & Resilience Education
3 Free Ways to Win at Life and Business
Managing Risk in the Age of AI
Entrepreneurship Costs $72 Per Year
Why Entrepreneurs Must Understand Risk
Embracing Risk for Small Businesses
Risk in a VUCA Environment
Launching: Mastering Risk - The Podcast
Financial Resiliency for your Online Business
Who is a Prepper?
Wildfires are a Policy Failure
Is Your Side Hustle Risk Resilient?
5 Years of Preparedness - Are You Ready?
Throwing Hands - Are You Ready to Fight?
Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone
Simplicity & Minimalism - Road to Resilience
Your Secret Weapon for Resilience
Extended Power Outage - Self Reliance vs Self Sufficiency
Life Strategy - No One is Coming to Help or Pay for You
Disaster Proof Your Business
Calm Evacuations Are a Choice - Choose Wisely
Economic Recovery Task Force
Generalist vs Specialist & the GIG Economy
Roadmap to Resilience - Part Five - Advanced Resilience Strategies
Roadmap to Resilience - Part 4 - Risk
Roadmap to Resilience - Part 3 - Trifecta of Preparedness Plans
Roadmap to Resilience - Part 2 - Responsibility for Your World
Roadmap to Resilience - Part 1 - The World Around Us
You Cannot Save FEMA
5th Anniversary Episode - Lesson Learned, Barriers and the Way Ahead
Close of Season 13 and The Future of Preparedness
Emergency Management Lessons from Rural Ontario
The Power of Community
Get Ready to Be Punched in the Face
This Chaos - Your Plan, Finding Your Strategy to Win
Non-Government Resources in a Disaster
Tariff Land - Opportunities in Chaos
Visionary Leadership - We Need Options, not Complaints
Preparedness 101 for 2025 - It Looks Different
Build Canada - Options
Transparency, DOGE & Preparedness
Side Hustles, GIG Economy and Work / Life Balance
Steel, Aluminum and Preparedness
Interview with Disability Advocate, Mark Jenkins
Trade Wars and Your Family
Why the Public Ignores Preparedness Week
What is the Role of Emergency Management?
Is FEMA Fit For Purpose?
Why the Government? The Evolution of the Dependasaurus
Risk, Resilience and Preparedness in a Chaotic World
Vacations Matter & Close of Season 12
Economic Preparedness - Are You Ready for Disruption?
Becoming a Prepper - The How, When and What
Holiday Series - Preparedness for Seniors
Setting 2025 Up For Success
Our Holiday Series - Thriving Not Just Surviving
Our Holiday Series - Personal Responsibility
Healthcare and Preparedness Funding - We Don't Need More $$$
Engaging all Societal Sectors to Build Resilience
Interview with the Preparedness Guy, Nat Sellers
Economic Barriers to Preparedness are Creations of the State
Scalpel or Chainsaw - Emergency Management Governance
National Preparedness - The Goal of the Incoming US Administration
Bureaucracy in Burying Hope
The Purpose of Preparedness
Putin, Nukes and Preparedness
Government ≠ Insurer of Last Resort
Communities Win the Preparedness Race
Interview with Ginny Katz, Co-Founder of Hazadapt, the Preparedness App
The Reality of Sheltering in Place
The Entrepreneurial Journey in Preparedness
Preparedness and the US Election
Preparedness and the American Dream
300th Episode: Preparedness Education
Our Need to Be Right - Why We Want to Win the Argument
What Are Your Preparedness Goals?
Why Preparedness is So Elusive
Trust in Emergency Management & Hurricane Preparedness
Season 11 Wrap, Hurricane Helene and Conventions
Canada's Incredible Preparedness Opportunity
Your Preparedness Superpower
Preparedness and Critical Infrastructure
How to Build Community Resilience
Relationship Between Preparedness and Recovery
A Culture of Preparedness
We've Lost the Ability to Debate
Political Interference in Preparedness
We Cannot Prevent Disasters
Whole of Society - That Means Everyone
Learning From Loss - Do We Change Behaviours?
Communicating the Truth about State Capacity
Labour Market & Preparedness
Uninsured Disaster Losses - When Government Ceases to Pay
Global Conflict & Your Personal Strategy
Recovery is Unnecessarily Painful
Wildfires - Learn or Lose Everything
We Don't Vote for Preparedness
IT Systems Failure & Preparedness
Evolution of Preppers
Season 11 - Economic Preparedness
Season Ten Wrap - A review of Major Topics
Trust in Government Communications
Evacuations and Traffic Jams
Preparedness - Beyond Shelter in Place
Preparedness, Resilience and Cyber Security
Interview with Janet from Natural Disaster Survival Products
Do Titles Matter? Hi, I'm Jeff the Backcountry Paddler
Preparedness is the Art of Placing Order Into Chaos
State of Emergency - For You or the Politicians?
Interview with Kris Liivam - Contract Firefighting
Community Preparedness Mindset
Designing a Simple Life - Purposeful Preparedness
Preparedness, Exercises and Adventure
Preparedness Planning Options
How I Changed My Future Path - Becoming a Veteran
Preparedness - Beyond Disasters
Entrepreneurship in Emergency Management
Crazy Tough World - How to Understand Your Risk
The Hard Choice to Change - My Story
Journalism is Struggling, How to find Trusted Information
Don't Let Political Turmoil Affect Your Life
Word Salad - Mitigation, Preparedness and Resilience
Season 10 Intro and Reflections
The Story of Inside My Canoehead - Episode #250
Becoming Prepared - Navigating the Chaotic 2020s
Safety & Security - When to Fight
You Are the Most Important Asset in Emergencies - Invest in You
Don't Be A Liability to Your Future Self
Why You Own Stuff - Preparedness & Possessions
Kit, Equipment & Preparedness
Communications on the Move
Mobile Preparedness - On the Move
Risk Tolerance and Your Life
Your Personal Risk Profile - Navigating Chaos
Better Post Event Outcomes
Preparedness and Critical Infrastructure
Networking for Preparedness
Financial - The Overlooked Key to Preparedness Planning
Evacuate Now! - Scenario Planning
Most Dangerous - Evacuation - 5 Practical Tips
Power Loss - The Scenario and Impacts
Power Loss - 5 Practical Evidence Based Tips
Season 9 Intro - Practical Preparedness
2023 in Review - Preparedness & Life
Rock 2024 - A Free Strategy
How to Build a Go / Bug Out / Get Home Bag & Why
Leave the World Behind - My Thoughts
Preparedness and Community - Your Secret Weapon
Your 2024 Recipe for Success
Survival Minimums - Weather & Risk Specific
Be Prepared and Live Stress Free
Leadership and Preparedness
Preparedness - What is It and Why? A First Principles Review
Preparedness is Strategic Thinking - Become the CEO of Your Life
EDC and Preparedness
Hoarding in Preparedness
Food - A System for Preparedness
Overwhelmed and Stressed - Go to the Mountains
Transitioning to a Prepper
Chaos - Natural, Financial and Conflict Hazards - How to Navigate
The Trifecta of Preparedness Plans
You Have the Right Not to Have an Opinion
Preparedness - It's a Lifestyle, not a Stockpile
Priority & Preparedness
Overwhelming Stress
Self Confidence and Preparedness
Order into Chaos
My Experience in a Hurricane
Hurricanes - Sheltering in Place & Evacuation
The Canadian Armed Forces & Disasters
Apocalypse vs. Reality
Evacuation - A Detailed How-to Guide
Wildfires & Evacuation - Canada's Northwest Territory
Season 8 Kickoff - The Fall Line Up
My Personal State of Preparedness
Preparedness, Minimalism and Simplification
3 Rules to Life
Your 5 Step Grid Down Plan
Top 5 Sources of Information in an Emergency
Bonus: The Power of Water - Floods & Preparedness
Bonus - Top 10 Items for Sheltering in Place
Bonus: The 10 Truths of Emergencies
Season 7 Wrap Up - What's Your Preparedness Why?
Artificial Intelligence and Preparedness
Preparedness and Societal Collapse
Preparedness Skills
Preparedness & Summer 2023 - Let's Get Ready
A Reflection on Division - Ideology & Politics
The Power of Fear
Communication in Chaos
Politics and Preparedness
The Last House Standing - Interview with George Siegal
Spectrum of Preparedness - From Blissfully Unaware to Survivalist
Reviewing Your Preparedness Plan
NS Wildfires and Evacuation
Preparedness and Financial Health
The Power of Routine
How Long to Prepare for? - Your Timeline
Preparedness and Mental Health
Preparedness & Evacuation
Physical Health and Preparedness
Preparedness: It's No Joke
Sheltering in Place - The Rationale
Personal Responsibility - Your Foundation for Preparedness
Introduction to Season 7 - The Way Ahead
Close of Season 6 and a Look Ahead
Location - How to Navigate this Crazy World in the 2020s
Rocking an Incredible Life - Carving Out Your Dream
Preparedness and Money
Public Transit, 15 Min Cities and Preparedness
Preparedness Supplies
Preparedness and Hardship
Preparedness on the Move
Censorship and Free Speech - A Creator's View
Becoming a Survivalist
Food Security & the 100 Mile Diet
Becoming a Prepper - WTF is that?
Sheltering in Place - Your Animalistic Requirements for Preparedness
Reflections on War - Ukraine and Global Conflict
Preparedness Communications and You
3 Steps to Preparedness
Financial Health & Preparedness
Lessons from an Earthquake
150th Episode, Preparedness and Planning for a Crazy 2023
On A Hamster Wheel? You're Not Alone
Hydro - Are You Ready for an extended Outage?
Public Policy Processes and Emergency Management
Community vs. Public Sector Response
Conversation with Perron Goodyear - Emergency Management Consultant
The Argument for Preparedness
Season 6 Introduction - The Way Ahead
2022 - The Year in Review
Preparedness - Education and Business Optimism for 2023
Preparedness - Optimism for 2023
Preparedness - Rocking an Incredible Life
Preparedness and Political Turmoil
Preparedness and Online ID Theft - A Real Tale of Loss
Preparedness and Research
Preparedness and Coffee
Preparedness - Bug Out / Evacuation / INCH / Go Bags
Preparedness - Pre-Winter Logistics Assessment
Preparedness - Considerations for a Nuclear Detonation
Preparedness - Winter 2022-2023 Preparations
Preparedness - Disaster Response - Evidence Vs. Opinion
Preparedness - A Hurricane is Coming
Preparedness Information - A Conversation with Sharon, an Urban Preparedness Enthusiast
Preparedness Goals - How to Guide
Preparedness & Becoming a High Value Human
Preparedness & Reassessing Your Priority
Preparedness on the Move
Avoiding Panic in Preparedness
What is a Blanket of Preparedness? - Individual Responsibility
Riding the Wave of a Chaotic World - Finance, Attitude and Knowledge
Preparedness and the Lamborghini Lifestyle
Preparedness and Violence
Preparedness & Independent Media
Preparedness & Health Care
Season Five Intro and Simplification
Preparedness: Crisis Information
Twitter & Preparedness
Preparedness: No Internet
The 2020s - Re-Organization of the World Order
Side Hustle - What, Why and How
Preparedness: Your Death
Preparedness and the Changing World Order
Preparedness: Feeling Stressed & Broke? - Do This
Preparedness and the State of the World - Inflation, Supply Chain, Conflict & You
Adventure, People, Challenging Ideas and Preparedness
Emergency Kits - When They are Necessary and Why They are Free
Preparedness - You're Fired, So What's Your Plan?
Scenarios for Planning - Hazards and the Real World
Levels of Societal and CI Failure - Disruption to Full Spectrum Collapse
Critical Infrastructure is Preparedness
The 100th Episode - The IMCH Why & Future Plans
Preparedness: The Art of Planning
Preparedness: Government Capacity
Preparedness: Government Communication
Preparedness: Your Why
Preparedness: Your Human Networks
Preparedness - Rocking a Simple Yet Incredible Life
Normative vs Positive - Why EM Struggles with Reality
Preparedness Personalities, EDC, Kits and You
Preparedness, It's Free - Animalistic, Complex and Opportunity Costs
Preparedness: OPSEC and You
Public Policy: Investing in Employee Emergency Preparedness
Preparedness - Water
Escape and Evasion in Ukraine: How to Plan and Become Informed
Preparedness: Planning for and Personal Impact of Low Probability / High Impact Events
Implications of Putin's War - Preparedness, Your Life and the End of Peace
Preparedness: Considerations for War
Preparedness: Fitness - It's Simple and Free to Achieve
Preparedness - Food - What's Your Risk Exposure?
Big Rigs 2022 - Discourse in Canada, The Messy Middle and Use of Force
Preparedness: What's Your Apocalypse?
Preparedness: How Long Should I Be Ready for? 72Hrs, 14 Days, 2 Years?
Preparedness - Mental and Physical Security
How Much Authority Should the Government Have? Enforcement of Moral Standards
Preparedness - Your Dependancy on the Grid
Why Canada Doesn't Need a FEMA - The Proposed Solution
Preparedness - Let's Save Our Community: The Govt Initiated Us and Them Society
Why Canada Doesn't Need a FEMA Part 3: Actors & Orientations
2021 Year in Review - Lessons, Pandemic, Preparedness and Goals for 2022
Preparedness: Holidays - What to consider for these festive times
Why Canada Doesn't Need a FEMA Part 2: Issues, Solutions and Roadmaps
Preparedness: A Conversation with Lynn Guitar from Bucket List Homestead
Why Canada Doesn't Need a FEMA Part 1: Defining the Problems in EM
Preparedness: 2022 Threats and Opportunities
Preparedness: Multi-Level Governance & Preparedness Messaging
Preparedness - Sanitation & You Need to Have a Plan to Do #2
Preparedness Conversation with Sandra Riches, the Executive Director of AdventureSmart BC
Preparedness: How to Know if You're Ready?
Preparedness: Vulnerable Populations
Preparedness: Municipal Emergency Plan - Know What Your City Expects you to do...
Blunt Public Policy - Why Canada Will Lose the Fight Against COVID-19
Preparedness: Understanding Critical Issues and Not Losing Your S&%$
Preparedness: A Conversation with a Millennial Emergency Preparedness Enthusiast - Sharon Lécuyer
Preparedness: Building Community, Anti-Vax, Politics and Exclusionary Thought
Scenario Planning & Preparedness
A Preparedness Conversation with one of Canada's Leading Experts - Ian Foss
The Solution to Climate Change is Simple
Creating Your Dream Life - Balancing Minimalism and Preparedness
Preparedness - What the *&^% is it?
Preparedness - 10 Steps Simple, Brilliant & Cheap
Preparedness, Simplicity and Evacuations
Preparedness: Roaring 2020s or Societal Breakdown?
Preparedness, Pandemic, Big Government and Individual Agency
Preparedness and Navigating the Fear Mongering on Prepper Channels
Preparedness and Inflation - ECON 101
Preparedness - The Supply Chains are NOT Failing
Preparedness - How Much is Enough?
S2 E13 Emergency Preparedness Week - Be Prepared for Anything
One Year of IMCH - The story...
S2E12 Travel and Preparedness
S2 E11 Preparedness - Just Tell Me What to Buy !
S2 E10: Preparedness Beyond the First 72
S2 E9 Preparedness is Cheap and Simple
S2 E8 Societal Collapse - Why and How We Might Go Down
S2 E7 Step 12 Dependancy on CI - The Plan
S2 E6 Steps 10 & 11 Dependancy on CI - Food and Water
S2 E5 Steps 4-9 Dependancy on CI - Transport, Govt, IT, Health, Safety & Manufacturing
S2 E4 Step 3 - Dependancy on CI - Finance and Your Income Security
S2 E3: Step 2 - Dependancy on Critical Infrastructure - Energy and Utilities
S2E2: Step 1: Personal Responsibility, Why and How to Plan
S2E1: The Case For Our 12 Step Plan for Individual Emergency Preparedness
Season 2 Introduction
Ep 27: 72 Hr Kits are Useless
Ep 26: What if Trump is Right?
Ep 25: COVID-19 Communications - Why the Gov't Gets it Wrong
Ep 24: A Prepared Life - Watch it Burn
Ep 23: A Prepared Life - Unapologetically You
Ep 22: Mental Health and Preparedness
Ep 21: So You Want to Become a Survivalist?
Ep 20: P3 - Politics, Pandemic and Preparedness
Ep 19: Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - The Final Summary
Ep 18: Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - So You Want to be a Prepper, eh?
Ep 17: Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - Winter is Going to Be Hard Pt 2
Ep 16: Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - Winter is Going To Be Hard Pt.1
Ep 15: Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - Evacuation
Ep 14 - Emergency Preparedness 2.0 - 30 Days Without Public Services
Ep 13: Safety and Security
Ep 12: Bug Out Bags - Reality versus YouTube
EP 11: Tin Foil Hats
Ep: 10 Simplification Skills
Ep 9: Simplification of Your Physical World
Ep 8: Foundations for Simplification
Episode 7 Trip Report, Gear Review and Next Adventure
Episode 6 Thriving in a Pandemic
Individual Emergency Preparedness 101 - Maintaining Course & Avoiding Pitfalls
Individual Emergency Preparedness 101 - Becoming Prepared, First Steps
Individual Emergency Preparedness 101 - No One is Coming to Help You
Individual Emergency Preparedness 101 - Why People are not Prepared
Individual Emergency Preparedness 101 - Attitude and Government
Channel Introduction