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Season 11 - Economic Preparedness
Inside My Canoehead - July 09, 2024 15:00 - 29 minutesSend us a Text Message. Traditional preparedness encompasses navigating incidents related to natural events, be that storms, earthquakes, floods or other natural hazards. This is the initial 20% of preparedness, once we consider economic, political, cultural and familial events, we discuss the ...
Season Ten Wrap - A review of Major Topics
Inside My Canoehead - July 05, 2024 14:00 - 45 minutesSend us a Text Message. Season ten was our focus on practical preparedness, translating ideas, theories and concepts to physical and cognitive actions that will enable you to rock an credible life, while insulated from exogenous shock. From community preparedness, to designing a simple life, to...
Trust in Government Communications
Inside My Canoehead - June 25, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutesSend us a Text Message. In times of struggle and strife, humans turn to trusted sources for information and ideas that help them make informed decisions. Trust is earned, not anointed and is built through providing value and truthful communications. We know that trust in government is a plurali...
Evacuations and Traffic Jams
Inside My Canoehead - June 21, 2024 14:00 - 31 minutesSend us a Text Message. We see evacuations on the news, miles of traffic jams headed no where, lauded as successful movement of people from a danger zone. No, there is so much more that can be done to manage the route, command traffic and move groups at speed through the route to the destinatio...
Preparedness - Beyond Shelter in Place
Inside My Canoehead - June 18, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutesSend us a Text Message. Preparedness is the totality of physical and cognitive initiatives that permit the navigation of exogenous shocks. Many have a narrow view of preparedness, the limited ideas of shelter in place, have a plan, be informed and have a kit. This episode discusses the idea t...
Preparedness, Resilience and Cyber Security
Inside My Canoehead - June 14, 2024 18:00 - 37 minutesSend us a Text Message. Preparedness extends far beyond kits, plans and information, the focus of government communications. The remaining 80% of adopting a prepared life is found beyond that spectrum, where strategic thinking aids in understanding the environment in which you operate, the risk...
Interview with Janet from Natural Disaster Survival Products
Inside My Canoehead - June 11, 2024 13:00 - 56 minutesSend us a Text Message. Preparedness plans are the logical start point of beginning the journey to accept responsibility for your outcomes and protect you and your family from exogenous shocks. Throughout the process, there will likely be times when you lack a capability or equipment to exectut...
Do Titles Matter? Hi, I'm Jeff the Backcountry Paddler
Inside My Canoehead - June 08, 2024 00:00 - 28 minutesSend us a Text Message. Fun discussion into a culturally structured socially acceptable practice - how do you introduce yourself to someone? Is it context specific, different in the club versus the workplace, at the sports field or with your friends at a venue? Do you introduce yourself as a ti...
Preparedness is the Art of Placing Order Into Chaos
Inside My Canoehead - June 04, 2024 15:00 - 32 minutesSend us a Text Message. Simple right, everyone knows that. So why, after decades of preparedness communications do so many families remain in difficult situations and not ready to navigate crisis? The question is how do we define preparedness? Our response is three elements: personal responsibi...
State of Emergency - For You or the Politicians?
Inside My Canoehead - May 31, 2024 13:00 - 28 minutesSend us a Text Message. SOE are enacted to provide the government to expedite normal processes to address the needs of a rapid onset event. However, there is a political side show of politicians racing to the stage in their crested jackets to look in command, to demonstrate prowess under duress...
Interview with Kris Liivam - Contract Firefighting
Inside My Canoehead - May 28, 2024 17:00 - 43 minutesSend us a Text Message. There is a persistent ideological frame in emergency management that it lies within the public and NGO sectors, leaving significant assets outside response. We chat with Kris about the role of contracted firefighting in the wildland urban interface fires of 2023 and the ...
Community Preparedness Mindset
Inside My Canoehead - May 22, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutesSend us a Text Message. There are four responses to every emergency event - public sector (1st responders), your family, the community neighbours and the corporate world. Largely uncoordinated, these will each occur to some degree whenever a disruption occurs. With an average ratio of 5500-1 fo...
Designing a Simple Life - Purposeful Preparedness
Inside My Canoehead - May 17, 2024 10:00 - 31 minutesSend us a Text Message. The role of preparedness is to wrap your life in a blanket of insulation, to mitigate against exogenous shocks, to allow you to continue to rock an incredible life and pursue your dreams. This episode is about the rationale for choosing your life, to do what you want for...
Preparedness, Exercises and Adventure
Inside My Canoehead - May 13, 2024 12:00 - 28 minutesSend us a Text Message. Do you need to go without food for a few days to understand hunger? Not drink for a day to feel extreme thirst? Not change clothes for a week to see whether merino wool will eventually stink? Probably not. So do you need to turn off the power at home to practice a po...
Preparedness Planning Options
Inside My Canoehead - May 06, 2024 14:00 - 22 minutesSend us a Text Message. Preparedness week is upon us, with a plethora of offerings from the government. Digest these, embrace the ideas they espouse - to inform your plan. There are two strategies to preparedness, be a professional victim or to create an independent plan. Public sector residen...
How I Changed My Future Path - Becoming a Veteran
Inside My Canoehead - April 29, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutesSend us a Text Message. Becoming a veteran is a cultural shock, entering a society that is not hierarchal, structured and with your life planned is confusing at best and disturbing. When your career ends, and everyone's will, you need to figure out what is your next iteration, the new you, what...
Preparedness - Beyond Disasters
Inside My Canoehead - April 26, 2024 14:00 - 36 minutesSend us a Text Message. if you consider preparedness to be about disasters and readying to response to shocks, you're at the 20% point. Preparedness is about a lifestyle, adopting a lens through which you intent to protect your family, economic viability, health - physical / mental / financial,...
Entrepreneurship in Emergency Management
Inside My Canoehead - April 22, 2024 16:00 - 28 minutesSend us a Text Message. EM has an ideological frame that it belongs in the public service or the not for profit field. There is a barrier to permitting the corporate world to enter the field, a fear of embracing the profit motive. Let's be clear, there is profit in the NGO / nonprofit world, in...
Crazy Tough World - How to Understand Your Risk
Inside My Canoehead - April 16, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutesSend us a Text Message. The world is chaotic, fraught with danger and loss. Either political, economic, warfare, cultural or other forces of disagreement, there is no shortage of rage, frustration, sorrow and loss in today's headlines - how do you navigate this? There are different perspectives...
The Hard Choice to Change - My Story
Inside My Canoehead - April 12, 2024 18:00 - 45 minutesSend us a Text Message. Exhausted, overwhelmed, the world is overpressure, despite your best efforts, you dont see yourself getting ahead. Tired of all the motivation, discipline, morning routines etcetera that fester on the Internet? This is my story, of what I did when I hot that wall, the ex...
Journalism is Struggling, How to find Trusted Information
Inside My Canoehead - April 09, 2024 17:00 - 31 minutesSend us a Text Message. Journalism in its purest form is a key to a free and democratic society, though you'd be hard pressed to find that in any nation today. With governments desperately funding traditional media in hopes of saving them, it reminds us all of protectionist cities saving the ta...
Don't Let Political Turmoil Affect Your Life
Inside My Canoehead - April 05, 2024 19:00 - 33 minutesSend us a Text Message. The stoics nailed control, there is but one binary choice, you are wither in control of something, or you are not. Paraphrased, it means you are in control of very little and that is precisely enough. Political ideology has much of the world fired up, creating breaks in ...
Word Salad - Mitigation, Preparedness and Resilience
Inside My Canoehead - April 02, 2024 12:00 - 36 minutesSend us a Text Message. The world is chaotic, crazy even. The exogenous shocks are numerous, impactful and all beyond our control. So how do normal families, living normal lives in reasonably modern nations navigate these times? We do so with mitigation, the long term systemic changes to our li...
Season 10 Intro and Reflections
Inside My Canoehead - March 26, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutesSend us a Text Message. Welcome to episode 251 and season 1o intro, where we discuss the upcoming seasonal focus on interviews with practitioners, discussion of news and impacts on individual preparedness and scenarios related to exogenous shocks. Whether it is a bridge collapse in the USA, war...
The Story of Inside My Canoehead - Episode #250
Inside My Canoehead - March 18, 2024 16:00 - 41 minutesSend us a Text Message. Thank you, this has been a journey, I am privileged to be in your lives and deeply thankful for your patronage over the years. This milestone episode is about the journey, how we got here, the reasons to start the podcast and the parent company, as well as the ideas cham...
Becoming Prepared - Navigating the Chaotic 2020s
Inside My Canoehead - March 14, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutesSend us a Text Message. You want to chase your dreams, to rock an incredible life, to be all that you want - but the world continues to throw exogenous shocks at you, to seemingly be working to counter your best efforts, to limit your successes. The reality is that you are in control of very li...
Safety & Security - When to Fight
Inside My Canoehead - March 11, 2024 15:00 - 35 minutesSend us a Text Message. The chaotic world extends locally, there are nefarious individuals in the world, who would take an opportunity to relieve you of your possessions and wealth. While we wished that was not the case, it is incumbent upon us to learn how to mitigate the effects of others, to...
You Are the Most Important Asset in Emergencies - Invest in You
Inside My Canoehead - March 07, 2024 14:00 - 40 minutesSend us a Text Message. Very little is within your control, that's precisely all you need. The stoics understood that by championing your own physical, mental and financial health, you were independent of the world and could navigate whatever exogenous shock sent your way. You cannot assume re...
Don't Be A Liability to Your Future Self
Inside My Canoehead - March 04, 2024 15:00 - 28 minutesSend us a Text Message. No one is coming to help, whether you're a fan of classical novels from the 1900s like Dale Carnegie or Stephen Covey, or modern motivational series from then likes of David Goggins, Mark Manson, Mel Robbins or others. Simply put, in the positive world, the actual one yo...
Why You Own Stuff - Preparedness & Possessions
Inside My Canoehead - March 01, 2024 11:00 - 36 minutesSend us a Text Message. We live in a modern, technologically enabled society that requires the ownership of physical goods to operate. The reasons we choose to acquire goods are generally within four categories - the item exists for a defined purpose (golf clubs), just in case (fire extinguishe...
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