Latest Reliant Podcast Episodes
Preparedness, Exercises and Adventure
Inside My Canoehead - May 13, 2024 12:00 - 28 minutesDo 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 power outage drill? Evacua...
Preparedness Planning Options
Inside My Canoehead - May 06, 2024 14:00 - 22 minutesPreparedness 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 resident facing preparedness com...
How I Changed My Future Path - Becoming a Veteran
Inside My Canoehead - April 29, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutesBecoming 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 you will do and accompli...
Preparedness - Beyond Disasters
Inside My Canoehead - April 26, 2024 14:00 - 36 minutesif 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, corporate sustainability...
Entrepreneurship in Emergency Management
Inside My Canoehead - April 22, 2024 16:00 - 28 minutesEM 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 salaries, benefits and f...
Crazy Tough World - How to Understand Your Risk
Inside My Canoehead - April 16, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutesThe 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 - micro, meso and macro....
The Hard Choice to Change - My Story
Inside My Canoehead - April 12, 2024 18:00 - 45 minutesExhausted, 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 exhausted point. How I look...
Journalism is Struggling, How to find Trusted Information
Inside My Canoehead - April 09, 2024 17:00 - 31 minutesJournalism 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 taxi industry abasing Uber ...
Don't Let Political Turmoil Affect Your Life
Inside My Canoehead - April 05, 2024 19:00 - 33 minutesThe 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 the fabric of society, ca...
Word Salad - Mitigation, Preparedness and Resilience
Inside My Canoehead - April 02, 2024 12:00 - 36 minutesThe 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 lives that insulate us from...
Finding Strength in Faith Through the Holy Week Experience
Resilient Faith - March 28, 2024 15:00 - 12 minutesAs we tread the solemn path of Holy Week, we invite you to walk with us through the poignant contrasts of Palm Sunday and the ensuing days that shaped the very foundation of faith. In the latest episode of Resilient Faith, we'll unravel the complexities of trust, particularly during Lent, and th...
Season 10 Intro and Reflections
Inside My Canoehead - March 26, 2024 13:00 - 29 minutesWelcome 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 in Gaza or famine in Afr...
The Essence of Trust: Embracing Faith's Power to Weave Life's Rich Tapestry
Resilient Faith - March 21, 2024 03:00 - 7 minutesImagine the profound impact trust can have on our lives, the resilience it builds, and the depth it adds to our spirituality. That's exactly what we explore in this episode of Resilient Faith, where we delve into the beauty of the natural world and its cycles that offer us comfort and a sense of...
The Story of Inside My Canoehead - Episode #250
Inside My Canoehead - March 18, 2024 16:00 - 41 minutesThank 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 championed on the episodes. O...
Navigating the Shadows: Cultivating Radical Hope and Trust in God's Plan
Resilient Faith - March 14, 2024 14:00 - 11 minutes“Not everything is going to be okay. And our assignment is to carry this truth without yielding to despair, and while tending to the flames of radical hope — the kind that demands our grittiest love and biggest imagination.“ How do we hold onto hope when we're faced with the stark truth that n...
Becoming Prepared - Navigating the Chaotic 2020s
Inside My Canoehead - March 14, 2024 13:00 - 37 minutesYou 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 little and that is precisel...
Safety & Security - When to Fight
Inside My Canoehead - March 11, 2024 15:00 - 35 minutesThe 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 enact that which is with...
Harmony in Heartache: Nancy Reeves' Journey of Healing Through Faith and Music
Resilient Faith - March 07, 2024 18:00 - 8 minutesWhen the ground beneath you crumbles and your world is riddled with loss, where do you find the strength to navigate the uncharted waters of grief? Nancy Reeves, from Brentwood Presbyterian Church, bravely opens up about her personal story of heartache and the resilience of her spirit. She shar...
You Are the Most Important Asset in Emergencies - Invest in You
Inside My Canoehead - March 07, 2024 14:00 - 40 minutesVery 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 responsibility for family a...
Don't Be A Liability to Your Future Self
Inside My Canoehead - March 04, 2024 15:00 - 28 minutesNo 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 you live in, it is your res...
Why You Own Stuff - Preparedness & Possessions
Inside My Canoehead - March 01, 2024 11:00 - 36 minutesWe 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 extinguisher), sentimental (Dad's pi...
Rising from the Ashes: A Journey of Faith, Recovery, and the Mark of Transformation
Resilient Faith - February 29, 2024 04:00 - 8 minutesWhen the weight of the world seems unbearable, where do you turn for strength? Carol Maddon found her answer in an unlikely form—a tattoo, a symbol of her profound personal transformation and renewed faith. Embracing vulnerability, Carol recounts the tumultuous days of the mid-1980s that led her...
Kit, Equipment & Preparedness
Inside My Canoehead - February 26, 2024 15:00 - 36 minutesPreparedness planning is free, only an investment of time and energy. Beginning with personal responsibility, defining family, building a shelter in place strategy and creating the trifecta of preparedness plans. The Internet is saturated with YouTube and online personalities that present a lis...
Communications on the Move
Inside My Canoehead - February 23, 2024 13:00 - 26 minutesWe know they're are a number of influential variables when emergencies occur. We know that a well understood and rehearsed preparedness plan will permit your family to execute their roles without needing instructions, that confusion cell calls or texts in the middle of chaos ar not required. You...
Mobile Preparedness - On the Move
Inside My Canoehead - February 19, 2024 15:00 - 34 minutesEDC, Bug out bags, get home bags - we've heard it all. What are the practical considerations for preparedness when we are away from our home, when accessing our shelter in place plan is not immediate. We being with a review of the first half of the ten weeks of practical preparedness, reviewing ...
Risk Tolerance and Your Life
Inside My Canoehead - February 15, 2024 14:00 - 31 minutesYour risk profile informs your life, it influences the decisions you make and the outcomes from those choices. Whether you're risk adverse and skeptical of society or you're an all-in individual who rolls with the punches, risk informs. We discuss how risk tolerance informs you preparedness tim...
Journey Through Lent: Cultivating a Resilient Faith for Easter Rebirth
Resilient Faith - February 14, 2024 04:00 - 12 minutesAs we usher in the reflective season of Lent, Pastor Lora East invites you to join her on a journey of spiritual discovery and transformation. Embarking from the solemnity of Ash Wednesday, we'll traverse together through moments of self-examination and repentance, seeking the profound lessons ...
Your Personal Risk Profile - Navigating Chaos
Inside My Canoehead - February 12, 2024 15:00 - 30 minutesRisk is everywhere, there is no methodology that permits risk to be lowered to zero. No personal, no business or lifestyle choices come risk free. So how to we understand the risks we face in this chaotic decade? How do we build a profile that informs our choices and aids in identifying the the...
Better Post Event Outcomes
Inside My Canoehead - February 08, 2024 14:00 - 29 minutesPreparedness is the totality of efforts undertaken in times of peace and calm that increase your readiness and ability to navigate through exogenous shocks. The intent is to have better post events, that is to have a far less impact from the disruption and to resume normal operations at the earl...
Preparedness and Critical Infrastructure
Inside My Canoehead - February 05, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutesWe live in a technologically enabled modern and connected society. We wake daily assuming a host of services and systems will function, from the power grid to the sewage system, from the cell network to the healthcare facilities. We assume away a host of risks that exist - to build a personal pr...
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