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Risk, Resilience and Preparedness Podcast - Inside My Canoehead
Risk cannot be eliminated, disasters cannot be prevented and you cannot purchase your way to an insulated life. You can identify, codify, judge and mitigate risk in your professional and private life.
Non-apocalytpic evidence-based risk and preparedness education, for individuals, families, solo-entrepreneurs, businesses and communities.
Your host, Dr. D is a veteran, professor, author and entrepreneur.
No one is coming to help, so you and you alone are responsible for your outcomes. The choice is yours, choose wisely.
Episodes
354 episodes
Disaster Proof Your Business
Business Continuity is disaster preparedness for business, often misunderstood and ignored by SMB. Most businesses dont survive one year after a disaster, and many are utterly unprepared for a significant event.Look how many needed imme...
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Season 14
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Episode 9
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41:51
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Calm Evacuations Are a Choice - Choose Wisely
Chaos and disorder are what we normally correlate with an evacuation. Wildfire on the doorstep, screaming family members, driving from the scene through fire and haze. Let's not forget the hours long bumper to bumper traffic going somewhere, fo...
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Season 14
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Episode 8
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35:48
Economic Recovery Task Force
I’ve written at length about the need to incorporate all sectors of society in disaster response and recovery operations. For each significant event, there are four unique and often uncoordinated responses: the not for profit (NFP) industry ram...
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Season 14
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Episode 7
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27:44
Generalist vs Specialist & the GIG Economy
According to Global Velocity, in the USA there are 59 million workers in the freelance or gig economy, earning over 500 million, with an estimated 50% of American w...
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Season 14
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Episode 6
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32:16
Roadmap to Resilience - Part Five - Advanced Resilience Strategies
Resilience is intentional and requires commitment. We often pursue ideas and strategies that are one and done. I’ll put in the effort, achieve the standard and we’re all good, nothing else to do. Being ready for the unknown, embracing uncertain...
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Season 14
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Episode 5
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38:53
Roadmap to Resilience - Part 4 - Risk
Anthropological and sociological research has reasonably defined the spheres of influence in your world, a concept design, sometimes referred to as spatial. In simplest terms, it is a division of interests, those that motivate us and classify a...
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Season 14
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Episode 6
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28:06
Roadmap to Resilience - Part 3 - Trifecta of Preparedness Plans
Further research grounds that even with a series of hazards, in some areas communities face a host of differentiating risks, there are limitations to the choices at hand. When drilled to the simplest form, humans have only two distinct choices,...
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Season 14
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Episode 5
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49:26
Roadmap to Resilience - Part 2 - Responsibility for Your World
Seldom do people make decisions in isolation, they seek information, knowledge and opinion of trusted sources to inform what their options. We’re learning that counter to the neo-classical economic thought, humans make decisions on emotion and ...
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Season 14
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Episode 4
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31:03
Roadmap to Resilience - Part 1 - The World Around Us
Our intent in this five part series is to demystify the idea of resilience, to ground it in the philosophy of preparedness and to provide the operationalization of research. Everything that follows is based upon defendable data sources, evidenc...
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Season 14
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Episode 3
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34:56
You Cannot Save FEMA
Framing our situation is important, because the lens we choose to use when examining the world around us influences what we see, the actions we believe are helpful and the outcomes we seek. Ask an academic about the choice of theoretical framew...
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Season 14
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Episode 2
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33:29
5th Anniversary Episode - Lesson Learned, Barriers and the Way Ahead
We have seen a notable and systemic shift in the role of individualism in Canada, the emergence of a default assumption that the correct and appropriate response to a collective i...
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Season 14
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Episode 1
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42:30
Close of Season 13 and The Future of Preparedness
First, a sincere thank you for the support over the past half decade, we've been a stalwart voice in the pandemic, offering evidence-based strategies to protect your family from the personal and economic harm. Our Season 13 was grounded in prov...
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Season 13
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Episode 20
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26:59
Emergency Management Lessons from Rural Ontario
This month I had the honour of visiting northern Ontario, while devoid of mountains and lighthouses, it has a unique beauty, a draw that mesmerizes the mind. A combination of the boreal forest and the Canadian Shield, the landscape is an endles...
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Season 13
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Episode 19
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41:52
The Power of Community
Tariffs, elections, wars and a host of other calamities lead many into learned helplessness, the idea that there is little within your control to protect against and ameliorate the effects of disasters.That is incorrect, you have the pow...
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Season 13
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Episode 18
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47:00
Get Ready to Be Punched in the Face
Mike Tyson was correct, we all have a plan, but few are ready for a right cross. Welcome to 2025, if you're not persuaded by now that this decade is disruptive and volatile, I'm not sure what would help. The foundation of preparedness is that i...
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Season 13
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Episode 17
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30:30
This Chaos - Your Plan, Finding Your Strategy to Win
These are challenging times, we are facing an ever-increasing frequency of dramatic alternations to the international order, which have downstream influences on our lives. There seems little we control and therefore are doomed to be victims.
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Season 13
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Episode 16
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44:29
Non-Government Resources in a Disaster
We exist in a dependant culture, one where we collectively expect and believe there is an entitlement to public sector support in times of disaster. We fund governments through taxation and the social contract dictates that services are afforde...
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Season 13
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Episode 15
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42:16
Tariff Land - Opportunities in Chaos
There are no shortage of diatribes online about the state of global leadership, whether your guy is making the necessary realignments long called for but never enacted, or someone left the baboon door open at the zoo, and apologies to the baboo...
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Season 13
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Episode 14
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32:52
Visionary Leadership - We Need Options, not Complaints
If we accept that the 2020s is our turn at the expected global organizational shift, then we might benefit from considering what we would like to see emerge. While we as individuals have little effect on national outcomes and international orde...
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Season 13
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Episode 13
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35:02
Preparedness 101 for 2025 - It Looks Different
I’ve written at length over the past few months about the political and economic crises that looms over the world, the jaxapositioning of nations to find their place in the new world order and the likely impacts on populations. This polycrisis ...
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Season 13
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Episode 12
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31:24
Build Canada - Options
Comfort feels great, easy and simple. But as the old adage proves, success and opportunity are found outside your comfort zone. For several decades Canada has chosen to be complacent, comfortable and dormant. We’ve lost our way, from a nation o...
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Season 13
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Episode 11
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44:08
Transparency, DOGE & Preparedness
Governments are a finicky thing, often maligned, never understood and staffed by a host of individuals who the population generally views as unproductive and inefficient. These views are present whether you are a libertarian or socialist, we th...
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Season 13
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Episode 10
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41:20
Side Hustles, GIG Economy and Work / Life Balance
We often bemoan the loss of the Boomer's dream, single family income that pays for a home, vacations and earns a nice retirement pension to enjoy time with grandchildren. Those were wonderful times, but that was only possible with an economic s...
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Season 13
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Episode 7
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37:00
Steel, Aluminum and Preparedness
What can you do to insulate you and your family from the effects of tariff decisions by foreign governments? The intent of this episode is to outline why the US government is making this decision, the rationale for nations to adopt organic prod...
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Season 13
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Episode 9
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38:13
Interview with Disability Advocate, Mark Jenkins
Communities are only as strong as their connections, our sense of belonging and place is what ties us geographically and to membership in wider organizations. In our cities and towns populations exist that draw a disproportionate amount of reso...
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Season 13
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Episode 5
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1:05:12