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Inside My Canoehead
Non-apocalyptic evidence-based preparedness education for rational people. Grounded in the principles of personal responsibility and the power of community, the podcast presents achievable ideas on how you can chase your dreams and rock and incredible life, wrapped in a blanket of preparedness.
Your host Jeff, AKA Dr. D is a veteran, author, professor of emergency management and an avid backcountry paddler.
Society is not about to collapse, but the 2020s will be spicy. Adopt a prepared life and live large. Preparedness is a lifestyle, not a stockpile.
Episodes
342 episodes
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
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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
Trade Wars and Your Family
Bluster, ideological idiocy and a host of other hot air producing commentary is drowning our social media and semi-professional forums. Like all issues, everyone is now a trade expert, understands international treaties, exceptions and can prov...
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Season 13
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Episode 8
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33:35
Why the Public Ignores Preparedness Week
Rinse and repeat, repacked or polished, increased volume or new influencers - all methodologies leveraged by the public sector in attempts to convince the population that their preparedness communications are accurate, helpful and should be ado...
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Season 13
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Episode 6
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37:26
What is the Role of Emergency Management?
There are a few sources to lead us to a conclusion, the first being our legislation. As this is local to national, and to some degree multilateral and multinational, we codify our intent in laws that are geographically bounded. The state EM leg...
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Season 13
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Episode 4
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33:54
Is FEMA Fit For Purpose?
Whenever the deliverable from a public sector agency fails to meet expectations, there are two general causes. First, is the most likely, that the expectation of the target audience was outsized or inconsistent with the actual legislated and fu...
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Season 13
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Episode 3
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36:14
Why the Government? The Evolution of the Dependasaurus
Humans are tribal, we are a species that thrives in the collective, where individual skills are amplified by the resources and assistance of others. Throughout our known history, we’ve been organized into different groups for specific purposes,...
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Season 13
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Episode 2
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34:18
Risk, Resilience and Preparedness in a Chaotic World
“The global order is under revision”, likely the most understated quote from a series of interviews surrounding the inauguration of the latest US President. The events of the past 48 hours and the weeks to come will to the best ...
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35:56
Vacations Matter & Close of Season 12
The point is vacations matter, to disconnect and repair. The mind and body are finite tools for life, they are our mot important resource, the key to our success and the reason we’ll exit. I’ve learned that when I say I’m gone, to be gone. So t...
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Season 12
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Episode 29
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37:26
Economic Preparedness - Are You Ready for Disruption?
We traditionally think of preparedness as a function of natural disasters, where we ready for storms and events that may cut off the critical infrastructure for days. When we think about economic preparedness, it is often the gateway conversati...
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Season 12
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Episode 26
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39:40
Becoming a Prepper - The How, When and What
Doomsday Preppers was a series on TV, the reality is that much of what was on that program was scripted for show, those individuals were not that crazy. However, much of the modern impression of preppers is grounded in the idea that they are di...
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Season 12
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Episode 25
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43:44
Holiday Series - Preparedness for Seniors
Whether or not we like it, we all age. We might be caring for a loved one, an extended family member, or we are co-located in high density housing with seniors. There are real issues as we age, from physical mobility, cognitive decline, climact...
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Season 12
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Episode 24
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44:00
Setting 2025 Up For Success
Welcome to the new year, a time when we regularly burden ourselves with unrealistic expectations, near impossible goals and set ourselves up for failure. A totally expected and avoidable situation. Maybe there is another way, a differe...
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Season 12
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Episode 23
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37:01
Our Holiday Series - Thriving Not Just Surviving
Our holiday series continues with a discussion on thriving, a definition and exact process to follow. The current government communications message of have a kit, make a plan and be informed is grounded in a 30+ year old Cold War mentality of w...
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Season 12
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Episode 21
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34:28