Mastering Risk
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
372 episodes
3 Free Ways to Win at Life and Business
Seize the Day, choose to be responsible for your outcomes and dominate this world.We hear that all the time, but how?Three free ways:First, own your life - your physical, mental and financial health are all your responsibility, ...
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Season 15
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Episode 6
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29:03
Managing Risk in the Age of AI
The pressure is relentless, to adopt even the most unique offerings of AI, under the symbolic - or real - threat of corporate irrelevancy. Whether presented in the form of the latest influencer YouTube video, an offering to learn AI in 28 days,...
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Season 15
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Episode 5
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25:03
Entrepreneurship Costs $72 Per Year
Creating your own business and generating income is your get to be resilient in a world of AI business and employment disruptions.There are only three ways to earn an income. First, a profession with its rules, regulations, training sta...
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Season 15
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Episode 4
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43:33
Why Entrepreneurs Must Understand Risk
Entrepreneurs are great dreamers, pouring exceptional time and resources into their dream, often without understanding the risks they chose to accept, willingly or not, when they jumped in.Strategic, Operational, Cyber and Reputational ...
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Season 15
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Episode 3
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25:54
Embracing Risk for Small Businesses
How do we ready our entrepreneurial ventures to succeed and excel in these times of increased political, economic and natural disasters?Understanding your risk profile across strategic, operational, cyber and reputational areas is key. ...
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Season 15
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Episode 2
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31:55
Risk in a VUCA Environment
From the A1 to C3, the newspaper is drowning in chaos, disturbances and the growing call for significant change in our world. For those who never had the pleasure of reading a full newspaper over morning coffee, that’s the meat, before the comi...
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Season 15
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Episode 1
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28:13
Launching: Mastering Risk - The Podcast
Life evolves, as the world changes around us, we need to periodically verify that we remain a value added to the population. Inside My Canoehead has been on the air for over 5 years, throughout the pandemic and will continue to live on, but und...
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Season 14
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Episode 21
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34:04
Financial Resiliency for your Online Business
When we consider financial resiliency in this modern era, we first need to accept resiliency means to you. There are no shortages of definitions of resiliency, in my humble opinion, it is the most abused term in the discipline. As a social scie...
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Season 14
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Episode 20
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31:06
Who is a Prepper?
Conspiracy Theorist? Crazy Trucker dude in Ottawa? Anti-Government Mafia, Antifa?Or maybe just a normal person, living in suburbia who accepts responsibility for their outcomes, understands there is a possibility that one or more sectors of...
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Season 14
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Episode 19
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35:51
Wildfires are a Policy Failure
Forests are an incredible creation of nature, a magical blend of species - sustainable, resilient and awe-inspiring beauty. Only humans would have the audacity to harm such a brilliant resource.The intentional destruction of the boreal ...
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Season 14
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Episode 18
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33:22
Is Your Side Hustle Risk Resilient?
Etsy Store, Shopify or 1 Mil per year service business, they're all exposed to risk - cyber, reputational and operational. What strategies help in mitigating exposure to nefarious actors.How, as a solo entrepreneur, can you protect your onl...
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Season 14
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Episode 17
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37:00
5 Years of Preparedness - Are You Ready?
Every anniversary deserves celebration, we have so much to be thankful for: friends, family, accomplishments and reaching goals. We should never lose the childish joy of horns, goofy hats, paper plates and cake. Today, July 28th, ma...
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Season 14
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Episode 16
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32:21
Throwing Hands - Are You Ready to Fight?
Pugilism was an art, the settling of disputes with honour and integrity. We didn’t kick somewhen when they fell, we asked if they had enough and if so, we helped them up, dusted them off and headed to the bar to resume our drinks. Simple life, ...
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Season 14
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Episode 15
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27:07
Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone
We’re comfortable, enjoy being coddled and taken care of, whether that is by family or the government. We exist in a period of time with access to the entire knowledge of the species in the palm of our hand, yet we choose to remain stuck in pla...
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Season 14
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Episode 14
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26:19
Simplicity & Minimalism - Road to Resilience
A bit cheeky, yes. The point is that many roads lead to resilience, I’ve written a five part series on Substack about this, drawing a clear route to creating a more resil...
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Season 14
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Episode 13
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24:29
Your Secret Weapon for Resilience
As many bemoan the chaos of this decade, Dr. Steven Pinker reminds us that this is, by a significant margin, the safest and most productive age of the human species. The calamities we face are minor irritants in comparison to those surmounted b...
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Season 14
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Episode 12
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30:23
Extended Power Outage - Self Reliance vs Self Sufficiency
How long can you survive if the power fails? A few hours, days, weeks, months? Are you self reliant or self sufficient, maybe a combination of both? We outline the strategies for navigating an extended power loss, speak to the types of prep...
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Season 14
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Episode 11
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35:36
Life Strategy - No One is Coming to Help or Pay for You
You'll only be successful when you choose to try.A life strategy is the operationalization of choosing to improve your fitness, mental health, financial condition, personal relationships, professional life, community relations and overa...
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Season 14
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Episode 10
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28:20
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
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