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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
365 episodes
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
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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
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