Practical Prepping Podcast
Practical Prepping Podcast
Real solutions for real emergencies—no apocalypse required.
The Practical Prepping Podcast cuts through the noise of extreme doomsday scenarios to focus on what actually matters: simple, actionable steps that help everyday people safeguard their families and lifestyles.
Why Listen?
- Knowledge Over Gear: "The more you know, the less you have to carry." We emphasize skills that lighten your load because the right know-how beats an overloaded bug-out bag every time.
- Real Threats, Real Solutions: From power outages to wildfires, snowstorms to supply shortages, we tackle the emergencies you're most likely to face.
- Family-Friendly Content: Our podcast maintains clean, judgment-free advice that's appropriate for all ages—prioritizing practicality over paranoia.
What Sets Us Apart
Unlike some other preparedness podcasts, we focus on practical readiness for realistic challenges:
- Weather emergencies like tornadoes, hurricanes, and winter storms
- Power outages and water disruptions
- Financial preparedness and debt reduction
- Family communication plans
- Everyday carry essentials
- Food storage and preservation
- First aid and medical preparedness
- Much more
Our Approach
Hosts Mark and Krista Lawley combine decades of experience in emergency response, outdoor skills, and home resilience to deliver advice that works in real-world situations. Whether you're just starting your preparedness journey or looking to refine specific skills, our content meets you where you are with clear, actionable advice.
No bunkers. No zombies. No alien invasions. Just practical prepping.
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Practical Prepping Podcast
Episode #44, "Let's Talk OPSEC (operations security).
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Episode # 44. LET'S TALK OPSEC
Operational Security or Operations Security is
really just risk management
General Opsec
Particularly important for survival communities and mutual assistance groups.
OPSEC should be exercised with family bug out location & activities as well as in daily life.
General opsec includes making your house less attractive to thugs, thieves, and looters using outside lighting, video cameras, cutting back bushes cut and reducing hiding places aroung the house.
We talk a bit about situational awareness and being the gray man, or woman, and blending in.
Mission Opsec
(the fun, spy craft type stuff)
Radio Communications:
Remember, everything can be monitored.
For the purposes of this discussion we'll use the Baofeng radio.
They are dual band, dual watch radios can operate "split" which helps with the security of communications.
Codes can be developed for use after SHTF, or even in exercises or daily use, and we discuss examples of codes.
We discuss keeping your transmissions short, triangulation, and rotating your transmitting locations.
Just for fun we discuss verbal runners, dead drops, and signals.
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