This Prepared Life
Welcome to This Prepared Life, a podcast for women where preparedness feels peaceful, practical, and possible. Hosted by Allison Michael, this show is about creating a calmer, more resilient life through everyday preparedness and intentional living. Inside the episodes, you’ll find realistic food storage tips, Allison’s Three Layer Food Storage system, preparedness skills, homemaking rhythms, and encouragement to help you care for yourself and your family with more confidence and less overwhelm. From emergency preparedness and food preservation to homemaking and building a well-stocked pantry, this podcast offers practical guidance to help preparedness feel more natural in your everyday life. Whether you’re filling your first pantry shelf or have been preparing for years, you can expect simple action steps, honest conversations, and a reminder that preparedness does not have to come from fear. Here, we believe in being prepared, not scared — one pantry shelf, skill, and intentional step at a time.
This Prepared Life
Preparedness is Your Responsibility - Ep8
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Preparedness is our responsibility because our families are our responsibility. In this episode, I discuss encouraging future generations, taking back what is ours, and normalizing prepping. Ladies, it is time to get your house in order and take some action. Join me for a ramble!
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Welcome to this prepared life podcast where homesteading and the apocalypse meet. I'm Alison, your host. Hello, and welcome to this prepared life. I am glad you're here. I wanted to let you know about a couple exciting things that are happening. So I am part of a collaboration of seven women who prep that all have accounts on Instagram for National Preparedness Month. And we are asking others to use the hashtag in their posts on Instagram, WomenWhooPrep. So many women are over there using this hashtag and just sharing great ideas and tips and skills that they're learning or have learned. And I invite you to join us over there. There are seven collaborators total. We are just having a lot of fun with WomenWhoo Prep for National Preparedness Month. So please join us. This week on September 13th, which was Monday, I was on the Prepper Broadcasting Network. And you can find them on any podcast reader or go to their website at Prepper Broadcasting Network.com. You can listen to the podcast episode I did there with James, and that was a lot of fun. We talked about the collaboration. We just talked a lot about women who prep in general and a bunch of other stuff. So check that out. It was a lot of fun. So today's topic is kind of a big one, and it is something that just kind of keeps coming up in different areas and different conversations with some of the other collaborators for Women Who Prep. It came up in the conversation over on Prepper Broadcasting Network, just a lot of places. It's just something that keeps coming up. And so I wanted to touch on it here. It's the concept that, ladies, we need to take back what is ours. It is our job to care for the needs of our family no matter the circumstances. So we have defined preparedness. We have said that that is planning for the things to come. We don't know what's coming or when it's coming, but we do know that things happen in our lives, whether it be job losses or power outages or hurricanes, things happen and it is our job to get our houses in order. Consider this episode a call to action for that, because I don't think any of us want to end up in a situation where we had the knowledge and were shared knowledge, but we took no action to make what is needed a reality for our families. Whatever that means, the definition of preparedness, planning for the things to come, it is up to you to decide what that looks like for your family. That means hearts and minds. That means skills, that can mean food storage, that can mean so many different things. And you and you alone get to make that decision. Over time, as women and women specifically as a community, we have lost skills, skills that are so important to keeping our house in order. I think it's time that we get back to that, that we teach these things to our children, that we teach these things to the next generation, where we're gonna hit a point where no one knows what these things are and we are completely dependent upon a system. So, what used to be normal, what our grandmothers did and our great-grandmothers did, and the way that they lived, these are the skills that we need to be working on in our preparedness journey. Nowadays, when we talk about prepping or we talk about homesteading or we talk about, you know, I'm air-quoting old-fashioned skills, we tend to justify them. We put disclaimers on these things. And we need to stop that. We need to stop justifying why we're doing something and just do it because we never know when our just doing something is gonna encourage or motivate someone else to also do that thing. We need to encourage ourselves, the other women in our lives and our children that there is another way to live. That it's okay to go against the grain. It's okay to go against what culture tells us is normal. It's okay to go against what society tells us is okay. We need to remove the stigma associated with being a prepper. Preppers are not crazy. We love our families and we are doing what we can to prepare for our families. And that is honorable and that is good. I think if anything, 2020 showed us that our systems, the systems in this country are fragile and that we cannot depend on them. It's time to remove yourself from that system in whatever ways you are able to. It's time to shorten your food chain. It's time to take those steps, any step, and just do it and remove your dependence upon the system. And that can look like so many different things. And each of us are gonna choose different things that interest us. That might look like canning or preserving. It might look like gardening. Maybe it looks like finding local farmers because you can't grow it yourself or getting a community garden plot because you don't have the space. It can look like sewing or knitting, it can look like baking bread, it can look like learning first aid or how to shoot. It can look like hunting and fishing and foraging. The list goes on. These are all skills that we need to learn. There's skills that women used to know. Over time, society told women that no, just get this at the grocery store. No, just do this somewhere else. No, let them do it for you. It'll be easier. And yeah, it might be easier, but it doesn't mean it's better. It's time to take those things back. It's time to relearn these skills. So pick something. Pick a goal. Make that goal, take the first step, make your plan, and then take another step and another step and another step. How we change the world is not always in the ways we think of. It does not always mean protests and wars and revolution. Sometimes revolution isn't loud. Sometimes it's us as wives, as mothers and grandmothers teaching our children that there's another way. Sometimes it's us as older women teaching younger women that there is another way. Sometimes it's younger women who already figured out that there's another way, teaching an older woman that there is another way. But we need to get back to a place of community, back to a place of sharing knowledge and education, back to a place of sharing skills, back to canning circles and quilting circles, whatever that may look like in today's day and age. I mean, it's not going to look like what it did back then. But the benefits of that are still the same. The community that we can have with one another is still the same. The knowledge that we can learn from one another is still the same. We need to embrace that and say no to our culture that wants us in our houses alone and lonely, with no skills and no knowledge, completely dependent upon the system. The time is now to get your house in order and learn these skills. Take action, ladies. You can do it. Thanks for listening today, and until next time. Remember, every little thing matters, and a goal without a plan is just a wish. If you have any questions, feel free and find me on Instagram at this prepared life. You can also visit this preparedlife.blogspot.com. If you enjoyed today's episode, I would love it if you would leave a review on Apple Podcasts.