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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
316 episodes
Healthcare and Preparedness Funding - We Don't Need More $$$
Post pandemic, we reflect on the state of our healthcare systems, public health and preparedness education. Are they ready for the next plague and what are those efforts that would contribute to a set of better post event outcomes. The...
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Season 12
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Episode 28
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32:59
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Engaging all Societal Sectors to Build Resilience
It is often stated that we are the most connected, yet loneliest generation. We hold in our hands a device that has access to the entire knowledge base of our species, the ability to call anyone on the planet and to send and receive information...
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Season 12
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Episode 27
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34:13
Interview with the Preparedness Guy, Nat Sellers
Who and what is a preparedness guy? Nat Sellers is a passionate emergency manager with his own podcast, diligently plowing away at the bureaucracy and the barriers to building a resilient community. His efforts and ideas will keep you glued to ...
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1:43:31
Economic Barriers to Preparedness are Creations of the State
It is not that the population sees preparedness as unnecessary, but when associated as a cost element for a family, most are choosing to maintain more realtime budgetary requirements. Preparedness is future proofing, supper is today. If we corr...
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Season 12
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Episode 22
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32:52
Scalpel or Chainsaw - Emergency Management Governance
Public sector governance contains a relative scant level of review, not in the form of annual budgetary allocations, but in colloquial terms, a “fit for purpose” analysis. I’ve written before on the outsized level of
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Season 12
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Episode 19
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31:03
National Preparedness - The Goal of the Incoming US Administration
Ongoing discourse in the international media is largely focussed on the incoming US administration. Not simply for their choices for key positions, but to ascertain the intent behind the bluster, what is the goal of reorienting the economics an...
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Season 12
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Episode 14
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40:40
Bureaucracy in Burying Hope
In this modern, technologically enabled age, we often see explicit examples of bloated public sector bureaucracy’s inability to provide a service, deliver on a promise or otherwise operate at expectations. We’ve become accustomed to packaged ex...
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29:35
The Purpose of Preparedness
There are a range of preparedness specific goals and missions. From those who ascribe to cataclysmic societal outcomes requiring a considerable investment of resources, or those who simply seek a slightly more favourable insurance coverage, we ...
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Season 12
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Episode 14
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30:21
Putin, Nukes and Preparedness
The war in Ukraine fosters many an opinion, individuals who rally for the world consensus against invasion of sovereign states, those who seek to disrupt global order and those who seek to economically gain from continued conflict. The Ukrainia...
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Season 12
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Episode 13
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38:11
Government ≠ Insurer of Last Resort
The argument is this: I believe that within a decade or so, the losses from disasters will be so expense that irrespective of the damage, there will no longer be any government assistance for those who are uninsured. Residents will simpl...
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Season 12
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Episode 12
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35:14
Communities Win the Preparedness Race
Research from across the discipline over the past twenty years has argued that the most influential and correlated variable to better post event outcomes is the sense of community and belonging. Whether found in hundred year old disasters in Ja...
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Season 12
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Episode 11
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46:51
Interview with Ginny Katz, Co-Founder of Hazadapt, the Preparedness App
We live in a technologically enabled society, where residents look to online sources for information, guidance and education. The emergency management space has been lacking investment into this field, with few notable participants challenging ...
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Season 12
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Episode 10
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1:20:28
The Reality of Sheltering in Place
We've seen many recent calamities that called for a shelter in place plan, with the plethora of YouTube channels and information on sheltering, we offer evidence-based strategies to enable a successful event. Researchers examine popula...
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Season 12
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Episode 9
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37:59
The Entrepreneurial Journey in Preparedness
The global economic picture continues to be volatile, unpredictable and profoundly influenced by political, cultural and natural events. In the modern technologically enable society, we have three choices for a career.We can choose a profes...
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Season 12
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Episode 8
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43:54
Preparedness and the US Election
The US is a superpower, its influence over global economic, political and cultural conflicts is profound. Your preparedness plan requires you to understand the environment in which you operate, to insulate you, your family and your economic int...
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Season 12
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Episode 7
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39:08
Preparedness and the American Dream
Many are lamenting the old world, where a family could earn a living wage with one parent at home with the kids, buy a house, have vacations and retire after 40 years with a company. That dream is dead and likely your future if you are pursuing...
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Season 12
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Episode 6
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43:39
300th Episode: Preparedness Education
A profound thank you, for all the subscribers, listeners and supporters who held fast throughout this journey, I am humbled and proud. Our future is bright, with a plethora of episodes to come.Thank you my friends, I am humbled and empo...
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Season 12
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Episode 5
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52:24
Our Need to Be Right - Why We Want to Win the Argument
Being wrong, disproved or otherwise having our ideas challenged is uncomfortable. We prefer to exist in a world where we are surrounded by those who hold similar views, creating an echo chamber, missing some valued positions in society.
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Season 12
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Episode 4
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50:47
What Are Your Preparedness Goals?
Preparedness goals frame why you're adopting preparedness, what you're working towards and how you view the world of preparedness. We discuss a series of important questions that frame your understanding of the overall concept, how you view the...
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Season 12
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Episode 3
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52:49
Why Preparedness is So Elusive
There are many publications claiming to understand why people choose not to become prepared, in order to provide guidance on the necessary amendments to influence campaigns, to improve the adoption of preparedness behavoirs by the general popul...
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Season 12
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Episode 2
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50:39
Trust in Emergency Management & Hurricane Preparedness
What we have all seen in the southeastern USA over the past week has been heart wrenching, whether here in Canada where I could do little more that financially support the NGO conducting operations, to the individuals charging into the chaos to...
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Season 12
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Episode 1
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58:44
Season 11 Wrap, Hurricane Helene and Conventions
Season 11 was a breakthrough season for the podcast, rapidly expanding our audience, which sets season 12 up for great success. There are a number of tag lines, monikers, colloquialisms and catch phrases that permeate every discipl...
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Season 11
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Episode 22
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29:22
Canada's Incredible Preparedness Opportunity
On the eve of Canada's largest gathering of the emergency preparedness and climate adaptation voices, we are in a unique position to create some epic advances in society's readiness.From considerations on a national disaster response force,...
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Season 11
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Episode 21
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40:55
Your Preparedness Superpower
While the world is not going to collapse, the 2020s will continue to be quite spicy, with exogenous shocks happing across political, cultural, economic and familial spheres. The stoics are famous for encouraging you to consider what is...
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Season 11
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Episode 20
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48:52
Preparedness and Critical Infrastructure
We live in a modern, technologically enabled society. The leaps in life-improving scientific achievements in the last few decades alone is substantial. From the advent of general AI access for the public, to autonomous systems, we are indeed in...
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Season 11
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Episode 19
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32:25