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Episode-1127- Risk Assessments and Readiness Audits

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Time to take a real hard look at where you are, where you are going and whether or not progress is being made in your quest to be more self reliant and more self sufficient.  Today we begin with a review of my concepts of the inverse relationship between impact scale and disaster probability.  We then go into a look at assessing your most likely personal risk factors and your individual risk tolerance. From there we examine quite a few potential disasters and how they might effect you, how you would respond to them, where your are really shored up … Continue reading →

Episode-1056- Zero to Prepared – Fast, Simple and Low Cost – Part 1

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You will notice that title of this episode ends in “low cost” vs. “cheap”.  As a marketer there is a rule, if you can eliminate a word do it, but that won’t work here.  Cheap sets the wrong tone for what we will discuss today, we are talking about protecting your life, your property and the lives of those you love, one doesn’t go “cheap” with such things. Today may seem like a basic beginners show but I will bet even the seasoned prepper will gain something and if nothing else will be better able to help others get started.  … Continue reading →

Episode-1044- Meals in Jars with Jennifer Ess and Starting Out as a Prepper

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I have a great interview with Jennifer Ess of “Rainy Day Food Storage” for you today.  We only talked for about 25 minutes but the ideas and tips and simple formulas are great.  With this information you can turn all those huge cans of long term storage food into meal size ready to go recipes. Jennifer joins us today to discuss why creating meals in a jar makes sense for busy people.  The self life of these meals.  The easy way to make these meals shelf stable.  A simple formula for creating your own recipes and how you guys can … Continue reading →

Episode-648- Reaching the Unreachable

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Every day I get emails from people that say my ______ just doesn’t get it.  I have tried explaining _____ and ______ and ______ and they still don’t think there is any reason to have a preparedness plan.  What else can I say to reach them.   Now it is easy to write off people, call them sheeple (as most are), etc until they are someone we love and care about.  The problem though can be summed up in the quote, “a profit has no honor in his own country”. Many of the people closest to you will be some of … Continue reading →

Episode-548- Help – I am Overwhelmed and/or Stuck

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I get a lot of emails that are in one form or another a version of today’s show title.  They go one of two main ways 1.  Jack, We are new to this and are having trouble getting started.  This is all so overwhelming we want to store food, learn to use firearms, plant a garden………………………..but just can’t seem to prioritize where to start. or 2.  Jack, We have at this a long time, we have food stored, a garden going, evac plans, taken some training, etc.  But we know we are still not really prepared for anything more than … Continue reading →

Episode-457- Putting Your House Hold in Order

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Today I though I would give sort of a mile high view of taking your home from grass hopper fields of green to organized ant hill.  Or if you are on the journey already from disorganized ant hill to  organized ant fortification.   Getting prepared seems tough, it seems beyond reach and on some levels it is.   One can never be fully prepared for everything but getting to well prepared for most things is doable in steps. Join me today as we discuss… Another look at the old story, The Grasshopper and the Ant Taking an inventory Journaling items used on … Continue reading →

Episode-356- Getting Started From Zero the How and Why

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So you are brand new to prepping or self sufficiency planning, where do you start?  Why should you in the first place?  Can you actually get reasonably prepared on your budget?  Today we answer those questions and more. Tune in Today to Hear Start out with what you have The burden of debt and why it must be eliminated Where do you find survival supplies, Walmart, The Grocery, etc.  at least before you need them Starting out with 3 days of self sufficiency and turning it into 10 days effortlessly Pile it on a table, know what you have and … Continue reading →

Episode-298- Starting the Journey from Grasshopper to Ant

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As we approach the 300th episode I realized it has been a long time since we did a show dedicated to the brand new person.  Today will will lay out 20 steps to take as a person who has just decided that it is time “to do something” but isn’t quite sure what that “something” is.    Even though today is done with the new person in mind I think it will help everyone sort of recenter on the core of what is the most important things to make sure you have accomplished. I have also created a special commercial free … Continue reading →

Episode-246- Episode 2 of The Colony and Getting Started Prepping

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Today on The Survival Podcast in the intro segment we do a review of episode two of “The Colony” a new disaster based reality show from The Discovery channel.  After that we do our housekeeping and I tell you about a great sale from Safe Castle LLC on Mountain house and we then move into the topic of getting stated with your prepping or taking it to a new level. On getting started we start out with the three pillars to forming a modern survival plan, threat probability, threat impact and disaster commonality. Resources for today’s show… Members Support Brigade … Continue reading →

Epidsode-171- Getting Started Moving from Grasshopper to Ant

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Someone recently called into our toll free number at 866-65-THINK and asked if I could do a show geared to the “brand new person that has woken up and wants to stop being a grasshopper and become an ant”.  Since that is not a call that can be answered on a listener call in show today’s episode is dedicated to answering that very questions. Tune in today to hear… Why you must first determine where you are before you start prepping How the one shelf method can easily get you on your way to storing food Why documentation is so … Continue reading →