Mind4Survival Podcast: Survival, Prepping, Preparedness for Preppers

339: How to Help a Grieving Friend

Your phone rings, and a close friend tells you his wife died this morning. What do you say next? Most of us don't know, and what we say can make it harder. In this episod

338: 7 Things to Plan for When the Prepper Gets Hurt

What happens to your preparedness plan when the prepper gets hurt? In this episode, Brian Duff shares why he took medical training seriously as the only medic on missions

337: De-escalation Techniques

In this episode, I talk about de-escalation techniques and one of the main reasons they fail: the need to win. Whether it's a heated disagreement with a loved one, a neig

336: Prepping Shrinks Your Social Circle

When the Mind4Survival Facebook group was asked whether being prepared shrank their social circle, about half said yes and half said no. Many of them described the same t

335: The Prepping Paradox

If you've prepped for any length of time, you've probably looked at a shelf of canned food or a generator you've only ever tested and wondered whether any of it will matt

334: Home Security (They Wheeled My Safe Out the Front Door)

In 2010, I sat on the outskirts of Baghdad reading an email telling me our house had been robbed over Memorial Day weekend. At the time, I was a tactical commander on a U

333: Record Diesel Prices: What to Prep for Now

Diesel set a record on September 14: $6.23 a gallon, according to AAA, and the price is already working its way into the cost of everything that moves by truck, train, or

332 Situational Awareness in an Emergency

Most safety advice assumes you'll think clearly during an emergency. A real one changes that. Within seconds, adrenaline and cortisol can narrow your vision, block out ne

331: Situational Awareness at Night

Ten seconds after you walk out of a lit store into a dark parking lot, you can see less than at any other point in your day, and your eyes need twenty minutes or more to

330: The OODA Loop—How to Stay Ahead of Danger

The OODA Loop is the thought process behind every decision you make when a situation changes, and most people have never had it explained past the four words. In this Day

329: Coopers Color Code: 5 Levels of Situational Awareness

Situational awareness is not on or off. It has levels, and you move through them all day without deciding to. In this Day 10 episode of National Preparedness Month, I wal

328: What Is Situational Awareness and Why It Matters

Situational awareness is the second fundamental of preparedness, and most people who use the term have never had it defined for them. In this Day 9 episode of National Pr

327: 7 Common Preparedness Mistakes to Learn From Before You Make Them

Preparedness mistakes cost money, time, and sometimes the outcome. They rarely look like mistakes at the time. The shelf fills up, the gear arrives, and it feels like pro

326: How to Build Confidence in Preparedness

Money, time, and the people in your life who don't want to hear about it are the first three reasons people give for not prepping. The fourth is the only one that lives e

325: 7 Tips to Get Your Family On Board With Preparedness

Money and time are the first two reasons people give for not prepping. The third isn't a thing, it's a person. When I asked Mind4Survival readers what holds them back, an

324: Finding Time to Prep When You Have None

When I asked Mind4Survival readers what gets in the way of their preparedness, money came first and time came second. In this Day 5 episode of National Preparedness Month

323: Prepping on a Budget: Thought Over Emotion

Money is the reason more people give than any other for not prepping. When I asked Mind4Survival readers what holds them back from their preparedness goals, more than 460

322: How to Prep Despite the Overwhelm

The overwhelm most people feel about prepping didn't start with prepping. It started with everything else: the news cycle, the bills, the job, the family, and a note to y

321: Why Do Preppers Prep?

On January 1, 2025, Los Angeles crews knocked down an eight-acre brush fire above Pacific Palisades and reported it contained. Six days later it came back up out of the g

320: What Is Preparedness? The Mind4Survival Prepping Philosophy

September 1 marks the start of National Preparedness Month and the anniversary of the 1859 Carrington Event, the Coronal Mass Ejection that sparked telegraph lines and li