If You Couldn’t Leave Your House, How Long Would Your Family Last? ***Disclaimer- I tried to make this email as spoiler free as I could.*** I watched a movie last night on Netflix called The Last House, and about five minutes into it my preparedness brain kicked in. Here’s the setup: A family of four …
Today’s lesson comes from Sam Jenkins. If you’ve read my books, you already know him. If you haven’t, here’s what you need to know. Sam was military. He had training. He had experience. He understood weapons, danger, discipline, and what it meant to function when circumstances became uncomfortable. That gave him an advantage when his …
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People often assume I wrote The Midwife and the Medic because I wanted to tell a disaster story.I didn’t. I wrote it because I wanted to tell a story about ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things when the world around them is falling apart. For more than thirty years, I’ve worked in professions where preparation wasn’t …
WELCOME TO PREPARED Most people prepare after disaster strikes. Our goal is to prepare before it does. Every week you’ll receive different briefings items that will include some or all of the following: ✓ Practical preparedness lessons ✓ Printable field resources ✓ Real-world case studies ✓ A recommended piece of gear, a book, or a …
There’s a lot we take for granted.Clean waterWorking powerCell serviceAnd the idea that when we dial 911, help will come. But in the last few years, we’ve seen massive 911 outages, from Michigan to Alaska. Some lasted minutes. Others stretched into half a day. Whether it’s a cyberattack, a systems crash, or a local storm that …
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Today’s lesson…Do you remember the Amazon Internet crash of 2025? Some of you didn’t even realize it happened on October 20, 2025. If that’s the case, you’re in a good spot. For others, entire billion dollar businesses went down for a brief time. The reason I’m mentioning this here is because it’s an area you …
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Things are getting crazy, and you need to be ready. You know what’s bad about that statement? As I write it, it’s true. But let’s be honest, these days I could say it anytime and it’d be true. So, if chaos breaks out around you, here’s what to do as a mom or dad. Picture …
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Today’s lesson…Could a fungal apocalypse like The Last of Us really happen? My main goal with these newsletters is to provide info on Everyday Emergencies that you’re most likely to encounter… But a lot of you message me or DM me to ask about bigger apocalyptic events, especially those who’ve attended my zombie lecture where I …
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How about Christine Kersey, the author of several book series? I had the amazing opportunity to interview Christine Kersey on my Streams of Income podcast, and I wanted to give you the chance to here it, because I ask her quite a bit about where she gets the ideas for her apocalypse book series’. Her …
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This is my current list of fave apocalypse movies and shows. It’s very likely to change in a year or even tomorrow as I see new and cool things. These aren’t in any particular order, because I like them all for different reasons. I’ll put my main reason for listing it with each item. Some …