The Mind4Survival Podcast

By Brian Duff

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11.25.2021

For preppers, one of the most overlooked elements of preparedness is perspective. We tend to think that our perspective is reality, but that is not the case. In fact, it often skews our views about reality. So, how do we ...

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11.25.2021 M4S 114: Perspective for Preppers For preppers, one of the most overlooked elements of preparedness is perspective. We tend to think that our perspective is reality, but that is not the case. In fact, it often skews our views about reality. So, how do we ...
05.20.2020 M4S 113: 5 Ways to Spot Fake News One of the critical abilities needed to master today’s world is the capacity to spot fake news. Knowing ways to spot fake news helps verify the information we base our decisions upon. When we can do that, we make more ...
05.18.2020 M4S 112: Lessons from the Mount St Helens Volcano Eruption May 18, 1980, is a day that many Pacific Northwesterners will never forget – it was the day the Mount St Helens volcano erupted. The Mount St Helens volcano is located about 100 miles south of Seattle and 50 miles ...
05.14.2020 Episode 111: Why I Don’t Discuss Politics in Preparedness I've been asked many times why I don't discuss politics with preparedness. Here's the reason I don't discuss politics and preparedness. I look at preparedness as an overarching strategy, how I face each day, how I face life. I try ...
05.12.2020 M4S 109: Disaster Situations Aren’t Always Isolated Events Let’s talk about some stuff that does it make people feel very comfortable – disaster situations. Every area has certain disaster situations to which they are more prone. Considering disasters from a “what-if?” mindset allows us to be one step ...
05.07.2020 M4S 108: The Atlantic Says “We Should All Be Preppers” In this episode, we’re going to discuss the Atlantic article, “We Should All Be Preppers,” by Bradley Garrett. Come along and see what he got right and what may be a little off-target. Never forget, you’re just one prep away. ...
05.05.2020 M4S 107: Prepping Groups or Going It Alone – Which Is Best? Prepping groups or going it alone? That’s always a raging debate in the preparedness world, much like the “best gun,” where you should live, and whether to bug out or bug in. While the first (This and other article links ...
05.05.2020 M4S 106: How to Prevent Heat Illness Knowing how to prevent heat illness can do more than save you in the short term – it can also prevent long-term heat-related issues. Did you know that nearly 1000 people die each year due to heat-related illnesses? Not to ...
05.02.2020 M4S 105: How to Get Over Procrastination and Get Things Done Do you have a list of things to do but you’re sitting there watching YouTube (or reading this blog) eating a snack? Do you put things off – sometimes until it’s too late? Would you like to know how to ...
05.01.2020 M4S 104: Ben Franklin’s Best Prepper Quotes Founding Father Ben Franklin was sharing prepper quotes well before anyone ever thought of a term like “prepper.” His wisdom has held true throughout centuries, and so much of it relates to just thinking ahead. Some of my favorite Ben ...
04.29.2020 M4S 103: Lessons from the Scofield Coal Mine Disaster Let’s reach back in history, going all the way back to talk about the Scofield Coal Mine Disaster, which occurred on May 1st of 1900 in Utah. One of the greatest parts about being a prepper today is the ability ...
04.24.2020 M4S 102: Why This Critical Message Was a Sign of Success! I literally received the best message I’ve ever gotten on Facebook. I don’t think the person that sent it to me understood why. Here’s what I received. “As much as I believe you have great credentials to speak on a ...
04.21.2020 M4S 101: An End to Social Distancing After the First Wave While society may be opening back up soon, the coronavirus will still be around. So have you thought about how you’re going to go about your day so that you don’t risk infecting yourself or the people you most care ...
04.17.2020 M4S 100: Top 10 Predictions for Life After May 1st, 2020 Have you given much thought to what life after May 1st might look like? Well, if you haven't, I have. And I'm here to share my top 10 possible predictions for what life after May 1st may look like for ...
04.15.2020 M4S 099: How to Create Your Best Daily Routine Creating your own best daily routine is incredibly helpful in finding more free time to do the things you LIKE to do. Daily routines also help increase your confidence and overall satisfaction with yourself and your day. Establishing the best ...
04.14.2020 M4S 098: 8 Tips for Wearing Disposable Nitrile Examination Gloves As a long-time paramedic, wearing disposable nitrile examination gloves is an essential part of my Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and has been since 1987-1988. That is when, in my experience, EMS agencies in Southern California began “allowing” people to wear ...
04.13.2020 M4S 097: Common Humanity and Survival Common Humanity In today’s episode, I discuss this post from the Mind4Survival Facebook group: To help shed some light on this, I ask us all to consider two things, the common humanity of the situation. What is the other person, ...
04.10.2020 M4S 096: Coronavirus and Healthcare Workers Coronavirus and Healthcare Workers In today’s episode, I discuss: I speak with Lisa (Budget Equestrian) and Dale Goodwin (Survivalist Prepper) about their lives, Lisa a healthcare worker during the coronavirus and Dale, her husband. I also speak about the last ...
04.09.2020 M4S 095: What Does Trust Mean When It Comes to Preparedness? What Does Trust Mean When It Relates to Preparedness? Trust is both earned and given, and it is an integral part of how we approach the world and our interactions. That is especially true during times of crisis. Because it ...
04.08.2020 M4S 094: Fundamentals of Preparedness – Situational Awareness Fundamentals of Preparedness Situational Awareness In today’s episode I discuss: How the hierarchy of the five fundamentals of preparedness (Mindset, Situational Awareness, Survival, Safety, and Self). Review the first fundamental of preparedness, mindset, as it applies to situational awareness. The ...
04.07.2020 M4S 093: Fundamentals of Preparedness – Mindset Fundamentals of Preparedness Mindset In this episode, on the fundamentals of preparedness, I focus on mindset and how important it is to our overall preparedness. I also discuss a couple of quick coronavirus wins, the coronavirus quick wins and speak ...
04.04.2020 M4S 092: Interpersonal Relationships and Preparedness In this episode on Preparedness and Interpersonal Relationships: I discuss how everyone, regardless of background, brings a unique perspective to the world around us. Sometimes it’s our unique perspective that may save the day for everyone. That’s because we all ...
04.04.2020 M4S 091: Isolation Boredom Breakers If there’s one thing about isolation, social distancing, or whatever we’re calling it, it sucks. Am I right? And because it sucks, I feel we need to have ways to do things throughout our day to help us deal with ...
04.03.2020 M4S 090: Stories from a Truck Bug Out Vehicle Well, I did it. I up and bugged out. Why did I load up my truck bug out vehicle with as much as I could stuff in it and get out of Dodge? I hooked up that oldish trailer and ...
04.01.2020 M4S 089: Yep, I’m a Crazy Prepper I’m a crazy prepper who now more than ever wishes he had a hidden bunker with 10 years of food stockpiled and ready to go. Maybe filled with video games, but I’m not that guy. I’m just the crazy prepper ...
03.31.2020 M4S 088: How to Develop a Positive Social Distancing Mindset In this episode on Social Isolation Mindset, we talk about: Extended Isolation Preparedness CDC – 15 Days to Slow the Spread Overcoming Normalcy Bias Everyone has Normalcy Bias Extended Isolation Preparedness Overcoming Normalcy Bias Extended Isolation Preparedness What Do at ...
10.20.2019 M4S 087: Medical Preparedness – Supplies, Training, Knowledge Medical Preparedness \| Kevin Faulk with Devil Dog Consulting is here and in this first part of the two-part episode on prepper medicine we’ll be covering: Medical Supplies Managing Expectations with Medical Training Managing Gunshot Wounds and Bleeding Control Vetting ...
10.01.2019 M4S 086: Your State of Readiness Starts NOW A lot of people believe that when disaster strikes, they’ll immediately shift into survival mode and face the challenges. But that’s the wrong way to look at it. Your state of readiness starts NOW. Your state of readiness should be ...
09.24.2019 M4S 085: Why Fear Psychology Doesn’t Convince People to Prep Preppers and Fear Psychology \| It bugs me when people, especially people who profit from the prepping community, try to use fear as a motivation for others to prepare. In this Episode on Preppers and Fear Psychology: Micro vs. Macro ...
09.16.2019 M4S 084: Risk Assessment Principles and Threat Mitigation There are some very basic risk assessment principles that will help you to identify potential problems, manage your risk profile, and mitigate your most significant threats. Now many of you may be asking, well, what’s a risk profile? Your risk ...
09.08.2019 Episode 83: RV Living Tips (Pt.2) RV Living Tips \| Thank you for coming back for part two of the RV Prepper episode with David Helm talking about living in an RV trailer. In this Episode on RV Living Tips: RV Treatment by Others on the ...
09.02.2019 M4S 082: A Prepper’s Guide to Living in an RV Trailer Living in an RV Trailer \| Have you ever considered living in an RV trailer as a way to enjoy life more and as a backup place to live if things go bad? Listen in to this episode with David ...
02.07.2019 M4S 081: Safe Online Shopping Tips to Avoid Scams These safe online shopping tips can help you to avoid scams. Online shopping frauds are becoming more and more common. Imagine how you’d feel if you bought something on the internet, only to find out after forking over your hard-earned ...
02.05.2019 M4S 080: Calculating Your Daily Water Consumption Needs Today’s question about daily water consumption comes to us from Jason in VA. Jason writes: Hi Brian, I listened to the Water Storage podcast yesterday. It was really good. I wanted to get your opinion on my water storage. We ...
01.28.2019 M4S 079: 10 Inconvenient Truths About Disaster Mindset Have you truly and honestly ever thought about your mindset and the truths about disaster mindset when it comes to preparing for disaster and major cataclysms? When it comes to mentally preparing for major disasters and society altering events, all ...
01.25.2019 M4S 078: What Does Safety Third Mean? What would you say if I asked you, “What does safety third mean?” After all, shouldn’t it be the number one thing for all of us? The answer to those questions and the safety third meaning is yes, no, and ...
01.25.2019 Episode 78: What Does Safety Third Mean? What would you say if I asked you, what does safety third mean? After all, shouldn’t safety be first? Shouldn’t safety be the number one thing for all of us? The answer to those questions are yes, no, and it ...
01.22.2019 M4S 077: Long Term Water Storage for Emergencies Long term water storage isn’t a glamorous topic. It’s sure not as interesting as debates on gun calibers and freeze-dried foods. But long term water storage should actually be one of your number one preparedness concerns. Why Should You Think ...
01.21.2019 M4S 076: How to Identify Phishing Emails Do you know how to identify phishing emails? Have you ever received an email and you weren’t sure whether it was real, or someone looking to scam you? I have, and as a matter of fact, I received one today ...
01.15.2019 M4S 075: Older Adults and Evacuations – Special Concerns Have you ever considered what you’ll need if you are involved with older adults and evacuations? Are you an older adult who may have to evacuate at some point from where you’re living? Well, if you have older relatives and ...
01.14.2019 M4S 074: Inventions of World War 1 That Influenced the World Have you ever looked at an item that you use almost daily and wondered about its history? It turns out, a lot of things we use every day were inventions of World War 1. The Inventions of World War 1 ...
01.09.2019 M4S 073: The History of Disaster Prepping Disaster prepping is nothing new. Did you know that disaster prepping and getting ready for potential hard times dates back to the beginning of human history? Disaster Prepping from Ancient Times to 1900 All we need to do to see ...
01.09.2019 M4A 072: Would You Willingly Violate Gun Laws in America? Have you, in your quest to become prepared, ever considered breaking the gun laws in America? Well, I’m going to cover some of the things that everyone should think before knowingly breaking any law, but more specifically gun laws in ...
01.07.2019 M4S 071: The Fundamentals of Realistic Prepping Do you ever get frustrated trying to explain the fundamentals of preparedness to people? Shows like Doomsday Preppers have done us a bit of a disservice because it shows the extremes, rather than realistic prepping for everyday people like you ...
11.05.2018 M4S 070: What Are Your Personal Risk Assessment Components? Often one of the first steps to becoming more safe and secure includes performing an evaluation of your risk assessment components, which consists of assessing both your home and personal risk. This sets the stage for managing any potential threats ...
10.15.2018 M4S 069: How to Get Inside a Criminal Mind to Stop a Bad Guy The reality is that once you begin thinking with a criminal mind, you’ll be better prepared to stop a bad guy. The lesson of thinking like a criminal took hold with me during my time providing diplomatic security in places ...
09.25.2018 M4S 068: What Is a Home Invasion? To best understand how to prevent them, you need to answer the question, “What IS a home invasion?” Understanding the home invasion process can help you to improve your strategies for preventing them. Home invasions target you, your home, and ...
09.17.2018 M4S 067: Are Preppers Crazy? How to Overcome the Stereotype What often stops people from taking preparedness seriously is the question, “Are preppers crazy?” It’s that very question that also drives people within the preparedness community nuts. After all, especially with 2020 in the review mirror, does preparing for challenging ...
09.10.2018 M4S 066: Hurricane Preparedness Tips to Survive the Storm With hurricane season headed our way, I wanted to share some hurricane preparedness tips to help you get ready ahead of time. Many of these tips apply to any severe storm. We see the same stories of hurricanes and major ...
09.03.2018 M4S 065: How to Become Adept at Overcoming Adversity This week, we’re going to cover overcoming adversity so that you can help yourself and others successfully overcome a disaster, emergency, or another critical event. One of, if not the primary goal of preparedness is to overcome adversity. That’s because ...

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The Mind4Survival Podcast episodes:

M4S 114: Perspective for Preppers

M4S 113: 5 Ways to Spot Fake News

M4S 112: Lessons from the Mount St Helens Volcano Eruption

Episode 111: Why I Don’t Discuss Politics in Preparedness

M4S 109: Disaster Situations Aren’t Always Isolated Events

M4S 108: The Atlantic Says “We Should All Be Preppers”

M4S 107: Prepping Groups or Going It Alone – Which Is Best?

M4S 106: How to Prevent Heat Illness

M4S 105: How to Get Over Procrastination and Get Things Done

M4S 104: Ben Franklin’s Best Prepper Quotes

M4S 103: Lessons from the Scofield Coal Mine Disaster

M4S 102: Why This Critical Message Was a Sign of Success!

M4S 101: An End to Social Distancing After the First Wave

M4S 100: Top 10 Predictions for Life After May 1st, 2020

M4S 099: How to Create Your Best Daily Routine

M4S 098: 8 Tips for Wearing Disposable Nitrile Examination Gloves

M4S 097: Common Humanity and Survival

M4S 096: Coronavirus and Healthcare Workers

M4S 095: What Does Trust Mean When It Comes to Preparedness?

M4S 094: Fundamentals of Preparedness – Situational Awareness

M4S 093: Fundamentals of Preparedness – Mindset

M4S 092: Interpersonal Relationships and Preparedness

M4S 091: Isolation Boredom Breakers

M4S 090: Stories from a Truck Bug Out Vehicle

M4S 089: Yep, I’m a Crazy Prepper

M4S 088: How to Develop a Positive Social Distancing Mindset

M4S 087: Medical Preparedness – Supplies, Training, Knowledge

M4S 086: Your State of Readiness Starts NOW

M4S 085: Why Fear Psychology Doesn’t Convince People to Prep

M4S 084: Risk Assessment Principles and Threat Mitigation

Episode 83: RV Living Tips (Pt.2)

M4S 082: A Prepper’s Guide to Living in an RV Trailer

M4S 081: Safe Online Shopping Tips to Avoid Scams

M4S 080: Calculating Your Daily Water Consumption Needs

M4S 079: 10 Inconvenient Truths About Disaster Mindset

M4S 078: What Does Safety Third Mean?

Episode 78: What Does Safety Third Mean?

M4S 077: Long Term Water Storage for Emergencies

M4S 076: How to Identify Phishing Emails

M4S 075: Older Adults and Evacuations – Special Concerns

M4S 074: Inventions of World War 1 That Influenced the World

M4S 073: The History of Disaster Prepping

M4A 072: Would You Willingly Violate Gun Laws in America?

M4S 071: The Fundamentals of Realistic Prepping

M4S 070: What Are Your Personal Risk Assessment Components?

M4S 069: How to Get Inside a Criminal Mind to Stop a Bad Guy

M4S 068: What Is a Home Invasion?

M4S 067: Are Preppers Crazy? How to Overcome the Stereotype

M4S 066: Hurricane Preparedness Tips to Survive the Storm

M4S 065: How to Become Adept at Overcoming Adversity

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