Survival Mom Podcast

Lisa talks about her experiment with cooking 6 year old pasta, using your pandemic quarantine time to learn new skills in technology, and how to adapt your mindset so you thrive during this difficult time.

Lisa answers some of the most frequently asked questions, including how to set up an emergency toilet in an isolation room and what to buy if canned goods are sold out. She explains the Equation of Dread from the book, The Unthinkable by Amanda Ripley, and how you can lower your stress level and the feeling of impending doom by learning about the 6 factors in this equation.

Your chances of surviving a worst case scenario can be improved by paying attention to 4 little-discussed factors: health/fitness, finances, relationships, and mindset.

Everyone should have a side gig or two -- something to bring in additional streams of money. Lisa shares how having various side gigs over the years helped her move away from the 9 to 5 rat race into a career that allowed her more time with family, flexibility, and a healthy income.

Here's my tale of wanting to beautify my home for the autumn season and what I learned about prepping from it.

The Good Prepper Fairy isn't going to wave her wand and usher you into a premium survival group. Instead, you need to be proactive in building your own. Lisa explains how to do this, uses examples from her life, and gives you tips to get started.

Just how prepared are you, really? Whether it's for a house fire, medical emergency, or something far worse, it's necessary to test your preps to see how prepared you really are. Here are a dozen tips for getting the most out of Preppers University's Drill Week.  PreppersUniversity.com

In any crisis that finds you away from home, your first goal should always be to get home, no mtter what. 

Survivors of the Great Depression often had little to eat and relied on meager meals, such as the lowly sandwich. What can we learn from the recent past to help prepare for the future?

From PreppersUniversity.com comes this episode with Lisa Bedford, The Survival Mom, with common sense reasons every household should have at least 1 month's worth of stored food. There are 6 reasons why this makes sense and Lisa provides a simple goal that everyone can achieve.