The Nature Reliance Podcast: Where Wilderness and Human Nature Collide
The Nature Reliance Podcast explores real stories of wilderness survival, human decision-making under stress, awareness, and the lessons nature quietly teaches us all.
Hosted by Craig Caudill of Nature Reliance School, this podcast blends immersive storytelling, historical accounts, wilderness experience, modern psychology, and reflective analysis into a grounded exploration of what happens when people are tested by nature, uncertainty, fear, and consequence.
This is not fake survival nonsense.
These are thoughtful, psychologically realistic stories about awareness, humility, resilience, and the ways stress exposes human gaps.
From historical wilderness disasters to modern survival incidents, tracking stories, close calls, and lessons learned in the field, each episode examines not just what happened, but why.
Because awareness is trainable.
Nature rewards humility.
And the best classroom has no walls.
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The Nature Reliance Podcast: Where Wilderness and Human Nature Collide
#121 SOBERING Grid Down Disaster Readiness Interview
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Craig interviews Mr. Stephen Volandt with Resilient Projects Incorporated. Stephen is an incredible wealth of information on many topics related to disaster readiness. He has been significantly involved in helping others prepare for long-term "Black Sky" (aka Grid Down) events.
He was part of a team that wrote Powering Through "From Fragile Infrastructures To Community Resilience you can find that book at this link.
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Stephen recommended you watch Grid Down, and Power Up to get a clear picture of our electrical grid system, its limitations, and a black sky event. You can access that movie here: https://griddownpowerup.com/
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