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September 14–19, 2026
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Five themed days. 20+ experts. Practical knowledge and real-world skills to help you build a more resilient life.
PREPARE → STRENGTHEN → NOURISH → PROTECT → THRIVE
Each presentation is available FREE for 48 hours after it goes live!
QUICK DAY GUIDE
MONDAY: PREPARE
Ready Mind, Ready Family
TUESDAY: STRENGTHEN
A More Resilient Home
WEDNESDAY: NOURISH
Grow It, Store It, Use It
THURSDAY: PROTECT
Health, Healing & Adaptability
FRIDAY: THRIVE
Resilience for the Long Haul
SATURDAY: SUMMIT FINALE
Catch Up • Reflect • Take Action
MONDAY • SEPTEMBER 14 • READY MIND, READY FAMILY
PREPARE
Personal & Family Preparedness
Start Summit week by building a strong foundation. Monday focuses on practical preparedness, family readiness, physical capability, and building the mental resilience to face uncertainty without living in fear.
Common Sense Preparedness
LAURIE NEVERMAN
Preparedness doesn’t have to mean fear, expensive gear, or preparing for every possible disaster. Laurie shares a practical approach to identifying the basics, preparing for situations most likely to affect your family, and building resilience one manageable step at a time.
The Urban Prepper Blueprint: A Layered System for Family Emergency Preparedness
CLIFF | THE URBAN PREPPER
Move beyond overwhelming preparedness checklists with a layered system covering what you carry, your home, vehicle, offsite resources, evacuation, and the essential categories that help families decide what to prepare for next.
Practical Everyday Carry (EDC)
JIM COBB
Learn the three layers of everyday carry and how to choose useful essentials for ordinary problems and unexpected emergencies—without carrying excessive gear.
Fitness as Part of Preparedness
MILLIE COPPER
Your body may become one of your most important preparedness assets. Discover how physical fitness can increase capability, confidence, mental resilience, and your ability to respond when life gets difficult.
Resilience & Mental Health for Women
MICHELLE BAUER
Learn practical ways to approach life’s trials with greater gratitude and a healthier perspective through simple brain-training and mindset strategies that support emotional resilience.
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TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 15 • A MORE RESILIENT HOME
STRENGTHEN
Home, Energy & Self-Sufficiency
Tuesday turns our attention toward the place where resilience begins—home. Learn how to prepare for extended power outages, produce your own energy, create practical shelter, and take realistic steps toward greater self-sufficiency.
24 Hours and Counting: Is Your Family Ready for a Long-Term Power Outage?
LISA BEDFORD — THE SURVIVAL MOM
What happens when an outage lasts longer than a few inconvenient hours? Lisa shares practical strategies for food safety, cooking, heating and cooling, evacuation decisions, and preparing your family for an extended power outage.
Building Your Own Off-Grid Solar System: Components, Safety, and Common Pitfalls
ZAC BAUER
Living completely off-grid since 2012, Zac shares real-world lessons from designing and building his own homestead solar systems. Learn about system components, LiFePO4 batteries, essential safety measures, common pitfalls, and how starting small can put you on the path toward true energy independence.
Too Small To Fail: Building Cheap Housing and a Can-Do Attitude with Mud
UNCLE MUD — CHRIS McCLELLAN
Explore how small structures made from found, repurposed, and natural materials can provide more than shelter while strengthening practical skills, creativity, community, and a can-do attitude.
Baby Steps to Self-Sufficiency
TRACY McGEE
Self-sufficiency doesn’t have to happen all at once. Identify your family’s goals, recognize the skills and resources you already have, and create realistic next steps toward greater resilience, independence, and confidence.
Resilient Living — Building a Life With Options
AUGUST NEVERMAN
“Resilient Living – Building a Life With Options” explores resilience as more than preparing for emergencies—it’s about intentionally building a life that can adapt when circumstances change. August shows how direction, financial and physical margin, useful skills, strong relationships, and practical backup plans create more choices and help you keep moving forward when life doesn’t go according to plan.
WEDNESDAY • SEPTEMBER 16 • GROW IT, STORE IT, USE IT
NOURISH
Food Resilience
Wednesday follows food from the ground to the table and beyond. Learn practical ways to grow and source food, build a useful pantry, and choose preservation methods that work for your household.
5 Steps to Growing Produce the Easy Way!
RAY TYLER
Discover five practical ways to make growing your own produce easier, more affordable, and less time-consuming—without turning gardening into another full-time job.
How to Cook Wild Game
STACY LYN HARRIS
Learn practical techniques for handling and cooking wild game, reducing gamey flavors, keeping venison tender and juicy, choosing the right cooking methods, and making better use of the whole animal.
Building a Multipurpose Pantry on a Budget
MERISSA ALINK
Build an affordable pantry that works for everyday meals as well as unexpected situations. Learn how to choose versatile staples, shop strategically, buy in bulk wisely, and reduce food waste.
Freezing, Canning, Dehydrating & Freeze Drying: How to Choose What Works for You
SHARON PETERSON
Compare four popular food-preservation methods—including cost, time, storage, texture, usability, and the foods each method handles best—so you can choose what’s right for your household.
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THURSDAY • SEPTEMBER 17 • HEALTH, HEALING & ADAPTABILITY
PROTECT
Taking Care of Ourselves & Others
Thursday focuses on what happens when health or circumstances suddenly change—from responding to life-threatening emergencies to adapting after a medical crisis and building practical resources for everyday health and healing.
Prepared to Respond: Life-Saving Skills for Real World Emergencies
JUSTIN K. MAXWELL
Learn practical emergency-response skills including severe bleeding control, airway and breathing emergencies, CPR/AED use, tourniquets, wound packing, shock, burns, seizures, scene safety, and staying calm when seconds matter.
Adapting Life After a Medical Crisis
DEREK & JENNA DOOLEY
After Derek suffered a brain-stem stroke at only 44, their family had to rethink how their home, farm, and daily life operated. They share lessons about flexibility, changing abilities, adapting expectations, and continuing forward when life no longer looks the way you planned.
The Versatile Home Apothecary: Practical Plant Medicine for Everyday Resilience
SUZANNE M. TABERT
Learn how becoming proficient with just a few versatile plants can help support common household needs including restorative sleep, stress recovery, immune support, and first aid.
What to Use When: Herbs & Essential Oils for Cold and Flu Season
HEIDI VILLEGAS, MA, CA, HERBALIST
Learn to think more like a home herbalist by matching herbs and preparations to different situations, knowing what to have ready beforehand, and using herbs and essential oils wisely, safely, and sustainably.
Fungal Foundations
OLGA KATIC
Discover how fungi and mycelium help create healthier, more resilient soil by cycling nutrients, improving soil structure, retaining moisture, and supporting plant health—with practical ways to incorporate fungi into your own growing systems.
FRIDAY • SEPTEMBER 18 • RESILIENCE FOR THE LONG HAUL
THRIVE
Family, Mindset & Community
Resilience isn’t only about surviving an emergency. Friday looks at the bigger picture—raising families, navigating aging, protecting our attention, strengthening relationships, and building lives with greater adaptability and connection.
Beyond Money – The Power of Barter
AMBER BRADSHAW
Discover how bartering, practical skills, and strong community connections can build resilience when money isn’t enough. Learn to recognize the value in what you already have, know, grow, make, and can do—and how those resources can strengthen your community.
Building Your Community – How to Find Your People
SCOTT TERRY
In this lively conversation, Scott Terry challenges the idea that we need to build the perfect community and suggests something much simpler—and sometimes more difficult: participate in the community where you already live. From borrowed skid steers to old-fashioned contra dances, it’s an unconventional—and very practical—look at what it means to find your people.
7 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Homeschooling
STACY LYN HARRIS
After 30 years of homeschooling seven children, Stacy Lyn shares lessons about learning styles, expectations, family rhythms, marriage, motherhood, fatigue, discouragement, and what truly matters when educating children at home.
Aging in America: Seniors and Self-Sufficiency
LINDY BRYANT
Explore the realities of maintaining an independent lifestyle as physical abilities, energy, income, and needs change—and practical solutions that can help people remain independent longer.
Retraining Our Minds for Resilience in the Attention Age
CHRIS DALZIEL
Modern life constantly competes for our attention. Learn how to recognize the digital attention trap, reclaim your focus, and use practical hands-on skills to rebuild agency, confidence, and resilience.
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SATURDAY • SEPTEMBER 19 SUMMIT FINALE & CATCH-UP DAY
REFLECT • CATCH UP • TAKE ACTION
Missed a presentation you wanted to see or an activity you wanted to join? Use Saturday to catch up, revisit important lessons, and begin turning what you’ve learned throughout Summit week into practical next steps. We’ll be featuring bonus replays of some of the most popular summit presentations. Check in and see if your favorite made the list.
Over the course of the week, you’ve learned ways to:
- PREPARE your family.
- STRENGTHEN your home.
- NOURISH your household.
- PROTECT yourself and those you love.
- THRIVE by building skills, relationships, and a more resilient way of life.