Prepare Now Before It's Too Late: Tips To Protect Your Family & Home
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Ex-Navy SEAL Joel Lambert joins Dr. Phil to reveal how to bulletproof your mindset, community, and home in a world spinning off its axis.
What does it really take to survive when the systems we rely on fail? In this gripping episode, Dr. Phil sits down with former Navy SEAL Joel Lambert, author of The Navy SEAL Bug-In Guide, to talk about preparing for crisis... mentally, physically, and communally.
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| 0:00.0 | you say one of the most important things people need to do mindset wise is set up to rely on |
| 0:10.7 | yourself don't expect the government to come in and fix things for you help things for you |
| 0:16.9 | help you get through things you need to look first to yourself and not for somebody to come in |
| 0:24.1 | and do it for you to just become more self-sufficient. That's the beginning. Yes, that is. And I want to |
| 0:30.5 | say that it's your community. It's not just you because nobody's going to do everything on their own. |
| 0:34.9 | But we used to be so much more tied in with community. |
| 0:38.2 | And since I moved out to Tennessee, that's the way I am. I get my raw milk from my dairy farmer friend |
| 0:43.7 | every Monday afternoon. I pick up my raw milk. And I know the local herbalists. I can get whatever I might |
| 0:50.1 | need from that person. And I get my beef from an amazing rancher family that does |
| 0:56.8 | everything without any kind of growth hormones or antibiotics or anything like that. But I have |
| 1:01.5 | connections to all these people. And I raise bees and I have a garden and I have all these other |
| 1:06.0 | things. I have chickens, of course. I have a lot of things that are self-sufficient, but I'm not |
| 1:09.9 | doing everything. But what I am is I know people and I'm connected with people. We're self-sufficient |
| 1:14.7 | or community sufficient. And I think that's really important. Community is a huge thing. People ask me all the time on the bugging guide, well, what about me? I'm in an apartment or I'm in a condo. I'm like, well, there are some disadvantages that, absolutely. |
| 1:27.1 | But you also have a built-in |
| 1:28.9 | community right there of people that you can depend on, that you can communicate with, that you |
| 1:33.6 | can work with. It's all about optimizing the situation. I'm so glad you said that. I was just in |
| 1:39.5 | Western North Carolina after the hurricane went through there, working with some other groups like Samaritan's |
| 1:45.8 | purse, we went in with some Black Hawk helicopters and were able to get into some communities |
| 1:50.9 | that were totally cut off into mountains up there. The roads were torn up, the railroads were torn up. |
| 1:56.7 | You couldn't get there any way other than by air. And the way those people survived was community. |
| 2:02.9 | They were helping each other. |
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