Starter Set

These books are the backbone of your disaster preparedness. Starting off gentle and deliberate, the Disaster Playbook gets you mentally ready (and organized) to create a comprehensive disaster plan. It then walks you through every step of the process of drafting your plans, collecting your gear, maintaining your work over the years to come, and running drills with your family. And all that hard work is actually fun, because we jammed in as many jokes and activity pages as we could!

The I Will Thrive Manual records it all so you’re ready to rumble when the sirens start blaring. Don’t let the templates overwhelm you. Use the Disaster Playbook as your guide, and you’ll be filling them out like a seasoned bureaucrat. Two copies will keep you in good shape: one for the Go-Bags and one for the Stay Bag. Keep this info safe, and save the fun activities for when you’re really in a jam!

The Starter Pack includes

Disaster Playbook

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What it contains:

• Concise instructions for completing your disaster preparations in three parts: gear, planning, and practice
• Baseline disaster info and gear explanations to contextualize your prep and help you develop a sense of what aspects matter most to you
• Plenty of jokes, cartoons, photos, stories, and activity pages to keep you going whenever the utilitarian core of the content rears its boring head
• Emotional intelligence (this game is 90% mental!)

Why you need it: 

• DIY prep means hours of research, which we’ve already done for you
• Most people trying to prepare without a guide give up before they’re fully prepared!
• You want to prep so you’ll be safe and comfortable when there’s a disaster… not so you can live off-grid forever

How we make it easy: 

• Preparing is a complex task; the Playbook makes sure you’ll keep returning to where you left off until you’re done
• We meet you where you are and give you the “preparing to prepare” tools you need to succeed
• We’re pretty funny, if you like gallows humor

2 I Will Thrive Manuals

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What it contains:

• Fillable forms for emergency contacts, family photos, home safety diagrams, designated meeting places, evacuation and emergency scenario checklists, and more
• Tips to keep your group safe (and sane) in a disaster

Why you need it: 

• Keeps everything in one place for easy reference during a crisis
• Organizes what you’ve learned from the Disaster Playbook
• Keeps your disaster prep moving forward; the end is in sight!

How we make it easy: 

• It’s a workbook! If you hate guesswork, fill-in-the-blanks are for you.
• It’s not TOO MUCH. Thrive by being comprehensive… not obsessive.

Disaster Deep Dive

What it contains:

• Useful info about the most common disasters, and a few rarer ones
• Guides for fully preparing for specific disasters
• Guides and templates to help you create drills for specific disasters

Why you need it: 

• Your location and other variables determine your disaster risk; you’re more at risk for some disasters than others
• Each chapter gives you a clearer view of how preparing for and reacting to each disaster will work for your family

How we make it easy: 

• Your drills need to be customized for your household, but a general list of rules makes making them a lot easier
• You can’t do a task until you can formulate a task; we’ve formulated a pretty comprehensive list of tasks for you to choose from

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