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142: Empowering Women Through Self-Defense w/ Nicole Snell


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Nicole Snell is an award-winning international speaker, workshop facilitator, and self-defense expert specializing in sexual assault & violence prevention education, boundaries, and personal empowerment. She is the CEO of Girls Fight Back, the world-renowned personal safety and self-defense seminar for women and girls, and is the creator of Outdoor Defense, an online series that aims to help people stay safe while hiking/traveling/adventuring solo. Nicole is a full-force self-defense lead instructor for IMPACT Personal Safety where she also sits on the board of directors. Nicole speaks to groups at colleges, K-12 schools, law firms, corporations, hiking/outdoors groups, brands, and private groups both domestically and abroad. Nicole believes that everyone has the right to walk through the world feeling safe, powerful, and confident. You are your own best protector, and you are worth fighting for!

Let’s listen to learn self-defense and be empowered with Nicole Snell.

Golden Nuggets:

✨ “Moving your body and knowing how to use your body to protect yourself, can totally help open up your world and give you the confidence you need that your body is powerful.”

✨ “We just forgot how to use them because we haven't been taught to use them or been discouraged from using them. So we're not helpless.”

✨ “If you need to use physical skills to defend yourself even if you get someone you know, you're worth fighting for, your life is worth fighting for.”

✨ “Love doesn't hurt and if you need to take steps in order to keep yourself safe, you are completely justified in doing so.”

✨ “We need to speak up about what we need.”

✨ “I don't really care what a stranger thinks about me, cause my safety is more important than someone else's feelings.”

✨ “Start by recognizing that you have a voice that no one has to get it back to you.”

✨ “Just realize that what you say and what you feel matters.”

✨ “Even if someone thought that we were not a good person because we set a boundary, we'll that tells us about them because our boundaries should be respected.”

✨ “The self-defense training can help empower women with skills that they didn't have before to help them feel more empowered in their own lives.”

✨ “No matter what you've been told, it is not your fault and you deserve to be happy.”

✨ “You should be able to respect someone regardless of what they wear.”

✨ “Setting a boundary is probably one of the best things you could have done than letting a cat-caller take advantage of you.”

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Webites: www.nicolesnell.com + www.girlsfightback.com

IG: @adventuresofnik  +  @girlsfightback

FB: https://www.facebook.com/girlsfightback

Outdoor Defense YT: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo7lyLlZrHz3ZD6OEmxF-Spu0Oddszevr

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