Knowledge Is Your Superpower

In today's episode, Rachel + Tristan sit down and talk with Self Defence expert Jeff Phillips who is not only the chief instructor of Western Combatives in Sydney but also the director of SAFE International Australasia. Jeff has an extensive background training in Martial Arts and also as a competitive fighter. He is an industry leader in the instruction of Self Defence and is passionate about delivering skills sets and knowledge that is based on truth. He takes great responsibility upon himself to ensure that his students are prepared to face and survive the realities of a violent encounter.

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Instagram: @westerncombatives @therealjeffphillips

Facebook: @combativessydney

Website: www.westerncombatives.com.au/

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Are you living your best life? If not, can you reinvent yourself? The answer is "Absolutely"!!! In today's episode Rachel talks (and laughs a shit load) with the gorgeous Bianka Ismailovski about the major changes that have taken place for her over the past two years that were a must in order for her to live her best life. She has openly shared these darkest moments with her followers and inspired so many to make the necessary changes they needed so they too could live their best life.

Bianka is a comedian and podcaster. The former party girl turned sober role model has had a very eventful 2020, which saw her marriage fall apart and left her stranded during stage four lockdown in the middle of a pandemic. Despite this, she has managed to launch a new podcast, "Damsel Undistressed" where she is dominating the podcast comedy charts as well as moving into her own place.

Change can be hard which is why a lot of us tend to put it off but we must remind ourselves that we only have one life. Are you living your best life or at least working towards it?

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Instagram: @biankaismailovski

Podcast: Damsel Undistressed – Bianka Ismailovski

Podcast: We Want To Be Better – With Annie Nolan

Alcohol Mini Series (runs from 30th JAN 2020 – 31st MAR 2020. The first episode starts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/alcohol-origins/id1322824072?i=1000464113062

Website: www.annieandbianka.com.au

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Knife attacks are more common than gun attacks here in Australia. Unfortunately, we hear about them more often these days in the news, social media, private chat groups, even really young kids are carrying them. They are easy to acquire, conceal, and don't require any training for them to be effective. Most of all they are extremely dangerous.

In today's episode, Rachel and Tristan discuss the 2 types of knife situations that occur and what you can do to give yourself the best chance of survival if you are confronted with an attacker armed with a knife.

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So, you are walking down the street and you spot a violent encounter taking place, what do you do? At this very moment, you must be aware that you are entering into a world of risk. At the end of the day, you legally have no obligation to do anything. It really is up to you and how much risk you are comfortable with taking.

Today, Rachel and Tristan talk about the various violent encounter scenarios that can take place and the various options you have available to you as a bystander if you wish to get involved.

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How many times have you had a feeling in your gut that something just wasn't quite right? Call it a hunch, sixth sense, butterflies in the stomach, it is basically your gut's brain telling you that based on what you can see in your environment, something isn't quite right.

Most of us have experienced the sense of knowing something without knowing why. It is when the subconscious mind communicates with the conscious mind which gives us that ability to make a split-second decision.

When our intuition is trying to tell us something, we quite often get some kind of physical sensation that something is not quite right.

So what do we do when we get these feelings, a lot of the time, absolutely nothing.

We question it, we deny it, we push it away as paranoia, when in fact we should listen to it and act.

Today Rachel dives into the reasons why we choose to ignore our intuition and what we can do to help tap into these gut feelings and learn to trust them.

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Confidence plays an important role in Self Defence. Today Rachel talks with voice coach, Sally Prosser, about how to get confident in your voice. Your voice matters whether it be in a 1 on 1 conversation at a café, at a conference presenting to 1000 people, or screaming at a predator who is moving into your personal space.

Rachel and Sally talk about various tips and strategies that will empower you on your journey to feel confident in your voice no matter what the occasion. Mindset is a big one. No one is confident 100% of the time, you have to work at it. The more we practice and put ourselves in situations where we test our confidence, the more we grow in our voice and as a person.

If you would like to know more about Sally, you can visit her here:

Insta / FB / TikTok: @sallyprosservoice

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Fight, Flight, or Freeze. Which one do you think will kick in? To be honest, there are no guarantees, we do not know how we will respond because we have no control over it. The Fight-Flight-Freeze response is your body's natural reaction to danger. But like anything the more you educate yourself and plant those seeds in your brain of what you need to do at that moment, the better chance you give yourself to make the right decisions when it matters.

Today Rachel and Tristan dive into what happens to your body during that Fight-Flight-Freeze response and what we can do to give ourselves the best chance when that happens.

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Nobody likes rejection, throw alcohol and drugs in the mix and it can get out of control. So how do we reject someone without bruising their ego and causing the situation to escalate?

In today's episode, Rachel talks about the importance of having a story. By changing the mood you can reject the situation and not the person which allows them to walk away with their ego intact.

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There are always going to be uncomfortable moments in your life. Things you just don't want to deal with or maybe something you want to say "yes" to but it is so far out of your comfort zone, that you say "no" instead. As uncomfortable as these challenges may be, they are also necessary for you to live your best and safest life.

In today's episode, Rachel talks about the importance of pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone not only for your personal growth but to also put you in a position to be able to better deal with the uncertainties of confrontation and potential violence.

Rachel hopes this episode inspires you to take that leap and push yourself through that uncomfortable feeling and come out the other side feeling stronger and more confident to face the next challenge.

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Let's talk about Situational Awareness. This is what Rachel likes to call the big one, the main topic, we can't make smart choices for our safety if we don't know what is happening around us.

Situational awareness doesn't mean we have to live like a paranoid meerkat 24/7, but there are definitely times when we do have to switch on and give 100% to our surroundings. In today's episode, Rachel runs through the 3 levels of awareness and talks about "when is" the right time to be completely switched on.

A predator is banking on us having low awareness so we have to be ahead of the game and not give them that opportunity.

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