Pretty Deadly Podcast

Kate and Susie talk about how pregnancy can create new vulnerabilities for women and the ways that they can prepare and protect themselves. Susie explains why pregnant women should familiarize themselves with a new center of gravity, using our heightened senses, including smells, as a weapon of self-defense. This episode also covers working with maternal instincts like covering your belly in the event of at an attack and using other body parts, including a head butt.

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What should we keep in mind when traveling in a new country? This episode is about how to acclimate to a new environment, ways we make ourselves vulnerable, why there is nothing wrong with showing fear. When should we run if we sense we are in danger? Susie also talks about using luggage as a weapon, self and spatial awareness, and other ways we can protect ourselves. Why we should pay attention to the thoughts and questions that cross our minds and how they can tip us off to danger.

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Susie describes in detail a few need-to-know moves including the Open the Door Kick, the “Shut Up Move” and a plank type position if you are backed up against the wall. This is a must-hear episode if you have 15 minutes to learn a few basic self defense moves. Susie & Kate also talk about how to create space, center of gravity, and moving the center before moving your head.

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This episode digs deeper into her martial art, Ninjutsu, the story of the most powerful ninja (hint-it’s a woman), and how this particular martial art can be transformed and learned for use in everyday self-defense. Susie also discusses the ways in which women are socialized from a very young age in a way that can help them to strategize and think in dangerous scenarios and how this helps us prepare for self-defense situations.

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After Susie’s attack, she wanted to protect herself, to find a martial art that would restore her sense of strength, power, and resilience. In this episode, she talks about finding her school, her teacher and why she committed to getting a black belt and teaching other women. She talks about the challenges of being a woman in martial arts, and also the gratitude she has for her teacher and the program.

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Susie tells the story of the night she was brutally attacked in L.A., how her natural defense system kicked in and the many intervening factors that saved her life. She describes the trauma and aftermath of the attack and the vow she made to herself to help other women to prevent future trauma and help with recovery from violent attacks.

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Welcome to the Pretty Deadly Podcast! In our very first episode, Susie and Kate talk about the values of learning self-defense including maximizing our options and giving us the empowerment to walk at night, go to work, travel around the world and do all the things that we have the right to do. Susie explains balance points and how to make our movements as powerful and effective as possible. She also explains how learning some basic self-defense moves can give us power as well as the confidence and trust in our own abilities to protect ourselves.

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