Pretty Deadly Podcast

Women should feel safe while working out and here's how to feel safer.

This episode explores important safety concerns for women in gyms, women's safety while running, why health and safety are important in a fitness environment, including why women won't ask for help at the gym.

Hosted by safety fitness gear founders Faith C., of FittSafe and Susie K. of Pretty Deadly, they discuss what it means to be mission-aligned and their shared vision for a world where there is nothing holding women back from living the lives they choose.

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Recommended safety gear for women runners & women in fitness

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FittSafe: https://fittsafe.com

Pretty Deadly Self Defense mobile app for iOS: https://t.ly/wuQdH for Android: https://t.ly/zjNQV

Get Running Mate app: https://getrunningmate.com/

Go_Guarded: https://goguarded.com/

Motherhood Running: https://instagram.com/motherhood_running

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Article mentioned in this episode:

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Not All Women: Women's voices, race, and media coverage

https://medium.com/@susiekahlich/not-all-women-5893984b0200

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You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at https://prettydeadlypro.com.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission from the artists.

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This episode talk about how to handle trauma when it’s triggered in a client. 

Trauma triggers can be scary and upsetting for everyone. Do you know what to do when a client experiences a trigger?

This episode talks about:

• Recognize the signs
• Spotlight & shame
• Giving permission
• Buddy system
• Protect yourself

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You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at https://prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at https://prettydeadlypro.com.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission from the artists.

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This episode explores how trauma actually works in the long term, both in the brain and how it manifests in the body, and gives some practical advise for working with people suffering from PTSD.

This episode talks about:

Trauma is data with no file/context

Replays until normalized or filing place found

Emotionally always trying to get back to the moment before

This shows up in behavior such as frustration, short temper, impatience, feeling like no one understands

Also shows up in the body in these ways: menstrual cramps, difficult childbirth, intense menopause symptoms

As trainers, we want to gently guide our clients back to the now, and we can do that by helping be in their bodies. 

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You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at prettydeadlypro.com.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission from the artists.

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What if questions can sometimes make us feel like we're in over our heads, but this episode explores why they're actually great for self defense, and how to guide people towards figuring it out for themselves.

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TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of violence.

This episode talks about moving out of our comfort zones as trainers to look at the methods and kinds of threats women actually face, rather than what we imagine is happening:

• True crime story
• Not all men
• Teaching things people actually need
• The urban myth of the ponytail

You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at prettydeadlypro.com.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission from the artists.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Just as a quick recap, FInal Girls Film Fest is an annual festival hosted here in Berlin celebrating the best in women’s horror: meaning, features, shorts, workshops, talks and even book launches about horror created by women, and women’s roles in the horror genre. 

And every year for the past 6 or 7 years, Pretty Deadly leads a self defense workshop for the festival, based around a horror theme. This episode is about how Pretty Deadly Certified Self Defense Trainer Julia Brasch and I prepped for this year's workshop, called Fearless Vampire Killers.

This episode talks about:

• Vampires
• Mythology
• Universal fears of women
• Patriarchy

You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at prettydeadlypro.com.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission from the artists.

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We interview martial artist, teacher and self defense trainer Julia Brasch in this episode of the Pretty Deadly Podcast.

Julia is a German martial artist and teacher with over 30 years of experience, training in Tae Kwon Do, Kung Fu and Muy Thai. Her start in martial arts was unique in that her teachers and trainers for the first five years of her schooling were all women. Julia talks about the importance of female mentorship and the importance of a balance of genders as well, along with anecdotes from her own life as a student, as a trainer, and her philosophy as a martial artist.

She became a Pretty Deadly certified self defense trainer last summer to supplement her own training, and is now an integral part of the Pretty Deadly family as a Master Trainer for Europe.

You can find out more about Pretty Deadly at our website prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. If your'e a fitness pro, community leader or martial artist and you'd like to expand your learning and practice, you can get certified as a Pretty Deadly trainer. Find our upcoming certification courses at prettydeadlypro.com.

This podcast is produced by SINGE Network for Pretty Deadly. Our theme song is a track called Icarus Wish by Berlin-based punk band, Dead Sentries, and is used with permission of the artists.

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Self defense is already associated with fear and scary situations. This episode explores why using scary stories to motivate people to learn and train self defense tends to have the opposite effect.

This episode talks about some famous urban myths and the real #truecrime stories behind them:

• Kitty Genovese
• Mary McGriff
• Philadelphia subway assault
• A real life kidnapping incident in Michigan
• A real life incident in Spain

You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our summer certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at Pretty Deadly Pro.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission from the artists.

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TW: This episode contains descriptions of an attack.

This episode talk about the importance of hope in self defense, and how often it can be extinguished when training is too complicated.

This episode covers:

Susie takes a self defense class

BJJ - defending against a familiar attack

Every defense was to choke the attacker into unconsciousness, but crushing against the adam’s apple and not the jugular

Arm lock: kamakura - we have something similar in Ninjutsu but we turn the other say

You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our summer certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at prettdeadlypro.com.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission by the artists.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode I want to go all the way back to the beginning, and why I started Pretty Deadly in the first place. 

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Before I go on, have you checked out our new website? It’s amazing, if I do say so myself. One of the things I’m most excited about is our booking system, that let’s people book directly with certified self defense trainers and payments go directly to them. That may not seem like a big deal to you, but if you’ve ever managed a studio or dojo with a bunch of independent trainers, you’ll appreciate how much easier it is to not have to deal with payouts. Anyway, check it out at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com

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Back to our episode: 

• The attack Susie survived
• Why didn’t she learn self defense
• Women always think there’s something wrong with us
• Took a few classes: Sensei & Frank
• Problem with the product - it’s what they imagine and not what we experience
• How it’s going:
• Nathalie's story

You have been listening to the Pretty Deadly Podcast. You can learn more about who we are and what we do and how to find a Pretty Deadly course near you by visiting our website at prettydeadlyselfdefense.com. And if you’re a fitness or martial arts pro and you’d like enhance your instructor skills, our summer certification programs are open for enrollment, and you can find them on our website at https://prettydeadlypro.com.

This podcast is produced by Singe Network for Pretty Deadly, recorded in Berlin,and our original music is the track Icarus Wish by Berlin band Dead Sentries, used with permission by the artists.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.