Safest Family on the Block: Recent Episodes
Jason Wayne Brick
Safest Family on the Block is what happens when a 6th degree black belt, journalist, and father of two spends too much time talking with experts about how to keep our families safe. What kinds of experts? Well, for example, a Paramedic Captain about preventing child injuries, a suicide counselor on early warning signs, a defense investigator on how criminals choose victims, a school administrator and retired marine on school safety, and lots, lots more.
Parenting can feel lonely. Even if we have a large family or friend group, it can be hard to ask for advice -- there's a lot of judgment in parenting circles, even from the people who love us most.
The Miss Poppins App helps solve that. Nicky Rishi has assembled a team of world-class parenting experts, and a community of engaged parents, to help each other when we need it most.
Today she tells us all about it: why Miss Poppins exists, how it happened, what it does, and how you can get involved.
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I've often glibly told people who ask about what weapon to buy -- "Don't buy a weapon, buy a dog."
That's good advice, but it only starts there. Mark Bosque of K9 X-Factor knows the next steps. Today he generously shares his extensive knowledge about why man's best friend can be your family's best protector.
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Financial literacy isn't just good sense -- it's a form of safety. Without financial knowledge, our families are more vulnerable in emergencies. Everything from a reliable car to a well-stocked emergency kit plays right into safety...to say nothing of how financial stress can shorten our lifespans and harm our relationships.
Brian page, founder of Modern Husbands teaches thousands of parents around the world about financial literacy, and how to teach our kids to be financially literate as young adults. He shares his knowledge and techniques in this valuable conversation.
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The thing about martial arts training for kids and adults is that the most important lessons have nothing to do with kicking and punching. It's a way of building character traits and teaching habits of health and safety that very few other experiences can match.
Dickson Kunz has been training and teaching in martial arts for decades, and shares his perspective about martial arts and protecting our family: what works, what's imaginary, and how we can best help our kids learn these important skills.
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The world is getting hotter, which means our families are at more risk of heat stroke, heat exhaustion, dehydration, and even sunburn. Whether we're planning for a trip to warm climates, trying to make it through a summer at home, or battening down the hatches for a heat wave with a side order of power outages, the right skills and mindset can save a life.
Melonie Kennedy is a full-circle safety instructor with experience in emergency prep, who lives in the desert. She has direct, personal experience with this exact kind of emergency. She speaks with us about it today.
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Active shootings are a part of life in the United States, and to a lesser extent in the world as a whole. When people think about it, there's a lot of myth and fantasy in how they propose solutions.
Ed Monk is a gun safety instructor who has taken the time to examine actual data about active shootings and how people survive them. What he learned may surprise you.
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If you look at the over 100 interviews with safety experts on this channel, you’ll see a lot of first responders and related professionals. Firefighters, paramedics, police, ER staff, security personnel…all of those people who are, as the name implies, the first to show up when things go wrong.
These are varied fields with people coming to them from widely varied backgrounds, but they all have at least one thing in common:
They hate it when children get hurt.
When I interview a member of the three disciplines, I ask them each the same question: what do you wish parents knew, so you could see their children professionally less often?
Although each gives different answers, their lists often intersected. Here are the top ten most common things first responders wish parents knew.
In this video, we look at the top 5 ways to avoid potential burglars and home invaders thinking you have a lot worth stealing in your home. In a previous video (link in the comments below), we covered 5 ways to make your home look harder to get away with breaking into.
I don’t talk much about property crimes in these videos. Property crime is different from violent crime. It’s not part of my mission here, and it is part of the mission for several great channels hosted by people who know more than I do about those things.
However, home invasions can be among the most dealy and traumatic crimes imaginable, and even a simple burglar can become dangerous if cornered.
Like any other hazard, the best way to stay safe is to avoid the situation entirely.So we’ll focus on the second method: the top 5 ways to make your home look like an unattractive target.
I don’t talk much about property crimes in these videos for two reasons. First, this channel is about safety. I’m happy to lose every penny I have, every toy and bauble in my home, if it means my family is safe. Second, there are experts at preventing property crime who have great channels of their own.
That said, making our homes harder targets isn’t just about property crime. Home invasions can be among the most dealy and traumatic crimes imaginable, and even a simple burglar can become dangerous if cornered.
Like any other hazard, the best way to stay safe is to avoid the situation entirely. In this case, it’s to make your home less attractive to potential thieves. Experts know you can do this in one of two ways: you can make it look like there’s not much worth stealing inside, and you can make it look like it’s harder to get away with stealing what’s in there.
In today’s video, we’ll focus on the second method: the top 5 ways to make your home look like it’s hard to get away with robbing.
From the adorable pronouncements of toddlers, to wise insights from our adult children, talking with our kids can be an absolute joy….or a total horrorshow. Every parent remembers a day when our three-year-old wouldn’t stop crying, our middle schooler gave us a three-day silent treatment, or we screwed up when talking with a teen about coming home three hours after curfew.
Communication is one of the most important safety skills we can learn and apply as parents, because communication is how we learn about many dangers, and how we teach our kids how to avoid or overcome them. It’s an art and a science some people spend entire professional lifetimes beginning to understand.
We can go wide and deep into this topic, but today I want to share 5 simple communication techniques so powerful they’re basically Jedi Mind tricks. They’re easy to learn, not that hard to use, and can make a surprising difference starting right now.
I'm not here to debate gun rights. You have your opinion and I have mine, and I assume you're earned yours as much as I have.
But it's not an opinion that there are a lot of myths out there when it comes to defending yourself with a firearm. That's a cold, hard, and sometimes deadly fact.
Today, we talk with Rich Hill of Freedom Martial Arts. He's a 2A advocate, firearms instructor, black belt, and protector who makes his living dispelling these myths.
Whether you own a gun, are considering arming yourself, or hope to avoid guns altogether, you owe it to yourself to hear what he has to say.
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I've been training in martial arts for 40 years, and if you ask me what art a child should take, I'll probably tell you parkour. It teaches all the movement, courage, confidence, and power of martial arts without the moral burden of violence.
In today's show, I speak with Molly Courtney, a parkour expert and owner of The Movement Park in Hillsboro, Oregon. We discuss the importance of fitness in safety generally, and how parkour skills specifically can save a life.
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Travel makes us better, broader, happier people, and it does the same for our kids. But travel can also be dangerous...and even when it's not dangerous, worry about danger can make us go fewer places and have less fun.
Gary Quesenberry, a frequent guest on our show and author of multiple safety books, got travel safety training from the US Marshall service. He later applied that training to travel with his children. He shares what he learned with us today, so we can go out far and wide with our kids safely and with less fear.
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Here's the thing.
For today's very special episode of Safest Family on the Block, we talk about talking about sex. All of the data and research say that we get fewer pregnancies, less sexually transmitted infection, lower rates of teen sex, and even lower rates of rape and domestic abuse if we have frank, honest, comprehensive sex education and sex talks with our kids.
That can be a tough proposition. Some political narratives and religious communities even say we shouldn't do it...but that doesn't change the facts.
Today, Liza Draper, a veteran sex educator, comes on the show to talk with us about what we need our kids to know, and some of the best ways to make sure they know them.
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▶️ Liza also provided a whole list of great links we can use for our own edification, share with our kids, or send our kids to watch while we hide in another room.
https://amaze.org/ - sexual health with sections for youth of all ages, as well as parents & educators
http://www.kidshealth.org -- broad health-related info as well as sexual health, site has sections for parents, kids, teens & educators
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/teens & https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/parents/sex-and-sexuality -- both thorough, parents' pages address info appropriate at different developmental stages
https://sexetc.org -- love this site and its associated publication, created by youth for youth (tween, teens, college-aged)
https://www.scarleteen.com/ -- racier, CSE only, aimed at teens & up
https://www.optionsforsexualhealth.org/facts/ -- Canadian, but has seriously great info with feminist bent
https://www.workplacesrespond.org/blog/teen-experiences-with-workplace-sexual-harassment/ -- about teens and sexual harassment at work
If you're headed to YouTube (and want to chuckle):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGoWLWS4-kU - Consent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEAgXMtcJ0w - Consent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikXim4wevc - Hymen/Virginity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q64hTNEj6KQ - Porn Sex vs Real Sex
https://www.workplacesrespond.org/blog/teen-experiences-with-workplace-sexual-harassment/ -- about teens and sexual harassment at work
Water safety isn't as exciting as crime prevention, but comes up more often. Drownings are a tragedy that strike more families each year than violence, and are easier to prevent with a little training.
Jewel Young hosts the Young Dads podcast, but before that he was a lifeguard and water safety instructor for many years. He talks to us today about the things parents can do at the pool, on the river, by the ocean, and anywhere else water and kids interact.
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Mish Handwerker and I have been studying martial arts for a total of nearly 80 years. During that journey we discovered the most important safety lessons weren't about kicking, punching, stabbing, and such.
Today we talk about those lessons, why they're important, and how best we and our children can learn them.
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Car seats are tricky. We all need one during that first decade of a child's life. We all rode in one at one point or another. We figure we know how to use them...but that's rarely the case.
Modern car seats are incredibly well-engineered tools built to protect our children, but like most specialized tools they aren't intuitive to use.
Juliana Amador is a licensed car seat safety technician with a mission to make sure we all know the best way to use these life-saving devices. She was kind enough to share her knowledge with us.
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Tik-Tok phenomenon, bestselling author, and "Mom Friend" safety guru Cathy Pedrayes knows a lot about safety. More than I do when it comes to certain corners.
Although we could have discussed any topic at all, we focus on information safety while using the internet. It's a tough topic, because a lot of parents feel like we're running behind our kids on the hardware, software, and networks.
Lucky for us, Cathy has distilled the most important tools, tricks, and viewpoints into usable information she generously shares.
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"Parents don't have needs. They have responsibilities, and a list of things they hope happen."
I used to think that way. I used to believe it deeply, and make it a key part of my parenting identity. To the point of exhaustion, gaining 25 pounds, and nearly losing my career. AND to the point of being a worse father than I was capable of being.
Today's conversation is with Ron Cecil and Daniel Penner of the Cutting for Sign podcast, a show dedicated to helping men create and live their best version of themselves.
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Emergency preparedness is part of safety. Whether or not the Big One is coming, every family is likely to experience a power outage, weather emergency, or other event.
The trouble is that much of the prepping community is...let's say overly enthusiastic and a little intimidating.
Erika Friday of Ready, Set, Moms has built her practice about turning the complex, intimidating parts of parenthood into easy systems that take the guesswork and fear out of what we do. Her course on emergency preparedness launces this week.
You know this is something you’ve been meaning to do. Erika is sharing a coupon with listeners of The Safest Family on the Block. Just pop in the code thanksjason20 at checkout and save 20% off enrollment.
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Many security-minded parents spend their pre-parenting days picking up physical self-defense skills as a combination of hobby and job...but having a child changes that entire perspective.
Joe Borovicka and I share that background, and are doing a lot of the same things with it later in our lives. In this conversation, we nerd out deeply and broadly on safety, self-defense, and how we can learn, apply, and re-discover the most important skills to keep our families safe.
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We already know the internet can be a dangerous place for our kids. Brent Dusing is on the front lines of that war, creating TruPlay, a safe online game that focuses on curated participation and wholesome experiences for kinds online.
Brent took time to talk with us about the risks and dangers of life online for kids, and some of the things we can do about it as parents.
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There are an average of 198,000 trips to the emergency room and over 20 deaths each year from children's toys. That's more hospital visits than we get from stranger danger and fires combined, and a topic we don't talk about nearly enough.
WATCH (World Against Toys Causing Harm) talks about it all year, and their own Joan Siff came aboard to talk with us about it: what toys cause harm, how we can learn what they are, and what we can do about it.
Not the most cheerful or exciting child safety topic, I know, but one we should all pay close attention to.
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Today's episode is a special collaboration with the gentlemen from the Dudes and Dads Podcast. Andy, Joel, and I get into it about safety matters ranging from guns, to awareness, to how to enjoy time off safely.
It's a great talk, and you should listen to it.
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Bullying and cyberbullying are two of the most talked about and feared aspects of real life for school-aged children. They lead to poor performance, school absenteeism, anxiety, depression, even suicide. Far from a rite of passage or an important part of growing up, bullying is something we adults should do all we can to help our kids avoid, or at least overcome.
Kevin Daniels of BullyDefense101 talks with us today about strategies for adults and children to prevent bullying. Join us for the conversation.
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I don't usually do financial self-defense on my channel. I'm not here to save your money: I'm here to save your kids. Plenty of people are more passionate and informed on that topic than I am.
But sometimes -- often -- our finances determine how well we can keep our family safe. Jason Hoschouer is a police officer turned financial coach, so his perspectives on both money and safety are uniquely fine-tuned. Join us today for a talk about why money matters to family safety, and what we can do about that.
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Parents know, but rarely admit, how much hardship there is in between the moments of pure joy that come with parenting...but it is hard, and that hardness can create serious safety issues especially for new parents.
Kaila Maguire started her podcast to help open the conversation about parental self care. It's like the thing about oxygen masks on the plane. If you're not in your best self, you can't be the best parent. In this conversation, we talk about some important ways to help manage the hardships.
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Legal self-defense is important, and it starts with knowing how to act when you talk with the police.
This can be especially hard for teens and young adults, who have more hormones and less experience when dealing with stressful situations. Defense attorney and author Rankin Johnson has surprisingly simple advice about how to prepare our children for this kind of encounter.
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Your car needs a first aid kit if you want to be ready to help your children, or bystanders, in the event of an accident. There's no question. The question is, what goes in there?
Veteran fire and rescue worker Justin Schorr shares with us the contents of his car first aid kit, along with advice about why he made his choices and what we should think about when building our own.
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Those big trucks you drive by on the highway are carrying thousands of tons at over 60 MPH. Driving them is not the same as driving a car, or even the biggest SUV you can manage. Driving around them isn't the same either, a fact that causes hundreds of traffic fatalities every year.
Jeremy Howden has spent his life protecting people, and these days keeps our supply lines working as a long-haul trucker. He joins us today to help us learn how to best stay safe when on the road with that ubiquitous staple of the American freeway.
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Humans are bad at assessing risk that isn't happening to them in that instant. We're great at figuring out if we're in danger _right now_, but when it comes to theoretical problems we have real issues.
Filippo Marino spent his early life in high-risk military, security, and anti-crime adventures. He has since settled down and created a resource for professionals and civilians, which helps us accurately gauge where it's safe to travel, and where it's less safe...and what to do about those risks.
He talks to us about decision making and risk assessment for parents, so we can better keep our kids safe from the real dangers while not worrying so much about the stuff that's unlikely.
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When we deal with safety issues, fear is a big problem. Whether we're responding to a kid's poor grades or seeing a bad guy approach in a parking garage, unmanaged fear can weaken us, push bad decisions, and make the situation less safe than it would be without it.
Fortunately, Tony Blauer has built a career, even a mission, on teaching people who to manage, control, and channel fear under the most stressful conditions imaginable. Here's what he had to say to us.
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Self defense is different for women than it is for men. The context is different. The bodies are different. The best advice is different. That's why I trust women more than I do men when it comes to women's self-defense.
And that's why we talk with Nia Hartsfield of Hard Candy today. She believes women can be safe _and_ sexy, armed _and_ amorous. She has lots to say, and I'm glad she took the time to say it to us.
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Your safety is first and foremost your responsibility. This is doubly true for the safety of your children.
Jim O'Brien is the founder of The Self Initiative Project, which helps teach parents who lack tactical experience how to be defenders of their loved ones. Today we talk about how and why to plan for emergencies, and how to teach those plans to our children.
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Steven Barnes is a martial artist and best-selling writer who has spent his life studying how to be strong, self-sufficient, and successful. Today we talk about how to raise children with the same traits.
As a bonus, Mr. Barnes has been a personal hero of mine since the early 1990s. I'm thrilled to have him on the show.
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Adam David Jones came to the safety sphere after his attackers in a brutal assault were cleared of charges. Instead of giving up, he created the app ZeerSafe, which helps people all over the world live safer, freer lives.
Today he talks with us about ZeerSafe, along with other topics of safety, technology, and how to protect our kids in this rapidly changing world.
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We can use games to teach our kids important skills for safety and general life, and to model success strategies we want them to see.
Mike Brodeur has spent his life in the board game and tabletop game industry, and took the time to talk about some of his life experiences and the things he's seen about the value of games for children.
WARNING: this interview got more explicit than most. You've been warned.
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▶️ Here's the episode he specifically called out: goinfo.org/why-we-game-jim-pinto/
▶️And here's a link to that other podcast we mention: https://www.feartheboot.com/ftb/
Teen years are among the most dangerous. We can prepare our teens to face them with awareness and a realistic mindset.
Gary Quesenberry literally wrote the book on teaching teens situational awareness. He shares some of his knowledge with us today.
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Staying safe in an increasingly intimidating world requires skills once reserved for specialists.
The good news is, we can learn most of those skills by paying attention to professionals willing to share them. Nick Hughes is one of those professionals, and he shares with us today the most important things you can learn and remember about keeping yourself and your family safe.
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Traveling with young children is daunting, but to enriching to miss!
We worry that other places are dangerous, and about how children make everything more chaotic, exhausting, and troublesome. But going abroad with little ones can make even passport control fun.
Marquita Wright, the Traveling Twin Mama, shares her experiences, tips, and tricks about how to make this more fun and much safer.
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How do you stay calm enough to calm others in tense situations?
The bad news is this can be very hard, especially for parents. Nobody knows how to push our buttons quite like our kids.
The good news is this is a skill we can learn and become excellent at.
Brandon Dutton is a martial artist and security specialist who applies these skills daily with people under immense stress. He took the time to share what he's learned as a professional and a parent.
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What do violence professionals know that amateurs and martial artists don't?
Way too much. Training at the average dojo is at such a remove from what happens in real physical conflict, and many martial arts teachers don't fully realize that.
Joe Saunders is a violence professional and martial arts maven, who has built a career around educating people about the realities of violence. In our conversation, we talk about the topic from multiple angles.
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Aging affects all parent protectors, in two different ways.
First, we become increasingly responsible for our parents' safety, which is an adjustment many of us find tricky to manage.
Second, as we get older, we find our capacity for physical protection gets lower. This is also hard to admit, and even harder to handle.
Dave McNeill, a martial artist and protector of many decades experience, shares his insights into both of these.
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Compliance is the lowest form of getting what we need from our kids. Instead we need to learn skills to get cooperation and collaboration.
Do you have a "jedi mind trick" that works with your kids? Share about it in the comments!
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Strengthening our mind, body, and spirit is a challenge, but one we should accept as parents! That takes skill and commitment. Sifu Singh tells us how.
Do you have a story about a time parenting tested your internal or external strength? Tell us about it in the comments.
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Bodyguard to the stars Will Geddes tells us the ins and outs of online and mobile device safety for our kids.
What worries you most when you think about online safety for your family? Leave a comment and tell us all about it!
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In this third interview with consumer journalist Rita R. Robison, we talk about the chemicals manufacturers put in food, cleaning supplies, furniture, clothing, cosmetics, and more. It's a subtle but important aspect of keeping our families safe and healthy.
SAFEST FAMILY ON THE BLOCK is what happens when a journalist, black belt, and father spends too much time hanging out with experts on all things related to family safety. It's dedicated to helping parents raise safe, adventurous, empowered kids while having fun along the way. Learn more at http://www.safestfamilyontheblock.org!
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Jason Patton is a firefighter turned internet celebrity who’s about to become a celebrity celebrity via a couple of tv deals. He brings his trademark humor and observations to safety matters in a way that’s netted him millions of followers. He took time out of his busy schedule to talk with us about the fire safety things parents need to see to more often.
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John Riddle is one of the most qualified and knowledgeable self-defense teachers working today. He basis his teachings on the reality he met in decades as a law enforcement officer and elite martial artist. Today he talks about holiday shopping - those times when we're out in the world tired, distracted, and carrying loot. We discuss some of the best ways to stay safe in that compromised situation.
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Carmen Irving is one of the driving forces at PAXIS, a group bringing evidence-based positive behavior programs to schools worldwide. Carmen took the time to share with us some of the science behind what they do, and how we can apply it to making our kids more successful and our homes more peaceful.
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Lee Wedlake is one of those people who, between his intelligence, curiosity, and drive, could have become an astronaut. Instead, he became one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Kenpo karate, and a true master scholar of martial arts, self-defense, and personal safety. In our conversation, we talk about the nexus of all three of those things, plus a few fun excursions into other related topics.
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It doesn’t matter how awesome your gadgets are if you don’t know how to use them. The last time I talked with survival specialist Josh Burmeister, he gave us a list of the kinds of gear we need to handle emergencies ranging from a stalled car to the zombie apocalypse. In today’s talk, we detail the kinds of skills a parent needs to handle emergencies.
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Bruce Costa has been training in martial arts for even longer than I have, and we have so much in common I'm shocked we haven't bumped into each other earlier.
In our rambling conversation, we talk about all the ways martial arts makes our lives -- and our kids' lives -- happier, healthier, safer, and saner. And we marvel at how few of those things are about kicking and punching.
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It's very hard to overstate how thrilled I am to have Grandmaster Bob White on the show for this episode. He's one of the world's foremost teachers of the martial art where I make my home, Kenpo Karate. In his career, he has taught tens of thousands of kids and adults how to be safer, more effective, kinder people than they would have been without his influence. He and his wife remain leaders by example in the martial arts community.
We talk today about how sports in general, and martial arts in particular, can be uniquely empowering for our kids. He's preaching to the choir for me, but all of us can benefit from what he has to say.
By the end, you'll fully understand one of Bob's key points: "Martial arts for kids I can take or leave, but spending time with martial artists is irreplacable".
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Libraries are a source of knowledge for kids, and knowledge is a source of safety. As any fan of Lovecraft knows, the wrong knowledge at the wrong time can be a source of danger.
A good school librarian can help you and your kids navigate the good and avoid the bad, opening a world of fascination, education, and safety. Kate Coreson, a school librarian of many years experience, was kind enough to guide us through some of the basics of this amazing resource.
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In today's interview, we tackle the tricky topic of behavior and discipline. We know, because of science, that the old school method of threats and consequences doesn't build better behavior, or a trusting relationship between us and our kids...but that doesn't mean we let them run wild, either.
Robbin McManne is one of the best-respected parenting coaches in the world, having tested what she learned getting a related degree in the crucible of parenting children with special needs. She brings us the most amazing tools and techniques for getting the behavior we need without resorting to yelling, threats, and other forms of bullying.
Our hour-long conversation includes many parenting tips and tricks, hacks and habits.
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The problem with about half the martial arts teachers in the world is that they're training and teaching for the wrong reasons.
No...that's not entirely fair. They're training and teaching for reasons that don't mesh well with the needs of parents. They're in it for the sport, or for warrior fantasies, or some other goal that doesn't fit with the intelligent self-defense and protective strategies you need when you're responsible for children.
Sifu Alan Baker is part of the other half. He's widely trained, highly experienced, and _gets it_. We had a great conversation about what self-defense really looks like when you have the responsibilities of a parent, and what you and I can do today to become safer people and more effective protectors.
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A lot of people think about weapons when it comes to protecting themselves and keeping their families safe. No matter what decision you make about this, it's best to make that decision from a position of knowledge.
John & John of Shield Protection Products have spent their careers in law enforcement, where they've seen what happens when armed defenders come into contact with resolute bad guys. They started a shop where they sell not just gear, but training, too.
They're one of our show's first sponsors, and highly knowledgeable about what to carry, when, and why...and how to use it if you ever need to.
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As we get older, our parenting responsibilities often shift from watching just our kids to also watching our own parents. Sometimes that responsibility includes helping them understand they need to move into a senior community, and helping them navigate that move.
This can be a hard decision to make, and even harder to implement. Luckily, we found Beth Pratt. Beth has worked in the industry for her entire career. She knows the good, the bad, and the ugly of what goes on, and she shares it with us today.
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One thing I dislike about too many martial arts books is how much they focus on...well...martial arts. The truth is, details of technique for punching, kicking, stabbing, shooting, choking, and avoiding all of those things when they're aimed at you are the least important aspects of self-defense.
David Kahn is one of the world's leading experts on the martial art Krav Maga, which has a somewhat deserved reputation of being one of the worst offenders in that category....but David, and his new book recently published by YMAA, are different.
My conversation with David included a little bit of martial arts geekery, but focused mainly on the techniques, mindset, and knowledge we need as parents to avoid ever having to use martial arts.
Which is what the goal should be in the first place.
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Food allergies, including life-threatening intolerances, impact 1 in 13 children in the developed world. This means there are 2 impacted children in every classroom.
Whether your child has a food allergy or intolerance, or you want to be helpful to your child's classmates or friends, it's important to know the realities and best practices surrounding this issue.
Allergy Amulet has invented an impressive device that can detect even trace amounts of common allergens. Their star Meg Nohe came on to talk about the device, and about allergy safety in general.
It was a great conversation with a smart, knowledgeable person for whom food allergies aren't just a calling -- they're personal.
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It's likely that having a child suffering from a serious addiction is one of the few things that can hurt and scare parents nearly as much as losing a child altogether. An addicted child feels like a different person, and assaults the core of how we feel about having done our core job.
But addiction is a complex situation, one our society is only just now beginning to look at from a compassionate, realistic, science-driven perspective. It's hard to know what to do to help prevent a child from going down that dark road, and even harder to know what to do if they're already on it.
Ed Kressy struggled for years with addiction, and psychotic breaks caused by that addiction (or maybe it was vice versa). Since he quit drugs, he has worked tirelessly with individuals, organizations, and law enforcement to help others find the tools they need to enter recovery. He is probably the only man on earth to have both been arrested by the FBI, and to have been given an award by them.
In today's episode, we talk about his journey, and the most important things he learned from it that we as parents, and our adult children, can use to help avoid or survive this potentially tragic life risk.
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For a child, trauma can mean the death of friend, divorcing parents, extensive bullying, or even failing a test. The "worthiness" of the upset isn't important -- it's how upset our child is, and how well we help them manage the stress, anxiety, and grief from that trauma.
Dianne Maroney has worked with children throughout her career, and especially focused on helping parents without mental health backgrounds become powerful and empowering resources for their kids. Her Image Project is a set of exercises and workbooks that help children acknowledge difficult feelings without letting them control their lives.
She was kind enough to come on the show today to tell us about the Imagine Project in particular, and helping children through trauma in general. It was an enlightening conversation I'm sure you will find helpful.
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One thing that drives me up the wall (even though I was equally guilty in my misspent youth) is people who train for the fight without ever paying attention to how to avoid the fight in the first place.
The truth is, especially for parents, avoiding any kind of fight is the safest, best choice. Beverly Baker is a martial artists and violence dynamics expert who has spent her life being safe in unsafe places. Through her company Asphalt Anthropology, she teaches the awareness, movement, analysis, and de-escalation skills that help make dense, urban environments safer for families and individuals.
We were lucky to get her on the show, and the conversation was among the most enlightening I've had.
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You can take all the self-defense classes you want, but if you don't have a defensive mindset they won't do you much good. Defensive mindset includes factors like situational awareness, thinking about how you might respond in a given situation, giving yourself permission to use self-defense skills, and similar mental conditioning that helps you move more safely in a dangerous world.
Through her Diamond Arrow Group, Kelly Sayre teaching these things all over the world to women, families, organizations, and businesses. In this conversation, we talk about the best ways simple parents like us can apply these important, if sometimes intimidating, concepts in our daily lives.
One of the biggest ironies of self-defense is: the more you prepare, the less likely you are to have to use it. With Kelly's help, we can all be more prepared.
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Popular demand (and the fact it makes sense) has led me to start including episodes on elder care and other aspects of keeping a multigenerational family safe. Many of us are in a position to manage the needs of our kids and our parents for travel, events, or life in general.
In today's episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Robert Chuckrow, one of the foremost Tai Chi practitioners in North America and a physics Ph.D. He's an expert at living a healthy, active life into your eighties and longer.
We discuss general wellness, balance, falling, and other aspects of staying healthy and active, and the good doctor shows us several exercises we can start doing today.
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A bug-out-bag is a set of supplies you keep nearby so you have the tools to survive in an emergency. Their main job is to get you from where you are, back to home if you're caught out in the world -- or to get you from your home to a safe place if you need to evacuate.
Here's the thing about bug-out-bags. You probably won't need to grab yours and light out into a postapocalyptic wasteland with your family. But if yours is ready for that, you'll be golden if your car gets two flats at the same time, or if a weather emergency forces your neighborhood to evacuate.
Josh Burmeister is a former Navy SERE trainer, and has spent the latter half of his career teaching civilians and industrial clients about preparing for emergencies. In this extra-long conversation, he discusses why my bag is different from yours, and both of ours are different from his, then provides suggestions and priorities for building our perfect individual bags for each family member.
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Sometimes the difference between an inconvenience and an emergency (or an emergency and a tragedy) is having the right gear at the right time. We've already talked about first aid kits, fire safety gear, and car emergency kits. Next week we'll do an interview about bug-out bags.
But some of the best gear isn't physical. It's software. Life 360 is one of those apps, offering location safety, driving safety, and digital safety tools right on your phone, and every phone in the family.
Ariana Hellebuyck helps get the word out about Life360, and chatted with us today about what their app does, why it's important, and how we can make our families safer with or without this particular piece of technology. Join us for a great conversation.
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• Use the code DDAM to get 30% off the gold package. Tell 'em we sent you.
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Sex abuse is an issue we've tackled before here at Safest Family on the Block, but it's so important this won't be the last episode where we discuss it. Child sex abuse can come from a variety of corners, and has lasting psychological, emotional, social, and physical impact no matter what age it happens at.
Allie Neal's organization, Revved Up Kids, teaches children the tools they need to combat sexual abuse even at the youngest ages. It starts with naming the parts of the body even with toddlers to model and encourage frank, open conversation. From there, it's about building trust and giving confidence so they will stop a predator in their tracks, then feel safe telling you about it.
There's so much more to it, and Allie explains it eloquently in our talk today.
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There are no universal self defense instructors. We've had a lot of experts on the channel, but Spencer won't pretend to be a fire prevention specialist, Rita won't pretend to know about knife fighting, and Jim doesn't speak up about surviving domestic abuse.
This includes me. SFOTB is a full-circle program, and some of my experiences putting this together have broadened my knowledge base extensively. But even if I was a legitimate universal self defense expert, I would really only be an expert in self defense for large, athletic men with children who live in suburban North America.
That's why I'm so happy to have Teja Van Wicklen on the show. She's a martial artist with a background very similar to my own, but she's also physically, socially, and experientially very different from me.
Our conversation focuses on self-defense for women, especially the differences in how I approach self-defense to how she does, but along the way we find a few important commonalities.
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Having a clean, uncluttered, and organized home isn't just less stressful -- it's safer. Whether you're stepping barefoot on a Lego, slipping on magazines, or tripping over a garden hose, the clutter can hurt or even kill.
Angela Cody-Rouget learned how to organize while the USAF entrusted her with the keys to the nukes. When she retired to better serve her family, she took that organizing mojo and began teaching families throughout the USA to organize their spaces and their lies.
Join us for a conversation about organizing our lives for safety, whether we're starting from the ground up or fixing a clutter-filled room or home.
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- Angela's Shark Tank Information: https://sharktanktales.com/major-mom-shark-tank-update/
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One of the most common themes throughout virtually every episode of this show has been the importance of paying attention: what the professionals call Situational Awareness. It's how you see the bad guy in the parking lot, brake in time when traffic slows, and notice a change in your child's behavior that suggests they might be having trouble.
Gary Quesenberry's career meant that people got hurt if his situational awareness wasn't up to snuff. In his civilian life, he's taking the lessons he learned in those high-stakes environments and teaching us how to apply them to parenting and to life.
Join us for a great conversation including the three stages of awareness, habits we can start today, and the best ways to talk with our kids to build their awareness early without making them fearful.
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- Gary's books at YMAA Publishing: https://ymaa.com/publishing/author/gary-quesenberry
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Safety and Security are not the same things. When you're safe, you aren't in danger. When you're secure, you don't think you're in danger. That leads to four potential states for any part of our lives:
• Safe and Secure: we are safe and we feel safe, like my kids feel when they're at home, behind a locked door, reading a book with their black belt dad
•Safe, but not secure: being safe, but not feeling safe, like a child in bed afraid of a monster in the closet
•Secure, but not safe: feeling safe even though you're not, for example driving while drunk
•Neither safe nor secure: not safe, and knowing you're not safe, like when you realize you're being followed
Of those four states, the most dangerous is when you're secure, but not safe. That's when we're most vulnerable, and unfortunately a state parents spend too much time in.
Spencer Coursen has spent his life as a protector. First as a big brother, then in the army, then in a long career of executive protection. His book "The Safety Trap" explores the most common places where people are secure, but not safe, and gives simple, important, and practicable advice on how to avoid those situations.
Spencer and I put together a two-part interview where we discuss the ten most common safety misconceptions, the truth behind them, and how to disarm those particular safety traps for ourselves and our famlies.
Join us for an enlightening conversation, then hop over to Spencer's podcast "Coursen's Corner" for Part Two.
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LINKS AND NOTES• Listen to Part Two right here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-22-top-ten-misconceptions-about-safety/id1522159044?i=1000515348322
• Order a Copy of The Safety Trap here: https://www.amazon.com/Safety-Trap-Security-Experts-Dangerous/dp/1250258146
• Spencer's Security Company: https://www.coursensecuritygroup.com/
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I am not a member of the LGBTQ+ community, but when I listen to my friends who are, they all tell me the same thing. They, and their children, face different safety challenges from people who aren't members of that community.
Myriam Dumont is an educator, librarian, and community organizer who works tirelessly to help LGBTQ+ families be safer in their communities, and communities become safer for LGBTQ+ families.
Join us for a powerful conversation about what matters, what doesn't, and how we can take steps - as LGBTQ+ people or their allies - to make the world safer for everybody.
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It's possible that a school shooting is the biggest nightmare that keeps parents up at night. We feel helpless to stop such tragedies, because we by definition won't be there. And shootings aren't limited to schools. Various bad guys and unfortunates with mental illness target malls, concerts, clubs, workplaces, churches...anywhere the good guys gather.
Alain Burrese teaches one of the most powerful curriculums in the country for surviving this sort of attack, based on his experience in military, legal, and institutional self-defense. He has exhaustively researched the various active shooter doctrines, and built on it to create the best possible response.
He was kind enough to chat with us about what he's learned, and how we can apply it and teach the most vital parts to our kids.
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Martial arts training can be one of the best safety decisions you make in your life, and for your family. Although actually using these skills in physical self-defense is rare, the benefits for safety go far beyond disabling an attacker.
Just a few benefits include better physical fitness, knowing how to fall down without getting hurt, and a confident demeanor that sends potential attackers looking for an easier target. Also, it's really fun.
But those benefits only come if you get into the right martial arts program. Some programs are a perfect match for your and your family. Some are great schools, but not so great for your needs and interests. Still others are a bad idea for anybody.
Trouble is, if you're not already involved in the martial arts, you don't know what to ask and what to look for when choosing a martial arts school for your family. In today's episode, I join Kris Wilder and Jeremy Lesniak. Between us, we have more than a century of experience in the good, the great, the bad, and the ugly of martial arts across the world. We talk about what we've seen, and how you can turn that into an informed decision for your family once you decide to begin training.
This is the first half of a two-part conversation. FIND PART TWO OF THIS CONVERSATION over on Whistlekick Radio: https://www.whistlekickmartialartsradio.com/
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In 2020, over 1.3 million fires claimed 3,100 lives in the United States alone. Most of those fires were completely preventable with better fire safety, and the overwhelming majority of the deaths could have been avoided with a strong, rehearsed safety plan.
Jim Kowalski is a Lieutenant in his fire department. He sees what happens when families are less than safe with fire. He knows the risks better than almost anybody, and how to overcome them.
In our talk, he walks us through the most important pieces of safety equipment, how to use them, and the mistakes most people make with that gear. Since it's best used as part of a well-thought-out and practiced plan, we also talk about how to build and rehearse one with our families.
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- Home Fire Safety Tips: https://americanspcc.org/home-fire-safety-awareness/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwrsGCBhD1ARIsALILBYqXEreRfd1Woy_UmcmfCUSZawWbdV7rBSUi-_9A4NvEtamwwG5YFX4aAiffEALw_wcB
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No matter your politics, it's a fact that different people face different safety and security challenges. A 200-pound Marine home on leave faces a reality that looks very different from that of a 100-pound woman with no combat training and limited mobility.
Race is part of those differences, impacting everything from health risks, to social scripts and expectations, to interactions with police. Michael Dorsey, host of parenting show Black Fathers NOW!, takes the time to discuss some of those differences...and many of the things we share in common.
Whether you're a parent with a black or blended family, or an ally from a different checkbox on the census form, it's a conversation you shouldn't miss.
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- Black Fathers NOW! https://blackfathersnow.libsyn.com/
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A child predator or sex trafficker abducting or otherwise victimizing our children is one of the worst scenarios we can imagine....but here's the truth. Those things happen extremely rarely. The most likely people to victimize your children are the people you already know: coaches, uncles, cousins, teachers, karate instructors, and neighbors.
Colleen Lynch has spent her law enforcement career stopping the bad guys who victimize children, and helping the children and families who became their victims. She has seen what the monsters do, how they act, and what works to keep our kids safer from them....and she has seen what to do, and what not to do, if we suspect one of them is grooming or abusing our children.
We talk for nearly an hour about her experience, her work, and how you and I can make her colleagues less busy by vigilantly protecting our children from molestation and other kinds of abuse.
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If you've watched the channel for a while, you'll have noticed that clear, honest, loving communication is key to so many family safety issues. From protecting our children from predators, to online safety, to stopping bullies in their tracks, to mental health issues ranging from anxiety to suicide...communication is a key skill.
Brandy Champeau has made her career out of helping parents learn how best to communicate with their children, and with each other. She's no white-tower academic either, but a homeschooling mom who has tested what the learned in the ultimate crucible: parenthood.
In this episode, Brandy shares the contents of her upcoming book, and how we as parents can apply its lessons to keeping our families closer, healthier, and safer.
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- Take the Quiz: https://www.exploringexpression.com/hearing-is-not-enough/?fbclid=IwAR2FlKDIoJHhWUnPb8UHzi44AmAxi4KA1OA7ZSIYVDMIuWcokDjdCHy5cb0
- Brandy's Page Exploring Expression: https://www.ExploringExpression.com
- Brandy's Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Brandy-Champeau/e/B07CZPPX3S%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
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When bodyguards and other security professionals get ready for a client to travel, they send a team to conduct an "advance": a systematic research and assessment mission about the destination, so they know how best to keep their client safe.
Chris Story is an executive protection professional, who has spent thousands of hours in the field doing this job and written courses for national governments, militaries, and corporate clients.
He was kind enough to walk us through some of the basics about how families can apply his techniques to safer family travel. Whether we're going to grandma's for the weekend, taking the family road trip, or going together to Berlin, Bangkok, or Barcelona, we can take some simple steps to make the whole trip safer and more fun.
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- Safe-Esteem travel safety website: https://www.safe-esteem.com/xplore
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Child trafficking is probably the worst thing we can imagine as parents. The idea of our kids trapped in literal slavery, without us able to help them, is worse than we can bear. Keeping our children safe from human traffickers and sex traffickers protects them from something that's thankfully rare, but unbelievably horrible.
Shelley Repp has spent over a decade working with victims of child sex trafficking, and with the institutions that work to help them -- and those who accidentally make it easier for traffickers to get more victims. In this episode, she shares her tragically-earned knowledge with us.
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- The New Mexico Dream Center: https://www.nmdreamcenter.org/
- Take the ACE test here: https://stopabusecampaign.org/what-are-adverse-childhood-experiences/take-your-ace-test/what-does-your-ace-score-mean/
- Shared Hope State Report Cards: https://sharedhope.org/what-we-do/bring-justice/reportcards/
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We spend a lot of time in our cars. Under normal circumstances, everything works out just fine. But when things go wrong, having the right tools on hand can mean the difference between an inconvenience, an emergency, and a tragedy.
Assembling a solid car emergency kit is one of the best investments of time and attention we can make to keep our kids safe...but so many kinds of car emergency kit from so many people can make the process daunting and confusing.
Marie Dodds has spent nearly two decades working for the American Automobile Association (AAA), and shares her car emergency knowledge with us.
As with all of our Loadout episodes, Marie sent me a list for the perfect car emergency kit a couple weeks in advance of filming. I went and got all the items, and in this episode we go through them one by one. What are they? Why do we need them? What are the most common mistakes and misconceptions for each item?
Being a parent can be scary. Having the tools you need for unexpected trouble, right there in the car, can make it less so.
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- AAA Website: https://oregon.aaa.com/
- AAA Car Emergency Kits: https://oregon.aaa.com/?zip=97124&devicecd=PC
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Most of the self-defense guides out there are written by professionals. Their relationship with crime and violence often results in information that's deeply frightening, and solutions that many civilians might be uncomfortable with. Their frame of reference is simply not the same as yours and mine.
Marc Macyoung grew up in a life of violence, and lived long enough to learn from the mistakes he made, ultimately making a career out of writing, teaching and testifying about how violence and violent crime play out in the world. His most recent book, "Self Defense Doesn't Have to Be Scary" is his attempt to fix the problem I just mentioned.
In this two-part conversation, Marc addresses the most important things regular people and parents don't know about self-defense, how we can learn them, and the best ways to apply them in our busy, daily, kid-distracted lives.
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- Marc's Amazon Page: https://www.amazon.com/Marc-MacYoung/e/B000APBQVM
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Most of the self-defense guides out there are written by professionals. Their relationship with crime and violence often results in information that's deeply frightening, and solutions that many civilians might be uncomfortable with. Their frame of reference is simply not the same as yours and mine.
Marc Macyoung grew up in a life of violence, and lived long enough to learn from the mistakes he made, ultimately making a career out of writing, teaching and testifying about how violence and violent crime play out in the world. His most recent book, "Self Defense Doesn't Have to Be Scary" is his attempt to fix the problem I just mentioned.
In this two-part conversation, Marc addresses the most important things regular people and parents don't know about self-defense, how we can learn them, and the best ways to apply them in our busy, daily, kid-distracted lives.
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- Marc's Homepage No Nonsense Self Defense: http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/
- Marc's Amazon Page: https://www.amazon.com/Marc-MacYoung/e/B000APBQVM
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Protecting your family on a daily basis doesn't exactly require a "very particular set of skills", but having those skills on deck can certainly be helpful. Even if we never use them directly, they can create a background of awareness, confidence, and competence that makes even the comfortable and boring parts of parenting safer.
Jason Hanson spent his young adulthood as a covert operative for the CIA, but then left the agency because it wasn't a good life for a family man. Now a father of five, he continues to apply his training to family safety, and shares his knowledge in a variety of courses, newsletters, books, and articles.
Today he talks to us about simple ways even civilian parents can apply spy tradecraft to keeping our families safe every day.
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- Jason's Spy Escape and Evasion Website: https://spyescapeandevasion.com/
- Jason's Spy and Survival Briefing Website: https://spybriefing.com/black-bag-confidential/
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Threat assessment starts with knowing why bad guys might target you, and what that means about how they will make their approach and commit their crime. With this knowledge, you can begin to form your plan for spotting, avoiding, or preventing their nefarious intent.
Rory Miller spent his career in corrections, and his life studying and teaching self-defense at ever imaginable level. He is the author of multiple books about managing violence and conflict, and brings his international expertise to us in today's video.
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- Rory's Chiron Training Website: https://www.chirontraining.com/
- Rory's Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rory-Miller/e/B002M54CNW?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1606965962&sr=8-1
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Bullying has been linked to depression, anxiety, physical health deterioration, reduced grades, and higher risk of addiction. It's far more than a childhood rite of passage, but instead a serious problem impacting families worldwide.
Dave Kovar got into martial arts in response to bullying, and has made bully resistance and prevention part of his teachings from the beginning. His program Done With Bullying teaches the best methods for stopping bullies in their tracks, in schools and martial arts schools in multiple countries.
In today's talk, he runs us through the key differences between "old school" and modern bullies, and walks us through his four-point system for preparing our children to stop bullying in its tracks.
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- Done With Bullying: https://www.kovars.com/done-with-bullying/
- That Article About Victim Body Language: https://academic.oup.com/joc/article-abstract/31/1/68/4371921?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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Andy Murphy has spent his life taking responsibility for his own safety, and for that of the people he loves. Part of that journey has meant hosting a podcast, publishing books, and conducting and taking trainings on the tactical, mental, and environmental aspects of keeping families safe.
Being of similar minds, Andy and I decided to put together a two-part interview where we went over the top things we've learned so far while conducting our shows. The first five are on his podcast (link below), and here on our channel is Part Two.
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- The Secure Dad Website: http://www.thesecuredad.com
- Get the Secure Dad Book Here: https://www.thesecuredad.com/books
- PART ONE of this Conversation: https://www.thesecuredad.com/post/lessons-learned-with-jason-brick-of-the-safest-family-on-the-block
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Rebecca Knight is a 7th degree black belt roughly the size of a medium teenager. She and Jason discuss the realistic differences between self-defense for athletic, large men, portable-sized women, and all the sizes in between.
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- American Institutes of Kenpo: https://www.americaninstituteofkenpo.com/
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Auto accidents are the most common cause of death among children in the United States, but we need to get them to school, soccer practice, grandma's house, the doctor, and everywhere else. When they're not with us, we need to get to work and back home to them safely.
Jason spent much of his long career in law enforcement as a traffic officer. He has seen first-hand what happens when we make mistakes behind the wheel, and knows exactly what we should do (and stop doing) so his job haunts his nightmares a little less often.
In today's video, he talks with us about those things. How we can drive, interact with our kids (and our technology), and focus on the things that will keep us safest and get the whole family to our destination in one piece.
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- What's Your Emergency Podcast: https://wyeradio.com/
- Jason's 5-Day Budget Challenge: http://www.themotorcopmindset.com/welcome-to-the-budgeting-challenge/
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Kids spend more time at school than they often do with us, simply because of the realities in the lives of many working parents. We can know and do everything right, but we can't be with them all the time.
George Brick spent over 20 years in Marine Force Recon, a special forces group, as an active duty operator. Afterward, he shifted his career to teaching and school administration. That combination of experiences makes him among the most qualified people in the world to talk about security and safety issues in school.
He shares the fruits of that experience with us today, telling us about the most important danger zones in school, how to tell if school staff is doing a good job, and how to communicate with our kids and school authorities if that job is lacking. Tune in for a great, informative show.
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Being aware is how we avoid danger to our children, keep our families safe, and even prevent unnecessary expenses from accidents, injuries, and crime. The trouble is creating and maintaining habits of being aware when life and our kids are demanding our attention in every direction. Today's show is about how to fix that problem.
Dawn Armstrong teaches children, adults, and groups about situational awareness for real people. She bases her Think Safe Seminars on her personal experience in the field and years of martial arts training, applying them to real life circumstances.
In this video, she shares ways to turn your normal habits into habits of awareness, how to teach those techniques to our children, and the different kinds of awareness we can expect from kids, tweens, teens, and young adults.
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• Find Dawn's material at http://www.thinksafeseminars.com
HEADLINES
1:20 What is a Think Safe Seminar?
3:00 Building Awareness in Civilian Life
5:50 Teaching Awareness to our Kids
9:35 There's Always a Door in the Kitchen
11:45 Teaching Intuition to Our Kids
13:05 The Importance of Small Actions
11:45 Granting Permission to Make Your Move
15:10 Creating Scripts for Action
18:00 Training Directionally
20:31 A Great Example of How to Train Kids for Safe Travel
24:30 Awareness Advice for Younger Children
27:31 Teaching Kids Who to Ask for Help
34:02 Apps and Programs to Help With Child Safety
36:14 Awareness Advice for Teens
38:30 Common Sense vs. Common Knowledge
41:43 Conflict De-Escalation Techniques
46:45 The Value of Martial Arts Instruction for Kids
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Social media is at the center of many teens' lives, and a growing number of tweens. It's how they primarily interact with their peers, which can lead to bullying and other troubling behaviors just within their age group. It also serves as a gateway for predatory adults who want to prey on the naivety of younger people.
There are no easy solutions to this problem, but Cat Coode has some good ones. Cat is the founder of Binary Tattoo, a service that advises families, organizations, and corporations alike on data privacy and online safety.
She talks to us about social media safety. How to set clear, fair boundaries and discuss them with our kids. How the bad guys break through privacy and security settings, and what we can do to stop them. What to watch out for with SnapChat, Instagram, and Tik-Tok, three of the most popular social media platforms among children today. What you know is how well you can keep your kids safe, so join us and learn all you can.
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- Binary Tattoo Website: https://www.binarytattoo.com/
- The Binary Tattoo Social Media Series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OQT9dLq9Pg&list=PL2bv6Nuf34usYCxKV6F0CbtX2BjoLFjoz
HEADLINES
6:45 How to Find Out What's Online About You
9:25 Kids & Stolen Credit
11:00 Why Age Matters
12:20 The Why & How of Privacy Settings
14:00 Facebook, Google For School, and Gateway Drugs
16:30 The Real Deal About Tik-Tok
21:00 The Real Deal About Snapchat
24:35 Teens and Sexting, Nude Photos
28:00 No Bedroom, No Bathroom, & Other Key Rules
37:36 The Real Deal About Instagram
41:00 Common Techniques to Crack Locked Networks
46:30 The Bus Stop Principle
47:10 Common Predatory Techniques
54:00 Where to Start
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Welcome to Safest Family on the Block. Today's video is Travel Health Safety with Andrea Leschak of Wayfinder Advantage.
Travel is about fun and excitement, but those joys come with real risks. As parents, we have to weigh those risks against our responsibilities to our children -- and often our elders, as well. But that doesn't mean we should avoid travel, even adventurous travel, just because we have families.
Andrea Leschak is a pharmacist and world traveler who specializes in helping people experience amazing vacations despite medical challenges. She guides her clients through assessing their needs, learning about where they're going, and developing a plan to make it possible, safe, and rewarding.
In this video, she shares her travel safety from a health perspective. What can we do to ensure our children's health while traveling off the beaten path? Where can we find the most important information? How can we do it all and still have the mental energy to enjoy the trip? Andrea answers all of these questions and more.
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The Wayfinder Advantage website: https://wayfinderadvantage.com/
HEADLINES
2:20 A personal story about the importance of health travel safety
6:00 Why travel health safety is important
8:30 The three factors of health safety planning
9:25 Who you are
10:30 Where you're going
14:50 Multi-generational travel
18:04 Worst case scenario plans
18:42 What you're doing
23:00 The importance of reasonable expectations
27:00 Planning to quit
28:27 Honest self-assessment
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NOTE: The video version of this episode includes me showing and in some cases demonstrating each of the items I discuss with Steve. Follow this link to watch it on YouTube
In our first LOADOUT episode, we stalk with Steve Mullins. Steve has been a medic for decades, working in every environment you can imagine. His trade lives and breathes by what he remembers to bring with him, and how well he knows how to use it.
Steve was kind enough to send me the parts list for a perfect family first aid kit. The kind you keep in the closet and use for everything that doesn't require an ER visit. In this video, we go through those items piece by piece. Steve explains what they're for, how to use them, and the most common mistakes and misconceptions for each.
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Tom Callos spent his entire life in service to the martial arts, and by extension to the world. From a stint in the famous Ernie Reyes demo team, to running a multimillion dollar martial arts school, to decades working on how to expand the scope of martial arts into wide-spectrum safety, and contributing to the community, he has influenced the martial arts industry for the better as much as any other individual.
He took time out to chat about self-defense beyond just kicking and punching, about home and personal safety from a holistic standpoint, and about teaching our children by example on and off the mat.
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2:00 Some of the challenges growing older in the martial arts
3:30 The true benefits of martial arts training
5:10 Full Circle Self-Defense defined
12:00 The importance of experiential teaching
10:14 How you can be your kid's self-defense instructor every day
14:12 "Who have you helped?"
19:42 You are being watched
23:00 Awareness vs Afraidness
25:50 Defining expertise
27:48 Elements of a parents' safety curriculum
33:00 Self-defense is about anticipation and training ahead of time
Linda Sanderson spent years as a crime and police journalist, then decades as an investigator for a public defender's office in one of the most violent communities in the United States. She knows what criminals do, and why they do it, because she worked for them again and again.
In this episode she shares with us what she learned about how criminals choose their victims, and some of the most common ways they victimize...and how to make both far less likely.
If you like the video, please SUBSCRIBE and don't forget to press the bell 🔔, 👍like, comment and share. Stay safe everybody.
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Linda's project "True to the Hood" https://truetothehood.com/
HEADLINES
1:49 Three classes of neighborhoods that create the setting for crime
5:54 How the neighborhoods interact to create vulnerability
9:30 Profile of the typical criminal
10:10 The most common site of crime
13:50 Make your yourself an unattractive target
18:30 The realities of having nice things
20:00 Cameras are your friend, and other ways to turn off potential attackers
23:14 The pros and cons of kids in safety
25:30 Making your home less attractive
29:40 Cars that can cause problems
33:35 Linda's book project: "True to the Hood"
41:30 What to do if you are confronted
Kevin Jarvis keeps the bad guys away from good guys' computers all work day, every work day. He knows the weaknesses in our systems, and how predators try to exploit them...and ways to reduce the risk.
He joins us to talk about all-too-common parental fails in this department, and things we can do to strike that balance between cutting our families off from the grid too much, and leaving them open to the dangers of the internet.
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VIDEO HEADLINES
1:00 New challenges for parents with mobile device security
2:55 Introducing Screentime and Family Link
5:05 The bad news about SnapChat
5:40 Creating and enforcing rules
7:40 Kids accidentally running up in-app purchase bills
9:20 Why you shouldn't jailbreak devices
14:15 Tools and techniques for keeping an eye without becoming overbearing
16:30 Trust and communication work here too
18:30 Location tracking and you
23:00 The internet is forever
25:30 Protecting kids from online predators
28:18 The parents' best friend
30:30 The danger of online messaging in apps
32:00 Privacy and protecting your children
36:00 Use fake data for security questions
37:05 Social media quizzes and thi
Welcome to Safest Family on the Block. Today's video is about Situational Awareness with Jim Alsup.
Situational awareness is not just for police, military, and others who put themselves in harm's way as part of their professions. It's also the most important self-defense tool for any parent. By remaining situationally aware, you can see potential problems coming in time to avoid them...or at least to form a plan for mitigating their risks.
Jim Alsup has served his country for decades, in capacities of signal intelligence, federal-level prosecution, and undercover investigation. His application of situational awareness in the field has saved his life, and the lives of civilians, many times over.
Today, Jim shares what he learned in training and on the street, and shows us how to apply that knowledge in our daily lives. Even better, he shares with us games and techniques we can use to teach our kids about awareness, and get them involved in a not-scary way in paying attention while out in the world.
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LINKS AND NOTES
Jim's Law Firm helping Veterans Get Their Benefits: https://www.alsuplawfirm.com/
A strong article on the Cooper Codes: https://forceconceptstraining.com/coo...
VIDEO HEADLINES
0:50 What is situational awareness? Why is it not paranoia?
6:05 Why awareness is especially important to parents
6:20 Formulating a smart response plan
7:15 The Cooper Color Codes: The White Zone/Condition White
8:30 The Cooper Color Codes: The Yellow Zone/Condition Yellow
12:38 The Cooper Color Codes: The Orange Zone/Condition Orange
13:49 The importance of planning in response to your awareness
14:30 The Cooper Color Codes: The Black Zone/Condition Black
15:08 Condition Red/The Red Zone (Added to Cooper Color Codes later)
17:10 The color codes in context
Rita R. Robison has worked in consumer journalism since print papers were still our primary source of news and information. In that journey, she has found the most important things parents and families should pay attention to, ranging from bad credit traps, to smart consumer moves...to safety issues endangering our children.
Today she sits with us to discuss how to access product recall information, and about the most surprisingly dangerous items we find in our homes, and of course what we can do to make them safer.
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LINKS & NOTES
▶️Rita's home page and blog: https://boomersurvive-thriveguide.typ...
▶️Rita at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: https://blog.seattlepi.com/boomercons...
▶️Rita's super-helpful Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RitaRRobison...
▶️The Product Safety Commission's recall page: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls
▶️USPIRG Toy Safety: https://uspirg.org/feature/usp/troubl...
▶️WATCH Toy Safety: https://toysafety.org/
HEADLINES
1:20 How product recalls used to work, and how it
John Riddle's experience ranges from military operations, to street and investigative law enforcement, to over 1,000 SWAT entries, to teaching combative self defense internationally.
Today he shares his experience from responding to burglaries and home invasions, and from forcibly entering the lairs of felons, to teach us how to make our homes less attractive targets for crime...and what we can do if they try to come in anyway.
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LINKS & NOTES
John's self-defense school https://riddledefense.com/
HEADLINES
1:45 How John learned the hard way what secures houses
5:05 The difference between a robbery and a burglary, when each usually happens, and why
6:16 What burglars want in a home or person they target
9:55 Giving your home less "curb appeal" for the bad guys
12:10 Using camera systems to secure your home
14:20 Walls vs. fences (privacy vs. safety)
15:40 Making entry through doors and windows harder and noiser for an intruder
21:10 A cost-effective way to secure your window glass
23:30 Why we don't recommend bars on your windows
24:58 Deception and home defense
26:24 The value of dogs, and how to encourage them
27:50 Alarm systems
30:10 What if they get inside?
Suicide is a growing problem and cause of death. Unfortunately, some of the signs of suicidal behaviors are delicate and hard to detect until it’s too late and if you can detect the signs you need to know how to prevent someone.
So to help you out we invited in today’s video, Karen Letofsky, Canada's foremost expert on suicide prevention, who discussed various topics related to Suicide Signs and Prevention for 45 minutes. Get the highlights and learn what you must know about this tragic, complex topic to see it coming in time to find help.
Suicidal warning signs should be taken very seriously. There are some signs that are obvious, such as talking about suicide and dying, but others are much more subtle and can be easily missed. It is important to know the signs, especially for those who have risk factors for suicide. Early detection of warning signs can lead to professional help and mental health treatment and can even save a life.
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LINKS AND NOTES
September 10: World Suicide Prevention Day
US National Suicide Hotline 1-800-273-8255
Canada National Suicide Hotline 1-833-456-4566
Suicide Prevention Resources: https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
HEADLINES
3:04 The Biggest Surprise to Me In This Interview
5:55 The Wrong Way to Think About Suicide
6:52 Risk Factors vs. Warning Signs For Suicide
8:42 Behaviors and Changes in Behavior We Should Be Aware For
11:20 What to Do If You See Possible Signs
13:07 When It's Time to "Pull Rank" As a Parent
16:04 The Role of Siblings
17:55 The Language of Depression
21:02 Engagement and Play With Our Kids
24:00 Intervention vs. Preve
Alex Bromley has spent over a decade applying his command of the communications techniques in Verbal Judo to life as a police officer, and trained people to use them from the boardroom to the bedroom. As an investigator in child exploitation cases, he has seen firsthand what can happen if we let communication break down between parents and children.
Today, we talk about bringing those same techniques into conversations with our kids...what to avoid saying, how to keep caring communication as a priority, and how to work together to find the best possible solutions to any problem.
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LINKS & RESOURCES
http://www.verbaljudo.com
HEADLINES
2:18 Why communication skills are vital to police, and to parents
4:55 Verbal Judo defined
10:10 Seven phrases to eliminate from conversations (when we can remember)
21:10 The race to the why
24:30 Don't be afraid to apologize
26:15 Judo, "the gentle way" and words that hurt us
28:01 The power of paraphrasing
31:40 The "Sword of Insertion"
34:09 Reduce your volume to increase how much you're heard
35:50 Training, practice, communication, and you
33:44 Dealing with emotion in conflict communication
38:30 Disinterested vs. uninterested, and why it matters
42:08 (It was Luis CK)
Justin Schorr has done rescue and emergency medical operations for more than a quarter century. He's seen it all, and done most of it. As he says...if you saw a vehicle drive by with its siren on and lights flashing, he's been in that vehicle a few times.
I asked Justin what things parents could do better so he sees kids less often in his professional role. According to his wife, he rattled off a list that he's spent his whole career complaining about. In our first episode, we discuss that list and what we can do as parents, so he and his colleagues can see them less.
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LINKS AND NOTES
Check out Justin's podcast What's Your Emergency?: http://wyeradio.com/
American Heart Association child first aid/cpr instruction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl_hwIbM4-U
HEADLINES
3:44 - The worst part about childhood calls for EMS personnel
5:58 - SEATBELTS, people! Seatbelts!
11:09 - Choking hazards
15:47 - The best source for child first aid training you'll ever find
18:18- Justin really, really hates trampolines
20:36 - Don't let your children play with explosives
21:26 - How did any of us survive the 70s and 80s?
22:57 - Razor scooters, helmets, and you
24:32 - How to be the bad guy when fun stuff is dangerous
26:24 - Hot water burns
29:08 - Kids, creativity, and injury
30:48 - Escalators and moving walkways
35:36 - Swimming pools and other forms of drowning
37:10 - What real drownings look like
45:03 - Justin and his buddy Jason's (different Jason) podcast "What's Your Emergency?"
46:09 - The most common cause of child injury and death Justin sees every year
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