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Travel Safety Mini Online Course
Want to learn to travel safer and stronger like a Tough Cookie, but don’t have the time or monies for a full-length course right now? I got just the thing for you, boo: my Travel Safety Mini Course!
Learn the most essential travel safety tips in a quicker, more bite-sized package that won’t be as hard on your schedule or wallet. Just 15 videos totaling a brief but powerful 50 minutes of video lessons that will take you through the 12 top travel safety steps to take before, on your way, and once you arrive at your destinations on all of your many travels and adventures.
Women’s Self Defense Full Online Course
My Tough Cookie Self Defense online course leads you through 8 modules of lessons that teach you the simple-yet-effective ABCs steps in my more comprehensive and holistic women’s self defense system. I’ve put all of my energy, heart, and soul into creating a more thorough and thoughtful women’s self defense course that is designed specifically for my fellow women (like you!). One that truly has your back.
My course will not only teach you how to stay safer and stronger wherever you go, but also give you the tools, tactics, and support (including a lifetime membership) to continue surviving and thriving long after, for life, wherever life takes you. If this sounds overwhelming or intimidating, don’t worry. I will be with you, guiding and supporting you every step of the way.
If you’re interested in learning more about my Tough Cookie Self Defense Course, click the button below to get all the details and join the list for my next cohort.
Self Defense Workshops
I also offer a more bite-sized overview of my Tough Cookie Self Defense system in various Workshops, both in-person and online via Zoom, which briefly cover each of my TC SD steps and ABCs for your travel and street safety in the span of 1-2 hours. Of course, I recommend you take additional training to be fully prepared for whatever you may face. But these Workshops are a good introductory overview to get you started with a strong foundation of the basics, as well as a better sense of yourself and what you’re already capable of.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, I am not currently offering in-person Self Defense Workshops, though they will hopefully resume soon. In the meantime, I do have upcoming online Workshops you can join. Join my email list and visit my Self Defense Workshop page to be first to hear when those happen.
Then, when you’re ready, I also encourage you to check out my more in-depth online women’s self defense course (as mentioned above) as well as other in-person self defense classes I recommend that may still be open right now.
What Is Travel Self Defense?
We all recognize the importance of learning self defense. But making time to learn it is a different story.
Self defense may not always feel like an immediate need (and if it doesn’t for you, gurl I hope you know how lucky you are).
Many womxn are living in daily life threatening situations. If this is you, please see my list of resources to contact for more help.
If your need for self defense is less urgent, however, then the question becomes:
When do we really need to learn self defense?
The answer: When we’re about to go anywhere where we might need to use it. Like traveling!
I love to travel. I am a nomad. A wanderer. A vajabond. (See what I did there?) So why not combine these two worlds I know so well and teach you how to travel safer, smarter, and stronger!
Every time you go anywhere, you need to learn how to do so more safely.
So every travel lesson should include elements of self defense. And every self defense class should prepare you for real scenarios where you’ll be moving about in the world.
Traveling just means going places. So that’s what I’m going to show you how to do. Go places like a pro. Like a badass wandering warrior woman. Like a Tough Cookie.
Travel Self Defense means providing you with the self defense training that can save your life when you need it most, when you’re out traveling.
So as you start planning your next trip, get started with my travel self defense courses, travel checklists, and travel tips, and I’ll help you prepare to safely roam the world again.
Designed By A Woman, For Women
I have been leading self defense training for women all over the US, both in corporate and private group settings, as well as 1-on-1. But the way I teach self defense is unique. Because I’ve actually been through it in real life. I don’t mean in martial arts matches or in a war zone. As much as I respect those experiences, that’s not the same as self defense.
I’m talking about being unexpectedly attacked. I have had to suddenly defend myself, face unforeseen violence where I live and on my travels. And I’ve come out the other end a survivor. It’s taught me one key lesson that most other self defense instructors and classes don’t tell you — Self defense is about more than how to physically fight. So much more.
It’s as mental and emotional as it is physical. Sharpening your mental skills as much as your physical ones will give you the best chance for survival. Especially when you’re traveling in less familiar territory, though it applies everywhere.
As women, we are especially equipped to master such mental and emotional strengths necessary. And that’s quite helpful, considering the statistics show that assaults are overwhelmingly against women. We need all the help we can get. Survival is about fighting smart, not tough. With your mind as much as with your fists.
All women deserve to learn how to defend themselves like the intuitive, emotionally intelligent Cookies they are. So why not learn from other women? In a class designed by a woman? For women. Like you! From one Tough Cookie to another.
A More Holistic Step-By-Step System
As a martial artist and stunt woman, I’m trained in how to defend oneself physically with the most effective defensive moves and maneuvers. But all that training won’t prepare you for the mental side of the equation. Mental preparation is just as important as physical practice.
My unique approach covers both those ideal physical moves taught in other classes, but from the perspective of a woman who’s actually used them, as well as the mental, emotional, and legal implications of defending yourself. This means preparing yourself for how it will feel, what impact it’ll have, and (most of all) how to develop the soft skills to help you detect and avoid danger without fighting at all.
My step-by-step system takes you through essential mental and physical elements designed to help you maximize your chances of keeping yourself safe while taking the minimum amount of risk. Each step is super simple and logical, as easy as your ABCs, so it won’t be hard to remember what to do next when your adrenaline kicks into high gear.
Learn How To Fight Back Like A Tough Cookie!
All of my self defense tips, tools, and resources throughout this site are here to help you build your self defense skills for any situation in any location. So feel free to explore around and see what else you can learn to become the ultimate Tough Cookie of travel safety.
You are not alone. I’ve got your back. A rising tide lifts all vaginas. Be so strong that you lift others up with you. Be a force to reckon with. Be a Tough Cookie!
This is self defense, the Tough Cookie way.
