425: Staying Safe: Practical Self-Defense Tips for Everyday Situations - M. Aziz {REPLAY}
Women's Wellness ON AIR WITH ELLA
Ella Lucas-Averett
5 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a departure from our normal topics, and an important one. Ella asks black belt M. Aziz about personal safety and the importance of self-defense.
Note: the 2nd half of this episode gets more explicit (starting ~min 26), so take care when/where you listen. {originally aired in 2017}
We discuss:
- Staying safe in parking lots and garages.
- Staying safe while exercising alone.
- The role of body language & awareness of our surroundings
- Maintaining safety when coming home or leaving home.
- The risks posed by acquaintances and known individuals.
- Staying safe while meeting people you met online.
- Recognizing concerning behaviors in acquaintances & potential partners.
- Using technology to enhance personal safety.
- The importance of letting someone know your location.
- Resistance and Evasion Techniques - Basic Self-Defense Tips.
🌟 Guest: M. Aziz - Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. You're on air with Ella where we share simple strategies and tips for living a little better every day. |
| 0:09.6 | If you're interested in mindset and wellness or healthy habits and relationships or hormone health, aging well and eating well, honestly, if you're into just living better and with more energy, then you're in the |
| 0:21.8 | right place. We're not here for perfect. We're here for a little better every day. Let's go. |
| 0:28.8 | Hey, everyone, you're on air with Ella, and today I'm joined by a special guest, Mariam Aziz. Hey, |
| 0:35.2 | Mariam, how are you? I'm doing great today, Ella. How are you doing? I am stoked to talk to you. Gosh, you have an |
| 0:41.0 | important message to share with everybody. And it's different than anything I've ever done before, |
| 0:45.7 | Mariam. And I love it for that reason. But I also love it because if this show can help one person or |
| 0:51.4 | help one person, help one person, then that will be just such a gift. |
| 0:55.7 | So first of all, why don't you tell everyone who you are and what you do? |
| 1:00.0 | Absolutely. So my name is Mario Aziz, and I am the chief self-defense instructor for Wise, |
| 1:07.0 | which stands for the Women's Initiative for Self-Epowerment. I'm also a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Michigan. |
| 1:15.6 | Very cool. |
| 1:16.3 | Now, Mariam, what on earth brought you to a place in time where you are committed to and passionate about self-defense? |
| 1:24.4 | It all starts with a 12th birthday, Ella. |
| 1:26.5 | When I was 12, my father took me on a short 10-minute |
| 1:30.8 | car drive from our house in South Jersey. Wouldn't tell me where we were going. And we showed up at my |
| 1:36.0 | local YMCA, and he signed me up for karate classes as my 12th birthday gift. And I have not stopped going in all of that time. And my father tells me to |
| 1:47.0 | this day, you know, I never actually expected you to last this long. That is so cool. And what are you |
| 1:53.2 | doing? I'm just out of curiosity. What do you want to do with your PhD? Yeah. So my PhD research |
| 1:59.7 | looks at how, you know, activists in the 1960s and the 1970s who were fighting for |
| 2:05.9 | equality and justice taught martial arts and self-defense and how they did it and how they really |
| 2:11.9 | thought about their pedagogy and what was the best way to increase people's confidence |
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