I Weigh - How to Defend Yourself with Evy Poumpouras
Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil
4.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Join Jameela LIVE on stage from New York this week as she sits down with former US. Secret Service Special Agent and current TV host and author Evy Poumpouras for a unique fireside chat about women’s safety. As we’ve heard recently on social media, many people would rather be in the forest with a bear vs. a man, and knowing that 4.8 million women in the United States alone fall victim to physical assault and rape each year, learning self-defense techniques and what to do in tricky situations can be so empowering. Jameela, the I Weigh Community and Well+Good came together for this event to inspire women to take back their power, and walk together.
You can follow Evy on Instagram @evypoumpouras
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Wrong Turns was created and produced by Jameela Jamil and Stewart Bailey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone. |
| 0:12.0 | Okay, all right. |
| 0:14.0 | What is up my ass? |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, it's my phone. |
| 0:17.0 | Sorry. |
| 0:18.0 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi, hello, hello. It's so nice to see you. |
| 0:22.5 | Thank you so much for coming out to this uplifting and extremely depressing event. |
| 0:28.5 | How wild that this even needs to exist in this day and age with all the information we have, with all the TikToks, we told them that we'd rather be in the forest with a bear |
| 0:39.3 | than any of them. And they still somehow don't get it and keep proving our points to us. |
| 0:46.6 | The reaction that we have had to this conversation has been so extraordinary and very moving |
| 0:52.8 | in good and bad ways in the fact that it's come from |
| 0:55.6 | people of every age, every background, also every gender. So many people feel unsafe, but right |
| 1:01.6 | now my focus is men's violence against women. I'm sick of it being called violence against women, |
| 1:06.4 | as if it's a fucking ferret or a giraffe or a ghost, it's men's violence against women. |
| 1:13.3 | Women's violence against women exist, but that's not the epidemic we're here to talk about. |
| 1:18.4 | And I'm just sick of not having this conversation all the fucking time until it is once and for |
| 1:24.0 | all resolved, because it is not normal to live the way that we live. It is not normal |
| 1:28.8 | to feel this afraid for your life all of the time. I'm going to read you some statistics that'll |
| 1:36.0 | really fuck up your day about how we all feel. But it also might make you feel less alone. |
| 1:42.9 | Because I think that's part of the madness, |
| 1:45.0 | right, is feeling like you're the only one who feels this way because we're not talking about it all |
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