Nicole Snell | Building Confidence Through Self-Defense

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🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The fear of taking a solo trip or even just a late-night walk can be very real — especially for women and people of color. Self-defense expert and Girls Fight Back CEO Nicole Snell has had her own share of scary encounters. But through her passion for going it alone, she’s also had life-changing and life-affirming experiences. Tapping into hundreds of hours of mental and physical self-defense training, she knows how to spot danger and take control of a rapidly changing situation. Now she’s educating others — especially those in BIPOC communities — to do the same. On this episode, she breaks down why self-defense is rarely about eye gouges and groin kicks, explains why you don’t need "Karate Kid"–level fighting skills to have your own back, and gives firsthand testimony on why solo travel is totally worth it.

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0:00.0	Oh hello, welcome to trained body and mind, a podcast exploring the cutting edge of holistic
0:05.9	fitness.
0:06.9	I'm your host Jacqueline Byer.
0:09.2	Each episode I connect with the world's leading experts and athletes to talk about mindset,
0:13.4	movement, nutrition, recovery, and sleep.
0:16.2	What we like to call the five facets of fitness.
0:18.8	Today, I'm taking a figurative trip with a world traveling wilderness trekking self-defense
0:23.4	instructing activists on a mission to help everyone, starting with women and people of color,
0:29.0	who are still empowered to move through the world on their own terms.
0:32.5	I want to be the example.
0:37.2	I want to show people that no we're out here, we're doing these activities and whether
0:41.3	you think I belong here or not, I belong anywhere I decide to be.
0:45.2	And I just as much right to be in this space doing this activity as anybody else.
0:50.1	And the more that I'm out there, I might encourage other young black women or anyone who's
0:54.7	from a marginalized community to say, oh, she's out there.
0:57.2	I guess I can do that too.
0:58.2	Oh, I didn't realize that was something that we could do.
1:00.8	So the representation matters.
1:04.6	That self-defense instructor and activist Nicole Snell announcing that she belongs here
1:09.2	and that you do too.
1:10.7	Now here for Nicole might be an alpine crossing in New Zealand.
1:14.6	It might be deep underwater off the coast of Thailand.
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