The Mind-Body Connection in Personal Safety | Stephanie Cyr (EP35)
Clear Intentions with Diane Boden
Diane Boden
4.8 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
What if you could take control of your personal safety by strengthening your mind, body, and emotions? In this empowering episode, I speak with Stephanie Cyr, executive health coach and founder of Power Up Moves, about her holistic approach to personal safety. Stephanie explains how she blends self-defense techniques with mental and emotional strategies to help people feel confident and secure in any situation. She shares her journey from attorney to personal safety expert and offers powerful insights on situational awareness, setting intentions, and communicating with confidence. Tune in for practical tips on living fearlessly, building resilience, and taking charge of your well-being, both inside and out.
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- Book: The Gift of Fear
- Book: The Body Keeps the Score
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- https://powerupmoves.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/powerupmoves/
- https://www.facebook.com/PowerUpMoves/
About Stephanie|
Stephanie Cyr (NBC-HWC) is the founder of PowerUp Moves, a personal development program focused on building strength, safety, and confidence through empowerment self-defense. With over 25 years of experience in violence prevention, she developed the first accredited minor in Empowerment Self-Defense at San Francisco State University and authored *The PowerUp Moves Notebook*. A seasoned martial artist and attorney, Stephanie also consults for organizations like PAVE Prevention and the Association of ESD Professionals, and serves with the Joyful Heart Foundation. She's contributed to K–12 and university self-defense education, and her work bridges personal safety, mental health, and public health. Stephanie holds degrees from Rutgers and the University of Maryland School of Law, and is a certified integrative nutrition health coach.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I started as an attorney practicing martial arts at night where we were learning traditional physical self-defense. |
| 0:06.8 | It became clear pretty quickly. I would connect on an empathetic level with fellow students, and I knew there was something more to keeping yourself safe than physically having an altercation. Our senses are so attuned quicker |
| 0:24.3 | our body is than our mind to respond to a threat. Predators, I'll go right to that. Intentionally, |
| 0:30.5 | we'll dismiss your words or the boundaries you put up and continue to try and get closer and closer to you to harm you. But make no mistake. |
| 0:40.9 | No one has a right to touch you. And then go out in the world and be present, be mindfully |
| 0:46.3 | present in everything you do. After countless interviews with people who had been assaulted, |
| 0:52.7 | they said they felt it. they had that twinge, |
| 0:55.5 | they had that moment to get safe. And the more you feel in control of your actions, you see, |
| 1:01.6 | there's a calming to that. You're saying, I'm worth it. I have value. That's the cornerstone. |
| 1:09.2 | What if you could take control of your personal safety by strengthening your mind, body, and |
| 1:13.7 | emotions? In this episode, I speak with Stephanie Sear, executive health coach and founder |
| 1:18.9 | of Power Up Moves, about her holistic approach to personal safety. Stephanie explains how she |
| 1:24.5 | blends self-defense techniques with mental and emotional strategies to help people feel confident and secure in any situation. |
| 1:31.4 | She shares her journey from attorney to personal safety expert and offers powerful insights on situational awareness, |
| 1:37.8 | setting intentions, and communicating with confidence. |
| 1:40.9 | Tune in for practical tips on living fearlessly, building resilience, and taking |
| 1:44.6 | charge of your well-being, both inside and out. But before we get into the conversation, |
| 1:49.1 | I'd love for you just to pause the episode, take 30 seconds or less, and leave a rating and |
| 1:53.7 | review for the podcast. This just helps get the podcast boosted in the algorithm and to be put |
| 1:58.4 | in front of eyes that could benefit from living a life |
| 2:00.8 | with clear intention. So thank you to those of you that have done this. As I always say, for those |
| 2:05.3 | of you that have been listening for years and have yet to do it, what are you waiting for? |
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