There's been some really standout moments in classes where women have asked to be taught defenses against certain attacks that you know they have a history with they've experienced in real life.

And to watch women work through something like that is really humbling and powerful

and you see women who, you know, maybe at first it's really a scary thing to practice and you see them work through it and at the end they feel, you can see they feel so much more confident like they've conquered something.

And I think those moments are really powerful.

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All right, let's jump into today's program.

Today we are going to be talking to an extremely interesting group of women. These women met

actually somewhat accidentally through their shared participation in the

martial arts training programs and together they joined forces and formed a nonprofit that is really growing in its reach.

So now it only serves Vermont but their goal is to stretch out nationally and they really want to not only provide the program but change culture for both men and women in the

area of violence prevention and it's a nonprofit it's called the safety team and it's

focused on empowerment self-defense so it's one of the only approaches towards

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