This is the first in my “What Would You Have Done?” series.  The unique thing with this series is that all these stories are based on true events.
One spring morning a lady is in her apartment going about her day when suddenly there’s a knock at the door.  The girl looked through the peephole to see who it was and saw her ex boyfriend on the other side.  The main phrase here is “ex boyfriend”.  She doesn’t open the door and tells him to leave.  They are yelling back and …

A lady sits on a subway and is stabbed by a guy because she was looking at him.  What’s worse is nobody did anything to help.  Why are there so many stories like this?
There’s a quote that says “people will do more to avoid pain than they will to seek pleasure”.  If that’s the truth then people must live an extremely submissive and confining life.  They must live a life that limits what they do and doesn’t allow them to live life to its fullest.  Living in fear must be …

I recently taught a class on Diversity and Verbal De-escalation.  There’s no secret information out there on these topics that I release to the participants.  Basically I review things they already know but try to come at them form a different angle.  I try to speak from a position of somebody who has “been in the trenches” so to speak. The third phase of the class is spent discussing physical, reactive techniques that can be utilized in the event that the participants need to defend themselves or others.  I basically …

To everybody who was at Tis The Season To…Celebrate Women this past Saturday, thanks for coming out and supporting Get Real InC.  It’s always so much fun to meet new people and be able to attempt to empower anybody who will listen to me.
As a father of two daughters I want to give Katie Wolfe a special shout out for doing what she can to guide our female youths.  Keep up the outstanding work Katie.
As promised, here are some of the safety tips that I talked about at the event …

I taught karate for over 20 years so I know what “karate people” teach.  They teach to use your art only to defend yourself.  That is a gallant thought and a thought of somebody that doesn’t understand survival.
We at Escape Plan are so ahead of the curve when it comes to realistic thinking and self defense.  Over and over again I talk to people about this fact: if you think you are going to be attacked, you need to hit first to increase your odds of success.  It is so …