Some of these stories are “no brainers” to most but remember they are all based on TRUE STORIES.
It’s a Friday evening and a twenty something year old girl is being confined in her house by her boyfriend. He is yelling at her and becoming extremely violent. As the hours pass she is becoming more frightened. She never thought “he would do this”.
Finally, in the early morning hours, he leaves but before he does he tells her that he’s coming back and she better be there. As frightened as she …

Spring Break is coming up and many people will be traveling and vacationing to other (warmer) places.  Here are some tips for staying safe while you are having fun.
Hotel rooms:

Reserve a room that is located above the first floor but below the 6th floor

First floor rooms are easier to break into
Rooms above the 6th floor are sometimes too high for fire ladders to reach

Use room safes for valuables
Make a mental note of where the nearest fire exits and stairwells are
Remember where you park your vehicle in the parking lot or …

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 …