Tiffany Richards is one of the most well-travelled and entrepreneurial martial arts teachers alive today. She exemplifies her philosophy of taking a holistic and balanced approach to life, as can be seen through The Peaceful Warrior Marital Arts and Healing Centre she co-founded with her late business partner and life partner, Richard Poage. Tiffany also founded one the USA's largest health and wellness firms and is the brainchild behind Peaceful Warrior Women and Safe Adventures. Support the show for the price of a coffee here. Tiffany Richards Links:  Peaceful Warrior Woman  In ..read more

Dr Rosi Sexton is a Mixed Martial Arts polymath. A grade 8 level pianist and grade 7 level cellist who performed at the Royal Albert Hall when she was just 17, she achieved a first at Trinity College Cambridge, a MsC and PhD at Manchester in Mathematics and Computer Science, but left it all behind to pursue a career in Octagon. Already possessing black belts in Taekwondo and traditional Jujutsu, she took up Mixed Martial Arts and became first British woman to fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. She retired from professional fighting having won two titles in two different divisions in ..read more

Chapter IV - Escaping the Vultures  We pick up on our series dedicated to self-protection as it relates to opportunistic predators. After a brief look at the unfair reputation real vultures receive, we return to the serial killers mentioned in the first chapter.   The episode touches upon some real-life examples of Gavin De Becker's survival signals, the double tap, an asymmetrical assault changing to symmetrical with the de-escalation fallout, tactical escape and a broader view of long-term self-protection - why empathy is important to protect the ones we love from society's scave ..read more

Mary Stevens, founder of Athena School of Karate, joins me for a short discussion on our new collaboration project "Animal Instincts". On this episode we discuss the origin of this unique children's self-protection teaching programme, how to teach effective behaviours, its badge system and the problems children face.  Animal Instincts Self-Protection Teaching Programme Website Animal Instincts Facebook Page Athena School of Karate Website Music for the Outro:  "Titans" by Cold Cinema Link: https://bit.ly/3HjGhpV Support the show Support the show Buy "When Parents Aren't Around ..read more

Mo Teague is a teacher with a tremendous CV in both real-world application (military, professional and civilian) and martial arts training. His life has long been one of discovery, exploration and reality checks. It has also involved a lot of conflict. Much has been said and discussed about his external conflicts. However, on this episode we touch upon internal divisions through the concept of identity. Mo discusses how identities imposed upon us directly affect our choices and how we might craft our own identities in a positive way, laying the foundation on values and beliefs.  Mo is pe ..read more

Unified Fighting Systems founder, AG Martial Arts Centre owner, therapist and author, Andy Gibney joins the show for a look back at a childhood favourite. Taking the "Everything is Martial Arts" concept in an interesting direction, we look at the gentle world of A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh and discuss its influence and connections to martial arts.  Far from living up to the moniker "a bear with very little brain", Pooh might be a childhood gateway to critical thinking. Whereas owl presents us with the model of the flawed teacher. With fear being such an important area of understanding i ..read more

On this show I talk with Tommy Joe Moore on a number of subjects. We look at the differences between pre-gloves pugilism and modern day bareknuckle boxing, the way boxing gyms are run compared to typical martial arts classes, the movie "Prizefighter: The Life of Jem Belcher" and Tommy's time teaching combatives to Ukraine's special forces to main but a few topics. Support the show Links for Tommy Joe Moore:  Tommy Joe Moore Website Shanghai School of Streetfighting Modern Bartitsu Tommy's Facebook Page Music for this episode: Artist: Infraction | Track: Fighter Stream / Download: htt ..read more

As we pick back up on our "The Way of the Vulture" series focusing on opportunistic crimes and criminals, and the self-protection lessons we can take from them, we look at Opportunity Theory. This was an approach to criminology that the its adherents believed had more direct benefits than previous ideas. In this third chapter (second episode) we will look at how much of this idea holds up and what are its limitations.  Support this show Previous part and chapters of this show Opportunity Makes the Thief Hunting Humans Serial Killers: The Growing Menace Alice Miller's Books My Life Among ..read more

This year's Halloween episode is chapter one of a look at what might called the "Igor" psyche. Much the stock character of Igor and the monster he assisted to create (in some non-original versions of the story), this psyche is made of composite parts. We will explore this different parts by first covering the real criminal, Fizcko, assistant to the notorious Erzsebet Bathori, The Blood Countess.  Music for the Outro:  "Titans" by Cold Cinema Link: https://bit.ly/3HjGhpV Support the show Support the show Buy "When Parents Aren't Around" Audiobook Clubb Chimera Website Clubb Chimer ..read more

Unified Fighting Systems founder, AG Martial Arts Centre owner, therapist and author, Andy Gibney joins the show for a look back at a childhood favourite. Taking the "Everything is Martial Arts" concept in an interesting direction, we look at the gentle world of A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh and discuss its influence and connections to martial arts.  Far from living up to the moniker "a bear with very little brain", Pooh might be a childhood gateway to critical thinking. Whereas owl presents us with the model of the flawed teacher. With fear being such an important area of understanding i ..read more