As promised a while ago, this is the optimistic episode to counter my enduring reputation of being Mr. Doom and Gloom. Enjoy!

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Mary Stevens is a Karate instructor, women's and children's self-defense instructor, and much more. We talked about her work, her writing, how to teach self-defense, and much more. 

Part two of our conversation is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/118367964/

The show notes are here: https://wimsblog.com/151

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Torbjørn Nymark is a martial artist, but also a Compositor and 3D/VFX-Generalist. He works at Storm Studios where they work on many high-profile movies and TV shows: Wakanda Forever, The Old Man, The Last Of Us, several Star Trek series, and much more. We talk about his passion for martial arts and the many projects he worked on professionally Part two of our conversation is here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/116824683 The show notes are here: https://wimsblog.com/150

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Toby Cowern has an extensive background in military intelligence, survival and preparedness. We discuss geopolitics and how global dynamics impact everyday citizens. The bonus episode with Toby is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/114869786 The show notes are here: https://wimsblog.com/149 Listen to our previous conversations here: https://wimsblog.com/tag/toby-cowern

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Iain Abernethy is a karate expert who focuses on applying techniques and principles from kata. We talked about our training, how it changed as we got older, and much more. 

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The show notes mentioned are here: https://wimsblog.com/148

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Brian Frias is a retired Marine with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, a former LEO, BJJ black belt under Andre Galvao, and a full-time instructor at ShivWorks. We talk about self-defense, training, instructing, and much more. 

The Bonus Episode in which Brian answers questions from my Patrons is here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/112599434

The show notes mentioned are here: https://wimsblog.com/147

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We live in extremely polarized times and it can be difficult to avoid being radicalized. In this episode I go over common factors involved in (de)radicalization and how you can avoid it. 

The show notes mentioned are here: https://wimsblog.com/146

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“Super Dan” Anderson is the founder of American Freestyle Karate, multiple times World Champion, prolific author, and much more. We had an excellent conversation and also recorded a bonus part available on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/108197249/

The links mentioned are here: https://wimsblog.com/145

Enjoy.

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Toby Cowern has an extensive career in the military, including in intelligence, and also teaches survival and preparedness courses. We talked geopolitics and I added most of my preparation on the show notes page mentioned below. In the second part of the episode, Toby answers questions from my Patrons, including how to get started with OSINT.  The second part of the episode is here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/104308791/ The show notes mentioned are here: https://wimsblog.com/144

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Brian asked if I could talk about how to avoid going too far in a self-defense situation. How to stop yourself from throwing that one punch too many that makes you go from self-defense to becoming the aggressor? 

The links mentioned are here: https://wimsblog.com/143

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Lucius Pomerantz, MD is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, former MMA fighter and BJJ black belt. We talk about combat sports injuries, how to treat them and much more.

The second part of the episode is here on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/101357817/ The links mentioned are here: https://wimsblog.com/142

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