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A Short Class
A Short Class
A Day of Training
🟢 Beginner-Friendly – No experience needed.
🛡️ Self-Defense – Realistic tools & techniques.
🧘 Mindfulness – Includes well-being practices.
🧰 Equipment Provided – We bring all gear.
🧸 Ages 3–7 – Best for young kids.
🧒 Ages 8+ – Great for older kids, preteens +.
🧑🎓 Teens – Tailored for teenage + participants.
🐻 Moms – Focused training for women.
👩👧👦 Moms with Kids – Designed for families to train together.
📍 Private Offer – Training comes to you.
🏫 Public Classes – Classes open to join.
What's Included:
📄 Handout – Take-home reference sheet.
🔑 Keychain – Super Secret Weapon included.
🌐 Online Training – Access addt'l learning.
📘 7 Days to Sanity Workbook – Assess risks & build awareness.
📙 Jumpstart eGuide – Instructions on making kids hard targets.
🏅 Certificate of Completion – Proof of your accomplishment.
Whether you've never taken a self-defense class or taken them all, have a black belt, or even if you rock weapons - this will compliment and exponentially improve what you've got going on. As always, the focus is on prevention, avoidance and de-escalation with tools appropriate to use on literally anyone - even your own mom, if necessary. You don't have to mess up your hair if you don't want to, but either way, when you leave you will be better able to avoid, evade, escape and defend from potentially traumatic experiences.
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Details: 🕒 2 hours 🏷️ From $85/person
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This is for moms, grandmothers, and caregivers of babies, toddlers, and young kids.
Create a strategic process for staying safe and protecting little people — using preparation, prevention, and physical defense. Gain an understanding of where and how you have control in your family's safety when out in the world. Learn how to spot danger early, set boundaries that work, and escape grabs or control — even while holding a child or managing a stroller. We train for the actual situations you deal with every day: parking lots, car seats, front doors, diaper bags, and distractions. Leave knowing where you have control, how to protect all of you, and how to do it with confidence. Have elementary or older children and still want to be a complete badass? No worries; we tailor training in each class. (2 hrs)
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Details: 🕒 2 hours 🏷️ From $199/person
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This short offering is suggested for driving age and up.
What is it? It's our dirty little secret! It's not actually dirty or a secret; it's just fun and amazing. Even better, it's completely practical as well as legal. We tell you about it in person because we love watching your eyes light up in excitement at its simplicity and effectiveness. This empowering training will change the way you carry yourself making it abundantly clear that you've got it going on. Every new driver absolutely needs this. Train as long as you need to feel ready to take on anything that comes your way (usually 1-1.5 hours).
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Details: 🕒 1-1.5 hours 🏷️ From $129/person
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Takes your skills to the next level with advanced prevention strategies, hands-on practice and real-life defense drills— no bulky pads, just real solutions. You’ll learn supported kicks, strategic exits, ground defense, and how to respond to multiple attackers. You’ll also practice defending yourself from a real, unpadded male attacker — safely and realistically. Whether you're new or experienced, this class will challenge and empower you to move with confidence in high-stakes situations — without compromising your instincts, style, or strength. (8 hrs)
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Details: 🕒 8 hours 🏷️ As low as $297/person
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This experience is Beyond the Basics and MORE with next-level skills and deeper clarity. That means hands-on practice and real-life drills. You’ll not only strengthen in terms of physical defense and master Our Super Secret Weapon, but also set unshakable boundaries — both personal and physical — to access unshakeable calm, clarity, and control. You’ll become the kind of person most people won’t even consider targeting — because you'll have the skills and traits that make you too much work. Designed for real-world threats and the real life you’re living, this training makes space for reflection, questions, and direct support around your toughest concerns. Because true protection means knowing your power, owning your peace — and never freezing when it counts. (12 hours)
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Details: 🕒 12 hours 🏷️ As low as $397/person
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Mama, this is for you and your little (7 and under).
Want real skills and real plans? Learn not only learn how to physically protect yourself and children but how to raise kids who are harder to target — confident, alert, and ready to follow your lead. We train both mom and child — side by side — using real-life scenarios you actually face: parking lots, public restrooms, front doors, and crowded places. You’ll practice setting boundaries, escaping control, using your voice, and building response plans that your kids will cooperate with under stress.
This training helps you take the lead and keeps your child in the loop — not scared, but prepared. You’ll leave with working safety plans, practiced skills, and more trust in yourself and your child.
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Details: 🕒 6 hours 🏷️ As low as $397/family
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Our most in-depth and empowering training — built exclusively for moms.
No kids, no distractions — just real, hands-on training designed to make you the safest, strongest version of yourself. You’ll run through realistic threat scenarios, boundary-setting drills, physical defense techniques, and high-stress decision-making — all built specifically for moms who want to feel ready for the moments they hope never come. We’ll train you to respond when you’re alone, overwhelmed, or caught off guard — and yes, we'll incorporate Our Super Secret Weapon (plus any other self-defense tools or weapons you may favor) in all we do. You’ll get access to online learning, plus two powerful resources: 7 Days to Sanity — a guided workbook to help you assess your relationships, routines, and risks while sharpening your intuition. The Jumpstart eGuide — quick, practical tips for raising kids who are difficult and unlikely targets. You’ll finish with a certificate that proves you didn’t just show up — you leveled up.
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Details: 🕒 12 hours 🏷️ As low as $645/mom
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When you schedule training, a more thorough, detailed and training-specific FAQ Sheet will be emailed to you with all the info you could need and want. These are to hold you over for now.
Great question! You're not the first one to hesitate. That's why we created a quiz to help you know for sure with just answering a couple questions. You can find that here.
All of our training is for real people - meaning of every shape and size, with-and-without injuries and limitations. If you are concerned about your hips, your shoulder, your knees, etc - stick with the short self-defense classes and Bodyguard Training for Moms™ because in the other self-defense programs we get much more physical. But know that you are more than welcome to take any training we offer and we can adapt everything taught to what you bring (and do not bring) to the table. Every person is capable and deserves to be and feel safe.
Sure, that would be the most comfortable. However, you are welcome to wear whatever you want. Remember, we are preparing for real-life, so if you want to wear your pencil skirt and pumps that you wear most days - feel free to do so! However, you may not want to wear a pencil skirt or pumps you aren't willing to retire because, especially with our full-day self-defense programs, they can get roughed-up a bit.
The cost of training depends on a few factors, like where training is going to take place and how many participants you have. Because of this, we send program pricing straight to your email after you take that Quiz to get your right results. Here's a link to that quiz again.
Absolutely! Training like this is an investment, and our payment processor offers 3rd party apps that allow qualifying person to set up payment plans.
You decide! Most of the training we provide is private training that we bring to private groups, and we happily bring training all over the United States. Quite often, we provide training for 8-10 participants in the living room or basement of a private home. We would be glad to help you move a coffee table or couch, if that's helpful. Otherwise, training frequently takes place in school gyms, local churches, VFW halls, yoga studios and more.
We happily provide 1:1 training, but while there is no minimum participation, we do have minimum amounts for bringing different training to different locations. Again, it all starts with that Quiz and then all of your money questions are answers.
Great question. We are willing to teach any of our short classes for groups up to 30, and we will bring 3 instructors in order to do so. However, we suggest groups of 10, maybe 15 for the most thorough training (that gets you 2 instructors). For our self-defense programs, because of the advanced nature of the training, we limit participation to 10 in order to provide a 1:5 instructor to student ratio which is required for quality training of this content.
No worries! There are a few options: (1) We are confident you have a friend that would love to put together a self-defense class. A quick post to social media will probably be enough for someone you know to take over and enjoy arranging the details. (2) You are welcome to take any of our training and pay the minimum for private, 1:1 training. (3) On occasion, we do offer public self defense classes that you could simply join. Carrie teaches a variety of training through multiple companies. You can find and follow her public classes here.
Mama, we trust your judgement. There are no hard, fast rules. However, we do have training for every age. If you take that quiz, it will point you for the right training based on your needs and the ages of participants.
A note about Our Super Secret Weapon - this is a devastating tool that can really hurt someone. We recommend driving age and up for that reason and also because it's a keychain and goes on keys. However, we have taught tweens, and a couple younger children over the years, that were in need of serious protection from persistent threats.
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