(Your) Safety First

Safety is the foundation of self-care. Everything else is secondary. Yet, girls are often taught to take care of others first. And many grow up accepting, minimizing, or even taking responsibility for the all too common violence against us. Instead, we, and the men who love us, should be very angry. ​

About Pretty Loaded

Pretty Loaded ™ has developed a proactive and preventative personal safety training that uses situational awareness, body language, criminal tactics, and de-escalation techniques to prevent injury or harm.

Pretty Loaded is well known for their viral personal safety videos that have been viewed and shared by hundreds of millions of people and large news networks all over the world. The training is used by law enforcement departments, the U.S. Courts system, Langley Air Force Base, Frontier Airlines, Real Estate schools, security services, hospitals, and other large corporations worldwide.

Pretty Loaded submitted the National Situational Awareness Day to the National Day Calendar in 2015, which is celebrated on September 26th.

Hurt People Hurt People

Being proactive about safety helps you relax and enjoy life more.

Understand the Value of Being Aware

• Realities of violence and statistics relating to violence
• The denial mindset and its danger
• Tools for identifying the threat
• Predator mindset and body language
• Situational Awareness skills to navigate your surroundings for dangerous threats

Learn Self Defense Strategies

• Learn power tactics against being targeted
• Verbal defense commands and tools for making decisions
• What to do “when seconds count and help is minutes away"
• Putting the tools into action
• Physiologic (fight or flight) response to stress
• Intro to lethal and non-lethal hardware and self-defense options
• Intro to Krav Maga self-defense moves

Tips to Stay out of Harm's Way

• Parking lots, running paths, buildings, stairwells and other fringe areas
• Business travel, including hotels and blending into surroundings
• Living your life empowered ​

Lee's Self-Defense Story

Lee is the survivor of an attempted rape and several close calls that easily could have ended in violence. A resident of large urban areas for decades, her defense was to be able to outrun an attacker. She became interested in martial arts through her children's classes. As the mother of two daughters she was delighted to find and eventually teach, Nia Dance, which incorporates martial arts choreography and principles. 

In 2021, she discovered Pretty Loaded and was impressed with the quality and content it offers. Lee is now studying Krav Maga online, at KMS in Seattle.