Aware And Prepared
Hello! This is the Aware and Prepared podcast. I'm your host, Mandi Pratt, a trained domestic violence advocate. I teach women and vulnerable populations how to be street smart. I'm a mom with a gnarly backstory from almost two decades ago. The FBI showed up at my door one day to alert me that my abusive ex had become wanted for multiple bank robberies. Our story was in the news (a few times). I was tired of feeling vulnerable and learned how to keep myself and my son safer. I wish when I was a young woman I'd known about red flags to watch for in relationships, and had learned how to be street smart. This podcast is for 15-year-old me and is meant for families and community groups to listen to together. After all, women's safety is a community issue. I'll share with you stories like mine and interview detectives, psychologists and many other experts to NOT only hear their jaw-dropping stories, but also what we learn from them to prevent harm for our every youth and grown up listening. I don't want anyone else to have to go through what I did - scared, vulnerable and needing decades of counseling and healthcare to heal. I want you to feel safer with less fear and more power!
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Aware And Prepared
How to Stop Second Guessing Yourself and Hear Your Intuition
We explore the power of slowing down to hear our inner voice in this first episode (in a series of 5 episodes) of the Intuition Activation Challenge. Mandi shares why we often rationalize away red flags and how taking just a pause to breathe and be present can help us reconnect with our intuition. But this is just the beginning! Listen to the episode, take the Intuition Quiz, and uncover what your intuition has been trying to tell you. Then, dive into the challenge and start building trust in yourself today!
RESOURCES
🔹 Intuition Quiz – Find out how well you trust and act on your intuition: AwareAndPrepared.life (Scroll to the bottom and click "Take the Quiz")
🔹 Intuition Activation Challenge PDF – You’ll get the Challenge PDF after you receive your quiz results
🔹 Connect with Mandi
📌 LinkedIn: Mandi Pratt
📌 Instagram: @WomenAwareAndPrepared
 Hey, brave one. Welcome to another episode of the Aware and Prepared Podcast. I'm your host, Mandy Pratt, a trained domestic violence victim advocate, self-defense teacher, and professional speaker who teaches those feeling vulnerable, how to be street smart and feel safer with more peace, you'll hear true crime stories, but most importantly, how we might prevent crimes happening to us.
Without judgment or shame, of course. You deserve to live in peace and safety. So return each week to learn safety tips and emotional self-defense. So we live empowered with peace. Let's be less naive and leave helplessness and worry behind so we can be safer, savvy, aware, and unprepared.
Okay. How are you liking the intuition Activation Challenge? This five part series that we're doing, day one is the first activity, day two is the second activity, and so on and so forth, down to day five. So each of these steps, I've broken down into a weekly podcast episode for you, and I hope that you're loving it.
If you haven't had a chance yet to go take the quick little quiz and see how. You're even doing with the intuition. And then you'll see after you take the quiz where you can download the challenge, then please go to Aware and Prepared Life LIFE. I'll drop the link into the show notes, so you can just click there and then on Aware and Prepared Life where it says, take the quiz and you can see how you're doing.
I hope you're loving it and it's helping you. So, first of all, let's review day one. What was day one? It was slow down. Take five minutes just to pause and just be with yourself, be with your thoughts and listen to what comes up. So what came up for you? Maybe you just needed five minutes to yourself. I'm sure you had some thoughts cycle through.
Maybe something that's been bugging you seemed to come up and it kind of made you think about it. Right. How did it feel to slow down? For me, it always feels so good to slow down and just I. Take a minute. So building upon that is day two, and that is listen inward. So why? Why do we do this? Our body often knows the answer before your mind does, right?
So listening inward helps you tune into that gut feeling and those subtle clues that your subconscious is trying to. So we slowed down and now we're listening more, right? So we're tuning in. So spend a few minutes today asking yourself this question, what do I need right now? So maybe it's not five minutes again, or maybe it is.
Maybe that felt really good to just take five minutes to be with yourself without distractions to slow down and listen to things. So today. Do the same thing. Put it in your calendar. It could be five minutes, it could be two minutes, whatever. Just some kind of timer to help you to ask yourself this question, what do I need right now?
Pay attention to what your body or your emotions say, even if it's unexpected. So what do you need right now? Is that more quiet space by yourself without distractions? Is that to talk something through with a friend? Is that to go out in nature? Is that to take a nap? What is it that you need right now as you're listening inward?
So that wraps up day two. Again, you can let me know if you'd like. How you're finding this, how this is working out for you on LinkedIn, Mandy Pratt or Instagram women aware and prepared. Thanks for being a fan of the Aware and Prepared Podcast. Show it some love by leaving a review and don't forget to hit follow so you can catch future episodes.
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I'll talk with you next week. Remember, you are worthy of a safe and peaceful life.