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
Sending My Daughter Off to College: How Do I Keep Her Safer? (Include Your Sons Too)
“I’m sending my daughter off to college… how do I keep her safe?”
It’s a question so many parents—especially moms—are asking.
In this powerful solo episode, trauma-informed speaker and safety advocate Mandi Pratt shares how her upcoming holistic safety workshops are answering that very question. But there's more: these workshops are now explicitly inclusive of all genders, inviting boys and men to become part of the safety solution.
You’ll hear about:
- What real, modern safety education looks like for college-bound students
- How to equip your daughter AND son with emotional, physical, and intuitive tools
- Why male allyship matters more than ever—and how young men can step up
- Details on how to attend Mandi’s in-person or virtual workshops this fall
Whether you're preparing to send a child to college or simply want to live with more peace and power, this episode offers solutions for clarity, courage, and connection.
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Past Episode with Dr. Hill (on Male Allyship) here
Hey, brave one. Welcome to the Aware and Prepared Podcast. I'm your host, Mandy Pratt, trauma-informed, resilient speaker, domestic violence victim advocate, and narcissistic abuse survivor. Here we keep it real with true crime stories and real world strategies to prevent emotional and physical harm. My guests and I share a mix of insight and survivor grit, all to help you feel safer, trust yourself more deeply.
And live with greater peace and power. Let's trade fear for freedom and step into the peace that you deserve.
Hey, welcome back to the Aware and Prepared Podcast. Today we are doing a solo episode, so it was just me. Hello. We've had a lot of great guest experts on, but today I am coming on here, me, myself, and I to share with you an announcement that I have. So it is summer 2025, and I wanted to let you know that I am hosting a series of workshops this fall.
One, which I've already gotten a request for, and that is the moms want to know how do I keep my daughter safe as I'm sending her off to college? And I am excited to offer that, but I just wanted to share that all workshops moving forward now will include all genders. Um, all genders have always been welcome, but I want to specifically invite.
The guys, because I would love it if guys could be better allies for women. So all workshops now, if a young adult is coming, she is welcome to bring her boyfriend or her brother or her dad. And anytime that I offer a safety workshop, it is always a holistic type of workshop. It's not your typical like self-defense workshop where I'm just teaching you moves.
I am teaching you a very holistic type of. Watching out for yourself. So it's not just physical safety, but it's emotional safety. And that really starts with our intuition, you know, how can we learn to actually tap into that and listen to that and trust ourselves better? So it's very holistic. I really wanted to invite the guys to this and help them understand, you know, how can you be an ally?
And we've had a past podcast episode about that. I had a very special expert, um, guest who came on, and I'll be sure to share that link in the show notes. So if you haven't heard it, you can listen to it. It was with Dr. Hill. So I just wanna encourage the guys, you know, how can you be an ally? What can you actually say?
Like if you hear some other guys saying something disrespecting women, or how can you just not participate in that? And how can you lift up, you know, your sister or your daughter or your wife? And for the guys also heading off to college, you know, helping them understand that the laws are the same. You know where you live at home as well as at college, and helping them understand what consent really is and more about healthy relationships for our young adults.
They really need to know that. And so these workshops will be in person in Southern California, and I will also offer a virtual version of that. How do you find out about that? It's very simple. Two different ways. The first way, is okay, but the second way is the best. So the first is by following me on Instagram.
I am on Women With, that's plural, so W-O-M-E-N. Aware and Prepared, that is my Instagram handle. I'll drop that in the show notes. So you can just click once and go directly to it. And the second way, which is the very best way, is to join into our email VIPs. So I send out a weekly email every Tuesday. And with that, you always get a link to that week's podcast episode, and then you get the resources from it and you get the timestamp.
So it says like at minute three, we spoke about this at minute six. You know, people seem to really like. That. And then of course, you know, it shares some different tips. 'cause the whole point is learning to live safer with more peace. That is my like motto here. So that's what I help you with every week.
There's no spam. It's very short and helpful to the point. And a people open these pretty, like I have a high open rate and. I rarely ever get unsubscribed, so I know that people read these and they find them helpful. Um, so if that's you, by the way, thank you for sticking with us and, um. I love hearing how it's helping people.
So make sure that you are on that list, because that's where I'm gonna be sharing about the upcoming workshops. Links directly to it. What exactly do we cover, how much does it cost, where is it at? So all of those details will be there. And I will share a link to that in the show notes.
And you can just go directly to my website. So that is. Aware and prepared life, LIFE. And if you scroll down to the bottom, you'll see where you can even just take a quick little quiz on how you're doing with trusting your intuition, and then you'll be on, you'll be one of the VIPs and you'll get those weekly emails.
So, yeah, I'm super excited to have more of you in there and be able to, remind you about the podcast and then also give you direct links to these workshops that are upcoming in person and virtual, so you have all of that info. This is really good information that you're gonna get, which are great, not just for young adults, but also for anybody of any age.
How to live safer with more peace. So that is what I love to help you with, with workshops and when I go out and speak. I hope that you will follow along on Instagram and then even better yet. Um, come into those weekly emails and be a VIP here.
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Remember, you are worthy of a safe and peaceful life. Talk to you next week.