114: Empowered Self-Defense - Maryam Aziz

Women's Wellness ON AIR WITH ELLA

Ella Lucas-Averett

Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

5 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Maryam Aziz wants to empower YOU. This show is a departure from our normal themes, and it’s an important one. To me, wellness also includes taking preventative action to make sure that you’re being smart, staying safe and avoiding harm. To that end, I reached out to Chief Self-Defense Instructor Maryam Aziz, to ask her how we can avoid putting ourselves at risk and what to do if we find ourselves in a threatening situation.

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0:00.0	If I'm walking down the street, whether it's in the middle of the day or it's in the middle of the night, right, there are certain things that I can do, certain ways that I can look, that make me feel safer and also make me appear less susceptible if someone's looking at me.
0:15.3	Welcome, you're on air with Ella, where we share simple strategies and truths from people who are doing something
0:21.7	better than we are, whether it's wellness or fitness and fat loss to just living better and with more
0:27.4	energy or changing your mindset to accomplish more in your own life and succeeding however
0:32.8	you define it. This is where we share the best of what we're learning from the experts,
0:36.8	and we're learning more every day.
0:39.6	Live better. Start now.
0:48.7	Hey, everyone, you're on air with Ella, and today I'm joined by a special guest, Mariam Aziz. Hey, Mariam, how are you?
0:56.4	I'm doing great today, Ella. How are you doing? I am stoked to talk to you. Gosh, you have an
1:01.1	important message to share with everybody and it's different than anything I've ever done before
1:05.7	Mariam. And I love it for that reason, but I also love it because if this show can help one person or help one person, help one person, then that will be just such a gift.
1:15.7	So first of all, welcome. Why don't you tell everyone who you are and what you do?
1:21.2	Absolutely. So my name is Mario Aziz, and I am the chief self-defense instructor for Wise, which stands for the women's
1:29.4	initiative for self-empowerment. I'm also a PhD candidate in American Studies at the University
1:36.4	of Michigan. Very cool. Now, Mariam, what on earth brought you to a place in time where you are
1:42.9	committed to and passionate about self-defense.
1:46.1	It all starts with a 12th birthday, Ella. When I was 12, my father took me on a short 10-minute
1:52.5	car drive from our house in South Jersey. Wouldn't tell me where we're going. And we showed up at my
1:57.7	local YMCA. And he signed me up for karate classes as my 12th birthday gift.
2:04.3	And I have not stopped going in all of that time.
2:07.5	And my father tells me to this day, you know, I never actually expected you to last this long.
2:13.0	That is so cool.
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