Steve Kardian:
Steve Kardian is one of the nation’s go-to experts on issues of women’s safety, crime prevention, and risk reduction.  He is a media consultant for Inside Edition, CNN, FOX News, and The Morning Show just to name a few.  Steve has lectured on crime prevention, campus safety, and women’s safety for 25 years and is currently giving lectures for the prestigious CAMPUSPEAK at colleges and universities across the country.  Not one to just talk the talk, Steve, among many other titles, is currently the Eastern U.S. lead instructor at Defend University, a research and development group dedicated to the exploration of leading edge techniques and strategies for self-defense, security and defensive tactics.   I have been very impressed by Steve’s knowledge and concern for issues of women’s safety and count myself very lucky to have had an opportunity to learn from someone of his caliber and expertise.
I first talked to Steve in February of 2009 when I found the Fight Like a Girl program.  Over the next few months, I learned more from Steve about what it took to be and feel safe in a handful of e-mails and a few phone conversations  than I did in over a year of martial arts classes.  It was his response to an e-mail that I sent during the late spring of that year, however, that he really changed my life and how I thought about self-defense.  I asked him if his training and life experiences as a policeman for 30 years in New York helped him to feel safer or less safe.  In short, he told me that “if you allow your guard to drop low enough there is always someone that is looking to take advantage of you.”  He then went on to say what at the time I really needed to hear.  He said, “That is not to mean that you walk around paranoid but rather that you become more aware of your surroundings and learn the many little indicators that will keep you safe.”  I am learning from Steve that trusting and listening to my “woman’s intuition” and being aware, not paranoid, about my surroundings are some of the most important things I can do to be safe.  Next is knowing what my strengths are and how to use them.  You can find out more about Steve Kardian and a lot of VERY useful information at his website, www.nydefendu.com.

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