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Close Quarter Dad
by Adam Mitchell
The Close Quarter Dad podcast is a discussion among men about teaching our kids to live safe, confident and resilient lives. Topics are focussed on topics of personal protection, family safety, loss prevention and last resort survival.
Episodes
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Home Safety Audit, with Adam Mitchell
Welcome to this week's Safety Check—this time, we're focusing on Home Safety. As we kick off our new community, one of our first steps is to establish your training area—a Dojo. But before you set up your Dojo, I challenge you to teach your kids how to conduct a Basic Home Safety Check. Encourage...
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How I Survived The Killing Fields, with Sara Im
This episode is incredibly special, and is specifically for Dads who are struggling with children who feel they can't go on. You are not alone. One of the things most people don't know about us Dads, is the powerlessness and utter fear we live in when we can't guide our children (especially our...
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How to use Fear as your Child's Teacher, with Mark Booher
Too often we will apply fear as a scare tactic to get our children to either do or avoid something, rather than using it as a valuable tool to learn and become more resilient. In today's episode of Close Quarter Dad, I sit down with Mark Booher, a former infantryman, intelligence professional,...
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Protecting Your Child From Sexual Abuse, with Joelle Casteix
In this episode, I speak with a leading global expert on the topic of sexual abuse. Celebrated author and TEDx speaker, Joelle Casteix is changing the current cultural perspective on sexual abuse, and bringing light to the urgent need of conversations with children about sexual abuse and...
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Prepare You Kids For Conflict, with Mike Hammond
Episode 56: Level up how you communicate with your children about conflict situations In this episode, we go deep in an insightful conversation with the experienced Mike Hammond, a retired Chicago homicide detective, to explore the crucial topic of helping children navigate the aftermath of...
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Strong Parenting in a Sexualized World, with Dr. Tara
In this episode, "Parenting in a Sexualized World," we're joined by Dr. Tara, a professor at Cal State University specializing in sex behavior and sexual communication. Together with our host, Adam Mitchell, they discuss the complexities of raising children in a society saturated with sexualized...
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Raising Your Kids In The Digital Age, with Matt McKee
In today's episode, host Adam Mitchell sits down with Matt McKee, VP at Bark and author of "Parenting in a Tech World," to dive deep into the challenges and opportunities of raising children in the digital age. With a focus on purpose-driven technology use, child safety, and insightful parenting...
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The Current State of Family Safety and Preparedness, with Amber Elle
What is the current state of Family Safety and as a man and father, are you prepared? Amber Elle, Director of Family Preparedness and the lead for women’s development at Fieldcraft Survival discusses family safety measures and exactly how to safeguard your loved ones. You'll learn: The current...
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Your Strategy for Detecting Children in Danger, with Katie Fetzer
This episode will educate you on the current state of abused children, how prevalent it really in and how you must have an immediate strategy for detecting children in danger. My guest in this episode is Katie Fetzer from 1018 Strategy who shares about the prevalence of child abuse and neglect…
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Teaching Your Kids The Pillars of Survival, with Toby Cowern
On this episode of Close Quarter Dad, we explore the importance of teamwork, nature literacy, disaster preparedness, communication skills, and male empowerment in fatherhood. Listeners will learn the four survival priorities and how to prioritize them in different situations. Toby also shares his...
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Healing and Safety for Children with ADD and ADHD, with Avigail Gimpel
Avigail Gimpel is a mom and educator who has earned her stripes! As her students struggled with ADHD symptoms and her own children were (removed being) diagnosed with ADHD, she took a deep dive into the research (turning up unexpected results), studied and applied the best programs available, and...
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Teach your kids to Spot Danger, with Gary Quesenberry
... Before it Spots Your Kids. In this recording from the Child Safety Summit, 2022 we sit down with the authority on Situational Awareness, fellow Dad and author of some of the most comprehensive and valuable books on keeping your family safe. In this episode you will learn: How children can...
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Applying Whole Circle Training to Conflict Management, with Randy King
This is our second episode with Self Defense expert Randy King, during his session of the Child Safety Summit, 2022.. You will join a critical conversation with Randy King and Adam Mitchell about how to step into training personal protection and family safety with a holistic and realistic…
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Training Mindset for Teaching Self Defense, with Avi Nardia
Learn how to shift your mindset to a teacher of Self Defense, when training your children how to protect themselves and remain strong in the face of danger. Avi Nardia (Major, IDF Res.) served as an official hand-to-hand instructor and safety officer. He then served in Israel's Special Counter...
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Teaching Kids to Know Fear, with Tony Blauer
Coach Tony Blauer has been in the martial art, self-defense, defensive tactics, and combatives industry for over four decades. He is one of the only Combatives experts who has successfully affected training across all the combat related communities: self-defense, combat sports, and the military &...
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Is Omegle safe for kids? You've been warned.
If you're a parent of a 10-16 year old, how would you respond to a grown man has pleasuring himself in front of your son or daughter, and there wasn't a damn thing you could do about it? That's question I could think of after recording this episode. There's an extremely high chance that this has...
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Human Trafficking, Why You Can't Look the Other Way, with Nic McKinley
This is a mandatory episode for all parents to hear, and to share with other parents. Human trafficking, child sexual trafficking and sexploitation is an American epidemic. It is a situation in every town and city. Confronting it should be a line item in every city budget. In this episode you…
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Good Posture Will Change Your Child's Life, with Chris Janke
One of the most critical topics to teach our children in terms of safety, regardless if it's staying safe from people or environmental dangers - is posture. It's also a topic seldom discussed in relationship to staying personal protection, but it is vital that kids are taught this. What you will...
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The Child Safety Summit, what I learned
In this episode, I share what I personally learned after spending 3 days with 14 of the best authors, trainers and advocates for child safety, at the Child Safety Summit, 2022. While the summit is over, you can still access the speaker's sessions at https://closequarterdad.com/summit-2022 What…
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The Difference Between Martial Arts and Self Defense, with Randy King
This episode is for Dads who want to really understand why martial arts are not self defense. Indeed, they support one another, but it's critical that you understand the difference. You will step into a conversation with Randy King and Adam Mitchell about the differences between and the two, the...
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Strong Dads Need Stronger Gear, with Craig Risoli
Bag failures suck. Especially when there's kid's food, diapers and important lunches on long trips. Gear failures create stress, can damage stuff around you, and generally ruin what should otherwise be enjoyable, quality family time. And who's to blame? Probably, you. Showing up to events with...
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The day after Uvalde mass shooting, with Adam Mitchell
What are you doing to keep children in schools safe? How are you showing up for your community to protect and be an active player in the protection of children? Or, are you sitting on the sidelines, hoping your tax dollars cover their safety, meanwhile point fingers at who's to blame for the…
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Should Your My Kid Stop for an Unmarked Police Car?
I found it in a local community Facebook page, a parent sharing an article they'd found about a girl not pulling over for an unmarked police car. They soon found out that the person trying to pull her over was a wanted rapist. It created a big buzz in my community, but something about the article...
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Creating Clear Expectations With Your Kids, with Ben Winter
One of the many challenges we as parents face is projecting our expectations onto our children, and assuming they are going to know what these expectations mean. It's actually kind of nuts, and in this conversation we unravel the root of all upset your children encounter, and why. Ben Winter is…
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How Your Kids Will Manage A Billion Dollars, with Luke Hohmann
In this episode we are joined by my friend Luke Hohmann, who is the founder of an incredible company called FirstRoot, who's technology allows young people to invest real money, in real proposals ... and it has created incredible outcomes. Luke's FirstRoot model sets kids up for learning…
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Leading Kids Through Challenge, With Possibility, with Scott Feld
Reframing ways you encourage your children through challenges is one of the most important things you can do for them. How often are you checking in on this? Seriously. In today's conversation, Scott Feld and I go deep into the topic of helping kids find their super powers, and give them the…
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The Devil's Playground, The Point of No Return 2
In this week's episode of Point of No Return (Episode 34) on the Close Quarter Dad podcast, we sit down with retired Bronx Lt., John Magee and dig into this situation, a woman gets swarmed in a playground by a group of teenage boys, after asking them to stop throwing rocks at an elderly man. Her...
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Teach your kids to do Hard Things, with Jay Tiegs
On this episode, we’ll be stepping into some topics seldom discussed among men, such as how to teach courage and bravery to kids, guiding kids on courses of action and how to balance their anxieties with anticipation; my friend Jay Tiegs is the man to bring the knowledge. His perspective is...
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Parenting with Everyday Excellence, with Joe Templin
On this episode, we sit down with leading excellence and mindset coach, former International Taekwon Do champion, ultra marathon runner and proud Dad of three boys, who is involved in more community work than we have space to list here. Joe details for us, how shifting your mindset to one of…
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Overtaken. Fights Back. Point of No Return 1
The reality is this, that girl did a good job, from what is seen in the security camera. Without knowing what led to this, or where she was headed to, it's tough to tell. She did however - fight back. Check out the full episode at: Point of No Return 1. Overtaken, Fight Back START TRAINING YOUR...
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A Mother's Fight for Justice, interview with Rachel Bruno
This is a story every parent should listen to, learn from and then take action. Rachel shares her story about how within 72 hours, her seven week old suffered a traumatic brain injury, her toddler was taken from home and she faced years in prison and made homeless. She shares how her story is no...
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Encourage Courage, Early On, with Scott Rossignol
Taking steps to guide your children through difficult experiences, risky obstacles and problem solving without you there, not only builds strong character - it builds resilience. In today's episode, join us in a discussion with someone who offers advice from the pricilnpal's office, that we can…
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When your kids need to call 911, are they prepared?
I am going to challenge you on making sure your children know 'how' to call 911 in case of an emergency - and I don't mean dialing the numbers. A few topics covered on this episode What your children must know - no excuses When is the right time to call 911 How can you teach your children to…
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Martial Arts, Wrestling or Hand Holding, where do Dads begin teaching
What's the right age to begin teaching these topics to children, and what does that training and guidance look like from Dad? This episode was a response to some questions asked to me by a fellow Dad. My answer had so much to it, I made and episode I broke down some helpful steps for Dads who…
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Understanding the Lifecycle of Violence as a Parent
In the last episode, we explained and defined the four phases of violent crime, helping you to identify what potential threat types are, who they're going to come from, what those threats may be and what we need to start focusing when discussing this with our kids. In this episode we want to move...
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A Criminal, The Second Threat of Violence
The next threat within what I consider the four phases of violent crime is the Face of the Criminal. This is not going have too much to do with yourself or your child, as it simply happens that they may find themself in the wrong place at the wrong time. An example of this situation might be at a...
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The Priority of Communication for Keeping Kids Safe
In this episode, we will explore the two priorities of how to engage your children when training them to stay safe, regardless of age or scenario. These two priorities are, providing your child with the foundation to build a strong sense of self, and teaching them the tools of proper…
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Faces of Violence, Part 1 The Friend and Criminal
There is really one of four faces or four situations that they're gonna find themselves in. If you're able to understand this, then you're able to move your own training, your own discussions and your own paradigm in the proper way. A lot of self-defense programs teach stranger danger. A lot of...
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Close Quarter Dad Origin Story
The reason for creating close quarter parenting is, back in 2006 I began to recognize something that was pretty unique, and I don't know if I would have ever realized this if I wasn't in the unique situation I was in as a martial arts instructor and as a father. As a teacher here, and the owner…
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Functional vs. Improvisational Training
Let's talk about understanding the difference between improvisational training and functional training and how we should approach working with our children to give them a clear understanding and skill set of for personal protection. How can they really take ownership of the lessons you teach…
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The Jiujitsu of Stress
We can empower our kids with the best techniques to stay safe if someone grabs them, or teach them how to prevent a bully from hurting them … or we can show them what to do if a group of kids tries jumping them … or we can even show them how to get out of the trunk of a car they're locked inside....
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My Son Wants Revenge, Reflections on Friends Getting Jumped
Over the last few days, I've been handling a situation with my oldest son. He's 18 years old and he's dealing with a fight that happened here in our community that involved his friends. My son called me from somewhere in about 12:30 am the other evening and explained to me that a group of his...
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Ask yourself Threatening Questions
In this episode I want to challenge you to ask yourself what I call threatening questions. These are questions that as a parent, we don't want to face … they are dark. They are questions we may not even know to ask ourselves. What if I get separated from you in the city, I get lost and it's dark?...
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Reflections on nature in martial arts, the lost secret
As a professional martial artist, I've made it a career for more than a decade to teach people from all walks of life, young and old, how to remain safe. Discovery of self preservation and safety is not merely about learning a technique to apply against a bad guy, although most martial arts…
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Teach Your Child to be Found Part 1.
In this video, I challenge you to ask your child a question. Try it out and see what they say. I discuss some first steps you can teach your child in case they become separated from you or a group they may be with - and suddenly find themselves alone and lost.
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Why every parent should share a path with their kids
Let’s discuss an observation I've made over the last 20 years of teaching martial arts, engaging with parents and working with their children; the massive impact a dad has on their child when they actually participate in that activity. It doesn't necessarily have to be martial arts. It can be any...
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Book Review for Dads, Meditations on Violence
Today I want to share with you an answer to a question I get asked a lot; can I recommend a book that would help immerse myself into the study of self-defense and personal protection? Oftentimes I might get asked by a parent who doesn't want to get himself involved in martial arts. Whether they...
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How to talk to your kids about violence
Are you having discussions with your children about the topic of violence and where violence is may happen in their life, how they're going to be able to manage it, what happens when they see it, how to make basic sense of it? Well, in this episode, I will introduce you to a couple of tactics you...
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The Close Quarter Dad podcast is a discussion among men about teaching our kids to live safe, confident and resilient lives. Topics are focussed on topics of personal protection, family safety, loss prevention and last resort survival.
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