Listeners, I am so excited to introduce all of you to Lindsey Ross and Lauren Bailey, co-founders of Thrive Empowerment! Thrive Empowerment offers trauma informed female led personal safety. Empowerment self-defense is different than any self-defense because it tries to meet people along the entire spectrum of violence. This includes violence prevention, understanding the resources and tools you have like your voice and body, as well as interruption defense, and the healing component. As both friends and business owners, the path to create Thrive Empowerment was spurred from both women’s experience with domestic violence and mentally abusive relationships. This is a story of helping others realize that who you are and how you are raised has nothing to do with whether you can find yourself in an abusive relationship. It is about the right way to heal from an abusive relationship, and in the case of Lindsey and Lauren that healing was found through martial arts, self-defense, and finally Thrive Empowerment.