Diamond Defense Podcast
Diamond Defense Podcast shares real stories and practical strategies to help women protect themselves, trust their instincts, and stand strong in any situation.
Diamond Defense Podcast
Latest Episodes
When Money Becomes Control: Financial Abuse with Dr. Merideth Thompson
Dr. Merideth Thompson joins the Diamond Defense Podcast to unpack financial abuse in intimate relationships: what it is, how it overlaps with coercive control, common red flags, safe exit planning, recovery, and how loved ones can help.
Supporting Someone in an Abusive Relationship: A Conversation with Tiffiny Newton
Content Warning: This episode includes discussion of emotional abuse, sexual assault, and domestic violence. Please choose how you listen in a way that protects yourself.Think someone you love might be in an abusive relat...
Mid-Season Recap
Eight episodes in, we pause to listen back—to the moments when instinct spoke, boundaries mattered, and survival took shape in real time. This mid-season recap revisits discussions of sexual assault, coercive control, and personal safety; nothi...
Coercive Control Relationships
Content Warning: This episode includes personal accounts of coercive control, emotional abuse, intimidation, and fear within a relationship.Understand coercive control relationships and the quiet patterns of emot...
Demystifying Self-Defense Training
Think self-defense is only for the strong or the fearless? Think again. In this episode, Lisa breaks down reality-based training, martial arts options, and the truth about awareness, boundaries, and using your voice as your first weapon....
