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UNC Patriot Bootcamp (Parts 1 & 2):
Part One: http://video.unctv.org/video/2365555552/
Part Two: http://video.unctv.org/video/2365555568/
Podcast Appearances
More Interviews & Articles
The Natural Healing Reel with Jacquie Capstick
Business Confidential Now: How Adversity and Resilience Led to the Badass Grandma
Bonnie Radio Podcast with CJ Scarlet
Ways Parents Can Teach Kids How NOT to become a Victim of Bullying
Hanna Hasl-Kelchner: How Adversity and Resilience Led to the Badass Grandma
CJ Scarlet Gets “Creative” with RadioRed
ConnectED Conversation with CJ Scarlet
Up Journey: 29 Personal Development Experts, Authors, and Blogs to Follow in 2019
Datelicious: The 52 Week Love Project – Week 22 Acts of Kindness
The Daily Advance: Sex assault survivor: ‘Fight like a Taz’
Inspire Me Today: How to Create Inner Peace
The Story Exchange: CJ Scarlet: A Device and Mission to Stop Violence Before It Starts
Bizwomen: “This Sexual Assault Survivor Channeled Her Experience into a Device to Help Others”
ABC WWAY: “Female Innovators Share Wisdom with Local Entrepreneurs”
Make a Connection: CJ’s Battle with PTSD
Coffee with Nicoa: https://coffeewithnicoa.buzzsprout.com/2046099/13429944-s1-ep34-cj-scarlet
Women Veterans Book Corner - Center for Women Veterans (CWV) (va.gov)
WomLEAD Magazine: CJ Scarlet: Empowering Women and Kids to Transform Trauma into Triumph
Interview Topic Ideas
Why predators LOVE it when parents don’t talk to their kids about sex.
The #1 reason women are targeted by predators. Hint: you learned it from your mother!
CJ’s top 5 tips for outwitting predators.
How predators select and groom their victims.
How to avoid being victimized by out-thinking and out-talking predators.
How to unleash your inner badass and fight (dirty) if you must, with no martial arts or self-defense training.
The #1 date rape drug. It’s not what you think!
Thriving after surviving a victimization (e.g., sexual assault, military sexual trauma).
CJ’s personal story of how she survived repeated sexual victimizations, overcame a “terminal” illness, and went on to become internationally known as a danger expert and the Badass Grandma.
The world is actually safer for our kids today than any time in the past 50 years!
The media has it all wrong—the real numbers behind child abductions.
Your kid is safer being with strangers than their own relatives!
Don’t tell your lost child to find a police officer or store clerk. Tell her to find a mom with kids.
Don’t think your child is too young to learn about body safety issues. The average age when a child is first abused is between 3 and 8.
Long Bio
CJ Scarlet was dying. Years of depression and anxiety from childhood abuse and rape as a teenager resulted in post-traumatic stress. By 1990, the dark secrets CJ harbored and the stress they caused led her to develop two life-threatening autoimmune conditions which, in 2002, left her fighting for her life.
By 2004, she was told her condition was terminal. CJ became so debilitated she had to crawl on her hands and knees to get upstairs, and she couldn’t lift a cup of coffee or hold a hairbrush. She became very deeply depressed and anxious about her impending heart failure.
Then, CJ was offered the opportunity to meet privately with a Tibetan Buddhist lama who kindly but sternly commanded her to “stop feeling sorry for herself and start thinking of the happiness of other people.”
Daunted but determined, she began performing small acts of kindness—letting the mom with the crying baby go ahead of her in line, giving her cane to a woman who was struggling to walk, and volunteering at the Red Cross after Hurricane Katrina. These simple, spontaneous acts made her feel happier and more fulfilled, so she did more. And the more she did, the better she felt, until she reached a point where her heart was so full it no longer mattered whether she was sick or well, or even living or dying—she was filled with gratitude for each and every moment.
At that point, her condition went into remission—all within 18 months! Today, CJ feels better and happier than she ever dreamed possible, and she is thriving both personally and professionally.
An expert in survivors’ rights and advocacy, CJ initiated and co-chaired the implementation of the nation’s first statewide automated victim notification system which contacts victims before their perpetrators are released from custody. This award-winning system was selected as the national model by the U.S. Department of Justice.
CJ has given speeches and workshops at national and international events, and has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, including MSNBC and NPR. She’s the author of Raising Badass Kids, Badass Parenting, Heroic Parenting, The Badass Girl’s Guide: Uncommon Strategies to Outwit Predators; and Neptune’s Gift: Discovering Your Inner Ocean.
The former roller-skating carhop, forest firefighter, and U.S. Marine photojournalist holds a B.A. in political science from Virginia Wesleyan College, and an interdisciplinary master’s degree in humanities with an emphasis on human violence from Old Dominion University.
Named one of the “Happy 100” people on the planet, CJ’s story of triumph over adversity is featured in the bestselling books Happy for No Reason and Be Invincible.
Short Bio
CJ Scarlet, aka the Badass Grandma, is a danger expert and author of books that help parents empower their kids to protect and defend themselves from dangerous people.
CJ knows first-hand how violence can destroy lives. A survivor of childhood abuse and teen sexual assault, CJ spent years dealing with the emotional aftermath of her experience. After taking her power back, she became an advocate for others who had been victimized, running a child advocacy center and serving as Director of Victims Issues for the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office. Over her three decades as a victim advocate, CJ has helped thousands of survivors claim their power too.
The former roller-skating carhop, forest firefighter, and U.S. Marine photojournalist holds a master’s degree in human violence. Named one of the “Happy 100” people on the planet, CJ’s story of triumph over adversity is featured in several bestselling books.
