#58: Rew Mitchell: Awakening Female Fighters
Rew Mitchell is the owner of Awakening Fighters. He supports and promotes female fighters around the world with the online database of athletes he created and maintains.
Rew and Georgia discuss:
- The sexualization of women in combat sports
- How Rew, a male-identified person, came to create a data-base to empower female fighters
- Differences between male and female fighters
- The uses of the database
- Future plans for Awakening Fighters
To connect with Rew:
You can search "Awakening Fighters" on facebook and instagram or email: [email protected]
If you identify as female, have fought/competed in any discipline and would like to be added to the database, please download the Awakening Profile Questionnaire, fill it in and return it to [email protected]
For Rew's book: Way of the 69 Fists
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-69-Fists-popular-martial/dp/B084DH59GG
To listen to the Taoism Book Rew mentions: Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVbNPQZwL6k
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Thank you so much to Nari for the beautiful song "Shape Me" heard at the beginning and end of this episode. Nari wrote this song about Shape Your Life, a boxing program for self-identified female survivors of violence in Canada. She wrote this song using the words and experiences shared by participants with Cathy Van Ingen. You can find out more about Shape Your Life in my interview with Cathy in Episode 8. You can hear more of Nari's work by going to her Instagram: @narithesaga
