Welcome to the Aware and Prepared podcast

Where I, Mandi, a certified domestic violence victim advocate and survivor, host a podcast about prevention and post-traumatic growth to help others live safer with more peace.

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Hear real stories, expert insights, skills and resources to prevent harm, heal from trauma and grow. Let’s leave worry behind and live aware, prepared and empowered. You deserve to live in peace and safety!

How to Stop People Pleasing and Heal Codependency After Trauma

Mandi Pratt

Published on: 27/10/2026

Ever say yes before you've had a chance to ask yourself what you want? It's not a character defect. It's your nervous system doing exactly what it was trained to do: fawn response, hypervigilance, and why trauma can make good moments seem dangerous..

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How to Raise Kids Who Won’t Become Victims, Perpetrators, or Silent Bystanders (Cornell 7)

Mandi Pratt

Published on: 20/10/2026

Why prevention starts when kids are little, what parents need to know about alcohol and hyper-masculine spaces, how groomers manipulate kids online...gives you tools to raise kids who won't become victims or perpetrators, without victim blaming

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The Cornell 7: Four Patterns Behind Campus Sexual Assault

Mandi Pratt

Published on: 13/10/2026

The Cornell 7 didn’t come out of nowhere. Situations like this are built, and the patterns behind them show up on campuses again and again. Mandi, certified victim advocate, breaks down the four patterns that build it

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Co-Parenting Apps and AI Platform That Helps Document Post-Separation Abuse

Mandi Pratt

Published on: 29/09/2026

GREAT platform for navigating relational harm and for survivors navigating co-parenting after abuse. Aimee Says (AI platform) can help spot coercive control, document patterns for legal and custody proceedings, lighten the mental load....

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