The Lioness Instincts 2025 Recap 🦁

2025 End of Year Recap Newsletter

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🦁✨ 2025: A Year of Protection, Power & Purpose ✨🛡️

In 2025, technology moved fast — and families felt it. AI and new digital tools promised convenience, but they also brought new risks into our everyday lives. Online scams became more convincing, privacy felt easier to lose, and the line between “helpful” and “harmful” blurred quickly. One thing became clear this year: families are now on the front lines of digital safety.

As Malwarebytes pointed out:

“We saw manufacturers bolt AI onto products simply because it sounded exciting. In many cases, it really shouldn’t have.”

For me, this year reinforced something I’ve always believed — protecting our homes today goes beyond locks and alarms. It means understanding the apps our children use, being intentional about the tools we bring into our spaces, and thinking carefully about what we share and who we trust online. At Lioness Instincts, 2025 reminded us that digital protection is an act of care — and when families are informed, they are empowered. 🧡🛡️

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Our 2025 Recap

Thank You for Powering Our Impact!

As we close out this year, we want to pause and say thank you.

None of the impact below would have been possible without the generosity, belief, and continued support of our donors, sponsors, volunteers, and community. Your contributions didn’t just fund programs — they created access, safety, confidence, and opportunity for women and children in both physical and digital spaces.

Because of you, we were able to turn vision into action.

🥋 Grappling & Competition Access Impact

This year, your support helped us remove barriers for women and youth in competitive grappling:

• 2 rounds of sponsorship funding awarded

• 16 competition entries funded for ChickJitsu (February 2025)

• Expanded competition access with:

  • 2 additional children’s divisions

  • 5 additional women’s divisions

These sponsorships meant more athletes on the mats, more first-time competitors stepping forward, and more women and kids experiencing the confidence that comes from showing up and being supported.

🔐 Digital Privacy & Online Safety Impact

In a world where online safety is no longer optional, your support allowed us to scale education and awareness:

• 8 online safety & digital privacy workshops hosted

• Hundreds of attendees educated on protecting their data, identities, and families

• Digital Privacy Team grown to 6 dedicated volunteers, supporting:

  • Speaking engagements

  • Social media education

  • Website creation

  • Newsletter and resource development

This team is now laying the foundation for sustainable, ongoing digital safety education well into next year.

🛡️ Women’s Self-Defense & Community Training

Your donations directly supported hands-on, real-world self-defense training:

• 10 women’s self-defense classes hosted at Mattix

• Women’s Jiu-Jitsu class hosted at Smiley Martial Arts

Each class created space for women to build confidence, physical skills, and community — often for the very first time.

💛 From All of Us — Thank You

Every workshop taught, every competition entry funded, every class hosted happened because you chose to invest in safety, strength, and empowerment.

Your support is helping us build a future where:

• Women feel confident defending themselves — online and offline

• Children have access to safe, inclusive competition spaces

• Communities are educated, prepared, and empowered

We are deeply grateful to walk this journey with you.

Thank you for believing in the mission.Thank you for fueling the impact.Thank you for protecting the pride.

🥋 Grappling Scholarship — Results/Winners

“Every lioness deserves the confidence of strength — on and off the mats.”

Announcement: 

• Sarah Carrasquillo - Kid's Division Team USA!

• Nicki Nelsen - Kid's Division

• Aula Abdul-Qader - Women's Division Canada

• Karida Olomua - Women's Division

• LeAnn Flores - Women's Division

• Armi Pascua - Women's Division

• Flor Brandti - Women's Division

👉 Bring Digital Safety & Self-Defense to Your Community in 2026

We’re opening interest for locations that want to host a Lioness Instincts self-defense + digital safety seminar in 2026. If your community could benefit from empowerment, awareness, and practical protection skills, we’d love to connect.

📋 Interest Form:Apply to host a self-defense or digital safety workshop in your community:

👉 Email info@thelionessinstincts.com

🏠 Who Can Host:Gyms, schools, workplaces, nonprofits, churches, women-led groups, or any organization committed to empowering women and families.

✨ Benefits for Attendees:

• Learn real-world self-defense and digital privacy skills

• Build confidence, situational awareness, and online resilience

• Connect with a supportive local community

• Tools to protect themselves — online and in person

🧰 What Lioness Instincts Provides:

• Professional instructors & vetted safety educators

• Digital safety curriculum + physical self-defense instruction

• Hands-on empowerment activities and take-home resources

• Promotional support and a coordination toolkit

🌟 Together, we can create safer spaces where women learn, connect, and strengthen their instincts.

🧡 Support & Donations — Keep the Fire Burning

Your support helps us keep the flame lit — funding workshops, scholarships, training, and community safety programs that empower lionesses everywhere.

Quote from Ishi, our digital privacy analyst:

"I volunteer because I want women to feel protected, informed, and supported — especially in a world where digital privacy isn’t guaranteed. Helping other women stay safer online and in real life matters to me, because we all deserve that sense of security.”

🔗 Donation Page: Give directly and help women access life-changing safety resources: 👉 Donation Link

📊 Transparency: What Donations Fuel:

• Free or low-cost self-defense classes for women and girls

• Digital privacy education accessible to all

• Competition scholarships for women and youth athletes

• Safety programming in partnership with shelters & community groups

• Tools and resources for survivors rebuilding their lives

🌟 New Ways to Contribute:

• Monthly giving — become a sustaining protector of the Pride

• Sponsor a scholarship recipient or a full workshop

• Corporate giving through Benevity & Matching Programs

• Host a fundraiser or awareness event in your community

Every contribution — big or small — helps our Pride grow stronger. Thank you for standing with us. 🦁💜

🍁 Closing Message

Hello, 2026 — Let’s Keep Growing

As we step into 2026, we’re excited to continue building, learning, and protecting together. New workshops, community moments, and opportunities are ahead — and we can’t wait to share them with you.

✨ Stay tuned — more coming soon.

Thank you for being part of the Lioness community.

Want to join our next webinar? Keep an eye out for our upcoming newsletter as we prepare for new webinar events launching in February.

📲 Stay Connected with the Pride

Keep building. Keep learning. Keep roaring. 🦁✨

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