Episode 18 - Jessica Levin - Safety Educator: Empowering & Educating in Self-Protection
In this episode of The Realtor Who Wines, host Rashelle Newmyer meets Jessica Levin, a safety educator from Damsel in Defense, over a glass at Domaine Serene in Dayton, Oregon. What starts as a chat about realtor safety quickly opens into something much bigger.
Jessica shares powerful, sometimes chilling, real-life stories from college students nearly lured from retail stores to a teen being targeted by a woman in a Target bathroom. They break down how predators use distraction, manipulation, and even other women to lower our guard, and why simply teaching “stranger danger” isn’t enough. Instead, Jessica offers practical tools for parents, such as teaching kids to trust that “funny feeling,” using books and board games about tricky situations, and creating an open-door rule, no secrets, and no fear of getting in trouble for speaking up.
Then, bravely, Jessica opens up about her own past: being drugged and sexually assaulted over 40 years ago, and how she carried guilt, shame, and silence for decades until the women she taught ended up empowering her to find her voice again. She shares the moment she finally filed a police report and how that act, even decades later, became another step in her healing process.
It’s an unfiltered, often emotional conversation touching on parenting, college safety, domestic abuse, victim blaming, and why no story is too old or too small to matter. Whether you’re a parent wanting to keep your child safer, a realtor meeting strangers, or someone healing from past trauma, this episode is about real stories, practical tools, and remembering you have every right to protect yourself physically, emotionally, and legally.
Pour a glass and listen in, you’ll walk away braver, wiser, and reminded that it’s never too late to speak your truth.
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