Dannah Eve

If you're looking at your phone, you have no idea who and what's around you.

And having a level of awareness and the way that you move, which I talk a lot about your posture, you want to act like you have people to go, things to do, places to be.

There was a study that was fascinating.

I remember learning about it in college and they took a group of inmates and they basically showed them, I don't know if it was like a surveillance video or what type of video, and they picked the same victim based off of how distracted they were.

or weren't, excuse me, weren't in that moment.

And it was just so eyeopening because you think like, okay, how can I protect myself in the world?

You know, you hear all of the horrible stories on the news, you hear the horrific things and you're like, okay, I don't want that to happen to me.

The best thing that you could do is put your phone down, is just put your phone down.

And that alone can deter crime, which is such a crazy thing that it's that simple sometimes, but it is.

Oh, absolutely.

You need to be able to see and hear what's around you and who's, you know, who's around you at all times.

It's, you see the kids walking around with the, you know, the AirPods in both ears, or you're out in a run with the same thing and you can't hear what's going on around you.

Who was, somebody was telling me this the other day, they were,

out running errands and they had a teenage son that was home alone playing video games with noise canceling headphones and something had caught fire in the kitchen and he had absolutely no idea and couldn't hear the alarm couldn't hear anything that was going on and he was upstairs in his room and his mom was you know down the block and she came running home and was like hello and he was like what's going on he had no idea there was a fire in the kitchen so talk about lying to survive

I love this.

It's okay.

So this started when I was a young, young girl.

Uh, my mom's parents lived about four hours away.

So every time we got in the car, you know, I, we didn't have cell phones or tablets back then we had to play games and something that my parents did that made me really aware of my surroundings at a young age was we played games.

And one of those games was the lion game.