Meet The Team
BRAD PARKER
Brad Parker has spent more than two decades preparing people for real-world violence, with a particular focus on helping women respond to and defend against violent attacks. He runs the Women's Self-Defense Community and is the creator of the Never Defenseless series, which teaches women practical self-defense and defensive pistol skills designed to work under real-world stress—without requiring a martial arts background.
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Brad currently serves as a senior manager and executive protection professional for a major U.S. security provider, where he has planned and led protective operations and helped train protective agents for some of the world’s largest corporations. Over his career, he has been assigned every major role on protective services details, including advance work, protective driving, close protection, and Agent-in-Charge duties, with both domestic and international experience.
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Brad is a nationally recognized defensive tactics and firearms instructor. He has instructed personnel at the FBI Academy in Quantico, as well as law enforcement and security agencies throughout the United States, and has delivered defensive instruction internationally to the London Metropolitan Police and the Garda Síochána (Irish National Police).
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He is a Tactical Firearms Instructor, Combat Pistol Instructor, and state-certified firearms instructor, with a background that blends operational law enforcement experience, executive protection, and decades of defensive training.
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Whether training professionals, protecting executives, or empowering women through the Never Defenseless series, Brad’s mission is consistent: help good people survive dangerous situations—and give them the skills and confidence to never be defenseless again.
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You can reach him at neverdefenselesstraining@gmail.com.
SHANNON MAHONEY
Shannon Mahoney brings over 20 years of training and teaching experience across multiple martial arts and defensive tactics disciplines. Her passion lies in combining simplified, effective techniques in self-defense to gain confidence and ability for personal safety. Shannon excels in coaching her students to integrate physical and emotional skills, replacing fear with intent, and empowering students to act decisively.
Based out of the Midwest, Shannon provides hands on, practical safety training experiences. She focuses on real life threats and scenarios that occur in everyday life. She has completed multiple education and performance based training in firearms safety, proper use of force, fundamental handgun tactics for personal defense, combative movement techniques, and tactical skills for personal defense through agencies such as Progressive Force Concepts and USCCA. She is a USCCA certified Range Safety Officer (RSO).
You can contact her at neverdefenselesstraining@gmail.com.