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Are you are angry about an injustice?
Or do you wish you could help someone who needs it desperately and has nowhere to turn? Do you feel powerless to help?
Today's guest will inspire you to get engaged in what you care about and take action to change the world.
At 13 years old, Dallas Jessup, a Martial Arts Black Belt, saw a news clip about a girl who was abducted and murdered. She realized that this could have happened to her or any of her classmates. She also thought that...

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – "Just Yell Fire" has captured the attention and support of the local Girls Incorporated organization, and Girls Inc. representatives are hoping this "Fire" will spread across the city next Tuesday through Thursday.
"Dallas Jessup is the founder of Just Yell Fire, a nonprofit program committed to helping girls defend themselves," Girls Inc.'s officials explain in a news release. "She is conducting her teen safety program (this month) to teach our girls skills that...

A teenage girl is at the bus stop, or at an ATM, or in a parking lot. A man approaches to ask her for directions, grabs hold of her arm and drags her kicking and screaming to his car.
Or maybe she is on a run � the same run she does every day through her quiet neighborhood. Only this time, a man is waiting. He throws his arms around her from behind and cages her in his vice-like grip.
The danger could also lie closer to home with a boyfriend or...

For the past five years a young woman from the state of Washington has made it her mission to teach girls how to defend themselves from attackers. The teen plans to spread her message one high school at a time.
It may look like a gym class at Albion Central School, but it's not.
11-year-old Michayla Kovaleski is learning early how to protect herself. It's a lesson from a role model who has made it her mission to teach self defense to teens and young girls.
At age...

At 13 years of age, Dallas Jessup earned her black belt in tae kwon do. Now 18, she has spent the last four years teaching young girls all over the world how to defend themselves.
Jessup, of Vancouver, Wash., founded Just Yell Fire in 2005. The nonprofit organization is dedicated to teaching basic street-fighting skills to teenage girls to fend off attackers and avoid a possible abduction or sexual assault.
“The idea is to get about five seconds to get away from a bad...

ALBION, N.Y. (WIVB) - A teenager who's on a cross-country crusade to raise awareness about sexual assault brought her message to Albion.
Dallas Jessup originally made a video about self-defense to show 600 students in her school. Monday, her self-defense techniques are spreading wordwide through a program called "Just Yell Fire."
The statistics for sexual assault in the United States is sobering. One in four teenage girls will be the victim of sexual assault, and there are close to...

"Do you think today's teens lack drive or don't care enough about the world around them?" According to Gretchen Carlson of FOX News, "Dallas Jessup will prove you wrong." the list of honors this 18-year-old Nu Omicron (Vanderbilt U) collegian has received for her efforts to change lives is lengthy and impressive. She is a recipient of the Presidents' Youth Service Award, Seventeen Magazine's 2009 Mission Award Winner, Elle Teen Girl Hero - Do Something Winner,...

If today were my last day on Earth and I could share 500 words of brilliance with the world, here are the important things I'd want to pass along to others...
I'm Dallas Jessup (17) and I'm Calling All Heroes - Age 7 to 24, your country and the world need you.
I used to think I was unique as a kid who created a non- profit which grew into 43 countries. My photo was on Doritos bags, the big screen at Times Square in New York, and I get to hang out with celebrities but it turns out...

Dallas Jessup (18) knows how to change the world. She grew a community service project into the non-profit, Just Yell Fire, which has become a Million Girl Revolution across 42 countries.
As a 13-year-old, black belt martial artist, Dallas learned the frightening statistics that 1 in 4 girls will be sexually assaulted and that there are 114,000 attempted abductions each year in the United States alone. �She set out to create a home movie to teach her schoolmates at...

At face value, it would seem that Dallas Jessup, a freshman at Vanderbilt University, is the archetypal college girl.� She is part of the college debate team, involved with Greek life and likes to spend her free time chilling with her friends and family.� Beneath this seemingly wholesome, unintimidating surface, however, lies a fierce revolutionary.�
Young Ambition
It all started in 2006, when 14-year old Jessup heard the story of Carlie Brucia’s kidnapping,...