Realtor Safety & Situational Awareness (CE)
Professional Readiness for Real Estate Offices
A Virginia Continuing Education course built for the real environments agents work in — vacant homes, internet leads, open houses, rural showings, and after-hours appointments.
✅ Virginia DPOR-Approved | Course #0214031425 | 2 CE Elective Hours | Date confirmed within 24hrs of booking
The Momba Movement
Resilience. Readiness. Performance under pressure.
Momba trains Realtors, professionals, and women to move through real-world risk with confidence and control — never fear.
Strategic, empowering, and grounded in decades of real experience.
"Safety isn't the absence of risk. It's the presence of options."
- Carmen "The Momba"
Empowerment Through Education
Bring the MOMBA to Your Group
Realtor & Business
Professionals
Safety Training
Workshops and Continuing Education (CE) courses designed for real estate professionals, with expanded offerings for women in other isolated or high-risk professional roles such as healthcare and night-shift work.
These programs deliver practical self-defense tools, situational awareness, and decision-making strategies grounded in real-world professional conditions—supporting confidence, preparedness, and calm under pressure within a respectful, empowering, and non-fear-based learning environment.
Women's
Resilience
Events
Transformative gatherings that explore the intersection of self-defense, situational awareness, and personal empowerment through dynamic lectures and guided discussions. These events are designed to inspire strength, confidence, and growth, offering women practical tools and mindset shifts to navigate the world with resilience and purpose.
Family
Safety & Resilience
Training
Offer a dynamic, family-focused experience that blends fitness, teamwork, and martial arts to build stronger bonds and confident, capable households. Through engaging, age-appropriate activities, families learn real-world self-defense skills and strategies that could one day save lives—all while having fun together.
As Seen, Heard & Read
Investor Fuel, Real Estate Pros Show
Why Realtors Need Self-Defense & Situational Awareness Training
Carmen "The Momba" Gulliksen joins host Dylan Silver to unpack why situational awareness and professional readiness are becoming essential skills in real estate. Drawing on 30+ years in martial arts and her health-research background, she breaks down the "anxiety tax" — how stress and unpreparedness quietly erode an agent's confidence, decision-making, and productivity — and what training does to reverse it. The conversation moves past fear and into strategy: readiness that protects personal safety, performance, and the bottom line for agents and brokerages alike.
ASKITA
Episode 177
Carmen "The Momba"
In this episode of A Swift Kick in the Ass, Carmen “The Momba” Gulliksen joins host John to discuss her path from collegiate athlete to professional boxer and resilience educator. The conversation explores the physical and psychological dimensions of martial arts training, the role of self-defense in personal growth, and Carmen’s work building training programs and communities focused on confidence, safety, and resilience—particularly for women and underrepresented groups.
Our Family Invests
Episode 013
Gary + Carmen Gulliksen
In this powerful episode of Our Family Invests, professional boxer and business leader Carmen, alongside her husband Gary, unpack their journey of building discipline, resilience, and purpose—both in the ring and at home. From navigating career pivots and parenting challenges to investing in health, mindset, and community, this conversation is a masterclass in turning life’s chaos into generational momentum.
Real Estate Agent Magazine
The Anxiety Tax: How Agent Safety Is Quietly Hitting Your Closings
Carmen "The Momba" Gulliksen reframes agent safety as a brokerage performance issue, not a footnote in a safety memo.
Using peer-reviewed neuroscience (McEwen, Arnsten, Lupien, van der Kolk), she explains what happens in the brain when a showing feels "off": the threat response floods the body with stress hormones and takes the decision-making prefrontal cortex offline — precisely when an agent needs it to read a client and close. The cumulative cost — what she calls the Anxiety Tax — shows up as missed cues, thinner margins, higher turnover, and greater liability.
Her solution is a structured readiness framework — Predict, Prevail, Persist — built around how the brain actually functions under pressure. Her closing line: "A ready agent is a high-performing agent. They are the exact same person."
MOMBA the Author
"Personal Safety and Self-Defense in Volatile Post Election Times
Hello! The MOMBA here! Let me tell you about this book I wrote:
This is a no-nonsense playbook filled with practical, family-focused advice you can implement today. Take meaningful steps toward feeling safer and more empowered in today's world!
A few (not all!) of the topics I touch on in this book:
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Building Awareness: My First Line of Defense
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Creating a Family Safety Plan
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Learning Self-Defense Techniques
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Building Mental Resilience
Grab a copy of my book and start your journey toward personal growth!
Live Events & Online Opportunities
BOOK CARMEN FOR WORKSHOPS, SPECIAL EVENTS, OR YOUR PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION.
The MomBa's Workshops and Lectures deliver empowering, high-impact self-defense training designed specifically for women of all ages and backgrounds. Whether you're a school, workplace, nonprofit, or community group, Carmen comes directly to you—offering flexible formats and personalized sessions that fit your space, schedule, and audience needs.
For your personal transformation Carmen will guide you through your journey leveraging an amazing online portal and women-only, secure community with incredible resources and personalized attention!
