NO FEAR IS THE LIE.KNOW FEAR® IS THE ANSWER.

KNOWFEAR^®

Change your relationship with fear. Change your life.

Tony Blauer teaches the uncomfortable truth that fear is not a weakness to deny. It is a signal, a fuel source, and the first opponent in every conversation about safety, courage, performance, parenting, leadership, and violence.

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The internal fight

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The thesis

The fight starts before the fight.

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“Fear is contagious. But so is courage.”“You can’t be brave if you’re not afraid. The primary ingredient of courage is fear. Fear is not the enemy. Fear is energy.”Coach Tony Blauer

The old slogan says “no fear.” Tony’s work says something more useful: know fear. Understand it before it redirects your life, your trajectory, your path, your voice, your body, or your choices.

Coach Tony Blauer is a self-defense and fear-management expert with 45+ years in martial arts, self-defense, defensive tactics, and combatives. His work includes the SPEAR System^®, KNOW FEAR^®, HIGH GEAR^®, Be Your Own Bodyguard^®, and programs used by military, law enforcement, martial artists, psychologists, and citizens around the world.

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The first fight is internal.

Mind first. Then movement.

Before a confrontation in the street, the boardroom, the gym, the home, or the head, people fight their own self-talk. That is why KNOW FEAR^® is a confrontation-management system for life.

Courage is trained.

You can’t be brave if you’re not afraid.

Courage is not a personality trait reserved for elite operators. It is practiced in small moments, taught to families and teams, and pressure-tested before life tests it for real.

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From the writing

The operating system.

Tony’s articles keep returning to the same architecture: fear creates a loop, self-talk writes the internal movie, and courage appears when people learn to use fear as information instead of identity.

RelationshipWhat is your relationship with fear? That question sits under every room Tony walks into.

SignalFear can warn, focus, and energize; it does not have to paralyze.

Self-talkThe story in your head can corrupt the body before the body ever moves.

Next stepCourage is practiced by choosing the next action, not pretending fear is gone.

Podcast archive

Listen by mission.

Start with why you are listening, then choose the right lane. Hear Tony explain fear, courage, confrontation, performance, parenting, leadership, self-defense, and the psychology that connects them.

The Model Health Show with Shawn Stevenson

BK Strength Show with Bedros Keuilian

The Cop and the Con Podcast

Current filter: Showing 229 total appearances. Every extracted appearance from the original media archive. Start here if you want breadth before choosing a lane.

Tony’s own show

KNOW FEAR^® with Tony Blauer

Beyond the guest spots, Coach Blauer hosts his own podcast — 150+ episodes of interviews with world-class guests, uncommon-sense rants, and deep dives into fear management, mindset, and human performance. Available on all platforms.

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Print legacy

Decades on the cover.

Tony Blauer has been featured on the covers of the martial arts world’s leading magazines since the early 1990s.

Magazine covers featuring Tony Blauer: Impact, MA Training, Karate Kung Fu Illustrated, and Black Belt

Karate Kung Fu Illustrated February 1997 cover — Tony Blauer critiques your training

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Options to train and connect.

Pick the lane that matches the work. Prepare the interview, build the segment, or bring Tony into the room with the right context already in place.

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For podcasters

Prepare the interview

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For events

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Use this path for speaking, workshops, seminars, agencies, teams, and in-person or online events.

Host a courseFor organizations that want scenario-based SPEAR training in their room.Book online or in personStart a structured speaking, workshop, or event request.

Personal development

Weaponize fear. Weaponize the flinch.

Human Weapon SystemSelf-defense built around biology, fear, and the SPEAR System^®.KNOW FEAR^® courseOnline training for Tony’s fear-management framework.Making Friends With FearThe ebook for understanding fear before it redirects your choices.BTS90 ProtocolTony’s 90-day transformation and training protocol.

Training path 01

KNOW FEAR^® talk or workshop

For companies, teams, schools, podcasts, and leadership rooms that want Tony’s confrontation-management system applied to pressure, courage, communication, and decision-making.

Training path 02

Host a course

For agencies, gyms, schools, and groups that want to bring scenario-based SPEAR System^® or Blauer Tactical Systems training into their own room.

KNOW FEAR^® is not no-fear.

It is anti-confusion. It gives people a language for the moment when fear shows up and a method for what to do next.

KNOWFEAR®

The fight starts before the fight.

The first fight is internal.

Courage is trained.

The operating system.

Listen by mission.

Featured starting points

Fear Is the Real Opponent with Tony Blauer

Tony Blauer II — Episode 1274

Violence Expert: Real Self-Defense Is TERRIFYING

LIVE PODCAST #48 with Coach Tony Blauer

Operational Reset Podcast — Ep. 014 with Tony Blauer

Pressure and Performance: Why Managing Fear Starts With Seeing It Clearly