Choose Love Movement

Welcome to Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement, where amazing things happen when you Choose Love. Consciously change an angry thought into a loving one and watch the world change.Hosted by: Scarlett LewisProduced by: Jean Rossi Wergeles Music by: Doug Allen

Choose Love Movement is a society podcast hosted by JL Choose Love Movement, with 163 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

JL Choose Love Movement hosts Choose Love Movement, a society show with 163 episodes published.

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  #163 - Scarlett and Her Mom, Maureen Lewis, What If the Pain You’re Carrying Is Actually Holding Your Power?

  Sep 29, 202656 min

  Sitting together on their dock in Maine, Scarlett Lewis and her mother, Maureen, explore the power of Heroic Choices and what it means to stop giving our power away to painful experiences. Our brains hold onto painful memories as a way to protect us, but we can choose how we respond to them. Through a Brave Breath, the Choice Moment, and the Choose Love Formula (Courage, Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Compassion in Action) we can pause, find the lesson, and release the emotional burden. Scarlett shares an exercise she uses in her speaking engagements: identify the grievances you’re still carrying and ask, “How did this experience shape me? What strength or growth can I take from it?” We can’t change what happened, but we can change what it means and reclaim our power in the process.When we choose to come from a place of love rather than fear, we create space for healing, growth, and the freedom to move forward.

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  #162 - Rick Rood, What If Transforming Education Starts With Transforming YOU?

  Sep 23, 20261h 2m

  Scarlett’s guest is Choose Love’s Rick Rood who has spent more than 40 years working with children, educators, and youth professionals and he knows that meaningful change starts with the people who show up for young people every day. As an educator, professional development leader, and founder of Transforming Teachers, Transforming Education, Rick has trained thousands of education professionals across the country. His work combines Positive Youth Development, research-based strategies, and practical tools educators can put into action immediately. Today, Rick serves as Outreach and Professional Development Coordinator for the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement, helping schools create cultures rooted in love, connection, safety, and belonging. In this conversation, Rick explores why transforming educators is essential to transforming education, how relationships shape the experiences of young people, and what educators can do to create environments where students—and the adults who serve them—can thrive. Listen in for practical insights, powerful perspective, and simple strategies that can make a meaningful difference in schools and communities.

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  #161 - Shae Owens, The Secret To Changing School Culture

  Sep 16, 202653 min

  Scarlett’s guest, Shae Owens, knows that meaningful change in schools doesn’t begin with a program, it begins with a relationship. Shae spent thirty years serving Texas public schools as an elementary teacher and school counselor. During the final seven years of her counseling career, she led the schoolwide implementation of Choose Love for Schools at Hillsboro Elementary, helping bring the Choose Love Formula to life for more than 600 students from pre-K through third grade.But Shae didn’t simply implement a curriculum. She helped create a culture where students and educators felt seen, supported and connected. As a Choose Love Ambassador, she carried that experience to educators, counselors and administrators across Texas. And after retiring from public education in 2025, she joined the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement as our school support partner, what I often call our Relationship Manager. Today, Shae walks alongside schools on their Choose Love journeys—listening to their needs, offering individualized guidance and reminding educators that they do not have to do this important work alone. Her passion is helping schools move Choose Love beyond a curriculum and make it a mindset, a way of being and part of the everyday culture.

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  #160 - Dr. David Riedman, Are Fear-Based Approaches Making Our Schools Less Safe?

  Sep 9, 20261h 1m

  What if some of the things we're doing to make our schools safer are actually making them less safe? That's the uncomfortable question at the heart of Scarlett Lewis’s conversation with school safety expert Dr. David Riedman, creator of the K–12 School Shooting Database. As the mother of a six-year-old murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Scarlett has spent nearly 14 years thinking about school safety. And she has become convinced that we need to ask harder questions not just about how we respond when violence happens, but how we prevent a child from ever getting to the point of wanting to hurt themselves or someone else. David has spent years studying the data, and what he's finding challenges some of the conventional wisdom about school safety. Here's where their conversation gets really interesting. Have we become so focused on protecting kids from danger that we're unintentionally taking away some of the things that help protect them in the first place? Connection. Belonging. Community. Independence. Real-world relationships. David challenges the billions spent on hardening schools and asks whether some fear-based measures actually create unintended consequences. Even more concerning, he describes a disturbing new phenomenon he calls “influencer extremism,” where vulnerable young people who don't feel seen or valued in the real world can find recognition, belonging and even status in online communities that glorify violence. This conversation changed the way Scarlett thinks about school safety and it will challenge you, too. Because keeping our kids safe can't only be about locks, cameras, drills and what happens after a threat emerges. We have to look upstream. We have to create places where kids feel connected, valued, empowered and hopeful. And most importantly, we have to be willing to question what we're doing when the evidence tells us it isn't working. If you're a parent, educator, administrator or simply care about the future of our children, please listen to this conversation. School safety belongs to all of us, and we can all be part of the solution. 3 Takeaways 1. Are We Looking Too Far Downstream? True school safety isn't just about responding to threats—it's about preventing the conditions that can lead a young person toward violence in the first place. 2. Connection May Be One of Our Most Powerful Safety Tools. Belonging, trusted relationships, community and feeling valued aren't just “nice to have.” They may be critical protective factors for vulnerable young people. 3. What If Some Safety Measures Are Creating Unintended Consequences? David Riedman challenges us to follow the evidence, question fear-based approaches and examine whether our efforts to protect children could sometimes undermine the connection, independence and real-world relationships they need most.

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  #159 - We Can Do Hard Things with Scarlett Lewis and Her Mom, Maureen Lewis

  Sep 3, 202649 min

  Scarlett Lewis and her mom, Maureen Lewis, sit at the end of a dock in beautiful Maine for a powerful conversation about ‘Doing the Hard Things’ and what it really means to face fear instead of running from it. They explore the power of feeling fear, listening to it, and then choosing to move through it. It’s about triumphing over what holds us back, not only physically, but emotionally. Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is pause, take a brave breath, and stay in the present moment. That message is especially important as educators begin a new school year. Every day, despite the challenges they face, they show up for their students. The Choose Love Formula and Choice Moment Model teach us how to respond to difficult moments in a positive, productive way rather than from anxiety or worry. The latest neuroscience supports what we’ve been learning all along: resilience is built by moving through hard things, not avoiding them. Scarlett also reflects on a recent presentation at the National Homeland Security Conference, where the conversation around post-traumatic growth reinforced this powerful truth: we can grow through adversity, become stronger, and discover what we’re capable of on the other side.

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