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 Lewis
Produced by: Jean Rossi Wergeles
Music by: Doug Allen
#163 - Scarlett and Her Mom, Maureen Lewis, What If the Pain You’re Carrying Is Actually Holding Your Power?
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.
23 Sept 2026
#162 - Rick Rood, What If Transforming Education Starts With Transforming YOU?
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.
16 Sept 2026
#161 - Shae Owens, The Secret To Changing School Culture
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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#122 - Bill McKenna and Liz Larson, Cognovmoement to Help Students Overcome Anxiety and Stress
Published 22 Aug 2024 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We think about behaviors, we think about learning, we think about, you know, trauma, that kind of thing, but they're so interconnected with everything else that we do in our lives that a tool like this improves the entire life, not just one little aspect. That's incredible. So when you say it improves behavior, it reduces anxiety, it improves performance, you think that it would improve grades as well. It does. It does. In the experiment that we did with the school here, what happened was kids, we sent home a paper to ask the parents, like, what's happening at home? Like, what are the behaviors like at home? […]
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