Choose Love Movement

It's always a wonderful day when I spend it with my mom, Maureen Lewis. She joins me again in this podcast as we're  enjoying a weekend together in the Hamptons and pondering life. This time my mom shares stories about everyday situations and what she learned from them. We talk about how the Choose Love Formula can help us be better people, our shared interest in Havening, a trauma technique that has helped me tremendously, and how to live life with respect, kindness, and always Choosing Love.  Also we ponder the question, "What am I afraid of?" and discuss negative thoughts and the benefit of positive affirmations. You'll learn so much from our chat. I guarantee it will make you feel good!

The loss of a child due to violence. My dear friend, Donna Cimarelli, also knows what that feels like. In 2014, her 16-year-old daughter, Maren Sanchez, was murdered in her high school by a male classmate. In this emotional yet uplifting episode, Donna shares memories with me of her daughter as we discuss compassion for those who hurt our children and how we experienced post-traumatic growth that turned into something productive to make us stronger, better people.

Donna founded the Maren Sanchez Home Foundation that educates and empowers girls and young women to defend themselves against emotional, psychological, and verbal manipulation and physical violence.  In the podcast, Donna  explains the importance of awareness for young people to remain alert to possible danger in situations, and she also shares her feelings on the power of intuition and the role of our "gut feelings" in our lives. Listen in and learn how Donna conquered her pain and is now on a mission to protect the lives of other young women.

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If you've experienced grief or know someone going through a difficult time, you have to listen to my heartfelt podcast with Beth Segaloff who explains how you can move toward healing. Beth is a licensed master of social work, life coach, reiki master, registered yoga teacher, certified firewalk instructor, and mom, who shares her story of losing the love of her life and how she processed the trauma.  The physical, emotional, and spiritual journey she embarked on to come to a place of healing and peace really resonated with me as I thought of my experiences after losing Jesse.

Beth says "Grief is love" and explains her holistic perspective through teaching Grief Yoga that uses movement, breath and sound to reconnect with love and provides awareness, growth, and transformation.  In our podcast, Beth shares how you can  allow your body to restore and release by facing what you're feeling and thinking by connecting with nature, Tapping, and giving yourself quiet time, and she also explains how you can help others through their grieving process. This is a podcast that strengthens your spirit and enlightens your soul.

In this episode I was joined by my good friend and colleague, Arthur Schwartz, President of Character.org, a  national organization devoted to fostering character development in schools and communities. This outstanding organization has been the voice, visibility, and resources for educators to build nurturing and supportive school cultures that focus on a set of core values and character strengths vital to school success.

Sharing my vision of creating a safer, more peaceful world, in this episode Arthur explains the importance of kindness, caring, empathy and compassion, core values needed to develop tomorrow's leaders and he also shares his research on courage. A noted expert in positive psychology, Arthur offers his keen insight into the need for our world to evolve into a more caring community, the role of our inner moral compass and intellectual character strengths as a guiding force, the positive benefits of self-talk, and his important views on equity and inclusion.

Learn more about Arthur's organization at:

Character.org

Today’s guest is a special one and different from what you are used to on the ChooSELove Podcast. I’m joined by Brie Sodano, a personal finance expert and the founder of Sheep to Shark, a financial planning firm that works with people who aspire to be financially successful. You may be thinking…”Scarlett, why a personal finance expert? I thought you were about education and Social Emotional Learning?”

WELL, Brie coaches her clients on money, habits, mindset, and Emotional Intelligence! Learn more about how she might be able to help you take your personal power back in your finances by visiting: https://www.findyourbleed.com/af2-budgets-dont-work-v1

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I have a VERY special guest joining us today: Dr. Steven Ruden, , D.D.S.,

ICF/ACC, co-developer of The Havening Techniques®.

When I came upon havening, I was BLOWN AWAY by the power of it, research behind it, and most of all it’s simplicity and am so excited to share it with you today!

The Havening Techniques are powerful tools that can be used to alleviate the consequences of traumatic or stressful events. Havening or Delta Techniques™ is a method which is designed to change the brain to de-traumatize the memory and remove its negative effects from both our psyche and body. Learn more at: https://www.havening.org/

I have a VERY special guest joining us today: Dr. Steven Ruden, , D.D.S.,

ICF/ACC, co-developer of The Havening Techniques®.

When I came upon havening, I was BLOWN AWAY by the power of it, research behind it, and most of all it’s simplicity and am so excited to share it with you today!

The Havening Techniques are powerful tools that can be used to alleviate the consequences of traumatic or stressful events. Havening or Delta Techniques™ is a method which is designed to change the brain to de-traumatize the memory and remove its negative effects from both our psyche and body. Learn more at: https://www.havening.org/

In this episode, I was joined by special guest, Howard Glasser, Founder of the Children’s Success Foundation and the creator of the Nurtured Heart Approach.

The Nurtured Heart Approach® is more than a set of strategies; it is a philosophy and practice of creating healthy relationships. It reveals exactly what makes relationships flourish and thrive and what makes them go awry, developing awareness and understanding that improve the gamut of the ways we interact with others…and ourselves. Learn more at https://www.howardglasser.com/

An author, speaker, and licensed Physical Therapist specializing in craniosacral therapy, Kate Mackinnon has been using touch to support her patients in their healing and in accessing their physical potential for the last 30 years. She's passionate about helping people create comfort and ease in their bodies.

Website: https://www.kmackinnon.com/

TRIGGER WARNING: Mentions suicide, violence, and death.

I recently sat down with my friends Bill Lavin, a retired firefighter from New Jersey, and Yannick Kabuguza, a Rwandan Genocide survivor, to talk about how they got to know each other and how they Choose Love in their lives.

Bill, founder of the Where Angels Play Foundation, shares with us why he started building playgrounds in honor of young lives lost, how he met Yannick, and why he decided to write a book about his new friend’s life. Yannick, our Choose Love Ambassador for Rwanda and New Jersey, shares his story of survival and how that experience changed his life.

Thank you Jesse for bringing all three of us together to help make the world a better place! And thank YOU for tuning in...join us on July 28th for a live discussion about the “Starfish From Africa” with Bill and Yannick. Register today: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtduChrTwjG9IFAztYe_aRFumdGy2AjKKH

Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/The-Starfish-from-Africa/dp/1792354789/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3D2XTXMQLHP2Z&dchild=1&keywords=starfish+from+africa&qid=1614798297&sprefix=starfish+from+a%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1