Episode Three

This episode features the compassionate achiever Scarlett Lewis. She started the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement (http://www.jesselewischooselove.org) —after losing her six year old son Jesse in the Sandy Hook tragedy—in the hope of bringing social-emotional learning (SEL) to every school. If you want to learn how compassion, resilience, and “choosing love” can turn an elementary school tragedy into an educational program that benefits every child, take time to listen to Scarlett.

Episode Two

Part II of the introduction to the Compassionate Achiever Podcast. A compassionate achiever is someone who attains success by helping others.

Episode One

Part I of the introduction to the Compassionate Achiever Podcast. This episode provides an overview of “The Compassionate Achiever.” We discuss the link between compassion and success and the four steps to becoming a compassionate achiever: Listen, Understand, Connect, and Act (LUCA).

Episode Zero

A short introduction to the Compassionate Achiever Podcast and the co-hosts: Dr. Christopher Kukk and Tracy Day. The podcast is based on the book called “The Compassionate Achiever” (http://compassionateachiever.com) and it’s about discovering how to “Unleash the compassionate achiever within you to unlock success."

New WestConn graduate Allison Vas explains how any WestConn student can earn a Fulbright scholarship, just as she did.

The Literacy Ladies, Michelle Witko & Dr. Darla Shaw, talk about...science...

Professor Dave Smith is retiring after 47 years of teaching percussion at Western Connecticut State University. He talks about how he did it, what got him started in drumming, and his particular love for the triangle as a musical instrument.

Dr. Chris Kukk is the energetic Political Science professor at WCSU who has written a book about compassion and how to practice it. He talks about the tools of compassion and his conversation with the Dalai Lama. Also, he wants you to know that in his family’s historic homeland of Estonia, Kukk means rooster...

The Literacy Ladies, Michelle Witko & Dr. Darla Shaw, talk about their favorite activities to do with their students at the end of the school year....

Lionel Bascom, a writing instructor at Western Connecticut State University, has a thing about Harlem. He spent part of his childhood there and as a scholar he has studied it ever since. His latest book, “Harlem: The Crucible of Modern African American Culture,” shows that not only did the flowering of African-American literature and music endure in Harlem much longer than is widely documented, but much of black culture in the United States was forged there.