As healing-centered sport experts, Alecia and Armond discuss the practicality of implementing healing-centered coaching as middle and high school coaches. The two battle in the hot takes, arguing over whether a coach should make kids do what they say vs meeting the athletes where they're at. "How are they going to learn to persevere if I don't put them through it?!" vs "Fear sparks compliance - not learning."

Help us build the healing-centered sport movement. Visit chjs.org to learn more or email us at team@chjs.org to join the movement.

Credits
Hosts: Alecia Ivery and Armond Richards
Production: Players Coalition + Isis Roberts
Editor: Grace Stetler
Director: Team CHJS

CHJS spends a lot of time telling coaches that sport heals kids — but in Episode 3, they let a kid say it himself. Leo, 13, joins Armond and Alecia not as a guest celebrity but as an athlete with real opinions about what makes sport feel safe or unsafe, connecting or isolating, healing or harmful. The conversation is refreshingly unscripted: the hosts ask, Leo answers, and when his experience complicates the framework, they follow him there instead of steering him back. It's a useful gut-check for any coach who thinks they know what their kids need. Plus, can't forget the hot takes with our devil's advocate Armond and with Leo playing a special guest.

Help us build the healing-centered sport movement. Visit chjs.org to learn more or email us at team@chjs.org to join the movement.

Credits
Hosts: Alecia Ivery and Armond Richards
Production: Players Coalition + Isis Roberts
Editor: Grace Stetler
Director: Team CHJS

Hollywood has spent decades showing us what coaching looks like. But how much of it is actually great? Armond and Alecia break down movie coaches - Mr. Miyagi, Coach Carter, Ted Lasso, Herman Boone - using the healing-centered sport framework to separate what works from what causes harm. They debate whether tough love builds character or breaks kids, why redemption arcs work on screen but fail real athletes, and why Hollywood still can't write a pitch around a female, healing-centered coach. Come on now. Plus: Hot Takes on inspiring speeches, coaching from unhealed trauma, and whether vulnerability precedes trust.

Help us build the healing-centered sport movement. Visit chjs.org to learn more or email us at team@chjs.org to join the movement.

Credits

Hosts: Alecia Ivery and Armond Richards

Production: Players Coalition + Isis Roberts

Editor: Grace Stetler Director:

Team CHJS