Speak Life End Bullying

Speak Life End Bullying Speak Life The Musical follows a day in the life of four high school students giving us a glimpse into their public personas and private struggles.

Speak Life End Bullying is a suite of resources designed to aid schools, families, communities, and faith-based organizations in combating bullying and strengthening mental health resiliency for our students. Things are not always as they seem. The fight up the social ladder is brutal. Too many are crushed, broken, forgotten. This life changing musical gives a voice to the silent outcast, challenging everyone to STAND, SPEAK and DEFEND. One voice can create change!

06/18/2026

Every interaction is an opportunity to either continue the cycle of hurt or interrupt it.

At Piper High School, a student shared a story about bullying she had experienced in Elementary School. It was the choice she made after experiencing that hurt that truly inspired the room. 🥰

She could have let that pain harden her.

Instead, she chose kindness.

She chose to become the kind of friend she wished she had, and in doing so, created the very thing she needed most: CONNECTION. 👯

This is exactly why these conversations matter.

Every student has experienced pain in some way. And every day, they have the opportunity to either pass their hurt onto someone else… or stop it with them by choosing kindness.

Kindness isn’t small.

Kindness shifts culture.

Kindness saves lives.
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💛 Comment MYSCHOOL if you’d love to bring these conversations to your school this fall.

06/17/2026

One of the most powerful things we can do for our teens isn’t fixing every hard feeling they have… it’s showing them what it looks like to move through hard feelings ourselves.🤝

Our kids are watching us more than they’re listening to us.

They’re learning how to handle disappointment, stress, anxiety, conflict, and overwhelm by watching the adults around them do it first.

Building emotionally resilient teens doesn’t happen in one big conversation. It happens in hundreds of small moments over time. 🥰

If you’ve ever thought, “I just wish my teen would open up to me more,” this is a great place to start.

❤️ Comment HOME to get the film that’s helping families create more open, honest conversations and stronger connections at home.

Sometimes our teens don’t know how to tell us they’re stressed… they show us instead.And often, it doesn’t look the way ...
06/16/2026

Sometimes our teens don’t know how to tell us they’re stressed… they show us instead.

And often, it doesn’t look the way we expect.

It might look like changes in their attitude, overreactions, isolation, or that feeling of, “They just haven’t seemed like themselves lately.” 🥹

The truth is, today’s teens are carrying a lot. Academic pressure, social dynamics, expectations, extracurriculars, uncertainty about the future… it adds up quickly.

❤️ As parents, we can’t remove every stressful situation from their lives, but we can help them learn how to navigate pressure without losing who they are in the process.

If your teen has felt a little “off” lately, this is your reminder to get curious before getting frustrated. Sometimes behavior is communication.

💛 Comment HOME and we’ll send you Speak Life At Home, a resource designed to help families create meaningful conversations and equip teens to handle the very real stress and pressures they’re facing every day

Long before Daniel became a character in the Speak Life film, he was a real story.Daniel’s journey was inspired by found...
06/12/2026

Long before Daniel became a character in the Speak Life film, he was a real story.

Daniel’s journey was inspired by founder Dan Burd’s own experiences of being bullied as a kid.

The loneliness. The feeling of being overlooked. The questions about whether he belonged.

What has been incredible to witness is how often students see themselves in Daniel. ❤️

🎤 In schools across the country, students stand up during our Q&A and share stories that sound remarkably similar. Stories of being excluded, ignored, mocked, or simply feeling invisible.

It’s a reminder that pain is never the end of the story.

The experiences that once made us feel small can become the very things that help someone else feel seen. 🫶

Every time a student connects with Daniel, they realize they aren’t the only one. Every time someone shares their story, it creates space for another person to do the same.

What was once a painful chapter in Dan’s life is now helping thousands of students find the courage to speak up, connect, and know they belong.

Sometimes the hardest parts of our story become the most powerful way we can serve others.

❤️ Your story matters. The thing you’ve walked through may be the exact thing someone else needs to hear they’re not alone in. Share your story with someone this week.

06/10/2026

A hard truth I have learned about summer break…

Just because school is out doesn’t mean the bullying ends for our kids. 🥲

For many teens, friendships, social media, group chats, and online gaming mean that hurtful words can still follow them long after the last school bell rings.

And sadly, many teens don’t know when or even how to talk about it.

Sometimes it shows up as irritability. Pulling away from family. Spending more time alone. Or seeming completely fine on the outside while they’re carrying something heavy underneath.

❤️ As moms, we don’t have to have all the right answers. But we can keep creating opportunities for conversation. We can remind our kids that their value isn’t determined by what someone says about them online. We can help them process what they’re carrying instead of carrying it alone.

Sometimes all it takes is the right story to open a door that felt closed. 🚪

That’s why we created the Speak Life film, to help families start honest conversations about bullying, self-worth, mental health, and the power of their words.

💡Comment HOME and we’ll send you the film. This could open up the most important conversations you want to be having with your teens this summer!

06/09/2026

☀️Creating a summer plan with your Teens

Feeling unmotivated is such a normal feeling for teens over summer break.

They have just finished a marathon year of school, sports, after school commitments and lots of demands and deadlines. Even thinking about a summer schedule can feel overwhelming to them.

🛏️ Sometimes, what looks like laziness is actually uncertainty. They’re in that in-between space where they’re no longer kids who need every second of their day planned, but they’re not fully adults either. They want more freedom to plan their day to day, but they don’t always know what to do with all their free time.

As parents, it’s easy for us to focus on the messy room, the sleeping in, the endless scrolling, or the lack of initiative. But often what our kids need most isn’t more pressure. They need us to come alongside and help them create a summer worth getting up for. 🥳

Starting with a simple conversation can go a long way:

▪️ Ask them what they want this summer to be about.
▪️ Help them identify a few goals that actually matter to them.
▪️ Create a simple rhythm or routine together that supports those goals.
▪️ Keep checking in in a kind supportive way.

The goal isn’t to fully plan or control their summer schedule.

🤝 Instead, we get to come alongside them so they learn how to create their own goals and plans to live a summer they are proud of. A summer where they feel growth in who they’re becoming, what they are experiencing, what they are learning, and what they ultimately want to accomplish.

Our teens don’t always need us to push harder. In fact, summer should feel slower, full of fun and a time to make forever kind of memories.

A little direction can help them create a summer full of intention so they have goals worth moving toward. 💛

06/05/2026

For a moment, Daniel’s story became her story…

“What was it about the character Daniel from the film that you connected with?” we asked a student at Ft Lauderdale High School.

Her answer was a heartbreaking one we have heard many times over. 💔

“Because growing up, I dealt with bullying too.”

The feelings she saw Daniel walking through were all too familiar. Feeling left out. Feeling like you don’t belong. Feeling like disappearing would somehow be easier than carrying what you’re carrying.

🥹 We know that there were dozens of other students in that room who understood exactly what she meant.

That’s why creating space for these conversations matters.

Sometimes the first step toward hope is realizing you’re not the only one feeling what you’re feeling.

▪️Keep asking.
▪️ Keep listening.
▪️ Keep showing up.

Create space for the conversation that might change everything for your teen. 💛

❤️ If you are looking for a way to create safe conversations in your home with your teen, comment HOME and we will send you the link!

06/03/2026

When we ask school leaders what stands out most about the Speak Life experience, the answer is often the conversations that happen afterward.

One principal shared:

“The music made it easier for them to connect with the message. The variety of characters made it possible for everyone to have someone that they identified with.”

When students see pieces of their own story reflected on screen, it creates space for reflection, empathy, and honest conversation. 🫶

He also shared: “Nobody ever considers themselves a bully. No one realizes that they themselves may be acting in a way that’s bullying, but when you look at your behavior through the lens of others, you might be able to see things that you have done that hurt someone else’s feelings.”

That’s what makes these conversations so important. Students aren’t just thinking about what has happened to them. They’re also beginning to consider the impact their own words and actions have on others. 🤔

As this principal put it:

“It really provides an opportunity for dialogue to go a bit deeper.”

When students feel safe enough to share their stories, real change can begin.

If you’d like to bring these conversations to your school, comment MYSCHOOL and we’ll send you more information. ❤️

06/02/2026

5 Mistakes Parents Make That Hurt Communication With Their Teens (And How to Avoid Them) 💛

I have spent way too much time while raising my teens wondering if I was getting it wrong.

As parents, we replay conversations in our heads over and over. We wonder if we said too much, not enough, or completely missed what our teen was trying to tell us.

Healthy communication isn’t built in one perfect conversation. It’s built in hundreds of small moments where our kids slowly learn they’re safe to share their struggles and successes with us.

You have been building the foundations for good communication with your kids since their very first words. Now that they are grown, trust that groundwork and keep building it with new strategies that work during their teen years.

Maintaining trust and safety inside our communication is the key to helping them open up what’s really going on in their world.

That is the goal we want to set every single day 🤍

One of the biggest myths about parenting teens?That they don’t need connection with us anymore. ❌There are a lot of chan...
06/01/2026

One of the biggest myths about parenting teens?

That they don’t need connection with us anymore. ❌

There are a lot of changes in our relationships with our kids as they enter their teen years. They may not want us to walk them into school or sit next to them at an event. They might spend more time with friends, stay up later than we do, and feel like they’re completely independent.

🥰 Truth is…underneath all of that self discovery, they still deeply desire connection with us.

They need hugs, family dinners, movie nights, boundaries, traditions, and those random conversations that somehow happen at 11:30 at night when you’re ready to go to sleep.

Sometimes as parents, we pull back from connection because we think that’s what growing up requires.

But many of the things that helped our kids feel loved, safe, and secure when they were little are still the very things helping them feel loved, safe, and secure now.

The teen years change a lot but their need for connection will never change!

❤️ Keep showing up.
❤️ Keep saying “I love you.”
❤️ Keep leaning in.

That is how we can Speak Life to our teens everyday!

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