Justin Wren is Tackling Bullying with His New Program

Have you caught everything that you can catch over there? dengue fever malaria? Yeah. What do you say this new things? Shisto, Shisto, Shisto. And this is a parasitic diseases. It's like a I think it's in the fluke family or it's a it's a worm. Yeah. And then hopefully I don't have anything else besides that. But this toxicity stuff, cipro or methylacrylamide that could be messed with you changed your diet as well. Yeah. Yeah. My wife, I eat mostly I eat meat, but I mostly vegetables like more of that like the small portion is meat. And it'll be chicken or fish or something lean. A lot of nuts and a lot of thick leafy green vegetables. And if you found that that's helped me a lot. It's helped me a lot. Are you juicing at all? Yep. Yeah. Do you call with the with the Vitamix? Okay, so you get all the fiber in there as well. Yeah, the fiber. Wow, that's been really good. And then and then I've been keeping myself busy. If I can't go there, we're really starting to expand our mission and vision here stateside to bully prevention because Joe, it's nuts right now, the second leading cause of death. So Butch is Rayden's grandfather and he is an old bull writer. And Raiden lives with with Butch and Claudia his grandparents right now. And they found him within his forearm. He wrote, I want to kill myself and Sharpie. And he's 12. He's 12. Butch said the first time, Raiden wanted to kill himself that he knew of when it was whenever Raiden was nine years old. So he's nine years old and already suicidal. And Butch said that that just makes his heart want to fall out of his chest. You know, I'm his grandfather. How does my 12 year old grandson not have enough to live for? And the leading second leading cause of death among kids from 10 to 14 is suicide. If you're between the ages of 10 to 14. That's the second reason and bullying is the cause of most of that. Most of it's from bullying because bullying is linked to the increase in depression, addiction, isolation. Do they think that the people who do it, is it because they were bullied at one point in time or abused physically? So they do think that in the easy way to remember that is hurt people hurt people, right hurt people hurt people, whether that's an addict or bully. But here's a statistic from the CDC. It's funny, the CDC found out that I had dengue fever. And then also the CDC did the study on bullying. And the number three at risk of suicide is the bully, the person that acts out by being a bully. Number two, surprisingly is the victim. They're the second highest risk. So then you think who's who's number one? Well, number one is actually the one that does both. They are bullied, and then they act out by being a bully. And so they're getting it on both ends. No positive feelings at all. It's just a storm of negativity. Yeah. Awfulness. It's a huge, huge for bully awareness, right? Like, how can you how can you prevent it? Or how can we mitigate it? Yeah, I think it's by promoting a culture of cultivating a culture of kindness. And I know that can sound a little wimpy. No, I don't think so at all. Yeah. But if you look at Raphael, Lovato, Jr., he was bullied, because he didn't look like everybody else. George St. Pierre, George St. Pierre, so many guys, a lot of fighters are bullied. Most most fighters I find were bullied, not being the bully. Right. And so I think to cultivate a culture of kindness, there's actually this school in Oklahoma, it's pretty awesome. They're called Edmund Santa Fe. They selected us between 44 applicants. So we were up against like Boys and Girls Club and Make a Wish. These phenomenal organizations, Special Olympics and some really, really great charities and nonprofits out there. Last year, the school selected a foster home, and they raised in a week, this high school rates $234,000. A high school and their philanthropy week, because they wanted to help these kids get a new like main center among the foster homes. So this year, they selected us because they want to get our bully prevention program into public and private schools. What is the prevention program? Like what? Yeah. So it's mostly character development with bully prevention inside of it. So it's a 12 week program. And it's 12 weekly lessons. So we have it online. It's digital. It's on our website, fight for the forgotten.org. And if you click heroes and waiting, you'll find that's our curriculum, what's called as heroes in waiting. And what that is, is there's a digital curriculum where I teach the teacher instruct the instructor how to instruct the lesson that week. But then there's a video for the parents and for the students. That's the weekly hero challenge. And so they get a weekly lesson or Matt chat discussion. And then they get a weekly challenge, which the challenge will be something like recognized when you're being a bystander. Or my favorite is probably go out your mission this week is that your hero challenge is to go out and complete a secret random act of kindness. So the rules are you have to be safe, you have to be smart, but you have to be completely anonymous. And you have to go out and make someone feel great. And so journal or report back to us, you know, what did you do? How did that make them feel? How that make you feel? How can you build onto this for next week? And you go out and you complete these missions, because I think first you have to educate the kids that they are part of the solution and part of the problem. They just have to pick where they where they're going to be. Because in bullying, if you stand by and you watch, if you laugh, giggle, like in that video, there's 12 12 kids in the bathroom, four or five are filming it, you filming it is encouraging it. You standing by and not doing anything. You're actually not an innocent bystander. You're a silent supporter, because you're standing there and you're not doing anything. They're actually trying to pass laws about kids in schools filming other kids getting beat up and making them somehow like a part of it, an accomplice. Yeah, some way, shape or form because you are you're at least an encourager. Yeah. And then if you stand by and watch, you are an accomplice, you're not doing anything. You didn't choose it, it shows you what happened to those kids in the video that were doing those things to raid their beat. So they're minors. So I can't really talk about what's happened. But the school has taken appropriate or at least in their eyes, appropriate and swift action. The parents are thankful to the school and the school district for them. Taking this serious. I know that the family has felt this has been going on since he was nine at least. And now he's 12. So three years and they say the only reason now something's being done is because it was filmed because it's on video and it went viral. But there's been some fun stuff. We pull up some of those raid and pictures. There's another one recently with Dylan, Dennis, Dylan, Dennis got jujitsu lessons you pay for jujitsu lessons for this young boy who was also beat up in the bathroom. And there's a film of that as well. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. And Dylan posted this video too and he got over 10 million views, which was awesome. And Raphael now is actually going to scholarship Raiden and his brother Brock with jujitsu lessons. Oh, that's amazing. So they're gonna start doing martial arts training after Raiden's done with his hyper barracks and his concussion is settled down. He's going to come into the mats and be part of the kids program, the little warriors for Raphael school, which is the best youth program in the state. That's awesome. Yeah. That's awesome. Is there a way to pull up some of those pictures of Raiden? And this is kind of cool. I'm gonna give you this because Raphael really likes this. And it's some 10th planet guys. There's Raiden after a actually a press conference, all the news wanted to like post pictures of them, or they wanted to get exclusives. And so his parents are being chased all around town. People are literally posting their home address online doxing them, but doxing the bullies mainly saying, here's the 12 year old girl's address and go find her. You can go through a couple more of those pictures. There's some pretty cool ones where he's eating chick-fil-a. Yeah, he likes chick-fil-a a lot. His dad says he's a chicken eaten fool. But there's at a football game that Edmund Santa Fay, they've surrounded him with a lot of love. That's awesome. And then it's been cool like Emily, my wife has said, oh, here's if we can have volume on this, this is pretty cool. We're making you a video. I am introducing Raiden to what? Hummus. He asked me what hummus is. So we got him some carrots and hummus. The chips are for me that you packed us. And all right, my man, try carrots and hummus. That's actually really good. Really good? Yeah.