Bio
David Kozlowski is from Carlsbad, CA, is a former University of Utah wide receiver, and is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has worked in mental health for over 23 years. He received a Masters in Counseling Psychology from National University in San Diego, California.
David is the host of the Light The Fight podcast which has had millions of downloads and helps parents all around the world build, maintain, and improve the relationship with their kids. He hosted the Quit Trip’n Radio Show on ESPN 700, is a regular on NBC-KSL’s Studio 5, and has worked with BYU’s Family matters.
David also has a Ted Talk on parent-teen relationships, is the creator of the first Social Health Curriculum at Herriman High School and is the Executive director of Quit Trip’n a registered 501c3 charitable organization that for over 10 years has been holding free community, Social Support Groups for local teens.
Podcast- Light The Fight
Light The Fight is a podcast by David Kozlowski. David is a licensed marriage and family therapist, high school teacher, and suicide prevention specialist. David teaches his best social health tools to help you build, maintain, and improve the most important relationships in your life.
OG Therapy episodes are focused on giving you the OG advice to help you handle some of the toughest things in relationships. OG Therapy episodes will also be interview-style podcasts as David interviews those he views as OGs in their own field and have them talk about what made them the person they are today and what OGs mean to them.
Social Health Curriculum
In the spring of 2019, the vice-principal of Herriman High school, Julie Scherzinger, happened to be listening to a parenting podcast named Light The Fight, which is hosted by David Kozlowski. In this episode, David explained how he sees the current youth mental health decline, especially the growing suicide epidemic, as not being a mental health issue. Instead, he sees it as a social health issue with serious
Mental health side effects. This made a lot of sense to Julie, but the solution David offered was even more intriguing to her. He stated that he believed if our country were to make real, impactful changes to help our youth, it would have to start in school classrooms. He went on to describe a new type of curriculum that would create a solution to the problem instead of attempting to treat the symptoms of the problem.
Julie believed that this is what was missing from the current social & emotional learning, mental health, & behavioral health curriculums currently being offered. Julie reached out to David about the possibility of Herriman High School being the pilot program for this new school approach to helping youth improve their mental health. After several months of developing & formulating the curriculum to be taught at Herriman High School, the curriculum was launched in august 2020, to be taught to all incoming sophomores at the school.
