Embracing Your Role as a Prevention Coach | Episode 160 with Jake White

In this episode of the Drug Prevention Power Hour, Jake White takes you inside one of Vive18’s prevention leadership courses to explore what it means to truly embrace your role as a coach. Jake shares practical strategies for moving from doing everything yourself to empowering students to lead, make decisions, learn from failure, and develop their leadership skills. He breaks down the difference between transactional and transformational leadership and explains how high expectations, accountability, support, and love can help create stronger, more sustainable student-led prevention programs. Takeaways Empower students to take ownership and lead. Focus on transformational, not transactional, leadership. Let students fail, learn, and grow. Coach students instead of solving problems for them. Lead with high expectations, support, and love. Build sustainable leadership by developing new leaders For feedback, questions and new episode ideas... jake@vive18.com instagram.com/vive18_