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Iuri Melo (he/him)
Iuri Melo (he/him)
Iuri Melo joined Momma on September 22, 2025 for a live Q&A via Twitch and YouTube to talk about Students, Schools & Mental Health
About Iuri
Iuri Melo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of experience and the proud father of five. He’s the co-founder of SchoolPulse, a nationwide student support service that delivers positivity, optimism, and growth mindset tools to students, parents, and faculty via text and email. After several teen suicides in his community, Iuri co-created SchoolPulse in 2017 to proactively support student well-being. He’s also the author of Mind Over Grey Matter and the teen best-seller Know Thy Selfie, and the developer of “Adventure Based Therapy.” With over 300 schools in 25+ states, Iuri’s mission to “bless the human family” is inspiring students every day through kindness, psychology, and powerful weekly videos.
Socials / Links for Guest Connection
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iuritiagomelo
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SchoolPulsePodcast/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=2
Know Thy Selfie - t.ly/juUMB
Mind Over Grey Matter - t.ly/SxNUU
Videos:
Mental Health Resources: https://schoolpulse.org/schools/schoolpulse/
References / Things Mentioned During the Stream
"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." – Cicero
True Crime Fascination: Disappearance of Susan Powell
It is far more likely that people with a serious mental illness will be the victim of violence. - Study on the Link between Mental Illness & Criminality
Movie Recommendation: Dead Poets Society
Favorite Poet: Henry David Thoreau
MommaFoxFire's Favorite Poem: Hannah Dains - "Don't Kill Yourself Today"
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; or Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
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