Featured Media

Explore videos, articles, interviews, media features, and speaking engagements featuring Dr. Jon Eckert. This collection highlights Jon's work and expertise in education and parenting.

Skip to Videos
  • Raising Joyful Kids in a Hard World

    Raising Joyful Kids in a Hard World

    Why are so many teens struggling to find joy? Dr. Jonathan Eckert unpacks " The Happiness Crisis". Jonathan shows parents, educators, and coaches how to raise resilient, faithful next generations through adversity, belonging, curiosity. In this episode of The Persective, host Mike Sherbino sits down with Dr. Eckert. Dr. Eckert is an educator, former U.S Department of education leader. He is the author of 'The Happiness Crisis" which explores why lawnmower parenting robs kids of resilience. The ABC's of joy: Adversity, belonging, curiosity , and real - world struggle build gritty optimism.

  • CFN Live - Dr. Jonathan Eckert

    CFN Live - Dr. Jonathan Eckert

    CFN Live - bringing you uplifting, inspiring stories as well as discussing the latest issues facing the church. 

  • Episode 381: The Happiness Crisis: Why Hard Things Lead to Joy | feat. Jon Eckert

    Episode 381: The Happiness Crisis: Why Hard Things Lead to Joy | feat. Jon Eckert

    This week we sit down with author and educator Jon Eckert to talk about his new book The Happiness Crisis and why the pursuit of happiness is actually keeping people from finding it. Jon breaks down how adversity, belonging, and curiosity are the real building blocks of a joyful life — and why Gen Z may be the generation that finally gets it right. Send this one to every parent, teacher, and young adult in your life, and grab a copy of The Happiness Crisis wherever books are sold!

  • Culture of Joy | ABCs of Joy

    Culture of Joy | ABCs of Joy

    Dr. Jon Eckert shares the ABCs of Joy (Adversity, Belonging, and Curiosity) at Culture of Joy on August 3, 2026. Hosted by the Center for School Leadership at Baylor, this year's event brought together 6,000 Central Texas educators to kick off a year focused on building joyful, thriving school communities.

  • TASSP Summer Workshop Closing Keynote

    TASSP Summer Workshop Closing Keynote

    Administrators’ work is increasingly complex. However, when we reduce what we do to its essence, leadership is really about a F.E.W. key ideas: feedback, engagement, and well-being for each person we serve. Our profession is the one that makes all others possible. In this closing session, you will be encouraged and explore practical insights to catalyze growth in life-giving ways. The Texas Association of Secondary School Principals is an association formed by and for over 6,400 campus level administrators. Established in February of 1923, its purpose is to build an active network of educators that want to take responsibility for the quality of school leadership. TASSP focuses on the need for collaboration between all stakeholders in education while using as its foundation a very effective volunteer force that provides a statewide knowledge base and informed leadership.

  • 2025 Baylor Academic Welcome

    2025 Baylor Academic Welcome

    Each year Dr. Jon Eckert welcomes the incoming freshman and their families to Baylor University at Welcome Week!

Lead Magazine | October 2026 Edition

Kids Grow Up By Doing Hard Things

Everyday Eden Podcast | October 30, 2026

How Not to Ruin Your Kids with Dr. Jon Eckert

Chris Fabry Live | Two Day Series

What is Happiness? | The Happiness Crisis