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The Dr. Phil Podcast

'Live Like Braun’ a Mother’s Fight for Justice

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Education, Society & Culture

4.313.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Braun Levi was an 18-year-old senior and standout tennis player at Loyola High School in California with a bright future ahead, including a planned college tennis career. On May 4, 2025, while walking with a friend in Manhattan Beach, he was struck and killed by a vehicle driven by a woman allegedly under the influence of alcohol and driving on a suspended license. The impact of his death rippled through his school, family, and community, sparking grief and calls for change. His parents later established the Live Like Braun Foundation to honor his legacy and raise awareness about the dangers of impaired driving.

In early 2026, the woman accused in the crash pled not guilty to murder and other felony counts, with prosecutors alleging her blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit at the time of the collision. Braun’s story is one of a promising young life cut tragically short, and of a family channeling grief into advocacy and a broader push to prevent similar losses.


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Our son, Braun, was 18.

0:38.3

He was a week shy of graduating Summa Cum La Jolla High School in Los Angeles.

0:45.3

And it was a Saturday night before graduation.

0:48.3

And I called him around midnight, like I usually do our children,

0:53.3

to make sure that they're thinking about getting an Uber,

0:57.0

getting home, look at the clock.

1:00.0

He said, I'm walking home.

1:02.0

I said, OK, a half an hour later, we were woken up

1:06.5

by everyone's worst nightmare.

1:08.8

It's the phone call that makes your heart stop. And it was the

1:12.9

police saying that Braun had been hit by a car. And he died instantly. And we had to go to

1:20.7

the hospital and identify his body. And it's the absolute worst fear of any parent.

1:31.0

And it happened to us.

1:32.6

I didn't think it could ever happen to us.

1:35.3

I didn't think it could ever happen

1:36.8

to our beautiful boy who had so much promise

1:40.0

and so much to give back to the world.

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