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Episode 239 - How to Homeschool as a Business Owner
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I’m chatting with Julie, of A Gentle Feast, about managing a business while homeschooling your kids.
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Introduction to The Brands That Book Show
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Learning is happening all the time. So we can be learning when we're out in the community. We can be learning when we're out in nature. We can be learning when my kids are helping me with our business. like ah Just because I say I homeschool four hours a day doesn't mean um like learning stops at 1230 in the day.
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You're listening to The Brands That Book Show, a podcast for creative entrepreneurs who want practical tips and strategies to build engaging brands and craft high converting websites. We're your hosts, Davey and Krista, co-founders of a brand and website design agency specializing in visual brand design and show it websites. You're listening to The Brands That Book Show.
Managing a Business While Homeschooling
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In today's episode, I'm chatting with Julie of A Gentle Feast about managing a business while homeschooling your kids. A Gentle Feast has helped hundreds of families implement the rich philosophy of Charlotte Mason without the pretentious must-dos by empowering parents with the tools, resources, and plans they need to create a great education for their kids.
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We chat early mistakes in her business, what a day in her life actually looks like, how she manages work and homeschool, and some of the things to consider if you're considering going the homeschool route. I really enjoyed this conversation with Julie and I hope you will too.
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Julie, I am really excited to chat with you. So we've been working on your website for several months. I'm excited to finally get it out there in the world. And you have a super interesting type of business and it's actually something that Davey and I are really interested in doing ourselves, not teaching what you teach, but homeschooling our kids. So I'd love for you to just lead with your story and tell us like how you got started in the specific niche that you did. Yeah. So I've been homeschooling my own five children. for the past 20 years, which makes me sound really old. And I kind of took what I was doing with my own kids at home. And one of my friends was like, you should totally sell this. And I was like, nobody would actually buy this. And she was like, no, actually, this is really awesome. So I just put it out there in the world, you know, like your minimal viable offer and just started and kind of had it built and grown from there. And so, yeah, a gentle feast grew out of what I was doing with my own kids and
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just having a perspective of education using real books, real connections, real ideas. And it's just been such a neat blessing to watch it grow as my children have also grown. And so it's kind of like my business baby kid along with my other kids.
Balancing Homeschooling and Business
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And so, yeah, I'm super passionate. I feel like especially since the pandemic, one homeschooling has really grown in our country, but also the need for parents to also work while they're homeschooling. So I meet more and more moms that come up to me and are like,
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How do you run a business? and homeschool at the same time. And so sometimes it's an economical reason. right and but Sometimes it's also just, I have this thing I'm super passionate about. I know you work a lot with creatives and I definitely would put myself in that category. And so, you know, I love homeschooling. It has been such a blessing in my life, but I also want to be growing and challenging myself as an individual person. So a lot of times it's just that the mom has this interest or this hobby and how can I turn this into a business and also balance that with homeschooling.
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Yeah, that's amazing. So were you a teacher previously or did you have a business previously? No. So I was a public school teacher and I helped start a private Christian school and had no business acumen when I started. No idea what I was doing. Absolutely.
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Everything I've learned is through trial and error. Okay, that's amazing. Because we love to homeschool. The schools in our area like maybe are not the strongest. We live in a more rural area. But right now, it just hasn't seemed feasible to homeschool our kids like with the time and with running our businesses. So I'd love to know a little bit more how you manage all of that. So how do you balance like having time with the kids and having time in the business?
Homeschooling's Role in Entrepreneurship
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I think that's one of our biggest fears. And that's also one of the hesitations I hear a lot of people express.
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How do you have time to do everything? Well, the answer is you don't. So the first thing is getting rid of that misconception that there like needs to be a balance. I think balance is a myth and that can be the thing that we always feel like we're striving for and we never can reach because it's actually not something that's attainable. So it comes down to A, realizing I can't do it all.
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So what can I do? What do I want to do? What am I good at? And what can I outsource, delegate, not do it all in order to have both of these areas of my life thriving. So, you know, for me, it's been really helpful. I feel like homeschooling is actually an amazing thing to do while you're running your own business. And so seeing it as something that is complimentary, not distracting from. So we can get in this mindset of like, Oh,
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I have to go answer these emails and it's taking away from my homeschooling or, you know, I'm working with my kids on this project, but I really want to be on the zoom call right now. And I miss like, and we can always think of what we're lacking in rather than seeing, and I really believe this, that homeschooling is such a gift when you're running your own business. And I'll tell you why, because most entrepreneurs are people that think outside the box and homeschooling allows you the opportunity to teach your kids that kind of mentality and allows them to think outside the box as well. And so it kind of really pairs well. I feel like with the lifestyle that I've built for myself and my family, another gift is I'm able to show them what it's like to actually run a business. And that's something that, you know, I would love for my kids to do someday. I really feel like that is just such a blessing and a gift in my own life. And so they get to see me in the trenches doing this. I talk to them about it. I get them involved. Not only are they like my models for, you know,
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my Instagram and my pictures and stuff, because my curriculum is well with children, but like, they were packaging boxes when I used to ship things out of my house, they were going with me to the conventions and talking to customers, and like, they learned so much from that, that they couldn't learn, you know, from a textbook or a workbook or sitting in a classroom. So I really feel like we need to come out of of the mindset of like, that this is actually pairs really, really well. And how can I kind of enhance and utilize the gift that this already brings me. And so one of the things that, you know, you have to learn how to do, like I said, is delegate, prioritize, but you have to do that in your business no matter what, right? Like, so you can look at your business and go, okay, what do I actually really enjoy doing in my business? Okay. I don't enjoy doing answering emails or XYZ. I'm going to hire a VA. Well, same thing with the homeschool. Okay. So there's certain things that I love doing. I love reading with my children. I love having deep discussions.
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i love doing things out in nature those are my top priorities okay things i'm like math for instance but i feel yeah night i like i'm going to hire someone oh we're goingnna online ah so we're go to go to a co-op like i'm going to outsource those things because they don't light up my soul. And so it's the same thing when it comes to business. And then also going, okay, what tasks can I do
Time Management Strategies
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together? So for me, multitasking doesn't really work very well. So I would try to like be homeschooling while also answering Facebook questions. And like, I felt like I was pulled it and I was. And so what really helped me is like time blocking. Okay, when I'm homeschooling, I am 100% on
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we're homeschooling right now and then okay this is my work block and like teaching my kids okay don't interrupt me don't you know here's the pop process when mom's doing her work i have an actual little neon sign outside my door so they feel like i'm working like or i'm on a zoom call or something live or they can't come in you know and teaching them those boundaries so that this is my time for this and this is my time for this rather than trying to mix them together if that makes sense That makes a lot of sense. Do you feel like your kids had to be a certain age in order to be able to manage that? Because I'm thinking right now I have a six-year-old and I have a two-year-old and the two-year-old could not understand like mommy's work. No, no, no, no. But you can have, you know, older kids helping with the younger ones while you go.
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XYZ or you know hiring a homeschool teenager to come over and play with the two-year-old while you go work for an hour. you know it's Again, being creative, I feel like with what you outsource. her For me, the first thing was cleaning. I hate cleaning. I'm like, okay, how much money do I need to make in my business to hire a cleaning person? Well, that freed up like four hours a week for me.
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Not that they come that much, but like, just even having to do that, all that deep cleaning and that freed up this time. Okay. Well, now this time I'm going to set aside for work what I can do this. Okay. And then, you know, like I've said, I've always had older kids because I have a wide age of children, but like.
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You know, there were definitely seasons where I hired like a homeschool team to, can you take my kids to practice? I mean, that saved me two hours a week or carpool with another mom or switch on and off with another homeschool parent. Like there's so many opportunities, but we can get locked into this mindset of like, this isn't going to work because I got to do this and I got to do that. Or there's like endless possibilities of how it can work. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And that's such a great idea to bring in ah another homeschooled older child to help the younger kids.
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Yeah. If you don't have one for yourself, there's lots available and they love getting to work. And you know, you can mentor them to like, Hey, this is my business. This is what I do. And you know, it's a great way to form relationships with them. And both of my, so I have two adult children now. Okay. One's 23 and one's 21. And then I have three high schoolers that I'm currently homeschooling. And my adult children, I mean, both of them started their own photography businesses when they were 15. And you know,
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Every time I'm learning something like, oh, okay, now Instagram's doing these real things. Like, let's look into this. Okay, now it's TikTok. Okay. Like we could have conversations about that. And then they could bring that into what they were doing. And even before that, those were more like their official businesses. But when they were little, I mean, they sold cupcakes. They babysat, they dog sat. Like it was always that I wanted to encourage them and support them in their entrepreneurial journeys. And they could see that and me modeling it as well.
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That's really cool. Are they still entrepreneurs? Like are they still both doing photography or have they pursued? yeah Well, my oldest is my oldest is a photographer. She also works for me now. business So she does like my podcast editing and my YouTube channel and media. And then my second daughter, she's a senior as she's studying neuroscience. So I don't know how that will fit into her entrepreneurial journey, but who knows?
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That's really cool. What does a typical day in your schedule look like? And maybe you could also paint a picture of what it looked like when you had younger kids, just because you're probably a little more self-sufficient than maybe some people's are.
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That's interesting that you say that, because honestly, I feel like it hasn't actually changed that much, which is why I reflect on it. Because, you know, so I try to get up before my kids and prepare my mind for the day, you know, just have some time, quiet time, do some exercise, whatever. And that's kind of some of that routine has changed, because when they're little, like they're up at the crack of dawn, and now that they're teenagers, it's like waking the living dead. So like, I have more time in the mornings than I used to. but We try to start at school around 830.
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Okay. It was kind of like that when they were little too. And then we just go for like four hours. And now they're at the point where I can do some light work. I don't like to multitask, but like I'm not reading everything to them or showing them how to do math with the manipulatives or something like that. So I can be kind of like doing something that doesn't take a lot of brain power. So we'll do school to like 1230, then we'll have lunch. And then if they need to finish something up, they can, but then I'm off. I'm doing work. Okay. So after that, I go work from like one
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to five six depending on the day and what we have going on. So again it's that this is my time for this and then this is my time for this. Now granted they're older and they can entertain them not entertain themselves but like use their time wisely in the after I have trained them in that okay we have something I call it project time okay so like I'm modeling like what are you working on what are you interested in and kind of giving them support for that But they were in the middle, they were just playing. They were just playing outside and I could be sitting by the window watching them play outside for hours. you know Like I said, you could always get help if you want to have that kind of work time. And then Saturday mornings is when I do like my deep
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work creative time. Like I just block out an hour or two of that, just brainstorming ideas and thinking through new creative things that I want to do and allowing myself because like I said, they're teenagers, now they sleep a lot longer. But you could always, you know, have a spouse or somebody to help on Saturdays too. You could, you know, work that as well. Yeah.
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I don't work the rest of the weekends. that is he I made that mistake when I first started and I know lots of entrepreneurs, do no matter what you're doing right, of like working all the time, working at night, and working out. And so when it's like what i'm when I turn it off now, I turn it off. Like at 5.36, I'm done. I'm not taking my computer and sitting and watching TV with everybody. Like I need to be done. I'm not taking my computer to my kid's soccer game. Like I had to create kind of boundaries for myself of when I was allowed to work as well.
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I think that's something that we all kind of learn because like so quickly leads to burnout. And you know, I think at first you're so excited. You think I'm going to use every free second to work, but then like it doesn't take long to realize like that's not sustainable.
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No, not at all. Especially when you have children. I want to be like mom too. like I don't want to just always be like homeschool mom, working mom. like I just want to be like, let's just hang out and play a board game mom too. you know yeah That's awesome. Are there any other mistakes that you made when you were first starting everything? and know If you're like me, you could probably have a huge list. Yeah, right?
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Yeah, I think that was like the main thing of just trying to not having good time boundaries and not being willing to delegate. I kind of had this feeling like if I am Wonder Woman and I can do everything and I can
Overcoming Delegation Challenges
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take care of the house and I can take care of all the homeschooling and teach every subject myself and I can, you know, do all the things in my business. And some of it, if I'm going to be honest, is like this control part of me, like nobody can do it as well as I can do it.
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And so I had to really um maybe it just no but be honest with myself and go, wow, that's really egotistical. And I don't want to keep doing it myself. So how can I train my kids, like even when they were little, how can I start training them to do chores? Now I have teenagers and they now all have a night of the week where they make dinner.
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Yeah. But it started early and it was messy of them in the kitchen with me, you know, and that kind of thing. And so it's like, but it's that long-term, like, okay, I'm preparing them for life. So they need to know how to do these things. So let's start building these habits now. And so it can be as simple as letting your kids do their own laundry. It can feel like they're not going to have clean clothes or they're not going to you know, like letting some of that go. But even just like, yeah, with your homeschool, with your business, just learning to go, it's okay.
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Yeah. To let them things go to other people. And that really will help with the whole perspective. Yeah. What was one of the first things in your business that you outsourced? I know you mentioned cleaning, but like business wise, did you hire your v a VA first? Did you start bringing on your kids? like So yes, it was my kids. So during the pandemic, my business like blew up overnight and it was. Sure. My daughter and I in the garage to like two o'clock in the morning packaging boxes. Oh my goodness. Yes. Actually the first thing I hired was a customer service person.
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Okay. A lot of emails, a lot of questions, a lot of support. So it's kind of a unique business in that perspective of like, actually I just hired a VA like last year and I've been doing this for nine years now. I'm like, what took me so long? But it was part of like this mentality of I don't even know what I would ask them to do because everything was all in my brain and it was because it grew so quickly it was very disorganized and so my goal for this whole past year has been building like systems in my business and building like a stronger foundation i use the metaphor of i built a castle on ikea furniture
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Okay. And the way to the castle this past year got to the point where the idea furniture wasn't holding in it anymore. And so I was like, okay, we need to upgrade this foundation here and actually get systems. I need to write things out so I can give it to somebody else to do it rather than have it all in my head all the time. And then feeling all the pressure of I have to do all the things all the time. And that was super stressful. That's really a great advice. I've never thought about building a building on IKEA furniture and there's like weak foundations.
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I hate to admit it, but
Charlotte Mason's Educational Philosophy
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yeah. Yeah. I'd love for you to share a little bit about how your business like works, about like what's different about it, because i like you have a really unique perspective on homeschooling and how you structure it and what you offer people. So can you tell us a little bit more about that? Well, I think, too, if you're going to homeschool and run your own business, you need to really look at what is education. Can learning happen other than just reading a textbook and filling out a workbook page or sitting at a desk?
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And so my curriculum is based on educational philosophy. Yes. And in fact, you learn a lot more when you're reading a real book. listen that is full of ideas where you can get to know real people. You could build character and empathy. You can't talk empathy, but really these kind of stories and even, you know, subjects like history or science can be taught in the real book kind of living way. And then just having discussions. So you're not filling your day with a bunch of busy work. I meet people all the time like, how do you homeschool in four hours a day? it's like
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because we don't do all that extra stuff that actually doesn't help your child learn. We were meant to be filled with stories and we were meant to communicate as humans. And so using that as an educational tool, it just simplifies so much. And then having the perspective of learning is happening all the time.
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So we can be learning when we're out in the community. We can be learning when we're out in nature. We can be learning when my kids are helping me with our business. like ah Just because I say I homeschool four hours a day doesn't mean um like learning stops at 1230 in the day, right? And they're always like like I said, they're doing now they're for years now do their independent kind of projects in the afternoons and that kind of thing. So like they're always learning. So it's building, thinking about education a little differently too. Like I said, kind of out of the box of this is the traditional mindset and kids must learn these things on these progression and they must spend this many hours a day learning them and they need to have a teacher pouring it into them.
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Right. And you need to, you need to be the one on call all the time teaching all the things, right? Or you need to be outsourcing all those things. Rather than no, I can actually put my kids in touch with wonderful authors and artists and musicians and they can learn these things for themselves. And then I'm actually teaching them to be lifelong creative thinkers, people who can learn and grow on their own, which is what I'm still doing as an adult. I feel like I'm always learning and growing. I want my kids to have that perspective. And so how can I make that educational education happen? So the way I structured a general fees actually really ties in very well with running my own business. Cause like I said, it's not, we're not doing school for eight hours a day. We're not eating a bunch of
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you know, paper mache maps and filling in a bunch of workbook pages of what's the right answer, connect the dots between this sentence and the answer and things that are just a waste of time of how kids actually learn. We're reading a lot of books. My kids now can do that independently and they're either talking to me about it or they're writing about it. Yeah, that's amazing. I love that. How did you come up with a name at dental fees? I love that question. So my curriculum is based on an educational philosopher that lived in Victorian times named Charlotte Mason. And her approach was that education is like a feast. We as parents are providing all these beautiful, rich subjects for our kids. It's our kids' responsibility to come and take what their bodies need.
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and that children's minds can only feed upon ideas. They don't need to be stuffed with a bunch of information or facts. And where do ideas come from? Ideas come from music, art, being out in nature, poetry, reading beautiful books. And so I just love that metaphor of like the feast and gentle because it's not something forced. And when I first started homeschooling, because I was a public school teacher,
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I had a very traditional mindset of homeschooling. Like we did circle time and we said the pledge and like, this is how school is supposed to look. And but within like two years of having three kids under the age of three and homeschooling two elementary children. Like I was completely burnt out and I'm like, I can't. I can't do this anymore. This is not going to function like this. And so it really was how I developed this whole program was like diving into like, there has to be a different way. Gentle. I just, I felt like I was like a drill sergeant all the time with my kids when I first started homeschooling. Like you have to do this and this is supposed to be done 15 minutes ago. And why haven't you done that? And like our, the atmosphere of our home was so anxious and stressed and that's not how I wanted it to be. And so.
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When I think of gentle, it's something like, here, here's this beautiful feast. I'm providing this opportunity for you, but I'm not going to force feed you. I want it to come. I want it to be something that's inviting and welcoming for my kids. And so that's kind of where that name comes from. Gentle doesn't mean easy, though. People can have a misnomer there. And do you feel like they always take all of the opportunities that you present them and that they... Nope. Sorry, too, because there's been times where I'll like,
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you know, be reading to my kids and I'm like, okay, my son's doing somersaults, like my daughter is playing with her hair, like no one is actually listening to this beautiful poem that I'm reading, why am I doing this, you know? And then months, even years later, I've had my kids, so for this example I'll use,
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It's the poem that's in Anne of Green Gables, the Longfellow poem, Lady of Shallot. I knew it was going to come to me. And so, you know, I'm reading Lady of Shallot. I have like an eight-year-old and a seven-year-old and a six-year-old. They're like all over the place, right? And you know then like a couple years later, we went and saw Anne of Green Gables at my local town theater. And my son leans over and he's like, Mom, I know this. This is Longfellow, isn't it?
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And I was like, wait, what? That was like several years ago when you were just like spinning in circles the whole time. So like a lot of things I feel like I've seen kind of these seeds are getting planted, but you don't always see the fruit right away. Right. It's kind of trusting the process of this is growing and shaping them as a person. And that takes time and allowing them the time to grow at their own pace on their own thing and not be like, oh, freaking out. And we got to learn it. We got to learn it yesterday. You know, like nobody can learn in that kind of environment anyway, just as humans, like all of us need space to kind of things and grow and adapt, especially as business owners, right? I mean, everybody can relate to that in our own journey, but speaking with our children as well, they need that kind of growing time. Yeah. And do you find that they still like, do you have to do testing at the end of the year? I have a lot of friends who homeschool and they have to do like some standardized testing and you find that- It depends on where you live. Yeah. So I guess in your state it's required. Yeah. We're in Virginia, which I think is more strict.
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Yeah. So, you know, every state has its own thing. So that's always fun. But really testing is like a language of itself. And so you really can teach your kids like, okay, here's how you take this test. And here's some test for prep books, but you don't have to teach to a test. Okay. Because to me, that's not really how we should be learning anyway.
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of like friends, kids who are in the public schools, they have so much anxiety about that. Oh yeah. And studies even show, I mean, our teenagers are suffering so, so much from they're the most anxious generation that's ever come up. A lot of that is screens, right? And so there's a lot we could do about that no matter where our kids go to school, but like our public school kids here, they're on their phones all day long. There are no restrictions at all. So they literally are sitting there at school looking on Zillow or sending TikToks or whatever and still like actually paying attention to like what is happening because they don't care. They've been so burnt out because they've had to like perform
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From such an early young age by the time they're teenagers. They're exhausted. They're done. Like there's none of that curiosity love of learning I just I want to read this book because this sounds really interesting and I want to grow as like that's gone a lot of it's very sad we're crazy because I feel like you Go through college like you get out in the world and you realize like well shoe I'm not done learning like if I want to go we' in life Yeah yeah So that's funny. Like I said, everything in my business, I've had to like literally like Google or YouTube and figure it out on my own, right? So it's like, I want it so that and then that like you can figure anything out, you can learn anything you want to learn and empowering them and giving them tools and resources that are going to help them kind of in that journey. So it's not like
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everything we do is student-led. I mean, I have a very set curriculum, and these are the subjects we're covering, and it's very thorough. You know, they're learning their foreign language. Like I said, you know, my daughter's studying neuroscience in college, and she was very well prepared. But I'll tell you, this is really funny. She said, Mom, you got to come meet my psych 400, whatever, whatever.
00:24:47
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I couldn't even tell you the name of the class. She told me that I didn't even understand what it was. And she's like, you got to come meet my professor. The two of you get along great. And I was like, really? Why is that? She goes, well, for four weeks, we get to learn about whatever we're interested in. So we get to like our own project and do our own research. And she's like, I'm so excited. And she's going on and off and off about it. And I was like, yeah, like your professor sounds like someone I would totally get along with, you know? But like even at that like high level. And she's taken lots of classes in college that were like,
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boring and you know whatever but you just did it because you got to take the class you know and you have to work the system sometimes too but like to have a teacher that was like no the best way that you're gonna learn is if it's something that you're choosing that you're super excited about and to give them that brand and now she's like on fire for this class you know and so that's kind of been what we've done all along because really that's real life like most people don't actually do the profession they graduated from college and Yeah. Unless you're like very specific, like a doctor or a lawyer or something like that, or CPA. I do. I was like, I'm going to say to design. And yeah, I'm a designer. But like my husband, Davey, has a theology undergrad and an education master's. And now he runs a tech company and this company. So nothing to do with those.
00:26:02
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Right, but those kind of classes are great because they shape you as a person too. And so we can get into the mindset of like, oh, my kid is really good with computers. So you know all I'm going to teach them at home is like coding and STEM and all this stuff. And then they they're not a very well-rounded person. So I really do believe like a humanities kind of education is just going to shape you as a well person. So you know theology education, that's going to help you be a great human no matter what kind of business you end up choosing. But that's what you want to give your kids. Charlotte Mason is a philosopher that I based my curriculum on.
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says we want to put our children in a large room. ah hi So how big is the room that you can offer to your children? And so how many different experiences, how many different things can we learn about? How many, you know, things that I never would have thought to teach my kids like Shakespeare and other things that were like boring and made me want to put my eye out in high school. I actually liked now because we're actually like learning it in a way that's like not like, let's dissect this thing and analyze it to death, but let's just enjoy it because it's rich in beautiful language. Like that, it's actually like healed my schooling in a lot of ways. I'll be homeschooling my own kids and learning these things alongside of them again, or things that I never got to learn in my education as well. Yeah, that's amazing. So this was such a great conversation. If people want to learn more about what you offer and find you, or maybe explore more homeschooling their own kids, where can they find you?
Resources and The Feast Life Podcast
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So I have my own podcast. It's called the feast life because Charlotte Mason said life should be all living, not a mere tedious passing of time. So i that approach to all of my life, business homeschooling. So I talk about all those things on the podcast. And then my curriculum is called a gentle feast. So that's just a gentle feast dot.com and the new beautiful website that you all make will be out very soon. Yay. And we'll make sure that we include links to all of this too. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for having me. I hope this has been a helpful perspective. One of the greatest blessings of my life is being able to have a business that's supporting my family.
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but also being able to do it with my kids and be able to learn and grow in my business, but learn and grow in our homeschool as well and in our relationships. And just seeing how now that my children are almost all adults, seeing how the style of kind of education and watching me run my own business is shaping them as adults is really cool. Yeah, that's so beautiful. Well, thank you again for being here with me. Yeah, sure.
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