Educational Disobedience

Season 2 of Educational Disobedience: The Podcast is here! In this powerful opening episode, Dr. Annise Mabry shares why she almost didn’t return for a second season — and the listener messages that reminded her why this movement matters. Season 1 was testimony: the mom who became a movement, the fight to protect her children, the story of building from a kitchen table blueprint. Season 2 is toolk...

We’re back, y’all! Educational Disobedience returns on October 11th—National Coming Out Day—for Season 2, and this season is all about Being Paid to Exist. Here’s what you can expect: ✨ Real conversations about what it looks like to uncover your monetizable skills ✨ How to earn in ways that restore you instead of draining you ✨ The role AI can play in building income streams ✨ A special series...

The Soundtrack of My Life — How Music Tells My Story Music has a way of saying what our hearts can’t. In this special episode of Educational Disobedience, Dr. Annise Mabry takes you on a personal journey through the songs that shaped her life, lifted her in her darkest moments, and inspired her to keep fighting when giving up felt easier. From anthems of resilience to quiet ballads of healing, thi...

If you’re battling burnout, emotional exhaustion, or compassion fatigue, you already know — no amount of sleep seems to fix it. You wake up just as tired, carrying the same invisible weight. In this powerful episode of Educational Disobedience, Dr. Annise Mabry unpacks the truth about burnout recovery and why traditional self-care and rest are not enough to heal deep emotional wounds. She shares h...

You didn’t go through all that just to stay broke, burned out, and overlooked. When I created Tiers Free Academy, it wasn’t about launching a business. It was about saving my children from a system that had failed them. But what started as a personal act of love evolved into a community movement. I began showing families that their educational trauma could be transformed into opportunity for thems...

You’ve heard the stories. You’ve seen the cracks in the system. And deep down, you know something has to change. But where do you even begin? In this episode of Educational Disobedience, Dr. Annise Mabry shows you how to take your very first step toward rewriting your story — and disrupting the cycles that keep you and your children stuck. Whether you’re a parent tired of watching your child strug...

What happens when you’ve made the hard things look easy for so long that you can’t even recognize ease anymore? In this soul-deep episode of Educational Disobedience, Dr. Annise Mabry unpacks the illusion of strength and explores the quiet unraveling that happens when survival mode ends. Sharing a powerful spiritual experience involving a hawk and a group of crows, she opens up about the grief, pe...

Dr. Mabry unpacks how she transformed her homeschool experience from a trauma response into a six-figure education business. In this episode, you’ll learn why your lived experience as a homeschool parent is your most valuable intellectual property — and how you can start monetizing it today. This isn’t theory. It’s a real-world blueprint to turn your passion into profit without compromising your p...

This episode is for the disruptors who are done playing nice with broken systems. Dr. Annise Mabry names the boundaries, the gaslighting, and the microaggressions she refuses to tolerate—and invites you to do the same. From being called “just a mom” to building an educational empire, Dr. Mabry shares the lines she’s drawn and why silence is no longer an option.  This episode will remind you: That...

Some letters never reach the mailbox—not because they weren’t important, but because the world wasn’t ready for the truth they held. In this episode, Dr. Annise Mabry reads one of the most personal letters she never sent—to the very system that failed her daughter. This isn’t just a letter—it’s a reckoning. Dr. Mabry opens a sacred space for every parent, advocate, and survivor who has ever been s...

In this raw and deeply personal episode, Dr. Annise Mabry shares the unfiltered origin story of Tiers Free Academy—not born from strategy, but from survival. The Kitchen Table Blueprint invites listeners into the moment when a mother decided that survival was more important than structure and healing more powerful than policy. From her daughter’s break caused by relentless bullying to transforming...

Episode 1: This Is Not a Test What happens when the system fails your child and you’re told to just accept it? In this powerful debut episode, Dr. Annise Mabry takes us back to the moment her daughter’s mental health crisis collided with a broken school system. This wasn’t a drill. It wasn’t a practice run. It was real, and the stakes were life or death. Through raw storytelling, personal reflecti...

Lisa was a firm believer in the public school system and she always believed that the system would work for her children--until it didn't. Making the transition to homeschool her daughter in her Senior year was a tough decision to make; but, now almost a year later, Lisa has no regrets. Today, Lisa shares her story from a parent's perspective of what the journey to homeschool looks like using the...

Today, Damian shares his story from homeless to high school graduate. Tiers Free Academy is the only homeschool program in Georgia that works to educate parents on their right to homeschool their children. Tiers Free specializes in students that are often left behind in the public school classrooms and creates a unique learning opportunity where each student succeeds. Become a supporter of this po...