Many Ways Home

Ooookayyy. The time has come 😅 I’m rounding out season one, and turning the tables on myself. Life pre-kids/how homeschooling became a thing for us/what I love/what’s hard/ya knowwww. This is the only episode that is not also watchable on YouTube cuz that would have been REAL weird. So, enjoy the audio only :) And then this little podcast is taking a summer hiatus! I’ll still be writing here on t...

This conversation is near and dear to my heart - my bestie! Liz lives in Minneapolis and has two girls, 10 & 7. We’ve only shared physical space one time, but we talk just about every day in some form or other. She’s a magical human and I feel super grateful to be on this big blue planet at the same time as her; not to mention, homeschooling and parenting alongside, too. We cover everything from p...

This week’s convo is with my friend Jo, who is a mom to two (8 and 5) and who was homeschooled herself, from start to finish. She gives honest insights into her experience, and how, in many ways, it taught her ahead of time what she “didn’t want to do.” We also chat the image of homeschooling today, the mindset of “constant adjusting,” some of the pressures felt being a homeschooling parent, and m...

Sharing a convo with my virtual bud Meg this week. Meg and I have known each other since 2019, but have never met in-person. She lives in Vermont and has three kiddos: a sophomore in college, a junior in high school, and a six year old. She’s the first person I’ve interviewed who a) doesn’t live in Colorado and b) has older kids, so I’ve been excited to share, because she’s done the thing, is doin...

Sharing my conversation with Tiffany this week, who is homeschooling her 9 year old. I love a lot of things about this convo, but one of which is the way Tiffany describes homeschooling….as something that is creative, technical, philosophical, humbling. A multi-layered project. She talks about the relationship with her daughter as the most important thing (“8-10 more years of orbiting her center”...

This week’s conversation is with my friend Amanda, who is also my fellow Wisconsinite/artist/mindful entrepreneur/dreamer/enneagram 4. She’s my slice of Wisco here in the mountains and I’m super grateful for her presence in my life. Her kids are 8 and 4. Amanda is the first person I’m interviewing who was homeschooled herself, and who also had an abrupt transition out of homeschool (not by choice)...

This week is with my friend Abbey, whose kiddos are 7 and 4. We name this in the episode but, the reality with literally every episode so far is we’re all rookies y’all 😅 And quite frankly, I think that’s a super-power for our Colorado crew at the moment. We don’t need to take ourselves so seriously ( she said to herself…again and again, in all areas of life ). Abbey spoke to how easy it is to lo...

Evelyn has four boys, and at the time of recording this (January) they were 20 months, almost 3, almost 6, and 8 so…are happy birthdays in order Evelyn?! 😅 We talk everything from Wild + Free (which I clearly forgot I ever co-led lol), to her moving from Colombia to Texas at age 13 and teaching herself English, to the realities of homeschooling multiple kiddos, patience, what we value vs. what we...

Chaz is a mom of three (ages 7, 5, and 18 months). Our conversation covers everything from balancing work and motherhood during COVID to following her intuition through birth and into homeschooling. We talk about her values - slow, secular, nature-based- and how to stay grounded in those values in a fast paced world. I appreciated Chaz’s vulnerability in this conversation, and got the sense that s...

This week I’m sharing my conversation with Marisol. She is a mom to three kids - an older son who has autism (and who deeply inspired parts of her journey including becoming a special education teacher in public schools), a 7 year old who she’s homeschooling, and then a sweet, brand new little nugget who was with her for this entire interview (hence my high pitched oh em geee look at herrrr voice...

Today’s conversation is with Megan, who lives in Colorado and is a mom to two boys. Megan worked in the public school system as a Special Education teacher, and was inspired to homeschool by her husband who was homeschooled from start to finish. (Side note: she’s also a great Irish dancer. She led our kiddos in a mini class for St. Patrick’s day last year 🍀 ) We chat about everything from obsessi...

This week is with my friend Elena, who lives in Colorado and is mom to two boys. In this conversation we cover everything from the windiness of parenting littles, to public school in post soviet Russia, patchwork quilting curriculum, the balance between discipline and play, the pressure we put on ourselves and the projection of that onto our kids, how it feels to actively build community vs. just...

Episode two is with my friend Lauren. She lives in Colorado and has three kiddos, 8, almost 6, and 2. Honestly, she’s the reason I ended up finding a larger homeschool community because she welcomed me into one. And not only did she welcome me in, but she kept.on.me (in a very kind, loyal way) when I was having commitment issues lol. All that to say, she has taught me a great deal about what it me...

This first conversation is with my friend Lisa. She lives in Colorado and has three kids, ages 9, 5, and 2. In this episode, she shares what life was like before kids, what inspired her to homeschool, and a little bit about what it actually looks for their family in the day-to-day. All episodes in this first season follow a similar framework; essentially people’s starting stories, and where they f...