Dr. Lisa Dunne

The Communication Architect

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Dr. Lisa Dunne is an author, speaker, educator, lifelong homeschooler, and president of Chula Vista Christian University. Her podcast, The Communication Architect, builds emotional health and relational resilience through the development of strategic communication competencies that increase personal leadership capacities. Drawing from both theoretical and practical examples, the podcast offers training in interpersonal, intrapersonal, organizational, and familial communication--all in a friendly, upbeat, and personal style. Dr. Lisa has written several books on organizational and interpersonal...

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Dr. Lisa Dunne

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Latest episode

Jul 4, 2026

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Episodes

High Anxiety: A Method for Confronting the Rise in GenZ Anxiety and Misattachment (Part 2) 01.06.2025

Join Dr. Lisa for part one of this three-part series on addressing emotion regulation in the youngest generations. In part one, she shares her own testimony with anxiety and overviews some of the psychosocial crises that are emerging in today's students. In part two of this series, she explains the power of inquiry-based learning, questions, and curiosity. As part of the analysis of human beh...

High Anxiety: A Method for Confronting the Rise in GenZ Anxiety and Misattachment (Part 1) 26.05.2025

The average 4 year-old-child asks 437 questions a day. Their developmental stage of epistemic curiosity leads them to think, to wonder, to imagine, to search for the why. By the time these same children reach the teen years, they have often lost their wonder, their curiosity, their sense of awe. Their questions turn inward. Their thoughts become anxious. Join Dr. Lisa for part one today's sho...

Neural Flexibility: Helping Your Kids Develop a Growth Mindset 23.05.2025

A mindset is a cognitive bias, a systematic manner of thinking that influences our decisions, our actions. Understanding the foundations of our mindset can help us move beyond the limitations of some of our belief-to-behavior patterns. How about you? Is your mindset oriented toward growth, or do you tend to get stuck in a fixed, limiting mindset that holds you back? Join Dr. Lisa on today's s...

Generational Breakthrough: An Interview with Pastor Francis Anfuso 23.04.2025

How can you create lasting change in your heart and in your home? Don't miss this interview with pastor, evangelist, and intercessory prayer warrior Francis Anfuso as he shares findings from his new book, Prayers for Every Day Battles and Generational Breakthrough. You can be a legacy maker and a curse breaker! Discover new tools to help you stand in the gap for your family across generations...

Health Care or Sick Care? An Interview with Christian Healthcare Ministries 17.04.2025

I'm all about breaking free from broken systems, so when our family heard about CHM twelve years ago, we jumped on board and never looked back. Americans are the sickest country in the developed world--and the vast majority of that diagnosis is what is called "preventable" disease. Preventable means you can prevent it! You have the ability, the agency, to live a healthier life. Why...

Does Government-funded Education Impact Faith, Family and Freedom? An Interview with Israel Wayne 07.04.2025

Charters. Education Savings Accounts. School Vouchers. If you've been wondering how government-funded education programs impact faith, family, and freedom, don't miss this interview with Israel Wayne. Israel is an author, a popular conference speaker, and the founder of ChristianWorldview.net. He and his family have been featured in Time Magazine, World Magazine, The New American, Court...

College in 8th Grade? Affordable Christian Community College for Junior and Senior High Students! 24.03.2025

Don't miss today's show, as Dr. Lisa unveils a new program coming this fall to our homeschool academy campuses, Veritas Christian Community College. For only $200 a month, your 8th to 12th grade homeschooler can take dual-enrollment college classes while attending high school, graduate high school with an AA, and then transfer that credit into an accredited Christian university. Fall loc...

Canceled Christians and Hidden Agendas: An Interview with Michael King 15.03.2025

Teens suspended for wearing a "two genders" t-shirt? Anti-faith curricula planted in the seemingly benign National Day of Reading rollout? What's really happening in America's public schools? Join me as I interview Michael King, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, a powerhouse agency that is taking back education in their state. Discover what's really happenin...

Freedom to Educate Independently: An Interview with Angela Lasch 24.02.2025

If you've been feeling the pull to homeschooling and don't know where to start, or if you're surrounded by charter school pressures and feel like you've lost your academic (and moral) freedoms, don't miss this interview! In every state across America, parents have the freedom to educate your children independently--without a yoke to a woke government agenda.  Angela Lasch...

Homeschool Heroes: Part Two 26.01.2025

Part 2: Every movement has a history, a moment in time where visionaries and pioneers stepped out and refused to part of the status quo. Before the Industrial Era, homeschooling was the common modality of the masses. But for over 150 years, children were pulled from the home, educated en masse, and treated as cogs in a machine. That was, until 1978, when across the US, pockets of "family scho...

Homeschool Heroes: An interview with the Founder of the Modern Homeschool Movement, Colonel Ray Moore Moore pt. 1 30.12.2024

Every movement has a history, a moment in time where visionaries and pioneers stepped out and refused to part of the status quo. Before the Industrial Era, homeschooling was the common modality of the masses. But for over 150 years, children were pulled from the home, educated en masse, and treated as cogs in a machine. That was, until 1978, when across the US, pockets of "family schools&quot...

45K Thriving Families: An Interview with Classical Conversations Founder Leigh Bortins 28.11.2024

Pastors, take note! This is yet another tremendous resource to help rescue your congregation from pagan indoctrination! Join Dr. Lisa on today's show as she interviews Leigh Bortins, the founder and CEO of Classical Conversations. Leigh started her visionary program in 1997 with 11 students. Today, CC serves over 45,000 families around the globe. Known for its rigorous academia and dialogue-b...

The Value of a Question: Stoking the Fires of Curiosity with Socratic Methodology 16.11.2024

"Children enter school as questions marks," Neil Postman chastised, "and they leave school as periods." What is happening in the scholastic environment to crush intrigue? Developmentalists have shown that children have what is known as epistemic curiosity, a need for understanding. But when they enter a traditional school environment, their question rate drops from one every tw...

How Social Engineers Use Language to Shift Culture: An Interview with Dr. Marlene McMillan 04.11.2024

Have you ever wondered about the power of words? Not just the words we speak over ourselves and our circumstances, but about the collective power of words as a culture-shaping entity? What if words were being used all around us right now to shift ideas, to create division, to engineer a future for our nation? Join Dr. Lisa Dunne for an interview with John Brown graduate Dr. Marlene McMillan, autho...

America's Education Crisis Is a Solvable Problem: An Interview with Dr. Jim Garlow 26.10.2024

Join Dr. Lisa Dunne on today's show as she is interviewed by world changer Dr. Jim Garlow, founder of Well Versed World. You can be a difference-maker in your church, your city, your community! Let's work together to shift the culture of education for the next generation.  Join us on the Academic Rescue Mission by opening up your church building during the week and training parents to di...

Circles Not Rows for Relational Healing: An Interview with Trauma Therapist Amber Alcoser 17.09.2024

How does the "circles not rows" methodology affect relational healing? Join us for an interview with trauma therapist Amber Alcoser to learn how you can use CVCU's relational format of circles in your homeschool environment, your family, your co-op, your church community and more! Amber is especially passionate about helping pastors make sense of trauma before launching their church...

Protecting Your Nonprofit: An Interview with Corey Scott 12.08.2024

Is your ministry protected? In an era where faith, family, and freedom are all under fire, it's vital that believers take a proactive stance in protecting their vision. Join Dr. Dunne in this interview with homeschooling dad of six and founder of The 508 Company Corey Scott, and discover how shifting from a 501 to a 508 might provide the protection you need to help your nonprofit thrive. Lear...

The Countercultural Mission: Discover an Educational Methodology that Protects and Preserves Your Freedoms 09.08.2024

In the 20 years since Dr. Dunne has been a homeschooling parent, she has seen more and more evidence of the fallout from traditional education. All around us, in our communities and our churches, we see the tragic fruit of a sterile, soulless process of educational methodologies that literally suck the joy out of learning. Whether you are considering home education or have been a homeschooler for...

Renewing Your MindSET: Escaping Problematic Paradigms and Forging New Neural Networks 01.08.2024

How is your current mindset affecting your home, your business, your friendships, your future? Our brains forge new neural networks according to our existing mental associations, the feedback loop of our expectations. What we believe internally affects our world externally by shaping our interpretation of reality. What can you do to break free from a problematic paradigm? Join Dr. Lisa on today&ap...

Anyone Can Homeschool: An Interview with Diana Kluwin 15.07.2024

Parents often buy the lie that they are not equipped, not educated, not "expert" enough to homeschool their kids. The data proves otherwise! Moms, dads, you are the number one ingredient required for your child's socio-academic success! Join Dr. Lisa Dunne as she interviews fellow homeschool leader Diana Kluwin, and learn about the many support options available to you as a homescho...

A Diversion from Disastrous Dysfunction: Resources to Protect You from Soul-less Education 02.07.2024

Modern education is broken, and the result has been disastrous dysfunction in our nation's youngest citizens. Maybe your kids or grandkids have come home saying they've been bullied or pressured by classmates or teachers. Maybe you've seen the conversations on social media demonstrating the sociopolitical nonsense that has pervaded America's classrooms. Or maybe you've rea...

The Perils of Public Education: An Interview with PJI's Brad Dacus 14.06.2024

In the 1960s, a phrase was circulated on public television as a result of rising crime in the city: "It's 10pm. Do you know where your children are?" The PSA was supposed to alert parents to check in on their kids and make sure they were safe. Today, the question is a sobering reminder for public school parents. "Do you know where your children are?" In today's interv...

Identity and the Socially-constructed Self: Why Teens are a Target 01.06.2024

Human development is a process of becoming. What social and biological forces underlie that developmental process? Identity, what developmentalists call a "relatively stable sense of self, is no longer stable. Identity is under fire, and we are seeing the tragic fallout in our youngest generations. Join Dr. Lisa Dunne on today's show to learn why teens are a target and what you can do to...

Nature AND Nurture: Exploring the Language Protein and the Power of Words 24.05.2024

Did you know that there is a language protein, FOXP2, that signals the brain to higher levels of chatter? Scientists say that humans speak between 7,000 and 20,000 words a day, and the Bible tells us that each of those words we speak over ourselves, over others, over our circumstances, has power. Life and death are in the power of the tongue, Proverbs 18:21 reminds us, and those who love it will e...

Renewing Your Family Focus: An Interview with Israel Wayne 27.04.2024

Are you concerned about the chaos and dysfunction defining America's youngest generation? As parents, we have to ask ourselves if we are sowing the seeds in our homes today that will yield a harvest of hope tomorrow. Join Dr. Lisa Dunne for an interview with Family Renewal Director Israel Wayne to discover how you can shift the culture of education in your family. Find out how he and his wife...

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