The Power of No-School Podcast

In this episode, I chat about what I think are the 3 essential steps to get started with our homeschooling journey in 2025: 1) Defining your WHY and doing a deep dive into it A 7-layer deep dive helps you to consolidate your reasons to home educate and make it into a mission. 2) Get started with the “de-schooling” process This process helps you move away from entrenched ideas about how education s...

In this episode, we explore the idea of "freedom" that comes with homeschooling and what it means:  - why does "freedom" feel like a struggle?  - how can we embrace this freedom (if it exists) wisely, confidently and successfully? - why it is important to embrace and teach our children to respect this freedom?  “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” Freedom is what...

All of us Home Educators feel this emotion on this journey - fear, which is related to anxiety and worry.  "Have I done enough for my children?"  "What if I have gotten it all wrong?"  "Am I failing my kids?"  In this episode, I share my reflections on this emotion to unpack it, and suggest some strategies to tackle it: 1) Making Home Education a mission  2) Turn fear on itself and instead of thin...

This episode is inspired by a couple of radio and news interviews I gave recently and I realised that when people find out that I am homeschooling my children, their response is often "Oh, you homeschool?" followed by some questions that can be quite hard to answer. In this episode, I will share with you how I answered these questions, the real thoughts that were in my head at the same time, and h...

This journey of Home Education is similar to swimming uphill against the current in a river. It is full of adventures, challenges and there will be days that feel like this journey is a complete struggle. Perhaps you are struggling with one of those days when your kids are not doing whatever you would like them to. Perhaps your child is a stubborn one not just today but every day. Perhaps you have...

In this episode, I will discuss the impact of the emergence and prevalence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) and how we need to shift our focus and approach towards education for our children, such as: 1) the transformational impact of Gen AI and how it will totally change the way we live our lives 2) how we need to change our focus and shift our approach when it comes to education, t...

This is the other Big Question that many home educators have on their minds and are asked by people around them (the #1 question is about Socialisation - that is in Episode 3!) The question: "How can I homeschool my kids when I am not a teacher / trained as a teacher?" In this episode, I share why you don't have to be one and why you shouldn't be one. This episode will help you:  - examine your ro...

The #1 question about homeschooling - What about socialisation?  Whether you are homeschooling, thinking about homeschooling or have decided to inform others that you are homeschooling, you will be faced with this question about "socialisation".  In this episode, we will try to understand the many layers of the word "socialisation" and what it really means. Socialisation does and really should sta...

In this episode, I am going to try to provide the top 3 points to consider if you are thinking about these big questions:  "Is homeschooling better than mainstream schooling for my children? Should I homeschool my kids?" Interestingly, I haven't had many people ask me in person about this, but I know there are many people out there trying to seek information to try to decide if they should homesch...

In this episode, I share our family's personal story about how we got started with homeschooling.  - How I had mistakenly thought that we were "accidental homeschoolers" and with some thought, I realised that there were so many past experiences that led us to this point.  - The emotional roller-coaster we went through during this process - Why we chose to homeschool and how the reasons become clea...