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The freedom of HOMESCHOOLING nobody talks about! · Homeschool Revolution

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  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to the homeschool revolution.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm my sister on this for homeschool mom and side for over 20 years, and I've been coaching moms just like you for decades.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've done this messy and working on figured it out as I went.
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  SPEAKER_02: This public sister, working mom, single mom, stay-at-home mom, and yes, dads too.
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  SPEAKER_02: Any parent who has done it old way and ready to raise creative, competent kids who actually changed the world.
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  SPEAKER_02: This isn't just homeschooling.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is revolution.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Hi, welcome to my homeschool village.
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  SPEAKER_02: Go ahead and pop all your questions in here.
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  SPEAKER_02: All you want.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Ashley's asking, has anyone ever done night school schedule because of busy day life?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: I have seen this tons.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've seen a lot of families do this.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like my mom's a night owl.
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  SPEAKER_02: She was a night nurse.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so she didn't homeschool us, but that would have worked for her.
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  SPEAKER_02: So some people just like shift your life into whatever hours work for you and homeschool around those hours.
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  SPEAKER_02: I knew one family because of work scheduled, only did math on Mondays.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's like that's all they did.
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  SPEAKER_02: Tons of math on Mondays.
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  SPEAKER_02: And on Wednesdays, all they did was writing or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_02: Just remember, like, I don't know why this is so hard for us.
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  SPEAKER_02: You make the life you want.
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  SPEAKER_02: Period.
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  SPEAKER_02: Just make the life you want without apology.
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  SPEAKER_02: If evening, oh, look at you bringing me food.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, sweetheart.
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  SPEAKER_00: Aye.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Good boy.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: While he gets on his homework, thank you, Henny.
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  SPEAKER_02: Good boy.
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  SPEAKER_02: I love my kids.
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  SPEAKER_02: Is anybody else as in love with their children as I am?
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  SPEAKER_02: Which is why I homeschool because I love being with them.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're my favorite.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes, yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Do make the life you want to make in the time you want to make it, the way it works for you.
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  SPEAKER_02: I have in-laws who are night owls, and so they work night shifts and they're up at different times, and that's fine.
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  SPEAKER_02: My mother was a night nurse for two decades and she just changed her sleeping.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, no apologies.
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  SPEAKER_02: Make the life you want.
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  SPEAKER_02: Uh, Nicole says that's so exciting.
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  SPEAKER_02: My kids saw that on the schedule, got excited too.
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  SPEAKER_02: Good, good, good.
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  SPEAKER_02: It'll be fun.
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  SPEAKER_02: It'll be fun.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, topic for today.
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  SPEAKER_02: I actually haven't come up with a topic.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I'd like to see what topic you guys would like me to discuss today.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we can talk new homeschooling right now in my head is all about bonfire because that is, I have been really working on it today, building it, and it may not even apply to most of you, but I am so excited for the high school program.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, here's here's an announcement.
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  SPEAKER_02: If you have a child, 14 and up, okay, 14 and up, we're moving them.
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  SPEAKER_02: So here's what we're doing.
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  SPEAKER_02: All kids, you'll be getting emails and messages from Trish this week.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're actually gonna give you access to Bonfire Academy, sort of.
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  SPEAKER_02: We've decided all high schoolers need to be on one platform, okay?
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  SPEAKER_02: All high schoolers.
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  SPEAKER_02: So if you're just paying for co-op and you have a high schooler, we're gonna give access to Bonfire Academy's school platform where our high schoolers can start just being together, okay, for their social life.
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  SPEAKER_02: And all of the classes that work inside the co-op also have a link inside the high school platform.
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  SPEAKER_02: So whichever section you're on, you can still access the class.
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  SPEAKER_02: Does that make sense?
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  SPEAKER_02: So we're gonna give all high schoolers 14 and up.
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  SPEAKER_02: So if you're 12 to 13, 12 and 13 and you're in the green classes, you stay in co-op, you stay there, you'll access from there.
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  SPEAKER_02: Once you're seven or 14, you will be moved to the Bonfire Academy side where you still access all the same co-op classes, but you get high school friends, and that will be built solely for kids to comment and make friends.
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  SPEAKER_02: That is not mom space, that is the teenager's space.
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  SPEAKER_02: They can talk in there, all their classes are in there.
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  SPEAKER_02: And what I've done, let me show you, is I've actually organized high school better in there.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I'm gonna give you a tour here.
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  SPEAKER_02: You don't have to sign up for bonfire for this part.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let me show you.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna give you the access.
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  SPEAKER_02: You're gonna have this little bonfire logo, Bonfire Academy.
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  SPEAKER_02: The classroom is set up specific for high school.
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  SPEAKER_02: So now you're gonna come in, and if you are a co-op member or a bonfire member, it doesn't matter.
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  SPEAKER_02: You'll have a getting started here, and it it goes through and tells you exactly what to do, and it will only have access to the programs that a high schooler needs.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then it's gonna come through, it'll tell you the supplies, there's a note for parents, um, the co-op, everything blue is co-op level, but I actually go in and spread out exactly what a high school should look like.
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  SPEAKER_02: So there's your live classes, the co-op, but I've split it up for their reading and writing success.
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  SPEAKER_02: And this language arts is based on my mindset books that I recommend: Math, History, Science, Technology, Art.
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  SPEAKER_02: It is broken down in here so that in September, this is what you're gonna do.
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  SPEAKER_02: In October, this is what your teen, let me be specific, is gonna do.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it literally gives um the history is all about um American history and government this year.
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  SPEAKER_02: So they would click in here, go to week one.
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  SPEAKER_02: Here's their assignment, here's what they're gonna do.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's it for the week.
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  SPEAKER_02: So this is the new co-op inside the bonfire.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's not, and I don't want to, I'm having a hard time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like, it's the high school program.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, it's not bonfire.
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  SPEAKER_02: Bonfire is the next level.
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  SPEAKER_02: So, but I've broken this down.
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  SPEAKER_02: So anybody with a child 14 and up will get access here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Your high school has been organized for you now, totally organized, everything blue.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, the black is Bonfire Academy.
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  SPEAKER_02: You have to upgrade to get access to these classes, and then it will also include lives with me where I'm actually working with the kids, and that's an upgrade.
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  SPEAKER_02: Questions?
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's see what you guys are saying here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, will it still be the same classes?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: So let me show you journalism, art, all of them.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: Will this be part of the membership that we pay for, or is it separate?
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  SPEAKER_02: So this part is actually part of the membership you're currently paying for.
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  SPEAKER_02: What I've done is up until now, we kind of built my homeschool village really well for up to eighth grade, and then high school was like, good luck.
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  SPEAKER_02: I have spelled out high school for you now.
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  SPEAKER_02: So while you're in Bonfire Academy, you can go to calendar and this, I'm sorry, while you're in co-op, 14 and up, they must be 14.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the reason is because 12 and 13 year olds aren't emotionally ready yet.
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  SPEAKER_02: They tend to still be too on the silly side.
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  SPEAKER_02: I want them to be 14, but they go to the calendar, and let me show you.
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  SPEAKER_02: I have included all the same co-op classes right here.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, they're here.
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  SPEAKER_02: The classes that are not included in co-op is here.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is work with me two hours a week, where we go through their AI, their entrepreneurship, where I'm literally coaching, helping, guiding.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, that's that, and then the entrepreneurship.
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  SPEAKER_02: So this right here is basic co-op.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sorry, here, even the philosophy is basic co-op price.
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  SPEAKER_02: You want bonf, you want to get into this, you have to upgrade to bonfire.
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  SPEAKER_02: Does that make sense?
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  SPEAKER_02: And then I have increased.
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  SPEAKER_02: I have if you want, there's two prices for bonfire.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, two.
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  SPEAKER_02: One is um, let me show you.
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  SPEAKER_02: Both are everything you see, the additions of the entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, finance, ai, and I guide through some of the things, uh, mindset.
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  SPEAKER_02: And then the higher level, which is 997 a month, is one-on-ones with me.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's like I literally set an appointment with your child, them and me, once a week, where I help them specifically get through all of these.
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  SPEAKER_02: And you can I they can use my time for homework, they can use my time for bonfire specific, they can use my time for high school only.
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  SPEAKER_02: They get that hour a week with me.
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  SPEAKER_02: So make sense.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's see, let's see.
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  SPEAKER_02: Does make okay, so yeah, I am I have finally built the high school I have always dreamt of.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is the program, and I was like like beating myself over the head because this is the program I wanted my kids in, and I couldn't find it.
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  SPEAKER_02: And finally I built it.
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  SPEAKER_02: My last child will be in this class, whether he likes it or not.
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  SPEAKER_02: But my last child will be taking these courses the way I have organized them.
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  SPEAKER_02: And he's actually been doing this anyway, but I it's very well spelled out.
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  SPEAKER_02: You all like I'll show you.
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  SPEAKER_02: So you saw the history, science, they do it a little differently.
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  SPEAKER_02: Don't they look on Monday here?
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  SPEAKER_02: They click on Karen, good you're here.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is for your son.
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  SPEAKER_02: They click on the topic, and then as you'll see, they go in on science, they pick which science they're gonna do, and they'll go into Schmoop and do them.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_02: And because some kids have already done, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: And then there's a lab for each month to go off of what they're learning in science.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, Karen, now that you're here, I want to like show you this all over again.
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  SPEAKER_02: Karen, have you been into the bonfire lately?
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  SPEAKER_02: So Karen's son has signed up for bonfire and one-on-one's with me.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and so I have moved everything from the co-op, Karen, over here, not moved it, but like it's doubled up.
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  SPEAKER_02: So um he can get in here and get all of his co-op classes and the classes with me.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_02: Your way this week.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_02: That's okay because um, yeah.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_02: Cool, because I was working on it all weekend.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_02: You wouldn't have seen it.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_02: I've got a few more things I'm still working on.
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  SPEAKER_02: I haven't added any videos yet.
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  SPEAKER_02: I've got to go in and do a bunch of videos so that you understand what I'm doing here.
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  SPEAKER_02: But and those aren't done.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_02: But he can come in here and join his co-op classes right from bonfire.
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  SPEAKER_02: Make sure you go look at the classroom now and start going through here, Karen.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_02: And anybody else whose kid is gonna be in bonfire, uh, and all of you, Trish will start getting you accesses.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I it's I've got in here not or scheduled out not just bonfire classes, but high school.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_02: And I'd love your input to see where he's at.
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  SPEAKER_02: Questions, thoughts?
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_02: That's so cool.
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  SPEAKER_02: I cannot wait for my kids to turn 14 for more years.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_02: All right, well, good, I'm glad.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, this week's project.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: Get Ian in there.
• 11:23
  SPEAKER_02: Get him in there.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: He needs to be in there.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_02: Wait, when did all these people?
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, April, you're in here like 15 times.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_02: What is happening?
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_02: April, did you know that you have one, two, three?
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_02: There it is.
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  SPEAKER_02: I was like, 23 people, and half of them are April.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_02: That's some serious tab opening right there.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_02: I want to know how your computer did that.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_02: Hi, Celeste.
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_02: Clarissa, hello, and Karen made it.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so questions.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_02: Did you see that?
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_02: Do I need to show you again?
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_02: Will it still be the same classes?
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, wait, answered that one.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_02: Nicole said, My kid just messaged me, said that there are not live classes this week.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_02: Is there a list somewhere of what classes will be offered for fall, or should I just look at the calendar?
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_02: Look at the calendar, click on September.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_02: You'll see it.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, and also, where else is it?
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: Let me show you.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: There's another place that we have at you go to, I know I've heard a lot of kids are sad, and that makes me so happy.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: Go to the co-op, go to the classroom, go to set up your kids, scroll all the way down, go to class schedule fall.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: This one is here so you can print it.
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  SPEAKER_02: So this goes over here, and then look, you pick it's all fall, and you pick your time zone.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_02: Lizzie spent a lot of time making these so you guys can print them out.
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  SPEAKER_02: Find your time zone, click it.
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  SPEAKER_02: You now have your classes set up so you can print this for your fridge, their computer, whatever you want, so that if you need that printed out.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_02: Or you can just go right up here to calendar, click September, and it's there too.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_02: Remember, you can add this now.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_02: There's two settings here.
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  SPEAKER_02: You can do this, or you can do this.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, it's because it's showing August.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_02: And it shows you in order depending on how you like to look at things.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and when you click on a course, you can add it to your personal calendar.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_02: Don't forget that.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_02: Make sense.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_02: No, none are starting today.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_02: We are taking the week off.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: Our teachers need a break to get one semester wrapped up and another semester going.
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  SPEAKER_02: Plus, they deserve a break, don't they?
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  SPEAKER_02: Our teachers are some of the most amazing women on the planet.
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  SPEAKER_02: They need a week.
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  SPEAKER_02: We will be starting on Tuesday next week.
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  SPEAKER_02: So one week off.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_02: I came in between you talking about the high school social time.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_02: Is there social time for the younger kids as well?
• 14:09
  SPEAKER_02: The younger kids, yes.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_02: So that's what our classes are.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_02: That's what Minecraft education is.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_02: That's what so when I say social time for the high schoolers, I mean that in the community where conversation is happening, it's for the teenagers.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's for them to be commenting.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_02: In Bonfire, if you upgrade to Bonfire, they have to report to me every day.
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  SPEAKER_02: They have to go in and say, did and and let me know I got this done, I got this done, I got this done, and report that the homework assignments did get done.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_02: And if they didn't, I'm going in to look every evening to say who didn't get their stuff done.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and we're gonna, it's not gonna be mean, it's not gonna be punishments, I'm not that kind of girl.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_02: It's just gonna be a positive reinforcement of how can we help?
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_02: What do you need?
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_02: What's going on?
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  SPEAKER_02: Where do you struggle?
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_02: Those kinds of things.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_02: So basically, I'm going to be taking a bigger part in the education of the teenagers.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_02: Kind of like I do my own.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_02: They're on their own, but I'm gonna check in with them.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna see where they're at, they're gonna report, and there'll be prizes for whose answers the most positively, who's in there, like really participating, things like that.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, it'll be a little more gamified for us.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna have a lot of fun in there.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_01: Make sense.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: Those eggs look good.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_01: He makes the best scrambled eggs.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know how he does it, but he makes the best scrambled eggs.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, questions.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_02: When is the Geo Chaser starting?
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_02: Geo Guesser is starting next week.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_02: We have been playing and playing and playing with that to make sure it works and the kids are having fun.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_02: Now, and we can open two worlds.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_02: The other thing there they might try something different with the younger kids because we had some younger kids try it and they were getting a little lost.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_02: And so, Miss Hannah, the miracle worker that she is, is working on some younger kid um accesses to make sure to work for him.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_02: So we're gonna split the class to older and younger for ability.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, schedule one more time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Ready?
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: He needs to teach us on how to make those eggs.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, right.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_02: He's I need to get him to I need to get him cooking other things because he has a gift and I just need to do it.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, classroom.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_02: Set up your kids.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_02: I'm wondering if I should open a different if I could open a classroom in here for that specifically.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_02: Sometimes I think I have too much information here.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_02: Scroll down, clubs and live classes, class schedule.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_02: I wonder if I I think I should do live classes in its own classroom.
• 17:03
  SPEAKER_02: Should probably be in its own classroom.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_02: When I was organizing Bonfire, it had me do those separately, and I like it better.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: So what do you mean by um altogether?
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so let me show you what I did in Bonfire.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_02: When you in here, live classes, and then in here is exactly how the live classes work, the teachers that will be there, what happens if they miss, the time zones.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_02: And so I was thinking about actually just creating, just like there is here, a live classes just like this, with all the information they need just for live classes.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: Well, each each class is gonna have its own classroom.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_00: So we can include an individual one like that, or we can just put that at the top of every class because every class is gonna have um its own classroom so I can upload all the recordings every week.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, let's let's talk about this for a minute because I have an idea.
• 18:11
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_02: We'll meet later.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, sounds good.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um, Tina, you made it.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_02: I just send it my son up for Zoom, but when trying the test, it won't let me log in with the plus his name email.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_02: Am I doing something wrong?
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_02: Are you on Yahoo or Google?
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: We're finding that it does not work if you don't have a Google account.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_02: Um Microsoft, uh, that's why you need a a Microsoft account.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_02: So it's a my dot Microsoft instead of like a Google.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_02: Who's your email?
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_02: Microsoft?
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_02: Does Microsoft have an email?
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_02: Didn't even know it has to be a Google email.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_02: If you're not using Gmail, sorry, let me make it more specific.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_02: If you're not using Gmail, that doesn't work as well.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_02: You might have to start a new email.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_02: He can be on your account.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_02: If you I always that he doesn't even need his own account, he can use yours.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_02: You only need a separate account if you have more than one child at a time on there.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, yeah, that's why.
• 19:22
  SPEAKER_02: So email but a Microsoft computer.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, the Microsoft computer shouldn't matter.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_02: It's a if it should work.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_02: Only Gmail works for that plus.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: If it's not working, he can just use your Zoom account.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_02: That really, that whole set it up multiple is really for people with multiple kids.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I think my son still uses my Gmail when he gets on.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_02: Because I never set him up because I just have the one.
• 19:48
  unknown: Yeah.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_02: So if you just have the one child, just skip them on yours.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_02: All you have to do is log into Zoom and have it open somewhere so that when you join the class, um, it it just works.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_02: That's all you have to have.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_02: Does make sense?
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_02: Just log into Zoom, keep it open, and then it'll connect to our Zoom.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_02: You're welcome.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, other questions.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um, oh, sorry, April, I just saw one.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_02: I have a high schooler now.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_02: What exactly is required of her to get a high school diploma?
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_02: Because she's planned on going into the military, like for the transcript to make the diploma.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_02: How what or whatever?
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, let me show you something.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_02: How old is she?
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_02: Do you know?
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: I was gonna say, do you know?
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_02: Of course you know.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_02: That's a bad question.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: 14.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_02: Um she's going military and you all right.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_02: Let me show you.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_02: Did you know that we have one of these?
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_02: So you're gonna love this.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_02: Here's what I created.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh see if I can remember where I put it.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_02: First of all, inside Bonfire Academy, once you get, if she's 14, she'll get access to this.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_02: There is a parent tool here.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: I have now included a tracker.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_02: This is a high school tracker.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_02: You come in here and look down here, there's there's um tabs.
• 21:20
  SPEAKER_02: So right here is how you can do credits, how credit works, and how you track a credit using my homeschool village's stuff.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: And if you actually do the whole thing, especially bonfire, you end up with more credits than most high schoolers.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_02: So there's a weekly log on their credit work, there's a credit tracker, and there is a transcript.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_02: Try not to drool.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_02: I'm very proud of this.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so this is inside.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_02: This is one of the reasons I'm moving all your high schoolers over because this is something that you need.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_02: So this is in the Bonfire Academy under parents.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, tools.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: And supplies, the parent area.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_02: There is also a planner for high schoolers only.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_02: The planner is built to track for them to write down dreams.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_02: Then they need to make a million copies of these one a day.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_02: They can track their learning, they track their body so they know why they're feeling, how they're feeling, because of what they're eating and how they're sleeping and exercise.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_02: And this is something for them.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_02: This is something that in the bonfire, we're gonna go over this on a weekly basis together, and we're gonna meet make and meet goals together.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_02: Now, if you're just have a high schooler, you can just have this, you're on your own for it.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_02: If you're in bonfire, I help with it.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so those are new things added in.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_02: Now, oh, I just realized I need to add a tool in here.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_02: Let me show you one more thing inside.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_02: Um the okay, I need to move this too.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_02: I will move this, but for now, if you go to the community and you go to classroom and you go to file cabinet, there is homeschool.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_02: See everything I've got in here.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_02: We've got where are you?
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_02: I've got an editable transcript and diploma.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, you come in here, you have an editable transcript for Canva link, if you want to do this here, a transcript guide, an editable diploma that you fill out, and a transcript PDF.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_02: So you come in here, the PDF is in case you don't want to use Canva, and you literally can print this out, and this is submissible.
• 23:48
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_02: And you, this diploma, you put you can put my homeschool village on, but you sign it as the parent of homeschooling.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_02: Right now, there is in we are waiting for a vote at the Senate that these have to be as honored, and most people do.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_02: Most most companies, most colleges honor these.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_02: Occasionally you'll get somebody who won't.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: A law is hopefully passing that a high school diploma homes from homeschool is as legally binding as diplomas anywhere else.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_02: That's literally in vote right now.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_02: Does that help, April?
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_02: So once we get you transferred, I will put this make myself a note right now.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_02: I will put this over on Bonfire as well.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_02: So this will get put there.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, it's all made.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_02: I am trying to give you everything.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_02: Everything.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_02: I have taken away the hard work of homeschooling.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um what else can I give you guys that you like?
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_02: And I'll be honest, AI has been helping me because I have gotten good at AI, AI helped me create this.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_02: So I went in and I did the research.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_02: And like, what is required?
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_02: And what do colleges expect?
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_02: And what is it?
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_02: And and to AI and I together made all of these so that we are, we've got the research done.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_02: We know what the colleges are expecting, we have it all done, and it's all organized for you.
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_02: Tina says, so I put in my address after making Zoom account.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_02: If so, what is my name of organization?
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter, just skip it.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_02: You shouldn't need to put that in there.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_02: And usually when you ask that, did you if you're doing a free account, a free home account, you must have put business.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta make, and I don't think it matters.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not that great with Zoom.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think it matters, but if you do a personal account, it doesn't ask for that.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_02: If you ask for a business account, it does.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_02: So just make sure that you're not applying on a business account.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_02: Because I don't think they, I'm not sure if they give you a free business account or not, but they will give you a free personal account.
• 26:10
  SPEAKER_01: Let me know what that tells you.
• 26:13
  SPEAKER_02: Hi, Amber, welcome.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_02: Anybody else popped in that I missed?
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_02: Rachel, hi! Okay, questions?
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_02: Especially about that 14 and up, no.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_02: I know that my homeschool village has not been the strongest in the high school area, and that has always been something I wanted to fix.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_02: And now I gotta say, I think we're strongest in the high school area.
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_02: Like, man, this is what I wanted for my kids.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_02: And four of my five will never get to do the program mom invented for them.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_02: But it is um, I'm pretty dang proud of it.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_02: So it's still a maybe for homeschool diploma to be accepted for military.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_02: What should I do for the time being?
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_02: As of now, they are accepting them.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_02: So here's what I would do right now: I would call a recruiter.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_02: I would tell them what the current plan is and see what and then work backwards.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_02: So because I've never actually applied with a child to the military before, I don't want to give you bad information and it changes constantly.
• 27:20
  SPEAKER_02: Not to mention, but I do know homeschoolers get in all the time.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_02: So I would call it a recruiting office, say I have a 14-year-old who's a homeschooler, what is required, and then work backwards.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_02: Make sure you ask, do you take a homeschool diploma?
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's a quick phone call.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_02: And then let me know, get back to me and tell me, like, what are they requiring and how can we make this easier on other homeschoolers?
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_02: I I'm happy to do that.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_02: You know that.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_02: I hope you know that.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I have not yet personally called a recruiter yet.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_02: Not been on my list to do.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_02: I I provide it as my own kids need it, and I uh I need to be doing that more.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_02: Now, I will tell you though, April, did you see in Schmoop there is a prep test?
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_02: So you said they accepted my husband about a decade ago and he was homeschooled.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Celeste.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_02: Did you see April in Schmoop there is is it Tofel?
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_02: The TOEFL?
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_02: Is that what it's called?
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_02: The test that they take for the military to find out where they need to be placed.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_02: There is a prep test in Schmoop for that age.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_02: Have her take it now.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_02: Have her take the test, have her study for it.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_02: Because obviously, as I'm sure many of you know, the higher they test, the better their jobs in the military, the higher the pay, the less danger they're in, all that stuff.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_02: And so um the the prep test in Schmoop is world renowned for its ability to get people testing higher.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_02: So make sure that she's going into Schmoop and using those prep tests and get her those scores as high as she can get them.
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_02: I have a friend who scored so high, they put they they made her a spy.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_02: I wonder what happened to her.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know what happened to her.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_02: All I know is that she tested so high that she went into their spy program.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if I would want my kid in the spy program.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_02: But anyway, it's wanting name of superintendent, principal, administrator, tech teacher who will consent nine educational data collections for organization.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, you are in the wrong Zoom account.
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_02: You you should just be going in.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you can put you put whatever you want, nobody cares.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_02: But um, somehow you went somewhere into like a something education.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_02: Don't you just put it for private use by yourself.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, Celeste.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, wait, where'd it go?
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_02: April says, yes, I did see that.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't think to have her take it now.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, have her take it now.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_02: See how she does.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_02: She can do it a hundred times.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_02: Like every time you do it, you get better, right?
• 30:02
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, go and have her take it and then have her do the prep tests and stuff.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_02: And and I would have her do that.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_02: It'll help you know where she's at and what you need to work on.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Celeste says, My husband just said it's nice they have practice tests.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_02: He wished he had done when he enlisted.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, they do now.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_02: Train you for the test, right?
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_02: Which is totally anti-homeschool in my head, train for the test, but but at the same time, you got to work for what you want.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_02: And if that's what they want, get them as high as they can.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_02: Maria, hi.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_02: Maria says, hi, I haven't been here in a while.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_02: How can you know if your child has ADHD?
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_02: I had a learning issue when I was younger, but I think it was because no one was patient enough with me, which is very likely.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um, let's talk about it.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_02: Lord have mercy.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_02: I did ask way up to what you showed on video, then this popped up.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_02: Tina, I do not know what's going on on your Zoom.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_02: You might have to start over and just be like, personal, personal, leave me alone.
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_02: You don't need all my information.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_02: Just give me one.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um, all right.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_02: Let's.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I see what I'm doing.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_02: I need to make a count on my computer, then his on his.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_02: No, Maria, it's totally fine.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_02: Totally fine.
• 31:11
  SPEAKER_02: Let's let's go there.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_02: I love this question.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_02: ADHD is one of my favorite topics because um I have it and it took me a long, long time to recognize it.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_02: My kids had it, it took me a long time to recognize it to find the tools that we needed to be able to do what needs to be done.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_02: Um, don't, don't cry.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_02: Number one, you don't need a test.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_02: You don't.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_02: If your child has ADHD, how old is your how old?
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_02: Boy, girl, how old?
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_02: Three.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_02: I oh, I have a talk for you.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_02: All right, hold on.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_02: You ready?
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_02: Let me find it for you.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_02: Your three-year-old does not have ADHD.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_02: He has childhood.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_02: Hold on.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_02: And he probably he could still have ADHD.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_02: Don't get me wrong.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna find you my favorite TED talk of all time.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_02: This changed my my my whole view of childhood and childhood and child ADHD.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_02: Let me grab it for you.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, there is a link.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_02: I highly recommend all homeschoolers go to TED Talk.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna type it here.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_02: TED Talk.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_02: His name is Sir Kenneth.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_02: I'm putting it in the chat.
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_02: Kenneth Robinson.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_02: He's um, he was a psychologist, a teacher, an admin, all those things in public school.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_02: And he gives, I think, three different TED talks inside inside TED.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_02: So good.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_02: It will change the way you see childhood, it'll sit change the way you see education, it'll change how you see ADHD.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, you really, really, really need to do it.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_02: He doesn't want to listen to me, only dad at times.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_02: He is three, and I know this is not the answer you want, but most three-year-olds are like this, especially boys.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_02: So it's not that he's being, what's the word I'm looking for?
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_02: He's not trying to be naughty.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_02: It's just that he probably is getting lost in projects, lost in things.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_02: Many, most of my kids', I have a three-year-old grandson right now who does this.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_02: He just gets so lost in things, he's not listening.
• 33:22
  SPEAKER_02: And I had my second child, who was one of my first ADHDers, was like, I was like, why are you ignoring me all the time?
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_02: No, she just would, she gets lost.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_02: And to this day, she's 25 years, 23 years old, and she'll get lost in a project, and I have to go and touch her.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_02: I'm talking to you.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_02: My ADHD children will get so lost in a project, I have to, my kids have to do it to me.
• 33:45
  SPEAKER_02: They have to tap me or I can't hear them because I'm so lost.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_02: And it's just it's a hyperfocus, which is beautiful later on.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but he's a three, your husband, see, hubby's the same.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and so are you.
• 33:59
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so at three, now, when they're school age, they're when they're teenagers, I recommend caffeine.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_02: Caffeine helps them to focus because they're everywhere.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_02: I have to have the caffeine to help me focus.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_02: It calms me.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_02: But don't do that to a three-year-old.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_02: He just needs to be a kid.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_02: Don't try to teach him anything right now.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_02: He's learning so much on his own, you're getting in the way if you're stopping him to learn.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_02: A three-year-old will learn so fast and absorb so much and take in so much that if you stop to do a lesson, it will actually disrupt their natural learning.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_02: Just take the lesson as it comes when they ask a question, answer it.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_02: That's all you got to do at that age.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_02: Read them books, book after book after book after book, no matter how tired you get of it.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_02: My grandson, I have read all the elephant piggy books a thousand times to that little boy, and he still loves them.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, he got upset when I tried to teach him how to grab the pen.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_02: He's too early for a pen.
• 34:58
  SPEAKER_02: He does not need to be able to grab a pen till six.
• 35:01
  SPEAKER_02: And I there's a yeah, three is too early.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_02: He doesn't even need to be coloring.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_02: If he will not automatically pick something up to draw because he's if he has not done it on his own, he's not interested, he won't take it.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_02: Do not try to teach a child that age something they're not ready for.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_02: He will be ready when he sees you right and goes, and he picks up a pen and he looks.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_02: Now it's time.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_02: So you've got to um just follow his lead that way.
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_02: Most three-year-old boys cannot color.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of girls can, a lot of boys can't.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_02: He can throw a ball, right?
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_02: Five even can be early.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_02: This is the school's stupidity.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_02: This is not needed.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_02: If your child is interested, let them.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_02: If they get frustrated, they're not ready to be taught that topic.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so if he gets frustrated, go, okay, we're not ready for that.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_02: That's it.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_02: Move on.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_02: If at 16, he still won't pick up a pen.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_02: We have a problem, but not at three.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_02: Does that help?
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_02: Deep breaths.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_02: He is a brilliant boy.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_02: Now you need to give him play time, cuddle time, plenty of protein, right?
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_02: Lots of protein, lots of sleep, lots of cuddles, lots of books, lots of physical action.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_02: That is all he needs.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_02: A child under the age of eight is learning how to be a human, and that is all they need.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_02: That is it.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_02: He loved the praying games, the ones in the building playing it.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_02: Great.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_02: If he likes it, go for it.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_02: Try not to give him too much tech, honestly.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but that's the whole point is that he's learning to be human.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_02: He doesn't need academics, he needs humanology, how he feels, how to treat, how to be kind, how to share those types of things.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I think it helps when you don't have background noise.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_02: And my sense said touching him will help him filter the noise and listen better and get getting down at the level.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_02: Amen.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Celeste.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_02: Perfect.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_02: Maria tried tons, lots of play-doh.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, bins of rice or bin beans or sand.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_02: I loved those, Beth.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_02: Or dry pasta with toys, construction vehicles, plastic letters.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Beth.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I forgot about those.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_02: I had cans of wheats in um tubs.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_02: Like I would buy like a bag of wheat, um, and then I would buy like big plastic tubs that had lids, and I would pull those out on the back porch and they would play in it, and then we would lid it back up.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_02: And now that you say that, Kyle, it's been a long time, but yeah, we used to do that kind of stuff all the time.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_02: I couldn't do sand, my kids had asthma, and sand would get in their lungs, and we would have asthma attacks.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_02: So we did not do sand, we did beans and we did wheat, and they're cheap enough at Costco big old bag, and you know, you're they're having a good time.
• 37:57
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Pat, for that reminder.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_02: I'd forgotten.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have other kids?
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_02: Oops, I clicked the wrong button.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_02: Sorry.
• 38:09
  SPEAKER_02: Is it Maria?
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_02: Is it just the three-year-old or do you have other kids as well?
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_02: So everybody go watch Sir Kenneth Robinson.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_02: I will on a TED talk.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I think he has.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and he's passed away since, which is really sad.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_02: His what the one of his talks is called How Do Schools Kill Creativity?
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_02: And oh my gosh, after you read that, you're just like, I'm so glad I homeschool.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_02: You'll be so thrilled you homeschool.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, one of his other ones is Ideas Matter.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_02: Very good.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_02: And then um, You, Your Child in School.
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_02: He has a book that I highly recommend.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_02: I'd forgotten this.
• 38:48
  SPEAKER_02: I need to put on my book list.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_02: You, your child in school, navigate your way to the best education.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_02: And it's, I just I went through a Ken Robinson phase when we were first starting homeschool where I read everything he had.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_02: I watched every TED Talk, and it was so helpful.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_02: It made me relax as a homeschool mom, mom in general.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_02: It helped me see that homeschooling was the right choice.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_02: I really recommend you get in and get everything he can you can on his stuff.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_02: So good.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_02: Clarissa, my 13-year-old Spencer has ADHD, and we do a lot of natural remedies working on coping strategies.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_02: Excellent.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_02: And it's okay to keep things short and sweet, and it's okay to um to adjust to that because ADHD is actually a brilliant brain.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_02: And I personally, caffeine helps me.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_02: That caffeine and exercise.
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_02: I have to exercise every day, or I get depressed, or I can't focus.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_02: Daily exercise, caffeine intake.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_02: And I'll be honest, I grew up like anti-caffeine, never doing it until I realized what it does for my brain.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_02: Most of my siblings are ADHD.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_02: All my entrepreneur siblings are ADHD, and we all have to caffeinate to focus.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_02: And we all have to exercise to focus.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_02: So, um, how many of us are there?
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_02: There, I have seven, there's seven of us all together.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_02: Four of us are entrepreneurs, the four of us are ADHD, the four of us exercise on a daily basis, watch our protein intake, and drink caffeine to stay focused and be able to function.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_02: But we're all very high-achieving.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_02: So someone breaking up the day and letting them play for 20 to 30 minutes, then going back to learning.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_02: And remember, it's not like let's work for two hours.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, let's play a quick math game for five minutes and then go play.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_02: Education under the age of eight should be mostly play with maybe 30 minutes a day of reading, writing, math, maybe, and that's it.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_02: High achieving.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_02: High achieving, yes.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_02: The ADHD brain is a blessing when regulated.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_02: It can be a real curse when not.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_02: It took me so many years that I just felt like I was like I was that way my whole life, but didn't know there was anything wrong.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_02: Like that was just me until I started realizing some of my behaviors.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_02: You know, once you get married and your spouse is like, why do you do that all the time?
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, I don't know.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and it wasn't until I figured out the workout and the caffeine and the regulation that I'm functioning now.
• 41:16
  SPEAKER_02: I used to be a mess.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_02: And I've learned to control it and I've learned to focus it, which is how my homeschool village came about.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_02: It was learning to focus that that I was finally able to build a company.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, getting the ADHD, but at three, you don't need to regulate anything.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_02: Let them play.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_02: An ADH, ADHD signs, like most of ADHD you actually grow out of.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_02: So a three-year-old, right, being able to focus is an adult skill.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_02: It's something a child should be working on slowly over time.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_02: They might be able to do five minutes at three, they might be able to do seven minutes at age five.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_02: By age 10, they're probably doing 30 minutes.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_02: By age 12, they're probably doing an hour.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_02: By age, right, and so it's okay to let a child work on the skill of focus over time.
• 42:09
  SPEAKER_02: They don't have to have the focus of an adult.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_02: They shouldn't, quite frankly.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_02: Beth says, um, not just exercise for ADHD kids implement heavy work like moving rocks, carrying laundry baskets, etc., pounding like jumping, or throwing themselves into a pile of pillows.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_02: My ADH kids, my ADHD kids' favorite thing was we would put mattresses at the bottom of the stairs, and I would give them boxes to slide down the stairs on and land on the mattresses.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_02: I would pad the walls and I would pad everything with like all these cheapy IKEA mattresses, and that's what we would do in the winter.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_02: They would slide downstairs, we would build Fords, we read books, and like we used to do all of that stuff.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_02: All of my kids are older now, and they have learned how to control their ADHD, and they've learned to use it to drive their passions.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_02: So now it's turned into a beautiful, beautiful skill.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_02: So just give it some time, a lot of time.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_02: Um, we love our mini trampoline.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_02: You could use heavy body work for learning.
• 43:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I miss a trampoline.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_02: We sold our house with the trampoline and now my kids don't have one.
• 43:22
  SPEAKER_02: They're too old anyway.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, we use the trampoline a lot for learning.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_02: Like they learned their multiplication and rhythm while jumping.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_02: So lots of ways to do it.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_02: All right, ladies.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_02: Anything else I can do for you today?
• 43:34
  SPEAKER_02: Any other questions?
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_02: I got a few more minutes.
• 43:38
  SPEAKER_02: How do I deal with all my ideas?
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_02: I have a doc.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_02: I have so I have on my phone on notes, I have a place to dump my ideas because if I felt like I had to work on all of them all the time.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_02: So, this is what I've taught my kids.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_02: You have a note on your phone just for your ideas.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_02: And when I have them, I write them down.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_02: Because one day I might go back to them and I might actually do one of them.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_02: But something about writing them down and putting them in my idea box lets me let go of them.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_02: And then I can come back to them if I'm like, oh, I remember I had an idea, but I'll go back.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_02: Sometimes I'll use them a year later, two years later, three years later.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_02: Sometimes I'll go back and be like, what was I thinking?
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_02: I'm glad I didn't do that.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_02: So, yes, and the Lord will give you tons.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_02: And the heart, if you've got an amazing idea, yes, you have to work on it.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_02: There is having courage to work on your ideas is scary.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_02: Once you've started the idea, it's awesome.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_02: Getting all the way through can be scary.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_02: It has been quite a spiritual experience.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_02: So my homeschool village, when it started five years ago and it was just an idea in my head, and it's grown into what it's grown into.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_02: It took so much courage and I was scared most days.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_02: Now I love it.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_02: I love everything about it.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_02: I'm having so much fun with it.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_02: But I can't tell you how many days I had to fight the fear just to get it done.
• 45:00
  SPEAKER_02: So now fear is like doesn't even bother me anymore.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_02: But it took five years of pushing through fear.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_02: So do it.
• 45:08
  SPEAKER_02: Do it, do it.
• 45:10
  SPEAKER_02: And if you need a little more help and support on that, make sure you're posting in the group because there are so many women in this group that have beautiful ideas that need more courage to follow through with their own ideas.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_02: And I will tell you right now, as a homeschool parent, I think the most important lesson my kids learned from their mother was to follow those ideas.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_02: They watched me scared, they watched me do things I didn't know how to do.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_02: They watched me learn.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_02: They watched me cry.
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_02: They watched me struggle.
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_02: They watched me scream.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_02: They watched me as I was working through the different problems.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_02: And they have learned that there's work involved.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_02: And they've actually decided, oddly, after watching all my struggle, they most of them want to follow in mom's path and start a business.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, after everything you've seen, you want to start a business, they're like, heck yeah.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_02: So teaching your kids by example, invaluable, priceless.
• 46:03
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't know that at the time.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_02: Thought I would ruin them.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_02: Turns out it's pretty good.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_02: I'm a writer, so I see so much in the ideas.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I bet you do.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_02: I've been homeschooling for five years and I've always searched for a program like this.
• 46:17
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, Clarissa! That makes my heart melt.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_02: I will tell you, this has been such an act of God.
• 46:25
  SPEAKER_02: He created this for us, all of us, for me too.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_02: This was his idea.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_02: I have gone through prayer by prayer every day, just believing in the idea that the Lord sent me.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_02: Every day, just one step, baby step forward, and doing that for a straight five years.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_02: I've actually been learning about um entrepreneurship for seven.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_02: I thought I would take off right away.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_02: I've been learning for seven years.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I can honestly say this is the first year where I'm finally like, this is what I wanted.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_02: And now I'm having fun.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_02: It's a work.
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_02: And yet, I'll do it again.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_02: Um, faith without work is dead.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_02: So keep working at it.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_02: It'll all come out great.
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_02: Amen, April.
• 47:12
  SPEAKER_02: I love God figuring women.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_02: I think I would have created this group just so we could all hang out.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_02: Like, but you know, we might as well educate our kids while we're at it.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_02: I, you guys, I will tell you eventually we're gonna create, and maybe we already have it, I don't know.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_02: But um mine, so what are they called?
• 47:33
  SPEAKER_02: Like a group of business women where we get together, a business meetup of women, mastermind.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Lizzie.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_02: She always is good at figuring out what's in my head.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Lizzie.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_02: A business mastermind of women building businesses, and we go to a hotel and lock ourselves in for a week, and we help build each other's business.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_02: And so, like, if you're good at marketing, you help me with my marketing and I'm good at building a website, I help you, right?
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_02: And so you sit for you lock yourselves in a hotel for a week, make sure there's pools and whatever, and just build each other's businesses with your strengths and meet up once a year and do it again.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna do it eventually.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_02: I am, and I'm gonna, and it'll all be women from my homeschool village.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_02: I know it.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_02: We're just gonna get together and be like, okay, how do you build yours?
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we're gonna do that.
• 48:16
  SPEAKER_02: Village business retreat.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, my dreams are coming true.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna make it happen.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_02: I will.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_02: All right, ladies.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_02: Time to go.
• 48:27
  SPEAKER_02: I have to go do another meeting with someone else.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_02: So thank you for being here.
• 48:31
  SPEAKER_02: Love having you guys here.
• 48:33
  SPEAKER_02: Love this village.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for all that you put into it.
• 48:36
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you for everything.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_02: Please let me know if there's any, if you have any ideas, concepts, questions, please put them in here.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_02: All right, guys.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks so much.
• 48:44
  SPEAKER_02: And we will see you next Monday.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_02: Bye-bye.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_02: That's the wrap for today.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_02: I hope you're leaving with something real, something you can actually use.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_02: This is a long game.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_02: You don't have to get it all right today.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_02: Just show up tomorrow.
• 48:59
  SPEAKER_02: That's enough.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_02: If this episode helped you, share it with another mom who needs it.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_02: And if you're ready for a village to do this with, find us in the show notes.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_02: And until next time, keep going.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_02: The revolution starts at home.