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Why Schooling and Education Are NOT the Same Thing · Homeschool Revolution

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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Homeschool Revolution.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm Rebecca Stromsdorfer, homeschool mommified for over 20 years, and I've been coaching moms just like you for decades.
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SPEAKER_01: I've done this messy, done it wrong, and figured it out as I went.
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SPEAKER_01: This podcast is for the working mom, single mom, stay-at-home mom, and yes, dads too.
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SPEAKER_01: Any parent who is done with the old way and ready to raise creative, confident kids who actually changed the world.
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SPEAKER_01: This isn't just homeschooling.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a revolution.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's get into it.
0:35
SPEAKER_01: Welcome.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm Rebecca, homeschool mom to five kids for over 20 years and owner of my homeschool village.
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SPEAKER_01: And coming live to answer your questions.
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SPEAKER_01: What help you need?
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SPEAKER_01: Are you homeschooling?
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SPEAKER_01: Do you want to be homeschooling?
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SPEAKER_01: Are you afraid to homeschool?
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe you have been homeschooling for a couple years, but you are struggling with some issues.
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SPEAKER_01: Those are all things that I can help you with.
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SPEAKER_01: I have a guest coming on.
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SPEAKER_01: Her name is Kelly.
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SPEAKER_01: Kelly is a homeschool mom to 11 children.
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SPEAKER_01: And she and I are about the same age, with she's done more than twice as many children as I have, raised them and homeschooled them.
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SPEAKER_01: And she's coming on because she's also an expert in helping homeschoolers make money from home while they homeschool.
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SPEAKER_01: So she's gonna come on.
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SPEAKER_01: We're gonna just chat.
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SPEAKER_01: So ask your questions for Kelly or I.
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SPEAKER_01: Um Kelly lives in Alabama, and so she and I met online about six months ago, but I was living in Utah at the time, and then I moved to Alabama and found out Kelly actually lived in Alabama, and so we met a couple of weeks ago, and Kelly lives in the middle of Tornado Valley, where she got she's you've your house has been destroyed twice?
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SPEAKER_02: It's been destroyed once and then hit again the next year.
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SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: So this is a woman who understands the tornado aches like nobody else in the world.
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SPEAKER_01: Like there's so few people who even understand what that means.
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SPEAKER_01: And I don't because we've had so few tornadoes this year.
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SPEAKER_01: Like this is supposed to be the year that we were introduced, and everybody's like record low tornado count.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not that I'm complaining.
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SPEAKER_02: Right, that's really good.
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SPEAKER_02: We want it to stay low.
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SPEAKER_02: Yes, keep it low, keep it low.
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SPEAKER_01: So welcome, Lisa.
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SPEAKER_01: So, Lisa, Katie, I'm trying to see who else is on here with this today.
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SPEAKER_01: We've got people coming in.
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SPEAKER_01: Um Kelly and I have both homeschooled forever.
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SPEAKER_01: I've homeschooled for 24 years with five kids, and then Kelly has 11 and has homeschooled for how long?
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SPEAKER_02: 24 years.
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SPEAKER_02: So yeah, my I have a seventh graduating this year.
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SPEAKER_01: So wow.
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SPEAKER_01: So between the two of us, we know a bit, a little bit about homeschooling and love to help.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm owner of my homeschool village, and Kelly is the owner of Think Outside the Classroom.
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SPEAKER_01: Is that what it's still what you're calling it, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: I thought you were changing it.
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SPEAKER_01: So I was like, let me make sure I'm giving her a cell.
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SPEAKER_01: Um, I specialize in helping people homeschool and giving them the curriculums and live classes they need.
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SPEAKER_01: Kelly specializes in giving you a way to make income as a homeschool parent.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you want to say a little bit about that?
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I actually I think about myself specializing in two kind of two things.
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SPEAKER_02: So I do talk about helping moms make income.
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SPEAKER_02: I also my I have a passion on helping moms de-school their thinking.
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SPEAKER_02: So that's what think outside the classroom came from.
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SPEAKER_02: I taught in the classroom before I came home to homeschool.
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SPEAKER_02: And through a lot of research and a lot of reading, John Taylor Gatto specifically, it has helped me to have just a completely different view of education.
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SPEAKER_02: And I help moms understand that education and schooling are not the same thing.
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SPEAKER_02: And that understanding, it just brings so much less stress, I think, when a mom realizes that she does not have to recreate the classroom home.
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SPEAKER_02: I know that you share the same heart that I do on that, but um, I do love that I talk a lot about that on my channels.
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SPEAKER_02: But yeah, and then I also help moms make money from home because I've tried for many, many years.
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SPEAKER_02: Um, my husband's self-employed and has worked so hard for us.
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SPEAKER_02: But as anyone knows who's trying to live on one income, it's hard, especially with us with a large family.
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SPEAKER_02: And so I have always been entrepreneurial.
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SPEAKER_02: I've tried dozens of things, nothing really ever made substantial income.
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SPEAKER_02: And then I discovered digital products that you can create your own or you can actually sell products that other people created.
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SPEAKER_02: For me, because I was so busy, that was just an actual life-changing event because I didn't want to create anything else.
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SPEAKER_02: I was tired of trying.
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SPEAKER_02: And so being able to just plug and play into a business that was already done for me, game changer.
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SPEAKER_02: I made my first six figures in under a year, which I thought never thought was possible.
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SPEAKER_02: Um I love it for busy moms because they it's just they they hold your hand, they tell you what to do, you don't have to think.
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SPEAKER_02: So yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I had a question on one of my posts the other day when I was talking about you, and they're like, Well, do I have to spend a lot of money?
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SPEAKER_01: Is that how she makes hers?
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SPEAKER_01: I was like, No, yes, by her course, but it's it's affordable, and that is not how she makes it.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_02: There's such a misunderstanding, right?
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SPEAKER_02: So we think about job and we think about business.
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SPEAKER_02: I have a business.
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SPEAKER_02: So if you were to go out anywhere right now and try to purchase a business, it's it's not cheap.
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SPEAKER_02: The business that I have was less at the time, it cost me less than a thousand dollars.
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SPEAKER_02: I got a business that was done for me, I got products that were created for me, and I got live coaching, which in and of itself, you won't find that for so it's very affordable.
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SPEAKER_02: And there are other even more affordable options below that.
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SPEAKER_02: So yeah, anybody can get started, and there's a payment plan and all that stuff.
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SPEAKER_02: To see what all I got with what I purchased is unbelievable, unbelievably inexpensive.
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SPEAKER_02: And so when people get into the program, they're like, wow, I can't believe all that I got for such a small amount.
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SPEAKER_01: So you guys are welcome to ask Kelly and I any questions you want.
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SPEAKER_01: So Kelly knows how to make money and knows how to teach moms how to make money.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, one of the reasons Kelly and I have matched up here is because I actually created a product for her.
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SPEAKER_01: So my homeschool village is a curriculum, online classes for kids.
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SPEAKER_01: It's everything you need to basically make your life easier while still educating your children well at home.
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SPEAKER_01: And then we set it up so that the moms who are in the village can make a commission by selling it.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, this is not a multi-level, okay?
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SPEAKER_01: Multi-level is where like everybody makes money off every sale.
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SPEAKER_01: This is not what that is.
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SPEAKER_01: What we've done is we've basically set it up so all women can be affiliates inside my homeschool village and you can make a 40% commission, which is unheard of in the industry, by the way.
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SPEAKER_01: Most people are like, if you were to get 100,000 followers, people would still only offer you 10 or 15% commission.
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SPEAKER_01: They don't offer much, but we created my homeschool village to be able to really support a mom.
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SPEAKER_01: And so she teaches you how to even share my homeschool villages and make 40%, which can be I've got one mom who's sharing like crazy, and she's got people coming in and she's making an income and it's recurring because every month they're there, she gets paid.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's a great way.
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SPEAKER_01: And she all she does is enjoy my homeschool village and share it with her friends, and she's she's doing really well.
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SPEAKER_02: So I love that.
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SPEAKER_02: Affiliates is just it's the best way ever to make money.
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SPEAKER_02: And there are a lot of ways to do it, but if you're already using a product or service that you love, you're naturally probably sharing it anyway.
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SPEAKER_02: So why not become an affiliate and make money doing it?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Because like now, and I don't know if everybody knows this, but I was looking into it.
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SPEAKER_01: TikTok, when you do products and stuff, you make like one or two dollars per product and it's not recurring, and then, or you can go Amazon and do like an Amazon list and make a couple bucks a product.
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SPEAKER_01: If you let you keep a recurring, so yeah, you can I need to go do a thing for us, a math so that you can see how much.
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SPEAKER_01: Like if you bring in 10 people a month, that's 400 bucks a month.
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SPEAKER_02: I was gonna say, I think it's about 400 a month.
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SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And then it recurs.
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SPEAKER_01: So if you do 10 every month, that 400.
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SPEAKER_01: Now month two, it's 800, and month three it's I'm like, oh shoot, three times eight.
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SPEAKER_01: Hi, Kimberly.
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SPEAKER_01: Katie says, I have a middle schooler who we are considering moving from public school to homeschool, but it's hard to find information about that age.
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SPEAKER_01: I find a lot about younger ages, middle school.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that doesn't surprise me.
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SPEAKER_01: What information specifically are you looking for, Katie?
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SPEAKER_01: Let us know exactly what you're looking for and we can help with that.
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SPEAKER_01: Or what are your concerns?
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SPEAKER_01: Or are you just looking when you say information, you're looking for like curriculum specifically?
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SPEAKER_02: Do a quick rundown of so there are classes in my homeschool village, but there's also the kids can hang out.
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SPEAKER_02: You have like there's so many things in there that I don't even think I know everything that's in there.
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SPEAKER_01: So there are days I forget.
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SPEAKER_01: So we have a whole team of women in there, which is why I don't sometimes they change things up on me.
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SPEAKER_01: So we have Minecraft education, so our kids can hang out and play, and we divide it by age, and we keep and a mom is always watching.
9:03
SPEAKER_01: Like they log into a Zoom, they're talking to each other, they're getting to know each other, they're hanging out, they're playing on Minecraft education.
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SPEAKER_01: We're about to replace one of our Minecraft days for an online Mario Brothers old-fashioned 80s, 90s games.
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SPEAKER_01: So, and that was my 16-year-old's idea.
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SPEAKER_01: She's like, I don't want to play Minecraft, but if you do this, I'll join you.
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SPEAKER_01: So now we're adding, we're gonna be changing it up.
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SPEAKER_01: So one day will be Minecraft, one day will be different kinds of games that they get on and play together.
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SPEAKER_01: We've got a chess club, we've got book clubs, we've got a journalism class where the kids are actually creating an actual digital magazine every quarter.
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SPEAKER_01: We have an entrepreneur class for teens, and they're learning how to run a business and run life.
9:49
SPEAKER_01: Our science class right now for the older kids is learning science through survival skills.
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SPEAKER_01: So they're learning how to survive in the wild and applying that to their science.
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SPEAKER_01: So my home school village actually carries the curriculum.
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SPEAKER_01: So what we did is we actually have multiple.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me explain what we did.
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SPEAKER_01: We don't have one curriculum, and here's why.
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SPEAKER_01: When I was homeschooling, and you tell me if this happened to you too, Kelly, but like we signed up for one curriculum and it worked for one child.
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SPEAKER_01: But child two learned totally differently.
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SPEAKER_01: And I would put the same curriculum in front of child two, and they were like, uh, not gonna happen, and would not even look at it.
10:26
SPEAKER_01: So now I'm buying a second curriculum for child two, spending money again.
10:30
SPEAKER_01: Then child three comes along, and that didn't work for child three.
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SPEAKER_01: So then I bought a different curriculum for him.
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SPEAKER_01: By the time I spent all the money, now everybody's on a different curriculum, and I'm running like crazy.
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SPEAKER_01: This kid needs this, this kid needs this, and my brain is like a mess.
10:44
SPEAKER_01: So then I moved to online and I thought, well, okay, maybe I can find a good online program that they can all use.
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SPEAKER_01: Sure, if I want to pay for every single kid's membership.
10:53
SPEAKER_01: So by the time I bought all my kids this science curriculum online and this math curriculum online, and this, and by the time you do that for five kids, you're spending a lot of money because no one curriculum worked for everybody ever.
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SPEAKER_01: So I would buy a piece here, a piece there.
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SPEAKER_01: By the time I was looking at how much I would spend, it was like$500 a month.
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SPEAKER_01: I was like, I can't afford that, plus the other classes they wanted.
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SPEAKER_01: So, what we did is inside my homeschool village, we had a huge community, lots of women in there just chatting it up.
11:22
SPEAKER_01: And we're like, what if we use our power numbers?
11:23
SPEAKER_01: Let's get together and talk to these companies and get the same discounts they give schools.
11:28
SPEAKER_01: And so we started calling them, and sure enough, they're like, sure, we'll give you a deal.
11:32
SPEAKER_01: So what we did is we talked to all of our favorite curriculums and they partnered with us.
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SPEAKER_01: We bought the licenses in bulk.
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SPEAKER_01: And then the moms, one membership fee, you get access to everything, all of your children.
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SPEAKER_01: So you're not paying per child, you can pay for one child or two or more, and then you get to access everything inside.
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SPEAKER_01: So if you have a third grader or uh if you have a 12-year-old, but he's third grade reading, but he's eighth grade math, you can completely change that up for him.
12:02
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to stick to the third-grade curriculum because he's third grade.
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SPEAKER_01: You can use the levels you want, go as fast as you want, as slow as you want.
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SPEAKER_01: It's made to customize.
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SPEAKER_01: So we actually have it for you, Katie, for that age.
12:14
SPEAKER_01: And not to mention life classes.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know what it is about our junior high kids, but they show up to classes more than any other age, which we found fascinating.
12:23
SPEAKER_01: Brilliant.
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SPEAKER_01: That's my answer for curriculums, my homeschool village.
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SPEAKER_01: Or you're gonna piece it together anyway, and it's gonna take you so much time to figure it all out.
12:33
SPEAKER_01: And we've got technology, we've got math and science and history and government, we've got it all.
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SPEAKER_01: You just need to go in and then you just piece what your kids need.
12:42
SPEAKER_01: Good stuff.
12:43
SPEAKER_01: Does that make sense?
12:45
SPEAKER_01: We call it a homeschool buffet.
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SPEAKER_01: You show up, all the food's out for you, take them, take what you want.
12:52
SPEAKER_01: Each child needs their own plate for their own talents and gifts, and you get to do that as the parent.
12:59
SPEAKER_01: I like it.
13:00
SPEAKER_01: I love it.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's everything online or can work printed out.
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SPEAKER_01: Both.
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SPEAKER_01: We have both.
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SPEAKER_01: One of the companies that we have contracted with is called Have Fun Teaching, and it's literally printables, printables activities, support type work.
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SPEAKER_01: So you can print it out, and like any kind of printout you're looking for, my child needs more work on the three times tables.
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SPEAKER_01: You go in and you can print it out and have them work more on it or whatever it is that you're looking for, or they can be doing the online.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's completely up to you.
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SPEAKER_01: But we have the resource, so you're not like on teachers pay teachers and spending five dollars on this and thirteen dollars on that and two dollars on that.
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SPEAKER_01: It's all inside my homeschool village.
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SPEAKER_01: Hi, Marlene.
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SPEAKER_01: Mark Merlin.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome.
13:41
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I love the one fee gets everything.
13:44
SPEAKER_02: That makes so much more sense because you do, you end up spending so much money.
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SPEAKER_02: You don't realize it because it's a little here and a little there.
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SPEAKER_02: But if you can just pay for a membership and just have access to everything, it's so much smarter.
13:59
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because you will get nickel and damned to death as a homeschooler.
14:02
SPEAKER_01: And I get so frustrated.
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SPEAKER_01: I get approached all the time by big companies who've been providing the curriculums we hate in school, like the ones that we don't we're running from.
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SPEAKER_01: And they approach me and say, Hey, we want to get into the homeschool world.
14:16
SPEAKER_01: Can you help us?
14:17
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, No.
14:20
SPEAKER_01: No, because you're the companies we're running from, and I'm tired of you companies coming in and thinking we got a ton of money.
14:26
SPEAKER_01: I just it it drives me crazy.
14:28
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
14:29
SPEAKER_01: Stacy says, Hi, homeschooled for three years, and this year we sent our children to a private Catholic school.
14:34
SPEAKER_01: Needless to say, that school is no different from public school.
14:37
SPEAKER_01: My son has ADHD and dyslexia, so he's really struggled this year.
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SPEAKER_01: The school would not help him.
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SPEAKER_01: The teacher said he is behind because I homeschooled them.
14:46
SPEAKER_01: Of course, it's your fault.
14:47
SPEAKER_01: We are going back to homeschooling.
14:48
SPEAKER_01: Oh, yay! Good for you.
14:52
SPEAKER_01: The only difference, have you I have a horror story of private schools you want to hear?
14:57
SPEAKER_01: Not a horror.
14:58
SPEAKER_01: It's not a horror.
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SPEAKER_01: We were living in the DC area and right outside, and one of and I was in a co-op with a bunch of homeschool moms, and one of these women had money.
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SPEAKER_01: She could spend top money on a private curriculum.
15:11
SPEAKER_01: So she put her children in like this hundred thousand a year private school in DC where the senators and the governors and the kids were going.
15:21
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so this is supposed to be like the top in the country.
15:23
SPEAKER_01: She put her kids in there and she said they were there for six months.
15:28
SPEAKER_01: And what happened was all of a sudden my son came home with straight A's.
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SPEAKER_01: My and she said, My son was brilliant, but he should have been struggling.
15:35
SPEAKER_01: He should have been getting B's, maybe a couple of C's, because he should have been challenged.
15:39
SPEAKER_01: What they did is they tested them as they came in, and the level they tested that at, they put them in classes one level below, so they would always have straight A's.
15:52
SPEAKER_01: So they literally manipulated the system so that their numbers looked amazing, so they could charge top prices.
15:58
SPEAKER_01: To get better, yeah.
16:00
SPEAKER_01: And she said, when we realized all yeah, all our kids had straight A's, but they were learning nothing, they were bored out of their minds, and they really weren't being challenged at all.
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SPEAKER_01: She said, and I was paying 100 grand for this.
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SPEAKER_01: She's like, So we started homeschooling.
16:12
SPEAKER_01: So she homeschooled her kids after that.
16:14
SPEAKER_01: So private schools, they are not what they say they are.
16:18
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
16:18
SPEAKER_02: I taught at a private school.
16:20
SPEAKER_02: I I I could tell stories too.
16:22
SPEAKER_01: Really?
16:22
SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
16:23
SPEAKER_01: Do we want to hear any?
16:25
SPEAKER_02: Well, I think it for me it was a lot of just the same.
16:29
SPEAKER_02: A lot of people think that doing choosing private for this one, it was a Christian school, that their influences are going to be a lot better, but they weren't, you know, they their kids did not miss out on the things that they were hoping they would miss out on.
16:45
SPEAKER_02: I'll just say it that way.
16:46
SPEAKER_01: Like the social well, and I have found even homeschool co-ops will have that problem.
16:50
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
16:51
SPEAKER_01: We my kids were in one for years, and then COVID happened and something changed.
16:56
SPEAKER_01: But all of a sudden the co-op grew to be huge.
16:59
SPEAKER_01: And then the same problems that were happening in school happened in the co-op.
17:03
SPEAKER_01: It was the same junk we were leaving.
17:05
SPEAKER_01: And I just think anytime you get too many kids in one room, there's a certain system that has to be followed, and it invites the junk.
17:14
SPEAKER_01: I think you're right.
17:16
SPEAKER_01: So I think that's something we don't understand is it's about how many children your homeschool like it's the small numbers.
17:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
17:25
SPEAKER_01: Which is in just FYI.
17:26
SPEAKER_01: So the live classes inside my homeschool village, we keep small.
17:30
SPEAKER_01: So if we hit 15 kids, we add a class.
17:33
SPEAKER_01: And we'll split the class by ages, by something, but so that our kids are staying small.
17:38
SPEAKER_01: Even 15 is more than we like most days.
17:40
SPEAKER_01: Most we try to keep it to 10.
17:42
SPEAKER_01: But if the kids are interested, we'll add classes.
17:45
SPEAKER_01: Hi, Nick.
17:47
SPEAKER_01: Hey, Lisa.
17:48
SPEAKER_01: So ask her questions.
17:49
SPEAKER_01: Callie, uh homeschool mom of 11.
17:52
SPEAKER_01: Becky, homeschool mom to five.
17:54
SPEAKER_01: Both of us have been homeschooling for 24 years.
17:56
SPEAKER_01: And um, Callie's a specialist in helping you make home money from home.
18:01
SPEAKER_01: And then I make your life easier so you can make money from home and make a good team.
18:05
SPEAKER_02: Yep, yep.
18:06
SPEAKER_02: And it is it is important because um, you know, there are a lot of things you can do from home, but not everything, uh lots of things require a lot of time.
18:15
SPEAKER_02: And as homeschooling moms, that is not something we have a lot of sometimes.
18:21
SPEAKER_02: So um you need something.
18:23
SPEAKER_02: For me, I wanted something that was working for me all the time in the background.
18:28
SPEAKER_02: And that's why I love that's why I love digital products because you can set them up.
18:32
SPEAKER_02: There, they are set up already on an automated system.
18:35
SPEAKER_02: You don't even know have to know how to do it.
18:37
SPEAKER_02: So this is perfect for people who you just know you need extra income, but you do not know what to do, you don't know where to start, and that's that's why this is so great for um those kinds of people because they've done most of the work for you.
18:51
SPEAKER_02: Um, they give you what you need and then you share it, and they even tell you how to share it.
18:55
SPEAKER_02: And that's the simple, simplest way I know how to explain it.
18:59
SPEAKER_01: Do you need to um have a lot of followers?
19:03
SPEAKER_02: No, they encourage you to start new accounts, actually.
19:06
SPEAKER_02: So, because there are a lot of people who don't want to share on their social media pages anyway.
19:11
SPEAKER_02: Um, but just for the algorithm's sake, they encourage you to start new accounts, and so almost everybody starts from zero.
19:18
SPEAKER_01: Okay, and what about like um because I know a lot of people ask me this do I have to put my face on video?
19:23
SPEAKER_01: I don't want to put my face on video.
19:25
SPEAKER_02: There are so many ways to share.
19:27
SPEAKER_02: If you think about all the different ways, think about the internet, the big world out there.
19:32
SPEAKER_02: There are so many different ways to share.
19:34
SPEAKER_02: You can share Facebook posts, people share Facebook posts.
19:38
SPEAKER_02: Um, people create Pinterest pins.
19:41
SPEAKER_02: If you have ever been on Pinterest, you know that that's a place where people love to find information.
19:46
SPEAKER_02: You don't have to show your face there.
19:47
SPEAKER_02: So in the program that I have, um, they they do a whole faceless training for people who don't want to show their face.
19:54
SPEAKER_02: So that's pretty cool.
19:55
SPEAKER_02: There you go.
19:56
SPEAKER_02: It's there's something for everybody.
19:58
SPEAKER_01: Nice.
19:59
SPEAKER_01: And then the cost is obviously depends, right?
20:02
SPEAKER_02: There are five different programs.
20:04
SPEAKER_02: Um, some people start with a lower program just to get their feet wet and then they upgrade later.
20:09
SPEAKER_02: When I joined, I my brain was thinking I want to make the most money doing the same amount of work, so I wanted to buy the highest one because you get you get a hundred percent profit.
20:19
SPEAKER_02: It's your business.
20:21
SPEAKER_02: You make a hundred percent profit on your sales, and so it's just depending on you know what your goals are, what you want to go with.
20:28
SPEAKER_02: But one sale makes all your money back.
20:30
SPEAKER_02: I mean, I can't think of another business like that that you can you know start for so little and then it becomes 100% yours forever.
20:41
SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
20:43
SPEAKER_01: Anyone got any questions for Kelly?
20:44
SPEAKER_01: Or we can talk homeschool.
20:45
SPEAKER_01: If you don't want to talk, make money at home.
20:47
SPEAKER_01: Um, anybody, is there anyone here who is just thinking about homeschooling right now?
20:53
SPEAKER_01: If you are scared or worried, or you have some kind of what's keeping you from homeschooling?
21:00
SPEAKER_01: That's my favorite question.
21:01
SPEAKER_01: What is it that makes you go?
21:05
SPEAKER_01: Oh, here we go.
21:06
SPEAKER_01: May I ask?
21:06
SPEAKER_01: What guidelines do you use to know what to teach them when you have different grades?
21:10
SPEAKER_01: I was public schooled.
21:12
SPEAKER_01: So the hardest part of me is to get over public school standards, but the state I live in requires testing.
21:19
SPEAKER_01: Which state are you in?
21:20
SPEAKER_01: How much of the programs, Kelly?
21:23
SPEAKER_01: Okay, do you want to we want to answer those?
21:26
SPEAKER_02: Okay, so yeah, uh depending on what state she said they require testing.
21:32
SPEAKER_01: It's usually Virginia.
21:34
SPEAKER_02: What other state requires testing?
21:36
SPEAKER_02: There aren't a lot that I know of.
21:37
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
21:38
SPEAKER_02: And are you sure about that?
21:40
SPEAKER_02: Make sure.
21:41
SPEAKER_01: Is it actually a requirement or are they just telling you that?
21:44
SPEAKER_02: About the curriculum.
21:46
SPEAKER_02: You know, I guess it does all depend on if if they do require testing, then that's going to that's gonna have a a bearing in the curriculum that you choose.
21:55
SPEAKER_01: Oh, you're in North Carolina.
21:57
SPEAKER_01: They actually don't Oh actually.
22:00
SPEAKER_01: North Carolina.
22:01
SPEAKER_01: Do you do you want to answer this?
22:02
SPEAKER_01: You want me to get this one?
22:03
SPEAKER_01: You go ahead.
22:04
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
22:05
SPEAKER_01: We actually have a mom, one of our moms on our team is North Carolina, and they do require testing in certain years, it's true.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: They require it, but they don't require a grade level.
22:15
SPEAKER_01: So in other words, if you test them and they totally fail, it doesn't matter.
22:19
SPEAKER_01: You still have to test them as long as you stop homeschooling or anything.
22:22
SPEAKER_01: Now, not that you want them to fail, obviously.
22:25
SPEAKER_01: At grade level, and how do you know what to teach?
22:28
SPEAKER_01: So inside my homeschool village, we show you, we give you like these are the grade levels.
22:34
SPEAKER_01: But if you want to go faster, you can.
22:36
SPEAKER_01: If you need to slow down, you can.
22:38
SPEAKER_01: And then when they go in and test, yes, they take the test.
22:41
SPEAKER_01: Please know it's not that stressful according to the moms who are taking it.
22:45
SPEAKER_01: They say that basically they go in, they take it.
22:47
SPEAKER_01: Whether they pass or fail, it doesn't matter.
22:48
SPEAKER_01: They just take it.
22:49
SPEAKER_01: It's they still can't take you right to homeschool away.
22:52
SPEAKER_01: It's just that they're just trying to find out where you're at.
22:54
SPEAKER_01: So I actually have a mom who's today doing state testing because she takes funding from Indiana.
23:01
SPEAKER_01: So because she takes funding, they require standardized testing of them.
23:05
SPEAKER_01: And they take it, but it doesn't matter.
23:08
SPEAKER_01: So whether or not you teach to the test and flunk it, or it doesn't matter.
23:13
SPEAKER_01: So they have to do it for their records, but the reality is it's not that big of a deal.
23:19
SPEAKER_01: So you will have to do it.
23:20
SPEAKER_01: But my homeschool village does show you exactly what needs to be done, when to do it, how to do it, how to move faster, how to slow down.
23:27
SPEAKER_01: That's part of the coaching that we do inside my homeschool village because we're doing that all the time.
23:30
SPEAKER_01: We coach a couple of times a week, and and then we'll show you if you want to, and and you don't want to go by grade level because some of your kids are gonna move faster than that.
23:38
SPEAKER_01: Once you bring them home one-on-one, grade level will hold them back.
23:42
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
23:42
SPEAKER_01: Have you found that right?
23:44
SPEAKER_01: Like trying to do a grade level is like telling a kid, putting the brakes on your kids' brain.
23:50
SPEAKER_01: They can go much more, much more.
23:52
SPEAKER_02: Well, and there's no point when you're when you're at home.
23:55
SPEAKER_02: The grades are the way they are because they have to, you know, run this massive system of lots of kids, and it's it's a whole thing.
24:02
SPEAKER_02: So, you know, yeah, there's really no point.
24:06
SPEAKER_01: Hi Lakita and Lisa, welcome guys.
24:10
SPEAKER_01: Does that answer your question, May?
24:12
SPEAKER_01: We will guide you on what can be done because you need to know what to teach, right?
24:17
SPEAKER_01: But most of the curriculums are pre-done for you.
24:19
SPEAKER_01: You go in, you watch the next video.
24:21
SPEAKER_01: Most of curriculums are actually like right now, the history program my son is using is like sixth grade and up, and he's just going through the videos and he's going through the lessons, and it's on um economics and social studies and government and history, and he's literally just going through the the videos at this point, and it's sixth grade and up.
24:40
SPEAKER_01: It's like there's enough videos in there for him to cover over the next several years.
24:44
SPEAKER_01: So if he'd had to test, would I cared?
24:48
SPEAKER_01: No.
24:48
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, blunk it, I don't care.
24:50
SPEAKER_01: Let's keep going.
24:51
SPEAKER_01: Like, we're not we're not gonna be to teach him to test.
24:55
SPEAKER_01: What a limitation.
24:56
SPEAKER_01: Okay, that helps make that North Carolina seems to scare people from homeschooling.
25:03
SPEAKER_01: And I had one mom say she was denied the opportunity to homeschool.
25:08
SPEAKER_01: By the way, that's illegal.
25:10
SPEAKER_01: They cannot deny you.
25:13
SPEAKER_01: So we've been fighting for her on that.
25:15
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
25:15
SPEAKER_01: And then what was her other question?
25:17
SPEAKER_01: She asked you another question in there.
25:18
SPEAKER_02: Uh, did you want to know the cost of the five programs?
25:21
SPEAKER_02: Oh, how much of the programs, Kelly?
25:23
SPEAKER_02: In the yeah, so the very top one, we just added this one.
25:26
SPEAKER_02: It's a well that's six months ago, Spanish English version.
25:29
SPEAKER_02: So now we have an up option for people who speak Spanish.
25:32
SPEAKER_02: It's just you don't have to you don't have to speak Spanish, but they can toggle between English and Spanish.
25:37
SPEAKER_02: It's$1,400.
25:38
SPEAKER_02: And then there's a$900,$600,$300, and$100 program.
25:42
SPEAKER_02: Again, they all come with payment plans.
25:44
SPEAKER_02: I made all my money back before my second payment was due.
25:47
SPEAKER_02: It was, I mean, it's wild.
25:49
SPEAKER_02: I can't I can't explain to you how amazing it is to be a busy mom and to be able to make and again, it people are skeptical because they don't understand digital products.
26:01
SPEAKER_02: We live in a digital world, people want digital products.
26:04
SPEAKER_02: These products are amazing.
26:05
SPEAKER_02: They have training for all sorts of ways to make money online, and then they give you the option to resell it as well.
26:12
SPEAKER_02: So there are many, many different options within the program.
26:15
SPEAKER_02: But to be able to make money right away while you're learning everything in the program is just it's a no-brainer.
26:22
SPEAKER_02: It's phenomenal, brilliant to me.
26:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
26:25
SPEAKER_01: I've been, I myself have done plenty of online business and work, and that's a really small investment for a good online digital business.
26:33
SPEAKER_01: It is, it really is.
26:35
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I've seen a lot.
26:37
SPEAKER_01: I don't know how many of you are doing that, but like once we started homeschooling at home, and it was like, I just remember thinking, I have discovered a new level of freedom, and I want my husband to have it too, because he has to show up eight to five.
26:48
SPEAKER_01: Yes, and I want him to have freedom too.
26:52
SPEAKER_01: And so I've been since I've built my homeschool village, but using digital products, physical products, but it's kept me home.
26:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
26:59
SPEAKER_01: And that's that's been our number one keep me home.
27:02
SPEAKER_01: And sometimes, absolutely.
27:07
SPEAKER_01: You got any questions for us?
27:08
SPEAKER_01: Hi, Susie.
27:10
SPEAKER_01: Um, two homeschool moms here.
27:12
SPEAKER_01: This is Kelly.
27:13
SPEAKER_01: I don't know which one to point for you guys, and Rebecca.
27:16
SPEAKER_01: And we are two homeschool moms who've been homeschooling a long time.
27:20
SPEAKER_01: Well, now between us, it's like almost 50 years.
27:22
SPEAKER_01: It's true.
27:25
SPEAKER_01: Makes us look younger.
27:27
SPEAKER_01: 24 years each.
27:28
SPEAKER_01: Um, she's got 11 kids that I've got five.
27:30
SPEAKER_01: And so we are here to help you homeschool, whether it's how to make money while you're homeschooling, what curriculums do we use and recommend, what programs do we like, how to pull them out.
27:40
SPEAKER_01: All of that information we're here to help you with.
27:42
SPEAKER_01: And you can make sure you're following us both so that you're getting that information.
27:46
SPEAKER_01: I love how Kelly helps with the de-schooling part.
27:49
SPEAKER_01: And that's such a homeschool term.
27:52
SPEAKER_01: I like to also call it um the reprogramming part.
27:55
SPEAKER_01: Because we have to reprogram.
27:57
SPEAKER_01: I was public schooled, weren't you public schooled?
27:59
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
28:00
SPEAKER_02: We have to and I have a I have a free course.
28:03
SPEAKER_02: If anybody wants that link, it's um called the three R's of stress-free homeschooling.
28:08
SPEAKER_02: But really, it's a it just helps you think differently about education.
28:13
SPEAKER_02: And I think it just takes a lot of stress out of the initial, oh my goodness, how do I do this?
28:18
SPEAKER_02: And then you realize, okay, I can do this.
28:21
unknown: Yeah.
28:21
SPEAKER_01: It's it's not as hard as everybody thinks it is.
28:24
SPEAKER_01: Right.
28:24
SPEAKER_01: But it's but that I remember that stress and anxiety when we were starting.
28:28
SPEAKER_03: Sure.
28:29
SPEAKER_01: And did you ever did you ever check out that book?
28:32
SPEAKER_01: Um, what a first grader should know.
28:36
SPEAKER_02: Yes.
28:36
SPEAKER_01: What a second grader should know.
28:39
SPEAKER_01: And they have all the 12th grades.
28:41
SPEAKER_01: What was your feeling when you checked those out?
28:43
SPEAKER_02: Uh if I remember correctly, it was a little intimidating.
28:46
SPEAKER_02: I was like, wow, that's a lot.
28:49
SPEAKER_01: That's a lot.
28:49
SPEAKER_01: I remember crying.
28:53
SPEAKER_01: I checked out kindergarten.
28:54
SPEAKER_01: I had a five-year-old, a six-year-old, and a two-year-old at the time.
28:59
SPEAKER_01: And I remember checking those out because I was gonna homeschool.
29:02
SPEAKER_01: And I got through the first chapter of book one.
29:04
SPEAKER_01: Uh, and what I my first grader needed to know, and then I started going through the kindergarten and I sat down and cried.
29:11
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
29:11
SPEAKER_01: And my husband comes home and I am in tears, and he's like, What is going on?
29:15
SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, I'm so overwhelmed by everything I have to do for my first grader and then the kindergartner, and then we want more kids.
29:22
SPEAKER_01: How can I keep up with this?
29:24
SPEAKER_01: And I was just like, I can't do this.
29:27
SPEAKER_01: And my husband goes, Why don't you get rid of the books?
29:34
SPEAKER_01: He's like, Maybe there's another way.
29:35
SPEAKER_01: And then I'm like, I'm just incompetent.
29:39
SPEAKER_02: So well, and I I remind moms too, curriculum is a tool.
29:44
SPEAKER_02: We are not to be mastered by it.
29:46
SPEAKER_02: And I think that because of our conditioning, what happens is we look at curriculum, subjects, academic, like that's all of it.
29:55
SPEAKER_02: And that's not all of it.
29:57
SPEAKER_02: Educating children is a much bigger thing.
30:02
SPEAKER_02: The curriculum is a part of it, and so we use the curriculum as a tool, and we don't let it master us, and we don't let it control and and overwhelm us.
30:12
SPEAKER_02: Um, because we're, you know, like I said, and if we think back to our own schooling, how much of it do you remember?
30:20
unknown: Yeah.
30:20
SPEAKER_02: You know, like do we really want to put that much pressure and emphasis on, you know, I've got to get the curriculum just right.
30:26
SPEAKER_02: I've got to get um, it's a tool.
30:29
SPEAKER_02: That's all.
30:29
SPEAKER_02: It's a tool.
30:30
SPEAKER_01: It's a tool, and it doesn't control you.
30:32
SPEAKER_01: I always I'm always doing posts, repeat after me.
30:35
SPEAKER_01: I am in charge of the curriculum.
30:37
SPEAKER_01: It is not in charge of me.
30:39
SPEAKER_03: Right.
30:39
unknown: Yeah.
30:40
SPEAKER_01: May is asking for it.
30:41
SPEAKER_01: May will you make sure you're following Kelly?
30:44
SPEAKER_01: And then in the comments, because I can comment.
30:47
SPEAKER_02: Oh.
30:48
SPEAKER_02: What link?
30:48
SPEAKER_02: What link did you want?
30:50
SPEAKER_02: Did you want the free course to the homeschooling course or to the um the business?
30:55
SPEAKER_01: Hi, Christy.
30:56
SPEAKER_01: Hi, Gary.
30:57
SPEAKER_01: Come on in.
30:58
SPEAKER_01: Which one did you want, May?
31:00
SPEAKER_01: Or you can just put them both in there.
31:02
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
31:03
SPEAKER_01: I'm trying to do this without my glasses.
31:06
SPEAKER_01: I'm still the same thing.
31:07
SPEAKER_01: I've got mine hidden over here in case I need them.
31:11
SPEAKER_01: So welcome, Chrissy and Gary.
31:13
SPEAKER_01: And if you have any questions about homeschooling, how to homeschool, how to make money while homeschooling, all of that, we are here to help.
31:19
SPEAKER_01: Um, Mesa said, Oh goodness, that makes me feel better.
31:22
SPEAKER_01: The guilt I felt for not completing curriculums, it is real.
31:27
SPEAKER_01: It is so real that you you get halfway through and you just don't want to touch them anymore, and your kids are sick of them and you're sick of them.
31:35
SPEAKER_01: I didn't finish the curriculum.
31:36
SPEAKER_01: Guilt is huge.
31:37
SPEAKER_01: Most places I would once I realized I rarely finished a curriculum with my kids, I started only buying some that I could resell.
31:45
SPEAKER_01: There's a lot that resells, and some of them for the same price you bought them, which is nice.
31:50
SPEAKER_01: But yeah, don't worry about not finishing curriculum.
31:54
SPEAKER_01: It's about are your kids learning?
31:55
SPEAKER_01: And if they're not, then it's not the right curriculum.
31:57
SPEAKER_01: Which is why to buy one, like a Becca, is it?
32:02
SPEAKER_01: And like you spend like a thousand dollars for the year and they send you all the books and everything.
32:06
SPEAKER_01: Well, once you've bought, you're in.
32:08
SPEAKER_01: Like now you've just got wasted money if you don't finish it and you don't like explaining that to your husband on how you blew the money budget.
32:16
SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
32:18
SPEAKER_01: Better to do something membership-wise where you can cancel the next month if it's not working for you.
32:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's another plus.
32:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
32:24
SPEAKER_01: Do something that you can just walk away from easily if you don't.
32:29
SPEAKER_01: Lakita, do you have any questions for us?
32:31
SPEAKER_01: Are you homeschool mom or are you just thinking about homeschooling?
32:34
SPEAKER_01: Vicky is still here.
32:36
SPEAKER_01: Let us know if you have questions.
32:37
SPEAKER_01: You guys, this is your chance.
32:38
SPEAKER_01: Like, when I started homeschooling, we didn't have this Facebook stuff that we could just get on and ask.
32:43
SPEAKER_01: And anytime I met another mom who done it, it was like I just wanted to sit down and just sucker dry of all our information, and and I just popped the questions at her.
32:52
SPEAKER_01: And so here we are, paying it forward.
32:54
SPEAKER_01: Because I can't tell you how many homeschool moms at the time I was like, Yeah, sit down, I need your info.
33:00
SPEAKER_01: Tell me all you know.
33:02
SPEAKER_01: Yep.
33:02
SPEAKER_01: And it was those were the moms that would that help me relax, help me realize that this is a process, it's a marathon, not a sprint.
33:10
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
33:11
SPEAKER_01: And your kids will learn if you do this right, letting your kids love learning, they never stop.
33:18
SPEAKER_02: And that's a good point, too.
33:21
SPEAKER_02: I want to make.
33:21
SPEAKER_02: So I tell moms all this this all the time.
33:23
SPEAKER_02: Then when they come in and say, you know, I just don't know if if I'm equipped to homeschool my kids.
33:29
SPEAKER_02: You've been doing it already for the first five, six years of their lives.
33:33
SPEAKER_02: And I always ask them, what curriculum did you use to teach your children the language that they learned?
33:39
SPEAKER_02: Because that was very important.
33:41
SPEAKER_02: You that's something you can't fail at, right?
33:43
SPEAKER_02: It's it's very important to their success.
33:45
SPEAKER_02: What curriculum did you use?
33:46
SPEAKER_02: How many hours a day did you spend teaching them the language?
33:49
SPEAKER_02: You know, and the answer is none, and they didn't stress about it, and there's an important lesson in that.
33:54
SPEAKER_02: God has put into us something very powerful, a curiosity and a capability to learn what we need to learn when we need to learn it, that doesn't stop when they turn five or six years old.
34:07
SPEAKER_02: And if we would understand that, it would take so much stress off of us.
34:12
SPEAKER_02: It's our kids are not these empty vessels that are only gonna learn the information that we force feed them.
34:19
SPEAKER_02: In fact, they're probably not gonna learn a lot of information if we succeed it.
34:22
SPEAKER_02: Um so just letting that, you know, getting rid of that pressure and understand, trusting, trusting the way they are created, trusting.
34:32
SPEAKER_02: I mean, that my kids they say things all the time, and I'm and I'm like, where did you learn that?
34:36
SPEAKER_02: It wasn't something that I said, where did you learn that?
34:38
SPEAKER_02: Well, I don't know, I read it.
34:40
SPEAKER_02: Um, so we've got to we learn that from our classroom experience, you know, because we sat there and we were fed information, fed information, and our kids are built to learn.
34:53
SPEAKER_01: And and I think the hardest part of homeschooling and mothering is having faith that God built them this way.
34:59
SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
34:59
SPEAKER_01: And understand because nobody taught us that.
35:01
SPEAKER_01: That's a feeling that we get, and then we watch our children and observe and think, oh, they don't actually need me to spoon feed them education their whole lives.
35:11
SPEAKER_01: Right.
35:12
SPEAKER_01: And I I found, I don't know if you found this, tell me if you have, that when my children, if I feed my children's health, emotions, so my job, I feel like as a mother is to make sure that they're healthy, emotionally strong, spiritually strong.
35:26
SPEAKER_01: If I know that their body, soul, mind is slept well, ate well, feel safe, is happy, I can't stop them from learning.
35:35
SPEAKER_01: They will absorb as fast as they can.
35:39
SPEAKER_01: But if they're sick, if we've had a tragedy in the family that they need to heal from, if we're going through some weird difficulties, if something's off physically, I can't get them to learn.
35:50
SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter what it is.
35:51
SPEAKER_01: And so usually when moms will come to me and say, I can't get my kid to learn, I'll be like, okay, step back.
35:56
SPEAKER_01: Has there been a tragedy in your family recently?
35:59
SPEAKER_01: Have if you just pulled them out of school, consider them traumatized.
36:04
SPEAKER_01: Just consider it trauma and deal with the trauma.
36:08
SPEAKER_01: Then when they heal, they you won't be able to stop them and it'll be just fine.
36:13
SPEAKER_01: So that's what like if you're just pulling your kids, give them a few months to believe they're safe again.
36:20
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
36:21
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I tell moms that too.
36:22
SPEAKER_02: You you you would have to put your child under a rock or hide them in a dark closet to keep them from learning.
36:28
SPEAKER_02: So you do.
36:29
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you really do.
36:31
SPEAKER_01: Marilyn says, my son graduates now from eighth grade, but he wants to be homeschooled for ninth.
36:37
SPEAKER_01: I'll be our first time we live in Delaware.
36:40
SPEAKER_01: You're my first Delaware homeschooler.
36:43
SPEAKER_01: I don't even know what Delaware laws are.
36:45
SPEAKER_01: I don't either.
36:46
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure they're easy because nobody's ever complaining about it.
36:49
SPEAKER_01: You only hear about the states that everybody complains of.
36:52
SPEAKER_01: I'll do a quick search.
36:53
SPEAKER_01: Do let's find out.
36:54
SPEAKER_01: Marilyn, you can go to the HSLDA.org if you want.
36:59
SPEAKER_01: I'm assuming that's where Kelly's going because that's where we all go.
37:02
SPEAKER_01: For ninth grade.
37:02
SPEAKER_01: If you are looking for a curriculum for him, make sure you're checking out my homeschool village.
37:05
SPEAKER_01: Make sure you're signing up over there because we have the grade or we have the curriculum, we have live classes that he can get in and hang out with other kids his age, so he's not feeling secluded.
37:14
SPEAKER_01: That's a big deal.
37:16
SPEAKER_01: Sonia, Beth, and Lizzie.
37:17
SPEAKER_01: Hi.
37:17
SPEAKER_01: Oh, Beth.
37:18
SPEAKER_01: Beth is one of my homeschool village members.
37:20
SPEAKER_01: Hi, Beth.
37:21
SPEAKER_01: She's been homeschooled a while too, and starting to homeschool some of her grandchildren.
37:27
SPEAKER_00: What does Delaware say?
37:29
SPEAKER_00: I have never looked up Del correct.
37:32
SPEAKER_02: I am looking to look.
37:36
SPEAKER_02: I think you can just withdraw your kids.
37:37
SPEAKER_02: They have a form here that you can withdraw your kids.
37:40
SPEAKER_02: It wants me to watch a video, so I'm not gonna do that.
37:44
SPEAKER_02: Um there are three different options for homeschooling.
37:49
SPEAKER_02: No teacher qualifications or standardized testing required for any of the options.
37:54
SPEAKER_02: So you can homeschool in single family homeschool, multifamily, or coordinate with your local school.
37:59
SPEAKER_02: So it looks pretty simple, pretty straightforward.
38:01
SPEAKER_01: Which basically means you don't have to answer to anybody, you don't have to take tests, you're on your own.
38:06
SPEAKER_01: Have fun.
38:07
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, let's do it.
38:08
SPEAKER_01: Have fun.
38:09
SPEAKER_01: Tell them you're gonna homeschool.
38:11
SPEAKER_01: Uh May says, What do you have or recommend for a child struggling with spelling and reading fluency?
38:17
SPEAKER_01: I love what you just said about the curiosity that God gives us.
38:22
SPEAKER_01: I feel the child who is struggling is not willing to learn, and her mindset is in a better place to learn.
38:27
SPEAKER_01: I put so much pressure on her in the beginning of this journey, I did not have a clue what I was doing.
38:32
SPEAKER_01: Don't beat yourself up over that.
38:33
SPEAKER_01: We all did it.
38:34
SPEAKER_01: It's okay.
38:35
SPEAKER_02: Can I say what we do for English primarily?
38:39
SPEAKER_02: I have my kids do copy work.
38:42
SPEAKER_02: Me too.
38:43
SPEAKER_02: That's the main thing we do for English: grammar, syntax, writing.
38:47
SPEAKER_02: It's it's sounds too simple, but it really is effective.
38:51
SPEAKER_01: I agree 100%.
38:52
SPEAKER_01: There are so many writing programs, and another company just approached me saying, We have a writing program, we're gonna teach your kids.
38:58
SPEAKER_01: And I went through it and I was like, every time I look at curriculums that are just way overtaught, I'm like, You're kidding me, right?
39:05
SPEAKER_01: No, because copy work.
39:07
SPEAKER_01: And then my kids go from learning to write sentences and copying and like write the letter or whatever, copy work for years, yeah, and then journaling.
39:18
SPEAKER_01: And that's all they've ever done, and then they read a lot, yeah, and that's all they've ever done, and they're all writing like all my kids right now are reading or writing chapter books, yeah, and they're they're adults and they're passing them back and forth.
39:31
SPEAKER_01: Hey guys, will you guys read my book right now and tell me what I should change?
39:33
SPEAKER_01: And they're like sharing for fun.
39:36
SPEAKER_01: I love that.
39:37
SPEAKER_01: I had no idea.
39:38
SPEAKER_02: Let me tell you a story.
39:39
SPEAKER_02: So, my daughter, I primarily just did copy work.
39:42
SPEAKER_02: All they do it all through high school from beginning to end.
39:45
SPEAKER_02: My daughter, who went to nursing school, her first English class, her professor emailed her after they did their uh essay, and he said, I love your essay.
39:55
SPEAKER_02: Can I use it to show the class?
39:57
SPEAKER_02: One of the best I've read in a long time.
39:59
SPEAKER_02: This is before AI, by the way.
40:00
SPEAKER_02: Um, and it was the first one she had ever written.
40:03
SPEAKER_02: She had never written an essay.
40:05
SPEAKER_02: So it was the first and the best.
40:07
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
40:08
SPEAKER_01: And I I I have a similar story.
40:10
SPEAKER_01: A friend of mine, when we first started homeschooling, she had already homeschooled six kids, and her baby was as age as my oldest.
40:16
SPEAKER_01: And she, all her kids went to college, and when they got to college, they were acing all their writing classes.
40:21
SPEAKER_01: And so the teachers would approach her and go, What did you do?
40:24
SPEAKER_01: Because I know he was homeschooled.
40:25
SPEAKER_01: What did you use for writing?
40:26
SPEAKER_01: And she goes, I never did anything.
40:28
SPEAKER_01: I just let him read everything they wanted.
40:30
SPEAKER_01: Like she was like hippie, free-willed kids, whatever.
40:34
SPEAKER_01: She even said, or she had this one son who she said, if she had a teacher who came to him and said, Your son is my smartest in the class.
40:43
SPEAKER_01: She's he was in high school, he was doing high school math.
40:45
SPEAKER_01: She said, he said, if I if somebody came to my office with a gun to my head and said, Pick a student, if they don't pass the test, you're dead.
40:53
SPEAKER_01: She goes, I would pick your son to do that test, knowing he would get it done.
40:58
SPEAKER_01: He said the problem was he wouldn't have shown up because he doesn't need to.
41:02
SPEAKER_01: He would have gone to play instead.
41:04
SPEAKER_01: He's like, so I'd be dead.
41:07
SPEAKER_01: Because the only kid he trusted in the room was the kid who was homeschooled.
41:10
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
41:11
SPEAKER_01: Isn't that interesting with his with his knowledge?
41:13
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's crazy.
41:14
SPEAKER_01: Sonia said, just started this homeschooling journey for my current seventh grader and would love some insight or how to keep moving on to eighth grade and high school.
41:24
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, go to my homeschool village.
41:26
SPEAKER_01: We have the online curriculum you need for all of that.
41:30
SPEAKER_01: And then we even help and coach you because high school, and tell me if you agree with this, Kelly, but I think high school is completely null and void.
41:39
SPEAKER_01: It's not even needed anymore.
41:41
SPEAKER_01: A lot of homeschool kids are going straight from whatever they're learning, seventh grade, eighth grade, into college because you can do online college now at 15.
41:50
SPEAKER_01: You can be getting a degree, a bachelor's degree by 18 now if you do it online.
41:54
SPEAKER_01: You don't want your kids on a college campus with 20 year olds.
41:57
SPEAKER_01: We know that.
41:58
SPEAKER_01: But we do, but they can do it at home.
41:59
SPEAKER_01: And so you can literally skip high school, go right into college, and get a degree early on for a heck of a lot less money.
42:06
SPEAKER_01: And I have all those resources for you.
42:08
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
42:09
SPEAKER_02: Again, John Taylor Gatto said that you need about 50 hours to teach kids all they need to learn.
42:15
SPEAKER_02: And I think it probably goes back into if you study the history of public education, that you know, that it was stretched out over 12 years because people needed a place to put their kids while they went to work.
42:27
unknown: Yeah.
42:27
SPEAKER_02: Not because you need 12 years to educate children.
42:31
SPEAKER_02: So remember.
42:33
SPEAKER_01: Beth says, hello, so glad I said Blonde is live.
42:36
SPEAKER_01: Glad to have you, Beth.
42:37
SPEAKER_01: We have been part of Homeschool Village for a couple of years.
42:40
SPEAKER_01: Best homeschool choice I've made as a former teacher for 20 years and homeschooling mom for 15.
42:45
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Beth.
42:47
SPEAKER_01: Awesome.
42:47
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Beth is quite she shows up to all our lives.
42:51
SPEAKER_01: I just I love sitting and talking to Beth.
42:53
SPEAKER_01: She is so wise and shares with the other homeschool moms and just it's very much a sisterhood in there, you guys.
42:58
SPEAKER_01: You got to come join us.
42:59
SPEAKER_01: You got us for five more minutes if you want to ask any other questions.
43:02
SPEAKER_01: Um, happy to answer them for either Kelly or I on how to make money from homeschool, how to de school, uh, what curriculums we recommend?
43:10
SPEAKER_01: I always recommend my homeschool village.
43:12
SPEAKER_01: Why?
43:12
SPEAKER_01: Because, well, I created it for my own kids.
43:15
SPEAKER_01: And it's the only thing that keeps my sanity and theirs at the same time.
43:19
SPEAKER_01: Does your program start at kindergarten or is it for higher grades?
43:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's kindergarten through 12th.
43:24
SPEAKER_01: And it's one price for all of your children.
43:27
SPEAKER_01: It's 99 a month for one child, and that includes the curriculum, the community, and then all the live classes.
43:33
SPEAKER_01: And if you have two or more, it's$199 a month.
43:36
SPEAKER_01: So if you have three kids, four kids, five kids, you're not charged anymore.
43:38
SPEAKER_01: It's the$199.
43:40
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
43:40
SPEAKER_01: We know what it feels like to work on one income.
43:43
SPEAKER_01: We get it.
43:44
SPEAKER_02: And as a reminder, if you share your affiliate, you get when you join my homeschool village, you automatically become an affiliate.
43:54
SPEAKER_02: Even if you don't sign up, you are an affiliate, and you get a link.
43:58
SPEAKER_02: And if you share that link with your Friends or whatever, just telling them that you like it.
44:03
SPEAKER_02: Only takes what two people to sign up, and your membership is paid for, pretty much.
44:08
SPEAKER_02: Pretty much.
44:09
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, only two.
44:11
SPEAKER_01: And then you can even really support your family on it.
44:13
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I really wish I found my homeschool village when I started homeschooling because man, I'd be rich right now off of the affiliate leaks.
44:21
SPEAKER_01: But it's I this is exactly what I needed when I started.
44:25
SPEAKER_01: Does the village explain how you make money homeschooling?
44:28
SPEAKER_01: I've heard this can be done.
44:30
SPEAKER_01: Sonia, you were in the right place.
44:31
SPEAKER_01: Go ahead, Kelly.
44:33
SPEAKER_02: Yes, if you go to the classroom in the homeschool village, um, there's more information about what I recommend for homeschool moms, uh, which is digital products that have already been created.
44:44
SPEAKER_02: It's just a good way to start.
44:46
SPEAKER_02: And even if, you know, our program is for three different people.
44:48
SPEAKER_02: It's number one, if you have products that you would like to create, that you have ideas that you want to turn into a business, we teach you how to do that.
44:57
SPEAKER_02: Okay.
44:58
SPEAKER_02: Number two, if you already have a business but you don't know how to market it, that you know, we get free advertising on social media now if you know how to use it.
45:06
SPEAKER_02: And so our program teaches you how to use social media to market anything, to market any business, to even market your affiliate link for my homeschool village.
45:15
SPEAKER_02: And then thirdly, it's for people who don't want to do any of that.
45:18
SPEAKER_02: You don't want to create a product, you don't, you're too busy.
45:21
SPEAKER_02: We give you products that are already ready for you to promote.
45:24
SPEAKER_02: So that three different types of people that would benefit.
45:28
SPEAKER_02: And you can make more money.
45:29
SPEAKER_02: I've made I've doubled our income with this business, more money than most people make at a nine to five.
45:34
SPEAKER_02: So it's just kind of a no-brainer.
45:36
SPEAKER_02: But you can find more information.
45:38
SPEAKER_02: You have it right in your homeschool village.
45:41
SPEAKER_01: I've got it.
45:41
SPEAKER_01: I need to make it bigger.
45:42
SPEAKER_01: I will go do that today and make it a little more obvious.
45:44
SPEAKER_01: So Kelly and I partnered basically.
45:47
SPEAKER_01: Um, Kelly's does one and I do the other, but we love each other's programs so much that we've partnered and she will teach you how to even better sell my homeschool village's affiliate link.
45:58
SPEAKER_01: So once you're in my homeschool village, you get the affiliate link.
46:01
SPEAKER_01: But if you want more help on doing it, how to do it, how to share it, how to make the money from it, Kelly takes it from there and you sign up for her course, which was what?
46:09
SPEAKER_01: How much was that?
46:10
SPEAKER_01: The price.
46:11
SPEAKER_01: There was a price for just it just on how to share my homeschool village.
46:14
SPEAKER_01: Oh, oh, that one that we're about to launch is$27.
46:17
SPEAKER_01: So we haven't got it, it's not launched yet.
46:19
SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be launched here very soon, and it's$27.
46:21
SPEAKER_01: And she just shows you how to take my homeschool village and make money off it.
46:24
SPEAKER_01: And then she's got, if you want to do even more than that, she's got so much.
46:29
SPEAKER_01: So it just depends on your ambition, how much or how little you want in and how to do that because we know what it's like.
46:36
SPEAKER_01: It I mean, unless your husband's a millionaire, homeschooling is a drain on the finances because mom's not working and it is expensive because your kids are eating all day.
46:46
SPEAKER_01: Like I think more now, and like I think my we went to sell our house um in Utah, and they wanted a list of what our expenses were, right?
46:56
SPEAKER_01: The electricity, the water, the and we were the top 1% in our city of electricity water.
47:03
SPEAKER_01: I'm like, but we're home all day and we're running everything all the time.
47:06
SPEAKER_01: So we do spend a lot more money there.
47:08
SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
47:08
SPEAKER_01: Uh Lisa says, I live in Indiana.
47:10
SPEAKER_01: I have a sixth grader and eighth grader wanting to start homeschooling.
47:13
SPEAKER_01: First timer, where do I start for next year?
47:16
SPEAKER_01: Go get my homeschool village.
47:18
SPEAKER_01: Actually, there's a link right now in here, and it's to it's called a stand store.
47:22
SPEAKER_01: It's in there.
47:23
SPEAKER_01: There's a free course, how to homeschool, how to get started.
47:26
SPEAKER_01: And it will take you when you're done, it'll show you how to sign up for my homeschool village, where we provide your curriculum, we provide your coaching, your help, your mentoring.
47:34
SPEAKER_01: We give you live classes for your kids, and it's all included in the one-time price.
47:38
SPEAKER_01: So when I say one time, once a month for your kids, um, go get the free course.
47:44
SPEAKER_01: It's right there, and it gives you all of that.
47:47
SPEAKER_02: And it's a great place if you're starting out.
47:49
SPEAKER_02: Even if you decide to go a completely different direction at some point, when you're starting out, it's just it's like um rails to keep you from bumping all over the place.
47:58
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
47:59
SPEAKER_01: Or you'll spend way too much time just researching all the possibilities, and you'll spend more time researching possibilities than homeschooling your kids, and you'll be like, What am I doing?
48:07
SPEAKER_02: You'll get overwhelmed, and yeah, it's a lot.
48:10
SPEAKER_01: There are a million great ways to homeschool, but we've already organized it for you and made it simple.
48:15
SPEAKER_01: So why not?
48:16
SPEAKER_01: Why not?
48:18
SPEAKER_00: I agree.
48:19
SPEAKER_01: All right, we are gonna go.
48:21
SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Kelly, for being here.
48:22
SPEAKER_01: We're gonna head out.
48:23
SPEAKER_01: Um, Kelly and I actually have some work to do to get that course done.
48:26
SPEAKER_01: So we're gonna go do that.
48:27
SPEAKER_01: And then if you want to join my homeschool village, make sure you're clicking the link here.
48:31
SPEAKER_01: Make sure you're following Kelly.
48:32
SPEAKER_01: It's Kelly Crawford here on Facebook, right?
48:34
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and then I've got to think outside the classroom as well.
48:38
SPEAKER_02: So either one, either one, you can find me.
48:40
SPEAKER_02: She's on TikTok and Instagram.
48:42
SPEAKER_01: I assume because you're on Facebook.
48:44
SPEAKER_02: Not as much on Instagram.
48:45
SPEAKER_02: I need to be more on Instagram.
48:47
SPEAKER_02: I'm on YouTube and I'm on TikTok.
48:49
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
48:49
SPEAKER_01: So go find her and follow her, follow my homeschool village, and ask any questions you have.
48:54
SPEAKER_01: You can private message either one of us, and we are happy to answer any questions that you have as you go along.
48:59
SPEAKER_01: Hi, Rebecca Marsh.
49:00
SPEAKER_01: We're about to head out.
49:01
SPEAKER_01: Dang it.
49:01
SPEAKER_01: Um, thanks for joining us, though.
49:03
SPEAKER_01: I will be I'm trying to be more consistent on lives.
49:06
SPEAKER_01: Um, 11 o'clock Tuesdays here.
49:09
SPEAKER_01: Kelly, you can join me whenever you want.
49:11
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
49:11
SPEAKER_01: But I've decided I'm committing to 11 o'clock on Tuesdays lives here on Facebook, and then we'll see what else I commit to.
49:19
SPEAKER_01: No, I'm overcommitting.
49:20
SPEAKER_01: No, I know.
49:21
SPEAKER_01: Don't overcommit.
49:22
SPEAKER_01: So thanks guys for being here, and I hope to see you next week.
49:25
SPEAKER_01: Thanks.
49:26
SPEAKER_01: Thanks for being here, Kelly.
49:27
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
49:28
SPEAKER_01: Bye-bye, buddy.
49:31
SPEAKER_01: That's the wrap for today.
49:33
SPEAKER_01: I hope you're leaving with something real, something you can actually use.
49:36
SPEAKER_01: This is a long game.
49:38
SPEAKER_01: You don't have to get it all right today.
49:40
SPEAKER_01: Just show up tomorrow.
49:42
SPEAKER_01: That's enough.
49:42
SPEAKER_01: If this episode helped you, share it with another mom who needs it.
49:46
SPEAKER_01: And if you're ready for a village to do this with, find us in the show notes.
49:49
SPEAKER_01: Until next time, keep going.
49:51
SPEAKER_01: The revolution starts at home.