198: Changing Our Minds with Julie Bogart

Update: 2022-10-31

Description

This week, Julie Bogart is back to talk all about changing our minds in parenting and homeschooling.

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Complete Episode Transcript

[00:00:00 ] Angela: hi, we are Maren and Angela of Homeschool, Unrefined. Over the past 25 years, we've been friends, teachers, homeschool parents and podcasters. Together with our master's degrees and 20 years combined homeschooling. We are here to rethink homeschooling, learning, and education with an inclusive and authentic lens.

[00:00:29 ] Maren: At Homeschool, Unrefined, we prioritize things like giving yourself credit, building strong connections, respectful parenting, interest led playing and learning, learning differences, mental health, self care, and listening to an EL elevating LGBTQ plus and bipo voices.

[00:00:48 ] Angela: We are here to encourage and support you.

[00:00:50 ] Whether you are a new homeschooler, a veteran, you love curriculum, you're an unschooler. Whether all your kids are at home or all your kids are at school or somewhere in [00:01:00 ] between. Wherever you are in your journey, we're the voice in your head telling you, you're doing great, and so are your kids.

[00:01:07 ] Maren: This is episode 1 98, Changing Our Minds with Julie Bogart.

[00:01:14 ] We had such a good conversation and we're so excited to share this with you, and then we are going to end like we always do with our l t Ws Loving this week.

[00:01:26 ] Angela: Before we get going, we did wanna let you know about our Patreon classes. We are starting a new series. on Thursday and it's our what We don't do series. Mm-hmm. , if you have been around a while, you probably have listened to one of our, What we don't do messages, we're turning them into a class and we're gonna talk about what we don't do as a, in a class format.

[00:01:48 ] And that is gonna be Thur this Thursday at one o'clock central time. And if you are interested in that, you can join us on, on Patreon for our super squad. That's the $10 level. We [00:02:00 ] will have links in the show notes for you there, but we'd love to see you if you can't come live. You can get it recorded and video and audio.

[00:02:07 ] We will be putting those out and then, The day or two after that.

[00:02:11 ] Maren: Absolutely. And you know, we are passionate

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