Season 3 is off to a seismic start! The podcast blasted to the top of the charts for K-12 the first week already, and we’ve loved all your reviews and emails. Thanks for sharing the podcast with your friends. We appreciate you!
Episode 3: Christina Celebi!
This week’s episode features an adventurer! Meet Christina Celebi. She’s a homeschool mama who gets itchy feet. When she does, she and her husband pack up their tribe, and they head wherever the cheap airfares take them. I’m inspired by her bold vision and hope you will be too!
Even if you aren’t inclined to travel, there’s much to glean from Christina’s can-do spirit in this podcast. I hope you’ll listen along!
I am thrilled to introduce you to my long-time friend and homeschool mentor, Dotty Christensen. I call her “the magic maker.” I learned more about enchanting a childhood from Dotty than anyone else in my life. She “agreed” to be interviewed for the podcast after spending the day taking my headshots (she’s a photographer too!). I sorta kinda maybe tricked her into it! We got talking and I yelled: “Stop! I need to record this!”
In this episode, Dotty shares about homeschooling her three (now grown) children, how she created a nurturing space for family life and learning, and the way her family learning adventure led her into her post-homeschooling career. She also recommends resources like Art Spaces for Kids.
Dotty with Jacob 1992 (left) and 2006 (right)
Dotty and I met in Morocco in 1984. She served mint tea and homemade cookies, and her toddlers were running around in fairy wings and face paint. Her home was a swirl of activity, color, and invitation. All I knew: I wanted that for my family!
Her family followed ours to California in the early 1990s where we homeschooled together daily for five years. Then, my family followed her family to Ohio in 1999. Our shared love of home, coziness, art, and learning have sustained our friendship and enriched it all these years.
It’s with great pleasure that I share with you the dynamic conversation I had with Susan Wise Bauer (beloved author and notable educator). Susan talks about her own homeschooled childhood, her experience home educating her children, and her thoughts on the homeschool culture and how it’s changed over the decades.
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Susan is frank, down-to-earth, and articulate about what it takes to be a homeschooler. She offers support and strategies for a satisfying healthy homeschool.
She has a Ph.D. in history, has written more than 20 books (such as The Well-Trained Mind and The Story of the World series, and is considered an expert on classical education. Her own journey as homeschooled student to home educating parent to homeschool movement thought leader makes her uniquely qualified to comment on the homeschooling culture and its future.
I’m happy to welcome Susan to the Brave Writer podcast! Enjoy!
While you wait for Season Three of the Brave Writer Podcast, enjoy our interview with a special guest. Brave Writer student Mason Lawler recently self-published his first book and we’re happy to have him on the podcast.
2016 was a rough year – Mason went through surgeries and long recoveries – so his mother focused on a big project that would lead to a satisfying outcome. They decided to write a book, and here it is: How the Chameleon Got Its Colors!
Mason took Brave Writer’s Just So Stories online class, which exposes students to the classic animal tales of Rudyard Kipling and tasks them with creating their own. Mason’s class was taught by April Hensley, and she was the first person to suggest collecting Mason’s stories into a book.
In the podcast we talk about:
self-teaching
the self-publishing process
commissioning illustrations
and why there is a grain of truth behind all good fiction.
Mason is an inspiration to to anyone writing stories in this modern day and age, young or old. There’s no excuse not to pursue publishing that book!
Season 2 of the Brave Writer podcast has blown us away! Over 75,000 people have downloaded this season already. We’ve hit #1 in the K-12 Education category on Apple Podcasts multiple times.
If you are looking for practical encouragement for your homeschool project, this season’s podcast is for you! I interview parents, just like you, in the trenches who are sharing their hope, optimism, and creativity with you in addressing the most vexing problems. You’ll get to hear how each family implements the Brave Writer Lifestyle in their own unique ways, offering you inspiration for applying the principles in your own way too.
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