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The podcast transcripts are all here! You asked for them, we promised, and now we’re delivering. 📬

We’ve been including them one by one on the Brave Writer blog and now you can enjoy ALL of the transcripts for the Ask Julie podcasts.

Print them out, highlight the parts you like, make notes in the margins—or stash them in a folder for the next time you need a pop of inspiration.

Transcripts for the Season Five podcasts:

S5E1: Embracing Elements of Home with Tammy Kim
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S5E2: Growing a Mind & Cultivating Curiosity with Christa Gregg
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S5E3: What About Technology? with Lindsay McCarthy
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S5E4: Checklist Lovers – Planning From Behind with Jennifer Vetter
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S5E5: When Learning Isn’t Fun with Anne Trott
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S5E6: Community is Self-Care with Jennifer Hunter
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S5E7: Finding a Balance in High School with Karen Goldstein
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S5E8: Cultivating Connection in a Large Family with Jardel Manalo
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S5E9: Awesome Adulting with Jessica Hammond
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S5E10: Prepping Your Teen for Adulthood with Myah St. John
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S5E11: Breaking Free from Multitasking with Courtney Moyer
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S5E12: Routines, Chaos, and Big Goals—Oh My! with CO Springs Homeschool Mamas Group
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The Brave Writer podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, our blog, and any other podcast providing server like Stitcher.

If you’re new to the podcast, listen to previous episodes here.

Can you believe this is the final episode of the Ask Julie series?! I’ve read the feedback from everyone who’s written in, or left an Apples Podcast review, and I’m deeply touched to hear how this series has resonated with you—the listeners!

Let’s give a big round of applause for each guest! Their vulnerability and bravery has been such a gift to all of us!

Today’s episode is a unique format—a homeschooling group of friends asked to be interviewed together. Each interviewee came with her own quandary.

We tackled problems ranging from checklist anxiety and handwriting problems to homeschooling while personal life is in upheaval.

Tune in to find out:

• Why you only have to get it “mostly right” (in homeschool AND in life)
• How connection attracts and completes checklists
• Tips & tricks for managing your expectations
• How YOU are the catalyst for changing the learning environment in your home

Mandy Houle asks: What about pen and paper work for a young, exuberant extrovert?

Mandy’s seven-year-old son is energetic, friendly, and generous – but it’s a challenge getting him to sit down long enough to write.

A lot of us run into this issue as our children get to the point where we feel they’re “supposed” to be writing, but it’s important to remember that this is the very beginning of a young person’s writing life; it takes from ages 8 to 18 to become a fluent writer.

Julie’s advice:

• You could do Jot It Down! for another whole year, no handwriting on his part, and he’d still be fine.
• Give him writing incentives like different colored pens or a special notebook he can pick out.
• Go to tracing rather than writing. You write the sentence first and ask him to trace your words.
• You could jot down his stories and ideas, type them in a document, and print them out for him to trace.
• Get his whole body involved! Give him a sentence of copywork and ask him to use chalk to write as many of the words as he can on your driveway, or tape a huge piece of butcher paper on your wall and ask him to write big with his whole arm instead of having to use his tiny motor muscles.