Sage Family: Recent Episodes
Rachel Rainbolt
Rachel Rainbolt is the mama behind the Sage Family Podcast, where we gather around a virtual campfire to share meaningful conversations with inspiring and insightful friends around Gentle Parenting, Natural Homeschooling, Simple Living, and Family Adventure. Are you ready to live the family life of your dreams?
“In the matter of minutes, I said hello and goodbye to her. The normal birth, life, death process was put right side by side. ”
Magdalena Garcia join me in today’s episode about pregnancy loss.
Magdalena supports parental mental and emotional health by focusing on the mindset, strategies, and symbolic ways mothers and fathers can tend to their inner lives so they can tend the inner lives of their children.
We discuss types, impacts, our personal experiences, support, future challenges, partner differences, and honoring the loss moving forward.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast101
This is episode 100, and in honor of that milestone, I’m showing up with a reintroduction. The first episode of the Sage Family Podcast, an introduction with myself, my husband, and my three children, was shared with you all over 6 years ago. Needless to say, those beautiful souls have insisted on perpetually growing and evolving and I have grown and evolved right alongside them. Our life looks so different now, and yet, the heart and spirit of the values that inspired this movement remain. In this new season of life, I just wanted to give us, you and I, the opportunity to refresh and connect anew.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast100.
“Those who are nested are going to be . . . more fit . . . Evolution has done the experiments . . . so we don’t have to . . . do all those crazy things that researchers do because they don’t have any baseline for what is normal for our species in raising children, what I call ‘species typical’."
Dr. Darcia Narvaez join me in today’s episode about the Evolved Nest.
Darcia is a professor and author who studies evolved morality, child development, and human flourishing.
We discuss the decision to have children, mutual accompaniment, breastfeeding, sharing care, free play, touch, emotions, and moral commitment.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast99
“It was so important for us as homeschool parents, and because of the tenets that we hold as the reasons why we homeschool: it’s important for us to value our children as humans, and for their voices to be heard, and for their mental health, and so, when our kids were saying, ‘I think we need to start thinking about school,’ if we ignored these ideas that were coming from our kids, we would’t be holding the tenets that we thought were important in homeschooling—trusting and respecting them, which is the highest value.”
Angela Sizer and Maren Goerss join me in today’s episode about Homeschooling to School.
Angela and Maren are hosts of the Homeschool Unrefined Podcast and authors of the new book Think Differently About Learning.
We discuss how we came to homeschooling, treating children as humans, nuts and bolts of homeschooling, outsourcing, mental health, and the transition from homeschooling to school.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast98
“Our needs are never in conflict. It’s the strategies that we use to meet our needs that get us into conflict.”
Lisa Rothman joins me in today’s episode about Conflict.
Lisa is a mom who has spent more than 20 years learning, practicing, and teaching collaborative communication skills.
We discuss a template for preventing and repairing conflict, capacity, and boundaries and we get to step inside of some conflict resolution sessions with families.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast97
“There was a child that drowned when they were with their dad at a public pool and the mom was blamed while being five states away, and I thought, that was something I’d never considered, that women are blamed for the well-being of their children no matter what.”
Zach Watson joins me in today’s episode about Sharing Labor.
Zach is a content creator and coach teaching men to better see the invisible labor that is happening around them.
We discuss his awakening, examples of mental, emotional and domestic labor, why women carry so much of this load, how language is important, how to discuss this in our partnerships without triggering defensiveness, working on this ADHD, and supporting a societal shift toward greater equity.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast96.
“Ceremony is the point in time when we all know it’s time to stop . . . and honor something or someone. Ceremony is the time and the place. And ritual, those are the elements within ceremony that get us deeper, that actually encourage us to pause and find meaning. So the elements of ritual: things like symbolism, the activation of the senses . . . all of those things get us to here, now, which then helps us with the other element—what is the story underneath the story?”
Magdalena Garcia joins me in today’s episode about Ceremony.
Magdalena is a mother, educator, writer, birth story listener, parenting coach and ceremony facilitator.
We discuss the religion gap, tools for creating ceremonies, birthdays, transitions, birth, teenagers, and holidays.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast95.
“What happens when you don’t teach a whole group of people to understand their emotions is that they become extremely emotionally dysregulated . . . it then tends to be a woman who is tasked with modulated that partner’s expression, especially when there are kids involved and you’re trying to be a buffer between that temper—that mood—and your children.”
Rose Hackman joins me in today’s episode about Emotional Labor.
Rose is a British journalist and the author of Emotional Labor.
We discuss what emotional labor is, how it develops, the problem of it being invisible and unvalued, how men are also harmed by patriarchy, how to make our relationships more egalitarian, and what changes we could make in society to value emotional labor.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast94.
“I believe that all humans have a right to ownership over their body, over their mental, spiritual, emotional autonomy and consent is kind of a way to ensure that it’s not just us being autonomous everywhere but we are also respecting other people’s boundaries and right to be autonomous. My autonomy ends where yours begins.”
Fran Liberatore joins me in today’s episode about Consent.
Fran is a writer, podcaster, Masters student and ex-educator, as well as an unschooling mother of two children.
We discuss what consent is, why it matters, how it connects to adultism, how to create a culture of consent in our homes, making consent-based decisions, consent-based education, to what extent children are able to consent, and if everything has to be arrived a through a collaborative process.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast93.
“We have to give them the neuroscience. This is going to strip any shame. It’s going to make it easier for them to turn and face and own their behavior. We really have to turn these feelings into allies and friends.”
Karen Young joins me in today’s episode about inner warriors (anxiety).
Karen is a psychologist, speaker, consultant, the founder of Hey, Sigmund, and the author of Hey, Warrior.
We discuss ways anxiety shows up in kids that are often not recognized as anxiety, how we can frame anxiety for our children, how to guide our own nervous systems back to safety, how to support a child through co-regulation, how to hold boundaries for safety while holding space for big feelings, why repair is important, how to help our children through hard experiences so they don’t get stuck as traumas.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast92.
“It shifts your communication dynamic from one that might be negative to one that’s positive. It moves it from demand based or power struggles to connection and partnership.”
Linda Murphy joins me in today’s episode about Declarative Language.
Linda is a speech language pathologist and RDI® Constultant.
We discuss social learning differences, imperative vs declarative language, examples, benefits, social learning examples, pacing, and co-regulation.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast91.
“Limits are the thing parents struggle with the most and it’s one of the most important pieces of the puzzle. Until you feel confident and competent in your limit setting skills, it’s going to be really hard to help your child through aggressive behaviors.”
Tosha Schore joins me in today’s episode about Aggression.
Tosha is a parent coach and the founder of Parenting Boys Peacefully, where she is on a mission to create a more peaceful world, one sweet boy at a time.
We discuss boys, aggressive play, brains, fear, connection, communication, playfulness, and limits.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast90.
“The thing that we most see is the increase in intrinsic motivation just all over the place.”
Gina Riley joins me in today’s episode about Unschooling Outcomes.
Gina is an educational psychologist, Clinical Professor, and Program Leader of Adolescent Special Education Programs at CUNY-Hunter College.
We discuss advantages, disadvantages, higher education, career, motivation, and disability.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast89.
“A demand is anything that is too hard in the present moment. And that can be for you or them. As a family, we have found the language of ‘too hard’ to be incredibly freeing. When things are hard, we show up, we do our best, we’re brave, we ask for help. And when things are too hard, we find a way to let it go.”
Amanda Diekman joins me in today’s episode about Low Demand Parenting.
Amanda is an autistic adult, parent coach and author in the neurodiversity space with a new Low Demand Parenting book, online courses, and a vibrant membership community.
We discuss low demand parenting, permissiveness, power dynamics, emotions, and tips, techniques, and strategies to shift to a more low demand approach.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast88.
“We get to upgrade the mother within us. We get to move toward a sense of our mother’s essential self as the part that gets to mother us. If our mother were completely supported, if she had gotten to receive her re-mothering, if she had gotten to heal her emotional trauma, if she had gotten to live with resonance and self-warmth, what would she be like to us? How would she be in relationship with us? We get to bring that essential being in to become the mother that we carry in our cells.”
Sarah Peyton joins me in today’s episode about Self Compassion.
Sarah is the bestselling author of Conscious Uncoupling and an award-winning marriage and family psychotherapist.
We discuss unconscious contracts, resonance, self-warmth, neuroplasticity, default mode network, hemispheres, body-centered awareness, vagus nerve, accompaniment, the time-traveling amygdala, and circuits.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast87.
“Connection is the substrate of parenting and that rests on my connection to myself. When I have connection, the creative possibilities are endless just as they are when I have connection with my children. We come out of a stuck place and the space between us opens up and there is so much more room for everyone’s experience in that connection.”
Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer join me in today’s episode about Menstruality.
Alexandra and Sjanie are the co-founders of Red School, and co-authors of the iconic and hugely celebrated book, Wild Power, and their new book Wise Power.
We discuss menstrual cycle awareness, the inner seasons, and how to honor our cyclical needs in parenting shifting 1% at a time.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast86.
“Children behave their way to safety.”
Claire Wilson joins me in today’s episode about Polyvagal Theory.
Claire is an author, speaker, trainer, and therapist with her book Grounded and her program Grounded Grown Ups, who uses Polyvagal Theory to help children and their grown ups.
We discuss the autonomic nervous system hierarchy, being grounded, neuroception, trauma, co-regulation, and autonomic flexibility.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast85.
“They’re holding you in that false narrative probably because you’ve enrolled them into that story. You know, we’re always informing other people who we are. So if I have a story, ‘I’m not good enough,’ there’s all sorts of ways that I’m going show up as, ‘I’m inferior and they’re better than me,’ so when they leave because of that, it’s validating the old story. So you have to go in and do this correction on a soul level.”
Katherine Woodward Thomas joins me in today’s episode about Conscious Uncoupling.
Katherine is the bestselling author of Conscious Uncoupling and an award-winning marriage and family psychotherapist.
We discuss changing the definition of success from longevity, the pain of detaching, how we’ve been doing divorce wrong, conscious uncoupling without our partner’s participation, transforming difficult emotions, curating an empowering narrative, breaking our patterns, creating a positive future, building a new life, and rituals for uncoupling.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast84.
“In terms of equality, if my son perceives himself below anything, he’s going to have a stress response, like a lion’s in front of him.”
Casey Ehrlich, Ph.D. joins me in today’s episode about PDA.
Casey is a coach to parents raising PDA Autistic children and is the co-founder of the PDA Parents community and podcast.
We discuss what PDA is, Casey’s personal journey raising a PDA child, parenting style, accommodations, nervous system disability, support, and fears.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast83.
“If we’re in our comfort zone as parents, we’re probably holding them back.”
Chris Balme joins me in today’s episode about tweens.
Chris Balme is an education leader and writer, passionate about helping young people discover more of their human potential.
We discuss how we misunderstand tweens, what’s going on with their development, how they learn best, how we can best support them, how our parent-child relationship shifts, ideal middle school, and common challenges and we can better meet them.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast82.
“How will you know when you’re done?”
Ash Brandin joins me in today’s episode about video games.
Ash is a middle school teacher who has been putting gaming principles into practice for over ten years. A gamer, educator, and parent, they help families raise kids with a balance of gaming, responsibilities, and other hobbies.
We discuss research, blame, systemic gaps, amount, replacement, division of responsibility, benefits, frustration, violence, and an off-ramp.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast81.
“It’s a great thing to always have someone to rescue you, but to always need to be rescued is such a vulnerable way to live, such a limiting way to live. You don’t want your child to feel like they always need to be rescued.”
Dr. Eli Lebowitz joins me in today’s episode about childhood anxiety. He studies and treats childhood anxiety at the Yale Child Study Center and through his SPACE program and Breaking Free of Childhood Anxiety and OCD book.
We discuss why accommodations can be problematic, what true support looks like, where to start, making a plan, telling your child, responding to aggression, and navigating when co-parents disagree.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast80.
Gentle parenting is a journey, not a destination, and it’s one that did not start with you and will not end with you. Mr. Chazz joins me in today’s episode about caring for kids. His mission is to help adults truly see, guide, and trust children. We discuss his journey into conscious discipline, intergenerational trauma, perfection, and calling in. Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast79.
Today I’m here with Amy Lang talking about Sexuality. Amy has been a sexual health educator for over 25 years. We go over preparing ourselves for conversations about sex with our kids, setting our kids up to have a healthy relationship with their bodies, handling nudity in the house, responding to masturbation, explaining menstruation and where babies come from, boundaries to equip our children with to keep them safe from sexual harm, supporting teens in developing a safe, healthy, and enjoyable sex life, and discussing abortion.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast78.
Today I’m here with Dr. Cassidy Freitas talking about Boundaries. Cassidy is a mom to three, California based Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice and host of Holding Space podcast. We go over what boundaries are, the distinction between requests and boundaries, the essential role of acceptance, when a boundary is warranted, not fearing intense feelings showing up from holding a boundary, having hard boundary-setting conversations, offering a redirect with a boundary, and receiving boundaries in a healthy way.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast77.
Today I’m here with Julie Bogart talking about Critical Thinking. Julie is a mom of 4 grown homeschoolers, creator of the online writing program Brave Writer, and author of the books The Brave Learner and Raising Critical Thinkers. We go over what critical thinking is, why it’s important, what gets in the way, how we can get there, how we can raise our kids with it, how they will eventually use that critical thinking in their relationship with you, and how we can bring it into our relationships with technology.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast76.
Today I’m here with Dr. Diana Hill talking about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Diana is a modern psychologist, mom, co-author of ACT Daily Journal, and host of the Your Life in Process podcast. We go over what ACT is, contacting the present moment (mindfulness), acceptance (in contrast to experiential avoidance), defusion (unhooking from our thoughts), taking perspective on our self-stories, values, and effective action.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast75.
Today I’m here with Miriam Kirmayer talking about Friendship. Miriam is a clinical psychologist and leading friendship expert who has studied the science of social connection for over a decade. We go over the importance of friendship, how we make new friends in motherhood, how we can cultivate closer connections, having different friends who add value in different ways, having friendships that are reciprocated and balanced, friendship breakups, and navigating friendships with different parenting styes.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast74.
Today I’m here with Seth Perler talking about Executive Function. Seth is a well-known executive function coach, educator, vlogger, and guy who cares about seeing outside-the-box kids succeed. We go over what executive function is, signs your kid might be struggling with it, misconceptions about these kids, brain wiring and other conditions that can lead to executive function challenges, how to build up these skills, how to overcome resistance, centering strengths of ADHD, and how trauma affects executive function. Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast73.
Today I’m here with Robyn Robertson talking about Unschooling Teens. Robyn is an unschooling mom to 2 kids, podcast host, business owner, and public school board trustee. We go over how this season is different, supporting interests and passions, choosing school, grief and growth for us, misconceptions, and skills from unschooling that help them survive, succeed, and thrive.
Today I’m here with Rachelle Crawford talking about Messy Minimalism. Rachelle is the author of Messy Minimalism and the founder of Abundant Life with Less. We go over messy minimalism, starting with the who instead of the why, wrestling with assumptions, helping kids into minimalism, becoming more conscious consumers, reducing decision fatigue, why organization is not the answer, how perfectionism keeps you stuck, decluttering tips, and what we learn about ourselves when we slow down. Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast71.
Today I’m here with Matt Matheson talking about giving. Matt is a husband, father, educator, and founder of Family Money School. We go over how giving fits into financial freedom, what strategies we use for the mechanics of giving, how to encourage children to be giving, and how to be generous outside of financial donations. Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast70.
Today I’m here with Sarah Rosensweet talking about empathy. Sarah is a mother of 3 and a certified peaceful parenting coach, podcaster, and educator in Toronto. We go over the impact of empathy, modeling empathy, holding boundaries with empathy, empathy as an intention and not a tactic, an empathetic mindset, and how empathy has blossomed in our own children. Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast69.
Today I’m here with Erika Brown talking about real estate. Erika turned a career as a real estate agent into a multi-million dollar real estate empire that provides jobs and empowers the community, while unschooling her three boys. We go over money, real estate, financing, BRRRR, Air BnBs, rentals, entrepreneurship, parenting, and unschooling. Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast68
Today I’m here with Shelly Robinson talking about relationships with our family of origin. Shelly is a certified holistic family wellness coach, cycle-breaker, conscious parenting educator, and founder of Raising Yourself. We go over expectations, boundaries, narratives, homeostasis, and approval. Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast67.
Today I’m here with Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson with a Communication Q & A. Bill is a clinical neuropsychologist and Ned is a tutor geek and they are both speakers and authors of The Self-Driven Child and What Do You Say. We go over what to say when a child is struggling with complaining, school, neurodiversities, a hard new skill, substances, mental health, technology, lying, and siblings.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast66.
Today I’m here with Katy Bowman talking about the role of movement in growing wild. Katy is a biomechanist, author, speaker, and a leader in the movement movement. We go over stacking needs, culture, clothing, cooking, the home environment, learning, activities, and alloparents.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast65.
Today I’m here with Ashleigh Warner talking about having a second baby. Ashleigh is a psychologist and respectful parenting mum of 2. We go over grief, big feelings, attachment, inclusion, challenging behaviors, regression, and miscarriage.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast64.
Today I’m here with Tamara Soles talking about assessment. Tamara is a psychologist, parent coach, and mom of twins. We go over neurodiversity, what a psychological assessment is, when it’s helpful, how to find a practitioner that is a good fit, what to expect during the process, what a diagnosis means, and how to advocate for consent for our children.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast63.
Today I’m here with Eden Hyder talking about attachment. Eden Hyder is a licensed therapist, founder of The Inside Out Collaborative, and host of the Inside Out Podcast. We go over attachment theory and styles, parenting our inner child, forming secure attachments with our children, how attachments can be ruptured and repaired, and what centering attachment looks like beyond the early years into childhood and adolescence.
Get the full show notes at sagefamily.com/podcast62.
Today I’m here with Chelsea Brennan talking about giving kids an allowance. Chelsea is an ex-hedge fund manager turned financial educator and founder of Smart Money Mamas. We go over unpacking your baggage, when to start, cash or card, earned or not, how much, teaching the importance of saving, and letting them make mistakes.
Get the full show notes here: http://sagefamily.com/podcast61
Today I’m here with Sue Patterson answering more of your unschooling questions. Sue is a homeschooling mom, author, and unschooling coach. We go over responding to the concerns of extended family, unschooling different ages and temperaments, and how to support interest-led learning even if you don’t much about the interest.
Get the full show notes here: http://sagefamily.com/podcast60
Today I’m here with Dr. Cassidy Freitas talking about social media. Cassidy is a mama to 3, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and host of the Holding Space podcast. We go over the benefits, downsides, perfectionism, boundaries, simplicity, and parenting in the age of social media.
Get the full show notes here: http://sagefamily.com/podcast59
Today I’m here with Sue Patterson answering your unschooling questions. Sue is a homeschooling mom, author, and unschooling coach. We go over getting your co-parent on board with unschooling, what to do if your child says they want to go to school, and how to respond if all your kid wants to do is stare at a screen.
Get the full show notes here: http://sagefamily.com/podcast58
Today I’m here with Hunter Clarke-Fields talking about Mindful Parenting. Hunter is the creator of the Mindful Parenting course, host of the Mindful Mama podcast, and author of Raising Good Humans. We go over the stress response, mindfulness, beginner’s mind, acknowledgment, kindness and empathy, resistance, children’s emotions, I-Messages, and collaboration.
Get the full show notes here: http://sagefamily.com/podcast57
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Today I’m here with Iris Chen talking about Untigering. Iris is an author, unschooling mom, deconstructing tiger parent, and founder of the Untigering movement. We go over her book title, narrative, the nature of children, our role as parents, behaviors, feelings, success, adultism, acceptance, gender norms, bodily autonomy, permissiveness, and community.
Get the full show notes here: http://sagefamily.com/podcast56
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Today I’m here with Sarah Moore talking about sensitive kids. Sarah is the founder of Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting and a certified gentle parenting coach. We go over how sensitivity comes with both challenges and strengths, the importance of reading their cues, what style of discipline works well, how playfulness is extra helpful, and why type of language resonates with sensitive children.
Get the full show notes here: http://sagefamily.com/podcast55
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Today I’m here with Bari Tessler talking about money healing. Bari is a financial therapist, mentor coach, mamapreneur, and writer and founder of The Art of Money. We go over healing money shame, the body check-in, money stories, money practices, money maps, being a mampreneur, and helping our children develop a healthy relationship with money.
Get the full show notes here: http://rachelrainbolt.com/podcast54
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Today I’m here with Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson talking about the self-driven child. Bill is a clinical neuropsychologist and Ned is a tutor geek and they are both speakers and authors of The Self-Driven Child. We go over stress, a child’s ownership of their own life, parent as consultant instead of enforcer, anxiety, motivation, adolescence, neurodiversity, testing, and college.
Get the full show notes here: http://rachelrainbolt.com/podcast53
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Today I’m here with Lenore Skenazy talking about free-range kids. Lenore is co-founder and president of Let Grow and author or Free-Range Kids. We go over common unfounded fears, how protecting our kids makes them less safe, overcoming fear of mother blame, how to find the yes when you feel unsure, and times when having faith in our kids has paid off.
Get the full show notes here: http://rachelrainbolt.com/podcast52
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Today I’m here with Kaleena Amuchastegui talking about taking the Homeschooling Leap. Kaleena is a mama of 4 and author of The 5-Hour School Week. We go over where she started, what prompted her leap, what lessons she learned along the way, why self-directed is important, what homeschooling looks like for her family now, her homeschooling parallel with The 5-Hour Work Week, and how the values we center in homeschooling are reflected in other areas of life.
Get the full show notes here: http://rachelrainbolt.com/podcast51
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Today I’m here with Jenny Taylor talking about Conscious Adulting. Jenny is a parenting journalist and fierce advocate for children. We go over the stories we hold about ourselves and the world and how valuable it is to unpack them, confirmation bias and what it’s like to get out of your own echo chamber, how the media influences us, digesting news and media yourself and with your children with intention, being in connection with people who think and believe differently, and how to navigate friendships as adults.
Get the full show notes here: http://rachelrainbolt.com/podcast50
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Today I’m here with Kim John Payne talking about Simplicity Parenting. Kim is a counselor, speaker, researcher, adult educator, and the author of the book Simplicity Parenting. We go over cumulative stress reaction, environment, rhythm, and schedule.
Get the full show notes here: rachelrainbolt.com/podcast49
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Today I’m here with Blake Boles talking about teens. Blake is a writer, speaker, and adventurer who founded Unschool Adventures and wrote Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?. We go over self-directed learning, video games, peers, college, and experiences.
Get the full show notes here: rachelrainbolt.com/podcast48
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Today I’m here with Kerry McDonald talking about unschooling. Kerry is an unschooling mother of 4 with a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University and the author of the book Unschooled. We go over origins of schools, threats to a family’s legal right to choose homeschooling, how children learn, what unschooling is, how literacy and numeracy develop naturally, society level replacements for school, teens, and launching.
Get the full show notes here: rachelrainbolt.com/podcast47
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Today I’m here with Claire Bidwell Smith talking about grief. Claire is a therapist specializing in grief and the author of 3 books: The Rules of Inheritance, After This, and Anxiety. We go over culture, anxiety, self-care, story, afterlife, kids, and estate.
Get the full show notes here: rachelrainbolt.com/podcast46
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Today I’m here with Diane Boden talking about sentimentality. Diane is a wife, mother, and the voice behind the top-rated Minimalist Moms podcast. We go over why it’s so hard to let go of keepsakes, how your keepsakes can tell the story of your life, criteria for keeping or letting go, use of precious objects, photos, and digital keepsakes.
Get the full show notes here: rachelrainbolt.com/podcast45
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Today I’m here with Desirae Endres talking about Habits. Desirae is a mom, wife, host of the minimal-ish podcast and former classroom teacher turned work at home mom. We go over struggles and intentions that can be supported by habits, unbusying, language, getting started, lowering the bar and setting up the environment for success, reflections between morning and evening, and moving in one direction.
Get the full show notes here: http://rachelrainbolt.com/podcast44
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Today I’m here with Shira Gill talking about Organization. Shira Gill is the founder of Shira Gill Home, a lifestyle brand focusing on clutter-free living, that merges minimalism, organization, and style. We go over clutter, minimalism, blocks, focus, lists, process, zero waste, and style.
Get the full show notes here: rachelrainbolt.com/podcast43
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Today I’m here with Teacher Tom talking about Playschool. Teacher Tom is a preschool teacher, writer, speaker, artist, and author. We go over assumptions/expectations/beliefs about children that schools and parents get wrong, components of school that are not serving children, how children learn and socialize, why it’s important to support a child’s emotions in schools, how to respond to the pressure for early reading, and what playgrounds should have and why.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast42
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Today I’m here with Deena Barselah talking about Food. Deena is a holistic and integrative health coach and mom. We go over food issues many women carry from their past into their present, problematic mainstream approaches to food, how to utilize the home environment to set your family up for success, the importance of allowing your child to experience a variety of foods, how to enjoy mealtimes, and what mistakes to avoid.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast41
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Today I’m here with Roya Dedeaux talking about Protecting Passions. Roya is a homeschooler, heritage artist, therapist, and professor who combines her interests and work in play and recreation with mental health and relationships. We go over judgment, fears, reparenting, reframe, benefits, support, and role modeling.
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Today I’m here with Aubrey Hargis talking about Mompreneurship. Aubrey Hargis, also known as Child of the Redwoods, is a parent coach, Montessori advocate, and homeschooler. We go over launching, integration, priorities, routine, simplicity, self-care, automation, and delegation.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast39
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Today I’m here with Rachelle Crawford, author at Abundant Life With Less, talking about Simple Holidays. We go over decorations, traditions, Santa, decluttering, gifts, and boundaries with extended family.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast38
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Today I’m here with Avital talking about Peaceful Partnership. Founder of theparentingjunkie .com, Avital is a mindful parenting coach and childhood designer. We go over unpacking baggage, clearly communicating needs, controlling yourself instead of your partner, handling it when a parent is willfully resistant to peaceful parenting, extending peaceful parenting skills into the partnership, and using dream talks to align priorities.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast37
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Today I’m here with Brandon and Jen Pearce talking about worldschooling. Brandon and Jen are the founders of the Family Adventures Summit and have been traveling long-term with their 3 daughters for the past 10 years through 45+ countries. We go over their story, minimalism, values, travel, worldschooling, finances, fears, and growth.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast36
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Today I’m here with Paula Pant talking about financial independence. Paula is financially independent and helps others break free through her Afford Anything podcast. We go over what FIRE is, how to increase income, reduce expenses, invest, and avoid common pitfalls.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast35
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Today I’m here with Lucy Aitkenread talking about creating community. Lucy lives off the grid in New Zealand with her family where she writes and creates videos, retreats, and workshops about how we can live compassionately. We go over what community is, why it’s important, how to create it, and how to maintain it.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast34
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Today I’m here with Rachelle McCloud talking about anxiety. Rachelle is an unschooling mama of 5, mental health therapist, and emotional wellness coach. We go over symptoms, science, sources, and treatments around anxiety along with what it can look like in childhood and how we can help our kids with anxiety.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast33
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Today I’m here with Sami Womack talking about debt freedom. Sami is a homeschooling momma and the voice behind A Sunny Side Up Life Podcast. A shift into intentional living got her family out of $490,000 of debt and Sami now helps other women to downsize, budget, and change habits to experience the life-altering magic of intentional living for themselves. We go over why we advocate for debt freedom, how to get free from debt, budgets, automation, emergency funds, sinking funds, retirement, mortgage, and teaching kids about money.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast32
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Today I’m here with Desirae Endres talking about contentment. Desirae is a mom, wife, host of the minimal-ish podcast, and a former classroom teacher turned online educator. We go over contentment in our spaces, time, relationships, comparison, gratitude, and the distinction with complacency.
Get the full show notes here: http://www.sageparenting.com/podcast31
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Today I’m here with Elizabeth Willard Thames talking about intentional spending. Liz is the creator of the personal finance blog Frugalwoods and book Meet the Frugalwoods, who reached financial independence at 32 and moved onto a 66-acre homestead in the woods with her husband and 2 young daughters. We go over frugality, lifestyle design, redefining success, relationships, parenting, community, and environmentalism.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast30
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Today I’m here with Amethyst Joy talking about self-care.Amethyst is an energy healer, mother of 3, and writer who shares her healing journey and helps people reparent themselves while parenting their children. We go over trauma, integration, maintenance, mindfulness, boundaries, choice, tools, and community.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast29
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Today I’m here with Teresa Graham Brett talking about respectful parenting.Teresa lives her passion for creating social change by combining work in social justice education with parenting and is the author of Parenting for Social Change. We go over semantics, mainstream parenting, respectful parenting, transformative learning and tools, and unschooling.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast28
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Today I’m here with Peter Gray talking about play.Peter is the research professor behind the Psychology Today blog Freedom to Learn and the book Free to Learn.
We go over what we’ve gotten wrong, real play, mixed age play, scaffolding, equality, screens, independence, and lifestyle.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast27
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I’m here with Julie Bogart talking about being a brave learner. Julie is the force behind Brave Writer, Poetry Teatime, The Homeschool Alliance, and the upcoming book Brave Learner. We go over real learning, forces of enchantment, capacities for learning, ports of entry, comparison, screens, role modeling, and paydays.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast26
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Today I’m here with Dr. Ross Greene talking about collaboration.Dr. Greene is the originator of the innovative, evidence-based approach called Collaborative & Proactive Solutions(CPS), as described in his influential book The Explosive Child and is now Founding Director of the non-profit Lives in the Balance. We go over why kids misbehave, lagging skills and unsolved problems, the empathy step, the define the problem step, the invitation step, revision, and efficacy.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast25
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I’m here with Meg McElwee talking about creativity.Meg is an aspiring gentle parent of three, homeschooler, and work-at-home fiber artist with her indie sewing pattern company, Sew Liberated. We go over creativity for ourselves, for our children, in our parenting, creative blocks, entrepreneurship, minimalism, and clothing.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast24
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I’m here with Zoë Kim talking about wardrobes. Zoë is the mother of 4, author of Minimalism for Families, and simplicity coach at Raising Simple. She partners with mothers to tackle the challenges of a cluttered home and life with her signature pragmatic and thoughtful approach. We go over why, clothing, shopping, closets, storage, and travel packing.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast23
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I’m here with Akilah Richards talking about liberation. Akilah is an unschooling podcaster, consultant, and founding board member of The Alliance for Self-Directed Education. She explores privilege and power in our relationships with children and centers the voices of BIPOC raising free people. We go over history, oppression, deschooling, access, unschooling, and parenting.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast22
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Today I’m here with Alfie Kohn talking about unconditional parenting.Alfie is the author of 14 books on education, parenting, and human behavior. He’s been on Oprah twice, the today show, and many other programs in addition to speaking regularly at conferences across the country. We go over goals, rewards and punishments, praise, choices, and childism.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast21
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Today I’m here with Dr. Azine Graff talking about emotional regulation. Azine is a psychologist and co-founder of Harmony in Parenting, where she supports parents and children in working through daily challenges through connection. We go over brain development, mirroring/role modeling, accepting/reflecting/validating feelings, connection, small collaboration, and big collaboration.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast20
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Today I’m here with Debbie Reber talking about neurodiversity. Debbie is a parenting activist, New York Times bestselling author of the book Differently Wired, and the founder of TiLT Parenting, a website, top podcast, and online community for parents who are raising differently wired children. We go over what neurodiversity is, acceptance, connection, mirroring/role-modeling, interventions, labels, and dealing with others.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast19
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Today I’m here with Tracy Gillett talking about judgment.Tracy is a nature-obsessed, adventure-loving mama of one and the founder of Raised Good, a blog and community that strives to support and empower parents to trust and follow their instincts on a natural parenting path and the author of The Lost Art of Natural Parenting.We go over the purpose of judgment, when it’s a problem, the importance of authenticity, how to respond, and how to be resilient.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast18
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Today I’m here with Israel Butson talking about socialization – the most common question we all get as homeschoolers.Israel is an unschooling dad on a mission to disrupt education and help build a fresh paradigm for a new generation of young learners through Stark Raving Dad. We go over school socialization, natural socialization, balance, values, and building connection.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast17
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Today I’m here with Taylor Davis talking about math. Taylor is a former teacher turned passionate life learner, unschooling mama to 3 kids, and advocate for self-directed education. She co-hosts the podcast, One Free Family, with her husband James.We go over school math, math anxiety/phobia, natural math, fear of gaps, and share what it looks like for us.
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Today I’m here with my friend Leah McDermott talking about screens. Leah is a former Master Educator and now unschooling mama of two who brings more natural elements to children’s everyday learning experiences through Your Natural Learner. We go over misconceptions, utilizing technology as a tool, finding balance, and role modeling with your own screen usage.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast15
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Today I’m here with Denaye Barahona Ph.D. talking about minimalism. Denaye is the voice behind Simple Families--a blog, podcast, and community that helps mothers thrive through simple living. We go over minimalism, parenting, time, playscape, ownership, role modeling, boundaries, and extended family.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast14
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Today I’m here with my friend Becca Shern talking about values. Bex is a mom, partner, Registered Dietitian, and creator of Minimal Wellness. We go over inherited values, defining your values, collaboration with your partner and children, setting priorities, and laying out intentions.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast13
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Today I’m here with my friend Melissa Lang Lytle talking about sleep. Melissa is a co-sleeping, radical mama of 3 and my bestie.We go over common sleep baggage (including pressure to CIO) and intentional arrangements, environment, and routines that support better sleep that fosters both connection and independence.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast12
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Today I’m here with my friend Nicolette Sowder talking about nature. Nicolette is a nature-connected educator and founder of Wilder Child and Wildschooling. Most days you can find her being led through her farm and forest by her two wildlings. We go over wildschooling, benefits, fears, lifestyle choices, and bringing nature indoors.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast11
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Today I’m here with my friend Deena Barselah talking about beauty. Deena is an Integrative Health Coach and Educator, a wife, a mom to three-year-old Zeke, and lives in Encinitas, CA. We cover defining it, the struggle to embrace it, role modeling, time, quantity, and quality.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast10
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Today I’m here with my friend Rachel Gonzales talking about raising a transgender child. Rachel is the education and resource coordinator at Equality Texas, a member of the human rights campaign parents for trans equality council, VP of Texas Trans Kids and Families and the gentle mama of three, including her trans daughter, Libby.
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Today I’m here with my friend Leah McDermott talking about Reading on the natural learning path. Leah is a former Master Educator and now unschooling mama of two who has made it her mission to help bring more natural elements to children’s everyday learning experiences through her business Your Natural Learner. We cover misconceptions, reading aloud together, extending invitations through the environment, the relevant and contextualized real-life path to reading, role modeling, and trusting the when – the average age literacy develops naturally.
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Today I’m here with my friend Dr. Tamara Soles talking about Discipline on the gentle parenting path. Tamara is a mom of 4-year-old twins, Evangeline and Sawyer. She is a psychologist and parent coach in Montreal at the Centre she founded called the Secure Child Centre for Families and Children. We cover the definition of discipline, values, the reward-punishment model, consequences, connection, collaboration, expectations, role modeling, boundaries, and playfulness.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast7
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Today I’m here with my friend Joy MacTavish talking about Breastfeeding on the natural path: on cue, at night, in public, and full term. Joy MacTavish, MA, IBCLC, RLC supports families with lactation, babywearing, and gentle parenting practices through her business, Sound Beginnings.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast6
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Today I’m here with my friend Robyn Robertson talking about Adventure and how to embrace a lifestyle of learning, connection, and joy through rich experiences as a family. Robyn is an unschooling mom and a curious student of life who has traveled all over the world with her family and has built a community around families following their passions through her podcast. We cover what adventure looks like for us, what makes for a successful adventure, how we collaborate with our children in planning our adventures, parent growth through adventure, living our values, and privilege.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast5
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Today I’m here with my friend Pam Laricchia talking about Deschooling and how the transition into unschooling mirrors the hero's journey. Pam is a long-time unschooling mom who loves exploring unschooling and sharing the fascinating things she’s discovered about learning and parenting along the way.
Get the full show notes here: www.sageparenting.com/podcast4
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This is episode 3 and today I’m here with my friend Dr. Cassidy Freitas, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in San Diego, talking about Therapy and how to make it work for us as families outside the mainstream. Cassidy shares that when a helping professional asked them, “How do you describe the problem?,” regarding their daughter, her husband responded, “Why are we calling it a problem?” Exactly.
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Today I’m here with my friend Jo Watt of the blog and Instagram Girls Unschooled, talking about our role as parents on a natural learning path. Jo is a former teacher turned unschooling mum of 2.
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This is episode 1 and today I’ll be giving you an introduction to who I am and what this podcast is all about (natural homeschooling, gentle parenting, simple living, and family adventure). As an avid podcast listener myself, I really appreciate when I can scroll to an episode 1 and get a quick and easy introduction. Plus, my sweet, silly kids (and husband) stop by to introduce themselves.
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