Self Directed Podcast
1) Kate McAllister | The Human Hive: Building Communities of Purpose and Learning
Kate McAllister shares her journey from traditional teaching in the UK to creating The Human Hive in the Dominican Republic. We talk about learning through global projects, raising children outside th...Show More
2) Amanda Ashworth | Building Community: Creating a Worldschooling Hub in Goa
Send us a text Amanda Ashworth shares how reading The Four Hour Workweek led her to question conventional success, homeschool her children, and eventually create the World Schooling Hub in Goa. She ex...Show More
3) Leah McDermott of Your Natural Learner | Why I Chose Unschooling
Send us a text What happens when a kindergarten teacher moves to teaching fifth grade and discovers that in just five years, the educational system has extinguished the light in children’s eyes? For L...Show More
4) Blake Boles | Escaping Routine: Deep Conversation and wanting a Galactic Commune
Send us a text Blake Boles joins us to talk about his recent editorial, "I Don't Want a Nuclear Family, I Want a Galactic Commune - on the pursuit of quality conversation", which is about the decline ...Show More
5) Chris Balme | Challenge Accepted: Turning Adolescence into Adventure Chris Balme
Send us a text Adolescence is often seen as something to endure — awkward years full of turbulence and struggle. But what if these years could be a time of discovery, adventure, and growth? In this ep...Show More
6) Sarah van Gelder | The Revolution Where You Live - Rebuilding Community in an Isolated World
Send us a text How can we recover the essential human connections that make life meaningful and sustainable? How can we create a world where neighbors know each other's names, children play freely out...Show More
7) Hidden Voices Speak: An Anthology of Home Educated Voices
Send us a text In this episode, we talk with Ben Feliz (14) and Addison Harding (13), home-educated children and contributors to the anthology “Hidden Voices Speak.” Addison came up with the idea for ...Show More
8) Unschooling and Worldschooling Has Changed Us | The Conrads in dialogue with Heidi & Andrew Schrum
Send us a text We sit down with Andrew and Heidi Schrum, just three weeks away from starting their life as a full-time nomadic worldschooling family. They ask us direct questions about our seven years...Show More
9) 130: Navigating Unschooling and Nomadic Life | The Conrads in dialogue with Heidi & Andrew Schrum
Send us a text We sit down with Heidi and Andrew Schrum, who are about to leave home and begin travelling full-time with their two young children. They ask us what we wish we’d known at the beginnin...Show More
10) 129: Charles Eisenstein | Are We Meant to Live Like This? The Price of “Normal” Modern Life
Send us a text Charles Eisenstein is an author and speaker whose books and essays explore themes of community, human connection, economics, and social change. He is known for works such as The More Be...Show More