S6E144: How Are You Able To Work And Homeschool? With Erika Brown

How Are You Able To Work And Homeschool? With Erika Brown

“How are you able to work AND homeschool your boys?”

Erika Brown is asked this question at least once a week as they are out and about meeting people. Unfortunately, society pushes the idea that women must either work outside of the home or stay at home. The idea of doing both seems to be a foreign concept. Erika chooses to reject that ideology while being a part of a generation that blazes new trails and refuses to settle.

Erika Brown leveraged her lucrative career in Real Estate to create the financial opportunity to unschool her boys. This journey has come with its share of difficulties, yet those times are trumped by the experiences and knowledge her boys are gaining. Erika invites you to follow her family as they use their businesses to assist in the unschooling process and educational journeys of their boys.

In This Episode

If you want to hear both practical tips and deep reflections on how we choose to live and learn, then you will love this interview. In this episode Erika and I talked about the Joys and Challenges of unschooling and being a full time working parent and entrepreneur. 

We talked about:

• Teens and Social Needs
• The Continual Deschooling Process
• The Values that overlap in Unschooling and Entrepreneurship~ Questioning the standard and wanting to solve it. 
• How she uses 3 month rotating routines to help balance work days and having 3 kids at home unschooling
• Mindset and Communicating Needs
• Erika breaks down what a week looks like in a 3 month season for their family 
• The power of intentional conversations and teamwork
• Unschooling With Teens
• Self Directed Learning, Connection and Confidence

Erika leaves us with wonderful advice to the parents that want to homeschool and work or build a business. Her experience and knowledge in this life is worth learning from. 

Resources

Connect with Erika through Instagram @erikabinvestor

Erika’s Blog~ https://www.erikab.co/blog

Follow Erika’s sons bakery on Instagram~Brown Brothers Bakery 

Want to hear more about Unschooling and Entrepreneurship? Check out my episode with Stacey Piercey~Unschooling And Entrepreneurship or my episode with Unschooled Entrepreneur Isabelle Robledo~Homeschooling and Mindfulness

Listen to Honey! I’m Homeschooling Club Replays on Challenges~ Unschooling Challenges & Connection Over Academics

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