A Life Unschooled

I’m thrilled to be sharing this conversation with you. I am a long-time follower and fan of Adele’s writing, and in this podcast we discuss her piece Homeschool mum hustle culture is giving MLM vibes, and all of our many thoughts about it.It was a beautiful, rambly (in all the good ways!) conversation that went so many places.We talk about:* working while homeschooling and the

Hello friends!This is episode 2 of my new series that aims to challenge and critique some of the ways we view education, parenting and children’s autonomy.In this episode, I chat to Marni Kammersell.We talk about the Neurodiversity paradigm, moving away from a medical model, her own family’s journey discovering their neurodivergence, and how they moved into unschooling.It was s

Hello friends!I’m excited to start another series of podcast conversations, focused on bringing you ideas and experiences of others who have chosen to challenge norms and assumptions around what it means to raise children, to mother and to live in ways that centre autonomy, consent and collective liberation.In this episode, I chat to Sara Sadek. I connected with Sara on Substack

I’m so thrilled to be chatting to Sarah Casper about consent, why it’s so crucial and why it’s so much more expansive than we think!We spoke about how Sarah arrived at consent, what consent means, how it’s a practice, and why we shouldn’t over-use the word consent!We talked about power and how it impacts saying no, the role of “social coercion” - my new favorite term!

This podcast episode was originally a written post which you can find here:I usually record my written posts as mini-podcasts for my paid subscribers, and this one is a little sneak preview for everyone!Please consider supporting my work here by signing up to my Substack and subscribing.Thank you so much for listening, sharing and being here! Fran x This is a public episode. If you

This was such a super fun chat! We had some great conversations and laughed a lot!Marta talks about unschooling her 3 young people (two of whom are now adults!) and about the most common questions she has received about unschooling and home education. This is a great convo for anyone starting out with unschooling and having all the absolutely normal doubts and wobbles that come wit

We belong to you and meeeee!! Okay enough with the Bee Gees, let’s get to it ;)I’m so excited to share this episode of the podcast!I chat to Sari González and Becka Koritz about the nuts and bolts of deschooling: what it is, what it looks like, the places we get stuck and the ways we get ourselves out of them!I absolutely love how real they are about their own struggles and pr

I love Deena’s approach, and in this chat I spoke to her about how to process our own relationships with food, how to not project them onto our children, as well as about diet culture, anti-fat bias, whether food is really neutral and how to partner with our children around food. I am ALL for making food a joyful and connected experience, rather than one full of restriction, arbi

The transcript for this conversation is available here! Just be aware that I don’t edit it, so it probably won’t be fully accurate!I had such a great conversation with Susan Gray over the weekend, and I’m excited to share it with you!We talked about working full-time while unschooling, letting go of control, and how education doesn’t have to look one way only (and much much

I chat to Ieishah Clelland Lange, writer, unschooling parent and Masters student of Indigenous studies. We talk about Indigeneity, Indigenous ways of knowing, the impacts of Western culture on consent and relationships, and 'embodied relational learning' and so much more!! You can follow Ieishah @ieishah_on_earth on instagram.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.