Elle Rowley shares her transformative journey from struggling high school student to successful entrepreneur and educational innovator creating alternative learning environments for children in her community. Through personal experience and experimentation, she's developed a thriving microschool model that prioritizes curiosity, community, and child-led learning.

• Finding educational approaches that honor different learning styles and children's natural curiosity
• Creating educational communities that thrive despite philosophical differences among families
• Building Solly Baby as an entrepreneurial "master's program" driven by problem-solving and curiosity
• Converting a barn into a one-room schoolhouse that evolved into multiple campuses
• Allowing children to initiate and lead their own learning projects like plays and community-building
• Focusing on whether education amplifies rather than diminishes a child's natural curiosity
• Starting small with available resources rather than waiting for perfect conditions

About our guest
Elle Rowley is the host of the show Down the Well, founder of the award-winning baby carrier company Solly Baby, and partner at Levin Capital, a private equity fund focusing primarily on female and family-owned businesses. She lives in Bonsall, California with her husband and four children on a backyard farm with a little barn that they have turned into a one room schoolhouse for the community.

Connect with Elle
To learn more about Elle's work, follow her on Instagram @ellerowley or check out her podcast "Down the Well" which explores motherhood as a transformative journey rather than merely a self-sacrificing one. 

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About the podcast
The KindlED Podcast explores the science of nurturing children's potential and creating empowering learning environments.

Powered by Prenda Microschools, each episode offers actionable insights to help you ignite your child's love of learning. We'll dive into evidence-based tools and techniques that kindle young learners' curiosity, motivation, and well-being.

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