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- 28 | Nap Time Tips and a Quiet Time Homeschool Routine That Actually Works (With Jessie Martin)
A quiet time routine that actually works in a homeschool does not happen by accident, and pediatric sleep consultant Jessie Martin of The Goodnight House joins Erin to show how to build one. They cover nap time tips for kids 3 and under, homeschool quiet time for older kids, and how Jessie is building a sleep app while homeschooling four children.
What you'll learn in this episode
- Nap time tips for little ones, including a by the clock schedule built on age-appropriate wake windows, a dark room, and white noise.
- How to set up homeschool quiet time with a simple "quiet reading time" and how to reset it after a break.
- How a pediatric sleep consultant plans her week so she can work during quiet time and still homeschool.
- What it looks like to build an app one next step at a time.
About Erin
Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator turned homeschool mom and founder of erinmeinel.com, where she helps homeschool moms build sustainable rhythms and businesses of their own.
Links mentioned
- The Goodnight House: thegoodnighthouse.com
- Jessie on Instagram: @thegoodnighthouse
- Sleep Without Sleep Training guide: https://thegoodnighthouse.com/shop/p/healthy-sleep-without-sleep-training-1
- Free Yoto audiobook list: https://thegoodnighthouse.com/podcast/wheretofindfreeyotocontent
- App waitlist or beta signup: https://summer-sunset-90790.myflodesk.com/rlx4pd2rsc
- Free 2-night workshop, Make Money From Home as a Homeschool Mom (Nov 10 and 12, 7 PM CST): erinmeinel.com/make-money-from-home
- erinmeinel.com
38 min - 27 | How to Start a Business as a Homeschool Mom (Start Small and Start Before You Feel Ready)
If you want to start a business as a homeschool mom but keep waiting until you feel ready, this episode is for you. Erin shares what the littlest hockey players and her son's first game taught her about planting something small and putting it where people can find it.
What you'll learn in this episode
- Why the best homeschool mom business ideas start as one small thing you can do this week, not a finished brand.
- How to start a business while homeschooling by taking one public step before you feel qualified.
- What it looks like to build a work from home homeschool mom income in the margin you already have.
- Why the first step in your business is usually unpaid, and why that does not mean it is not working.
About Erin
Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator turned homeschool mom and founder of erinmeinel.com, where she helps homeschool moms build sustainable rhythms and businesses of their own.
Links mentioned
- Free 2-night workshop, Make Money From Home as a Homeschool Mom (Nov 10 and 12, 7 PM Central): erinmeinel.com/make-money-from-home
- erinmeinel.com
12 min - 26 | What Nobody Tells You About Your First Year Homeschooling (Everybody Plants What She Already Knows)
Your first year homeschooling will almost never look like what you pictured, and that is not a sign you chose wrong. In this episode, Erin Meinel tells the story of carrying ten years of kindergarten classroom up from her basement and rebuilding school inside her own living room, what she pulled out within weeks, and the one thing she kept that changed the entire shape of their days.
This is the planting season, homeschool side. It is for the first-year mom wondering whether she is doing this wrong, and for the mom in year three who is still running something she inherited rather than chose.
In this episode
- Why everybody plants what she already knows in her first year homeschooling, and why that is completely normal
- What Erin brought up from her basement, and how fast she had to pull it back out
- The one thing she kept, and why letting kids move during read alouds changed everything
- The permission a former teacher had that most homeschool moms do not, and how to give it to yourself
- Why you should plant less curriculum than you think you need
Links mentioned
- erinmeinel.com
About Erin
Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.
Resources
- erinmeinel.com
- Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
- Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand
7 min - 25 | Building a Business: An Idea, a Calling, and a Long Season of Preparation with Carolina Martinez
Building a business that starts as an idea and becomes a calling rarely happens overnight, and in this episode Erin Meinel talks with Carolina Martinez of Cash Flow with Carolina and Greater Financial about the long season of preparation behind hers.
Carolina is a financial planner and a fellow Christian mom entrepreneur, and she shares how prayer, her husband's wisdom, and a few moments of unmistakable timing shaped her businesses. This conversation is for the homeschool mom who feels a stirring and can't name it yet.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
- How Carolina went from five years as a financial planner to starting Cash Flow with Carolina when her son was 7 weeks old, taking a leap of faith without seeing the whole staircase.
- What discerning this calling looked like when she turned down a part-time six-figure offer, felt no peace about another firm, and went on to open Greater Financial.
- Why a humbling season, like Erin's two years working for someone else after closing her businesses, can be preparation, and what to do when you sense a stirring but can't name it yet.
Links mentioned
- Made for Mothers networking group (join for $1): https://made-for-mothers.mykajabi.com/a/2148135155/Nr25VQoJ
- https://cashflowwithcarolina.com/
- https://greaterfinancial.co/
- Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand
About Erin
Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.
Resources
- erinmeinel.com
- Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://substack.com/@erinmeinel
- Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand
Homeschool Moms Make Money is published twice weekly on Podbean and all major podcast directories.
28 min - 24 | How to Know What Business to Start as a Homeschool Mom
How to know what business to start is the question Erin Meinel gets more than any other, and the usual answers about passion and niche research are not how it actually happened for her. In this episode she tells the story of the 2018 season that turned into her first business, why she never planned to own one at all, and the single question that works better than any niche exercise.
This is the business side of the preparation season. It covers the inward work of prayer and wise counsel, the outward work of noticing what people already come to you for, and the honest line between preparing and stalling.
In this episode
- Why Erin swore she would never be a business owner, and what changed
- How her first business started with a problem she solved for her own family first
- The personal brand association you already have, whether you built it on purpose or not
- The better question to ask instead of what is my passion
- The inward and outward halves of preparation, and why you need both
- How to tell the difference between genuine discernment and stalling
Links mentioned
- Personal Brand Identity Quiz: erinmeinel.com
- Episode 17, on the personal brand you already have
About Erin
Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.
Resources
- erinmeinel.com
- Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
- Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand
8 min - 23 | How to Prepare to Homeschool (You've Been Preparing to Homeschool Longer Than You Think)
How to prepare to homeschool is usually answered with a curriculum list and a supply run, and that is not what this episode is about. Erin Meinel walks through her own twenty-year preparation, from deciding at age seven to become a teacher, through a decade in early childhood classrooms, to the parent-teacher conference and the book that finally made the decision undeniable.
Preparation is almost always retroactive. You cannot see it while you are in it. This episode is for the mom who thinks she is starting from scratch, and for the mom who has been sitting in preparation so long it has quietly turned into waiting.
In this episode
- Why preparation is the first season and the one almost nobody believes they are in
- Erin's full preparation story, including the teaching degree, the classroom decade, and the parent-teacher conference that changed everything
- How Hold On to Your Kids gave language to what she was already watching in her children
- Why everything you have already lived counts as homeschool preparation, even the parts that had nothing to do with children
- The two active things preparation asks of you, and how to keep this season from turning into indefinite waiting
- Why preparation comes back around every single year
Links mentioned
- Hold On to Your Kids, by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate
- erinmeinel.com
About Erin
Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.
Resources
- erinmeinel.com
- Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
- Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand
9 min - BONUS | Let's Celebrate: A Giveaway for Homeschool Moms
🎉 Celebrate with me! The Giveaway: win my LAST Foundations First spot this month
This podcast started in August and we’re almost at 2,000 downloads. To say thank you, I’m giving one homeschool mom a free spot in Foundations First, my two-week, one-on-one coaching program (a $297 value). We work together on a private voice messaging app, and you finish with your own Rhythm & Margin Plan and a clear picture of what you could build next.
Go from overwhelmed, wondering where your days went, to confident, present where your feet are, and with a little extra time for YOU. You can't pour from an empty cup, mama!“Every day we worked together, I was telling my husband, Erin gave me the greatest tip.”
Rene, Foundations FirstHow to enter:
- Follow the podcast and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Already left one? Leave a fresh one, since there are newer episodes since you last shared!
- Screenshot it and email it to [email protected], or share it in your Instagram stories and tag @erinmeinel
Bonus entries (3 each):
- Tag three homeschool mom friends on the giveaway post on Instagram (pinned at the top)
- Share your biggest struggle with homeschooling and/or running a business, in your email or in the comments on the post
✨ That's SEVEN total entries you could earn to win this coaching experience! ✨
Entries close Sunday, October 18 at 8 PM Central. I’ll announce the winner Monday, October 19.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id6790794941
Giveaway post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DeZ3uSVjU3z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&vrfl=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&srtk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Not sponsored or endorsed by Instagram.
4 min - 22 | Will the Choice to Homeschool Ruin Your Children? (And Other Hindsight Questions with Kristen Brink)
Starting a business after homeschooling is one honest answer to the question of when to build, not the only one, and Kristen Brink has the hindsight to walk us through her reasoning. She homeschooled her three sons from 2011 to 2021, and they are now independent adults in their 20s who, as she puts it, are not ruined. In this conversation she answers the questions every new homeschool mom asks, including "Am I going to ruin my children if I homeschool them?" and, when it comes to building something alongside your homeschool, how to tell "not right now because I know myself" from "not right now because I am scared." Tune in for her wisdom!
IN THIS EPISODE
- Why Kristen's three sons, now 21, 28, and 29, turned out fine, and the stereotype they still hear about homeschoolers
- Why homeschooling does not have to look like public school to get your kids where they want to go
- Skills to teach and nurture beyond a four-year degree plan, from selling to cooking to running a food business
- Why Kristen chose not to build a business while homeschooling, and how she knew her all-or-nothing personality made that the right call
- How to know if it is the right season to start a business, and Kristen's test for telling self-knowledge from fear
- What the homeschool years were quietly preparing: continuing education, productivity books, and curriculum she first built for her own boys
- Why everyone needs multiple income streams, even your teenage and twenty-something kids
- How a homeschool mom business can grow out of what you are already doing, one semester-long curriculum at a time
LINKS MENTIONED
- Shaping Minds Co., Kristen's Socratic homeschool curriculum shop on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShapingMindsCo
- The Portfolio Parent, Kristen's Substack on building multiple income streams while you stay home with your kids: https://portfolioparent.substack.com/
- Personal Brand Identity Quiz: erinmeinel.com
YOUR NEXT STEP
Whether or not this is your season to build, the free Personal Brand Identity Quiz at erinmeinel.com takes five minutes and will tell you something about the kind of builder you already are.
ABOUT ERIN
Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.
RESOURCES
- erinmeinel.com
- Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
- Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand
Homeschool Moms Make Money is published twice weekly on all major podcast directories.
34 min - 21 | The 7 Seasons of Homeschooling and Building a Business (And Why You Are in More Than One)
The seasons of homeschooling are not the same as the seasons of building a business, and most homeschool moms are living in both at once without realizing it. In this episode, Erin Meinel introduces the seven-season framework that will carry the rest of the fall: preparation, planting, watering, weeding, pruning, harvesting, and rest.
This is the framing episode for the series. It is not a diagnostic and there is nothing to fill out. It is a list, and the point is to hear yourself in it.
In this episode
- Why your homeschool year feels harder in October than it did in August, and why that is a season rather than a failure
- The seven seasons named, with what each one actually feels like from the inside
- Why watering is the longest season and the one most women quit in
- The difference between weeding and pruning, and why pruning is harder
- Why you are almost always in two different seasons at once, and what Erin's own homeschool and business look like right now
- What is coming in the rest of the series, including the question of which season gets to set the pace
Links mentioned
- Personal Brand Identity Quiz: erinmeinel.com
About Erin
Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.
Resources
- erinmeinel.com
- Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
- Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand
9 min - BONUS: What is Your Time Worth As a Busy Homeschool Mom? (Stewarding Your Gifts and Time Well)
You're a homeschool mom, and every day it feels like there are about nine hours of work and four hours to do it in. So the idea of "finding time" for yourself can sound almost funny.
But what if the time isn't missing? What if you've just never looked at your week honestly?
In this bonus episode, I'm talking to the mom who's tired, a little behind, and not sure where the day went. And I'm welcoming the new friends who found me through my conversations with Blake Gouchet this week. I'm so glad you're here!
In this episode, you'll hear:
- Why chaos in your homeschool days is not a character flaw
- How one mom went from "time, what time?" to finding 15 to 20 hours in her week
- What I did with two years of margin before I ever started a business (hint: 🥖)
- Why you don't need a business to need margin
- How to walk into November still standing instead of running on empty
- Who Foundations First is for, and who it's not for
Foundations First is for you if you're a homeschool mom who:
- Wants her days to feel less chaotic
- Could use a little rhythm and routine, so she's not making it up from scratch every morning
- Would love 30 or 60 minutes a day that belong to her
- Has tried a schedule or planner before, watched it fall apart by Wednesday, and decided the problem must be her
If that's you, here's what you get: two weeks of one-on-one coaching on Voxer, like having me in your back pocket. We look at your real week, build a rhythm that actually fits it, and finish with your own Rhythm and Margin Plan.
The doors are open through Sunday at 7pm Central. The $197 founding rate (and the bonus week with me in your back pocket!) goes away when the links come down, and this is a real close.
Join Foundations First here: https://www.honeybook.com/widget/erin_meinel_llc_300023/cf_id/6a707ad015332f9686d60edd
Not sure if it's the right fit? Email me at [email protected] and I'll tell you honestly. I would rather you wait than join for the wrong reasons.
God isn't in a hurry with you, and neither am I. I'm so glad you're here.
Erin
13 min
About Homeschool Moms Make Money - Homeschool Routines, Homeschool Schedules, and Building a Business
From the publisher's feed
Are you a homeschool mom who (maybe) wants to build a business without sacrificing the thing you said yes to first? This is Homeschool Moms Make Money with Erin Meinel, the podcast for homeschool moms who are done choosing between homeschooling well and possibly building something of their own.
Erin is a former early childhood educator, homeschool mom to two boys, and founder of erinmeinel.com. She has built businesses, burned out, rebuilt with margin, and landed on the truth that most homeschool mom entrepreneurs never hear: the margin you protect is the strategy.
Every week you will find practical episodes on homeschool scheduling, homeschool rhythms, building a business while homeschooling, work from home mom strategies, personal brand basics, and how to create a homeschool routine that actually holds. Whether you are searching for homeschool burnout solutions, ideas for homeschool mom income, or just trying to figure out how to find time to work while homeschooling your kids, you're in the right place.
This is not hustle culture. This is not "do more." This is the both/and you have been looking for.
Follow the show now. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
Visit erinmeinel.com to learn more.
Host Erin Meinel brings practical marketing, real-life homeschool wisdom, and faith-led strategy together so you can homeschool your children and grow a business that fits your season.
Homeschooling well. Building something meaningful. Both at once.