Into The Wild

Paulina Cameron is the powerhouse CEO of The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE) and has juggled babies and business for a while. She leads a national organization and team that educates, mentors and connects women entrepreneurs to be wildly successful, promoting strong economies and thriving communities.

Previously she was the Regional Director for Western Canada at Futurpreneur Canada. She supported hundreds of entrepreneurs in launching their businesses and is a sought after mentor and speaker. A champion of gender equality, she is the author of bestselling book Canada 150 Women: conversations with champions, leaders and luminaries; and has gained international recognition for her work.

Ok, so her incredible list of accomplishments go on forever...here are some more:

• She is a Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Simon Fraser University,
• Has advised the federal government and the Prime Minister on Canada's $800M Youth Employment strategy.
• She was the co-founder and president of Young Women in Business, which grew from a conference to a national organization.
• She currently serves on the Board of Directors for YWCA Metro Vancouver, Immigrant Employment Council of BC, and the Government of British Columbia's Small Business Roundtable.

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Not second-guessing your intuition to what you should
• Her biggest mistakes came from not listening to her gut
• When women invest in themselves, the impact on their business is significant
• Women are more likely to reinvest their revenues back into their business and into their employees
• To 'find' money in your business, you first need to start with what you want your life to look like
• There is glamorization around attaining a hockey stick growth in business
• Fast growth is NOT the only way your business has to grow
• There are quite a few options for debt, equity and grant financing
• Grants (There is no such thing as free money), the best source of verifying grants in Canada
• The focus should be to generate revenue over finding money
• When it makes sense for a small business to get financing
• Women often under finance their business
• Craving long periods of solitude to help your emotional bandwidth

Public Shoutouts:

• Viktor Frankl "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
• Ryan Reynolds "Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."
• Innovation Canada Concierge Service
• Woman Entrepreneurs Organization of Canada: WEOC
• Futurepreneur Canada
• SheEO
• DreamMakers Ventures
• Disruption Ventures
• Janet Bannister

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

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"I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread." <-- If that sounds like something you might say, then leave a rating and review for my show today!

By having a good rating, it helps me reach more ambitious women who are aching to start their dream business but don't know how. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap, and rate -- 5 stars will do -- and select "Write a Review." Make sure to highlight your favorite bits, and I'll be sure to give some public shoutouts!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE!

Follow me on social media @renee_warren and @we.wild.women and check out www.wewildwomen.com.

Paulina Cameron is the powerhouse CEO of The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE) and has juggled babies and business for a while. She leads a national organization and team that educates, mentors and connects women entrepreneurs to be wildly successful, promoting strong economies and thriving communities.  

Previously she was the Regional Director for Western Canada at Futurpreneur Canada. She supported hundreds of entrepreneurs in launching their businesses and is a sought after mentor and speaker. A champion of gender equality, she is the author of bestselling book Canada 150 Women: conversations with champions, leaders and luminaries; and has gained international recognition for her work. 

Ok, so her incredible list of accomplishments go on forever...here are some more:

• She is a Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Simon Fraser University,
• Has advised the federal government and the Prime Minister on Canada’s $800M Youth Employment strategy. 
• She was the co-founder and president of Young Women in Business, which grew from a conference to a national organization. 
• She currently serves on the Board of Directors for YWCA Metro Vancouver, Immigrant Employment Council of BC, and the Government of British Columbia’s Small Business Roundtable. 

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Not second-guessing your intuition to what you should
• Her biggest mistakes came from not listening to her gut
• When women invest in themselves, the impact on their business is significant 
• Women are more likely to reinvest their revenues back into their business and into their employees
• To ‘find’ money in your business, you first need to start with what you want your life to look like 
• There is glamorization around attaining a hockey stick growth in business
• Fast growth is NOT the only way your business has to grow
• There are quite a few options for debt, equity and grant financing 
• Grants (There is no such thing as free money), the best source of verifying grants in Canada
• The focus should be to generate revenue over finding money
• When it makes sense for a small business to get financing 
• Women often under finance their business
• Craving long periods of solitude to help your emotional bandwidth

Public Shoutouts:

• Viktor Frankl “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
• Ryan Reynolds "Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere."
• Innovation Canada Concierge Service 
• Woman Entrepreneurs Organization of Canada: WEOC
• Futurepreneur Canada
• SheEO
• DreamMakers Ventures
• Disruption Ventures
• Janet Bannister

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcast

"I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread." <-- If that sounds like something you might say, then leave a rating and review for my show today!

By having a good rating, it helps me reach more ambitious women who are aching to start their dream business but don't know how. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap, and rate -- 5 stars will do -- and select "Write a Review." Make sure to highlight your favorite bits, and I'll be sure to give some public shoutouts!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE! 

Follow me on social media @renee_warren and @we.wild.women and check out www.wewildwomen.com.

Hey you wild lady!

Today, I am speaking with Crystal Richard, an award-winning entrepreneur and PR Siren behind Crystal Richard & Co., a global digital PR company helping small businesses, brands and entrepreneurs secure dreamy media coverage and attract a wave of raving fans and customers. From her cozy office on the coast of Atlantic Canada, Crystal helps clients from as far away as Australia secure media placements and bylines in leading online publications such as Forbes, the Globe and Mail, GQ, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Inc., Chatelaine Magazine and more. Over her career as a publicist, she has brokered HGTV pilots, spoken about PR and entrepreneurship on several stages, and co-authored the book Get Covered: How to craft, pitch and tell your startup's story to get more customers.

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In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• How to fearlessly lose sight of the shore. If you stay on the shore your whole life, you'll never know what is out there. If you don't take chances and focus on the horizon, you will never know what is out there.
• The best gift can be just diving in.
• Best advice: Get a good lawyer and get a good accountant. Don't try to figure it out yourself.
• Don't say yes to what you know what will be a bad client
• If you don't leave space open for good clients and customers, you won't ever get them
• You're doing yourself more harm by saying yes to the wrong people
• To be productive, you must block your time. Calendar blocking is the way to go
• #SmartPRhabits PR takes time, so you need to create daily habits to do it successfully
• The people that succeed at PR at in it for the long game
  • Send 1 pitch/day Monday through Thursday
  • Find new people to pitch every Friday
  • Spend 5 mins o Twitter every day, engaging with people you want to write about you
• Twitter is where most journalists hangout
• In order to get news, you need to create news.

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Public shoutouts:

• Asana
• Everland
• Harvest
• HARO - Help a reporter out

Resources:

• Website: https://www.crystalrichard.com/
• Book: Get Covered Book
• Instagram: Crystal_richard
• Facebook: CrystalrichardCo
• Twitter: CrystalCRichard

What it means to be a WILD woman:

"Just go for it! Embrace your weirdness and don't think about what other people will think." ~Crystal Richard

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcast

"I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread." <-- If that sounds like something you might say, then leave a rating and review for my show today!

By having a good rating, it helps me reach more ambitious women who are aching to start their dream business but don't know how. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap, and rate -- 5 stars will do -- and select "Write a Review." Make sure to highlight your favorite bits, and I'll be sure to give some public shoutouts!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE!

Follow me on social media @renee_warren and @we.wild.women and check out www.wewildwomen.com.

Hey you wild lady!

Today, I am speaking with Crystal Richard, an award-winning entrepreneur and PR Siren behind Crystal Richard & Co., a global digital PR company helping small businesses, brands and entrepreneurs secure dreamy media coverage and attract a wave of raving fans and customers. From her cozy office on the coast of Atlantic Canada, Crystal helps clients from as far away as Australia secure media placements and bylines in leading online publications such as Forbes, the Globe and Mail, GQ, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Inc., Chatelaine Magazine and more. Over her career as a publicist, she has brokered HGTV pilots, spoken about PR and entrepreneurship on several stages, and co-authored the book Get Covered: How to craft, pitch and tell your startup's story to get more customers. 

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In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• How to fearlessly lose sight of the shore. If you stay on the shore your whole life, you’ll never know what is out there.  If you don’t take chances and focus on the horizon, you will never know what is out there. 
• The best gift can be just diving in.
• Best advice: Get a good lawyer and get a good accountant. Don’t try to figure it out yourself.
• Don’t say yes to what you know what will be a bad client
• If you don’t leave space open for good clients and customers, you won’t ever get them
• You’re doing yourself more harm by saying yes to the wrong people
• To be productive, you must block your time. Calendar blocking is the way to go
• #SmartPRhabits PR takes time, so you need to create daily habits to do it successfully
• The people that succeed at PR at in it for the long game
  • Send 1 pitch/day Monday through Thursday
  • Find new people to pitch every Friday
  • Spend 5 mins o Twitter every day, engaging with people you want to write about you
• Twitter is where most journalists hangout
• In order to get news, you need to create news.

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Public shoutouts:

• Asana
• Everland
• Harvest 
• HARO - Help a reporter out

Resources:

• Website:  https://www.crystalrichard.com/
• Book: Get Covered Book
• Instagram:  Crystal_richard
• Facebook: CrystalrichardCo
• Twitter: CrystalCRichard

What it means to be a WILD woman:

"Just go for it!  Embrace your weirdness and don’t think about what other people will think." ~Crystal Richard

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcast

"I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread." <-- If that sounds like something you might say, then leave a rating and review for my show today!

By having a good rating, it helps me reach more ambitious women who are aching to start their dream business but don't know how. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap, and rate -- 5 stars will do -- and select "Write a Review." Make sure to highlight your favorite bits, and I'll be sure to give some public shoutouts!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE! 

Follow me on social media @renee_warren and @we.wild.women and check out www.wewildwomen.com.

Dr. Valerie Rein has discovered Patriarchy Stress Disorder (PSD) and created the only science-backed system for helping women achieve their ultimate success, happiness, and fulfillment by healing the generational trauma of oppression. She holds an EdM in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University and a PhD in Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Her bestselling book, "Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women's Happiness and Fulfillment" and her cutting-edge programs have helped thousands of women shift from survival to thriving and master the game of "How good can it get?" in their work and personal lives. Dr. Valerie is a sought-after speaker and trainer at conferences and companies committed to setting new standards of excellence in their industry in diversity, equity, and inclusion, employee satisfaction, their physical and mental health, and creativity and innovation.

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Invest in things that see your bigness
• Have a lot of compassion for yourself
• "You don't become a millionaire for the million dollars. You become a millionaire for the person you become in the process."
• Not trusting that you know what to offer was one of her biggest business mistakes
• Oppression is not our fault
• Patriarchy Stress Disorder = PSD
• Traumatic experiences are genetically transmitted
• We carry traumas throughout life
• Women have been carrying trauma for thousands of years
• Everything that was every 'wrong' with women, stems from thousands of years of oppression
• We don't have role models in the world of women living authentically
• PSD does not correlate from our accomplishment
• Nothing is wrong with women, it's not about the mindset, it's much deeper
• Trauma is any experience that made you feel unsafe, that led to you building trauma adaptions to make you feel safe
• A woman's power has always been a punishable offense
• Women want to be free. It is what we desire!
• Everything in our culture reinforces PSD, instead of making it better
• Be everything that you are here to be because that gives your children permission to do it too
• Our actions are decided in our subconscious
• She calls BS on 'money mindset issues' because the reality is that it wasn't until the 80's that women could take out a loan without having a male counterpart co-sign
• The biggest unconscious privilege of men, in this culture, is being believed in
• Fear of failure keeps women in her safe cell
• What is holding us back is not personal, it's the patriarchy
• 75-90% of autoimmune cases are in women

Public shoutouts:

• Marianne Williamson: A Woman's Worth
• Meryl Streep on Instagram

Resources:

• Website: https://www.drvalerie.com/
• Book: Patriarchy Stress Disorder
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drvalerierein/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drvalerierein

Being a wild woman means:

"The woman who disobeys. She was burned at the stake throughout history. We are the women who disobey the establishment. We don't settle for the crumbs that the Patriarchy settles or us. " ~ Dr. Valerie Rein

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcast

"I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread." <-- If that sounds like something you might say, then leave a rating and review for my show today!

By having a good rating, it helps me reach more ambitious women who are aching to start their dream business but don't know how. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap, and rate -- 5 stars will do -- and select "Write a Review." Make sure to highlight your favorite bits, and I'll be sure to give some public shoutouts!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE!

Follow me on social media @renee_warren and @we.wild.women and check out www.wewildwomen.com.

Dr. Valerie Rein has discovered Patriarchy Stress Disorder (PSD) and created the only science-backed system for helping women achieve their ultimate success, happiness, and fulfillment by healing the generational trauma of oppression. She holds an EdM in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University and a PhD in Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. Her bestselling book, “Patriarchy Stress Disorder: The Invisible Inner Barrier to Women’s Happiness and Fulfillment” and her cutting-edge programs have helped thousands of women shift from survival to thriving and master the game of "How good can it get?" in their work and personal lives. Dr. Valerie is a sought-after speaker and trainer at conferences and companies committed to setting new standards of excellence in their industry in diversity, equity, and inclusion, employee satisfaction, their physical and mental health, and creativity and innovation.

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Invest in things that see your bigness
• Have a lot of compassion for yourself
• “You don’t become a millionaire for the million dollars. You become a millionaire for the person you become in the process.”
• Not trusting that you know what to offer was one of her biggest business mistakes
• Oppression is not our fault
• Patriarchy Stress Disorder = PSD
• Traumatic experiences are genetically transmitted 
• We carry traumas throughout life
• Women have been carrying trauma for thousands of years
• Everything that was every ‘wrong’ with women, stems from thousands of years of oppression 
• We don’t have role models in the world of women living authentically
• PSD does not correlate from our accomplishment
• Nothing is wrong with women, it’s not about the mindset, it’s much deeper
• Trauma is any experience that made you feel unsafe, that led to you building trauma adaptions to make you feel safe
• A woman’s power has always been a punishable offense 
• Women want to be free. It is what we desire!
• Everything in our culture reinforces PSD, instead of making it better
• Be everything that you are here to be because that gives your children permission to do it too
• Our actions are decided in our subconscious 
• She calls BS on ‘money mindset issues’ because the reality is that it wasn’t until the 80’s that women could take out a loan without having a male counterpart co-sign
• The biggest unconscious privilege of men, in this culture, is being believed in
• Fear of failure keeps women in her safe cell
• What is holding us back is not personal, it’s the patriarchy
• 75-90% of autoimmune cases are in women

Public shoutouts:

• Marianne Williamson: A Woman’s Worth
• Meryl Streep on Instagram

Resources:

• Website: https://www.drvalerie.com/
• Book: Patriarchy Stress Disorder
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drvalerierein/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drvalerierein

Being a wild woman means:

“The woman who disobeys. She was burned at the stake throughout history. We are the women who disobey the establishment. We don’t settle for the crumbs that the Patriarchy settles or us. ” ~ Dr. Valerie Rein

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcast

"I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread." <-- If that sounds like something you might say, then leave a rating and review for my show today!

By having a good rating, it helps me reach more ambitious women who are aching to start their dream business but don't know how. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap, and rate -- 5 stars will do -- and select "Write a Review." Make sure to highlight your favorite bits, and I'll be sure to give some public shoutouts!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE! 

Follow me on social media @renee_warren and @we.wild.women and check out www.wewildwomen.com.

Angela Harris is a connector, relationship builder and coach, and the founder of Work of Heart, a business and movement created to empower and inspire people to be their best, to do their best and to live their best life. She helps heart-centered people and businesses grow through events, consulting, and coaching.

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• People that get things done often jump before they know what they need to do
• You're valuable the way you are right now, even simpy from your life's experience
• You have everything you need right now to be successful
• We constantly need to be reminded of our value
• Most women don't do what they're supposed to do because they overthink and they are fearful
• You don't need to have it all figured out
• Sometimes you just need to take inspired action. You don't have to have it all figured out. Just focus on today
• Comparison is the thief of joy, but it can also be useful
• instead of a to-do list, create a ta-da list

Resources:

• Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/workofheart.me
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workofheart.me/
• Website: https://www.workofheart.me
• Course: Heart Magic

Public shoutouts:

• Alt Summit: https://altitudesummit.com/
• Hubspot: https://www.hubspot.com/

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcast

"I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread." <-- If that sounds like something you might say, then leave a rating and review for my show today!

By having a good rating, it helps me reach more ambitious women who are aching to start their dream business but don't know how. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap, and rate -- 5 stars will do -- and select "Write a Review." Make sure to highlight your favorite bits, and I'll be sure to give some public shoutouts!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE!

Follow me on social media @renee_warren and @we.wild.women and check out www.wewildwomen.com.

Angela Harris is a connector, relationship builder and coach, and the founder of Work of Heart, a business and movement created to empower and inspire people to be their best, to do their best and to live their best life. She helps heart-centered people and businesses grow through events, consulting, and coaching.

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• People that get things done often jump before they know what they need to do
• You’re valuable the way you are right now, even simpy from your life’s experience
• You have everything you need right now to be successful
• We constantly need to be reminded of our value
• Most women don’t do what they’re supposed to do because they overthink and they are fearful
• You don’t need to have it all figured out
• Sometimes you just need to take inspired action. You don’t have to have it all figured out. Just focus on today
• Comparison is the thief of joy, but it can also be useful
• instead of a to-do list, create a ta-da list

Resources:

• Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/workofheart.me     
• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/workofheart.me/
• Website: https://www.workofheart.me
• Course: Heart Magic

Public shoutouts:

• Alt Summit: https://altitudesummit.com/
• Hubspot: https://www.hubspot.com/

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcast

"I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread." <-- If that sounds like something you might say, then leave a rating and review for my show today!

By having a good rating, it helps me reach more ambitious women who are aching to start their dream business but don't know how. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap, and rate -- 5 stars will do -- and select "Write a Review." Make sure to highlight your favorite bits, and I'll be sure to give some public shoutouts!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE! 

Follow me on social media @renee_warren and @we.wild.women and check out www.wewildwomen.com.

Hey you wild women!

My next guest has fifteen years of experience in education, starting as an ESL teacher before joining a private school as an admission and outreach director. Her experiences traveling while home-educating had her questioning her past beliefs around parenting, how we learn, and the education system. It also highlighted the need for community. This led her to launch her podcast Honey! I'm Homeschooling the Kids, which is a platform to share ideas, stories and information about the joys and challenges of home education and self-directed learning. The podcast also serves as a place to bring together a collective voice for change in the broader education system. Currently, she's an unschooling mom of two, podcast host, and school board trustee.

I asked Robyn to join me on Into The Wild because, during the time of the recording we have been asked to self-isolate and stay home. Because of this, we are now all homeschooling and trying to work from home.

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Many parents are now suddenly homeschooling and working from home
• We are all on this journey, whether we realize it or not we all make a difference in the world and why we are here is to complete that journey
• Her reason for homeschooling: To not have to stick to a schedule so that we can travel
• Our brain needs to be constantly learning in order to maintain our brain health
• Our natural curiosity become undermined as we enter the school system
• If we keep that curiosity going throughout life, we will be more confident
• Don't look to someone else to give you your meaning
• Homeschooling is like a mirror being held up to you
• You have to trust yourself
• My biggest mistake was trying to recreate school at home
• Letting your kids know that you don't know everything
• To have confident learners are a reflection between positive self-beliefs, motivation, and autonomy
• We are expecting our kids to be very independent right now, and many have never had the chance to. So we need to give them, and us parents, some grace, to be more independent
• Homeschooling also involves learning lifeskills.

Resources:

• Learn more: http://imhomeschooling.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honeyimhomeschoolingthekids/
• Podcast: Honey I'm Homeschooling the Kids

Public shoutouts:

• John Holt, The Foundations Unschooling
• Project-based learning, Book
• Halifax Independent School
• Erika Christakis: The Importance of Being Little
• Julie Bogart: The Brave Learner
• Ivan Illish: The Deschooling Society
• Peter Gray: Free to Learn

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

Rate, review, and subscribe on Apple Podcast

"I love Into The Wild, and think it's the best thing since sliced bread." <-- If that sounds like something you might say, then leave a rating and review for my show today!

By having a good rating, it helps me reach more ambitious women who are aching to start their dream business but don't know how. Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap, and rate -- 5 stars will do -- and select "Write a Review." Make sure to highlight your favorite bits, and I'll be sure to give some public shoutouts!

Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE!

Follow me on social media @renee_warren and @we.wild.women and check out www.wewildwomen.com.

Hey you wild women!

My next guest has fifteen years of experience in education, starting as an ESL teacher before joining a private school as an admission and outreach director. Her experiences traveling while home-educating had her questioning her past beliefs around parenting, how we learn, and the education system. It also highlighted the need for community. This led her to launch her podcast Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids, which is a platform to share ideas, stories and information about the joys and challenges of home education and self-directed learning. The podcast also serves as a place to bring together a collective voice for change in the broader education system. Currently, she’s an unschooling mom of two, podcast host, and school board trustee. 

I asked Robyn to join me on Into The Wild because, during the time of the recording we have been asked to self-isolate and stay home. Because of this, we are now all homeschooling and trying to work from home.

In This Episode, You Will Learn About:

• Many parents are now suddenly homeschooling and working from home
• We are all on this journey, whether we realize it or not we all make a difference in the world and why we are here is to complete that journey
• Her reason for homeschooling: To not have to stick to a schedule so that we can travel
• Our brain needs to be constantly learning in order to maintain our brain health
• Our natural curiosity become undermined as we enter the school system
• If we keep that curiosity going throughout life, we will be more confident
• Don’t look to someone else to give you your meaning
• Homeschooling is like a mirror being held up to you
• You have to trust yourself
• My biggest mistake was trying to recreate school at home
• Letting your kids know that you don’t know everything
• To have confident learners are a reflection between positive self-beliefs, motivation, and autonomy 
• We are expecting our kids to be very independent right now, and many have never had the chance to. So we need to give them, and us parents, some grace, to be more independent
• Homeschooling also involves learning lifeskills.

Resources:

• Learn more: http://imhomeschooling.com/
• Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/honeyimhomeschoolingthekids/
• Podcast: Honey I’m Homeschooling the Kids

Public shoutouts:

• John Holt, The Foundations Unschooling
• Project-based learning, Book
• Halifax Independent School
• Erika Christakis: The Importance of Being Little
• Julie Bogart: The Brave Learner
• Ivan Illish: The Deschooling Society
• Peter Gray: Free to Learn

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Renée Warren is an award-winning entrepreneur, a 7-figure business starter, and the founder of We Wild Women, a business dedicated to helping women launch their dream business. She previously founded an industry-recognized PR agency that worked with funded technology startups from South Africa to San Diego.

She's a mom to Irish Twins (not planned), a published author, and a drummer.

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