Realizing Genius Podcast

As parents, we all want our children to succeed in life, and one of the best ways to ensure their success is by teaching them the importance of financial literacy. Charla McKinley's approach is unique, engaging, and effective. I'm confident that after listening to this episode, you will be inspired to take action and equip your tween/teen with the essential skills they need to become successful adults. So sit back, relax, and join us as we delve into the world of financial literacy with Charla McKinley.

BIOGRAPHY

Charla McKinley graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in Finance. She went on to become a Certified Public Accountant with over 25 years working in both the corporate and private sectors. While homeschooling her two children, Charla was inspired to write an interactive personal finance curriculum that opens the student's eyes to the high costs of being an adult. Charla’s passion is helping parents raise responsible and ready adults. She is a firm believer that in order to prepare kids for the road ahead, children must be given the reins and allowed to experience the good and bad consequences of their actions while they are still at home under the guidance of a loving family.

LINKS

Website: ArtisanofAdulting.com

Free list of Seven Things You Can Stop Doing for Your Tween/Teen

Project Based Learning is a term used in academia that we really need to learn more about in the homeschool community.  It is a wonderful way to make learning more engaging and fun!  Nancy Mikhail from Build-A-Project shares more about what project-based learning is and how to incorporate it into your homeschooling.  It is a great way to be more flexible working with several age ranges. Find out more in this podcast episode!

BIOGRAPHY

Nancy Mikhail is an Educational Consultant specializing in the creation and design of engaging pedagogy and active learning projects that excel beyond the requirements of California State Standards. Nancy earned her Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies and Multiple Subject Teaching Credential at the California State University at Long Beach and furthered her education by earning her Master’s of Science in Curriculum and Instruction from California State University at Fullerton. Her experience within the education system ranges from preschool to twelfth grade. However, Nancy’s skills go above and beyond the classroom. She has taken her passion for teaching and education into after-school programs, academic advising, and nonprofit organizations. She is an active participant and presenter in educational conferences and workshops. Her drive to progress and create a better educational system allows her to take the lead in building curriculum, especially within language strategies and guided reading. Literacy is a vital component of education, and Nancy’s desire to increase student learning is evident within her teaching and career.

LINKS

Website - www.buildaproject.net 

Check out MY podcast episode on Nancy's podcast - Homeschool Your Child with Ease - HERE

Want to learn more about Nancy's projects?  She offers a short sample HERE.

 

Nancy was one of the speakers at the 2023 Realizing Genius Conference.  Her presentation and many others are available in the Realizing Genius Connections Membership available HERE.  You can connect with experts who share their genius to make it easier to realize your child's genius and your own!

Cosimo Intermite from Genius in 21 Days grew up with dyslexia.  He was able to change a disability into a superpower by learning how his brain works.  With the methods he learned that helped him overcome dyslexia, he has dedicated his life to helping others unblock the genius in their lives through his Genius Course. Cosimo is amazing!  Enjoy!

 

BIOGRAPHY

Cosimo is a highly credentialed instructor of learning techniques. He has master-level certifications in the following fields: Mind Maps, Speed Reading, Micro-Facial Expressions, Team building, Public Speaking, Effective Communication, Goal Setting, Decision-Making, Personal Development, Time Management, and Memory Techniques.

Born and raised in Italy, he and his wife enjoy training people all over the world from their Denver office. They customize programs that are unique to each person’s learning style and brain development. Cosimo believes “Everyone loves to learn, but what they don’t like is the learning process,” so he bridges that gap by teaching people the best process for THEIR brain.

LINKS

Website - https://www.geniusin21daysusa.com/

Genius in 21 Days Book

Spanish in 30 Days Book

For a free consultation text "Realizing Genius" to 303-589-7430

Oh my gosh!  I love what Dianne Kelley shares in this episode! Her radical ideas about how to teach your kids mastery of subjects make total sense.  She also shares the history of educational standards and why they are a mirage.  You don't want to miss this episode!

Dianne Kelley's business, The Simple Scholar, is a place for parents and educators to find in-depth training at their own pace with workshops and courses to help you simplify and improve the home education process. No matter where your child is - ahead, behind, or average - everything you learn at The Simple Scholar will help you to help your child.

BIOGRAPHY

Dianne Kelley is known as the “unconventional speaker,” has authored eight homeschool programs and books, and has worked with thousands of homeschoolers and hundreds of homeschool group leaders for nearly 20 years. She has participated in many issues which affect the homeschool community as a whole. She is candid when talking about hot topics, overcoming roadblocks in homeschooling, and out-of-the-box techniques for teaching in more exciting ways.

While she serves families with children of all ages, Dianne particularly specializes in working with middle to high-school-level groups to help prepare for college entry and is familiar with the latest developments affecting future college students, including how to leverage early college. In 2004, she founded a national support organization, Home Education Council of America, where she led online seminars and webinars in a live, innovative setting for many years. Dianne now serves the homeschool community from her personal site, TheSimpleScholar.com

LINKS

The Simple Scholar Website

The Simple Scholar Facebook Page

 

Diane is a speaker at the Realizing Genius Conference.  Be sure to sign up to watch it FREE from February 23-27, 2023. Register HERE!

Language Arts can be a challenging subject to teach.  Too often, it is taught with the goal of checking off boxes and teaching terms and forms rather than with the goal of giving our kids a voice.  Kimberley Bredberg and Clare Bonn from Blackbird and Company have their priorities straight. Be sure to check out this episode to find out more!

BIOGRAPHIES

Kim Bredberg has been an advocate for reform in education for nearly three decades. She is a founding partner of Blackbird & Company Educational Press and author of Habits of Being: Artifacts from the Classroom Guild. Her writing and visual art students have won numerous awards and been recognized on the regional and national levels by the Scholastic Alliance for Arts & Writing. They have been published in international writing journals. Kim has been recognized nationally for her role as an arts and writing mentor. The California resident, mother of four, long ago received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara in biological psychology and fine art, graduate training in clinical art therapy from Loyola Marymount University, and received her Master of Fine Arts in writing from Antioch University.

Clare Bonn graduated from Cal State Long Beach with a BA in Sociology. She has worked for 22 years with school-age children in childcare, recreational classes, and classroom learning. She taught at Waterhouse Guild for 3 years utilizing Blackbird & Company materials. She believes every child’s voice should be heard, unique gifts valued, and learning differences embraced. Clare has three differently-abled children who all learned to tap into their giftedness through writing using Blackbird & Company curriculum. You can find Clare most of the time in her garden or reading a good book.

LINKS

Blackbird & Company Educational Press

Blog

Free Stuff

 

Clare & Kimberly are speakers at the Realizing Genius Online Conference.  Their presentation is on "Ideas are Genius."  SIGN UP HERE

In order to make our genius "real," we need to be able to communicate it to others.  Usually, this requires us to be able to speak and or write about it.  Kathy Mellor is all about communication.  In her business, Unleashing Your Voice, she helps parents and students communicate more effectively.  Kathy and I met through the Leadership Education Mentoring Institute; she was my mentor for years.  She is an amazing woman, and I'm so happy she shares her genius in this episode!

BIOGRAPHY

Kathy Mellor has been homeschooling since before it was cool. With six kids (ages 17 to 31), she’s dealt with everything from learning disabilities to disaffected teens, and she has mentored in her homeschool community for 25 years. Being the owner of Unleashing Your Voice! has allowed her the opportunity to teach public speaking and debate all over the country and mentor hundreds of parents in a seminar called Supercharge Your Mentor. Additionally, she has spent the last 15 years mentoring homeschooled youth and parents online. There is literally no problem or situation that hasn’t come up before.

LINKS

Website - https://unleashingyourvoice.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mentoringtheone

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/unleashingyourvoice/

Public Speaking Opportunities - Check your local Rotary, Optimist, and American Legion organizations

 

Kathy is a speaker at the Realizing Genius Online Conference.  Her presentation is on "Getting Out of the Public School Mentality"  SIGN UP HERE

Realizing the genius in our home can be challenging.  We tend to see the negative in ourselves, our spouse, and our kids much more easily than the positive.  In this week's episode, I talk with Kent and Amy Bowler about our challenges with realizing genius and its importance of it. 

BIOGRAPHY

Kent and Amy Bowler, parents of 7 and grandparents of 8, have been homeschooling for decades. They are passionate about helping youth recognize and stand in their greatness and have inspired the rising generation for over twenty years. They have also trained parents to be better mentors in their own homes for over ten years. Kent and Amy believe that our homes are worth fighting for and created Revolutionary Families to help parents win that fight and develop amazing youth who live as modern-day heroes.

LINKS

Email - [email protected]

Revolutionary Families Website

 

Kent and Amy are speakers at the 2023 Realizing Genius Conference.  Their presentation title is "From Oppressive Perfectionism to Peaceful Purpose in our Homes."  SIGN UP HERE

Too often in life, we get caught up in the things we have to check off.  The boxes we have to fill.  My chat with Carrie De Francisco, the host of the popular podcast "Coffee with Carrie Homeschool Help," was so much fun! We talked about the joy that can be had when we stop limiting ourselves, our kids, and our homeschool experience if we are willing to step outside the box society so often puts us in. We could have talked for hours!  Carrie is a fantastic woman with so much wisdom to share. I know you will really enjoy this episode!

BIOGRAPHY

Carrie De Francisco is the host of the popular podcast Coffee With Carrie Homeschool Help and the author of several books, including Just Breathe (and Take a Sip of Coffee): Homeschool in Step with God. Carrie believes if God is calling you to homeschool, you can do it! Through her consulting services, books, and podcast, she helps moms simplify their homeschooling one step at a time, one day at a time, and one cup of coffee at a time. After 20 years of homeschooling, Carrie appreciates the gift of laughter (and her quiet time with her Bible and her favorite cup of coffee). Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Carrie now lives and learns in Southern California with her husband, her two homeschool graduates, and their introverted dog. Connect with Carrie at coffeewithcarrie.org or on Instagram @coffeewithcarrieconsultant

LINKS

Coffee With Carrie offers homeschooling help, consulting services, online seminars, weekly podcasts, and special weekend events to support, encourage and edify moms who are educating their children at home.

CoffeeWithCarrie.org

Carrie is a speaker at this year's Homeschool Conference!  Be sure to register to watch her presentations on "Gameschooling: Put the FUN back into Learning the FUNdamentals" and "Homeschool Hindsight: No Regrets (... Well, Not Many)."

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Nate Noorlander, from the Nomadic Professor, joined me for this week's episode.  The Nomadic Professor is an online, non-partisan, high school history courses that teach students the core narrative and all of its accompanying skills: taking notes, making original judgments, reasoning with evidence, reading between the lines, following a rubric, writing a defensible argument, working with bias, and much, much more.

I love talking history, especially when we can go deeper and see the connections that can be found.  Nate didn't disappoint!  He has lived a fascinating life and has been a bit nomadic himself!  Be sure to listen where he and his family got caught during COVID!  I'm surprised he got out!

NATE'S BIOGRAPHY

In college I double-majored in philosophy and history teaching, then moved to Beijing, China, to teach IGCSE and A Level history at the Cambridge International Curriculum Center of Beijing Normal University. I also spent time touring in India and trekking in Nepal.

Worn out by the Beijing air I moved back to Utah with my family and taught English and history at Mountainville Academy, and then the American International School of Utah. At AISU I developed mini-courses in boredom and awareness, based on Heidegger’s ideas about technology, and Nicholas Carr’s ideas about what the internet does to our brains.

Worn out this time by life in the beautiful mountain west I returned to Beijing, where I taught IB history, IB English, and Theory of Knowledge at the Yew Chung International School of Beijing. When Covid-19 hit I was coaching the boys basketball team and gearing up for our end-of-season tournament in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The trip was canceled, my family just made it out of Beijing on a flight three times its usual cost, and I stuck it out in the shuttered city for another six weeks. When life didn’t change, I left too. Since then it’s been all history with the Nomadic Professor.

LINKS

The Nomadic Professor

FREE Lesson Download - Introduction to Rhetoric and Logic

 

Nate is a speaker at this year's Homeschool Conference!  Be sure to register to watch his presentation on "Bringing History to LIfe for the YouTube Generation!"

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A long-time homeschooler and homeschool advocate, Martin Forte is a wealth of information!  In this episode, we talk about how his family got started homeschooling, the benefits of homeschooling, and so much more!  His kids are adults now, but he and his wife have been helping others homeschool through their resource center and independent study program for many years.

BIOGRAPHY

Martin Forte and his wife Carolyn own and operate EIE Academy and Excellence In Education Resource Center in Monrovia, California. Martin and his wife successfully homeschooled their two daughters for 14 years. Both girls are college graduates and married with children. Martin has been a homeschool spokesman and advocate for more than 20 years, appearing on numerous radio and television programs and speaking at homeschool conventions, as well as one of the co-founders of the California Homeschool Network. He is also a certified Learning Style Coach with his wife, Carolyn.

BUSINESS

Excellence in Education - Complete homeschool resource center and bookstore plus independent study program.

Learning Styles Assessment link

 

Martin is a speaker at this year's Homeschool Conference!  Be sure to register to watch his presentations on Learning Styles!

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