The Luminous Mind Podcast | A show about you becoming your best self through unconventional thinking

In this episode, we chat with Kristen about some childhood experiences of worldschooling with her family and how these actions forever changed her paradigm on education and learning. She discusses how she continues to learn through travel, art, and food.

Kristin Fogarty-Yi is a residential architect in Chicago, IL.   She loves learning about the world through travel, art and food.  As a kid, Kristin's parents decided to take her and her older sister out of the typical American life and live on a sailboat in the Caribbean.  Through this experience Kristin learned that you do not need a traditional education to become educated and carries this into her design work.

Show Notes for Episode 215

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In this episode, we tackle a discussion on "mommy anger" with author Amber Lia, co-author of two books - Triggers: Exchanging Parents' Angry Reactions for Gentle Biblical Responses and Parenting Scripts: When What You're Saying Isn't Working, Say Something New.

We discuss gentle parenting with biblical responses, how to reduce power struggles with children, and methods to change the parenting paradigms. Stop repeating daily frustrations by thinking and acting differently with children. These methods not only help us have more harmonious home-lives but help make us better parents and people. 

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We can't think of a better way to begin the new year of 2018 than to share this thought provoking conversation with educator and creativity curator, Matt Murrie! He helps change our paradigm by giving us the courage to think about the possibilities in challenging our assumptions with one simple question, "What if?"  

Matt Murrie is the Chief Curiosity Curator of What If…?360, and author of The Book of What If...?. As designer of the What If...?360 Curiosity Based Learning & Innovation Process, Matt facilitates experiences that connect curiosity with actions that lead to innovation...

Show Notes for Episode 213

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The MOST downloaded Episode of 2017 was with Peter Gray, a research professor of psychology at Boston College. In this episode, Peter Gray gives a short yet powerful summary of his book, "Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life." We talk about how important "free play" is to children in learning, healthy social growth, and gaining self-reliance.

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Show notes for Episode 173

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The 2nd most downloaded Episode for 2017 was with Carlo Ricci, who researches Free-Willed Education. In this episode with Carlo Ricci, we get an overview of a number of books he has written, edited and/or been a contributor. Carlo's research interests include Unschooling; Homeschooling; Holistic Education; Self-determined Learning; Free Schools; Democratic Schools; Online Learning; Technology and Learning; Play; Natural Learning; Curiosity; Willed Learning; the Willed Curriculum; Critical Pedagogy; and Healthy Living. We also discuss the definition of many of these learning modalities during our conversation.

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The 3rd most downloaded Episode of 2017 was with Durenda Wilson, author of The Unhurried Homeschooler: A Simple, Mercifully Short Book on Homeschooling. In this episode we chat with Durenda Wilson and have a great discussion on how to better enjoy the process of home education by slowing down, keeping things simple and changing our expectations. In our world of hurry and comparison, this is a hopeful message on how to make homeschooling more fun by instilling some "out-of-the-box" thinking.

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Show notes for Episode 189 

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This closes out our 2017 podcast with some final thoughts on "Lessons Learned" through our Audioblog - The Spark, done with host, Rebecca Bohman

With the dawning of a new era in our life as our oldest child graduated school and has left to be a volunteer in Russia, this podcast is some reminiscing and talking about what I would do differently as a mother, and his educator, of things I would have done more or the things I’m glad that we did through the passed 18+years. I answer a listener's question on essentialism in homeschool with my own ideas on the most important things for me.

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In this episode, we discuss the hardest homeschooling subject, Math! Heather Linchenko, creator of innovative methods of teaching math called MathHacked, discusses what she learned teaching her own children and how her paradigm changed as she used different methods in parenting, learning, and personal growth.

Through much trial and error, Heather Linchenko, picked up some unique philosophies about education (and parenting) along the way, that she found to be very effective, and much easier on both teacher and student. These new ideas, along with lots of experimenting--and some mind-blowing success in the classroom--led to the creation of a system for teaching multiplication (before addition, ideally) that we call MathHacked. She hopes it will become a factor in shifting current educational paradigms as she sees a new day in education dawning and is excited to be a part of it!

Show Notes for Episode 211 

On this episode, we meet an old friend of ours a life and business coach, Shelly Yorgesen, who teaches the Art & the Science of Empowering Women to Win Daily and live with Peace & Confidence...and now YOU are part of us! 

Shelly is married to Bret Yorgesen and they are the proud parents of 5, as well as a new grandma of little Liza Pearl 

She is the owner of 3 companies, How Women Win is her 3rd. 

Her motto of
"I only do what I love and if I l don't love it..."...and the rest of that you will 
learn about in today's podcast. 

Shelly has figured out the recipe of doing what she loves in life, and How Women Win teaches that to ladies all over the world. 

Show notes for Episode 210

In this episode, Katherine Ludwig, talks about how to stay relevant in the age of smart machines and how we need to change our learning methods so we can create processes that will flow with our unique times. We discuss terms like the "old smart" and how the "new smart" is different but provides learners the ability to be life-long, more emotionally-mature, skilled students.

 Katherine Ludwig is a Research, Editing, and Publishing Associate at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a former lawyer. She is co-author with Darden professor Ed Hess of Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age

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