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

Ashley Logsdon is a marriage and family coach, blogger, and authenticity enthusiast. She takes families from surviving to thriving by helping them uncover how the uniqueness in each of us strengthens all of us.  Using the profiles, step-by-step action plans and collaboration exercises, I work with mamas from the inside out so they can not only BE the good in the family, but they can SEE the good as well. To learn more about Ashley, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes: "Just understanding the way they tick helps me in determining how to motivate them."

This week's episode is with a frequented guest and homeschool advocate, Steven Howich. We mostly discuss his book, "The Homeschool Handbook" and preparing for the upcoming school year using questionnaires that help you discover what your children enjoy learning.
Steven has been a professional educator for over 40 years, he taught in the Master's Writer Program for the (University of Southern California) USC, for (Los Angeles Unified School District) LAUSD,  and in private schools for over 10 years. He then gave up on traditional education and homeschooled his two children.  Now as a homeschool advocate, he has authored STEPS: The Answer to the Problem of Education, which is a comprehensive homeschool curriculum for students ages 5-High School. To learn more about Steven go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes: "These kind of questionnaires become absolutely invaluable because they are telling you, YOUR KID IS TELLING you, "these are the subject I want to study." If you want them to love homeschooling, you will predominantly build their studies around the subjects they are telling you they want to know about."  

"Ideally we want our children to spend a their adult lives in activities and professions they LOVE, rather than their forced into because of  poor education that was TOO general." 

 Isaac Morehouse is an entrepreneur, thinker, and communicator dedicated to the relentless pursuit of freedom, and an advocate of self-directed learning and living. He is the founder and CEO of Praxis.

To learn more about Isaac, go to theluminousmind.net

Daniela Larsen is a mother, travelers, and humanitarian who is working to bring you the world's best mentors!

She homeschools her own children as well as manages a nonprofit, which works to provide people with skills. We discuss how she has managed to provide her own children amazing mentors and how she is harnessing that skill to create an online platform of the world's best mentors so families can access then from anywhere in the world. 

To learn more about Daniela Larsen, go to theluminousmind.net

Quotes: 

"It has been amazing how accessible some of the people that you would think are world renowned experts, in like paleontology, marine biology or Falconry, some of the interests that my kids have had. They are happy to talk to your kids and point them in the right direction."

"You just have to just keep getting up and homeschooling especially when your kids are little. It is hard but it is a lot of fun and the pay-offs are amazing."

"They (your children) can figure out how to get it and where to go to learn it, they can find their own mentors. Instead of thinking that I'm just going to sit here and the right thing will come along. It is something you have to go out and get."

“Join college dropout, Praxis marketing director, and entrepreneur Derek Magill for a discussion on applying entrepreneurial thinking and skills to professional life – especially the job hunt. He’ll be sharing what he’s learned from working with young professionals and entrepreneurs through the Praxis program and discussing ideas and advice in his new book “How To Get Any Job You Want.”

To learn more about Derek, go to theluminousmind.net

Diana Zaheer is an energy healer after decades of study and practice with gifted teachers from many different traditions around the world. She practices inviting true nature into her own life and surrendering to it and uses tools from many different teachings within the following fields: Spiritual traditions, energy work, body-mind trauma recovery, giftedness, conscious parenting, and Tibetan medicine. She has learned "the importance of being able to clearly talk with clients about the energy field and the healing process." 

She is a recommended veteran homeschooling mom suggested by Alex de Chamber (a past contributor recommended for her excellence in education) Although she didn't plan to homeschool, both of her kids wanted to homeschool for most of their educational careers.  Their wishes and choices fit naturally with her work and the way their family functions. They have homeschooled all over the world -- on a mountaintop in Nepal, in a desert community in Dubai, in a primitive Kazakh town and in vibrant cities in India.  Our homeschooling journey involves gifted learning and twice exceptional learning.”  To learn more about Diana, go to theluminousmind.net

Pat Keeney, is the Director of College and Career Planning is a career educator who has spent time in the classroom, consulting, launching a company, and with K12. Pat has also been a learning coach many years for his son, Patrick, and has seen the online experience from that perspective. Although he is presently a Product Manager, Pat served for almost 7 years as part of the K12 Product Development group where he was the lead instructional designer on many award-winning high school math and science courses, lead to conversion of 75 labs to virtual and video based labs, and helped in designing games like X-germz. Prior to his time with K12, Pat was a consultant at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and founded an online education company. His early career consisted of 17 years of working in classrooms in Maryland and Pennsylvania, teaching high school mathematics and science and establishing Advanced Placement programs in 3 school districts. To learn more about Pat, go to theluminousmind.net

Beside being a personal mentor for Rebecca, Mary Black is the founder and owner of Foundations of Liberty, a leadership training business which provides classes, retreats, and mentoring for those  ​who want better personal and group leadership skills. To learn about Mary, go to theluminousmind.net

BONNIE SLAUGHTER, NCTM  has been a piano teacher for over 40 years. She is a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music. She is member of the Idaho and Utah Music Teachers Associations. She has served as President of the Bridgerland and Ogden UMTA Chapters. She has also served on the Utah MTA State Board.  

 Bonnie is the director of the Oakwood Music Studio. She maintains a studio of about 100 students from newborn to adult. She has published 5 books, including music camps, she has also created Theory Strips, a series of music theory workbooks to help students better understand and apply theory, as well as recording a series of audio CD’s titled “Surviving the Music Lesson Rollercoaster” for Parents and music teachers, and “Thriving on the Music Lesson Rollercoaster” for music students. She is now offering classes and personal mentoring to parents and music teachers where they learn tools to empower, inspire and motivate their children and students. To learn more about Bonnie, go to http://www.theluminousmind.net/#!Episode-143-Bonnie-Slaughter-Helping-Others-Thrive-Through-the-Music-Lesson-Rollercoaster/cu6k/5744c20b0cf2eaf5a7d87cbd

Kerry Foreman is a Psychotherapist/Mindfulness Coach who is passionate about writing and speaking about our journey to mental health. She ditches the clinical speak, to talk about what it takes to be happy.  Kerry finds peace in hiking therapy. To learn more about Kerry, go to our website