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we take you behind the scenes.

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This is a look at the making

of our journey to 100 podcast

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episodes of homeschool money.

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Intro: A fast growing number

of parents are starting their

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homeschooling journey while others

have been homeschooling for years.

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All of these parents are asking one big

question, how can I afford to homeschool?

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We are here to answer that

important question once and for all.

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Hi, I'm Crystal Obby.

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And I'm Anthony Obby.

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We've been homeschooling our five

kids for 13 years and we funded it.

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Through our online consulting business

that we've been running for over 17

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years now, we're combining Crystal's

financial coaching expertise with my

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digital marketing background where I help

entrepreneurs launch and sell online.

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We're here to help fellow homeschooling

parents self-fund their homeschool

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journey and create lifestyle businesses.

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For financial freedom without a nine to

five job, are you ready to start living

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life on your own terms and make your

homeschooling experience a lot more fun?

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Well then sit back, crank up

the volume, and enjoy this

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episode of Homeschool Money.

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welcome, welcome, welcome.

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Anthony Obie here.

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Crystal Obie here.

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We're so glad that you have joined

us for this making of episodes.

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This is a behind the scenes

look of what's happened so far.

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After 10 episodes making homeschool money.

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We want to take you behind the scenes

and let you be a part of this journey.

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One of the things that we talk

about and one of the steps in

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our whole homeschool money.

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System is business building, and so

why not let you see behind the scenes

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as we build this podcast, we want you

to be a part of that, and hopefully

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that will encourage you of the, the,

the good, bad, the ugly, the nitty

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gritty of what it takes and what it

will take for you to build your thing.

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And as you are maybe currently building

your thing, we hope that this encourages.

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You that you know you're not isolated.

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You're not alone.

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Every single one of us have a lot that

we have to deal with, a lot that we have

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to juggle and, and all the cro crocodiles

that we have to wrestle in order to reach

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the goal that we're trying to reach.

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And so we wanna just make you a part of

our journey in building this podcast.

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Yeah, this has been such an exciting

journey so far, and we've had.

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The idea to do this podcast and just

get this message out here for so

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long, it's like, wow, we've done a

whole lot to get to these 10 episodes.

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It doesn't seem like it's

just been 10 episodes.

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And then we spend so much time

thinking about what we're gonna

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say and what you guys need to

hear, and so we just were thinking.

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Why don't we bring everybody along

with us so that we can just keep making

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sure that everybody gets what they

need and then we can also be able to

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celebrate together because we know

we're gonna get to a hundred episodes.

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And so this has been an exciting

journey so far, and I just think

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this is probably gonna be one of

my favorite parts of the show.

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And just, I like.

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Being able to go back

and hear ourselves later.

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Mm-hmm.

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Whenever we like read episode

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60 and 70 and just hear what

were we dealing with then?

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And just how the show kind of changes.

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So I'm excited to see what unfolds myself.

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Yeah.

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Well thank you so much for introducing

this content idea for the podcast.

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But it is, this is gonna like.

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Unofficially be the actual place

where we sort of document our own

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process and sort of create, have a,

a, a diary of our own experience going

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from zero to 10 and then from 10 to 20

episodes and beyond, all the way to.

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The goal of a hundred episodes and that's

interesting because I'm not the type of

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person that likes to document and write

in diaries in front of people, so, right.

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This is literally the first

time I've ever done this before.

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Right.

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So this is gonna be exciting.

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Well, I guess that just goes to show how

much you love the homeschooling community.

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Fellow moms and dads out there

doing the thing, and also how much

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you love podcasting and this whole

experience of just sharing your

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heart, sharing your soul, sharing

your mind, and your passion for

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homeschooling and making it affordable.

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I think for parents, I mean, it really

goes to show your passion for it all.

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Yeah, I think that.

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We have looked at what could be the most

helpful thing, and definitely coming

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along on the journey and hearing the

episodes, and then hearing all 10 of the

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recap episodes when we get to a hundred.

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I think when someone comes along

and hears those, it's just gonna be.

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Even more helpful.

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And so we are trying to be the place

where everyone can come and learn

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that they can have all the money

they need to homeschool their kids.

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And so even seeing how this show

is built could be helpful to

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whatever someone is building.

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So the first thing that we wanna

talk about is interesting facts.

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We just wanna talk about

the, the top three.

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Most listened to episodes and maybe just

why we think they resonated so much.

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We're gonna start off with number

three and then count down to one.

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We're gonna go pretty quickly, so, but

before we do that, I wanted to talk

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about how when we were preparing for

this episode, our son was in here in

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our office and he was asking what I

was working on and what we were talking

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about, and I was telling him how we

want to do a recap for the podcast.

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And I told him, so this is our firstborn,

our 14-year-old, our first, yeah.

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I was like, well, you know, we

had a podcast before for business,

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and the number one podcast on

that was the one about parenting.

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Now, this was a business podcast

because we're specifically talking

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about marketing and leads and funnels

and just, just straight marketing.

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But we did a podcast about parenting

and that, I mean, it was like the

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numbers were just like skyrocketed.

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Yeah.

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And the second most popular one.

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Was specifically about copywriting.

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Yeah.

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And so it was like all the numbers

and everything were at a certain

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level and then the parenting one.

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So it was like, okay, people really

wanna learn about, they, people

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want their copy to be good and they

also wanted to grow their business.

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But there's a lot of, there's some

parents out here who are really

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wanting to hear what we have to say.

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And that was one of the

things that helped us.

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Be able to understand that

we really do need to hone in

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on helping this demographic.

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And he was like, well, yeah,

of course they need some help.

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He was like, they have you as a

parent, you have no instructions.

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Mm-hmm.

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You get no returns, you can't

send the kid back, and you're

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just surviving off of tips.

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Right.

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There's really no guidance.

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Right.

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He is like, you guys went to the hospital

and had steak and lobster at the hospital.

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Right.

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All happy and excited.

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We came home and it's like, you

gotta keep this human alive, right?

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And he's like, because we were talking

about how we don't, we're not really good

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at keeping plants alive and everything.

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And he is like, you can't have

a green thumb in parenting.

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You don't get a second chance.

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You just have to.

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Make it happen.

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Right.

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And so he's like, with a child, you, you,

you need, they like with a plant, they

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need some need sun, some don't need sun.

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Right.

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Some need more water,

some need less water.

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But with a kid you don't

get any second chances.

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Right.

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So he is like, of course

parents want some help.

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Yeah.

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And he is like, I'm just an observer.

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But it seems to me as you know, a

14-year-old, like, you need to know

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how to parent the kid and keep him

alive and then, you know, need to

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know how to provide, and he was like.

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You guys help with both of those things.

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So of course that's the top thing, right?

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So I was like, well, you know what?

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I, this is fun.

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Yeah, this is gonna be awesome.

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And so I thought that was really, I

told him, I said, Hey, I'm gonna share

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that on the podcast and let people

know that even our own child said that.

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This is gonna be an important

topic to keep talking about

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providing for this family, right?

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And parenting these kids.

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So that's just, that's the

best reinforcement right there.

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co-op, or anyone who needs it.

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Now, back to the show.

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That boy never ceases to amaze me with

his insights and his his reasoning

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and his perception of things.

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I just love his commentary.

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We love him.

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Okay.

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That's just me dotting father.

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So the number three most listened to

episode is back to School Balance,

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homeschooling Tips for Working Parents.

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the number two most listened to

episode is top five core beliefs that

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Fuel our passion for homeschooling.

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I'm really glad that a lot of people

have enjoyed that episode so far because

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that was important to us to just kind

of put that out there and just share.

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Our values and the type of people we are,

because it really does govern just the

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fact that we're doing this show taking

the time and energy to do this, this show.

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And it really has governed the way that

we've made decisions and in, in business

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choice what we choose to do for a living.

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And how we are raising our kids and our

choice to homeschool and everything.

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And so apparently there's other folks,

a a lot of other folks out there.

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And so apparently people like that

episode and I'm really glad that

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that, that they found that one.

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And typically most of the clients that we

work with, they're typically very values

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driven or have some kind of big mission

we work with really values conscious

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people who are really just passionate.

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Right.

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And so we are very passionate people.

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We're like the type of people that

are all in on things that we going on.

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So that was really

interesting just to see.

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And then the number one episode

was building the family.

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I never had why I chose

five kids in Homeschooling.

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Which was your origin story.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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That was like a big surprise to me

because, you know, like I, I, I shared.

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A lot, you know, I was wide open and

I just, I, yeah, I just, I shared a

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lot, you know, I was very authentic.

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You're very authentic.

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In a good story about that,

that should be documented is we

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were both supposed to create.

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You know, like shorter episodes.

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Yeah.

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And then you just have more to

say and we're like, we're just

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gonna leave the thing there.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, and so yours.

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So I'm like, well, hold on.

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People are gonna think I

didn't have anything to say.

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Right.

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I just followed the instructions.

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Right, right.

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Me, Mr.

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Long-winded.

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Well, I mean, I guess my, my excuse

is that I'm a copywriter for a living.

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I also come from a lineage of baptist

preachers, so I cannot help but go along.

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Yeah, that was my fault.

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That was my fault.

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I think it was gonna be anything less

than an hour, but we were trying to

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like, you know, have, you know, goals

and things and lower expectations,

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and so I thought it was worth keeping.

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And so hopefully if anybody.

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Listens to that episode and just sees

how you shared your heart and everything.

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They really got something out of that.

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But that, right now,

that's at the 10th episode.

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That is, and the numbers are very clear.

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Yeah, it's very clear.

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We're not sharing the exact, but it's,

it is very clear that these top three.

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Are the, the most popular ones.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So in preparing for this episode and

before we got to the to the room where

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we are recording this episode, we had

some of, some leftover birthday cake.

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Our son, our firstborn just

turned 14 years old and had

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some leftover birthday cake.

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We were hours away from our lunch.

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We went out, both of us went out

separately for a run, and I said.

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Hey, can I, do you wanna

have a protein shake?

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Right?

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And you said, Hey, I'll

make our protein shakes.

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And then you said, hold on.

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Guess what?

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We have CAKE.

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Yeah, because you didn't wanna

say it in front of the kids.

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Yeah.

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And then you were like,

let's have the cake.

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Let's have the cake.

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I was like, but I need my

nutrients and my protein.

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And you was like.

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Well, we're gonna, we are not

gonna always have this cake.

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Exactly.

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Protein.

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That's every day.

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We gonna have this cake tonight.

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Tonight.

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And so we decided to we have

the cake 'cause we're still a

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couple of hours away from dinner.

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And having five kids, we, we, we've

experienced this before and we're back at

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the same place again with a 2-year-old.

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He's our last.

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Of the five we're not

having anymore, God willing.

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And and he wanted, and

he's gonna want some too.

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So we have finally started giving

him a very thin slice of the CAKE

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because we don't give any of our

kids added sugar until they're two.

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And since.

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Has stolen sugar from the other kids.

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Right.

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And waited to start giving him anything.

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So he had his first piece

of actual cake this weekend.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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And so we, we, we gave him that and

then we were, you know, getting ready to

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come up upstairs so that we can record.

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And then we were like, oh my goodness,

we just gave that wild little

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rambunctious little boy 2-year-old.

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Cake when so he is gonna be

loaded up on sugar, right.

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Whenever we're about to go record.

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And the number one challenge to our

recording is the, the 2-year-old.

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The 2-year-old.

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Oh my goodness.

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I feel like whenever we did our podcast

years ago, before we had our number three

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baby who was around the same age, it feels

like, or maybe I was our number four.

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Number four, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Number four was around the same age.

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And man, it was a challenge with him.

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And now we've got our last

born and he's at the same age.

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Don't care about nothing.

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Into everything.

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He'll scream at the drop

of a dime having fun.

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And him and our 6-year-old boy,

they're like besties, you know?

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Last born two boys.

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So they just run in circles all around

the downstairs and into every room.

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And plus our 2-year-old, he's kinda

like we, I, I call him a shark

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'cause he's like always on the move.

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It's like he.

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Goes from room to room to room.

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He'll play downstairs with the

other, for others for a little bit.

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But if I'm working up here, if you're

in in another room doing something,

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he's always gonna come upstairs every

10 minutes and we can hear him stomping

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up the stairs slowly, one at a time.

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Come to check the doors

just to see what's going on.

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Just check you out and and then

he'll go going back downstairs.

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But yeah, it was a challenge,

but we're getting through it.

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So, so far so good with this episode.

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So one of the lessons that we've

learned about podcasting in the.

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First 10 episodes is that we actually,

we just really love podcasting.

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We love being able to share with people.

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We love preparing episodes.

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This is something that we like to do.

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Yeah.

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So this is not work for us.

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This is actually a very efficient way for

us to help a lot of people, and we love

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doing it, so we're not going anywhere.

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That's right.

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And in the making, one funny

thing is that in the making of.

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Our commercials we wanted

to involve our kids.

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And see one thing is, is we don't put our

kids on social media and things a lot.

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Right.

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So that's a big thing.

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And so we only post a little bit

like for family to see that, hey,

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we had a kid and things, but we are

not on there a lot with our kids.

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Exactly.

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But they wanted to be involved and

it was like, okay, we're audio, so

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yeah, we can include them on this.

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And so yeah, we wouldn't be doing,

you know, the FaceTime and all that

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stuff, but it's just the audio.

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And so our.

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Our number, number four, our 6-year-old.

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He's right at that age where

he's lost his two front teeth.

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So I wrote out the script of what

he needed to say, and it was just

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funny because I had to completely

change that script because, well,

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he lost his two front teeth.

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He was not able to say his

S'S really well at all.

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So I had to adjust the the commercial bit.

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So if you listen to our outro.

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You'll hear the, the number fourth person

on there, our little 6-year-old boy that's

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the adjusted script that we have for him

because he's missing his two front teeth.

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I don't think people, how, I don't think

we've ever chaired in any of the other

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episodes that the ending of our episodes.

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Are all five of our kids.

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Yeah.

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So, so you have, you know, 14-year-old,

you have an 11-year-old, a 9-year-old,

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a 6-year-old, and a 2-year-old Yes.

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All in that audio.

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So that's like my favorite.

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I I, oh, I absolutely, I

I love listening to that.

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I love listening to it too,

because they're little voices.

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Yeah.

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They're little voices.

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If you enjoyed today's episode,

I just absolutely love it.

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I just geek out every time I, every time

I hear it, and then the last one ends

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off with our little baby saying bye.

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It's, it's, it's really cute to us.

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That's been hope you enjoy.

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It's really fun.

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Yeah.

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I hope that's been really fun doing this

because like all the music we share, you

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know, they, you took time with the kids,

they all helped pick out the music and.

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You know, putting it all

together as a family.

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And so it's been super fun

just getting to this point.

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Right.

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It's all like a family affair.

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Yeah.

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One thing that was, I guess maybe, well,

maybe a little bit unexpected is the

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fact that we have to turn off the AC

because it's, we're right where it's

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in our attic and we're in our upstairs

office area is like right below it.

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So it's a little bit louder

in this room in particular.

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So we always have to turn it off

whenever we're getting ready to film.

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So it gets kind of warm.

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It gets warm.

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But the thing that happened this summer

while we were filming the, the first

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episodes was the air conditioner went out.

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Yes.

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And it was like it went out.

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And luckily we have two air conditioners,

so we all went downstairs 'cause

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it always went out on a Friday.

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Yeah.

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So it was like, hair guy

can't get here till Monday.

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And so whenever we'd be trying to

record on the weekend or something.

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Then, you know, we're all downstairs

where it's nice and cool and then they

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come back and it was one more thing.

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So it'd be like, this broke this time.

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And it was like, it came

back like three times.

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But they, it always happened

when we were about to record.

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Yeah.

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And it was like, there's something

going on with this thing.

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It doesn't want us to record.

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Right, right.

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And so that was like a big thing that.

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You know, kind of, it,

it was not a big deal.

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'cause we were thankful that we

have a zoned thing in our house.

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Right.

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So we didn't go without air.

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But here in Dallas it was hot.

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Yeah.

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And so when you're trying to be

in your office and work and you're

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sweating and everything, just know

that we put our blood, sweat, and

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tears into this podcast, you know?

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That's right.

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That's, that's right.

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That's right.

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One of the, the technical things is that

I, in, in recording, I do our production

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for the podcast and the editing.

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And I put together all of the commercials,

the, the mixing of the music with the

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cuts of audio and all of that stuff.

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And so, you know, coming into podcasting,

we got the equipment that was most

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recommended, but now I realize that

there's re most recommended in general.

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And then there is, after you attended

a podcast conference, we realized

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that, oh my gosh, there's like a whole.

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Other like high level, pro

professional level of podcasting

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equipment that is recommended out

there that you don't see in Best Buy?

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Yeah.

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Right.

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No.

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No.

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And then like I come in one day.

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And you're like, looking at this magazine,

and I'm like, what are you doing?

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And you, you've created

a whole shopping list.

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Yes.

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And I'm like, we gotta get past

few more episodes before we

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invest anymore Right into this.

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It's so fun.

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There's like never ending levels of

what you can invest into a podcast.

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So we're gonna do the best

with what we have right now.

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That's right.

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And continue upleveling.

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Bringing our best to every day.

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But that's super fun.

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Yeah, that is.

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And one of the things we notice is that,

you know whenever I go to add the sound

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studio sound in the software that we

use for, you know, hopefully improving

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the polish, is that it can sometimes you

know, glitch a little bit or, or cut a

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little bit of our laughter that we have.

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Or sometimes if there's two voices

talking at once, it will slightly.

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You know fade out a voice

or something like that.

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And so that's something

that we are bearing with.

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We hope that you bear

with us through that.

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We will upgrade.

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And, we've got podcast goals now, and I,

and you're being really nice about it.

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'cause you know, you're the.

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The one who does it.

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So you really take it seriously.

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Yeah.

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And I'm like, Hey, let's

just get this stuff done.

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So you do a really good job

of staying on top of that and

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it's gonna, Hey, buy a hundred

episodes, it's gonna be perfection.

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That's right.

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It's gonna be ultimate perfection.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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And so, and so the next thing we'll talk

about just to time invested into putting

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this together, there's research time,

there is recording time, and then there's,

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it's like since we're married mm-hmm.

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I mean, we are talking about this,

you know, in the bed, in at lunch.

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Mm-hmm.

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You know, in the car.

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It's like.

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Doing a podcast kind of consumes your

thoughts and everything and whenever

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you're really passionate about it.

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So the time we put into this, we

were talking, you know, all of our

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certifications, all of our experience,

all of our years of marriage,

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years of parenting, our homeschool

experience, plus us being personally.

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Like we are this demographic

of right know, we do homeschool

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and pay for our homeschooling.

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Right?

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And so all that is all part of us

preparing for this podcast because now

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we're trying to just, you know, narrow

it down to what we can say in about,

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you know, 20 or 30 minutes or something.

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But it's a lot of time going

into just all of that plus the

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preparation of the episodes.

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Yeah.

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And so.

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We are working on making sure

that we work effectively.

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'cause one thing we have made a

value is that we are both trying to

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be on as many episodes as possible.

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Yeah.

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So it, we could go, we could have

so many more podcasts done if you

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would just pop out podcasts and if

I would just pop out some podcasts.

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But we literally make sure that

we come together and we also make

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sure that we have handled any

conflicts or just whatever, like

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when we show up on the microphone.

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We are good.

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Mm-hmm.

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And we are happy and we are on one accord

about whatever we're talking about.

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And you know, if you're married

out there, that takes work itself.

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It takes a lot of work.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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And so whatever has gone on in the day,

all that stuff has been dealt with.

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And so just getting to the microphone

and being able to record and having

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things to say that is an investment.

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3 Comm: Hey, I hope

you're enjoying the show.

509

We'll get right back to the

discussion, but I do want to talk

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high level with you real quick.

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Yeah.

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So this is a living, breathing thing.

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You know?

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We are, we're constantly making

adjustments, real time and

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thinking about praying about.

581

Considering, you know, what is the best

presentation for you and trying to meet

582

you where you may be in your journey.

583

And so, for instance, we had an

episode that we planned on doing

584

together to just sort of share

something about us and our backgrounds.

585

And we planned on doing it together.

586

But, you know, when we actually laid

out what I wanted to share about my

587

background and when you shared, laid out

what you wanted to share, we, we realized.

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We can't do it together, we have to do 'em

separately because there's a lot in your

589

story that brought you to the decision.

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The decision of wanting to podcast

and, and do homeschool money.

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And there was a lot that brought me to

the place where I went to homeschool and

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wanting to do homeschool money as well.

593

And so that's how he made

those two separate episodes.

594

Yeah.

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'cause that was as, that was already

listed as being a just combined episode.

596

Yeah.

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Joint episode.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And then.

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It's, I think it ended up being a

really great decision because as you

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can see, your story is the top episode.

603

Yeah.

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And so had we emerged them together,

it probably wouldn't have been

605

as impactful because we'd have

to skip over so many things.

606

'cause who wants to sit here and

listen for two hours to us, you know?

607

Yeah.

608

And so by.

609

Both of us being able to speak

individually, we were able to go

610

deeper into our own core backgrounds.

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Yeah.

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And then we still have some more episodes

that'll be coming up, because that

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only got us both to like 18 years old.

614

Yeah.

615

You know, we've been together 25 years.

616

Yeah.

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So we still need to do the,

the episodes on after that.

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And then we have, you know, we've

been homeschooling for, you know,

619

over a decade, so going on, you

know, 15, 14, 15 years or whatever.

620

Yeah.

621

Yeah.

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14 years.

623

So, that ended up being a really

good decision to make that change.

624

Yeah.

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One of the ways thinking about how

podcasting has impacted us one of the

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ways that it is impacted us that, that

I, I see is that, you know, we have.

627

Opened this up and made

it a whole family process.

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Right.

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We have have involved our kids pretty

much at every step of the process, and

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that's what homeschoolers like to do.

631

Like, we like to live a

integrated lifestyle, right?

632

We like to, when we're cooking in the

kitchen, we like to involve our kids

633

to teach them how to cook and so.

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I can tell my, my, my first born

boy when he was 13 years old, and

635

now our 11-year-old girl knows how

to do the same thing if I tell them

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to go ahead and make spaghetti.

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They know how to make it and it's

not just average Joe spaghetti.

638

It's pretty good stuff, and they know how

to do it all themselves at this point.

639

Make a pot of rice.

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They know how to do it all

themselves at, at this point.

641

If I tell 'em to bake some chicken

that comes out tasting like good

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rotisserie chicken, they know how

to do it all themselves right now.

643

So they actually know how to make meals.

644

Hot meals for themselves right now.

645

And a lot of kids just, I mean,

when I was coming up, kids wouldn't

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learn that kind of stuff, you know?

647

In large part.

648

And and so we, we've made our kids a part

of this process picking out music for

649

our commercials, and looking at these

software that we use to edit the podcast

650

episodes, they even voted on the pictures

that we used for Arthur, our Thumb.

651

That's right, that's right.

652

Yeah.

653

And then also the.

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Just the filming of the

commercials and everything.

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That was a fun process.

656

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

657

Yeah.

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So we've involved them a lot and, and, and

used, used this as a teaching opportunity

659

because our kids want to go into this

field, and so we want this to be a

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family process and a learning opportunity

for them because it may be a big part.

661

Are a significant part of

something they do in the future.

662

And it also helped us really

realize the, and just appreciate

663

the journey that we've been on.

664

I mean, there's a lot of work that goes

into being able to live an integrated life

665

and being able to fund it all and being

able to you know, put together all the

666

pieces that we've had to put together.

667

Because when we're sitting here trying

to express it all, it's like, we can

668

only say that on this episode because

it goes into so many other areas.

669

And so we, trying to break

everything down has showed us.

670

How many different modalities we've

had to master in order just to get here

671

while also going through lots of things,

just of being together for 25 years.

672

All the things that happened in the

course of multiple decades, you know, in

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the world and just in our families and

just personally, I mean, just staying in,

674

in the fight and being able to be here.

675

That is a big deal.

676

And so whenever we're trying to

share it with other people, it

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lets you see, wow, we've really.

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Put in a lot here.

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And so being able to impact others'

lives, we really want people to know

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that it takes a lot, but it is doable

and it can be amazing and everybody's

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gonna be doing better because this

is an amazing time to homeschool.

682

And I'm so glad that we get a chance to be

here right now to be able to help people.

683

And this podcast with

these first 10 episodes.

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I'm very happy about them and

I'm so looking forward because

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I know what we have coming up.

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I'm so looking forward to those too.

687

That's right.

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And so as we look ahead for the upcoming

episodes on this journey to a hundred

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podcast episodes, we really would

love and appreciate your involvement.

690

What pressing questions do you have

concerning money for homeschooling?

691

Maybe it's a question regarding.

692

Your personal finances or a budgeting

question, or an insurance question,

693

or maybe it's a question of your, the

business that you've been thinking of

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starting or planning on, or, or the

bus business that you're currently

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in and you have questions about

growing it and scaling it in the

696

midst of homeschooling your kids.

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Whatever that question

may be, share with us.

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You could drop.

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Align or, or put a question

in the reviews section.

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You can visit us@homeschoolmoney.com.

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You can email us and we would love

to hear from you and just make

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you a part of the actual show.

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We look forward to your input

and your, your friendship.

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And also we just ask that you

would share this podcast with your

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friends and family and leave us

a five star rating and review.

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That really does help the show.

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Get out to more people.

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Yeah, I really wanna just

express that I'm so grateful for

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everyone that has encouraged us.

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I mean, everywhere we have gone and talked

about the podcast and I mean, we have

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some really great interviews coming up

and some really great content coming up.

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It's just been well received and so

encouraging and it's been nothing but a

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positive experience and just seeing how

this is a huge topic and we have so many

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things that we wanna share, and so based

on how people respond and what's going on.

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You know, one topic could get moved

up based on if you reach out and

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say something, and so we, we have a

plan of sharing things with you, but

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we definitely want you to know that

you can be a part of this show and

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we want to invite you to do that.

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That's right.

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Let's remember that together.

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We're building something

bigger than just a podcast.

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This is a movement and we're

so glad that you're with us.

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On this journey as we all make

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homeschool and parent our children well.

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