Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a podcast specifically for work-from-home homeschool families while actually homeschooling and running a business?

In this special milestone episode, Crystal and Anthony Oby take you behind the scenes of Homeschool Money as they celebrate 20 episodes.

Discover what's been working, the challenges they've faced, and exciting developments coming to the show—including plans for video podcasting, an upcoming member community, and a roster of inspiring guests ready to share their homeschool income strategies.

🎧 Listen to discover the real story behind creating resources that serve busy homeschool parents who need flexible income solutions.

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In This Episode, You'll Discover:

1. Growth metrics and surprising listener trends (including who's listening at 3 AM!)
2. Why Anthony's origin story episode continues to be the most-listened-to content
3. The biggest challenge in co-hosting a podcast as busy homeschool parents
4. Exciting plans to transition to video podcasting and what that means for viewers
5. A sneak peek at the upcoming Homeschool Money member community launching soon
6. Insights from speaking at Pod Fest in Orlando and meeting homeschoolers nationwide
7. A year's worth of guest interviews already lined up with business owners and homeschool families
8. How their own homeschool journey continues to shape the content they create

Perfect for you if:

1. You've been following Homeschool Money and want to know what's coming next
2. You're curious about the realities of podcasting while homeschooling
3. You want to join a community of like-minded homeschool entrepreneurs
4. You're looking for accountability and support in building flexible income streams
5. You appreciate transparency from content creators who are living the lifestyle they teach
6. You're ready to be part of a movement toward self-funded homeschool lifestyles

Join Crystal and Anthony as they celebrate this milestone and share their vision for empowering 100 episodes' worth of homeschool families. This is more than a podcast—it's a movement, and they want you in it!

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Today we are celebrating 20

episodes of homeschool money.

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So we want to stop and

take you behind the scenes.

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We want to share what's been

working, what we've been up to, and

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we also want to share some things

that are coming up on the show

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that we know you are going to love.

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Let's get into it.

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A fast growing number of parents are

starting their homeschooling journey while

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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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Then sit back, crank up the volume, and

enjoy this episode of Homeschool Money.

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Hello everyone.

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Thank you so much for joining us for

this episode of Homeschool Money.

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I am your host, Anthony Oby.

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I'm Crystal Oby and we're gonna take

you now behind the scenes and share

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with you what we've been up to and we

have some exciting things to share.

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I love these kind of episodes.

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It gives us a chance to unwind and to.

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Get up close and personal with

you and share with you what

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we've been doing to produce this

show and what we have coming up.

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Yeah.

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One of my favorite things whenever

I listen to someone's show is

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just knowing how it is as they're

building what they're doing.

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And so we want to take you guys on that

journey with us to a hundred episodes

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to make sure that as we are actually

doing it, we capture it in real life

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because that makes it more interesting.

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Whenever you're able to capture

the real deal along the way and

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not just in a hundred episodes,

then we just summarize it, right?

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So whenever we take you on the

journey with us, it'll just be a

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lot more fun and it'll be really

interesting to look back together.

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That's right.

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So one of the things that we like to talk

about is some of our growth, the metrics

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and just things that we're looking at

to track what's going on with the show.

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And so with our downloads and

listeners and things like that.

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One thing we have noticed is that we have

a lot of people that listen to the show in

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the middle of the night, and so we think

that's really funny because we've been in

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the season of having young kids and I've

been like up nursing and things like that.

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So I imagine you may be listening to

this show and you may be up nursing

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or you may be up putting in some extra

work or something like that, and we

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just wanna let you know that we see you.

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And we are producing this show for all the

parents out there who are listening to the

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show when they're, at the gym or driving

to work, or even up in the middle of the

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night needing something to listen to while

they're trying to take care of that baby.

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So we just wanted to let

you know that we see you.

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And we also notice that a lot

of people are finding our show.

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Every time we put out a new episode.

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Like every new episode, we're

getting spikes in growth.

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And people are sharing the show and

talking about it, and we've even started

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meeting people and letting us know

that they've been listening to it.

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So yeah, that's been really exciting.

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Yeah.

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And one of the the things

that has been interesting of.

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Looking at our demographics so

far, we're excited to know that

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most of our listeners are coming

right here from the United States.

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And we have a good number of people

right here in Texas listening to the

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show and one of the top most listed

episodes that we reported last time was

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still your episode, Anthony, and that

is still holding true at this recap.

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What's what it looks like is that

people are loving whatever our

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latest episode is, of course.

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And so our growth is happening with each

episode we put out and then people are

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digging in and going and finding and

listening to your like origin story.

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That's interesting.

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So no matter how many episodes we put

out and how much we grow, they're still

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digging back and finding your story.

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So that's holding true and that's gonna be

interesting to see as we continue forward.

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I did just sit down to the, in

the recording studio and open up

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my veins and reveal all, that's

what I did on that episode.

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And if you want to come and hear Anthony

Bear all you will find it on that episode.

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Yeah.

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So many people are listening to it.

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I feel like I need to go back and listen

to it again and say, what was he doing?

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Is he giving like the cure for cancer

up in this episode or something?

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What's going on here?

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That's still holding true.

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And then also what we've learned about

podcasting is not only all the technical

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things and all the things that we have

to do to actually produce a podcast, but

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we've just learned how much we love it.

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Hey, real quick, if you're liking the

show, hit follow so you don't miss a

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single episode and drop a five star

rating and a review to let us know that

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you're loving the content and tell us

what topics you'd like us to cover.

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This will help more people find

the show, and please share this

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episode with a friend, your

co-op, or anyone who needs it.

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They'll be glad you did.

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Now, back to the show.

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Like every episode that we're putting

out is just growing our love for

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just the industry of podcasting and

the impact of podcasting and just

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the whole process of podcasting.

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So we are becoming more in

love with podcasting itself.

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As we continue down this process, so I

don't see us going anywhere anytime soon.

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Even our kids want a podcast now.

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Yeah.

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One of the things that we start off in

our relationship doing is writing a book.

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We wrote a, our first book while

we were still dating, and we

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wrote it when I was we when we

started that when I was in Atlanta.

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And you were in Indiana, right?

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Yeah.

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So we were.

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Yeah, we were in our teens.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Okay.

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So this is who we are.

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We are teachers at heart.

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And I'm just so thankful that this medium

of being able to reach and share with

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people and make an impact has become so

accessible at this particular time in

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history where we're ready to teach and.

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Not having any more babies and that

type of thing, and just have a little

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bit more margin to focus in on it.

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Yeah.

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We had a radio show, a Christian

radio show we did on the radio.

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Oh my goodness.

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Got a chance to do a little DJing.

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Yeah, that's, and then

remember we had our own radio.

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We were on a radio show, but we would

also have had our own radio show.

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That's right.

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And where we would get written letters

in about people listening to the show.

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And now we're.

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You said everything is just,

digital, which full circle.

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Yeah.

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So that has been really great to see.

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Yeah, of course we love podcasting.

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This is like being on radio and

having the impact like that,

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but so much more accessible.

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So yeah, definitely that.

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And then, so another thing is that

based on us doing the show, the hard,

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one of the hardest things for us has

been just getting us both together.

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Because the big value for our

show is that both of us are here.

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Now we can just.

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Record individually, and

both of us love to record.

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Both of us have a lot to say.

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We have lots of thoughts and lots

of information and wanna help.

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But a big thing on this show is

we do it together so that we get

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both of our perspectives and just

get a chance to have more of a

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full circle view on the financial

situation for homeschool families.

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Yeah.

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And what that means is not only

do we have to both individually

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be available and ready.

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We both have to have, be ready at the

same time, and then we have to have life

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worked out to be able to do that as well.

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So our biggest hindrance to

podcasting is the fact that we're

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trying to do it with two whole

people who are already super busy.

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And so That's right.

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That has been, I'd say the biggest thing.

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Yeah.

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One thing we are talking about

doing coming up is moving to video

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podcasting, and that's always

been something we wanted to do.

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Yes.

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But we started with audio so that we

could make it easier for ourselves.

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That's right.

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Just to be able to get the message going.

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Yes.

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On this show, this is the Homeschool

Money podcast and what we teach

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in our course and what we are

teaching homeschool families.

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Is you have to do things in a way

that is most streamlined for you.

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You have to do things in a way that

makes it doable for you for busy moms,

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especially if you're, wrangling the

kids and your homeschooling your kids.

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And you have a busy schedule.

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You have a very full plate.

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Obviously we see you because we are you.

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And it's been that way for us.

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And so we would rather get started

with audio only podcast than just

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not be able to get started at all.

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Because being video camera ready

all the time is an extra barrier.

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And when you produce video,

there is more it is more of a

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production a worker production.

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Within the timeframe that it would take

to do three podcasts, we can get out

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three podcasts for every single one

video that it would take us to produce.

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And so that's why we have

been audio up to this point.

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Now we do plan on going to video because

we want this this information that we have

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coming up in all this information really.

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But the information we have and the

content that we have coming up, we

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want to be accessible to everybody.

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And we want it to be

able to spread faster.

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And so we are going to be moving

to that format and do the work that

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we need to do to be able to do it.

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But we have been grateful to be able to

get started with audio only podcasting.

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But we would, we do have

plans on moving to video.

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Yep.

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So stay tuned.

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One of these updates will be

saying, Hey, we're on video now.

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That's right.

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We're on YouTube.

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Yeah, we're on all the places.

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All the places.

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Yeah.

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And so we also have a lot of great

guests coming up on the show.

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So there we have a whole list of people

who are ready to come on the show and set

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and say what they've been up to be able to

afford homeschooling, be able to help all,

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to help you know, what kind of businesses

are available, what kind of financial.

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Tips and methods are available.

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Home homeschool hacks and tips

and techniques are available.

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So a lot of families, business people just

lined up who want to come on the show.

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And so we're so excited because we're

just making so many new friends and so

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many new connections, and we are just have

this one place where you can just listen

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and learn and be encouraged in one spot.

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And so we have a year's worth

of content lined up already.

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To be able to share with all

the new people that are wanting

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to come on this platform.

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Hey, friend, quick break.

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If you're ready to fund your homeschool

without relying on a nine to five

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job, you have to check this out.

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We're giving you instant access to.

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a year to Fund Your Homeschool

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how to create consistent income.

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your kids and get the lifestyle freedom

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more time to invest into the people

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that matter the most, your children.

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This is the system that changed everything

for us, and it's changed everything

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for hundreds of other families too.

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Go to homeschool money.com

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to register and watch the free

class on demand and get our

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Don't wait.

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Your freedom starts right now.

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Yeah.

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And I love it.

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I love it because with some of the folks

that you have been sharing the stage

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with and a couple of speaking engagements

that you've taken just recently and

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some other connections that we've been

making it, really doing this podcast is

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really gonna give us an opportunity to.

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Present some business opportunities

that are ideal for our audience.

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Ideal for homeschooling families

that are busy and want flexibility.

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In our business, our our business where

we help entrepreneurs build sales funnels

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and launch do launches, we focus on

helping people build lifestyle businesses.

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And that's what our business

is called, life and Launches.

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And we focus on helping you build

high profit, low stress lifestyle

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businesses and and those types

of, that type of business model.

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And so it's really good that we are

finding guests and all the guests that we

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are featuring and that we have coming up

are going to be sharing what they're doing

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that fit within that sort of framework.

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That should be really encouraging

for you and prevent present some

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really good opportunities that you

can be taking advantage of yourself.

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So we have, we look forward to the

guests that are coming up for sure.

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Yeah.

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So since the last time we were talking to

you here on the show, we've had lots of

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things go on, which is like the new energy

new year kind of attitude right now going

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into the, looking forward to springtime.

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This is, right now we're

getting through wintertime.

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We just had a whole winter storm here.

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Yeah.

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That we've made it through.

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And so I'm so happy about that.

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But we'll have a little

bit of cold weather left.

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But all those things that go on.

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Are times where we're thinking

about what we're gonna talk to you

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about, what we're gonna share with

you and what you're gonna need.

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And there's lots of things

that are time sensitive.

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They're gonna be coming up on the

show, so you're gonna see lots of

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episodes come out and drop that.

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You'll say, oh man, I'm glad this came

at this time, because it's so relevant.

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So we have a lot of content on our

show that is evergreen, meaning.

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No matter where you're at on your

homeschool journey, you're gonna need it.

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But there's also a lot of things coming

up that are time sensitive, so I just

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wanna let you know that, because if

you see that maybe we may be releasing

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a couple of episodes a day sometimes,

just because we have so many things

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to share with you, so many guests to

bring to you, and they can't wait.

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We can't just.

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Record and put 'em on some long-term

publishing schedule because we have

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deadlines that we wanna make sure

that you meet and things that we

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wanna make sure you know about.

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Time sensitive.

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A lot of times when you do things with

kids, you're trying to get registrations

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and activities lined up months in advance.

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So even though it's February now,

you're already looking forward to maybe

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summer camps and things like that.

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So you need to really.

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Stay on top of whatever we're putting out

on the show, because if we're putting it

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out, it's to give you a heads up so that

you can take advantage of opportunities

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and I just know what's coming up, so I

just wanna make sure that you know that.

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That's right.

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Hey, I hope you're enjoying the show.

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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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You see, transforming your

finances so you can self-fund your

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homeschooling journey without a nine

to five job takes a roadmap, right?

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And you may be wondering,

where do I even start?

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Start at step one.

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Our Homeschool Money Makeover

program breaks it down into five

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practical steps that help any family

achieve a financially abundant.

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Homeschooling lifestyle.

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Step one, install the

abundance Operating system.

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Most people believe that they

need two, nine to five jobs to

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make it in America the truth.

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With all the technology and the tools

available today, there's never been an

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easier time to generate six figures.

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A year in income working just 15

to 20 hours a week than today.

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When you have a strong why for

homeschooling and you know the

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real costs, you unlock the courage

that you need to become a money

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magnet without a nine to five job.

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Step two, get crystal clear about what

you're gonna do with your first $1,000

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that you make outside of your day job.

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Write down specific homeschool needs

that a thousand dollars can cover.

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Yes, this is a small amount, but if

you can learn how to set a target

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of make your first thousand dollars

outside of your nine to five job,

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that's going to set a fire in your belly

and the determination that you need.

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To make the next a

hundred thousand dollars.

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Step three, find all the money

falling through the cracks in

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your budget with Crystal's.

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Three financial coaching certifications.

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Listen, she's gonna help you be able to

streamline your budget and free up money

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without sacrificing your favorite things.

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You can't build a strong financial

future with money falling

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through your pockets, right?

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So let's plug up the leaks.

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Step four.

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Discover new ways to make money

and claim free money available

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for homeschooling families.

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We discuss grants scholarships,

proven fundraising opportunities

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that Savvy Homeschoolers are using,

and we show you how to use them too.

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Step five, launch or Scale your

Moneymaking Success System to completely

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replace your nine to five job income.

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Whether it's a side hustle, a freelance

work, or a new business, identify

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your single most viable opportunity

and turn that into $3,000 in income.

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$5,000, $10,000 a month in

income or whatever you need

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to feel financially abundant.

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Implementing these five streamlined

steps will make you feel more

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financially empowered than ever before.

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You'll gain the momentum that

you need by step number five

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when you're making more money.

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You're going to feel

unstoppable financially.

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Through our marketing consulting

business, we've helped literally

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hundreds of entrepreneurs

build online selling machines.

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That's what we do in our business life

and launches, and we share our million

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dollar automated selling system with you.

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Inside the Homeschool

Money Makeover program.

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Inside the course, you're gonna get

all the video lessons, worksheets,

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templates, and guides that you need

to walk through all five of the

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steps to transform your finances.

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And right now, during our special

introductory offer period,

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you'll get bonus gifts plus our

lowest enrollment price ever.

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Making it easy to enroll and make

your first thousand dollars back.

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Fast.

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Go to homeschool money.com

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to watch our free class, and then you're

gonna get an inside look at the full

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Homeschool Money Makeover program.

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Don't wait.

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Go to homeschool money.com

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to start the free class and enroll

into the full program today.

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So one interesting thing is

like we were just saying.

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Is that we have lots of collaborations

and partnerships and opportunities

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that's coming from the show that's gonna

be able to help you be able to have

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more for your kids and more for your

work and more just for your finances.

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And one thing we just did was we

just spoke at PO Fest in Orlando.

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And so like really?

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Yeah, I was really excited that that

happened and that you were able to be one

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of the speakers at Pop that, that's you.

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That was a really great way to kick off

the school year for our kids because

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it was the new year time and we got a

chance to be in sunny Florida and then

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come back to the winter storm in Dallas.

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Yeah.

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But the kids got a chance to go to

Orlando and I got a chance to speak

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there, and we love podcasting and we're

looking forward to doing more in the

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podcasting industry, but being able to.

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Talk with so many people that

ended up being homeschoolers.

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There are lots of people

in the podcasting industry.

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It's like now people come up to me

and they tell me their war stories

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and all this kind of stuff, and

they're like coming outta the woodwork

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and they're saying, you know what?

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I was homeschooled and it was wonderful.

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And there's so many people that

were meeting all over the country.

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We didn't hear about whenever we

were thinking about homeschooling.

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It wasn't like that.

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There was never Right that many people,

but now I'm like, where did all these

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people come from Who were homeschooled?

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Yeah.

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And they were, had

really great experiences.

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So it's just such a great time right

now to be homeschooling and just know

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there's a lot of people out there that

are homeschooled and are now homeschooling

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their kids and they're very supportive

of the mission of homeschooling.

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And they're out there working

careers to support their families

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working remotely, doing businesses,

and it's just the country is just

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so homeschool friendly right now.

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It's a really great time.

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So being on the road really showed us

that with everybody's just so receptive

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to homeschooling and being able to have

that flexibility to be able to be gone.

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We were, we went and we spoke

at Pod Fest and then we turned

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it into a whole vacation.

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So we were actually gone for 10 days.

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We were.

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Yeah.

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And so it was great to be able to have

the kids be able to be on the road

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like that and then not be disruptive

and it just be a wonderful time.

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So we have lots of things coming up places

we're gonna be, and we will make sure that

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you know about that so that you can see us

in person if you want to meet and be BBFF.

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And but we'll keep you posted on that.

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And if you.

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Have an organization or a mission or

something that you wanna collaborate or

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partner with, we're open to that and that

is why we're doing this show so that we

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can all connect and work together and

this is our way of connecting with you.

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One of the things that we have coming

up that is really exciting is a member

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community that we are putting together,

we want to teach you finances, and we want

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to bring entrepreneurship and the support

to help you grow your business and utilize

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digital marketing strategies and tools

to help you grow your business online.

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And so we know.

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All of the work that takes because we work

with clients every day in and day out.

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And so we wanted to go beyond just

offering a course, which would be great

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for information and the steps and being

able to share tools, but we also want

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to be able to be accessible to you.

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And so we know what.

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Team support and with community support

and how real transformation happens.

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So a lot of times in the framework

of having life-minded people that

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you are connected to and that you are

inspired by on a more interactive basis.

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And so we are putting

together all of the pieces.

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To have a member community for homeschool

money right now, and we look forward

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to presenting that closer to the point

in time where things are ready to go.

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But that's one thing looking

ahead that we have coming up.

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Yeah, that's super exciting because if

we had a community that not only was

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supportive of homeschooling, but also told

us exactly how to make money and organize

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our time and our energy and everything,

that would've just fast tracked us

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and would've made life so much easier.

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Yeah, so I'm super excited

about meeting new friends.

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And being able to be with like-minded

people and be able to support people on

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their journey and be able to integrate

all the things that we talk about.

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So we'll be talking about that.

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And so you wanna make sure

to stay tuned for that.

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But if you have anything that you

specifically want to learn on the show, we

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want to make sure to invite you to reach

out to us and let us know about that.

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And if you have any.

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Ideas about how we should celebrate

our 50th or 100th episode.

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We're putting together

something fun for that.

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We don't have the complete plans

yet, but we are definitely taking

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input and would love your ideas and

would definitely like to do something

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where we can meet some people.

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So I just, I do know that as

always, please remember to

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share the show with a friend and

leave a five star review for us.

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These things will help the show spread

and help more people hear about it.

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So basically getting to the a hundred

episodes means we will have a great body

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of work for people that if we can create

enough information out there and support.

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That lets you know that

you can be on this journey.

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You can do it and you have

to, and that you can self-fund

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your homeschooling journey.

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Then you'll be able to save some

years of time, save some headaches,

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and that is what we're here to do.

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We're trying to help make

life easier for you so you can

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homeschool and you can afford it,

and you can have an amazing time.

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And so we're trying to organize our

lives and organize all of our work.

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To be able to support you and be able

to do that, and we're taking it one

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episode at a time, and so we're looking

forward to that hundredth episode.

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This has been the 20th episode.

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Lots of new episodes coming up.

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Lots of things for you to listen

to, and we look forward to

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putting that together for you.

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Thank you so much for being a

part of Homeschool Money and

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the homeschool money journey.

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Up to this point.

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We hope that you stay with us.

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For the really exciting things

that are that we have coming up.

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Thanks so much.

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This is a movement and we're

so glad you're in it with us.

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