Are you a homeschool parent who's ever said "we can't afford that" when your child discovers an exciting educational opportunity?

In this episode, Crystal and Anthony Obey introduce the third affirmation in their Abundance Affirmation Series: "I Am an Educational Investment Magnet" — a powerful wealth affirmation designed to help homeschooling families eliminate financial barriers to their children's learning experiences.

Discover why hesitating on educational investments due to money limits your child's potential, and how becoming a "magnet" for educational funding can open doors to experiences that shape their entire future.

Crystal reveals her practical strategy for attracting educational resources through homeschool co-ops and community connections — from last-minute performance tickets to specialized classes organized by other parents. Learn how clarity about your educational goals naturally draws opportunities and resources to you, often at little to no cost.

Explore the surprising truth about investing in your child's education now versus the long-term payoff — including stories of young adults running successful tutoring businesses because their parents invested early in their passions and skills.

🎧 Listen to discover how one mindset shift can eliminate "we can't afford that" from your homeschool vocabulary forever.

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In This Episode, You'll Discover:

• The complete Educational Investment Magnet affirmation (repeated throughout for memorization)
• Crystal's strategy for leveraging homeschool co-ops and parent networks to find free or low-cost opportunities
• How to prioritize educational investments when you can't afford everything
• The biggest mental block: feeling guilty about spending on education when free options exist
• Why investing in quality education early creates financially successful young adults
• Practical tips for making your homeschool budget stretch further through community connections

Perfect for you if:

• You struggle with guilt around spending money on educational experiences
• You want to give your kids extraordinary learning opportunities, not mediocre ones
• You're ready to attract abundant resources for field trips, curriculum, and enriching activities
• You need a homeschool budget breakthrough that actually works

Stop letting financial limitations dictate your children's educational journey. Start attracting the resources you need today!

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What if you never had to say,

we can't afford that educational

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opportunity ever again?

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Today's affirmation will shift

your energy from educational

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limitation to educational abundance.

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Let's start the show.

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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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Hey guys.

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Welcome to the Homeschool Money podcast.

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I'm your host, Anthony Oby.

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I'm Crystal Oby, and we have an

exciting affirmation for you today.

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This affirmation goes like this.

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I am an educational investment magnet.

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Money flows to me to fund my

children's educational dreams.

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I easily attract the resources

needed for field trips, quality

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curriculum, educational experiences,

and enriching activities.

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My family's educational goals are fully

supported by abundant financial resources.

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This affirmation really matters

because educational opportunities a

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lot of times come with price tags and

hesitating due to money limits your

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child's potential when you become

a magnet for educational funding.

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You remove financial barriers from

your children's learning journey

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and open doors to experiences that

could shape their entire future.

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I am an educational investment magnet.

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Money flows to me to fund my

children's educational dreams.

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I easily attract the resources

needed for field trips, quality

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curriculum, educational experiences,

and enriching activities.

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My family's educational goals are fully

supported by abundant financial resources.

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So when we were getting ready to do

this episode, we were talking about

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how this kind of plays out in our life,

and it made me think about how one of

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the biggest resources we have is how

I take the kids to the park and hang

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out with other moms that are co-ops.

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And that's probably been one of the

biggest opportunities that we've had here

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in our homeschooling journey as far as

finding more educational opportunities.

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And so.

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At the beginning of the school year,

what I do is I write down what we

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want the kids to do, like if there's

some places we want to go or some

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activities we wanna take part in.

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Or just anything that we're wanting

to do to enhance our educational

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journey in any type of year.

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And I just keep that list.

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And then whenever I go to the park

and take the kids and I'm sitting

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there talking to the moms and

everything, we always compare notes.

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And so it's like, okay, does anybody know

anything about how I can, you know, help

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my kid learn this or figure this out?

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And it's so fun to hang

out with other moms because

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everybody's doing the same thing.

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It's a really.

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You know, just amazing experience

to have other moms in your life

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who are on the same journey and

are really, you know, helpful.

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And so what I find is my friends will,

they'll be looking out for things.

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They'll say, Hey, I heard that your son

is into this and I was at this other

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event and I picked up a flyer and took a

picture of it and I'm gonna send to you

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so that you can get this for your kid.

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There's not a lot of gatekeeping.

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If you get into the right

groups and have really great

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friends, you're gonna find that.

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Everybody is trying to get better things

for their kids, and they'll be willing

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to share those experiences with you.

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And so some of the moms would tell

me about things I hadn't thought of.

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Like for example, if one of my kids

was in interested in dance and I'm just

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thinking, oh, I'm gonna do the typical

dance classes and things like that.

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There's some people who.

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Uh, keep their eye open for activities.

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And we had one friend that actually

ended up hosting a dance event and

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just putting it together because one

thing that has been happening is if

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we wanna do something and it's not

actually even on the calendar, the moms

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will just put it together ourselves.

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And so it's not just about being

able to have something to do

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that is already scheduled and

having to have the money for it.

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It's also about having the resources to be

able to just make it happen for yourself.

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Sometimes our conversations lead

us to just planning it, doing it

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ourselves, and then inviting other

kids in and other families in.

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Now, back to the show.

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A big part of being an educational

investment magnet is sharing what you're

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looking for and knowing what you're

looking for, and that's what we talk

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about that in our Homeschool Money

Makeover program is because if you

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are focused on and clear on what it is

that you want, then when you're having

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conversations and the topic comes up to.

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Something that you're interested

in, you can actually say, oh

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yes, I'm interested in that.

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Oh yes, I'd like to do that.

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And a lot of times,

opportunities come very quickly.

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There's some times where, you know,

maybe we, 'cause we have, you know, five

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kids, and so we'll have five tickets

or seven tickets to go someplace.

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So if we can't go.

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If we say, Hey, our family can't go,

that's a lot of times worth two families.

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You know, one family with three people,

and one family with four people can

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take our spot and say you're wanting

to go to a performance that's happened

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before where there's a performance

going on and somebody has extra tickets

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that they not gonna be able to use.

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Because you know what you're looking for.

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You can say, Hey, I wanna go ahead and

take that, and you take it last minute.

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And that happens a lot.

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Online with social media, people will post

and say, Hey, I have leftover tickets.

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I'm not gonna be able to use them.

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You can take them and so you can

end up with tickets to things and.

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Opportunities and resources if you're

clear about what it is you want.

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And also, of course, here on the show

we talk about just making more money to

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be able to afford to do what you want.

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But many times the opportunities can

just come right to you if you are aware.

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Of what you're looking for.

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And you also share that with other people.

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And whenever you create an

environment with your, with your

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friends, your neighbors, your co-ops,

where everybody's doing that, then

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everybody's kids are getting a better

experience in the whole community.

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I am an educational investment magnet.

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Money flows to me to fund my

children's educational dreams.

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I easily attract the resources

needed for field trips, quality

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curriculum, educational experiences,

and enriching activities.

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My family's educational goals are fully

supported by abundant financial resources.

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So there's a common block.

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The resistance here often comes

from feeling guilty about spending

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money on education when free options

exist, or like believing that good

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education shouldn't cost money.

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This making do mentality, quote unquote,

keeps you from investing in your

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children's highest potential and limits

their exposure to excellent resources that

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could be better and uplevel your child,

your children's educational experience.

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Yeah, I like to say what would

be the best case scenario?

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Like if we want our kids to learn

something, what's the best case scenario?

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What's the best opportunity available?

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Yeah.

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And if we can get it, let's get it.

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And if we can't, okay, then

what's the next best opportunity?

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Yeah.

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And then.

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Keep working our way down.

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And in some topics you're gonna

wanna go for the ultimate best.

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Like if it's their real passion,

you wanna go go to the top.

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But if it's something they're

kind of dibbling and dabbling in,

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then you can say, Hey, we can just

stick our toe in and we don't have

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to have the best of everything.

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'cause there are different levels.

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And whenever you think about investing in

your child's education, you have to make.

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Concession someplace, there's trade-offs

and so there may be times where you

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need a bigger budget to go all in.

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Like I know a lot of people in their,

their kids' sports, they do, they

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spend a lot of money in that, or

instruments and music or, you know,

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just different hobbies that they have

that could actually turn into something.

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You wanna go all in and get all the

equipment that they need, the, the

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teaching, the tutoring that they need,

and give them plenty of time and take

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them on the trips that they need to go on.

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And don't feel bad about doing that

because one thing that's for sure is

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the better quality education that you

give your child while they're young,

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the better outcome they'll have later.

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Because if you go ahead and

invest into them now, they'll

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be set up to do better later.

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And so whenever they're working

hard as younger, young kids and

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then teenagers, they're gonna be.

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That much farther ahead when they're

18, 19, 20, and be able to build

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careers off of what they're doing.

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I know we talk to people who do tutoring.

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And sometimes we'll talk to people who

are maybe 25, 30 years old and they've

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been saying, well, I'm tutoring because

I've been doing this for 15 years.

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And it's like, well,

how old are you again?

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Yeah.

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And they're like, well, I, I started doing

this whenever I was a, a, you know, a

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teenager and now I'm a young adult, and

they're running full tutoring businesses

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because they have the expertise, they

have the professionalism, and now they're

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creating full incomes because of that.

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And a lot of people.

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We'll not have those skills whenever

they're in their twenties, and so they're

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just kind of flip flopping around, still

trying to figure out what they're good at.

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But here in homeschooling we get a chance

to invest in our children's passions

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and their skills so much earlier and

even let them go to college earlier.

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To where whenever they're young adults,

they can be very financially set up and

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clear on their passions, their goals, and

just the direction that they wanna take

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life, which also gives them a lot better

mental health and better time to work on

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relationships and their physical health.

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And so homeschooling is just helps

on so many different levels and

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going ahead and investing in the

better pencils or the, the, the, the

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nice class or the full curriculum.

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Right now, while the child is

young can just make all the

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difference for their adulthood.

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That's right.

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Money flows to me to fund my children's

educational dreams, I easily attract

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the resources needed for field trips.

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Quality curriculum, educational

experiences, and enriching activities.

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My family's educational goals are fully

supported by abundant financial resources.

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You didn't choose to homeschool to give

your children a mediocre education.

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You chose to give them

an extraordinary one.

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Money is simply the tool that turns

educational dreams into reality.

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Trust that when you invest in

your children's minds, you always

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have the opportunity to grow

in your ability to pay for it.

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