This week marks the five year anniversary of the Exploring Unschooling podcast!
To celebrate, I decided to dig into the podcast’s rich treasure trove of unschooling stories and highlight a handful of the many beautiful nuggets of wisdom that guests have shared over these five years.
It’s been such a treat to revisit episodes as I gathered and organized this lovely collection, and I ended up with four distinct sections:
- Parenting
- Seeing Learning in Action
- Making Our World Bigger, and
- The Question of College
I imagine it surprises no one at this point that the flow of these sections aligns pretty closely with our unschooling journey. Because that’s my jam.
I’ve really enjoyed spending these five years engaging in conversations with so many wonderful unschooling parents and grown unschoolers. I’m so grateful to them for sharing their stories, their experiences, and their sparkling nuggets of wisdom about unschooling!
Audio clips taken from these episodes, in order …
EU029: What Learning Looks Like with Meredith Novak
EU136: Our Unschooling Journey with Jessica Hughes
EU027: Ten Questions with Teresa Graham Brett
EU111: Ten Questions with Jan Fortune
EU257: Unschooling Instincts with Ali Walker
EU002: Ten Questions with Pam Sorooshian
EU036: Deschooling with Lauren Seaver
EU089: Ten Questions with Jan Hunt
EU071: Changes in Parents with Sandra Dodd
EU258: Seeing the Magic with Anna Brown
EU154: Unschooling Dads and Documentaries with Jeremy Stuart
EU241: Exploring Race, Racism, and Diversity in Unschooling with Erika Davis-Pitre
EU130: Dismantling Shame with Ronnie Maier
EU090: Growing Up Unschooling with Phoebe Wahl
EU141: Growing Up Unschooling with Alec Traaseth
EU166: Unschooling and the Teen Years with Sue Patterson, Part 2
EU163: Growing Up Unschooling with Adrian Peace-Williams
Episode transcript …
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Thank you Pam for all the work you’ve done over these five years and the time you spent culling through episodes to create this one. I will always be grateful for your podcast, the spirit of curiosity, humility, grace, excitement, and openness that all your work and self expresses. It is a weekly bolster to my journey. Thank you to all those guests who willingly gave of their time, experience, and heart to encourage others on the journey.
Thanks so much, Ashley!