Hannah Frankman On Why Homeschooling Matters & Why It Helped Her Skip College
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Hannah is awesome and you should listen to this podcast. She grew up homeschooled, is an endlessly curious person, has a deep sense of agency, and is a pro at carving her own path. She’s done a ton of things including writing, coaching, and working at startups and has created jobs for herself, negotiated working remotely (before it was cool), and has done a ton of other things. She recently founded Rebel Educator which is a media brand that aims to share more about homeschooling and alternative education with a broader audience online.
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Links Mentioned:
- 3 Reasons Homeschoolers Often Become Entrepreneurs - Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org)
- No, You Don’t Need to be “Qualified” to Homeschool Your Children - Foundation for Economic Education (fee.org)
Watch & Listen
- 0:00 – Preview of episode
- 0:43 – Intro to Hannah
- 1:46 – Growing up homeschooled
- 7:23 – The “guinea pig child”
- 12:19 – Learning a sense of agency
- 13:48 – Realizing she’s on a different path than the others
- 15:58 – What does it mean to love school?
- 18:00 – Unschooling
- 24:54 – Skipping college
- 31:28 – The four-year experiment and the hard first year
- 39:16 – Looking back - what would Hannah change?
- 41:11 – Working remotely
- 48:57 – Taking an 8-month sabbatical
- 55:25 – Learning to trust your gut
- 1:04:16 – New project: rebelEducator
- 1:09:16 – What motivates Hannah?
- 1:12:30 – Rapid fire questions with Hannah
