Sept. 23, 2024
Why I Homeschool My 4 Kids as a Successful Entrepreneur
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What would make somebody who runs multiple businesses, hosts multiple podcasts, writes multiple books a year, and runs a whole business school homeschool their kids?
In this episode of EntreMD, I'll talk about why I chose to homeschool my four children, our homeschooling strategy, and the incredible benefits I've witnessed in my kids.Â
Remember: the real inheritance is not the money you leave your kids. It’s the wisdom, strategies, mindset, and knowledge that created the wealth.Â
So, without further ado, let’s jump right in!Â
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Key Takeaways:Â
- 00:00 IntroÂ
- 01:48 Why we started homeschooling
- 04:19 The first two years of homeschooling
- 05:26 Transitioning to a structured homeschooling programÂ
- 09:02 What is real wealth?Â
- 09:35 Getting a full educationÂ
- 17:59 The insane benefits of homeschooling
- 19:49 A book a weekÂ
- 20:52 Getting an extra pair of hands
- 22:01 Making homeschooling cool for the kids
- 25:27 If you can’t do it all yourselfÂ
- 28:58 OutroÂ
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00:00 - Homeschooling and Alternative Education Options
10:41 - Hands-on Homeschooling and Business Integration
14:55 - Holistic Homeschooling and Business Integration
24:18 - Empowering Children for Entrepreneurship
30:55 - Empowering the Next Generation
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Take charge of your children's education beyond just the academics, but take charge of their education.
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That may look like homeschooling them.
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That may be like look like extra things you do with them after homeschool.
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Right, it's more so taking charge.
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So the schools are there to help you.
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The schools are not doing the work.
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Hi dogs, welcome to the EntreMD podcast, where it's all about helping amazing physicians just like you embrace entrepreneurship so you can have the freedom to live life and practice medicine on your terms.
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I'm your host, dr Imna.
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What would make somebody who runs multiple businesses, run multiple podcasts, write multiple books a year, runs a whole business school?
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What would make this person homeschool their kids, right?
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So I'm going to talk about today why I chose to homeschool my kids and then answer a number of questions that have been coming up a lot from you.
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And so, if we've never met before, I am Dr Una, I am the founder of EntreeMD and I help doctors build profitable businesses so they have the freedom to live life and practice medicine on their terms.
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Okay, in the last week or so, I've had a lot of questions around homeschooling and I figured you know what.
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I would just go ahead and share my journey.
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I want to start off by saying I do not recommend or not recommend homeschooling, and the reason why I don't want to share the journey is you can hear the why, you can hear the strategy behind it.
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You can choose if you want to do that in a homeschool setting, if you want to do that in the context of what you already have.
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So I'm not necessarily recommending homeschooling.
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I am just recommending that you take full ownership of your kid's education and I'll show you how I've done it and you can model and paste or you can edit and paste or whatever it is you need to do.
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So I started homeschooling my kids when my daughter was four and my son was two, and it really was accidental, you know, because I had put my daughter in pre-K and she came back and she's like mommy, I'm a single lady.
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And I'm like, yeah, I mean you are a single lady, right.
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And then she said it two or three times and I was like, okay, what is she saying?
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And then she comes with a whole dance routine Now she's four, right, so there's a limit to the dance routine and started singing All the Single Ladies by Beyonce and I'm like hang on.
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I'm like wait a whole minute, where did you get that from?
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And so she said you know, my teachers played it for me at school and that's the song we watch and things like that.
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And so we went to the school.
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They're like, yeah, there's nothing wrong with it and everybody has their own perspective, but for me I'm like she's four, I don't need any single ladies, anything going on right now.
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And so we pulled her out.
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We had this lady from our church who we had watch her, okay, so this was like a babysitter type situation.
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The only thing is that this lady was a school teacher and she had homeschooled her kid and so she started teaching her and my son, who was two at the time and she's, you know, old school Southerner.
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So she really took her time to teach them.
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And I think that was where my hand was forced almost I'm not saying she forced my hands, just the circumstance.
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My hand was forced to start homeschooling because here my daughter is.
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You know she's four.
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She was four at the time when she started this, and then you know she's five.
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But she was four at the time when she started this, and then you know she's five, but at five, my goodness, like of course she's writing her name, she knows all her numbers, she's doing simple math and you know she's writing almost sentences, if you will.
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And I said, ok, like would you guys consider putting her in first grade?
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And they're like absolutely not.
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And then my son had a late birthday.
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He missed the cutoff, which was September.
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His birthday was in December.
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And so he for him.
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They're like well, he's not going to be able to start kindergarten till a year later.
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And I'm like, well, he's already doing so much.
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What am I going to do?
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Shut off his brain, because again, he could do simple math, all of these things going on.
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So anyway, we checked with a number of schools.
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We're like will you test them?
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Would you do anything?
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Private school, public school, all of that.
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Everybody said no.
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I was like well, I guess they're home.
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So I was like, well, we'll just homeschool, because my son, what am I going to do with him?
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So we started homeschooling from there.
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That was the beginning of that journey, and when I say homeschooling you may have this picture of we get up in the morning and our school time was from nine to two, with a lunch at 12 and things like that.
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It was nothing like that, because at that time I was working four days a week, you know, seeing patients in my pediatric practice and then running the practice, and my husband and I passed through in a church.
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So weekends were not like.
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It wasn't like thank God it's Friday, because we still had work over the weekends and so homeschool looked like I would get back from work and I'll tell the kids I'm like, okay, so listen, okay, we can work from six to eight and we can do all our work then and you can play all day the next day till I get back from work.
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And so to them it was an absolutely amazing deal.
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And so from 6 pm to 8 pm they would go hard, do their work, complete everything, and then we'll call it a day and I would go do whatever else I had to do and they would prepare for bed and, of course, they had the next day to play till I got back from work.
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So really we worked evenings and I think it was a really valuable lesson, delayed gratification for them, right, like because, gratification for them, right, because they're just like okay, if we work now we can play later, but anyway, that's the way that worked.
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So we did that, I want to say, for almost two years.
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And then I met a lady so this was very interesting.
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This was at a Barnes and Nobles and she was checking out.
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So I was sitting at a table, she was checking out and she was like I want to get this book.
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I teach third graders, I teach out of school for kids who are homeschooled.
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And I was like wait a minute, what did she just say?
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And so at this time I was still an introverted introvert who was socially awkward and shy to her and I was like I couldn't help but overhear you talking about teaching third grade, but teaching kids who are homeschooled Like what does that mean?
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And she's like, yeah, you know the way the school is set up.
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You know they come to school three days a week and you know I work with them and all those things, and two days a week they would go home, they would do their work from home and all of those things.
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But they get graded, they get transcripts and all of those kinds of things.
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So I'm thinking, ooh, this is structure, this is fantastic.
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Like they'll have an actual transcript.
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At least the teacher is taking a look at them.
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I don't know what I'm doing, and things like that.
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And so I asked her where the school was, and the school was out, actually a 45 minute drive from me.
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And so when she said, I was like, okay, that's interesting, but I saved all her information.
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It took me almost another year before I was like, okay, fine, we'll do this.
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It's a bit of a commute, but we'll do it because I don't know what I'm doing with these kids.
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And so we started sending them there and actually I made a deal with her and I was like, listen, you can have them for the other two days, I'll pay the extra, let them just do their schoolwork with you there.
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And so they would go there five days a week.
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And so my older two did that.
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The younger ones when it was time, you know, when they turned four, they, you know, they joined her and things like that.
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And we did that for a number of years, two years before the pandemic.
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So this would be 2018, I guess, 2018.
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And at this time, my third was in second grade.
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So the way it works in Georgia, maybe it works in other places that way as well.
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After second grade, even if they were quote unquote too young, if you will, for their class, they'll let them retain whatever class that is.
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And so when my third was in second grade, I was like, okay, you know, 45 minute commute, that's a lot, we're going to put you in private school and you guys will be able to retain your grades, except by my last one where, like, you'll be fine.
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So we put them in private school and they did that for about two years and private school was great.
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They all settled in.
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My third is very social, so she loved being amongst a new group of friends and all of those things, and so we did that.
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And then after about two years I had this aha and the reason I'm telling you this is because I want you to see, like the progression of the journey, but also the reason behind it.
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Right, and so I remember thinking I said you know what?
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I'm a physician.
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I have arguably one of the best educations in the world, if you will, I'm a whole physician.
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And I said but medical school, like my journey to becoming a doctor, did not prepare me for personal finances, did not prepare me for leadership, did not prepare me for entrepreneurship, did not prepare me to be this person who was all in on personal development so I could become whoever I needed to be and things like that and I just thought I was like you know what I was in my thirties when I started learning all these things.
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And when I look at the life I live now, the fact that I have control over my time, the fact that I built many, you know, very successful businesses, the fact that I have so many mentees, my life has had so much impact.
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I understand finances to a degree and all of this, like all of this stuff was after the fact.
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I'm like real wealth.
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Real wealth is not the money you leave your kids right Because they can blow it like in no time they can blow it, but real wealth is transferring whatever is in you that created the wealth.
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That's real wealth.
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So, of course, we're going to leave wealth right.
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We're going to leave an inheritance, but the real inheritance is the wisdom, is the strategies, is the mindset, is the knowledge that created the wealth.
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I want to leave them stuff, but before stuff, I want to leave them the thing that creates the stuff, so they can always create their own stuff.
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So I'm here thinking about this and I'm like you know, there's such a gap in what we call education and I was like what, if?
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What, if I could have them have what I consider a full education.
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So for me what that would look like is okay, there's a traditional education, there's a business education, there's a leadership education, there's faith.
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So for me I was like I started really being serious with my walk with God in the year 2000,.
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Right, like, and my goodness, like there's so much I could teach them, there's so much I know about the application of faith in the marketplace.
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Have faith for your everyday life and faith for peace of mind and all of these things.
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Like I'm like it's so much.
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But do I want them to just turn 30 like me and start figuring all this out, or do I want to teach them?
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So I consider faith as part of it.
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I consider home management part of it.
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One is because I want them to be able to run their homes and all of those things.
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But there's a little.
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It's a little selfish too.
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I just want my house clean, so I add it to the curriculum.
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But when I look at that, like these five areas, I'm like, okay, this is what I consider full education.
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And so I talked to my husband.
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I said, listen, you know, like they're all a year ahead of you know, for a year.
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Like what if we were able to give them a broader education?
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What if we were able to cover all of these things?
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And so I was like, if you're game, I'm game, let's do it.
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And so he's like, yeah, go for it.
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Cause I was like you know, they're a year ahead, what's the worst that can happen?
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Like the experiment doesn't work and they'll be on par and we'll be fine.
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So I talked to them.
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I was like this is what we're going to do.
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My older two.
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They're really, they're really amazing because they I mean, you know they could have had a whole lot of kickback, but I explained to them the reason why I wanted to do it.
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You know they didn't give me too much kickback, which was really great Because, again, for me it was an experiment.
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I was like I don't know, but let's see.
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So we pulled them out and then we started this whole system and I'll explain how it plays out in a little bit.
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But as far as the curriculum goes, the school they were a part of you could do dual enrollment and they did dual enrollment through Liberty University.
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And so when it was time to pull them out, I, to be clear, was not going to teach them math and chemistry and all of that.
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That is like 1000% not my jam at all.
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And so we enrolled them in Liberty University Online Academy.
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I'm not recommending or not recommending it, I'm just saying that's the one we picked because that's the one they were going to use for dual enrollment anyway.
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So I just piggybacked off of that and so that's the one we picked because that's the one they were going to use for dual enrollment anyway.
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So I just piggybacked off of that, and so that's the one that we picked, enrolled them in their classes, found out that, you know, in about three, four hours or so they were able to be done with their academics and so we had time to do all the other aspects of it, and so that's what we did, and you know they were able to keep their grade ahead and all of those kind of things.
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So what we would do?
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Because they had started off homeschooling.
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They're fairly independent learners and so you know, for me it was really a case of you know, mama wants A's, so give me A's.
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That was really my contribution to their academic education.
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Right, and so they would work.
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They worked off my home office, where, if you're watching this on YouTube, where you see me with the bookshelf behind me, bookcases behind me and all that's where they would do their work.
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And they relegated me to some other part of the house and so I would do my work.
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So I'm literally sitting across from the room where they are, they're doing their work and I just come see how they're doing with grades, answer any questions they may have, and that played out really well.
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And then I was able to have them more involved.
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So when I talk about, let me talk about the different aspects.
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So for the traditional academics, they had Liberty University Academy, so that's what they were doing.
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For business.
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I had them more involved in my business.
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That could look any kind of way.
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Right, it wasn't a standard curriculum like totally mapped out, like I would have business books that I would have them read.
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So they'll read the business books.
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I would have them more involved in the business.
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So my daughter, for instance, understands how to work.
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Kajabi upload.
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You know the videos I need uploaded and things like that.
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She knows how to work all my Zoom stuff.
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When I would do retreats sometimes I'll have her come speak.
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Whether she's doing the announcements, I would have her do the registration for the event and things like that, at the last Entree MD Live, they were the ones who manned the cameras, they were the ones who did the photography and you know like.
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So I had them.
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It was really hands-on and you know, when I started doing YouTube, I had them do a lot of things with the YouTube.
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My daughter creates a lot of reels, so there are all these things.
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You know that we have them do.
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That's hands-on.
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When I have brainstorming sessions, I would bring them into it.
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And so, for instance, you know, I made up an event.
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I said, okay, what if we do this event?
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And in this event we created 2 million in revenue.
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What would we need to do to create 2 million in revenue?
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And you know, we started going one category after the other, doing the math, brainstorming, all of that till we got to 2 million.
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Right, and they're the ones who are coming up with how to do that.
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So, really involving them in that, when I would go for business trips, I would take them with me.
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Sometimes the host would let them in the room, and so we had this event and you know, in this program people were doing over a million in revenue all the way to 20 million in revenue.
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Those were the kind of entrepreneurs who were in the group and I told the lady I said, hey, you know, my kids are here as well, and all she's like, oh, bring them into the room.
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And so they got to be in the room, they got to network with the people who are in the room, they got to hear people talk about, you know, celebrating their first $300,000 a month, and there's just something about being in the room, right, its you, you belong there, it shows you what is possible.
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Some people can't even imagine 300,000 a year, but they're like, oh, 300,000 a month, I guess that's what people do and it was.
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It was just, it's just really, really amazing, right.
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And so, as far as the business angle, that's what we do with that, with the leadership, I use the 21 irrefutable laws of leadership by John Maxwell as kind of the curriculum for that.
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Because if you've read John Maxwell's books, his books are kind of heavy, right, like you don't just breeze through them.
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They're dense, if you will, they're books.
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You want to read the chapter, workshop the chapter and then go to the next chapter.
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His books are kind of like that.
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And so for me I'm like, you know, I'm okay if it takes them a year or two years to kind of work through every chapter and actually taking action on it, and so that's what we use as the curriculum.
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And then I put them in positions where they have opportunities to lead.
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So my husband and I, we pastor a church and so they have an opportunity, you know, in the youth church to do some leadership, whether that's at some point it was leading a small group, some other parts, you know my daughter's leading the worship team and all of these things, and so they get to practice that right, because you know, once you start leading people, it's like a lot of pain you don't want to follow or they like so many kinds of things happen.
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I mean, that's just what it is.
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But then they now have a curriculum to practice and I can coach them through it and all of that.
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So, again, very hands-on, right.
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So they have those opportunities as well, with faith.
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My husband does the bulk of that because I have a mentorship, a prayer meeting I lead every morning and so while I'm doing that he's doing they call it daddy's hour, it's so amazing but then he's teaching them principles from the scriptures and all of those things.
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So, and they taught.
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There's nothing that's off topic.
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They talk about everything.
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And so they're getting that every morning, five days a week, right, which, if you think about it, that's really powerful.
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And then the whole management you know it's.
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You know practicing keeping the place clean, decluttering a certain part of the house, going shopping Like so, for instance, I don't go shopping, right, and even if I were to be part of that process at all, what would happen is I'll have my daughter make a shopping list, the thing she wants to get, based on the menu she wants to.
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You know she wants the kids to have.
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And then I would drive them to the store and sit in the parking lot, give her the card, she'll go shop, come back, give me the receipt and stuff like that.
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So she's practicing all of that.
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So you have the traditional academics, you have the business, you have the leadership, you have the home management, you have the faith like they're getting.
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They're getting all of that.
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And so the first year that we did it, for me it was just so beautiful to see they were doing really well, my daughter's, all A's, my son A's and B's for the playing around with their own businesses.
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My daughter took up baking and she was selling those.
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They'll do things like that, generate income that way and all of that.
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And then they were involved in the business leadership.
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You could see their confidence go through the roof, learn how to work with people, lead people, influence people and things like that Very confident in their own skin.
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My daughter didn't really like being different from people and all of those, but she just had this unbelievable level of confidence in who she was and she was okay being different, being her, being her authentic self.
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It was just so magical to see.
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So we did that.
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My younger two.
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They're now nine and 10.
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And so the last school year was their last school year in the private school.
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They recently just started the homeschool, so now we have four kids in homeschool, right, and so the adaptation for that is, you know, seeing that, okay, I've done this experiment, the experiment worked, I like the results that I'm getting and I've decided to pull the younger two to join the older two, rename the school and we call it the Unachukwu Legacy Project and really, because that's our legacy, our legacy is transferring everything that's made us who we are and helped us get the results we get into them.
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That's a real legacy, not leaving them stuff like properties and things like that.
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So the Unachukwu Legacy Project.
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But because it's four of them, I made the decision to bring on a team member, and this person is not necessarily a teacher but can teach them some stuff.
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But this is somebody who is an administrator, somebody who has strong administrative skills, because I have a full plan for the school.
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Right, I have what I want to have in each of these aspects.
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I want them to practice reading a book a week, like let's talk about how powerful this is for a moment my 10 year old if-year-old reads a book a week, right, and let's say she reads for easy math.
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She reads 50 books a year and she does this till she's 20, she would have read 500 personal development books.
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She would have read 500 personal development books at the age of 20.
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That will be like a 60-year-old in a 20-year-old's body, right?
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And so there are things that I want done, and so I know somebody is going to ask this question.
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So for my 10-year-olds, the books that I would pick for personal development for them, what we started off with were John Gordon's books.
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John Gordon writes books like the Energy Bus Training Camp, the no Complaining Rules.
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He kind of writes like Ken Blanchard who wrote who Moved my Cheese, in the sense that they're a story form, but with really powerful business lessons and things like that in them.
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So for them, they're avid readers and so they would read those because they're story form.
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So that's what I usually start with for the younger ones.
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For the older ones, they can read those and any other thing that I throw at them.
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The administrator's job is to make sure that all the components of the school, the structure of the school, is being followed and the kids have accountability and all of those kind of things.
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And you know, watching their grades day to day, all of that Like.
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So that's that person's job.
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The person is not necessarily teaching per se.
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