Episode 3 – Becoming the Story
What happens when the work you love starts hurting you? In this part 3/5 of our new Mini Series (The Reset), Becka traces her journey from rebellious student to teacher, to founder, and finally to walking away from the very systems she tried to change. It’s a story about burnout, courage, and the messy beauty of reclaiming joy — even when it means leaving behind what you built.
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Episode 2 – Peeling the Layers
What if devotion has been disguised as depletion? In this episode of the Mini Series - The Reset: We love this work, but not like this, Sari opens up about her journey through unschooling, burnout, and learning to choose herself again. From questioning inherited systems to redefining what devotion really means, this is a story of peeling back the layers — one truth, one pause, one act of self-trust at a time.
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Episode 5 — Growing Beyond the Edge
When we stop hiding the tools that changed us… everything shifts.
We talk tarot, constellation work, nervous system repair, somatics, and what it means to move from performance to presence.
If you're longing to live this work (or whatever your embodied work is) more fully, more you, more free, this one opens that door.
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Episode 1 – Outgrowing the Pot
What happens when the thing you’ve built no longer fits who you’ve become? In this opening episode for our new Mini Series (The Reset: We love this work, but not like this!), we share the moment we realized Radical Learning was ready to evolve — and so were we. From letting go of old identities to embracing joy, alignment, and creative expansion, this is a conversation about growing beyond the limits of what once worked and daring to plant ourselves in wider soil.
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Episode 4 — Under the Surface
You might think you’re stepping into unschooling to get your kid out of a broken system. But, as we’ve learned, that’s just the tip of the iceberg!
In part 4/5 of our Mini Series - The Reset, we name what’s underneath: the deep, often invisible work that emerges after the decision to leave school.
From control and power dynamics to healing, joy, productivity, identity, and intergenerational patterns, this is where deschooling stops being about education and starts becoming about everything.
And we made this Iceberg Knowledge Tracker PDF to help you follow along.
If you’ve done all the “right” things but still feel stuck, this one gets underneath.
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We’ve been in a quiet, tender season - pausing, listening, and letting things evolve. In this short bit, we share a bit about what’s been happening behind the scenes and what’s been calling us forward. We’re also giving you a glimpse of what to expect from our upcoming mini-series, The Reset, dropping November 8th! Stay tuned!
We’re pausing to breathe, celebrate 100 episodes 🎉, and make space for what’s next. And so… to thank you for being part of this Radical Learning journey, we’re giving away seats to three of our most loved programs! Sign up for our mailing list on www.radical-learning.org and follow us on Instagram @radical_learning on Instagram and we’ll share all the details on October 23rd!
In this milestone conversation, we reflect on what courage has meant in our lives and in the journey of unschooling, deschooling, and liberated living. We explore the relationship between fear and courage, the difference between vulnerability and fragility, and how small daily acts of bravery can lead to transformative leaps. We share personal stories of stepping into the unknown - from moving across continents to reshaping family life outside of conventional schooling—and how embracing fear can open portals to growth, dreaming, and expansion.
This episode is both a celebration and an invitation: to meet your fears with curiosity, to honor your vulnerability, and to keep practicing courage as a muscle that
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This episode was born from a heartfelt question we received from a parent in our community. How do you navigate the strong feelings that come up when you’ve seen the harms of the school system - yet your family, friends, or even your kids might still choose school? And how do you handle the pushback when any criticism of school feels like an attack?
We dive into the cultural clash at the heart of these questions: why critiques of school often feel personal, how to honor the good intentions of teachers without defending a broken system, and why avoiding binary thinking matters. Join us as we share strategies for bringing more nuance, empathy, and empowerment into these tricky conversations - without losing sight of your values or your relationships.
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What happens when our hopes for a better world start turning into expectations for our kids? We want the best for them, but when does care turn into control?
In this episode, we dive into the tender line between modeling our values and molding our children, from activist parenting to fears about the future.
How do we raise conscious kids without projecting our own dreams - or our despair?
What does it mean to truly trust a young person’s path, and can we honor their light without trying to shape it?
Together, we explore how unconditional love, trust, and presence can help us support our kids’ agency - without recreating the very systems of control we’re trying to dismantle.
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What if learning isn’t about doing more, but about slowing down and remembering who we are?
In this powerful conversation with our dear friend Chemay Morales-James - unschooling mama, community weaver, founder of My Reflection Matters Village, and land steward in Puerto Rico - we explore healing as the foundation of learning, leadership, and liberation.
We explore what it means to truly decolonize - our systems, our bodies, our beliefs, and our nervous systems. From intuition and SenseThinking to the deep necessity of rest, we look at how trauma can fuel activism, how DEI work is evolving, and why inner work - at our own pace & in community - is essential for creating lasting change.
And for the first time on the podcast, we share a live SenseThinking demo - exploring a question so many of us face when stepping away from conventional education. It’s a peek into a different way of navigating the unknowns, one that leans into the wisdom of the body, land and intuition. This one goes deep.
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What does it really mean to trust our kids - and ourselves? In this raw and tender episode, we respond to a listener’s question about how to move beyond the wobbles and into trust. We talk about the difference between trusting and controlling, and how fear, trauma, and societal conditioning make trust such a radical practice. From somatic wisdom and intuition to surrendering to nature and letting go of the need to know, this conversation invites us into deeper honesty, presence, and collaboration with our young people.
What if trust isn’t something you have… but something you live into?
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In this episode, we respond to our community’s questions from our recent survey. We talk about everything from navigating unsolicited advice, building family cultures rooted in mutual thriving, and supporting kids in burnout, to the complexities of screen time, finding offline community, and whether public schools can truly transform. As always, it’s not about having all the answers - it’s about being in the questions together. Tune in for heartfelt stories, practical reflections, and a peek into how we live, parent, and learn beyond the system.
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What if I’m making the wrong decision for my kid?
That question haunts so many of us - especially when we step away from the norm. In this episode, we dive into the fears and self-doubts that often surface when parents begin unschooling or embrace self-directed learning. What if this choice backfires? What if my child doesn’t thrive? What if they blame me later?
Together, we explore the deeper roots of these fears - our longing for safety, our survival programming, our cultural conditioning - and we unpack what it means to make choices from alignment rather than fear. We reflect on how parenting, just like life, is a series of adaptations, not a one-and-done path.
So if you’re sitting in that in-between space, questioning yourself or feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty, this episode is for you. You're not alone. And this isn't about perfection, it’s about presence, trust, and the willingness to grow.
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- You can find information on The Shift experience here:
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“Can I really do this unschooling thing?”
So many parents ask this, and it makes sense. We’ve been conditioned to measure, assess, and perform our parenting. But what if the first step to unschooling isn’t doing anything at all? In this episode, we talk about the pressure to get it right, the deep unlearning this path invites, and the power of pausing. What if unschooling begins with a symbolic sabbatical? A chance to reconnect with your kids, yourself, and the present moment - without the pressure to prove anything.
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What if unschooling isn’t just an educational choice, but a sacred initiation into presence, connection, and becoming? In this powerful and poetic conversation, we sit with Chevanni Davids: educator, father, ritualist, and founder of Reimagined Learning in South Africa.
Together we explore the wild force of learning, the decolonization of time, and the radical tenderness required to hold the unknown. Chevanni invites us to reimagine unschooling not as an escape from systems, but as an embodied response to life’s deepest questions. With stories, metaphors, and reverence, he offers a different map for learning - one that honors silence, slowness, contradiction, and ceremony.
This is not a conversation to “understand.” It’s one to feel. One to breathe with.
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What does it really mean to decolonize education? In this episode, we unpack the colonial roots of conventional schooling and explore how education systems around the world have been used to disconnect people from their bodies, cultures, intuition, and identities. We reflect on how these patterns affect all of us - and what it might look like to reclaim learning, relationships, and wholeness. This is a deeply personal and paradigm-shifting conversation about power, agency, and the possibility of something different.
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- You can find information on The Shift experience here:
https://radical-learning.thinkific.com/courses/the-shift-2025
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- Please email us at info@radical-learning.org with ny reflection, thoughts, stories or topics you wish for us to explore on the podcast!
What if deschooling wasn’t just about learning? What if it was also about grief, ritual, and honoring the life that unfolds when we stop trying to control it?
In this powerful conversation, we sit down with Akilah S. Richards - author of Raising Free People and longtime voice of liberation in learning and living. Akilah shares how her journey has moved beyond deschooling, into the work of tending grief, slowing down, and trusting what life is calling us toward.
We explore:
- Why grief and liberation are inseparable
- How to compost the past instead of dragging it
- Ritual as resistance to urgency
- What it means to stop designing life and start following it
This episode is an invitation - to presence, to possibility, and to the courage of not knowing.
Tune in now, and check out Akilah’s new podcast What I Let Die @ www.radicalselfie.org.
You can also find and support Akilah’s work at:
www.raisingfreepeople.com
Right now, we’re living through a massive shift. Systems are crumbling, disempowerment is widespread, and uncertainty feels overwhelming. It’s no longer enough to just opt out of broken systems- we need to actively create something different. But how? How do we move beyond control, beyond fear, beyond what we’ve internalized, and instead reclaim agency for ourselves and the young people in our lives?
This moment in history is calling us to do deep, internal work. The world is shifting, and our kids don’t need us to have all the answers, they need us to show up with integrity, presence, and empowerment. In this episode, we explore what it really takes to co-create a new way forward - one rooted in connection, dignity, and consent. From shadow work to healing intergenerational wounds, from active hope to shifting our relationships with power, we unpack the inner and outer work required to truly embody the change we wish to see.
If this conversation resonates with you, join us on April 27, 2025, for a live online discussion on this very theme. You can register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1a4qw2gxRtOsooygAIdpJA
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In this episode, we dive deep into something that comes up again and again in our work and personal conversations: how to create a different way of being in the world. In a time marked by fear, division, and control, how can we move beyond pointing fingers at what’s wrong and instead orient ourselves toward what we actually want to create? How do we break free from binary thinking and conditioned behaviors that keep us stuck? And most importantly, how do we reconnect with ourselves, each other, and our dreams for a different kind of future? Join us for an exploration of spaciousness, play, non-violent communication, somatics, and community support as we unpack what it takes to shift into a new paradigm.
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