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Radical Learning Talks
by Radical Learning
Radical Learning Talks is a bi-weekly podcast where Sari González and Becka Koritz explore different unschooling/deschooling/conscious parenting topics with the focus of shifting the way we think about education, learning, parenting, relationships, community and much more. Sari and Becka are unschooling mamas, parent coaches and leaders in the self-directed education movement. They provide support at the intersection of unschooling, parenting, relationships and community building through various kinds of unschooling tools and resources for self-directed learning families and communities.
Episodes
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101. When Your Child Is Struggling in School
When a child starts shutting down, refusing school, exploding after class, losing curiosity, or saying they hate learning, it is easy to assume something is wrong with the child. But what if their behavior is actually a healthy response to an unhealthy system? In this episode, Sari and Becka…
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The Reset - Epi 5 (Growing Beyond the Edge)
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)...
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The Reset - Epi 4 (Under the Surface)
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…
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The Reset - Epi 3 (Becoming the Story)
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...
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The Reset - Epi 2 (Peeling the Layers)
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...
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The Reset - Epi 1 (Outgrowing the Pot)
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...
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Getting ready for something new!
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,...
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We’re Pausing… and Celebrating 100 Episodes!
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…
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100. How to Find the Courage to Change Your Life
Have you ever known something needed to change, but found yourself waiting until you felt less afraid? Whether it's leaving school behind, changing careers, moving across the world, or simply choosing a different way of parenting, many of the biggest decisions we make ask us to step into the...
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99. How to Question School Without Losing Relationships
Have you ever found yourself questioning the school system, only to worry about what your family, friends or the teachers in your life might think? For many parents, stepping away from conventional education isn't just about making different choices for their own children. It also changes how…
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98. Can We Love Our Children Without Shaping Who They Become?
Have you ever imagined who your child might become? Most parents do. We picture their future, notice their potential, hope they'll use their gifts well, and quietly carry dreams for the life we want them to have. But what happens when those dreams begin to shape how we relate to the child…
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97. Why Unschooling Is About More Than Education
What if the biggest obstacle to creating a more compassionate world isn't a lack of knowledge—but the wounds we haven't yet healed? Whether we're rethinking education, parenting, activism or the systems we live within, it's easy to focus on changing what's around us. But what if lasting change…
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96. How to Trust Your Child When Trust Feels Impossible
"Just trust your child." It's advice many parents hear when they begin questioning conventional education or exploring self-directed learning—but what if trust doesn't come naturally? What if your own experiences have taught you the opposite? In this episode, we answer a beautiful question from…
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95. Your Biggest Questions About Unschooling, Answered
What happens when hundreds of parents and young people ask the questions they've been quietly carrying? After sending out a community survey, we invited people to ask us anything. The result was a rich conversation that touches on some of the biggest questions we hear—from navigating criticism…
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94. What If I’m Making the Wrong Decision For My Kid?
What if you make the wrong decision? It's one of the biggest fears parents face—especially when they're considering stepping away from conventional education or choosing a different path for their family. What if your child resents you? What if this doesn't work? What if you've made a mistake you...
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93. Starting Unschooling: Can I Really Do This?
Can I really do this? It's one of the first questions parents ask when they begin exploring unschooling. But underneath it are so many others: Am I doing enough? What if I get this wrong? What if my child falls behind? In this episode, we explore why beginning the unschooling journey can feel so...
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92. Learning to Live with Uncertainty
What if the hardest part of unschooling isn't leaving school? What if it's learning to live without certainty? Many of us have been taught that there is a right path, a right answer, or a blueprint for how life should unfold. But what happens when we begin questioning those assumptions? And what...
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91. What Does Decolonizing Education Mean?
What does it actually mean to decolonize education? For many people, the phrase feels unfamiliar—or even uncomfortable. In this episode, we unpack where the idea comes from, why it matters, and how it changes the way we think about children, learning and the purpose of education itself. Rather…
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90. What Unschooling Teaches Us About Life
What happens after unschooling? For many families, questioning school is only the beginning. Over time, the conversation expands beyond education and becomes something much bigger: how we relate to ourselves, our children, our communities and life itself. In this deeply moving conversation with...
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89. How to Help Your Child Thrive in Uncertain Times
How do we prepare our children for a future that none of us can predict? When the world feels uncertain, it's easy to focus on protecting our children from what might happen. But what if the most important thing we can offer isn't certainty at all? In this conversation, we reflect on what young...
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88. Creating the Future We Want for Our Children
How do we create a different future without recreating the very patterns we're trying to leave behind? It's easy to spend our energy criticizing broken systems, pointing fingers, or wishing things were different. But what if real change begins somewhere else? What if it starts with the way we...
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87. Can You Unschool While Your Child Is in School?
Can you embrace unschooling if your child still goes to school? It's a question we hear all the time—from parents living in countries where school is mandatory, from families whose children have chosen to attend school, and from parents who simply aren't in a position to leave the system right…
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86. What Makes Self-Directed Learning Communities Thrive?
What does it really take for a self-directed learning community to thrive? Many parents leave conventional school hoping they've finally found the answer. But creating a different kind of educational space isn't simply about changing where children learn. It asks something different of all of us....
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85. Homeschooling Through Life's Tough Times
What happens to learning when life falls apart? Whether you're navigating grief, illness, financial stress, postpartum depression or another difficult season, many parents wonder the same thing: Am I doing enough? What if homeschooling or unschooling has to take a back seat while we simply try to...
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84. Homeschooling Without Burning Out
How do you care for yourself when your children are home all day? It's a question many homeschooling and unschooling parents ask—often after they've spent months or years putting everyone else's needs ahead of their own. But what if self-care isn't something extra to squeeze into an already full...
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83. How to Stop Comparing Your Child to School
What changes when school no longer becomes the measure of everything? For many homeschooling and unschooling families, leaving school doesn't mean leaving schoolish thinking behind. It's easy to keep comparing our children, our parenting and our daily lives to an invisible standard—even after…
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82. Why the School System Isn't Working
Why are so many parents, teachers and young people questioning the school system? Around the world, more families are wondering whether conventional education is still meeting the needs of today's children. Rising levels of anxiety, burnout and disengagement have led many people to ask deeper...
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81. Why Youth Rights Matter
What does it really mean to advocate for young people's rights? Many of us believe children have the right to an education. But what if the conversation needs to go much deeper? What if the real question is whether young people are being treated as full human beings—with agency, dignity and a...
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80. How Much Freedom Should Children Have?
How much freedom should children have? It's a question many parents wrestle with. We want our children to become independent, confident and capable, but we also carry the responsibility of keeping them safe. So how do we know when to step in—and when to step back? In this conversation, we reflect...
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79. Can Parents Be Friends with Their Kids?
Can parents really be friends with their children? Many people believe the answer is no. They worry that friendship means giving up authority, losing boundaries or allowing children to "take over." But what if we've misunderstood what friendship actually is? In this episode, we challenge one of…
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78. Can Children Socialize Without School?
Can children really socialize without school? It's one of the most common questions homeschooling and unschooling families hear. Many people assume that school is where children learn to make friends, build relationships and become part of society. But is that really true? In this episode, we…
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77. Can Children Learn Without Being Taught?
Do you need to be a teacher to homeschool your child? It's one of the biggest fears parents have when they begin questioning school. If you're not trained as a teacher, how can you possibly support your child's learning? In this episode, we challenge one of the deepest assumptions many of us…
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76. Will Unschooling Prepare My Child for Real Life?
Will unschooling prepare my child for real life? It's one of the most common questions we hear from parents exploring unschooling, homeschooling and self-directed learning. If children are free to follow their interests instead of being pushed through a curriculum, how will they develop…
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75. Am I Pushing My Child Too Much?
Should you push your child—or trust that they'll get there in their own time? It's one of the hardest questions parents face, especially when our children develop differently from those around them. Whether it's social confidence, independence, learning or everyday life skills, it can be…
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74. What's the Difference Between Homeschooling and Unschooling?
What's the difference between homeschooling and unschooling? Many people use the terms interchangeably, but they aren't the same thing. While both involve learning outside conventional school, they often reflect very different beliefs about children, learning and the role of parents. In this...
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73. Why Family Culture Matters More Than Curriculum
What if the most important part of your child's education isn't the curriculum—but the culture of your family? Many parents spend countless hours thinking about learning, routines and educational approaches. But there's something even more fundamental shaping children's lives every day: the…
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72. Where Can Unschooling Teens Find Friends?
One of the biggest fears parents have about unschooling is this: "Will my child find friends?" In this episode, we talk with Zoe, an unschooling teenager, and Christian, a long-time staff member at Not Back to School Camp, about what happens when young people have the chance to build genuine...
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71. Proud to Be: A Deep Dive w/ Cuee into Deschooling, Resilience & Black Trans Joy
As we celebrate Pride month, join us for this deep and joyful conversation around authenticity and the right to be who we truly are! We have Cuee in the house: a black trans man and hip hop artist that we got to know over a year ago in our Shift training in Puerto Rico. We chat about the…
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70. How to Help Your Child Build Healthy Friendships
How do children build healthy, meaningful friendships? When we think about friendship, it's easy to focus on whether our children have enough friends. But perhaps the more important question is: What kind of friendships are they building? In this episode, we explore what makes a friendship truly...
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69. Understanding Neurodivergent Children Beyond Labels
What changes when we stop trying to fix neurodivergent children and start trying to understand them? In this episode, we sit down with educator, researcher and unschooling parent Marnie Kammersell to explore neurodivergence through a radically different lens. Together we unpack what labels…
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68. Can an Only Child Thrive Without School?
Can an only child really thrive without school? What about friendships, community and loneliness? These are some of the questions we hear most often from parents considering homeschooling or unschooling. In this episode, we share our personal experiences of raising only children outside the…
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67. What Is Low Demand Parenting?
What is low demand parenting, and why is it helping so many families of neurodivergent children? In this episode, we sit down with Amanda Diekman, author of Low Demand Parenting, to explore a radically different way of supporting children whose nervous systems are overwhelmed by expectations,...
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66. Healing Your Relationship with Money
Why does money feel so stressful for so many of us? Could the way we relate to money have less to do with numbers—and more to do with the stories we've inherited? In this episode, we're joined by somatic healing practitioner Meenadchi, who invites us to look beyond budgeting, mindset and…
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65. A Conversation on SDE as a pathway to world peace
This episode is an unsual conversation that took place on the last day of our The Shift training we did in Ojai, February 2024. It was requested by one of the participants, and so those of us who wanted gathered and talked about the relationship bewteen peace and self-directed education. The...
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64. Burnout Recovery: Breaking Free from Productivity Culture
Burnout isn't just about being tired. It's what happens when we've spent too long living beyond our capacity. In this episode, we share our personal experiences of burnout, what recovery has looked like, and why healing isn't simply about getting more rest. It's about questioning the beliefs that...
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63. Can We Disagree Without Becoming Enemies?
Can we disagree without becoming enemies? Is it still possible to have meaningful conversations across differences? It often feels as though every disagreement has become a battle to win. But what if there was another way? In this episode, we're joined once again by educator, facilitator and...
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62. Why Learning Isn't the Same as Transformation
Why do some experiences change us while others simply give us more information? In this episode, we pull back the curtain on The Shift, our week-long deschooling intensive, and explore the thinking behind it. Rather than talking about the logistics, we share why we created The Shift in the first...
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61. How Can You Support a Transgender Child?
What do you do when your child tells you they're transgender or questioning their gender identity? How can you support them while also making space for your own fears and questions? In this episode, we're joined by healing companion and trans man Orion Queer for a thoughtful conversation about…
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60. Are We Letting Kids Be Kids?
What does it really mean to let kids be kids? And how often do our own fears, expectations and ideas about the future get in the way? In this episode, we explore what childhood looks like when children have the freedom to play, explore, take risks, follow their curiosity and grow at their own…
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59. Why Do Relationships Change When We Change?
Why do relationships sometimes become harder as we grow? Why do the people we love seem uncomfortable when we begin changing? Growth isn't only exciting. Sometimes it creates distance, misunderstanding and unexpected tension with the people who have known us the longest. In this episode, we…
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Radical Learning Talks is a bi-weekly podcast where Sari González and Becka Koritz explore different unschooling/deschooling/conscious parenting topics with the focus of shifting the way we think about education, learning, parenting, relationships, community and much more. Sari and Becka are unschooling mamas, parent coaches and leaders in the self-directed education movement. They provide support at the intersection of unschooling, parenting, relationships and community building through various kinds of unschooling tools and resources for self-directed learning families and communities.
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