Welcome to season three of the podcast A Brave Writers Life in Brief.

I'm Julie Bogart, your host.

Instead of trying to change my kid in order to meet what the colleges were looking for,

we were able to find and look for colleges that would appreciate his non-traditional path, and that really made it a lot easier for the transition.

And that really made it a lot easier for the transition.

And so a lot of times we worry so much about closing doors for our kids and we want to keep all of the doors open

when sometimes shutting those doors can actually direct you to a better path.

Episode 9 of season 3 of the podcast coming at you. Today's guest is someone familiar to many of you. Her name, Stephanie Elms. She is one of the coaches from our

Home School Alliance coaching community. She is also a veteran home educator. What I love about

Stephanie is that she repeatedly encourages parents to trust themselves, trust their kids, and trust the process.

Today's conversation is a treat because I think it will help you to do all those things.

Welcome, Stephanie with me today will you?

Today we have a delightful staff member of the Brave Rider team on the

podcast. I'm especially excited because as I was just saying to Stephanie, we

talk all the time and so I know this conversation is going to be as natural on the

podcast as it is when we're interacting online and also in the coaching community,

Brave Rider offers called the homeschool alliance.

Stephanie is our first fabulous homeschool coach that we hired to especially help all of

you homeschool with peace and progress. One of the

things that I loved about Stephanie right from the time that I first met her

online is that she shares so freely from her personal experience and is able to generate

great meaning and insight from the processes that she's engaged and all the

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