Welcome to season 4 of the Brave Writer Podcast, A Brave Writers Life in Brief.

I'm Julie Bogart, your host.

This season we are releasing via audio our most popular YouTube broadcasts.

We're so excited that you can now listen to these on audio

while you're running, driving in the car, or folding laundry. We will also sprinkle throughout this season

original content interviews with people I think are compelling to listen to.

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And now, let's get going with this episode.

Today's podcast episode is going to be quite a treat. I stumbled on Leah Bowden's

Instagram account about a year ago and discovered a kindred spirit. One of my most

popular conference talks is called

updating Charlotte Mason to the 21st century and here was Leah running a website

called the Modern Miss Mason. As a Brit, I figured she'd have strong, well-formid opinions about this topic,

so I invited her to share on our podcast today.

Leah is a member of the wildly popular, wild and free community, get it,

wildly popular, yeah yeah. Anyway, she's one of their writers and speakers. I had the fun of

speaking at one of those events in Portland last

spring so I know the amazing energy of that group. Somehow with all that going

on Leah has four kids that she is currently homeschooling and she's been at it for 11 years.

Her Instagram photos include the beautiful English countryside, all their nature journaling activities

which make all of us in the state

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