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Radical Personal Finance

741-How to Help Your Children Discover, Develop, and Profit From Their Passions and Talents: Interview with Jonathan Harris

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

What are your goals for your children? What skills and abilities do you want them to have when they leave your home?

My guest, Jonathan Harris, is the father of nine children. His four eldest children have all established themselves as independent adults, building careers on the foundation of their personal talents and passions.

In today's show, we discuss the strategies and tactics that have been helpful for him.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Radical Personal Finance to Show Dedicated

0:03.0

Providing You Need, with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need,

0:06.0

live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

0:11.0

My name is Joshua Sheets. I am your host and today I am joined by Jonathan Harris. Jonathan welcome to radical personal, or welcome back to radical personal finance.

0:20.0

Thank you.

0:23.0

It's been what four years probably five years something like that since you were last on the show?

0:28.0

I don't remember exactly but I know that you have been on the show before we talked about homeschooling.

0:32.0

Yeah, it's been significant.

0:34.0

And so I wanted to invite you back today to talk about home education,

0:40.0

talk about some of your experiences with home education,

0:42.0

and I think that you are you talk about home

0:45.0

your experiences with home education and I think that you are uniquely positioned to talk about home education.

0:48.0

Unlike many parents who this year due to all the school shut downs for COVID, unlike many parents who find themselves

0:56.9

homeschooling for the first time, you've been doing this for quite a while and not only that

1:01.7

but you've got children at every stage your

1:04.2

eldest is how old now my oldest is 22 now 22 and my youngest is four okay and

1:12.3

you've home so your children I'm I talked to you youngest is four. four.

1:13.0

So the last time I talked to you, yeah the last time I talked to you, my youngest would not even have been born

1:19.3

yet.

1:20.3

So, yeah, that's quite a span actually. It is of ages. So I feel like we've moved from one decade of homeschooling into a new era of homeschooling. know the trends move and and you don't see it from year to year but then when you look back and try to remember

1:37.9

Your youngest one how you were doing it more than 10 years ago and it's like well things that have changed.

1:43.0

Right, right.

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