Welcome to the Wild and Free podcast, episode 56. I'm Ainsley Arment, and this week, Erin Lochner, the author of Chasing Slow, talks about how her principles for intentional living can apply to our homeschools.

You know, we see, like, our friends with their, like, miniature backpacks and lunchboxes, like, sending their children off to, you know, a building.

And we think that counts because that looks like action, right?

That looks like a product, like you were doing something intentional.

But there's just as much intentional things happening inside your own house that you just don't realize.

Plus, we just added two new events at the Wild and Free Farm Village.

So grab a cup of coffee and join us on the front porch.

Let's get started.

After my father's army career, he became a business consultant to CEOs, Fortune 500 companies,

and the military, specializing in the application of the Myers-Briggs type indicator.

The MBTI.

Not only did I grow up knowing the nuances of my personality type, but I was also celebrated

for the strengths of my wiring.

So it was only natural that when I brought

my then-fiancee Ben home to meet my dad one weekend, he sat him down at the kitchen table and gave him

the test. It must have turned out well because he raised no objections at the wedding. But I never

knew how powerful personality types could be until we had to navigate

the differences in our personalities in those first few years of marriage. For example, I'm a

perceiver and Ben is a judger. So he lives by a to-do list, a calendar, and a scheduling app on top of it.

I prefer to go with the flow, respond to life as it comes, and wait as

long as I can to make decisions in the likelihood that new information might come along. Ben makes

lists and uses them. I make lists and lose them. Early on, our evenings out sounded something like this.

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