Hey everyone. Welcome to this week's podcast. I'm Dorenda Wilson, married to Daryl for 29 years. I'm a mom to eight kids, ages 14 to 27. We've got five graduated so far. I am a nana to five grandkids,

and we've been homeschooling for over 24 years. I am super excited to be here today. I want to tell you

really quickly, if you haven't checked out my simple, mercifully short book on homeschooling called

The Unhurried Homestooler. I would love

for you to go check that out on Amazon. This podcast today is brought to you by teaching textbooks,

which is an awesome math curriculum that we use and have been using for years. Now, I've mentioned

several times how excited I am to be seeing more and more viable and practical

alternatives for college. Higher education, it really is changing. And as homeschooling parents,

we kind of need to stay in the loop. But the great thing is that prepping with these changes

that are happening right now, keeping these changes in mind,

it's so doable. And we're going to talk about that more today. And some of you may remember that

I mentioned that one of our sons has been doing an online internship program called Praxis.

And right now he's finishing up the six-month online boot camp. And the next six months,

he'll spend doing a paid internship. So he has learned so much in the last six months.

It's really, I can see where it has really equipped him to compete in the job market.

He's met some great people at Praxis. today I'm happy to have one of those people

here on the podcast with me. Lolita is here. Lolita, tell me how to say your last name. It's Augeyer.

It's German. Okay. A lot of people don't realize how to say it. Yeah. Well, now I know. That's awesome.

So she is a marketing associate at Praxis,

which, you know, obviously, as I said before, it's like an apprenticeship program that helps

young people launch their careers without college. She is passionate about self-education

and about empowering other young people to carve their own

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