SS #171: The Vice of Envy
Scholé Sisters: Camaraderie for Classical Homeschooling Mamas
Brandy Vencel
4.7 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today's episode is a continuation of our ongoing conversation about vices – about the seven deadly sins. We're using the chapter of Rebecca Deyoung's book Glittering Vices to discuss ENVY. You're going to love this conversation!
***
Have you bought the Scholé Sisters' new book, Scholé Every Day yet? It is getting great reviews. If you are trying to get a book club off the ground, make this book your first reading assignment because convincing moms that it's okay to read — that they should be reading and thinking — is a large part of what the book does. Scholé Every Day will help cultivate the passion for reading that you want to see in your book club members. Go here to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Scholé-Every-Day-How-Thinking/dp/B0FRHPS3R5/
***
Go here to access today's show notes: https://www.scholesisters.com/ss171
Go here to join the FREE area of the Sistership: https://www.scholesisters.com/sistership/
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | As soon as computers entered classrooms, iPads, tablets, and all those things, learning went way down. |
| 0:10.5 | He does like kind of some debunking of myths and not everything I agree with because he's like, well, you know, it's not schools that are the problem. |
| 0:18.8 | And I was like, well, I think schools kind of aren't the problem. |
| 0:31.5 | Welcome to Scalae Sisters, where we are cultivating the maximum number of thinking moms we can. |
| 0:37.8 | This is the podcast for classical homeschooling mamas |
| 0:40.6 | who yearn for something more than just checking boxes and getting it all done. |
| 0:46.2 | Scalae Sisters discusses topics that matter to those of us who believe |
| 0:49.9 | that educating ourselves through reading widely, thinking deeply, and applying faithfully, |
| 0:56.1 | equips us for the task of educating our children. |
| 0:59.8 | I'm your host, Brandy Vensel. |
| 1:01.7 | To get my free, almost weekly, mostly Charlotte Mason newsletter, go to afterthoughts blog.net |
| 1:09.4 | slash subscribe and sign up. |
| 1:12.9 | My co-hosts today are Misty Winkler and Abby Wall. |
| 1:17.3 | Misty is a homeschooling mom of five, including three graduates. |
| 1:21.1 | She writes and podcasts at simplyconvial.com |
| 1:24.1 | and is the author of two excellent books, |
| 1:27.0 | the Convivial homeschool and simplified organization. |
| 1:31.8 | Abby is basically the queen of the school-a-sistership. |
| 1:35.6 | Abby is a country-living farmer, rancher, a loving wife and mom of five who homeschools |
| 1:41.0 | and reads whenever she can. |
| 1:45.2 | Have you bought our new book Scalae every day yet? |
| 1:48.7 | It is getting great reviews. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brandy Vencel, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Brandy Vencel and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.