15 Best Unschooling Podcasts

1. Raising Lifelong Learners

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The Raising Lifelong Learners podcast helps homeschooling parents encourage their differently-wired kids to learn, explore passions, cultivate creativity, and become fascinated by the world around them. Join host Colleen Kessler -- educational consultant, gifted specialist, author, and speaker -- for interviews, audioblogs, tips, and encouragement to help your differently-wired kiddos become lifelong learners -- children who know that they can find the answers to anything they want to know if they can just view their world with play, passion, and fascination.MORE Host Colleen Kessler
Producer/Network Colleen Kessler
Email ****@colleen-kessler.com
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 217Facebook 49.3KTwitter 9KInstagram 15.1K Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Since Jan 2018 Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Exploring Unschooling

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Explore unschooling with Pam Laricchia, Anna Brown, and Erika Ellis. We want to help parents figure out how to apply bigger picture unschooling ideas in their everyday lives.
Host Pam Laricchia
Producer/Network Pam Laricchia
Email ****@livingjoyfully.ca
Estimated listeners
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 225Facebook 8.3KTwitter 129Instagram 3.5K Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Since Jan 2016 Get Email Contact

3. Unschooling Mom2Mom

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The Unschooling Mom2Mom podcast is a quick conversation with Sue Patterson, coach, author, and mother of 3 grown unschoolers. Sue shares inspiration and tips to help you find the unschooling confidence you're looking for! Even if you're more of a 'homeschooler' than an 'unschooler,' these 10 minute(ish) podcasts can help you find more joy in parenting, educating and connecting with your children!MORE Host Sue Patterson
Producer/Network Sue Patterson
Email ****@suepatterson.com
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 107Facebook 37.7KInstagram 25.1K Avg Length 8 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

4. Self Directed

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Self Directed - A Podcast on Life, Learning, and Raising Free Thinkers. Hosts Cecilie and Jesper Conrad, full-time travellers since 2018 and parents of four, invite a new guest on the podcast every Thursday.MORE Hosts Cecilie Conrad, Jesper Conrad
Producer/Network The Conrad Family
Email ****@theconrad.family
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 31Facebook 4.3KTwitter 36Instagram 2.4K Avg Length 56 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. The Unschool Space

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Unschooling isn't just about education, it's a life choice! For most parents, embracing unschooling requires some serious unravelling of old paradigms around parenting, learning and childhood, and that can be both challenging and exhilarating. Join me, Esther Jones, a mindful parenting coach and unschooling mother-of-three, as I take a look at the many opportunities for reflection that naturally arise in an unschooling home. Each episode, I chat with other parents about their family's experiences...MORE Host Esther Jones
Producer/Network Esther Jones
Email ****@esther-jones.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 19Facebook 703Twitter 323 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. Unschooling Conversations

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Unschooling conversations with Heidi Steel and guests, discussing life and learning from an Unschooling perspective
Host Heidi Steel
Producer/Network Heidi Steel
Email ****@googlemail.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 27Facebook 2.5KInstagram 843 Avg Length 45 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Radical Learning Talks

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Radical Learning Talks is a bi-weekly podcast where Sari González and Becka Koritz explore different unschooling/deschooling/conscious parenting topics with the focus of shifting the way we think about education, learning, parenting, relationships, community and much more. Sari and Becka are unschooling mamas, parent coaches and leaders in the self-directed education movement. They provide support at the intersection of unschooling, parenting, relationships and community building through various kinds of unschooling tools and resources for self-directed learning families and communities.MORE Hosts Sari Gonzu00e1lez, Rebecka Koritz
Producer/Network Radical Learning
Email ****@radical-learning.org
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 20Facebook 1.3KInstagram 5.6K Avg Length 43 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

8. Unschooling with Kai

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After many car rides filled with episodes of the Stuff You Should Know podcast with the famous Chuck and Josh, Kai said, 'Hey, we should make our own podcast!' Being fresh unschoolers ourselves, we decided to dive right in and start exploring topics of Kai's interest. Each episode is a different interest of Kai's. We figure out what we already know, research and answer our questions using the library, YouTube, museums, and the internet. Then we organize our findings and present them to you! Feel free to contact us at ****@gmail.com with any feedback or episode suggestions.MORE Producer/Network Kai and Dan
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.5/5Apple Reviews 10 Avg Length 28 min Format Medium form Since Oct 2019 Get Email Contact

9. Fare of the Free Child

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Fare of the Free Child podcast focuses on Black people, Native Indigenous people, and People of Color (BIPOC) families who practice unschooling and other forms of Self-directed, decolonized living and learning. Each weekly episode examines a particular way that we've accepted coercive, emotionally and physically damaging habits as a normal part of adult-child relationships...MORE Producer/Network Akilah S. Richards
Email ****@akilahsrichards.com
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 273Twitter 4KInstagram 21.3K Avg Length 35 min Format Medium form Since Jul 2016 Get Email Contact

10. Off-Trail Learning

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Interviews with innovative educators, self-directed young people, and others who think differently about learning, teaching, and schooling. Hosted by Blake Boles (blakeboles.com), author of 'Why Are You Still Sending Your Kids to School?' and founder of Unschool Adventures.MORE Host Blake Boles
Producer/Network Blake Boles
Email ****@blakeboles.com
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 66Twitter 1.5K Avg Length 63 min Format Long form Since Mar 2015 Get Email Contact

11. Old School / New School

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An unschooling podcast that discusses the hero's journey and how we can all unleash our creative genius by thinking outside the box!
Producer/Network With Guide Nicholle
Email ****@gmail.com
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 4Facebook 831Twitter 5 Avg Length 46 min Format Long form Since Sep 2017 Get Email Contact

12. WALK YOUR PATH ? Dropping in with Dropouts

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WALK YOUR PATH, a weekly livestream, explores the lives of unschoolers, self-directed learners, and others who have taken unconventional liberties with their education and lives. For all the life-long learners, renaissance souls, and unconventional thinkers out there! ? ☁️ ⚡️MORE Producer/Network Emma Zhao
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Instagram 16 Avg Length 107 min Format Extended Since Aug 2020 Get Email Contact

13. Unschooling To University

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How to embrace self-directed learning instead of homeschooling and school, and attend colleges and universities for further education.
Producer/Network Judy Arnall
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Apple Rating 3/5Apple Reviews 15 Avg Length 7 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact