15 Best Unschooling Podcasts
Unschooling Podcasts
Here are 15 Best Unschooling Podcasts worth listening to in 2025. Subscribe in one place on FeedSpot Reader.
Play All Episodes Follow All1. 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
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 49.8KTwitter 9KInstagram 14.9K Avg Length 32 min Since Jan 2018 Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com . We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us
2. 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
Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 4.3KTwitter 36Instagram 2.3K Avg Length 59 min Get Email Contact
3. Exploring Unschooling
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Explore unschooling with Pam Laricchia, unschooling mom and author. Choosing to live and learn without school isn't as intimidating as you might first imagine. Children really do love learning when it's driven by curiosity rather than curriculum, and the connected and trusting relationships that develop in unschooling families are priceless.MORE Host Pam Laricchia
Producer/Network Pam Laricchia
Email ****@livingjoyfully.ca
Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 8.3KTwitter 129Instagram 3.5K Avg Length 34 min Since Jan 2016 Get Email Contact
4. 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
Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 598Twitter 323 Avg Length 49 min Get Email Contact
5. 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 González, Rebecka Koritz
Producer/Network Radical Learning
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 1.3KInstagram 5.2K Avg Length 36 min Get Email Contact
6. 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
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Facebook 37.8KInstagram 25.4K Avg Length 10 min Get Email Contact
7. Unschooling Conversations
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Unschooling conversations with Heidi Steel and guests, discussing life and learning from an Unschooling perspective
Host Heidi Steel
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Apple Rating 5/5Facebook 2.5KInstagram 773 Avg Length 48 min 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 unschoolingwithkai@gmail.com with any feedback or episode suggestions.MORE Producer/Network Kai and Dan
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Apple Rating 4.5/5 Avg Length 30 min 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
Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 4KInstagram 21.5K Avg Length 35 min 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
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Twitter 1.5K Avg Length 63 min Since Mar 2015 Get Email Contact
11. The Unschool Files
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In this podcast, you will hear from real-life unschoolers on a range of topics on self-directed learning and living without school. This podcast is no 'how-to' with experts but rather some of the nuanced and intersectional experiences in the unschooling community.MORE Email ****@gmail.com
Instagram 2.6K Avg Length 64 min Since Oct 2019 Get Email Contact
12. 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
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 831Twitter 5 Avg Length 46 min Since Sep 2017 Get Email Contact
13. 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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14. 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
Apple Rating 3/5 Avg Length 7 min Get Email Contact
Unschooling shows hosts and producers
Podcaster Name | Role | Podcast Link | Total Episodes | Twitter Handle | |
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Colleen Kessler | Host | raisinglifelonglearners.com/podcast | 27 | @colleenkessler | |
Cecilie Conrad | Co Host | theconrad.family/podcast | 1 | ||
Jesper Conrad | Co Host | theconrad.family/podcast | 1 | @jesperconrad | |
Pam Laricchia | Host | livingjoyfully.ca/blog | 14 | @pamlaricchia | |
Esther Jones | Host | theunschoolspace.buzzsprout.com | @unschoolspace | ||
Sari González | Co Host | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/radical-learning | 17 | ||
Rebecka Koritz | Co Host | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/radical-learning | 17 | ||
Sue Patterson | Host | unschoolingmom2mom.com/podcast | 26 | @sue5 | |
Heidi Steel | Host | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heidi-steel | 4 | @heidisteel | |
Blake Boles | Host | blakeboles.com/podcast | @blakeboles | ||
Akilah S. Richards | raisingfreepeople.com/podcast | 12 | @RadicalSelfie | ||
Kai and Dan | readingrecipe.blogspot.com/p/unschooling-with-kai-podcast.html | 9 | |||
Sue Elvis | storiesofanunschoolingfamily.com/my-podcasts | 5 | |||
Emma Zhao | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/walkyourpath | 5 |