13 Best Unschooling Podcasts

1. 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
Email ****@livingjoyfully.ca
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guests Iris Chen, Lucy AitkenRead
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2. The Life Without School Podcast

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The Life Without School Podcast is your grounded, research-backed companion for homeschooling, unschooling, and raising your kids outside the system. Hosted by Issy (aka Stark Raving Dad), a home educating dad of four, each episode offers clear, honest guidance to help you build a life that works - for your child, and for you.MORE Host Issy Butson
Producer/Network Stark Raving Dad
Email ****@starkravingdadblog.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 909 Avg Length 32 min Format Medium form 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
Email ****@suepatterson.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 107Facebook 37.5KInstagram 24.8K Avg Length 9 min Format Bite size Get Email Contact

4. Stories of an Unschooling Family

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Want to know more about unschooling? How about radical unschooling? (It's not as scary or as wild as some people make out!) Join me as I share ideas, stories, homeschool record-keeping tips and resources for living an unschooling life of unconditional love.MORE Host Sue Elvis
Email ****@bigpond.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 57 Avg Length 50 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
Email ****@esther-jones.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest Melissa Crockett-Joyoue
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 19Facebook 795Twitter 323 Avg Length 44 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. 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
Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 20Facebook 1.4KInstagram 23K Avg Length 42 min Format Long form 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
Email ****@googlemail.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Recent Guests Iris Wong, Melissa Crockett-Joyoue
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 15Facebook 2.5KInstagram 1.1K Avg Length 42 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

8. Virtual Kitchen Table

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We'd like to welcome you to the Virtual Kitchen Table. We are Hayley from Taking a Kinder Path, Erin from Ever Learning and Ashley from Ashley as Mama and Storytime Shelves. We're gathering to have conversations about family life and home education, most specifically unschooling, which is sometimes known as self-directed education or, as we sometimes refer to it, whole life learning, consent-based education or natural learning. We'll be sharing experiences and ideas, learning as we go through relaxed conversation. We hope you'll pull a chair up to the table and join us.MORE Hosts Hayley, Erin, Ashley
Producer/Network Erin
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 11 Avg Length 134 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

9. The Ladies Fixing the World

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Three Moms, One Podcast: Conversations on Unschooling and Parenting In Season Two of The Ladies Fixing the World, Cecilie Conrad is joined by renowned unschooling pioneers Sandra Dodd and Sue Elvis to redefine what learning can truly look like. Together, they explore the philosophy and practicalities of unschooling—where curiosity, trust, and relationships replace rigid curricula—and how this approach transforms both families and personal growth.MORE Producer/Network The Conrad Family
Email ****@theconrad.family
Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 3 Avg Length 107 min Format Extended Get Email Contact

10. Unschooling Unfiltered

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Unschooling Unfiltered is a podcast for parents questioning the traditional path and exploring learning beyond the classroom. This is NOT advice... this is simply perspective... Hosted by Leanne Schweitzer, the show features solo reflections on conscious parenting and family life, interviews with homeschooling, unschooling, and world-schooling mamas, and audiobook-style readings with her six-year-old daughter. No hype. No one-size-fits-all answers. Just honest conversations about trusting your child, following curiosity, and creating a life that actually fits your family...MORE Email ****@yahoo.com
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11. Enjoy and Bless: Reflections on Unschooling as a Follower of Jesus

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Hi! I'm here to share short reflections on unschooling as a follower of Jesus. Whether you're unschooling, homeschooling, or just curious about self-driven education, I welcome you to join me in exploring thoughts on choosing a path less traveled. I'll be sharing from a Christian perspective but hope what I have to say is encouraging to all!Contact: ****@gmail.comMORE Email ****@gmail.com
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12. 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 Host Akilah S. Richards
Email ****@akilahsrichards.com
Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 273Twitter 4KInstagram 21.1K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Since Jul 2016 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
Instagram 14 Avg Length 107 min Format Extended Since Aug 2020 Get Email Contact