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Is it possible to build a 6 or 7-figure business while homeschooling your kids? How do other Homeschool CEO’s make it all work? How does blending homeschooling and entrepreneurship achieve true freedom and flexibility for the entire family? And the biggest question of all, can I *really* run a profitable business and homeschool WITHOUT feeling stressed, overwhelmed, and exhausted? Welcome to the Homeschool CEO Podcast where we will answer ALL of these questions and so much more. Your host Jen Myers is a wife and mom with 16 years of homeschooling and entrepreneurship experience. She talks with other Homeschool CEO’s about how they are making it all work. Listen in for practical tips on mindset mixed with a special blend of business and homeschool strategy – everything you need to successfully homeschool while running a profitable business!
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Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Sometimes life throws us curveballs unexpectedly and it's up to us to decide how to handle it. What do you do to rise to the occasion?
For Tara Bushaw, that meant pulling her kids out of school to homeschool them and leaving her job in order to work freelance and eventually start a business.
Tara is a married mom of 8 who homeschools 5 kids still remaining at home. She's on the podcast today to share with us her amazing story of what she did to support her family after her spouse and several of her children experienced unexpected medical issues, including a stroke, a heart attack, diabetes, hearing loss, and down syndrome among others.
She shares how these tragedies inspired her to start homeschooling and freelancing and how those led to her creating a business that helps parents and caregivers start freelancing with skills they already have so they too can be where it matters most.
If you're facing a crisis in your life and wish you had more freedom and flexibility to process things and define success in your own terms, you're going to be amazed by Tara.
In This Episode, You’ll Discover:
- how Tara accidentally got into freelancing when her second child was diagnosed with hearing loss and while pregnant with baby #3
- what happened when her husband got a stroke while she was pregnant with baby #7 and the other curveballs that happened to her family
- the pivotal moment that triggered and inspired her to start her own business in 2018
- what helped her keep going and emerge victorious during the hard times
- what sparked the idea for their family to start homeschooling
- her advice for those who are starting homeschooling in the midst of a crisis
- when and why they started child-led learning and how they did it with their kids
- how she handles other people questioning their decision to homeschool
- her biggest challenge with managing life as an entrepreneur with homeschooling
- Tara's advice for her younger self when she had first decided to blend entrepreneurship with homeschooling
Tara is such a master at creating lemonade out of lemons. Her inspiring story is just proof of how both homeschooling and entrepreneurship provide us with the freedom and flexibility to handle whatever life throws at us.
Where to Find Tara:
Accelerating Your Freelance Journey (E-Book Freebie)
What’s Possible With Freelance Work (E-Book Freebie)
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