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Empowering moms to work from home and homeschool. Life Unboxed is a momtrepreneur's guide to raising kids, running a business, and keeping your sanity. So you can work at home and homeschool confidently. For more great momtrepreneur content check out lifeunboxed.blog. New episodes posted weekly.[Some of the links in the show notes are affiliate links. If you purchase using one of these links, I make a small commission at no additional cost to you. This helps me keeps things free for you, and who doesn’t love free stuff.]
Episodes
198 episodes
Chasing Your Dream (Part 2): Let's Change What It Means
I am all for dreams and goals that you want to pursue. These are necessary to help give direction and purpose for to your life. But I want to broaden the scope of what these dreams look like and what it means to be chasing them and pursuing you...
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How To Set Personal Boundaries For A Better Work Life Balance
Personal boundaries is always a hot topic amongst work from home moms. But it doesn’t mean it is easy to do. One of my biggest peeves is posts that suggest an idea without giving practical steps on how to do it. This post is going ...
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Chasing Your Dreams (Part 1): Challenging the Accepted Idea
This is going to be one of those posts that breaks with conventional wisdom and what you've always heard about chasing your dreams. This is a show that explores outside of the box, so we need to do this every once in a while. This is part 1 in ...
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Avoid To Do List Overwhelm And Still Get It All Done
The to do list is like the life-blood of your day. You can’t move or plan without it. At least it is for me. I live by my to do list. You write it all out so you can see what needs to be done and check those boxes when it does get done. I love ...
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10 Tips Working from Home: What I Wish I Knew Before Starting
We need to upend all our ideas on the right way to work and school. If you want to break from the 9-5, be your own boss, raise your kids, and enjoy your life. Then you need to start a business working from home.The struggle against these...
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Work from Home Mom Jobs: What Moms Do
It is hard not to have two incomes. Yes, you can be really frugal, but it helps to have that second income coming it. Work from home mom jobs expanded in the last few years, making it possible to make money from home and homeschool.
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How to Get Clients: 5 Ways to Get Clients as a Virtual Assistant
This isn't going to be the typical advice on how to get clients. We are once again going to explore outside of the box . This is going to offer an alternative to the standard lists. Many times when you read posts on how to get clients, the writ...
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Discover the Secret Sauce to Create Motivated Learners
One question I see asked a lot from homeschool moms is how do I create motivated learners? This is one of the biggest struggles in homeschool. Or at least it can feel like it. I confess, I’ve never struggled with motivating my kids...
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How to Find Work Life Balance with Family and Career
Work life balance is a topic that has been on my mind a lot. But it is an idea that I want to challenge as a rebel mom. This is a pain point and a major frustration for moms. Especially, if you are working from home. You would expec...
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What A Homeschool Day Looks Like For A Work From Home Mom
Mom, we are the unicorns in the homeschool world, or maybe not so much anymore. But it can feel like no one else knows what our homeschool day is like. The key to a successful homeschool day is to plan in such a way that you...
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How to Earn Money from Home: Pick Your Virtual Assistant Services
I am not offering any false promises of making a ton of money doing nothing. No one can promise that even though they try.You can start making money from home. Yes, ditch the 9–5 and money worries. This is a very practical how to earn mo...
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Unlock The Hidden Benefits Of Hiring Your Kids
Hiring your kids in your business is a great way to boost their resume, teach practical life skills, and add help for those mundane tasks you don’t want to do. I have a confession. Like all confessions, I will probably lose my momtr...
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Homeschooling Ideas: 15 Activities That Count As Homeschooling
Are you worried that you aren’t getting in enough hours in for your homeschool? Let’s take some of that pressure off. Did you know that learning goes beyond the books? It encompasses things you do throughout the day. Here are some homeschooling...
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The Ultimate Guide To Homeschool All In One Curriculum
Homeschool all in one curriculums are a work from home mom’s secret weapon. But they get a bad rap in the homeschool world. If you want to streamline your education journey, save time, and still tailor education for your kids. Then ...
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How To Create A Homeschool High School Transcript
You've been homeschooling a while or you just started, and you've discovered that you got this. Yes, you can really teach your kids. You are sailing along on your homeschool journey. It's not perfect, but it is good. Then, suddenly, out of nowh...
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Flexible Fall Homeschool Schedule: Planning Your Homeschool For Fall
Creating a flexible fall homeschool schedule is going to give you the homeschool freedom you want while ensuring those little clones you created are learning. The transition between summer break and starting a new school year isn't ...
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How to Handle a Client from Hell (in the Literal Sense)
Let's talk about the elephant in the room for freelancers—how to handle a client from hell (I mean this in the literal sense).We've all had them. If you've been doing this for any length of time, you encountered clients that were difficu...
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How to Homeschool and Work from Home: A Beginners Guide
Homeschooling and working from home can be a daunting task, especially for those who are new to both. However, with the right strategies and mindset, it is possible to balance both successfully.Yes, it can feel daunting. Check that off y...
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Best Advice For Mompreneurs | Everything You Need To Work from Home to Homeschooling
This is the best advice for mompreneurs, work from home moms, homeschool moms, or whatever you refer to yourself as. There is so much advice out there it can feel overwhelming when you are starting your online business. After...
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How To Choose The Best Homeschool Curriculum For Your Tribe
It is that time of year. You are probably shopping for books and getting next year's school schedules set up. Or at least thinking about starting. If you are just beginning your homeschool journey or looking for more tips on the best homeschool...
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Part 3: How to be Successful In Business As A Generalist
In part 1 of the series we talked about What is a Generalist and How to be a Great Virtual Assistant as One. In part 2, we discussed the Generalist vs Specialist ideas. In this final show, we are going to cover How to be Successful in Business ...
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Homeschool Life: 7 Reasons Your Homeschool Was A Disaster
Do you feel like your previous homeschool year was a disaster? Now is the time to reflect on your homeschool life and determine how to make next year better…or at least avoid the things that made this year hard. Homeschool life is c...
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Part 2: Generalist vs Specialist: You Can Be A Great Generalist
Generalist vs specialist is there room for both? Do you remember writing essay after essay or story after story that answered this question: What do you want to be when you grow up? It is a rite of passage for every elementary student to answer...
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Planning For Homeschooling: Everything You Need To Know
It is that time of year, planning for homeschooling! Out with the old curriculum or posted on Ebay, and in with the new. Planning for homeschooling can be fun and exciting, but it can also be a bit overwhelming. Whether you are new ...
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Part 1: What Is A Generalist And How To Be A Great VA As One
Do you need to be an expert? Think about how many times this idea has been told to you. Have you heard of the 10,000 hour rule or the idea of deliberate practice? Both of these ideas, among others, push the idea of expertise. But do you really ...
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