Homeschool Moms Make Money - Homeschool Routines, Homeschool Schedules, and Building a Business

If you want to stay consistent with homeschool but cannot tell whether any of it is working, this episode is for you. Erin shares how a daily read aloud, a chore chart, and two years of patient reading practice taught her what watering really looks like.

What you'll learn in this episode

• How a homeschool daily rhythm built on a few anchors keeps your days steady when motivation drops.
• Why a homeschool read aloud is the habit that keeps giving, and how Erin protects it.
• How a simple homeschool chore system can run for years with almost no nagging.
• What to remember about teaching kids to read when progress feels invisible.

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator turned homeschool mom and founder of erinmeinel.com, where she helps homeschool moms build sustainable rhythms and businesses of their own.

Links mentioned

• Free 2-night workshop (Nov 10 and 12, 7 PM Central): https://erinmeinel.com/make-money-from-home
• 13 | Tidy in 10: The Homeschool Chore System That Actually Works
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/13-tidy-in-10-the-homeschool-chore-system-that/id6790794941?i=1000788446460

• https://erinmeinel.com

Connect with Erin

• https://erinmeinel.com

• Substack: https://substack.com/@erinmeinel
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/erinmeinel

A quiet time routine that actually works in a homeschool does not happen by accident, and pediatric sleep consultant Jessie Martin of The Goodnight House joins Erin to show how to build one. They cover nap time tips for kids 3 and under, homeschool quiet time for older kids, and how Jessie is building a sleep app while homeschooling four children.

What you'll learn in this episode

• Nap time tips for little ones, including a by the clock schedule built on age-appropriate wake windows, a dark room, and white noise.
• How to set up homeschool quiet time with a simple "quiet reading time" and how to reset it after a break.
• How a pediatric sleep consultant plans her week so she can work during quiet time and still homeschool.
• What it looks like to build an app one next step at a time.

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator turned homeschool mom and founder of erinmeinel.com, where she helps homeschool moms build sustainable rhythms and businesses of their own.

Links mentioned

• The Goodnight House: thegoodnighthouse.com
• Jessie on Instagram: @thegoodnighthouse
• Sleep Without Sleep Training guide: https://thegoodnighthouse.com/shop/p/healthy-sleep-without-sleep-training-1
• Free Yoto audiobook list: https://thegoodnighthouse.com/podcast/wheretofindfreeyotocontent
• App waitlist or beta signup: https://summer-sunset-90790.myflodesk.com/rlx4pd2rsc
• Free 2-night workshop, Make Money From Home as a Homeschool Mom (Nov 10 and 12, 7 PM CST): https://erinmeinel.com/make-money-from-home
• https://erinmeinel.com

If you want to start a business as a homeschool mom but keep waiting until you feel ready, this episode is for you. Erin shares what the littlest hockey players and her son's first game taught her about planting something small and putting it where people can find it.

What you'll learn in this episode

• Why the best homeschool mom business ideas start as one small thing you can do this week, not a finished brand.
• How to start a business while homeschooling by taking one public step before you feel qualified.
• What it looks like to build a work from home homeschool mom income in the margin you already have.
• Why the first step in your business is usually unpaid, and why that does not mean it is not working.

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator turned homeschool mom and founder of erinmeinel.com, where she helps homeschool moms build sustainable rhythms and businesses of their own.

Links mentioned

• Free 2-night workshop, Make Money From Home as a Homeschool Mom (Nov 10 and 12, 7 PM Central): https://erinmeinel.com/make-money-from-home
• https://erinmeinel.com/

Your first year homeschooling will almost never look like what you pictured, and that is not a sign you chose wrong. In this episode, Erin Meinel tells the story of carrying ten years of kindergarten classroom up from her basement and rebuilding school inside her own living room, what she pulled out within weeks, and the one thing she kept that changed the entire shape of their days.

This is the planting season, homeschool side. It is for the first-year mom wondering whether she is doing this wrong, and for the mom in year three who is still running something she inherited rather than chose.

In this episode

• Why everybody plants what she already knows in her first year homeschooling, and why that is completely normal
• What Erin brought up from her basement, and how fast she had to pull it back out
• The one thing she kept, and why letting kids move during read alouds changed everything
• The permission a former teacher had that most homeschool moms do not, and how to give it to yourself
• Why you should plant less curriculum than you think you need

Links mentioned

• https://erinmeinel.com/

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

Resources

• https://erinmeinel.com/
• Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand

Building a business that starts as an idea and becomes a calling rarely happens overnight, and in this episode Erin Meinel talks with Carolina Martinez of Cash Flow with Carolina and Greater Financial about the long season of preparation behind hers.

Carolina is a financial planner and a fellow Christian mom entrepreneur, and she shares how prayer, her husband's wisdom, and a few moments of unmistakable timing shaped her businesses. This conversation is for the homeschool mom who feels a stirring and can't name it yet.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• How Carolina went from five years as a financial planner to starting Cash Flow with Carolina when her son was 7 weeks old, taking a leap of faith without seeing the whole staircase.
• What discerning this calling looked like when she turned down a part-time six-figure offer, felt no peace about another firm, and went on to open Greater Financial.
• Why a humbling season, like Erin's two years working for someone else after closing her businesses, can be preparation, and what to do when you sense a stirring but can't name it yet.

Links mentioned

• Made for Mothers networking group (join for $1): https://made-for-mothers.mykajabi.com/a/2148135155/Nr25VQoJ
• https://cashflowwithcarolina.com/
• https://greaterfinancial.co/
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

Resources

• https://erinmeinel.com/
• Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://substack.com/@erinmeinel
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand

Homeschool Moms Make Money is published twice weekly on Podbean and all major podcast directories.

How to know what business to start is the question Erin Meinel gets more than any other, and the usual answers about passion and niche research are not how it actually happened for her. In this episode she tells the story of the 2018 season that turned into her first business, why she never planned to own one at all, and the single question that works better than any niche exercise.

This is the business side of the preparation season. It covers the inward work of prayer and wise counsel, the outward work of noticing what people already come to you for, and the honest line between preparing and stalling.

In this episode

• Why Erin swore she would never be a business owner, and what changed
• How her first business started with a problem she solved for her own family first
• The personal brand association you already have, whether you built it on purpose or not
• The better question to ask instead of what is my passion
• The inward and outward halves of preparation, and why you need both
• How to tell the difference between genuine discernment and stalling

Links mentioned

• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: erinmeinel.com
• Episode 17, on the personal brand you already have

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

Resources

• https://erinmeinel.com/
• Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand

How to prepare to homeschool is usually answered with a curriculum list and a supply run, and that is not what this episode is about. Erin Meinel walks through her own twenty-year preparation, from deciding at age seven to become a teacher, through a decade in early childhood classrooms, to the parent-teacher conference and the book that finally made the decision undeniable.

Preparation is almost always retroactive. You cannot see it while you are in it. This episode is for the mom who thinks she is starting from scratch, and for the mom who has been sitting in preparation so long it has quietly turned into waiting.

In this episode

• Why preparation is the first season and the one almost nobody believes they are in
• Erin's full preparation story, including the teaching degree, the classroom decade, and the parent-teacher conference that changed everything
• How Hold On to Your Kids gave language to what she was already watching in her children
• Why everything you have already lived counts as homeschool preparation, even the parts that had nothing to do with children
• The two active things preparation asks of you, and how to keep this season from turning into indefinite waiting
• Why preparation comes back around every single year

Links mentioned

• Hold On to Your Kids, by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate
• https://erinmeinel.com/

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

Resources

• https://erinmeinel.com/
• Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand

🎉 Celebrate with me! The Giveaway: win my LAST Foundations First spot this month

This podcast started in August and we’re almost at 2,000 downloads. To say thank you, I’m giving one homeschool mom a free spot in Foundations First, my two-week, one-on-one coaching program (a $297 value). We work together on a private voice messaging app, and you finish with your own Rhythm & Margin Plan and a clear picture of what you could build next.

Go from overwhelmed, wondering where your days went, to confident, present where your feet are, and with a little extra time for YOU. You can't pour from an empty cup, mama!

“Every day we worked together, I was telling my husband, Erin gave me the greatest tip.”
Rene, Foundations First

How to enter:

• Follow the podcast and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Already left one? Leave a fresh one, since there are newer episodes since you last shared!
• Screenshot it and email it to hello@erinmeinel.com, or share it in your Instagram stories and tag @erinmeinel

Bonus entries (3 each):

• Tag three homeschool mom friends on the giveaway post on Instagram (pinned at the top)
• Share your biggest struggle with homeschooling and/or running a business, in your email or in the comments on the post

✨ That's SEVEN total entries you could earn to win this coaching experience! ✨

Entries close Sunday, October 18 at 8 PM Central. I’ll announce the winner Monday, October 19.

Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id6790794941

Giveaway post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DeZ3uSVjU3z/?vrfl=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&srtk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Not sponsored or endorsed by Instagram.

Starting a business after homeschooling is one honest answer to the question of when to build, not the only one, and Kristen Brink has the hindsight to walk us through her reasoning. She homeschooled her three sons from 2011 to 2021, and they are now independent adults in their 20s who, as she puts it, are not ruined. In this conversation she answers the questions every new homeschool mom asks, including "Am I going to ruin my children if I homeschool them?" and, when it comes to building something alongside your homeschool, how to tell "not right now because I know myself" from "not right now because I am scared." Tune in for her wisdom!

IN THIS EPISODE

• Why Kristen's three sons, now 21, 28, and 29, turned out fine, and the stereotype they still hear about homeschoolers
• Why homeschooling does not have to look like public school to get your kids where they want to go
• Skills to teach and nurture beyond a four-year degree plan, from selling to cooking to running a food business
• Why Kristen chose not to build a business while homeschooling, and how she knew her all-or-nothing personality made that the right call
• How to know if it is the right season to start a business, and Kristen's test for telling self-knowledge from fear
• What the homeschool years were quietly preparing: continuing education, productivity books, and curriculum she first built for her own boys
• Why everyone needs multiple income streams, even your teenage and twenty-something kids
• How a homeschool mom business can grow out of what you are already doing, one semester-long curriculum at a time

LINKS MENTIONED

• Shaping Minds Co., Kristen's Socratic homeschool curriculum shop on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ShapingMindsCo
• The Portfolio Parent, Kristen's Substack on building multiple income streams while you stay home with your kids: https://portfolioparent.substack.com/
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.com

YOUR NEXT STEP

Whether or not this is your season to build, the free Personal Brand Identity Quiz at erinmeinel.com takes five minutes and will tell you something about the kind of builder you already are.

ABOUT ERIN

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

RESOURCES

• https://erinmeinel.com
• Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand

Homeschool Moms Make Money is published twice weekly on all major podcast directories.

The seasons of homeschooling are not the same as the seasons of building a business, and most homeschool moms are living in both at once without realizing it. In this episode, Erin Meinel introduces the seven-season framework that will carry the rest of the fall: preparation, planting, watering, weeding, pruning, harvesting, and rest.

This is the framing episode for the series. It is not a diagnostic and there is nothing to fill out. It is a list, and the point is to hear yourself in it.

In this episode

• Why your homeschool year feels harder in October than it did in August, and why that is a season rather than a failure
• The seven seasons named, with what each one actually feels like from the inside
• Why watering is the longest season and the one most women quit in
• The difference between weeding and pruning, and why pruning is harder
• Why you are almost always in two different seasons at once, and what Erin's own homeschool and business look like right now
• What is coming in the rest of the series, including the question of which season gets to set the pace

Links mentioned

• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: erinmeinel.com

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

Resources

• https://erinmeinel.com/
• Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand

The biblical order of priorities is easy to nod along to and very hard to actually live. In this episode, Blake Guichet of The Speakeasy tells Erin Meinel what happened when God asked her to lay down the political content platform she had spent five years building, the five months she spent saying no, and what she found on the other side of finally saying yes.

This is a conversation about obedience, rest, and reordering a life. It is also an honest look at how a homeschool mom actually makes money online, and it is the doorway into the seven seasons series that begins next week.

In this episode

• The biblical order Blake threads through scripture, and what changed when she put work and ministry last instead of first
• Why she spent five months in outright disobedience before she made the change, and what that year cost her
• What actually happened to her audience when a Christian content creator pivoted away from the topic that built her platform
• How homeschool moms make money online: brand deals, the shift toward affiliate partnerships, and why she chose to do two things well instead of five things poorly
• Why rest still scares her a year in, and how to know the difference between your own wanting and God's leading
• What she wants you to do before you lay anything down

Links mentioned

• Blake Guichet on Instagram: @thegirlnamedblake
• The Speakeasy podcast, on YouTube and everywhere you listen
• Letters from B, Blake's Friday newsletter
• Erin's episode on The Speakeasy: https://thegirlnamedblake.com/podcast
• Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/letting-go-of-what-youve-built-what-god-gives-back/id1440149171?i=1000792317707
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cdEcy0lPcg2bOIH9JHFiG?si=pV8HvnAKSg6gu6oumIXAeg
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz and Work with Me: https://erinmeinel.com

About Erin

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

Resources

• https://erinmeinel.com
• Eternal Parenting on Substack
• Personal Brand Identity Quiz

What really matters as a homeschool mom often has very little to do with a finished checklist. In this episode, Erin Meinel shares the moment her three-year-old answered a simple question with two words that stopped her cold, and unpacks the real difference between managing your kids and forming them, and why what you build alongside your homeschool can be part of that formation, not a distraction from it.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• The real difference between raising kids vs building a career, and why they are not actually in competition
• What it looks like to measure legacy as a mom by what gets planted, not just what gets finished
• Why success as a homeschool mom might be less about the checklist and more about what your kids catch from watching you
• The two words Erin's three-year-old said that changed how she thinks about formation

LINKS MENTIONED

• Read the full story on Erin's Substack
• Foundations First (Container First Method): erinmeinel.com

ABOUT ERIN

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

RESOURCES

• Visit the website: erinmeinel.com
• Join the Homeschool Moms Make Money newsletter for behind-the-scenes in Erin's homeschool and business and gain weekly tactical takeaways.
• Discover your personal brand identity (yes, everyone has one!) by taking the Brand Identity Quiz!
• Read more about why Erin does what she does on her Substack publication, Eternal Parenting.

How to find time to work while homeschooling is the question Erin Meinel gets more than any other, and in this episode she answers it with real numbers instead of encouragement. She shares exactly how much time she actually spends building her own business each week, and how to match the work you want to do to the blocks you already have.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• Real time management for homeschool moms starting with an honest audit of the time you already protect
• A simple framework for finding time to build a business by matching tasks to the length of your blocks
• Why treating your homeschool mom schedule for working like an anchor, not a bonus, is the biggest predictor of consistency
• The exact number of hours a week Erin spends building this business right now

LINKS MENTIONED

• Foundations First (Container First Method): erinmeinel.com

ABOUT ERIN

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

RESOURCES

• Visit the website: erinmeinel.com
• Join the Homeschool Moms Make Money newsletter for behind-the-scenes in Erin's homeschool and business and gain weekly tactical takeaways.
• Discover your personal brand identity (yes, everyone has one!) by taking the Brand Identity Quiz!
• Read more about why Erin does what she does on her Substack publication, Eternal Parenting.

You Already Have a Personal Brand (Whether You've Built One On Purpose or Not)

You already have a personal brand, whether you have ever posted online or not. In this episode, Erin Meinel shows homeschool moms exactly where that brand already lives, in their co-op, their group chats, their reputation, and shares her own story of how an accidental reputation from her teaching days became the foundation of the business she runs today.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• Why a personal brand for homeschool moms already exists long before a single post goes live
• How to build a personal brand on purpose using knowledge and trust you already have
• The real difference between personal brand vs business, and why the personal brand is the container
• Erin's own story of how a reputation from her teaching years still brings people into her world today

LINKS MENTIONED

• Foundations First (Container First Method): erinmeinel.com

ABOUT ERIN

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

RESOURCES

• Visit the website: erinmeinel.com
• Join the Homeschool Moms Make Money newsletter for behind-the-scenes in Erin's homeschool and business and gain weekly tactical takeaways.
• Discover your personal brand identity (yes, everyone has one!) by taking the Brand Identity Quiz!
• Read more about why Erin does what she does on her Substack publication, Eternal Parenting.

Guilt about wanting more than homeschooling is one of the quietest things keeping capable homeschool moms from ever starting. In this episode, Erin Meinel names it directly, where it comes from, why it is not evidence that your family isn't enough, and what it actually looks like to parent with eternity in view instead of just the next eighteen years.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• Where mom guilt and ambition actually come from, and why it is more absorbed than instinctive
• Why wanting a business while homeschooling is not evidence your family is not enough
• How your homeschool mom identity can hold more than one calling at once, using the Proverbs 31 woman as an example
• What it means to plant a seed now for who you become in five, ten, or twenty years

LINKS MENTIONED

• Read more about parenting for eternity on Erin's Substack, Eternal Parenting
• Foundations First (Container First Method): erinmeinel.com

ABOUT ERIN

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

RESOURCES

• Visit the website: erinmeinel.com
• Join the Homeschool Moms Make Money newsletter for behind-the-scenes in Erin's homeschool and business and gain weekly tactical takeaways.
• Discover your personal brand identity (yes, everyone has one!) by taking the Brand Identity Quiz!
• Read more about why Erin does what she does on her Substack publication, Eternal Parenting.

A homeschool daily rhythm only works when every piece is protected on purpose, not squeezed in after everything else. In this episode, Erin Meinel walks through her actual homeschool day in the life, start to finish, and shares the real story of the one morning she skipped her own anchors, and what it cost her.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• A full homeschool day in the life walkthrough, from the morning B's to the final work block of the afternoon
• Why margin in homeschool schedule planning has to be protected before you decide what goes inside it
• What a sustainable homeschool day actually looks like when anchors, not willpower, hold it together
• The honest story of what happens when even one anchor gets skipped

LINKS MENTIONED

• Read the full van latch story on Erin's Substack
• Foundations First (Container First Method): erinmeinel.com

ABOUT ERIN

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

RESOURCES

• Visit the website: erinmeinel.com
• Join the Homeschool Moms Make Money newsletter for behind-the-scenes in Erin's homeschool and business and gain weekly tactical takeaways.
• Discover your personal brand identity (yes, everyone has one!) by taking the Brand Identity Quiz!
• Read more about why Erin does what she does on her Substack publication, Eternal Parenting.

Homeschool quiet time might be the single most underrated anchor in your entire day. In this episode, Erin Meinel explains why this one block is doing three different jobs at once, rest for littles who still nap, deep processing time for older kids, and a genuine, protected work block for mom, and why she calls herself a homeschool mom CEO because of it.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• How a homeschool nap time schedule for littles supports the same rhythm as quiet time for older kids
• Why independent reading time homeschool blocks matter even when it looks like nothing productive is happening
• How to get a work block while homeschooling built into your day automatically, instead of fighting for it
• Where to go for help if naps just are not happening at your house yet

LINKS MENTIONED

• The Goodnight House (child sleep support with Jesse Martin)
• Foundations First: erinmeinel.com

ABOUT ERIN

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

RESOURCES

• Visit the website: erinmeinel.com
• Join the Homeschool Moms Make Money newsletter for behind-the-scenes in Erin's homeschool and business and gain weekly tactical takeaways.
• Discover your personal brand identity (yes, everyone has one!) by taking the Brand Identity Quiz!
• Read more about why Erin does what she does on her Substack publication, Eternal Parenting.

Building a homeschool chore system that actually works doesn't require a spotless house or an elaborate rewards program. In this episode, Erin Meinel shares Tidy in 10, the ten-minute midday chore system that teaches her boys real ownership, resets the house between school and lunch, and yes, even survived one very memorable laundry mishap.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• How to introduce kids chores while homeschooling without turning every day into a battle over jobs
• A real chore chart for homeschool families approach that grows with your kids as they get older
• Why homeschool chores by age should start small, concrete, and forgiving of mistakes
• The step stool lesson that changed how Erin thinks about capability versus access

LINKS MENTIONED

• Foundations First: erinmeinel.com

ABOUT ERIN

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

RESOURCES

• Visit the website: erinmeinel.com
• Join the Homeschool Moms Make Money newsletter for behind-the-scenes in Erin's homeschool and business and gain weekly tactical takeaways.
• Discover your personal brand identity (yes, everyone has one!) by taking the Brand Identity Quiz!
• Read more about why Erin does what she does on her Substack publication, Eternal Parenting.

A homeschool morning routine can make or break the rest of your day, and in this episode, Erin Meinel breaks down the exact one her family uses, called the B's. Learn how a simple, repeatable morning routine for homeschool moms became the anchor that keeps their entire day running smoothly, even on the hard mornings.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• How to build a morning routine for homeschool moms out of habits your family may already have, without inventing anything new
• Why homeschool morning chores for kids work best when they are named and structured, not just expected
• How to start your homeschool day in a way that gives kids a bridge between waking up and starting school
• Why a slower, later morning can be a strategic choice, not a lack of discipline

LINKS MENTIONED

• Foundations First: erinmeinel.com

ABOUT ERIN

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

RESOURCES

• Visit the website: erinmeinel.com
• Join the Homeschool Moms Make Money newsletter for behind-the-scenes in Erin's homeschool and business and gain weekly tactical takeaways.
• Discover your personal brand identity (yes, everyone has one!) by taking the Brand Identity Quiz!
• Read more about why Erin does what she does on her Substack publication, Eternal Parenting.

Homeschooling and entrepreneurship might feel like two separate worlds, but for many moms, they come from the exact same conviction: the desire to design your own life. In this episode, Erin Meinel shares why she believes homeschooling and building a business are two expressions of one decision, not two competing priorities, and shows you the entrepreneurial skills you already have without realizing it.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• Why the conviction behind homeschooling often points straight at a homeschool mom entrepreneur mindset
• What it looks like to choose employment on purpose during a season that calls for less, and why that is not a step backward
• The self-directed decision making skills that transfer from homeschooling to business, whether you have noticed them yet or not
• Why so many homeschool moms make good business owners without ever calling themselves entrepreneurs

LINKS MENTIONED

• Read more about Erin's why on her Substack, Eternal Parenting
• Foundations First: erinmeinel.com

ABOUT ERIN

Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.

RESOURCES

• Visit the website: erinmeinel.com
• Join the Homeschool Moms Make Money newsletter for behind-the-scenes in Erin's homeschool and business and gain weekly tactical takeaways.
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