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

Erin Meinel
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Are you a homeschool mom who (maybe) wants to build a business without sacrificing the thing you said yes to first? This is Homeschool Moms Make Money with Erin Meinel, the podcast for homeschool moms who are done choosing between homeschooling well and possibly building something of their own. Erin is a former early childhood educator, homeschool mom to two boys, and founder of erinmeinel.com. She has built businesses, burned out, rebuilt with margin, and landed on the truth that most homeschool mom entrepreneurs never hear: the margin you protect is the strategy. Every week you will find practical episodes on homeschool scheduling, homeschool rhythms, building a business while homeschooling, work from home mom strategies, personal brand basics, and how to create a homeschool routine that actually holds. Whether you are searching for homeschool burnout solutions, ideas for homeschool mom income, or just trying to figure out how to find time to work while homeschooling your kids,  you're in the right place. This is not hustle culture. This is not "do more." This is the both/and you have been looking for. Follow the show now. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Visit erinmeinel.com to learn more. Host Erin Meinel brings practical marketing, real-life homeschool wisdom, and faith-led strategy together so you can homeschool your children and grow a business that fits your season. Homeschooling well. Building something meaningful. Both at once.

  1. 1d ago

    24 | How to Know What Business to Start as a Homeschool Mom

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

  2. 3d ago

    23 | How to Prepare to Homeschool (You've Been Preparing to Homeschool Longer Than You Think)

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

  3. 4d ago

    BONUS | Let's Celebrate: A Giveaway for Homeschool Moms

    🎉 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/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&vrfl=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&srtk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==    Not sponsored or endorsed by Instagram.

  4. Oct 8

    22 | Will the Choice to Homeschool Ruin Your Children? (And Other Hindsight Questions with Kristen Brink)

    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: 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 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.

  5. Oct 6

    21 | The 7 Seasons of Homeschooling and Building a Business (And Why You Are in More Than One)

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

  6. Oct 1

    20 | Biblical Order of Priorities: What Happened When She Laid Down What She Built with Blake Guichet

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

  7. Sep 29

    19 | Your Greatest Accomplishment Might Not Be Something You Build (It's Who You Raise)

    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.

  8. Sep 24

    18 | How to Find Time to Build a Business When You Are Already Homeschooling

    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.

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Are you a homeschool mom who (maybe) wants to build a business without sacrificing the thing you said yes to first? This is Homeschool Moms Make Money with Erin Meinel, the podcast for homeschool moms who are done choosing between homeschooling well and possibly building something of their own. Erin is a former early childhood educator, homeschool mom to two boys, and founder of erinmeinel.com. She has built businesses, burned out, rebuilt with margin, and landed on the truth that most homeschool mom entrepreneurs never hear: the margin you protect is the strategy. Every week you will find practical episodes on homeschool scheduling, homeschool rhythms, building a business while homeschooling, work from home mom strategies, personal brand basics, and how to create a homeschool routine that actually holds. Whether you are searching for homeschool burnout solutions, ideas for homeschool mom income, or just trying to figure out how to find time to work while homeschooling your kids,  you're in the right place. This is not hustle culture. This is not "do more." This is the both/and you have been looking for. Follow the show now. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Visit erinmeinel.com to learn more. Host Erin Meinel brings practical marketing, real-life homeschool wisdom, and faith-led strategy together so you can homeschool your children and grow a business that fits your season. Homeschooling well. Building something meaningful. Both at once.

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