Kolbecast

210 Firm Grounding

AMDG.  Experienced Kolbe mom Deirdre Mundy joins Bonnie and Steven in this second half of a two-part conversation on the lessons and insights she’s gained from homeschooling her eight children.  She explains the ways her family has taken advantage of Kolbe’s flexibility, talks about developmental milestones and the changes in dynamics that come as kids grow into greater independence, and puts things in context with raising children to take on their own relationship with God as they mature. 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
202 A Great Conversation, the first part of this conversation 
200 Transition Years  
60 Mission: Possible 
70 First Draft: A Parent In-Service 
54 Pro Omnibus Contendit 
Links mentioned: 
QuestBridge 
Classics Conference recordings & guide 
Kolbe Academy Homeschooling Families unofficial Facebook group  
National History Day 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
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The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

209 Kolbe Kids Give Gems of Information

AMDG.  Current Kolbe students and brothers Jacob, Gabriel, and James visit with Bonnie and Steven today about their day-to-day lives, their experiences with Kolbe, and their insights for their fellow students. Highlights include their various extracurricular activities and how they juggle their commitments through various time management styles, how they prepare for graduation, what it’s like for younger siblings to watch older siblings navigate high school, what it’s like to use an American-designed curriculum in Canada, and their parish life participation. 
Meet the boys’ mother Tricia in Kolbecast episode 190 The School of Patience.
Other relevant Kolbecast episodes 
76 Study Buddies 
79 Doors to Your Memories, which showcases Jordan Almanzar’s memoir When the Earth Was Flat 
160 A Legendary Occasion, featuring student and parent participants at Kolbe Academy’s 2023 commencement festivities in Atlanta 
Links mentioned: 
Advanced Placement (AP) courses via Pennsylvania Homeschoolers 
When the Earth Was Flat: One Boy’s Life at the Edge of the Millennium by Dr. Jordan Almanzar 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

208 A Mosaic of Experience

AMDG.  In this episode, we gather alumni in various stages of life post-graduation to discuss the dividends their Kolbe education is now paying.  One-year alumnus Ian describes his transition to college life; five (ish)-year alumnus Charlie describes the ways his Kolbe formation serves him both in the work world and in his growing family; and ten (ish)-year alumna Hope describes the integrated worldview she brings to her adult life.  The three alumni also share some of their favorite memories of homeschooling, provide words of encouragement and advice to current and prospective families, and let listeners in on the things they’d do differently if they could do it all again. 
Related links & Kolbecast episodes: 
Charlie on 18 Homer and the Hunger Games  
Ian on ep 160 A Legendary Occasion 
87 Home Base about Kolbe’s online Homeroom courses 
175 A Both-And Approach with Dr. Jonathan Sanford of the University of Dallas 
Charlie’s speech at Commencement 2018 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

207 A Privilege of a Lifetime

AMDG.  Tune in to our newest two-parter of episodes last week and this, where we visit with longtime Kolbe moms recently hired on as Kolbe employees.  Elyse Williams puts the day to day of homeschooling life into perspective of the bigger picture to be seen as she visits with Bonnie and Steven.  She highlights the differences in various seasons of parenting, from elementary school to high school; provides reassurance and encouragement; and describes the beauty of the mind encountering God day in and day out through homeschooling. 
Click here for more information about Kolbe’s academic advising services. 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
206 Loaves and Fishes 
197 Tools in a Toolbox: Kolbe Academy’s Student Support Services 
100 In the Beginning with Kolbe Academy co-founder Mrs. Dianne Muth 
160 A Legendary Occasion, voices from the 2023 commencement festivities in Atlanta 
70 First Draft: A Parent In-Service 
202 A Great Conversation 
100 In the Beginning, a conversation with Kolbe Academy co-founder Mrs. Dianne Muth 
125 Call the Advisor 
If you are a Kolbe family, we’d love to hear how you’ve chosen which of Kolbe’s three ways to educate suits your needs at present. Let us know by recording a voice memo on your phone and sending it to podcast@kolbe.org or emailing us at the same address!  
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

206 Loaves & Fishes

AMDG.  Tune in to our newest two-parter of episodes this week and next, where we visit with longtime Kolbe moms recently hired on as Kolbe employees.  Margaret Malek joins Bonnie and Steven today to share her experience with peaceful, confident homeschooling through Kolbe and getting the important pieces done around being on the go.  She discusses identifying priorities, trusting God to multiply resources, and her family’s three big goals: love God, love each other, and love learning.  She also touches on persevering through the feeling of being a failure, managing school with littles around, and riding the wave of chaos and survival. 
Related Kolbecast episodes: 
155 Mission Intent: Formed to Serve 
156 Mission Intent: Pathways to Serve 
103 Above & Beyond 
202 A Great Conversation 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

205 Gratuitous Love with Kaiser Johnson

AMDG. Actor, writer, homeschool alumnus, husband, and dad Kaiser Johnson joins Bonnie and Steven today for a conversation on the love story of creation.  Starting with sharing his experience of deepening faith as an adult, Kaiser discusses how he lives out his desire to love more like God loves while having a career, a job, and a vocation all at once.  He highlights the importance of doing the work set before you and the skill of “learning how to learn” that homeschooling developed in him. 
Related links: 
Kaiser’s website  
Kaiser’s books Grit & Glory: Cross Training Your Body and Soul and How to Be Miserable and Alone (Or Discover a Life That Truly Matters) 
Catholic Central on YouTube 
Family Theater Productions, creator of Catholic Central 
Catholic Momcast 
Kolbecast episode 133 An Audience of One 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

204 Habits of Ownership with Jacob Imam

AMDG.  Education rightly formed helps students see and serve God in a practical way while both sustaining this current life and preparing them for the next.  Oxford graduate and VP of Finance for the College of St. Joseph the Worker, Jacob Imam, visits with Bonnie and Steven about how structural flaws in current higher education tend to cause an “ongoing adolescence,” how the College’s innovative program of combining book learning with the skilled trades is designed to bring a different approach, and how the changing nature of our understanding of work is behind both problems and solutions. 
Links mentioned & relevant: 
College of St. Joseph the Worker 
The Workshop 
Fr. Mike Schmitz on Training vs. Working Out 
Related Kolbecast episodes: 
191 A Window into the Ancient World with Mike Aquilina 
199 Do Good Work and Read Good Work with Jason Craig 
72 Participatory Citizens 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

203 Guided Freedom

AMDG.  In this episode, we bring back a style of podcast we haven’t done in a little while: a deep dive into part of Kolbe’s curriculum.  We focus on classical composition with instructors Sarah Foulkes and Grace Berg, who explain how classical composition is a curriculum which seeks to educate students to think logically and develop rhetorical skills for both writing and speaking; how the middle school years when classical comp is offered are sometimes forgotten but full of opportunity; and how boys in particular respond well to the structure and toolbox that classical comp provides.   
 
Kolbecast episodes mentioned & relevant: 
81 The When and the How of Online Elementary 
61 Middle Ground 
Check out this article in the Kolbe Help Center for more information about Kolbe’s curriculum, including classical composition. 
Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey. 
We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey! 
The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!