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! 

202 A Great Conversation

AMDG.  Experienced Kolbe mom Deirdre Mundy joins Bonnie and Steven in this first half of a two-part conversation on the lessons and insights she’s gained from homeschooling her eight children.  Deirdre shares reasons why her family chooses for traditional homeschool options and year-round school rather than online classes and summer breaks; advice for families where the parents do not have a classical education themselves; and opportunities for scholarships.  She also highlights the importance of allowing your kids to see you try, fail, and try again in learning new things, as well as the distinction between schedules and rhythms.  
Links mentioned: 
QuestBridge 
Classics Conference recordings & guide 
Kolbe Academy Homeschooling Families unofficial Facebook group
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
200 Transition Years  
60 Mission: Possible 
70 First Draft: A Parent In-Service 
54 Pro Omnibus Contendit 
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! 
 

201 The Soundtrack of Life

AMDG.  Join us for the second in our multi-movement reflection on music.  Carl Hasler and Olivia Knuffke visit with Bonnie, Steven, and Jordan about how music can be a kind of beauty that stretches your soul; the way that “classical” music can build stamina, attention, and the ability to sit with something new—but also the way that “classical” music can be a misnomer; reminiscences of the first time each of them heard various pieces; and the ongoing exchange between what a piece of music brings to you and what you bring to it. 
Kolbecast episodes mentioned & relevant: 
186  Full Circle (of Fifths), part 1 of this conversation 
194 Visual Literacy with Amanda Shepard 
28 A Pessimist with Hope featuring Dr. Anthony Esolen 
191 A Window into the Ancient World with Mike Aquilina 
36 A Beauty-Linked Life with Dr. Carol Reynolds 
Other resources mentioned: 
Anthony & Debra Esolen’s Word & Song Substack  
Hymn suggestions in Faith & Life teacher manuals 
Laudate Listening Guide from Kolbe bookstore 
Dr. Hank Reynolds’s Friday Performance Picks on the blog at ProfessorCarol.com 
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! 

200 Transition Years

AMDG. In the 200 episodes since we rebooted the Kolbecast, we’ve heard from a lot of significant voices. In this episode, we hear from two of the most significant Kolbeans: our students. Ninth graders Noah (who does a hybrid of self-paced and online classes) and Caleb (who does all online) visit with Bonnie and Steven, where the real-life long-distance friends share about their typical school days, their happy and cautionary memories, the lessons they’re learning about both diligence and rest, the effort they invest in their education and formation, and the things they like to do when they’re not working on school. 
Noah and Caleb utilize Kolbe offerings in different ways. Here’s more information about the three ways to educate with Kolbe Academy.  
To hear the talks given at the 2024 Call to Holiness Retreat, check out this YouTube playlist. Speakers include Fr. Robert Spitzer, Msgr. James Shea, Mr. Dan Angel, Fr. Charles Archer, and Sr. Mary Rose 
Relevant Kolbecast episodes: 
123 A Change of the Ages with Msgr. James Shea 
195 Greatness Awaits with Bobby & Dan Angel 
196 Adaptable Asynchronous & Dynamic Digital Homeschool Options 
60 Mission: Possible  
99 Gifted, Graced, and Formed 
5 Planning on Paper and Online 
Kolbe families can utilize the Schoology directory to contact each other. Here’s information from the Kolbe website’s help center.  
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!