Next up we have two amazing communitied. First, I interview @Paulo Costa, The Roaster about his community Roast and Promote - a place to get valuable feedback from REAL humans and then @Mimi Klosterman and I talk all things alternative education. Mimi is helping people who are considering alternatives to the educational system for their children so that they can make informed decisions that support their families. Check out Mimi in Best School Options! They are both providing amazing value that is worth checking out! Want to know how you can talk about your community and be profiled? Come to a PERSONALs meetup!!! They happen twice a month, and the first one each month is similar to what you see here! The PERSONALS is for premium members only, so upgrade today for only $5! It's way less than the $8 matcha latte I'm currently drinking!

"Should I take my child out of traditional school?" You don't answer that by weighing school against homeschooling. Those aren't the only two options. You answer it by settling one thing first: whether what you're watching in your child is a signal or a rough patch. Rough patches resolve on their own. Signals don't. This one is for the parents in the room. If you've got a kid who isn't okay at school and you can't tell whether it's bad enough to act on, the rest of this is for you. Wrong question: Should I pull him out? Right question: Is what I'm seeing a signal or a phase? How to tell the difference: Every parent who ends up asking the first question has been watching something for a while. Here's how to read it. - It's tied to school and nothing else. A child who is anxious and withdrawn everywhere is telling you something about themselves. A child who is fine on Saturday and sick on Monday is telling you something about the building. - It shows up in the body. Stomachaches and headaches on school mornings with no medical cause. The body reports first, and it keeps reporting until somebody listens. - The dread has a start time, and it's moving earlier. Last year it started Sunday evening. Note where it starts this year. If it's crept back to Saturday afternoon, that's not a bad week. - Curiosity is flattening. There was something they used to love. Now there isn't anything. - You've already tried to fix it. New teacher, tutoring, a different morning routine, a conversation with the school. If you've run the fixes and nothing moved, you have your answer about whether it's a phase. These aren't behavior problems. They're signals. What stops parents anyway. If you read that and recognized your kid, two things will still stop you, and both of them are wrong. The first: you think the alternative is homeschooling. It isn't. There are 7 alternative education models. Homeschooling is one of them. The second: you think you'd have to become the teacher. You wouldn't. In most of those models, the parent isn't the teacher at all.

One of the most important things I've learned since becoming an online entrepreneur is that the most important thing you can do to grow your business is to build relationships. Many of us (myself included) have rushed to promote our groups and services that we care so deeply about. And it only makes sense - we are excited about what we are doing! Today, I'd like to invite you to take a step back and introduce yourself to the group by answering the following questions: 1. Who are you personally? 2. Who are you professionally? 3. What is something you love doing outside of work? 4. What is something surprising about you? As you open up and make more connections, you will find that not only are people more interested in what you do, but they will also be more interested in helping you make connections with other people they know! 😉 After you introduce yourself, please scroll through the other introductions and add a comment to someone you have something in common with or would like to know more about. 😊 Please add your introduction in the comments below! ⬇️

Thanks to our amazing moderator, @Faith Adebayo for filling in for me when I was unable to host this session due to a family emergency. My apologies to those I was not able to meet today. I sincerely hope that we are able to meet in the near future!