Best 17 Unschooling Podcasts in the US

The Life Without School Podcast is your grounded, research-backed companion for homeschooling, unschooling, and raising your kids outside the system. Hosted by Issy (aka Stark Raving Dad), a home educating dad of four, each episode offers clear, honest guidance to help you build a life that works - for your child, and for you. more

Explore unschooling with Pam Laricchia, Anna Brown, and Erika Ellis. Helping parents bring lifelong learning and strong, connected relationships to life in their ordinary days. more

The Unschooling Mom2Mom podcast is a quick conversation with Sue Patterson, coach, author, and mother of 3 grown unschoolers. Sue shares inspiration and tips to help you find the unschooling confidence you're looking for! Even if you're more of a 'homeschooler' than an 'unschooler,' these 10 minute(ish) podcasts can help you find more joy in parenting, educating and connecting with your children! All 6 Seasons listed here: https://www.unschoolingmom2mom.com/podcast more

Fare of the Free Child podcast focuses on Black people, Native Indigenous people, and People of Color (BIPOC) families who practice unschooling and other forms of Self-directed, decolonized living and learning. Each weekly episode examines a particular way that we've accepted coercive, emotionally and physically damaging habits as a normal part of adult-child relationships. With a focus on deschooling one's self, decolonizing education, and exploring radical self-expression, this podcast challenges and informs us to walk toward a model for living with children that believes in trusting and respecting children and ourselves. #fofcpod #raisingfreepeople more

The LiberatED Podcast tells the stories of the entrepreneurial parents and teachers who are creating innovative K-12 learning options across the US and expanding education options for families. It is a project of the Education Entrepreneurship Lab at the Foundation for Economic Education. Learn more at edentrepreneur.org. more

Want to know more about unschooling? How about radical unschooling? (It's not as scary or as wild as some people make out!) Join me as I share ideas, stories, homeschool record-keeping tips and resources for living an unschooling life of unconditional love. more

Do you want your children to enjoy learning? Most parents would agree that their ultimate goal in educating their children is to create motivated life-long learners. Research shows us that motivation and excitement for learning are best achieved when learners are offered autonomy, trust, and resources that support their interests. Self-directed learning is at the heart of this educational model. In this podcast, we'll explore ways to ignite our children's curiosity and passion for learning through interviews with experts and families who have experienced first-hand the advantages of pursuing self-directed education. more

Unschooling isn't just about education, it's a life choice! For most parents, embracing unschooling requires some serious unravelling of old paradigms around parenting, learning and childhood, and that can be both challenging and exhilarating. Join me, Esther Jones, a mindful parenting coach and unschooling mother-of-three, as I take a look at the many opportunities for reflection that naturally arise in an unschooling home. Each episode, I chat with other parents about their family's experiences. From self-care, neurodiversity and mindfulness, to how to live consensually and trust our children, this podcast is here to help parents navigate the everyday challenges so they're free to create a healthy, nourishing and enriching space for themselves and their family. Thanks for listening! Join my mailing for regular offerings and updates at: www.esther-jones.com or get in touch with me at: ****@esther-jones.com. Instagram: @_esther.jones Facebook:@theunschoolspace more

Is my child learning enough? When should I step in—and when should I trust? Why do we keep ending up in power struggles when connection is what I want? Can I really raise and learn alongside my child differently when everything around us says I'm doing it wrong? These are the kinds of questions we explore on Radical Learning Talks. Hosted by Sari González and Rebecka Koritz, the podcast looks at what becomes possible when we question what we've been taught about children, learning, parenting, education, and power. Across more than 100 episodes, we talk about homeschooling and unschooling, self-directed learning, deschooling, consent, relationships, adultism, youth agency, and the messy reality of creating a different life with young people. Some conversations begin with the everyday moments happening in your home — screens, conflict, learning fears, boundaries, and knowing when to intervene. Others take us into bigger questions about school, freedom, community, power, and the world young people are growing into. We don't offer one right way to do any of this. We question what we've inherited, look more closely at what's actually happening, and explore choices rooted in dignity, trust, consent, and relationship. Sari and Becka are educators, parents, and longtime voices in the self-directed education movement, with decades of experience in unschooling, alternative education, and supporting families who are learning and living differently. Radical Learning Talks was named the #2 Democratic Education Podcast to Listen to in 2026 by FeedSpot, alongside leading voices in alternative and democratic education. New conversations are released throughout the year. more

Self Directed - A guest based podcast on Life, Learning, and Raising Free Thinkers. Hosted by Cecilie and Jesper Conrad, full-time travellers since 2018 and parents to four. more

Unschooling The Mind is for those who are questioning the mainstream narrative, the systems which have raised us, and all that we have ever been told. This show is for those who value family, faith, and freedom. For those of us who feel a calling to protect these values for our children and future generations to come. We explore all things related to the lifestyle of unschooling our kids and, most importantly, we work on unschooling our own minds as parents in the pursuit of truth and freedom. more

After many car rides filled with episodes of the Stuff You Should Know podcast with the famous Chuck and Josh, Kai said, 'Hey, we should make our own podcast!' Being fresh unschoolers ourselves, we decided to dive right in and start exploring topics of Kai's interest. Each episode is a different interest of Kai's. We figure out what we already know, research and answer our questions using the library, YouTube, museums, and the internet. Then we organize our findings and present them to you! Feel free to contact us at ****@gmail.com with any feedback or episode suggestions. more

A podcast for parents navigating the complexities of raising children with the Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) profile of autism. Join host Rose, a late diagnosed autistic mum, as we explore her and other parents' experiences with PDA, home education, unschooling, and the challenges of being a parent as a late-diagnosed or undiagnosed neurodivergent person. This podcast aims to create a supportive space for sharing experiences, emphasising that you're not alone on this often difficult journey. Gain practical strategies, insights, and a sense of community where we all understand both the ups and downs of parenting and home educating a PDAer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

Self-directed education, unschooling, partnership parenting, raising free people. For us these are all collective liberation movements. We chat about the intersections of liberation, community, anti-oppression, parenting, SDE, Deschooling, decolonization, unschooling, societal implications, and the systems of oppression working against us. Going deep on our own experiences and the way the systems interact with us as individuals and communities trying to treat and raise children differently in society. more

We'd like to welcome you to the Virtual Kitchen Table. We are Hayley from Taking a Kinder Path, Erin from Ever Learning and Ashley from Ashley as Mama and Storytime Shelves. We're gathering to have conversations about family life and home education, most specifically unschooling, which is sometimes known as self-directed education or, as we sometimes refer to it, whole life learning, consent-based education or natural learning. We'll be sharing experiences and ideas, learning as we go through relaxed conversation. We hope you'll pull a chair up to the table and join us. more

Three Moms, One Podcast: Conversations on Unschooling and Parenting In Season 2 & 3 of The Ladies Fixing the World, Cecilie Conrad is joined by renowned unschooling pioneers Sandra Dodd and Sue Elvis to redefine what learning can truly look like. Together, they explore the philosophy and practicalities of unschooling—where curiosity, trust, and relationships replace rigid curricula—and how this approach transforms both families and personal growth. more

Wild Life Unschooling is a 100-episode journey into raising free kids and living a sovereign life. From Madeira to the Canary Islands to the Amazon, I talked with unschoolers, educators, parents, Bitcoiners and free thinkers about self-directed learning, leaving the system, and soul-led education. Some episodes are interviews, some are raw travel diaries, and all of them question what 'education' really means. The show is complete. Start anywhere, or from #1. Topics: unschooling, worldschooling, deschooling, homeschooling, self-directed learning, freedom-based education, Bitcoin, sovereignty. Got thoughts or questions? Leave a comment, I read them all. Want to support my work? bc1qx265furajm2kn2unekd43pcgvydla8vyhlgxuc ❤️ Tip with Bitcoin Lightning ⚡ ****@blitzwalletapp.com Resources for living a truly sovereign life: https://www.thebitcoinway.com/partner/wild-life-unschooling This podcast shares personal experiences and opinions, not legal, educational or medical advice. Homeschooling and unschooling rules differ by country, so please check the laws where you live. Guests' views are their own. more