Top 5 Secular Homeschool Podcast Episodes of 2025

Let's Count them down!

If you’ve been listening to Secular Homeschool Revolution this year, you already know this show doesn’t exist to make homeschooling look cute or easy. It exists to say the quiet parts out loud

So instead of a tidy year end wrap up, I want to count down the five episodes from 2025. These weren’t just the popular ones, but they were also the ones I received the most feedback on.

Let’s start at number five and work our way up.

5. Is Homeschooling Affordable? I knew this episode needed to exist, and I also knew it would make some people uncomfortable. Homeschooling spaces love to talk about freedom and flexibility, but they don’t always want to talk about money. This episode pulled that thread. We talked honestly about cost, time, lost income, and the privilege baked into a lot of homeschool narratives. More than anything, this episode named what so many families already know: affordability isn’t about budgeting harder, it’s about access, community support, and structural reality. Ending the year with this conversation felt necessary.

4. Is Being a Stay-at-Home Parent the Same as Being a Homeschool Parent? This one came with feelings. Not because the question is new, but because it’s usually brushed off. In this episode, we slowed down and actually named the labor that goes into homeschooling the planning, the emotional regulation, the constant mental load. While these roles can overlap, they aren’t interchangeable, and pretending they are does real harm. A lot of listeners told me this episode made them feel seen for the first time. That alone made it worth it.

3. Are Homeschoolers Dismantling Public Education? This was one of the boldest conversations of the year, and I wasn’t interested in tiptoeing. If you homeschool in progressive spaces, you’ve probably heard this accusation. This episode didn’t try to defend homeschooling or attack public education. It did something harder... it told the truth. Families didn’t break the system. And for many marginalized families, choosing homeschool isn’t about ideology, it’s about survival.

2. Do I Have to Teach Everything? What Homeschooling Actually Looks Like. If there’s one question that makes new homeschoolers panic, it’s this one. And honestly? It makes seasoned homeschoolers panic, too. We talked about what homeschooling actually looks like when you use resources like outsourcing, co-ops, online classes, community care, and letting go of the idea that doing more equals doing better. For a lot of listeners, this episode was a turning point.

1. So You Wanna Homeschool, Huh? 5 Things to Do Before You Start. This episode had to be number one. It set the tone for the entire year. Instead of pushing people to jump in, it asked them to pause. Why are you homeschooling? What are you unlearning? What expectations are you bringing with you from traditional school? It became the episode I sent to new homeschoolers over and over again, and it shaped so many of the conversations that followed.

Looking at this list now, the common thread is clear. These episodes weren’t about doing homeschooling “right.” They were about doing it honestly. Naming the fear. Naming the labor. Naming the money. Naming the systems. And then choosing something more aligned anyway.

If you’re new to Secular Homeschool Revolution, this countdown is a solid place to start. And if you’ve been here all year listening, sharing, or quietly reflecting, thank you. We’re taking this energy into 2026, and we’re not toning it down.

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