Wealth Affirmation #4: “I Am a Flexible Entrepreneur" Homeschool Income Streams [Build a Business That Works with Your Homeschool Lifestyle Not Against It]

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Forget everything you've been told

about entrepreneurship requiring 80

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hour work weeks away from your family.

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Today's affirmation reveals how

your homeschool lifestyle is

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actually the perfect foundation

for flexible wealth creation.

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Let's go.

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Intro: A fast growing number

of parents are starting their

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homeschooling journey while others

have been homeschooling for years.

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All of these parents are asking one big

question, how can I afford to homeschool?

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We are here to answer that

important question once and for all.

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Hi, I'm Crystal Obby.

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And I'm Anthony Obby.

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We've been homeschooling our five

kids for 13 years and we funded it.

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Through our online consulting business

that we've been running for over 17

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years now, we're combining Crystal's

financial coaching expertise with my

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digital marketing background where I help

entrepreneurs launch and sell online.

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We're here to help fellow homeschooling

parents self-fund their homeschool

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journey and create lifestyle businesses.

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For financial freedom without a nine to

five job, are you ready to start living

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life on your own terms and make your

homeschooling experience a lot more fun?

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Well then sit back, crank up

the volume, and enjoy this

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episode of Homeschool Money.

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Hey guys, so glad to have you on the show.

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Welcome to the Homeschool Money Podcast.

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I am your host, Anthony Obie.

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I'm Crystal Obie.

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Today we're talking about the affirmation

that goes, I am a flexible entrepreneur.

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I am a creative money maker who

builds income streams that work with

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my family's rhythm, not against it.

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My unique skills and talents

generate wealth that supports

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our homeschool lifestyle.

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I am both an excellent parent

and a successful income creator.

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This affirmation is essential because it

challenges the toxic hustle culture that

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says success requires family sacrifice.

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When you believe you can create

income that flows with your family

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rhythm, you design a business that

enhances your homeschool rather than.

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Competing with it, creating sustainable

wealth and income generation

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that grows alongside your family.

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I am a flexible entrepreneur.

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I am a creative money maker who

builds income streams that work with

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my family's rhythm, not against it.

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My unique skills and talents

generate wealth that supports

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our homeschool lifestyle.

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I am both an excellent parent

and a successful income creator.

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We've talked before about how when we

were younger, we owned a business that

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allowed us to work from home, not at

home, and we ended up having to learn

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the difference between those two words.

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Working from home means your office

is there, but you leave the house to

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meet clients and complete major parts

of your work away from your home.

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That can include lots of travel.

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Working at home means you

don't have to leave the house.

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That is what we were actually

in trying to do, but we didn't

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understand the difference.

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There was one moment that I

remember really set it in our head.

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At the time we lived in Indiana

where there was snow every winter.

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We don't get a lot of snow here in Texas.

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But at that time, we'd always get snow In

the first winter that we made the switch

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from working from home to at home, we

were standing upstairs, looking outside

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in the morning where it had snowed and

shut everything down the night before.

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And we looked out into the driveways

and we noticed the only driveway

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that hadn't been shoveled and

didn't have any footprints was ours.

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Every house on the block had been

shoveled, had people out there trying to

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clear it out, had cars trying to get out,

and it was just a lot of people trying

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to figure out how to make it work with

this shutdown from the ice and the snow.

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And we were standing upstairs looking

out our window drinking hot chocolate.

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It's still about to work, still

bringing in income, and yet we

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were warm and comfortable and

didn't have to worry about it.

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Yeah.

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And because we had international clients,

we didn't even have to worry about any of

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our clients being affected by the snow.

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Yeah.

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And so.

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At that moment, that's when it really like

sunk in that working at home is different.

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And we knew that one day when we

had kids, we had to make sure that

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our business was based on being

at home and not working from home.

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so let's repeat that affirmation again.

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I am a flexible entrepreneur.

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I am a creative moneymaker

who builds income streams that

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work with my family's rhythm.

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Not against it.

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My unique skills and talents

generate wealth that supports

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our homeschool lifestyle.

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I am both an excellent parent

and a successful income creator.

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The biggest block is believing you

need to work like everyone else

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to make money like everyone else.

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Many homeschool parents think they

have to choose traditional business

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models that don't fit their lifestyle,

leading to frustration and giving

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up on wealth building altogether.

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Now, back to the show.

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That's one thing that you really help

a lot of people with in our business

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is a lot of people are either coming

from a corporate career if they're

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starting something or they're coming

from a business where they have been

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an expert for maybe, you know, 15, 20,

30 years, and now they're looking to.

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Diversify their income by packaging up

their expertise and being able to share

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it with other people through teaching,

coaching, or publishing digital courses.

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Yeah, things of that nature.

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And you've been an expert at doing

that for the last two decades.

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And so by being able to

be an expert in a topic.

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They are able to package up that

information and create income

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that lets 'em go into retirement.

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And many times people have worked so hard

in their careers that they think they're

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gonna be okay in re retirement, and then

they hit a certain age and they're like.

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I was very excited about basically

being, being on the tools, you know?

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Yeah.

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Standing behind the people, you know,

being the dentist, being the lawyer,

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being the doctor, you know, having the,

the pest control business or whatever

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it's been that they've been doing.

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And they're getting tired.

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Yeah.

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Getting older.

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Yeah.

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And they're like, I still have a

passion for the industry that I'm in.

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But I need to do it in a different way.

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Like now I have kids and now

I wanna be there for my kids.

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I can't be traveling all the time and

I can't be at all these meetings and I

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can't have to be commuting across town.

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And so when people are looking for that

flexibility, that's whenever they end up

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coming to you looking for ways to do that.

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And you've been able to do

that before social media.

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Whenever it was just direct mail

and whenever it was in person,

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everything, and being able to help

people do that from o offline to

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online, it always has been the same.

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People need flexibility.

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People need to be with their families

because kids really want to see you.

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They don't care that you.

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Are, are, are paying the bills,

even though that's like the

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most important thing we tell

our kids, Hey, we gotta work.

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So we keep this, you know, the lights

on and the roof over your head,

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but they still want to see you.

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And so being a flexible entrepreneur

means you have to be smart about what

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opportunities you sign up for and you

really have to be serious about, hey.

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This may be a wonderful opportunity

in front of me, but is it going

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to violate my family values of

actually physically being together?

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Not, you know, could be together,

but look at your actual result.

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Are we sitting across from each

other eating dinner together?

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Because when our old business.

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I would be in the office and you

would be out training employees

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and doing things like that.

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And yes, we are working together,

but we're not actually together.

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Yeah.

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Now we actually get to be together.

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Yeah.

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And so I think a lot of families end up

missing out on that because they don't

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realize you have to draw a line in that.

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So that's our vocabulary lesson

that we always tell other

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families at home versus from home.

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Watch the fine print.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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So let's repeat the affirmation

one more time Today.

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I am a flexible entrepreneur.

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I am a creative moneymaker who builds

income streams that work with my

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family's rhythm, not against it.

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My unique skills and talents

generate wealth that supports

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our homeschool lifestyle.

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I am both an excellent parent

and a successful income creator.

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And another thing that parents.

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Forget that they could do is

they could involve their kids.

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They could become, they could build,

they can build businesses that allow

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their kids to be able to be around.

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They can build businesses and industries

where it's okay that kids are present.

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They can do businesses where.

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It's okay that it's maybe seasonal and

then they just have to manage their money.

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They don't necessarily

need to work all year.

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They could increase their income and

provide more money for the family

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budget by just working the Christmas

season or just working the summer season

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or just working during the spring.

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There's lots of business opportunities

that don't actually require you working

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all year long, and so you see that during.

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A certain time of the year, hey,

the family's gonna be a little

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busier because this is when we're

basically storing up for winter.

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And so being able to be on one accord

as a family will help you be able

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to increase your income with ease.

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Everybody knows that during that

income generation season, we're

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not gonna be able to do some of the

other activities that we normally do.

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I see that a lot of

times when families who.

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Take their, their things that they create

and go to festivals and fairs and things.

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They will travel around the country

and they will not only get a chance

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to travel, but they'll also turn it

into an income opportunity so the kids

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get a chance to work the booth and

travel and meet new people and get

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some extra educational opportunities.

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And the parents make extra

income, but they don't

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necessarily do that all year long.

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They do that just during that season.

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That's good.

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Really good.

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So let's close with this.

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Your homeschool lifestyle

isn't a business limitation.

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It's your competitive advantage.

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You understand flexibility, creativity.

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And working with natural

rhythms better than most.

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Entrepreneurs use these skills

to build wealth that fits your

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life, not the other way around.

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