S2E12: Wildschooling with the Wilder Child Creator Nicolette Sowder

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In this episode, we’re talking to Nicolette Sowder, founder of the global nature play movement, Wilder Child, about Wildschooling, creating an online nature connection movement and running a business. Prepared to be so inspired, this girl is golden. 

👉  Nicolette talks with us about

• Her story and how she got started
• Wildschooling and the trifecta behind it
• The benefits she has seen in her family from Wildschooling
• Why it is so important to have an online presence for an outdoor movement
• The biggest lessons she has learned as a business woman
• Her advice to parents considering making the leap to homeschooling
• Her exciting projects coming up! 

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Book Recs
Raising Free People- Unschooling as liberation and healing work by Akilah Richards
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Guest Details

Nicolette Sowder is the creator of Wilder Child and Wildschooling. Nicolettés passion and heart’s mission is to help families step back into the circle of wild things and bond with Mother Nature. She believes that when we are rooted in that relationship and ancient connection, we heal, we flow, we fly.

In 2013, Nicolette, her husband and one-year-old daughter (The Wild Child) took a first step in realizing their dreams and moved to North West Michigan to start Honeybird Farm, a 60 acre farm based on regenerative agriculture principals.

They had no conscious idea of how much living that close to nature would transform them. Nicolette originally started Wilder Child to help record and lend words to the deep, familial bonds they were forging with the Wild that surrounded them.

But it was her community, their stories, voices and support that encouraged her to share more and begin serving as a nature-connection guide and conduit for families who wanted to walk side by side barefoot down the dirt-lined path. What is now a passionate, mud-loving, free community spanning the globe.

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