The Life Without School Podcast
by Stark Raving Dad
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Total monthly reach
Estimated from 9 chart positions in 9 markets.
By chart position
- 🇦🇺AU · Parenting#8030K to 100K
- 🇬🇧GB · Parenting#1075K to 30K
- 🇮🇳IN · Parenting#1301K to 10K
- 🇧🇷BR · Parenting#1641K to 10K
- 🇳🇿NZ · Parenting#3710K to 30K
- Per-Episode Audience
Est. listeners per new episode within ~30 days
26K to 100K🎙 Weekly cadence·30 episodes·Last published 2mo ago - Monthly Reach
Unique listeners across all episodes (30 days)
52K to 199K🇦🇺50%🇬🇧15%🇳🇿15%+6 more - Active Followers
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15K to 60K
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Recent episodes
Why school is failing more children than ever
Jun 21, 2026
58m 16s
When Our Unschooler Tried School
Jan 15, 2026
40m 39s
Why home educating is the most important work there is
Aug 5, 2025
25m 50s
What every parent MUST know about the AI Generation
Jun 9, 2025
50m 03s
How Do I Know Home Education Is Working?
Apr 1, 2025
47m 04s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/21/26 | educationparenting+3 | — | — | — | school failureeducation gap+5 | — | 58m 16s | ||
| 1/15/26 | unschoolingschool transition+4 | — | — | — | unschoolingschool+5 | — | 40m 39s | ||
| 8/5/25 | home educationself-worth+3 | — | — | — | home educationself-value+3 | — | 25m 50s | ||
| 6/9/25 | AIparenting+3 | — | — | — | AI generationparenting+3 | — | 50m 03s | ||
| 4/1/25 | home educationlearning progress+3 | — | — | — | home educationlearning gaps+3 | — | 47m 04s | ||
| 1/20/25 | home educationcommitments+3 | — | — | — | home educationresolutions+3 | — | 39m 52s | ||
| 10/19/24 | screen timehomeschooling+3 | — | — | — | screen timehomeschooling+3 | — | 1h 19m 15s | ||
| 3/21/23 | unschoolingparenting+4 | — | — | — | unschoolingmyths+5 | — | 26m 26s | ||
| 10/20/22 | home educationparenting+3 | — | — | — | home educatingparenting+3 | — | 23m 47s | ||
| 6/29/22 | child developmenteducation+3 | — | — | — | children falling behindchildhood progress+3 | — | 32m 06s | ||
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| 5/4/22 | homeschoolingeducation+3 | — | — | — | homeschooleducation+5 | — | 22m 31s | ||
| 3/31/22 |  Dear Grandparents | With so many families making the decision to leave the formal education system and take their own path through life, it also means there are a whole lot of grandparents out there going... Hold on, what’s happening here?! We have a comprehensive, effect... | 34m 33s | ||||||
| 2/14/22 |  We're Looking At Education All Wrong | The definition of education is being taught, and the learning that results from it. A process that happens, for a child, in a classroom. But if you read that a couple of times, does it sound interesting and inspiring? Does it really sound like it’s cen... | 34m 12s | ||||||
| 2/3/22 |  The Big Home Education Questions Everyone Asks | Will your children be sheltered? How will you educate them properly if you're not a qualified teacher? How will they get a good job when they grow up? Everyone who chooses a life without school will be asked these kinds of questions at some point. In t... | 31m 48s | ||||||
| 1/27/22 |  Monthly Q&A: Comparing Your Children To Others | Slow Life Seasons | Explaining Home Ed to Your Kids | We're back with another question and answer episode, where I take a few of your questions and talk my way through them. I really love working on this episode each month, because your questions always reflect the struggles, the worries, and the hopes an... | 28m 06s | ||||||
| 1/20/22 |  On Being Their Coach, Not Their Teacher | Today, I want to talk about why I believe it’s so important that we - as home educating parents - play the role of coach, and mentor, and guide to our children. I want to take you through the simple, but powerful, framework Kate and I have used to help... | 37m 27s | ||||||
| 1/13/22 |  How To Make This Your Best Home Educating Year Yet | Happy New Year, everyone! The Life Without School Podcast is BACK. For the very first episode of 2022, I’m taking you through seven things that will help set your family up for the best possible home educating year. These are all things that, through y... | 32m 49s | ||||||
| 12/30/21 |  The Gratitude Episode | The global home educating community has grown like crazy in 2021. More families are choosing a life without school than ever before, and it’s never been more important - as we go into the new year - to lift each other up, and encourage, and support, an... | 5m 15s | ||||||
| 12/14/21 |  De-schooling Your Way To Educational Freedom | In this episode I want to help you build your de-schooling muscle. The process of taking everything you know about education, wiping your mental slate as clean as possible, and coming at the whole idea of how children learn as fresh as you can. To do t... | 29m 45s | ||||||
| 12/6/21 |  On Motivating Our Children / On Their Adult Opinion Of Home Ed / On Sudden Life Changes | Welcome back to another question and answer episode - where I take some time to dig into things you all want to hear more about it. They might be things you’re personally struggling with, or worried about, or planning for...and I really love having the... | 18m 38s | ||||||
| 11/29/21 |  You Are Not Your Child's Teacher | Home educating parents often put a huge amount of pressure on themselves to perform the role of being a teacher, and in this episode I want to talk through why I believe the stress, tension, and feelings of failure that so often come from that are unne... | 23m 19s | ||||||
| 11/21/21 |  Every Child Has A Story To Tell | Asking our children to all learn the same things, at the same times, in the same groups, in the same spaces, with only the same ages… …is effectively asking them to become the same as everyone else. It’s asking them to think less about their true selve... | 14m 15s | ||||||
| 11/14/21 |  Why Trusting Your Child Will Change Their Life | In this episode we're looking at a philosophy that underpins how Kate and I approach life with our kids, their education, and our relationships with them. It's very different to the way formal education is approached, and is based on the power of trust... | 21m 12s | ||||||
| 11/7/21 |  Monthly Q&A: On Growing Resilience / On Finding Time For Yourself / On Reluctant Dads | In this - the first of many episodes where I'll spend some time answering listener questions - I talk through: 1) How do you respond to people saying ‘life is hard - if you don’t force your child to do things they don’t want to do, how will they be pre... | 21m 39s | ||||||
| 10/29/21 |  A Week In Our Life Without School | A lot of you have asked for a day-in-the-life style episode, so...here it is! I think there's a stack of important context that should always be shared as part of this kind of conversation, though, so this episode is made up of three parts (if you list... | 27m 04s | ||||||
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Chart history for The Life Without School Podcast
Peaked at #37 in New Zealand, currently #37 in New Zealand.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | — | #37 | #37 | — |
| South Africa | — | #75 | #75 | — |
| Australia | — | #80 | #80 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #107 | #107 | — |
| VN | — | #129 | #129 | — |
| India | — | #130 | #130 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #138 | #138 | — |
| Brazil | — | #164 | #164 | — |
| CO | — | #182 | #182 | — |
| NG | — | #191 | #191 | — |
Chart Positions
10 placements across 9 markets.
Chart Positions
10 placements across 9 markets.