About Homeschool Moms Make Money - Homeschool Routines, Work From Home Strategies, Online Business, Personal Brand Basics, Homeschool Rhythms
Are you a homeschool mom who (maybe) wants to build a business without sacrificing the thing you said yes to first? This is Homeschool Moms Make Money with Erin Meinel, the podcast for homeschool moms who are done choosing between homeschooling well and possibly building something of their own.
Erin is a former early childhood educator, homeschool mom to two boys, and founder of erinmeinel.com (https://erinmeinel.com). She has built businesses, burned out, rebuilt with margin, and landed on the truth that most homeschool mom entrepreneurs never hear: the margin you protect is the strategy.
Every week you will find practical episodes on homeschool scheduling, homeschool rhythms, building a business while homeschooling, work from home mom strategies, personal brand basics, and how to create a homeschool routine that actually holds. Whether you are searching for homeschool burnout solutions, ideas for homeschool mom income, or just trying to figure out how to find time to work while homeschooling your kids, you're in the right place.
This is not hustle culture. This is not "do more." This is the both/and you have been looking for.
Follow the show now. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
Visit erinmeinel.com (https://erinmeinel.com) to learn more.
Host Erin Meinel brings practical marketing, real-life homeschool wisdom, and faith-led strategy together so you can homeschool your children and grow a business that fits your season.
Homeschooling well. Building something meaningful. Both at once.
24 | How to Know What Business to Start as a Homeschool Mom
How to know what business to start is the question Erin Meinel gets more than any other, and the usual answers about passion and niche research are not how it actually happened for her. In this episode she tells the story of the 2018 season that turned into her first business, why she never planned to own one at all, and the single question that works better than any niche exercise.
This is the business side of the preparation season. It covers the inward work of prayer and wise counsel, the outward work of noticing what people already come to you for, and the honest line between preparing and stalling.
In this episode
Why Erin swore she would never be a business owner, and what changed
How her first business started with a problem she solved for her own family first
The personal brand association you already have, whether you built it on purpose or not
The better question to ask instead of what is my passion
The inward and outward halves of preparation, and why you need both
How to tell the difference between genuine discernment and stalling
Links mentioned
Personal Brand Identity Quiz: erinmeinel.com
Episode 17, on the personal brand you already have
About Erin
Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.
Resources
erinmeinel.com
Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand
13 Oct 2026
23 | How to Prepare to Homeschool (You've Been Preparing to Homeschool Longer Than You Think)
How to prepare to homeschool is usually answered with a curriculum list and a supply run, and that is not what this episode is about. Erin Meinel walks through her own twenty-year preparation, from deciding at age seven to become a teacher, through a decade in early childhood classrooms, to the parent-teacher conference and the book that finally made the decision undeniable.
Preparation is almost always retroactive. You cannot see it while you are in it. This episode is for the mom who thinks she is starting from scratch, and for the mom who has been sitting in preparation so long it has quietly turned into waiting.
In this episode
Why preparation is the first season and the one almost nobody believes they are in
Erin's full preparation story, including the teaching degree, the classroom decade, and the parent-teacher conference that changed everything
How Hold On to Your Kids gave language to what she was already watching in her children
Why everything you have already lived counts as homeschool preparation, even the parts that had nothing to do with children
The two active things preparation asks of you, and how to keep this season from turning into indefinite waiting
Why preparation comes back around every single year
Links mentioned
Hold On to Your Kids, by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate
erinmeinel.com
About Erin
Erin Meinel is a former early childhood educator, entrepreneur, and homeschool mom to two boys. She is the founder of Erin Meinel LLC and helps homeschool moms build businesses that fit the life they are actually living. Find her at erinmeinel.com.
Resources
erinmeinel.com
Eternal Parenting on Substack: https://erinmeinel.substack.com/
Personal Brand Identity Quiz: https://erinmeinel.myflodesk.com/discover-your-brand
12 Oct 2026
BONUS | Let's Celebrate: A Giveaway for Homeschool Moms
🎉 Celebrate with me! The Giveaway: win my LAST Foundations First spot this month
This podcast started in August and we’re almost at 2,000 downloads. To say thank you, I’m giving one homeschool mom a free spot in Foundations First, my two-week, one-on-one coaching program (a $297 value). We work together on a private voice messaging app, and you finish with your own Rhythm & Margin Plan and a clear picture of what you could build next.Go from overwhelmed, wondering where your days went, to confident, present where your feet are, and with a little extra time for YOU. You can't pour from an empty cup, mama!
“Every day we worked together, I was telling my husband, Erin gave me the greatest tip.”Rene, Foundations First
How to enter:
Follow the podcast and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Already left one? Leave a fresh one, since there are newer episodes since you last shared!
Screenshot it and email it to hello@erinmeinel.com, or share it in your Instagram stories and tag @erinmeinel
Bonus entries (3 each):
Tag three homeschool mom friends on the giveaway post on Instagram (pinned at the top)
Share your biggest struggle with homeschooling and/or running a business, in your email or in the comments on the post
✨ That's SEVEN total entries you could earn to win this coaching experience! ✨
Entries close Sunday, October 18 at 8 PM Central. I’ll announce the winner Monday, October 19.
Leave a review on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id6790794941
Giveaway post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DeZ3uSVjU3z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&vrfl=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==&srtk=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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