We are wrapping up the Winter-Spring 2024 Homeschool Sisters Podcast season and we have saved the very best for last. Kara Anderson is back for a 2-part conversation that you’re going to adore!
Join the sisters as we chat about everything, from the weird bittersweet season of finishing the homeschool journey, to figuring out what to do when you grow up, to the very best glasses for middle aged ladies, how to stop searching and just BE, perimenopause, morning routines, and more.
Kara also shares a personal update on her new writing and podcasting adventure, Where the Beauty Is! Join us for the first of this 2-part conversation. We can’t wait to hang with you again, sisters!
A Catch-Up with Kara Anderson [Part 1 of 2]
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She’s baaaack! Please give a warm welcome to Kara S. Anderson
Kara Anderson writes and podcasts about midlife transitions, figuring out life after the kids grow up, tea, cats, colonoscopies and her co-pilot Katy Perimenopause. She shares all about this messy midlife with journaling, mindfulness and lots of tea!
Kara previously wrote about homeschooling and podcasted with Cait for more than 5 years.
She’s the author of the book More Than Enough: Grow Your Confidence, Banish Burn-Out and Love Your Homeschool Life, an Amazon and Audible bestseller.
Kara’s kids are both in college now - one away at school and the other still living at home, but enrolled full-time in a local early college program.
In 2022, Kara retired from her work in the homeschool world and took a bit of time to recalibrate, but now she is back with a brand new project, Where The Beauty Is. You can find her writing and new podcast at wherethebeautyis.com, or visit her website karasanderson.com to learn more about upcoming projects and new adventures.
Everything is Changing and All I Got Was This T-Shirt, with Kara Andderson [Episode 141], Part 1 of 2
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Connect to yourself and let go of perfection, with Kara Anderson [Episode 142], Part 2 of 2
Links from episodes 141 and 142:
- Learn more about Where the Beauty Is (and the Meatball Club!)
- Kara’s Pair Eyewear referral code ($25 off)
- Kara bought these aqua sparkle glasses and these rainbow glasses
- Kortney Garrison’s substack
- Kortney’s books
- Tiffany Hahn (Kara participated in Tiffany’s Grown Up Gap Year program.)
- The Best Colonoscopy Ever | Kara Anderson, Where the Beauty Is
- Katy Perimenopause | Kara Anderson, Where the Beauty Is
- Morning Routine | Kara Anderson, Where the Beauty Is
- Kara also has two posts on rest: this one and this one.
- Kara also has two essays on ADHD: this one and this one.
- Bittersweet Transitions In Our Homeschools, with Christy [Episode 119]
- David Sedaris (author)
- Revelator (song)
- Ladies’ Holiday: Hold On To Your Hat! [Episode 17]
- Diane Shiffer on Instagram
- What We Do In The Shadows (show)
- Where’s My Zen: Homeschooling and Exercise [Episode 8]
- Nana
- NYT word games
- What’s an Enough List, Anyway? by Melissa Camara Wilkins
- Leslie F*cking Jones by Leslie Jones
- Educated by Tara Westover
- Anne Lamott (author)
- The Daily Victorian on Instagram
