Digital Social Hour - Why School is Killing Your Child's Future Success | EmmaSara McMillion DSH #1070

Episode Date: January 7, 2025

🎓 Is the traditional school system holding your child back from reaching their full potential? Discover why one mother of 8 chose to completely bypass the conventional education system - and how he...r children are thriving because of it.   In this eye-opening conversation, Emma Sarah reveals how her children are achieving remarkable success without traditional schooling. From a 7-year-old mastering college-level organic chemistry to a teen becoming one of the youngest AWS certified individuals globally, learn how breaking free from conventional education led to extraordinary results.   You'll discover: • Why relying on government education might be limiting your child's potential • How to nurture your child's natural talents instead of following standardized curricula • Real success stories of children thriving outside the traditional school system • Practical strategies for taking control of your children's education   EmmaSara shares her journey from being skeptical about having children to raising a family of 10, proving that unconventional approaches to education and family life can lead to exceptional outcomes. Her story challenges common beliefs about education and shows how breaking free from traditional systems can unlock your child's true potential.   Watch now to learn how you can empower your children to achieve remarkable success beyond the conventional classroom. 🚀   #homeschoolmomselfcaretips #eclectichomeschool #homeschoolresources #unschoolingmethods #homeschoolingstrategies   CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:32 - EmmaSara Biography 05:00 - Prolon Intermittent Fasting 06:45 - Public School System 07:50 - Social Media Impact 08:52 - Education Insights 11:28 - Homeschooling Benefits 12:15 - Future Plans for EmmaSara 15:01 - Connect with EmmaSara   APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: jenna@digitalsocialhour.com   GUEST: EmmaSara McMillion https://www.emmasara.com/ https://www.instagram.com/emmasaramcmillion/   SPONSORS: Prolon: http://prolonlife.com/DSH   LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/

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Starting point is 00:01:49 BedMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. I really am looking at families becoming more united, mind, body and spirit and then relationally. You think the government's overstepped? Absolutely. I want to tell a parent when I sit with them, like who told you that they had your child's best interests? So why would you leave your kids with them the majority of the day? Because this is what the good parent does and that's what they have put into people. It's a society really. They put it into the heart-minded people that they know it's best and it's a lie. All right guys, Amfest Day 3, Emma Sarah here today.
Starting point is 00:02:28 Thanks for hopping on. Thank you. How's the event been for you? It's phenomenal. This is a place to be if you are into freedom and fighting for that freedom. It's definitely a place to be. Absolutely. Do you live in Phoenix?
Starting point is 00:02:39 I know, but it used to be a second home east vacation here every year, but I live in Alabama. Okay, Alabama. Wow. I did not expect that answer. I was year by Alabama. Okay. Alabama. Yes. Wow. I did not expect that answer. I was originally from California. That's a big change. Yeah. This is a later in life thing. Yes.
Starting point is 00:02:51 You couldn't handle the liberal policies over there? Actually, when I left California, I had just gotten married and moved to Greece. So it was more like just starting my life. Wow. I am a big fan of Greece. I've been to Crete and Athens. Okay, great. When I was a young boy, but it was a good time.
Starting point is 00:03:10 Nice. One of my kids was born in Greece. Oh yeah? I would live there for three years. Nice. Yeah. Some of the best food I've ever had is going to Greece. Yes. I came back cooking it for a while there and then I forgot. So I need to go back to that. Yeah. No seed oils. Thank you for reminding me that. Yes. Olive oil.
Starting point is 00:03:26 Best olive oil I've ever had. Oh my God. We were getting it straight from the top in Greece. When I first got married, I went over there and my husband was a military and I used to just go float all day in the sea and go on all the tavernas. And yeah, I was pretty cool. I love that. Were you traveling a lot because your husband was military? Yes. I was island hopping and doing all that thing. Yeah. How was that? cool. I love that. All the historical sites. Were you traveling a lot because your husband was military? Yes. I was island hopping and doing all that thing. Yeah. This is cool.
Starting point is 00:03:48 How was that? Amazing. It was phenomenal. I never got to see Santorini. If I could go back, I wish I would have hit that island. You still got time? Yeah, I do. That's true.
Starting point is 00:03:56 So your big mission now is connection, connecting people, right? Uniting people together. Yes. As family specifically. I have a family of 10. I have eight kids. Wow. From the ages of six to 25.
Starting point is 00:04:06 Holy crap. And I always say God had a sense of humor and wanted to show that through Emma Seren's life. I was a woman who never wanted to have kids. Told my fiance, no kids in your future. He said, okay. A year later, he was like, I kind of want kids. And I was like, well, you're kind of a liar. So, and at that time, I didn't know everything that I do now. So I had a different mindset, but one thing I haven't changed about myself then is that I didn't want to have kids because I thought the world was too evil and it is. And so it was more from a protection mindset. And when he changed his mind, I had to do some soul searching, a lot of praying. And I really just felt like God put it in my heart that it
Starting point is 00:04:44 wasn't that he wasn't doing his job to protect kids. It is that parents weren't being aware enough. Yeah. And so really early on, I made the decision if I'm going to have kids and I'm going to do my best to protect them. And so now I raise these eight kids who, you know, are my co-hosts to my TV show Ignite Voices, where we host political figures, influencers, different people of all walks of life in a commonality, fighting for freedom. That's awesome. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:10 Eight kids is rare these days. I feel like baby boomers, that was more normal, but I haven't heard anyone of our era having eight kids. Yeah. And then there's a stigma. If you think about big families, you're thinking about a specific kind of looking, homely, looking family, but we kind of break every single mold. And I kind of like that way. Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of molds, right? And they're trying to break the family unit
Starting point is 00:05:29 that's there. That's been under attack the past few years. Oh, absolutely. I mean, I think for decades, not decades, really. I mean, yes, decades for sure. But the indoctrination of the school is real. And part of that indoctrination and part of the plan, I would say, of public education was to make people feel like the government was supreme over children to the point where we're at a place in society where everybody is so disconnected. And within us, there's something that's beyond us that we want to be a part of something or it's gotten to the place where government is disconnecting people from their mind, body and like spirits. Like a disconnected of a person. We're supposed to be whole. And when
Starting point is 00:06:09 people are mentally sick or they're physically sick, they need somebody to help them. So I feel like the government has gotten people so sick and disconnected with their selves, disconnected with their child, you know, parents are disconnected with their children. The government has come in and said like, we are the ones that have all the answers to your problems. We have the education, we have the health, you know, take these back. This is the curriculum for you. And so this year going into 2025,
Starting point is 00:06:35 I really am looking at families becoming more united, mind, body and spirit, and then relationally. Do you think the government's overstepped? Absolutely, absolutely. I want to tell a parent when I sit with them, like, who told you that they had your child's best interests in their mind? Who told you that they know what's best for your children? They don't know what's best for your children and they don't have.
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Starting point is 00:09:47 The best interest, so why would you leave your kids with them the majority of the day? Because this is what the good parent does. And that's what they have put into people. It's a society really. They put it into the heart minded people that they know it's best and it's a lie. Yeah. I don't think the mindset should be to rely on the government for anything, honestly. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:10:04 Maybe just safety when it comes to military, but other than that, like... And you know, it depends on this is like with this administration, why I'm so happy that we have who we have, you know, coming into office because they are concerned about borders or concerned about our military, not just protecting our border, but our men. Yeah. When you have an administration who doesn't care about borders or our military, then we can be concerned about if they're making the right safety decisions. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:10:30 You mentioned school earlier. Did you send your kids to public school? I have never set them in school a single day. Wow. All eight of them? All eight of them. So you knew from early on, because this, I feel like this is a newer movement where parents aren't doing that.
Starting point is 00:10:41 I didn't know. I was only, my mom was only 14 when she had me. And so I was born on the wrong side of the tracks and from a family that is still today having kids in their teenage years. So I also have a foundation, Mother of Change Foundation. And a Mother of Change is a chain breaker and a change maker. And so I've kind of combined two TV shows, Mother of Change show and a foundation and Ignite Voices. So one show is
Starting point is 00:11:06 for the mothers who are struggling to give them, you know, hope to give them some help. But then we have Ignite Voices, which is going to the individual people to give them information to make sound choices. So when I was younger and having these kids, I had, I made one decision, I'm going to have kids, I'm going to protect them. And when I raised them, we're going to do the same for others. And we're going to help other families to be informed and to be aware, to be connected and to go out and like make this whole movement of families who are connected and united. Yeah. What's your strategy when it comes to social media regulation with your kids? So all my kids do not have my younger kids do not have a phone.
Starting point is 00:11:42 My oldest son, who is now 22, who's a rocket engineer started to fly a plane before he ever do a drove a car. He did not have a, you know, he had a flip phone until he was 21. Wow. Yeah. And so, you know, where my kids don't play video games, if they play video games, all of them have really high accolades every single one of them and have broken world records on different things. Well done. And we've done that not because I'm some great, I want to tell the parents out there, I'm not some super, you know, intelligent woman. I'm just a woman who sees my kids gifts, gives them the right tools. It's all about giving them the right tools.
Starting point is 00:12:20 And they have all stored in each of their volumes. And they're all different. Yeah, I don't I don't care what they do for school as long as they can read, write and do arithmetic, then they have all stored in each of their columns and they're all different. Yeah. I don't care what they do for school as long as they can read, write and do arithmetic, then they do all kinds of fun stuff that helps them learn. So nice. That's a smart strategy rather than just a cookie cutter strategy. Yeah. Who cares if they can pass the test if they're not going to remember it. Remember that show, Smart and their fifth grader?
Starting point is 00:12:41 Yeah, that was a good show. When I watched that show, I threw out the whole curriculum idea and I was like, these adults who are now successful don't remember what the fifth graders. So why do I even care what they're learning if it's not going to benefit them? Yeah. So now I mean, one of my sons when he was 13 was one of the youngest AWS certified individuals in the world, you know, and that was because he just spent time doing what he loves. Yeah. You know, and so instead of video games, they do programming to learn how to build planes and engineering and actually build video games as opposed to playing them.
Starting point is 00:13:13 Wow. That's impressive. And were you homeschooling them or? I mean, like, so they all my kids can do things I cannot do. So like I said, it wasn't me being the teacher. I say you can read. This is how I raise my kids. I teach them read and then I say you're the teacher. Okay, I'm just here to answer some questions't me being the teacher. I say, you can read. This is how I raise my kids. I teach them read and then I say, you're the teacher. Okay. I'm just here to answer some
Starting point is 00:13:28 questions and give you the tools. You teach yourself. And so all my kids are completely a hundred percent. I had a kid who at seven in prayer, I heard to get him into organic chemistry. Yeah. Okay. Gave him the right tools. In six months, he was assessed at a Harvard level, college level of a 25 year old at seven years old of organic chemistry. Never had a tutor. And I'm telling you, it's because each one of us is wired. It's not what you teach me. It's about what I need to learn. Yeah. And think about the headstart these kids are getting because instead of 22 years
Starting point is 00:13:59 of school where they're getting set back, you're starting them at seven years old. I mean, Oh yeah. Like some of my kids, when I found out they could graduate early, I had two kids graduate at 16. One got herself into Liberty University at 16. Wow. And you know what? The reason I graduated her earlier is because she hated high school and she didn't really want to do the work. And she was a great entrepreneur. I was closing like $10,000 sales deals. And I was like, you're an entrepreneur. You want to graduate.
Starting point is 00:14:25 You're not doing great at it. Do you want to, you know, who says that you're not doing great at it? You want to graduate? And I said, are you ready to go to the next level? And I said, just do it. If you can test out for the SMAP and you can do the SAT or whatever, you know, requirements, I gave her some requirements, then you can graduate. And this is the funny thing is she didn't want to do school.
Starting point is 00:14:44 Hi, Captain Girl, okay, at graduate. And this is the funny thing is she didn't want to do school. Hi captain girl Okay at 16, I graduated her and within two months all of a sudden she said she wanted to get into college and I was like, I thought you didn't even like school but it was because she made the decision because I didn't force her to do school. She wanted to now do school and I never I didn't do any of the paperwork She got herself into Liberty University. Just told me what to do. She's a teacher I'm the assistant and gave her the right paperwork. She got herself into Liberty University, just told me what to do. She's a teacher. I'm the assistant and gave her the right documents. And she got herself into Liberty University at 16.
Starting point is 00:15:09 That's phenomenal. Yeah, I'm glad the judgment's changing around homeschooling and private schooling. Absolutely. Because before, when I was growing up, you would get really judged and ridiculed. It's probably still like that a little bit, but it's changing for sure.
Starting point is 00:15:20 Absolutely, yeah. And it is. And that's the cool thing is that, and you don't have the there's no more cookie cutter for what a homeschooler looks like anymore. Now people after 2020 with remote schooling is what they were calling it. It's homeschooling. It's like, sure. It's remote. Yeah. It's not crazy anymore. I just had Erica Donald's on yesterday. She's doing VR schooling for kids. She knows. Really? Yeah. I haven't, I haven't gone that, you know,
Starting point is 00:15:44 I haven't looked at that. I don't know how I feel about that, honestly. But I mean, if it's working for a family, I wouldn't ever put it down. I think anything's better than public school. Yeah. I mean, honestly, not that my kids would... I'm not going to say... They might end up doing it.
Starting point is 00:15:56 I thought I'm a Sarah said, I don't know. I'm open. Yeah. What's next for you? I'm sorry. What's next for you? What's planned? What's next for me this next year?
Starting point is 00:16:04 We're just going to go hard with our TV show, Grilling, our following. We have networked deals for, we're already on networks, but we're just growing Ignite Voices TV. My sons are, so like 6 to 22. So we have entrepreneurship. So one of my 18 year olds, he has a job, but he just launched his own company and made his cash this month, which was exciting. And I have another son who is starting, he's building airplane. So he just started and launched that. So right now my focus as a parent, okay, is to help my kids excel in there.
Starting point is 00:16:36 And this is what I need you guys need to know is that I'm talking about unity in 2025, you don't have, and this is the thing is you don't have to make your kids do things, right? You can do things together that are like a passion. Okay? So we come together and I tell them, what is your passion? We have a mission statement for our family. We work with high energy and integrity to provide resources and tools for life. Right? And so everything we do is that's the United Placement that we're doing. But then each one of them had their individuals. I'm not trying to make them to stay and do what MSR is doing. So what I want to tell parents is your kids can flourish, they can build their own companies,
Starting point is 00:17:13 they can have their own kingdoms when they get married. But it's so beautiful that they'll always have something together, united so that way, you know, their kids will have something united. So it's like the, I wouldn't say the side things it is really main, but at the same time, I'm giving my sons the ability to do things on their own. So we're going to come together as a family, take the resources and tools to give to families
Starting point is 00:17:33 to be united and undivided. And I really would love to get on a TED talk this next year and just give this message. Like who told you that education was the best for your child and you really can do it. I say, if Emma Sarah can get all this great results, anybody can can because I'm not patient. My kids are way smarter than I am. And if they say, well, it's great. You must have a lot of cash. When we made, we have a whole testimony. We made 26,000 in 2018 for a family of 10. We were in the desert. We were in an RV, like a whole calamity happened to our family.
Starting point is 00:18:06 Everything was stripped from us overnight. So everything we built is since 2019, like everything that we have built. And so during that time, my son got like $200 playing lessons when we were broke, broke. I mean, where there's a will, there's a way. So we just kept on looking for opportunities for our kids to learn and people want your kids to grow and learn. So you get connected with other people who want to sell into your kids as well. And so that's my real like, you know, what's next? It's not even about me. It's about what our family's gonna
Starting point is 00:18:34 do for everybody else. George Washington Carver said he wanted to be the greatest good to the greatest amount of people. And so what's next for me is to be the greatest good to the greatest amount of people. And we're doing that through Ignite Voices and through The mother of change foundation beautiful will link the foundation and the show below. Thanks for coming on. Thank you so much Absolutely, they can buy me at ignite voices.com right? you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you Bet MGM is an official sports betting partner of the National Hockey League and has your back all season long.
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