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Deschooling

My Big Shift in Perspective on Unschooling and Money

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Akilah S. Richards
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his is about me learning to work different, not harder. This is NOT about what I wasn’t doing enough of, but more so what I wasn’t attuned to because I was busy, not focused, not fully in my savvy, but entrenched in my survival. May more of us move steadily out of survival mode and into the practice of being and raising free people. - Akilah

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