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AMDG. Many of our listeners will be familiar with Magnificat. These little books have been helping Catholics keep track of Mass readings and offering wonderful daily reflections and prayers.  In this episode, Steven and Bonnie are joined by Kathleen Hollenbeck and John Sacco from Magnificat. John serves as the manager of marketing and communications and Kathleen is the editor-in-chief for Magnificat’s new publication for kids, Magnifier.   Magnifier is a new print publication for children that seeks to explore the world around us from a Catholic perspective. We’re able to find out about this beautiful new product and also go a bit behind the scenes to hear about what’s happening over at Magnificat!  Parents and grandparents may find the new Magnifier publication to be a great gift for children and grandchildren!  Links mentioned & relevant:  Magnifier magazine  Magnificat  Children's books published by Magnficat including the Loupio series and manga Carlo Acutis  Related Kolbecast episode:  70 First Draft: A Parent In-service  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. Today we welcome Jessica Rey to the Kolbecast. Jessica is the homeschooling mother of the three young hosts on EWTN’s series Fork in the Road. She is also a speaker, writer, entrepreneur and former Power Ranger.  In addition to hearing about the many projects Jessica is working on, we get a chance to hear about Jessica’s experiences in traveling throughout the world while homeschooling. We didn’t fail to pick up some good travel advice from her along the way.  Links mentioned and relevant:  Watch Fork in the Road, learn more about the book, and join the Someday Society here  Get Jessica’s travel planning help here   Read Jessica’s blog here   Related Kolbecast episodes:  107 Wander and Wonder   286 True Depictions – Iconography with Joseph Bremer  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. We all have times where we are either feeling stuck in what we’re doing, or are feeling ready for a new challenge. Today, Jessica Pipes, an executive coach with Novus Global joins the podcast to offer some advice on how to approach these times.   Jessica talks to us about how to challenge some of the stories that we tell ourselves that get in the way of success and how working with a coach can help us along the way.  Links mentioned and relevant:  Jessica’s bio  Novus Global   Ichak Adizes   Beyond High Performance by Jason Jaggard  Jessica will offer one free coaching session to Kolbecast listeners who are curious and want to explore their own vision. Click here to schedule a session.   Related Kolbecast episodes:  176 The Agenda Is to Grow with Art & Laraine Bennett  188 Dr. Kevin Majeres Sees Challenges as Opportunities  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. In episode 332, we spoke with three of Kolbe’s academic advisors who were addressing common problems that come up and conversations that may be happening with homeschooling parents in October.   Today we continue that conversation, focusing on high school. Academic advisors Cecelia Byers and Elyse Williams return to the Kolbecast to answer some of the most common questions and problems to help guide our families through the school year.  Links mentioned & relevant:  Course catalog  Course selection guides  Help Center   Graduation planner  Student services  Book buy back  Grade submission guidance   Parent Partnership Meeting schedule   College planning resources  Career guidance and discernment   College Fair recordings  Physical education and fine arts  Extracurricular activities  Letter of recommendation request form  Related Kolbecast episodes:  Advisor series:  313 Preparing for a Stellar School Year  319 Tapestry in the Making  320 College Considerations  321 Building a Strong Extracurricular Profile  323 Ordinary Days  331 Common Advising Conversations, part 1  241 Renew, Resolve, Reengage   Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. For all homeschooling families roughly following a standard school year of August through May, October becomes an important time to examine how the year is going so far and to make any adjustments.   In this episode, Kolbe advisors Rylan Buchanan, Pam Castor, and Krysten Pizzurro join Bonnie and Steven to discuss some of the most regular questions and problems that come up and to remind our Kolbe families that this is a great time of year to check-in with their advisor.  Learn more about Kolbe’s Instructional Support Services.  Related Kolbecast episodes:  Advisor series:  313 Preparing for a Stellar School Year  319 Tapestry in the Making  320 College Considerations  321 Building a Strong Extracurricular Profile  323 Ordinary Days   232 Part of the Family  77 The Road Less Traveled with Celeste Cuellar  203 Guided Freedom: a discussion on Classical Composition  215 New School Year Starter Kit with Jeanne Anne Ford and Colleen Pilon  36 Embrace the Fifth Day    Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. Today we’re traveling north of the border to Canada’s only Newman Guide college! Our guest is Dr. Patrick Craine, president of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College in Barry’s Bay, Ontario. Dr. Craine tells us about his and the college’s background and what makes Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College unique.We think that you’ll enjoy this trip to another Newman Guide School combined with a visit to our friends up north.  Links mentioned and relevant:  Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College website  The Cardinal Newman Society’s profile of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College  Kolbe Academy named to Newman Guide’s list of recommended K-12 schools  Catherine Doherty cause for canonization website  Related Kolbecast episodes:  123 A Change of the Ages and 224 Forming Apostolic Hearts with Msgr. James Shea  204 Habits of Ownership with Jacob Imam of St. Joseph the Worker College  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. Today Steven and Bonnie are joined by Kolbe’s Agostina Cavasotto and Sarah Howard to discuss the transcendentals of the true, the good and the beautiful. From art and music, literature and history, to poetry and plays, we discuss the merits of being exposed to these and how we can make them a part of our classical homeschooling experience.  Related Kolbecast episodes:  Advisor series:  313 Preparing for a Stellar School Year  319 Tapestry in the Making  320 College Considerations  321 Building a Strong Extracurricular Profile  323 Ordinary Days  324 Common Pitfalls and Stumbling Blocks   328 Doing the Human Things   Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress of the Order of Preachers is the promoter of the Rosary for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph and leader of the Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage. He is also a regular host of the Godsplaining podcast.  In addition to hearing about Fr. Kress and his vocation, we’re able to find out more about the Dominican order and its charisms. He also tells us about the fourth annual Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage on September 26, 2026, in Washington D.C. and streamed online.   Links mentioned and relevant:  The 2026 Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage (in-person and virtual participation)  Dominican Friars | Province of St. Joseph  more about Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress, OP   Godsplaining.org  Aquinas 101 series  Thomistic Institute  The Hillbilly Thomists  Related Kolbecast episodes:  183 Gratuitous Gifts: Sherry Weddell on Charisms  285 Joy, Light, Sorrow, and Glory - The Way of the Rosary with Shannon Wendt  119 The Hope Throughout with Tom & Noelle Crowe of The American Catholic History Podcast  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. There are a lot of discussions going on regarding AI and its impact on the world and the appropriate ways that it can be used. Kolbe theology department chair Nick Senz and curriculum director Maggie Hayden join Bonnie and Steven to discuss Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical Magnifica Humanitas which addresses these issues. We discuss the encyclical itself and some practical takeaways as we continue to explore this important issue.  Links mentioned & relevant:  Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas  Related Kolbecast episodes:  322 Intentionality, Greatness, Dignity, Vision, Faith: Commencement 2026  327 The Intentional Homeschooling Household with John & Sofia Cuddeback  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. Today we welcome Dr. John Cuddeback to the Kolbecast. This time he’s brought his wife, Sofia, with him Many people will be familiar with John and Sofia from their work on Life-Craft, whether it is retreats, writings or podcasts. Our focus today is on John’s new book, The Intentional Household. In this book, John explores eight principles for building and maintaining an intentional household. We explore these principles and discuss practical steps for making this a reality.  Links mentioned and relevant:  The Intentional Household: Living as if People Matter by John Cuddeback  The Intentional Household podcast episode 36  True Friendship: Where Virtue Becomes Happiness by John Cuddeback  Life-craft.org,  Related Kolbecast episodes:  166 Dr. John Cuddeback on Dwelling Together Richly  188 Dr. Kevin Majeres Sees Challenges as Opportunities   Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. Today we welcome Dr. Tim Collins to the Kolbecast. Dr. Collins is the president at Walsh University in North Canton, Ohio –  a Newman Guide school. We get to hear a bit about Dr. Collins’s background, what great things are happening at Walsh University, and what makes it unique among the Newman Guide colleges. Dr. Collins also shares his experience and wisdom in discernment and how we can always be in communication with God for guidance, especially for those big questions and decisions.  Links mentioned & relevant:  Walsh University, one of Kolbe Academy’s college partners  CatholicHigherEd.com, a tool for families by Dr. Collins  Let the Fire Fall by Fr. Michael Scanlon  The Brothers of Christian Instruction  Related Kolbecast episodes:  265 Chosen to Be a Saint: Commencement 2025 featuring Dr. Collins as keynote speaker  183 Gratuitous Gifts: Charisms with Sherry Weddell  84 The Essence of Catholic Education and 157 Renewal, Revival, Variety, and Unity with Patrick Reilly of The Cardinal Newman Society  123 A Change of the Ages and 224 Forming Apostolic Hearts with Msgr. James Shea  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. Today we welcome homeschooling mother, historian, editor, and author Dr. Dixie Dillon Lane to the Kolbecast. Dixie has recently written a book about the history of homeschooling called Skipping School: A History of American Homeschooling and How it Went Mainstream.  Through research, Dixie traces the origins of homeschooling through the lens of the homeschool movement in Southern California and its evolution to its current form today. In addition to this history, Dixie also shares her wisdom and experience as a homeschooling mother to talk about the benefits of homeschooling and navigating some of the challenges that it can present.  Links mentioned & relevant:  Dixie’s book Skipping School: A History of Homeschooling in the United States and How It Went Mainstream  Dixie on Substack  The Bad Moms Homeschool, Dixie's collaboration with Ivana Greco and Nadya Williams  Hearth & Field   Research by Ivana Greco & Elliot Haspel on stay-at-home parents  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. Today we’re joined by three experienced homeschooling mothers and Kolbe Academy academic advisors. Rylan Buchanan, Diana Hayes, and Sarah Turley take up the topic of common pitfalls and stumbling blocks that can come up when homeschooling. From planning to balancing multiple children, avoiding burnout and surviving times of illness and disruption, our guests provide us with a great deal of practical wisdom along with a reminder to be kind and patient with ourselves.  Links mentioned & relevant:  Kolbe Academy’s Family Advising Services  Kolbe Academy’s Partnership Meetings  Related Kolbecast episodes:  Advisor series:  313 Preparing for a Stellar School Year  319 Tapestry in the Making  320 College Considerations  321 Building a Strong Extracurricular Profile  323 Ordinary Days   232 Part of the Family   Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. Today, Kolbe Advisors Michelle Koechle, Jennifer Thomas and Sarah Turley join the Kolbecast to discuss approaches to homeschooling and what a day of homeschooling might look like.   From schedules and spaces to adjusting to moves and when the unexpected comes up, our guests give us some models for what this can look like and some wisdom on how we can adjust.  Links mentioned & relevant:  Kolbe Academy’s Family Advising Services  Kolbe Academy’s Student Support Services  Related Kolbecast episodes:  Advisor series:  313 Preparing for a Stellar School Year  319 Tapestry in the Making  320 College Considerations  321 Building a Strong Extracurricular Profile  197 Tools in a Toolbox: Kolbe Student Support Services  232 Part of the Family: Parents & Advisors as Partners  269 Resources and Roadmaps  203 Guided Freedom (Classical Composition)  256 An Education that Reflects God’s Beauty with Nicole O’Connor and Maggie Hayden  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!

AMDG. Today, we bring to you the speakers from the 2026 Kolbe Commencement.   Kolbe Academy’s senior enrollment director Jon Bates serves as Master of Ceremonies, introducing Fr. Raymond Pendelton, who gives the invocation, and Kolbe Academy’s chief academic officer Megan Lengyel, who gives the welcome address. Then we hear from student speakers Laura Hill and Holden Mora, Kolbe instructor and theology chair Nick Senz, and Dr. Stephen Minis, president of Benedictine College.   We hope that you enjoy the words of wisdom from all of these individuals, however, if you’d like to jump to a particular speaker, here are the timestamps for each speaker:  Invocation by Fr. Raymond Pendleton: 01:16  Welcome address by Mrs. Megan Lengyel: 02:41  Laura Hill: 04:36  Holden Mora: 12:03  Nicholas Senz: 31:14  Stephen Minnis: 53:41  Relevant links & Kolbecast episodes:  Kolbecast episodes with faculty speaker Nick Senz:   300 The Gift of the Sacraments with Brendan Murphy discussing Nick’s book on the sacraments  91 Kernels of Truth with Chrissy Almanzar  Watch the entire 2026 commencement ceremony here.  Benedictine College in Atchison, KS, is one of Kolbe Academy’s college partners.   Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you’d like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to [email protected] and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.   We’d be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast!