Paring Down: Realistic minimalism, decluttering, & intentional living
Aug 12, 2026 · 45 min · 19 segments
Attorney Rayna Reid Rayford and I are old friends from Miss New York, and she’s become a powerful force for maternal advocacy. Today, you’ll hear how Rayna turned her own terrifying pregnancy…
Shannon LeykoHost
Rayna Reid RayfordGuest
This episode is brought to you by the fact that my kids are all very different personalities, so that means they often have different learning styles, which can feel complicated when trying to decide the best education path for our kids.

And that's why I wanna tell you about K12-powered online schools, because it could be the perfect fit for your family, or at least one of the kids in your family.

K12-powered schools offers tuition-free, accredited online public education for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

That means they're getting virtual education from dedicated teachers who are actually trained in this kind of virtual instruction in order to support your child's unique needs, their interests, their goals, without a traditional school day.

I think it's particularly important that K12 actually connects their students with other peers through extracurricular activities and lets them also have that social component while leaning on an online setting that can work from anywhere that there's internet.
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This episode is brought to you by the fact that my kids are all very different personalities, so that means they often have different learning styles, which can feel complicated when trying to decide the best education path for our kids.

And that's why I wanna tell you about K12-powered online schools, because it could be the perfect fit for your family, or at least one of the kids in your family.

K12-powered schools offers tuition-free, accredited online public education for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

That means they're getting virtual education from dedicated teachers who are actually trained in this kind of virtual instruction in order to support your child's unique needs, their interests, their goals, without a traditional school day.

I think it's particularly important that K12 actually connects their students with other peers through extracurricular activities and lets them also have that social component while leaning on an online setting that can work from anywhere that there's internet.