Teaching Hard Sciences And More With LifterLMS To Homeschoolers With Dr. Scott

Dr. Scott describes how he used LifterLMS to transform his expertise as a college chemistry professor into a profitable online learning company called Learn with Dr. Scott. He describes how, in order to have control over his website, courses, fees, and the entire student experience, he began with phone tutoring, switched to Zoom lessons, and ultimately built his own WordPress-based platform in 2019.

His approach to teaching is based on simplifying and making difficult science understandable. His classes employ mastery-based learning, in which pupils continue to study until they fully comprehend the material. Students do printed worksheets with pen and paper, accompanied by theoretical teachings and thorough walkthrough videos, rather than using automated quizzes or multiple-choice exams. In order to allow pupils to concentrate on truly comprehending science, he purposefully reduces difficult math.

Scott’s success was largely attributed to his discovery of the homeschool market. At first, his classes were designed to prepare students for college, but he was asked to develop scientific courses by homeschooling families. He came to the conclusion that parents required a well-structured curriculum without having to devote hundreds of hours to its creation and administration. His marketing strategy evolved into this: parents simply need to spend a few minutes per week ensuring their children are following the course, while Scott provides the curriculum, worksheets, explanations, and structure. He also discusses how he came up with his pricing and business plan.

He provides an economical $20/month subscription with unlimited access but no personal assistance, alongside higher-priced courses costing about $300–$400 that include lifelong access, grading, email support, and Zoom help. Over time, he discovered that families preferred the low-cost, flexible, self-directed option to traditional teacher-supported online education. His experience with AI and seasonality is among the most fascinating aspects.

Strong sales around September, some activity in January and February when families switched curriculum, and very little activity in May were the typical cycles of his homeschool company. However, he discovered that this trend altered very rapidly. Despite doing almost no marketing during that time, he observed purchases in May and July, and he thinks AI systems may have begun driving more people to his website.

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Chris Badgett: You’ve come to the right place if you’re looking to create, launch, and scale a high-value online training program. I’m your guide, Chris Badgett. I’m the co-founder of LifterLMS, the most powerful learning management system for WordPress. Stay to the end. I’ve got something special for you. Enjoy the show

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of LMScast. I’m joined by a special guest. His name is Dr. Scott Beaver. You can find him at learnwithdrscott.com. Scott teaches hard sciences, I believe Spanish, meditation, and some other things. He’s a prolific course creator and provides a lot of value to homeschooling families as well as even college people who are behind on some of their chemistry and other things.

But first, welcome to the show S- Scott. 

Dr. Scott: Thanks, Chris. Nice to be here. 

Chris Badgett: I’m really excited to get into it with you. From my research, you started using LifterLMS in 2019. I know you were a college professor, and you ended up on a beach, and you really made- … a major change in your life. Tell us what happened.

Dr. Scott: Yeah, I was as Chris said, I was a, a college chemistry professor among other things. I decided to maybe take a month off and hang out on a remote beach in Mexico, and it was kinda time to maybe get back to work or something like that. And this was, like, 10 years ago. Somebody, a parent called me, asked if I could do basically a tutoring lesson on the telephone, which I had never done before.

And I said okay. Sounds, sounds, sounds fun.” I did it, and then it it occurred to me to use Zoom video conferencing to have classes online. And I was I was doing that for some years, picking up a lot of students. And it was getting to the point that I was spending more time with files, like sending kids videos, sending kids worksheets, checking emails.

I had… I was like, “Man I have a kind of a heavy lifting problem here with all these files.” And I started searching for different LMSs, and I really wanted something I could build my own website and have control over the thing, as opposed to, just using a platform where you end up at the mercy of the platform.

And I saw LifterLMS. It integrates real, real easy with WordPress. And yeah, it’s been quite a few years, and I’ve been quite, quite a happy quite a happy LifterLMS user since then. So 

Chris Badgett: that’s- That’s awesome … that’s just- Was that your first introduction to WordPress, or had you already been playing around with that?

Dr. Scott: That was also my first introduction to WordPress. The first website I’ve had a lot of web building experience. I guess when I was in when I was in graduate school, I was building just HTML, PHP websites, kinda, may- maybe kinda nerdy, but there was no no, no WordPress, no nothing, just kinda code.

And then, yeah, a lot had happened in the years. I hadn’t done anything web-oriented for probably 10, 15 years or so and started getting into WordPress about that time. So yeah, Learn with Dr. Scott was the first first WordPress implementation that I did. 

Chris Badgett: Did you find it easy to get started with because you already had the background in PHP and everything else?

Dr. Scott: Yeah, I thought it was incredibly easy. I was, dreading coding another website and, it was… I thought it was gonna take forever, and then I realized that the technology had kinda come to the point that it was sorta drag and drop and a lot easier to sorta develop products without having to worry about the actual website development.

More or less just kinda works, and if not there’s a plugin that solves that problem.

Chris Badgett: So tell us about your teaching method. What are the courses like? And I think you have something where the, the students do a self-evaluation- 

… 

Chris Badgett: Be- before you come back. Tell us how that works. 

Dr. Scott: Yeah. So the idea is basically to have the world’s easiest science classes that at the same time are rigorous.

And a lot of people think that rigorous means it has to be difficult or complex. It’s just kinda… It’s more about the structure of the thing, how one thing builds on another so that students can get basically experience learning how to create structure for themselves.

That’s the key skill I see that helps people have success in college- … understanding the format of a course, how it’s structured, learning how to learn. And then I do… As, as far as the website goes, it’s basically what’s called mastery-based grading, which just means that you go through the material, you just keep working at it till you get 100% 100% of the knowledge.

And as, as far as structuring things, I kinda have it structured a little bit like an old school college classroom where you had lecture and recitation. So during the lecture, there’s basically an hour of videos that are explaining things theoretically, and then they the learners get a worksheet that they print out and, work through with a pen and paper to get the hand-eye coordinated hand-eye coordination emphasized ’cause I, I think it, does a lot for helping develop the brain.

And then there’s basically a second set of videos where I’ve pointed the camera down. You tend to be looking at my paper in my hand with my pen writing out the answers and explaining every detail of everything so that I, basically do questions by email and telephone, but get very few questions from parents ’cause it’s complete.

It has the theoretical side of things, it has the practical side of things, and it basically kinda helps learners learn how they learn, some people like to hear the theory and figure out their process. Some people just learn by copying, that was traditionally Maybe considered a no-no in the education world, but the fact of the matter is a lot of, we’re, our mind is built to mimic what we see.

It’s obviously like a first step kind of copying until you get comfortable with it and then taking off on your own. But the idea is basically to kinda give learners that spectrum between theory and practice and find, the optimal point for them because everybody just learns differently and it’s, it’s important to find a, an online course that matches your learning style.

That’s the most important thing to me. And maybe just to point out too, so that’s the, the, the, the company is called Easy Hard Science, so that’s kind of the hard science aspect of it. It’s, quote, “rigorous,” it lets students find their learning style. And then the easy part of it is I made basically science courses with very little math in them.

We work with the numbers zero through nine so that everything can be counted on the on the fingers. So there’s no no like advanced math. That’s kind of a major stumbling block for a lot of people is that they wanna take a science course and then it ends up just being a bunch of math problems and neither the math nor the science gets learned.

So it’s it’s a nice easy format for people that, maybe don’t wanna end up being career scientists. They wanna get some science, but don’t need all the hardcore math. And then that kind of opened up a door to another market segment as well is like younger gifted learners, which I was one.

When I was young, I was taken out of the regular classroom and put in like the advanced classroom, and there’s a lot of, younger learners that have a lot of interest in science but they’re not ready for the math yet. So it’s it’s nice for the younger gifted populations, as well as those that just want a rigorous science background, without all the struggling through the math.

Chris Badgett: You mentioned a lot already, but the question is how do you make people fall in love with science? You’ve mentioned different learning styles, like theory, practice, copying. 

You mentioned removing the math part, which tends to hang people up. But what else do you do to just make it fun and enjoyable?

And yeah that’s the emphasis- I’m sure it’s really 

Dr. Scott: satisfying … is having a fun class, being interactive, with the learners when we’re on, when we’re on Zoom. And basically just bringing my personal story into the lessons as well, showing people what I’ve managed to do with science.

I’ve done a lot of hardcore scientific things, but also just, kind of globe trekking, setting up websites at the beach. Oh, y- you give people a, a look into the, the personal life and what’s what’s possible with teaching. A lot of people have this sort of very sort of static, rigid classroom in their mind, and that’s, that, it doesn’t have to be that way.

There’s a lot more to be, a lot more to be had, fun to be had with education 

Chris Badgett: Did you kinda deliberately target homeschoolers somewhat? Or did that just emerge as “Oh, I have a lot of homeschool families interested”?

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Dr. Scott: Yeah that actually just emerged. I was kinda mostly focusing on like college prep because I was I was a college chemistry professor.

I taught I taught some classes at c- community colleges that was like a chemistry, like pre-college course that we forced students to take it, but it was too preliminary. It didn’t actually count for credit. So I was basically kinda helping people like kinda save a year getting into college, being up to speed.

And then I started having homeschooling groups sorta ask me if I could put courses together for them, and then I started going more so in the homeschooling direction ’cause it was fun working with with the younger learners that really had an interest in science. And, as, as, as, as opposed to, to kinda elaborate on the last question about making people fall in love with science, it’s a little bit of little bit of a job with the older learners to kinda connect with them.

But the younger gifted learners just had this appetite, this love for science, and it was it was a vacuum to fill. So it made made my life really easy having such a motivated motivated group of families to work with. 

Chris Badgett: How do you, if somebody else is like a professor or a teacher and they’re interested in your journey- 

What’s your experience and advice for selling chemistry to like non-chemists, like to, to the parents? ‘Cause it’s one thing if like the student buys, but I’m imagining the parent buys often. So h- that sounds like a little tr- tricky to make happen. How did you do it? What advice do you have? 

Dr. Scott: Yeah. It’s very interesting that you said that because the, the product’s for kids, but we’re marketing to parents.

That was definitely a major optimization point that took some years to figure out. But ba- basically what I what I promise the parents is, I want five minutes of your time every week. If you spend five minutes to set a schedule, give the kids a block of time to work with, you don’t have to actually check the work, you don’t have to get involved in the nitty-gritty details of the periodic table or some chemistry reaction.

Just see that they’re working, see that they have the worksheet, see that the information flows. Usually people kind of email in the work every week and, basically take five minutes of responsibility and everything’s just gonna, just gonna happen. So it’s selling the possibility of an autopilot button to the parents.

A lot of them, as you probably know, is homeschooling parents. Some, some homeschooling parents put together the whole curriculum and they spend all summer looking for, looking for materials and it’s maybe doable, up to about middle school or something. But a- asking a parent to put together like a chemistry course or a biology course or, anything quote rigorous where one lesson builds on the next, it becomes more than a year’s work to put together a year’s worth of schooling.

So ba- basically saving, saving tons of time and having a really high quality outcome in terms of motivated kids learning the material. 

Chris Badgett: How about your pricing and bundling journey? It’s kinda hard to figure that, all that out I imagine. Do you know how many courses you have total right now?

And what have you figured out from a business model, pricing, bundle kind of strategy? 

Dr. Scott: Yeah. That’s a really good question. I’ve made a lot of courses over the years. Some that worked, some that didn’t work. Pro- probably like many course creators, I didn’t realize that, making the course is half the work and selling the course is the other half of the work.

So I was little too heavy in the course creating the first few years till I found the balance. But we basically have on the website now there, there’s three chemistry courses which could presumably be kinda like two years of high school chemistry. There’s a couple biology courses that are a year of high school biology.

There’s a couple of physics courses That are a year of high school physics, and basically parents use these for credit logging on their high school transcript as well is the other selling point to parents. Save time, get credit. And then there’s two algebra courses, Algebra 1 and Algebra 2 that kind of have algebra compressed into a half year.

So maybe not exactly for credit, but getting math done really quick. So we’re kinda, kinda focusing on like for-credit college prep things that younger gifted learners could work could use to, to to get ahead in school. And we kinda, ended up settling on two price points.

I do a monthly membership for $20 that’s unlimited access and also unsupported, so they can take as many classes as they want, and it’s basically like the parents are doing the grading, and there’s answer keys and explainer videos, like I said, that, nobody really gets stuck. And then there’s a course purchase where they can purchase the two years of chemistry, the one year of physics, the one year of biology.

Prices are between about $300 to $400, and that you keep the course for life. The whole family can use it, and it includes my grading services and questions by email and Zoom. It’s interesting because that was back when we started this before the pandemic, that was the, the preferred option.

People wanted a real teacher. They wanted grading. They wanted somebody to ask for questions. They wanted somebody to hold their hand, getting to class on the first day. And things have changed a lot. The, the, the online education market, especially for, kind of formal education is maybe saturated a little bit.

I had the advantage of being early before the pandemic. I think when COVID struck, there was, all of a sudden 100,000 school teachers that wanted to do the same thing. And I don’t know what, what happened. Maybe the market just kinda, k- saturated. I think people were kinda…

Families were maybe a little tired of having all these teachers. They just wanted the product, just wanted it as streamlined and flexible as possible. So we do mostly the kind of unsupported $20 a month membership. So I think that’s what I ended up doing. I’ve got the bottom and the top of the market.

It’s like the same class, just unsupported on your own for a low price. And then, for people that want like the personal support and tutoring and everything, there’s like a one-time, one-time price between 300 to $400 for a year of courses. 

Chris Badgett: You also have a thing or a stance where I think you don’t do multiple choice quizzes.

Dr. Scott: Do you? No. So it’s all it’s all literal worksheets. Yeah. The kids get a PDF and they print it out, and yeah, I want to em- emphasize the hand-eye coordination. So there’s no no, no sort of automated testing whatsoever. It’s all sort of old school worksheets meant to work with a pen or pencil.

Chris Badgett: Can you tell us about that moment from doing the telephone tutoring to realizing, “I think I’m gonna make it. I think I’m gonna actually have a- … online teaching career here”? Yeah. Did you ever, did you have doubts or it just kinda worked? 

Dr. Scott: Oh there, there was a lot of doubt.

Yeah, I had this I had this the phone call and I realized, I was traveling. I think I was at some, some remote beach in Mexico, and they maybe sent me $100, which was, enough to survive another week on tropical beaches. And that, that was when the light bulb clicked.

I was like this could work.” And then I started I started using some other platforms to teach Zoom classes. But I didn’t… Like I said, I wanted to have a situation where I could have control of the situation and build my own website, and I started investigating learning management systems WordPress plugins or WordPress itself.

Kinda decided that WordPress and a WordPress plugin were the way to go. And I guess it, it probably would’ve been, like, December 2019, because I remember things being closed down over the holiday break, and I was like, “Am I gonna do this? Am I gonna not do this? Am I gonna do this? Am I gonna not do this?”

And I had to, Fir- first step was to buy the domain. 20 bucks to buy the Learn with Dr. Scott domain, do- dot learnwithdrscott.com domain. And I was on the fence and waiting and thinking and, “Do I really wanna do this?” “It’s gonna be a lot of work once I start. I’m not gonna start unless I commit to it.”

And I think it was I think it was, like, Christmas Eve of 2019 that I must have finally bought the domain and got started. So it was, like, a Christmas, New Year’s gift to myself, a whole new life. And then I would have I don’t quite remember. But you guys do a free it, it’s free to install the LifterLMS, so I think I, I installed it and started setting up the chemistry courses.

And I was actually selling Through other platforms and just using the LifterLMS, giving them like a voucher to, to, for support to download videos and worksheets and everything. But then, within that first year, making the decision to really have my own platform with my own payment system and everything.

So that’s probably about the time that I went on the books, putting the Stripe and the, the PayPal plugin. It, probably about six months or so afterwards that I made the decision to to start it. So yeah, it’s, o- owning a small business is fun. I’ve done this a few times, but it’s it’s always a rollercoaster.

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Chris Badgett: you have extreme seasonality with like school, like the times that people buy courses? Like what does that seasonality look like if you have it?

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Dr. Scott: Yeah. Very extreme- 

Chris Badgett: Yeah … 

Dr. Scott: seasonality. Ba- basically, it starts right about now between about September 15th and October 15th or so is when the, the homeschooling community gets started.

So as far as like just having the membership for unsupported the, the $20 a month membership. It’s like right about now that everything gets started. Now I start planning in March, six months ahead for the school year that’s gonna land in September, and then usually over the summer some more serious families, trickle in for the for, for the bundles of supported classes at the higher price point that I was telling you about.

So there’s usually like a little bit of movement in June and July of people preparing for September. All the people that are really starting school now start, and then sales usually dip off until about January or February, the second semester. A lot of people realizing that they’ve got like halfway through the school year with a curriculum doesn’t work, so they’re switching gears midstream.

So we get a lot of that in sort of January, February. And then, things are pretty, pretty dead in May. Everybody wants to be done. Everybody wants to be done with school, and then sometimes we do like summer session. It’s sort of June and July as well. So it’s been extremely cy- cyclical for 10 years that I’ve been doing this.

Until interestingly, this, this very interesting question, Chris, it maybe corresponds to another question. I don’t know if you’re gonna mention anything about AI or not, but I noticed last year the second half of the cycle completely killed by the AI. I got no… had no, no sales in, in, in January, February like normal.

And I noticed the online education industry was taking a nosedive in general. A lot of parents, you know, just using AI ’cause it’s free, as opposed to buying an online course And then in May and June and July, I started getting sales this year. Never happened before. I haven’t done anything different.

I don’t market this time of year. It’s not, it’s not even worth wasting a breath on usually trying to sell a chemistry course in May. So my assumption is that the AI likes the website and it’s sending me traffic ’cause I have no, no sort of increased traffic through social media or organic search or anything.

So yeah kinda went down and then up again. So we’ll see. I’ve been on- I’ve been 10 years of the school year cycle, and it seems like the AI is gonna start to dominate the traffic that I’m receiving, and I have no, no idea what sort of cycle it’s gonna be, but so far it’s been completely the opposite of what I have seen for the last 10 years.

Chris Badgett: That’s awesome, and that’s interesting how parents and students may be turning to AI tutoring or whatever, but at the end of the day, AI is now referring you more, which is like super interesting. That’s cool. 

Dr. Scott: Exactly. 

Chris Badgett: Tell us more about the desire to own the platform. I’m sure there’s a lot of platforms you can teach on.

Myself, even at Lifter, I f- my first course was on Udemy. It wasn’t on WordPress. Oh. But, like why was it important to you to have your own website that you could customize and control? 

Dr. Scott: I’ve- Seen a lot of these things come and go. My, my understanding is a lot of platforms are really friendly.

They get lots of customers, lots of clients, lots of users coming in, and then they change the rules overnight to make it difficult and less profitable for the- Yeah … course creators. It’s a business. So one I wanted to avoid that. Two, is just a matter of basic quality control.

Yeah. One of these one of these platforms I was working on teaching Zoom classes, their sales point was that the teachers are always nice to the kids. Okay. They didn’t allow teachers to have rules- Okay … in the classroom, and it was complete chaos. Nothing that I would, wanna have my name associated with.

So it’s just a combination of quality control and business. So it, it takes longer to develop your own platform, but I really don’t understand how people do it not having any sort of control. 

Chris Badgett: Obviously I 100% agree with you.

What, what would you say… Like, how do you get customers? You mentioned AI s- recommending you more. 

Do you have some people coming from YouTube or is it referrals? What’s your strongest method for getting customers? 

Dr. Scott: For 10 years it was all SEO. 

Chris Badgett: Yeah. 

Dr. Scott: So I got really into SEO.

Basically we have the, the webpage sorta has a homepage and it has a list of all the courses for sale that are kinda the two main pages. And I probably made 500 SEO-oriented pages picking a science topic and, picking a keyword. Basically having a free worksheet.

So that- Okay … that was traditionally a big thing before video-based learning is that parents were looking for worksheets to occupy their kids’ time. So I basically used SEO to give away free worksheets and then, you can buy the course to save the time to have me Do it for you and bundle everything.

So a lot of SEO and then a lot of word of mouth. Recently the AI, and I go- gonna have to admit I’ve never had any luck whatsoever with any sort of social media. So- 

Chris Badgett: But you can’t do it all. Like- 

Dr. Scott: Yeah … 

Chris Badgett: some people are good at paid ads, some people are good at content like you are. Some people are really good at social.

It’s hard to be all things, right? 

Dr. Scott: Yeah, so con- content and website 

Chris Badgett: You branched out a little bit. I think you have some Spanish courses, some art courses, meditation. Tell us about the broadening scope. 

Dr. Scott: Yeah. So I was, as I mentioned, I was a college chemistry professor, so step one was just having some chemistry courses on the website.

It was the- the not-too-technical chemistry was really popular, so I made a biology and a physics course, and then we started, This- this was a few years ago when we had more live classes on Zoom. We we had art classes, web design classes Spanish classes as well. So we were at the time kinda developing to be, have more like an arts and science program, being a host sc- being a whole school.

That, as I mentioned, that- that’s kinda, we- we don’t do the live classes anymore, so we’ve kinda backed off on, on the Spanish and the art. And I’ve had an interest in meditation for maybe 20 or 25 years or so, and people tend to tell me my voice works pretty well for meditation, having a calming video.

So that’s the, that’s- that’s the next step. My, my spot here in downtown Oaxaca is called Medium. We have some art. This- this is actually a type of art called a cyanotype. It’s a type of blue sunlight-sensitive dye that was used for blueprints. We- we developed this technology here and have different art technologies and teach classes here as well as we have some meditation in this spot called Medium.

And Medium was kinda reference to medium of art, but also like a quantum physics reference to the the fabric of the universe itself. 

Chris Badgett: Fun. If you could go back in time to the Scott on the telephone and the tutoring, is there what mistakes would you help yourself avoid, or what advice would you give to a younger education entrepreneur version of yourself?

Dr. Scott: Yeah. I, I had heard of SEO and kinda waited- 

Chris Badgett: Yeah … 

Dr. Scott: a year to start learning about it. I was very focused on creating lots of small courses. I kinda mentioned this earlier, but would’ve been would- would- would- would’ve been more strategic to just make one course and focus a year On marketing it. So I maybe, may- maybe lost a year or two not focusing on the marketing of the course creation.

So that, that’s one. Just know it’s half and half. Most teachers are pretty good at teaching. Most teachers don’t have that much sales and marketing experience. I tend to repeat that a few times ’cause it doesn’t always sink in. Teachers think, “Oh, it’s a good class. It’ll sell.” No it won’t.

You have to… you do have to sell it. And what was I gonna say? So second, there was a second thing I was thinking of here. What was the question again? Things I would’ve done differently. Like 

Chris Badgett: mistakes to avoid or just opportunities to chase sooner. 

Dr. Scott: Yeah. 

Chris Badgett: So I would- That you would tell your earlier self

Dr. Scott: Aha. I would’ve got into marketing earlier. I also would’ve told myself to just do it like three years before I even ended up in that tropical remote beach situation with nothing to do. The one thing I tell people always ask me how have you managed to succeed in education?

It’s a tough thing to make money at.” And it’s just consistency. You just- Yeah … have to pick something and do it. It’s gonna take you 1,000 hours to get good at it, 10,000 hours to really master it is part of my philosophy, thinking and planning in terms of 1,000 and 10,000 hour chunks.

But basically, yeah, just to get, do it, be consistent, pick it and spend an hour a day on it for the next couple years and focus on marketing and selling, not just creating courses. 

Chris Badgett: You have like a reach in terms of international? Do people come from all over the place or is there kinda concentrations of where your learners or families or customers come from?

Dr. Scott: We’re mostly US and Canada- Okay … these days. Pro- probably about, eh, probably about 90/10 split US and Canada. I had mentioned a few times, the, the timing of the pandemic was pretty critical to all this- Yeah … ’cause I was at that beach and I wanted to do something with kind of online marketing, working remotely, and lots of friends were like, “Oh, you should do real estate or sell, Forex,” but I want- I wanted to do something that I knew how to do and and and chemistry was it.

And I was having pretty good success, picking up families here and there, but then the pandemic came and like virtually overnight I had 1,000 students because their- 

Chris Badgett: Wow … 

Dr. Scott: schools were closed. And we had we had people from basically every English-speaking country in the world.

It was very tricky, picking times that the teachers could teach in the American continents for the Australians and, you know- … there, there were- we started, there was this, this girl that like wouldn’t turn the lights on. It was dark. 

Chris Badgett: Oh. 

Dr. Scott: Eventually her parents said it’s 4:00 AM in the morning in Australia ’cause your class is 4:00 PM in the United States,” and I was like, oh, we need to we need to start planning around the clock a little bit more.

So that was it. It was very cool during the pandemic. We’d always start class asking hey, what time it is?” And we’d have, people rattle off five, six different time zones from around the world. But it’s kinda shrunk back to the core sorta US, Canadian audiences these days.

The, the, the school standards, for what it’s worth, are, aligned with US and Canada. 

Chris Badgett: Nice. What would you say is the major kind of transformation or benefit or impact that’s happening? Obviously you’ve, you help a lot of people, which is very fulfilling. 

You li- you h- you’re in a beautiful art studio and living in Mexico.

What is that transformation? Is it… I think of it as freedom, like your own personal freedom. But how do you see it? 

Dr. Scott: I was just gonna say freedom. 

Chris Badgett: Okay. 

Dr. Scott: Yeah. It’s real true freedom. Like I said own- owning a small business is a rollercoaster.

Sometimes the money’s good, sometimes it’s not, but you’re in control of your situation. You can do what you want. And I’ve done all done all sorts of interesting things that relate to online education, lots of stuff that doesn’t relate to online education. But yeah, it’s just really brought a lot of freedom and a lot of joy.

Little bit of stress when things don’t work out. But we just we just recalibrate every year. It’s an online business and things move fast, but it’s, I just, I love it. 

Chris Badgett: That’s awesome. That’s Dr. Scott. You can find him at learnwithdrscott.com. Thank you for coming on the show, and thank you for being a shining example of what I call a education entrepreneur.

So helping people unlock freedom like you have in your life and helping others and sending out all these positive ripples in the world is what lights me up. So thank you so much for coming on, and thank you so much for telling your story. 

Dr. Scott: Thanks, Chris. It was a real pleasure.

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