1KHO 939: What If You Bet On Yourself? | Seph Schlueter, Counting My Blessings

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I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And I have someone here today that I've been a fan of for a long time. So has our whole family. Never thought that I would have a chance to talk with them. Seph Schlueter, welcome to you.

Seph Schlueter (2:13)

Let's go.

So pumped to be with you. I love the energy and joy that you bring. It's so fun.

Ginny Yurich (2:18)

Is that you have a new book coming out. Surrounding the topic of this song that so many of us have heard and sing and love called Counting My Blessings. And you have turned this into a stunning children's book that's filled with a ton of nature. Absolutely loved it. A lot of nature references as well. So this is out now. Go grab a copy for your kids, for the kids in your life that you love. You have an incredibly successful Christian singer songwriter.

And you've had this breakout song, Counting My Blessings, but also other incredible hits. And we're going to talk a little bit today about your background story, which includes the fact, I'm pretty sure that you were homeschooled.

Seph Schlueter (3:00)

Yes. Yeah. Homeschooled. Homeschooled for pretty much my whole life.

Ginny Yurich (3:04)

Let's start there. So a lot of our listeners homeschool. We're a homeschooling family. You homeschool with a bunch of siblings.

Seph Schlueter (3:11)

Yeah. One of six.

Ginny Yurich (3:12)

One of six. You're the oldest of the boys.

Seph Schlueter (3:15)

Oldest boy. Yeah.

Ginny Yurich (3:16)

Okay. So can you talk about that experience growing up? What did you use your time for? What kind of a homeschooler was your mom?

Seph Schlueter (3:24)

Yeah, we're kind of all over. So we initially went to private school, like for preschool, kindergarten, first grade. And right around that time, my older sister was just like having some struggles in school. And my parents are like, we're going to homeschool. And like where I lived, it was not an ordinary thing to homeschool at all initially. So it was kind of this crazy thing. We really didn't have a ton of friends doing it.

But my mom did it for her. And I was like, I'm never going to be homeschooled. I would hate that because I like I'm such like a people. I was like, even then, like back in first grade, I was such like a people person. And after like a year, after like that, by the end of that year, I was begging to be homeschooled. I was like, I need to be homeschooled. I like just saw my sister like, you know, having more free time and things like that. And I remember just kind of being bored in school. And I was like, man, I would love to be homeschooled. So my parents kind of pivoted and they ended up homeschooling all the rest of us, the rest of our education. And I like, it was such a blessing, like looking back in particular and seeing all the ways that I was able to have free time. I mean, playing outside, we loved like, we didn't have video games or anything. So it was, and like really didn't use like technology that much. My parents were pretty strict about that. So we spent so much time outside, playing, inventing games, you know, being superheroes or Star Wars characters or whatever, like just playing like make believe. Or I played music a lot. I started taking piano lessons when I was five. And that I just like fell in love with music. And so particularly like more towards high school, like I was, I just spent a lot of time playing music, singing, doing a little bit of songwriting even.