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S 2: E 9 on Girlfriends Chat: Founder of the 5 'E' Methodology of Homeschooling who encourages the 'Wild and Free' approach to homeschooling, Danii Oliver

About Danii:

Danii Oliver by trade manufacturers whole food based beverages having founded several brands including Island to Island Brewery, House of Juice and Brooklyn Jun Brew. Formally, Danii applied her Creative Technology skills in the digital spaces of the advertising and marketing industry. Danii now applies her skills to her businesses and the education of her family and customers constantly learning and growing to remain independent in a world that has become restricted by limited archetypes to live by.

Who Danii Oliver is, seems to expand every year. Fine artist, designer, developer, business woman, juice bar owner, craft beer brewery owner, Texas transplanted wife and mother of three, 2 human kids and 1 umbrella beverage manufacturing company and soon a farmer. Danii defines herself by her work, productivity and her accomplishments. As an Arawak Indigenous American, Danii was raised in the spirit of perfection and judged by every single move she made to protect her from box society setup for melanated women. Being raised by a family that demanded perfection, Danii had no second thoughts to her PLAN A’s, ignorant that she’d be pioneering her way through emerging & male dominated industries of manufacturing technology and craft beer.

It was no surprise to Danii's family that after deciding to have a child, she would willfully break every status quo to pioneer her own version of the lifelong parenting experience. Coming from the natural juicing lifestyle, Danii chose the natural birth path, home birthing her first with a team; the second alone while traveling 2,400 miles to a new home. Being deeply embedded in the evidence based culture of natural birth Danii naturally migrated toward the unschool home education and homesteading lifestyle.

"I want my children to grow up with the same stories of adventure; a connection to the land, like my parents and ancestors grew up with back home in the Caribbean."

However, the power of "colonial survival teachings” prevalent in many Central American Caribbean homes and the pull of Danii's entrepreneurial life made a cookie cutter homeschool experience impossible. Danii needed no materials, she made her own based on a “5Es Methodology” she developed. Danii pushed her daughter toward perfection and advancement to avoid negative judgment and being arrested for negligence while living in New York City. Moving to the countryside of Texas and feeling rejected by SDE communities, Danii quickly realized her colonial perfectionism was stifling her children.

Danii and her spouse are now on the deschooling journey to parent “without the belt” giving themselves space for self care they define as attention to their nature - not spa days - and still unschool with purpose … some days. Danii hopes to debut her “5E Methodology” in 2020 as she continues to navigate the world as a businesswoman raising free people.

“My education was a PRISON! I was punished as part of the collective. I had no space for thought for reflection. This lead to depression and thoughts of suicide, which weren’t recognized in West Indian Culture in the 20th century. When I was able to educate myself, I found the agency for expression, research and reflection. I found peace in studying books that were NOT assignments attached to a grade, holding my future hostage.

This sense of self - I have only scratched the surface of in my 30’s - is what I want my children to grow up with, rather than push them toward the status quo.”

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