When Elodie's family packed up and left behind a fixed address, a corporate career, and the conventional playbook for raising kids, she wasn't chasing a fantasy. She was answering a question she couldn't ignore: what if wealth meant something more than accumulation?

Elodie is a mother of four, co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Boundless Life, and the kind of person who will carry a three-month-old across the world while running a company, take real-time feedback on the business she built, and make changes the same day. She joined Ellie Ezra's Mom's Money Talk podcast for a conversation that moved between family finances, education philosophy, and the courage it takes to redesign a life. What came out of it was something rarer than a highlight reel: a candid, specific, and genuinely useful account of what worldschooling programs for families can look like when they work.

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Redefining wealth before rethinking everything else

Elodie grew up believing wealth looked like the job, the house, the visible markers that told the world you were doing it right. She doesn't dismiss that framework entirely. Financial responsibility, she says, still matters deeply. But her definition has expanded.

"Today, wealth means freedom of choice. It means spending more time together as a family. It means saying yes to experiences more than to things, because experiences shape us."

That shift didn't happen overnight. It happened across boardrooms, then across Boundless homes in eight countries, and most recently in Japan, where her youngest had been spending time in a local daycare and was already absorbing the customs and courtesies of the culture around him.

Children, she observes, pick up on these things earlier than most people expect.

Ellie, the podcast host and a Boundless family herself, heard that and recognized something. She had watched her four-year-old daughter make friends with children several years her senior in Italy, a child carrying her on her back at the piazza in Pistoia, dozens of kids riding scooters while parents shared pizza on the patio nearby. "It was the village," Ellie says. "The one people always talk about but can't find. It exists in Boundless."

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Why Boundless Education exists

(and why the co-founder didn't want to homeschool either)

One of the most persistent barriers for families considering worldschooling programs is school. Not just the logistics, but the guilt: what happens to my kids' education if we leave?

Elodie's answer is personal. She built Boundless Education partly because she didn't want to homeschool her own children. She wasn't trained to teach them, and she had her own work to pour energy into. So when the Boundless founding team designed the education program, they looked at what actually works.

For the youngest children, ages 1.5 to 5 in the Explorers stage, the approach draws from Montessori principles: child-centered, self-paced, with smaller educator groups and space to explore. For children in the Pathfinders stage (ages 6 to 11), the program is inspired by Finnish education principles, with place-based learning woven through every subject. The goal isn't to inject knowledge; it's to help children integrate it, find the purpose behind it, and understand the why.

"When you're in Greece and you apply math at a market, or you learn about Greek mythology not from a book but from the streets around you," Elodie explains, "that becomes part of who you are."

The Boundless Education Centers are open five days a week, Monday through Friday, from 8:45 AM to 3:30 PM. Educational field trips run every two weeks during three-month cohorts, included in the tuition. Meals are included too. The program is delivered in English, and non-English-speaking children aged 1 to 5 are welcomed through the Explorers stage's play-based learning approach.

Ellie puts it plainly: she had been re-evaluating her kids' school situation every single year, as had every parent she knew. The loyalty to a school district down the street no longer made sense. "We're already in the mindset of: we'll do what it takes."

For her own children, she used 529 college savings plans to fund Boundless Education directly. "I'm using investments to make the investment of travel," she says. "That's what we should be spending our money on."

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Experiences as assets: the long view on what you're actually building

Elodie is careful to separate sentiment from strategy when she talks about experiences as assets. "I don't say that in a sentimental way," she says. "It's a very real, long-term claim."

When her children arrive in a new country, navigate a new language, make friends across cultures, and still feel rooted in their family, those things compound. The confidence her daughter showed befriending children years ahead of her in Italy. The adaptability her youngest is building in Japan. The grit that comes from not letting unfamiliarity stop you.

"I don't know what jobs will exist in ten years," Elodie says. "But I know adaptability will matter. Creative thinking will matter. The ability to connect with others and build something together will matter."

Ellie adds her own version of this: her kids had hands-on experiences in Italy and encountered wildlife in La Barra, Uruguay. She learned more about the Spanish Inquisition walking the streets of South America than she ever had from a textbook. "That childlike wonder is hard to put a price tag on."

But neither woman romanticizes the leap. Elodie is direct about the importance of pairing freedom with genuine responsibility, and notes that redesigning a life is not the same as abandoning structure or financial sense.

For families considering the shift, she encourages thinking through what you are hoping to gain, what you are prepared to trade, what matters most to protect, and what a small, manageable first experiment might look like. For many families, that experiment is a Boundless Summer Camp: a few weeks that let you test a different life without giving up your home or your kids' school back home. Ellie and her family did exactly that before committing to a three-month cohort.

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You are not crazy for wanting something different

That last point is the one Elodie returns to most. For the parent who feels the old path cracking but isn't sure whether to trust that feeling, she offers reassurance: the desire to rethink how your family lives is not a sign of irresponsibility or ingratitude. It is a sign that the old design may simply no longer fit, and that something new is worth exploring.

Boundless Life currently operates across eight destinations: Sintra, Portugal; Kamakura, Japan; Syros, Greece; Andalusia, Spain; Tuscany, Italy; Kotor, Montenegro; La Barra, Uruguay; and Bali. Three-month Worldschool Semester cohorts for 2026 and 2027 run September 7 through November 29, 2026; January 3 through March 19, 2027 (Tuscany and La Barra begin January 7); and March 25 through June 10, 2027. Summer Camp 1 for 2027 runs June 16 through July 21, and Summer Camp 2 runs July 27 through August 21.

You don't have to blow everything up to begin. You just have to be willing to ask what you actually want.

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