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In the mid-1980's, Howard and Mimi Mandel began homeschooling the first of their eight children. By the late 1990's, homeschooling with books and home-made lesson plans was not what they hoped it would be. So they combined Howard's software architect background and Mimi's filmmaking and private school experience, to create the first ever online K-12 Christian school for homeschoolers that offered a multi-media rich curriculum with videos, audio, images, interactives and projects. The first school, The Grace Academy, grew into The Jubilee Academy, The Morningstar Academy, The Cambridge Academy and many others. These Academies have been privileged to teach over 600,000 children in 50 states and 35 countries.

 

As the Mandel children got older and their needs changed, Mimi began to envision a new type of learning program that would extend beyond the standard K-12 curriculum and help her child imagine and prepare for independent lives outside the nest. 

 

After Howard was taken home to heaven in 2012, as a single parent of 6 living children, Mimi struggled to help some of her children find their purpose in life. Some tried college. Some started businesses.

 

But all of them ultimately figured out how to learn what they needed to know using the most massive knowledge base- the Internet. Mimi then asked "How can we organize and categorize this gargantuan resource called web to make it possible for teens and young adults to figure out what exactly it is that they are best suited to do with their lives?".

 

She started building courses by asking questions. Questions she frequently engaged in with her now adult children like "What kind of government do you want?" "Why is Capitalism wrong and Capitalism right?" "Will AI replace all jobs?" These and thousands of other questions borne from real world discussions form the basis of what is now available to you through The Limitless Academy's 700+ courses. Some are short (4-8 lessons) and we call them microcourses, some are long (up to 180 lessons for the entire year) and we call them Comprehensive. 

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Mimi figured that with access to hundreds and hundreds of courses that took content from theoretical boringness to practical somethingness, she would be help her family choose their career paths.

 

And once again, like she did in the late 90's with the first ever Online School designed for Homeschoolers, Mimi was unstoppable. She researched hundreds of online courses and online colleges, which were expensive and time-consuming. Most of them were pretty dry and uninspiring convincing her even more of the need for a low cost solution to how young adults find their calling. Mimi hired a passionate team, dreamed of courses and more courses, and she didn't stop working until it was ready.  

 

In 2020, while learning to cope with several devastating personal tragedies, she founded The Global Grief Institute, which provides certification programs for people to become Grief and Trauma Coaches. So many were now able to become the Grief Support they desperately needed while using their real life losses to benefit others.

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After years of more intense curriculum development, The Limitless Academy is thrilled to offer over 700 courses (and continually adding more every month) in every imaginable field of interest.

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Where does your learner begin? Take our Free Questionnaire to find out your aptitudes, interests, strengths and passions. We then recommend several different pathways with suggest courses.

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Oh, and please forget the old model of paying thousands of dollars for 6 courses. Forget the old model of paying thousands of dollars for one college-level course. Now you have an infinitely better option!

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Mimi insisted that Limitless be accessible to everyone. She has seen too many children over the decades miss out on a great education due to finances.

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And that meant a low monthly subscription fee. For $49.99 per month, your learner can explore every imaginable career possibility.

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Mimi dedicates Limitless to Tobiah Tucker Mandel

(July 15, 1999 - June 29, 2019)

who did not make it out of his teens but lives Limitlessly now and forever with his brothers and father in Heaven.

 

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