You've probably heard about highly sensitive kids—but what if you're the highly sensitive one in your home? In this episode, Angie shares an intimate reflection on what it really means to be a highly sensitive parent, and how that depth of awareness is often misunderstood (or worse, turned against ourselves).

She explores:

• The difference between reactivity and true sensitivity

• How societal conditioning shuts down our inner knowing

• Her personal journey from outsourcing decisions to reclaiming her intuition

• The role of Human Design in understanding how we feel, sense, and know

• Why energy hygiene is non-negotiable when you're this tuned in

• Tools that help you process what's not yours—so you can show up fully present

This is your reminder that being sensitive isn't a flaw—it's a gift. One that, when paired with nervous system tools like EFT tapping, can radically shift how you parent, how you relate, and how you lead.

🔧 Practical Takeaways:
— Learn your Human Design to decode your intuitive gifts
— Use EFT tapping daily to release energy that isn't yours
— Stop holding your breath (literally and metaphorically)—your sensitivity is needed here

✨ Ready to dig deeper?
🌀 Tap with Angie on YouTube for regular EFT practices
📆 Book a 1:1 session to release trauma, reclaim your energy, and become the intuitive guide your family needs

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📺 YouTube: @ConnectedParentsWithAngie

If you've ever caught yourself asking "Why is my kid like this?!"—this episode is for you.

In this deeply practical and insightful solo episode, Angie unpacks how Human Design can offer real answers to the parenting questions that leave us feeling lost, frustrated, or reactive. Through real-world stories—like a toilet-diving toddler, a shock-seeking adolescent, a sensitive Reflector child, and a projector mom with generator kids—Angie shows how understanding your child's energetic blueprint allows you to lead, respond, and parent with clarity.

Human Design isn't a parenting hack—it's a parenting lens. One that finally gives language to what you've always felt but didn't know how to explain.

• Why "knowing your kid" is the strategy—and Human Design is the roadmap

• What a Manifesting Generator 3/5 toddler teaches us about creative flow (yes, even when it involves toilet water)

• How the Gate of Shock plays out in a teen trying to find his voice—and how to empower it without chaos

• What makes parenting a Reflector child so tricky (and so beautiful)

• Why parenting through your own lens often creates conflict—and how to shift into parenting through theirs

• The tension of being a 1/3 Projector mom with two 5/1 kids, and how profile awareness helps everyone breathe easier

• The role of energetic compatibility, resilience, and real regulation in helping our kids thrive

• How your own conditioning may be blocking your intuition—and how to tap back in

The more we understand our kids' design, the more we can respond instead of react. And the more seen they feel, the more resilient they become. Want to get started? Grab your child's chart and free Human Design report at AngieGrandt.com.

In this powerful and compassionate conversation, Angie is joined by Cassandra Quick, a Holistic Psychotherapist, Certified EMDR Therapist, and Somatic EMDR-Informed Leadership Coach. Together, they explore the role of true leadership in parenting—especially when raising kids in a world filled with social media, pressure to be perfect, and the ripple effects of unhealed trauma.

They unpack how perfectionism, people-pleasing, and emotional dysregulation often show up in our parenting—not because we're "bad parents," but because we've never been taught to do it differently. From exploring fawning responses and nervous system triggers to rethinking social media use and shifting how we set boundaries, this episode is a must-listen for anyone who's ever felt like they're falling short... but still wants to lead with love, empathy, and strength.

• Why perfectionism is often a trauma response, not a personality trait

• How our nervous system impacts our parenting (and our leadership)

• What it means to be a "leader" in your home—and why most of us didn't sign up for it

• The deep connection between people-pleasing and performance-based worth

• How social media distorts parenting expectations (and what to do about it)

• The difference between compliance and true connection

• How Human Design helps you see your child's real needs

• Why feedback from your kids might be your most powerful parenting tool

• Practical ways to open communication, set boundaries with compassion, and lead with curiosity

• The "yes parenting" approach that changes the energy of how we say no

Cassandra is a Holistic Psychotherapist, Certified EMDR Therapist, and Somatic EMDR-Informed Leadership Coach with over 25 years in the mental health field. She bridges clinical trauma treatment with transformational coaching, helping women rewire perfectionism, imposter syndrome, and people-pleasing at the nervous system level. She's also the creator of the Nervous System Leadership Lab on Skool—a free coaching community for women who are ready to lead from a grounded, embodied place.

🌐 Learn more: embodiedriseinstitute.com

Workshop Link: Regulate to Lead Workshop

You don't have to be perfect. You just have to be present. If you're ready to explore how your own stories, nervous system, or Human Design may be impacting your parenting...

👉 Book a free Connection Clarity Call with Angie

Let's be real—sometimes the wheels fall off. You're doing your best to hold it together, but between meltdowns, messes, and moments that make you question your sanity… you wonder how much longer you can keep going. In this raw and honest episode, Angie pulls back the curtain on what it's really like to parent through the chaos—and how to find solid ground when it all feels like too much.

You'll learn how to:

• Recognize the signs of being in nervous system overload

• Shift your perspective when everything feels like a crisis

• Use Human Design (especially your decision-making authority) to ground yourself

• Tap into real-time tools to move through the mess without getting stuck in it

This is the episode to come back to when it all hits the fan—when you need someone to tell you that you're not crazy, your kid's not broken, and this too shall pass (but let's get you a strategy to survive it).

Resources Mentioned:

• Book an EFT session or Human Design reading: www.AngieGrandt.com

• Watch weekly tapping videos on YouTube: Angie's YouTube Channel

About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist

Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Quantum Alignment System certified, Certified Family & Relationship Coach & an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. As a bio parent, adoptive parent, and former foster parent, Angie has been in your shoes – through the good, and the scary. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm. Angie uses a Human Design based parenting plan – the most POWERFUL way to stop losing your cool with your children, and start connecting with them on a deep, energetic level!

Grab your personalized Human Design Chart here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this mini-podcast series Angie made for you: https://connectedparentswithangie.kit.com/theparentingreset

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://www.angiegrandt.com/sessions

If you are looking to better understand you – your unique challenges, gifts, and your purpose in life – book a Human Design reading! You'll leave with an action plan to tackle your most important relationships, as well as some key insights about your next steps towards your goals! Book here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/choose-your-path

Learn more about working with Angie here: www.angiegrandt.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

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Ever feel like you're drowning in the day-to-day chaos—juggling behaviors, bills, broken systems, and just trying to keep it together? In this heartfelt episode, Angie pulls back the curtain on one of the biggest lies we've internalized as parents: that struggle means we're doing something wrong.

But what if… the struggle is actually a signal?
What if you're not stuck, but standing at the edge of your old life, just afraid to step into something new?

💡 In this episode, Angie dives into:

• Why the discomfort you feel might mean you're outgrowing your current story

• How fear—not failure—is what keeps us in toxic patterns

• The tension between holding onto what's familiar and reaching for what's possible

• Real talk about parenting decisions, relationship dynamics, and choosing a new path

• How Human Design (especially strategy & authority) helps you cut through fear and move forward

• A gentle but direct challenge to name the fear behind your struggle—and do something about it

You'll walk away from this one with more clarity, more courage, and permission to stop "fixing" the struggle—and start following your truth instead.

🌀 Ready to move through fear and into alignment? Let's connect! angiegrandt.com/sessions

About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist

Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Quantum Alignment System certified, Certified Family & Relationship Coach & an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. As a bio parent, adoptive parent, and former foster parent, Angie has been in your shoes – through the good, and the scary. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm. Angie uses a Human Design based parenting plan – the most POWERFUL way to stop losing your cool with your children, and start connecting with them on a deep, energetic level!

Grab your personalized Human Design Chart here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this mini-podcast series Angie made for you: https://connectedparentswithangie.kit.com/theparentingreset

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://www.angiegrandt.com/sessions

If you are looking to better understand you – your unique challenges, gifts, and your purpose in life – book a Human Design reading! You'll leave with an action plan to tackle your most important relationships, as well as some key insights about your next steps towards your goals! Book here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/choose-your-path

Learn more about working with Angie here: www.angiegrandt.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

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In this episode, I share my perspective on the unexpected evolution of a friend. I was asked to record an advanced Human Desing reading for my mentor's program, so I offered her a free Human Design reading.

It's not my first time doing a reading... it's part of my coaching practice, and I regularly share insights with others about what I see in their chart.

But this time was different. She was ready. She was on the cusp of outgrowing her old story, and perhaps terrified of the unknown of the next story. But she was ready.

I'd love your thoughts on this episode, and I'd love to help you too. When you're ready, I'm here.

About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist

Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Quantum Alignment System certified, Certified Family & Relationship Coach & an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. As a bio parent, adoptive parent, and former foster parent, Angie has been in your shoes – through the good, and the scary. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm. Angie uses a Human Design based parenting plan – the most POWERFUL way to stop losing your cool with your children, and start connecting with them on a deep, energetic level!

Grab your personalized Human Design Chart here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this mini-podcast series Angie made for you: https://connectedparentswithangie.kit.com/theparentingreset

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://www.angiegrandt.com/sessions

If you are looking to better understand you – your unique challenges, gifts, and your purpose in life – book a Human Design reading! You'll leave with an action plan to tackle your most important relationships, as well as some key insights about your next steps towards your goals! Book here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/choose-your-path

Learn more about working with Angie here: www.angiegrandt.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

❤ Angie Grandt, Generational Healing Specialist

In this raw and relatable episode, Angie dives into one of the sneakiest stressors in parenting: perfectionism. Whether it's trying to be the "calm parent" 24/7, handle every meltdown with grace, or meet invisible standards set by social media, perfectionism keeps so many of us stuck—and disconnected from our kids and ourselves.

Angie shares her own experience with perfectionism (hello, Line 5 pressure and culture gate 62) and how it showed up in both subtle and obvious ways. From the impossible expectations we place on ourselves to the shame spiral that follows when we "mess up," this conversation unpacks why perfectionism thrives in modern parenting—and how to begin breaking free.

• The hidden toll perfectionism takes on your nervous system and relationships

• Why perfectionism is the opposite of connection

• How the myth of "perfect parenting" hurts neurodivergent families especially

• The power of modeling repair over perfection

• How Angie uses Human Design to understand and release perfectionistic patterns

• A simple reminder to stop aiming for perfect, and start showing up real

If you've ever felt like you're not doing "enough," or like one wrong move will mess your kid up for life—this episode is for you.

👉 Want support untangling from perfectionism and reconnecting with your child (and yourself)?
Book a Connection Clarity Call at www.angiegrandt.com/sessions

So, you created the vision. You felt the pull of your future memory.
You even wrote the goal that felt big, bold… maybe even impossible.

Now what?

In this week's episode, I'm walking you through what actually bridges the gap between inspiration and real transformation—and spoiler: it's not more planning.

It's rewriting the narrative you're living inside.

We explore:

• Why most goals fall flat—even if they're aligned

• The sneaky stories that keep you looping in old patterns

• How to consciously choose a new story that matches your vision

• What Human Design can reveal about where you're still holding onto conditioning

• The power of becoming the version of you who already has the life you're dreaming of

This isn't about toxic positivity or faking it till you make it.
It's about telling the truth of your becoming—on purpose.

🎧 Listen in, then let's explore how this can look in your own life:
Book a free Connection Clarity Call and let's rewire the story together.

About your host, Angie Grandt – Generational Healing Specialist

Angie Grandt is a parent coach, on a mission to break cycles of trauma. She is also a Quantum Human DesignTM Specialist, Quantum Alignment System certified, Certified Family & Relationship Coach & an early intervention speech therapist with extensive training and experience in trauma, attachment, and autism. As a bio parent, adoptive parent, and former foster parent, Angie has been in your shoes – through the good, and the scary. Angie is on a mission to help parents who are overwhelmed, frustrated, and questioning their ability to parent their most challenging child. She helps parents with practical tools to connect, enjoy, and even like their child again.

Angie is also the founder of Connected Parents with Angie - a coaching program designed for you - the loving and capable parent who can't figure out why raising your child is so frustrating, so overwhelming, and causing you to question your ability to parent. Using her unique approach of trauma-focused mindset lesson and coaching tools, Angie helps her clients get back to a life they love - creating cherished memories, feeling fulfilled in relationships, and letting go of frustration, resent, and overwhelm. Angie uses a Human Design based parenting plan – the most POWERFUL way to stop losing your cool with your children, and start connecting with them on a deep, energetic level!

Grab your personalized Human Design Chart here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/

If you'd like to see if coaching is the solution for you, check out this mini-podcast series Angie made for you: https://connectedparentswithangie.kit.com/theparentingreset

And when you've decided you're ready to take the leap for your family, book a free consult - Angie will help you decide if coaching is right for you: https://www.angiegrandt.com/sessions

If you are looking to better understand you – your unique challenges, gifts, and your purpose in life – book a Human Design reading! You'll leave with an action plan to tackle your most important relationships, as well as some key insights about your next steps towards your goals! Book here: https://www.angiegrandt.com/choose-your-path

Learn more about working with Angie here: www.angiegrandt.com

And follow Angie: https://www.instagram.com/connectedparentswithangie/

https://www.facebook.com/connectedparentswithangie

❤ Angie Grandt, Generational Healing Specialist