About this episode

Kathy Mou interviews Todd Sarner on practical tools for parents to achieve calm and connection while balancing their responsibilities.

Are you feeling overwhelmed trying to balance motherhood, business, relationships, and your own emotional well-being? In this powerful episode of *Ignite Your Power: The Kathy Mou Podcast*, Kathy Mou sits down with psychotherapist, MFT, and parenting expert Todd Sarner, author of *The Calm & Connected Parent*, to discuss how high-achieving parents can create more peace, connection, and emotional resilience at home. Todd shares practical parenting tools to help mompreneurs and busy parents move away from burnout, emotional blowups, perfectionism, and power struggles — and toward calm, connection, and healthier family dynamics. With over two decades of experience helping families thrive, Todd offers compassionate, real-life strategies that help parents regulate emotions, break generational cycles, and stay connected without losing themselves in the process. In this episode, we discuss: ✨ Parenting without burnout ✨ Emotional regulation tools for parents ✨ How mompreneurs can find balance ✨ Breaking generational parenting cycles ✨ Connection over control parenting ✨ Managing stress and overwhelm as a parent ✨ How to stay calm during emotional moments ✨ Parenting and relationship…

People in this episode

Host: Kathy Mou

Guest: Todd Sarner

Topics covered

• parenting
• emotional regulation
• work-life balance
• burnout prevention
• family dynamics
• connection in parenting

Keywords

• parenting tools
• emotional resilience
• mompreneurs
• stress management
• generational cycles
• calm parenting

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Calm & Connected Parent

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