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This week's special guest is Anthony Damaschino, the author of the book “The Empty Nest Blueprint.” We delve into the much less talked about stage of parenting - the empty nest stage!

About Anthony
Anthony Damaschino is the author of “The Empty Nest Blueprint.” An obsession with what he calls, “The most underrated phase in a parent’s life” led him to create a blueprint for all future and current Empty Nesters to follow. He combines current research, practical advice, and personal experience to help others not just survive, but thrive in their Empty Nest journey.
He and his wife, who are California Bay Area natives, have successfully launched their three children into the world, two of whom are still in college. Anthony has a BS in Political Science from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MS in Human Resources and Organization Development from the University of San Francisco. Anthony considers himself a recovering HR Executive.
When he’s not at his local library writing about parenting, relationships, or personal development, he can be found out in nature, impersonating an accomplished hiker. Striving to plan for and experience an ever-increasing bucket list, Anthony is focused on helping others live their best Empty Nest life.

You can connect with Anthony on his website https://www.anthonydamaschino.com
You can also find him on Facebook, and Instagram.



About Paula (Host)
Paula Sampson Lawrence is a Certified Parent Coach and Youth Mentor. She is deeply dedicated to guiding parents through the rollercoaster journey of raising children while also helping youth, especially young girls, foster resilience and self-confidence.
You can connect with Paula on Instagram, Facebook & book a free 30 minute Parent Coaching call with her

The Untriggered Parenting Podcast is sponsored by Accelerate Empowerment, a company that provides creative and interactive well-being workshops for girls aged 7 - 15 yrs old. We also provide parenting coaching & support for the parents raising them!

​We are passionate about instilling self confidence, resilience and a growth mindset in girls at a young age and empowering families in order to help young people achieve their full potential.

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In honour of Neurodiversity Celebration week, this week's episode follows the parenting journey of Parenting Coach, Layal Aoudi and her son who is diagnosed with ADHD.

About Layal
My journey began with a minor in child psychology due to my passion with children, which laid the foundation of understanding the child’s brain and then resulted in obtaining my master’s in Applied Behavior Analysis.
 I realized I also wanted to collaborate with parents. Supporting parents was important for me to ensure they have the knowledge and tools to provide their children with the comprehensive care they need when they don’t have professional support available. I started following parent coaches until I came across an institute that certified people with exactly what I was looking for and more. As I was studying and learning this different approach, I realized it was changing my personal parenting style with my own children to a healthier and closer parent-child relationship, and that is when I realized I wanted to share the skills and knowledge with the world. I became a certified parent coach to foster a supportive environment for both the child and parent through “care to repair parenting”.

You can connect with Layal on Instagram and on her website

About Paula (Host)
Paula Sampson Lawrence is a Certified Parent Coach and Youth Mentor. She is deeply dedicated to guiding parents through the rollercoaster journey of raising children while also helping youth, especially young girls, foster resilience and self-confidence.
You can connect with Paula on Instagram, Facebook & book a free 30 minute Parent Coaching call with her

The Untriggered Parenting Podcast is sponsored by Accelerate Empowerment, a company that provides creative and interactive well-being workshops for girls aged 7 - 15 yrs old. We also provide parenting coaching & support for the parents raising them!

​We are passionate about instilling self confidence, resilience and a growth mindset in girls at a young age and empowering families in order to help young people achieve their full potential.

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This weeks guest is Ann Kaplan, a parent coach who works with Dads both in a group setting and 1:1.  She gives us some insight into fatherhood from a coaches perspective.

About Ann
Ann is a parent coach and has 4 kids of her own so she  has lived the dream (and nightmare!) of parenting through every childhood stage, from infancy through adolescence.

She’s also a Love&Logic (tm) independent facilitator and a life coach, which means she’s not just winging it. She has a unique holistic approach to parent work that includes emotional support, home management skills AND effective discipline that empowers children while improving behavior.

You can connect with Ann on her website https://www.annkaplanparentcoach.com/ and also on Instagram and Facebook.

About Paula (Host)
Paula Sampson Lawrence is a Certified Parent Coach and Youth Mentor. She is deeply dedicated to guiding parents through the rollercoaster journey of raising children while also helping youth, especially young girls, foster resilience and self-confidence.
You can connect with Paula on Instagram, Facebook & book a free 30 minute Parent Coaching call with her

The Untriggered Parenting Podcast is sponsored by Accelerate Empowerment, a company that provides creative and interactive well-being workshops for girls aged 7 - 15 yrs old. We also provide parenting coaching & support for the parents raising them!

​We are passionate about instilling self confidence, resilience and a growth mindset in girls at a young age and empowering families in order to help young people achieve their full potential.

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This weeks guest is Angie Grandt, an adoption coach and we discuss the challenges that can come with adoption and how to create trust and maintain connection with your adopted child.

About Angie
Angie Grandt is The Adoption Coach. She is also a podcast guest, an early intervention speech therapist, and has worked in the autism field for 2+ decades.  As an adoptive and bio mom, and a former foster mom, she has extensive training and experience in trauma and attachment, as well as early childhood development. She knows firsthand that raising children who are difficult to connect with, and who often display challenging behaviors, takes a huge toll on parents.  This can often lead to shame, anxiety, depression, isolation, and a growing loss of hope for both parent and child. Utilizing both personal and professional experience, training, and certifications, Angie specializes in helping post-adoptive and foster parents raising children from trauma and disrupted placement who are overwhelmed by behaviors, feel a victim in their own home, and are ready to throw in the towel. She is passionate about coaching adoptive parents through worry, frustration and resentment to tackle behaviors and build lasting connections with their children so that they can create hope, peace and joy in their home. You can connect with Angie on her website www.connectedparentswithangie.com and also on Instagram and Facebook.

About Paula (Host)
Paula Sampson Lawrence is a Certified Parent Coach and Youth Mentor. She is deeply dedicated to guiding parents through the rollercoaster journey of raising children while also helping youth, especially young girls, foster resilience and self-confidence.
You can connect with Paula on Instagram, Facebook & book a free 30 minute Parent Coaching call with her

The Untriggered Parenting Podcast is sponsored by Accelerate Empowerment, a company that provides creative and interactive well-being workshops for girls aged 7 - 15 yrs old. We also provide parenting coaching & support for the parents raising them!

​We are passionate about instilling self confidence, resilience and a growth mindset in girls at a young age and empowering families in order to help young people achieve their full potential.

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On this week's episode, my special guest is Emily Hughes, a Conscious Parenting Coach. We tackle the topic of anger, frustration and "mum rage" and explore the various way to manage it in the home.

About Emily
Emily is a Conscious Parenting Coach and Somatic Therapist based in Waltham Forest. She works with parents who feel stuck in frustration,overwhelm and conflict to find more ease and flow in family life.

She empowers parents to stay centered and grounded during their kids tantrums and behaviours. She helps them to improve their communication skills, emotional intelligence and peaceful boundary setting skills as well as doing the deeper work to unearth patterns and limiting beliefs that are keeping them stuck.

She works with individuals and couples with children of all ages in person or on zoom to help them rise into inner trust and sturdy confidence in their parenting so they can thrive amidst whatever chaos parenting throws at them.
You can connect with Emily on Instagram, Facebook, and at the website https://findingflowparenting.coach

About Paula (Host)
Paula Sampson Lawrence is a Certified Parent Coach and Youth Mentor. She is deeply dedicated to guiding parents through the rollercoaster journey of raising children while also helping youth, especially young girls, foster resilience and self-confidence.
You can connect with Paula on Instagram, Facebook & book a free 30 minute Parent Coaching call with her

The Untriggered Parenting Podcast is sponsored by Accelerate Empowerment, a company that provides creative and interactive well-being workshops for girls aged 7 - 15 yrs old. We also provide parenting coaching & support for the parents raising them!

​We are passionate about instilling self confidence, resilience and a growth mindset in girls at a young age and empowering families in order to help young people achieve their full potential.

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This week's guest is Michelle Steiner. Michelle is a disability writer and Paraeducator.  On today's episode she shares what it's like living with an invisible disability and how she advocates for her students with disabilities.

About Michelle.
Michelle Steiner lives with an invisible disability. She has articles published on The Mighty, Non Verbal Learning Project, Dyscalculia Blog, The Reluctant Spoonie, Kalopina Collective, Imagine the World as one Magazine and Word Gathering. She has had her photographs featured in Word Gathering and Independent and Work Ready. She works as a paraeducator in a school with students with disabilities. She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two cats.
You can connect with Michelle on her website https://www.michellesmission.net

About Paula (Host)
Paula Sampson Lawrence is a Certified Parent Coach and Youth Mentor. She is deeply dedicated to guiding parents through the rollercoaster journey of raising children while also helping youth, especially young girls, foster resilience and self-confidence.
You can connect with Paula on Instagram, Facebook & book a free 30 minute Parent Coaching call with her

The Untriggered Parenting Podcast is sponsored by Accelerate Empowerment, a company that provides creative and interactive well-being workshops for girls aged 7 - 15 yrs old. We also provide parenting coaching & support for the parents raising them!

​We are passionate about instilling self confidence, resilience and a growth mindset in girls at a young age and empowering families in order to help young people achieve their full potential.

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**TW: This epiosde deals with the loss of life by suicide

This week's guest is Meral Doe Renee Jones,. Meral is an author and on today's episode she shares with us how she worked through the grief of losing her sons father to suicide, and how she used writing as her way to process her grief.


About Meral
Meral loves to create poetry, art, books, community and funny rhymes. She is the mother of Leonidas and Zelda and wife of Garrett. She is the a lover of humanity, and community. You can find out more about Meral and her books on the following platforms.

https://www.doerenee.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DoeReneeArt/
https://www.instagram.com/doerenee/
https://linktr.ee/doerenee


About Paula (Host)
Paula Sampson Lawrence is a Certified Parent Coach and Youth Mentor. She is deeply dedicated to guiding parents through the rollercoaster journey of raising children while also helping youth, especially young girls, foster resilience and self-confidence.
You can connect with Paula on Instagram, Facebook & book a free 30 minute Parent Coaching call with her

The Untriggered Parenting Podcast is sponsored by Accelerate Empowerment, a company that provides creative and interactive well-being workshops for girls aged 7 - 15 yrs old. We also provide parenting coaching & support for the parents raising them!

​We are passionate about instilling self confidence, resilience and a growth mindset in girls at a young age and empowering families in order to help young people achieve their full potential.

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This weeks guest is Bijal Shah is a bibliotherapist, counsellor and author. On today's episode she introduces us to Bibliotherapy and the power of stories for mental wellness.

She also discusses her new book Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading due to be published on 15th February 2024.

About Bijal
Bijal is the founder of Book Therapy, which offers individual, couple’s and group bibliotherapy, literary curation and personalised reading services as well as bibliotherapy training. Bijal’s book recommendations have featured in the Guardian, Marie Claire, NBC News, Asian Voice and various other publications. She’s a member of the International Federation of Library Associations and the American Library Association. She is also the author of the non-fiction books, "The Happiness Mindset”, published in 2014 and Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading due to be published in on 15th February 2024, currently available for pre-order.
Bijal has also completed a post-graduate diploma in counselling, in addition to a post-graduate professional accountancy qualification and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Warwick. She previously worked in Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank and Barclays Capital. She’s a mother of two and currently resides in Hampstead, London with her husband.



About Paula (Host)
Paula Sampson Lawrence is a Certified Parent Coach and Youth Mentor. She is deeply dedicated to guiding parents through the rollercoaster journey of raising children while also helping youth, especially young girls, foster resilience and self-confidence.
You can connect with Paula on Instagram, Facebook & book a free 30 minute Parent Coaching call with her

The Untriggered Parenting Podcast is sponsored by Accelerate Empowerment, a company that provides creative and interactive well-being workshops for girls aged 7 - 15 yrs old. We also provide parenting coaching & support for the parents raising them!

​We are passionate about instilling self confidence, resilience and a growth mindset in girls at a young age and empowering families in order to help young people achieve their full potential.

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This week, we continue with the topic of sleep. Dr Catherine Darley is an internationally recognized expert in the use of natural, behavioral, and lifestyle medicine for the treatment of sleep disorders. She joins me this week to discuss how families can get the best optimal sleep to help them thrive.

About Dr Catherine
Dr. Catherine Darley is the leader in natural sleep medicine. She founded The Institute of Naturopathic Sleep Medicine Inc in Seattle which is dedicated to patient care, public education about sleep health, and consultation with high-risk populations such as first responders. Dr. Darley regularly writes articles and trains healthcare providers in the treatment of sleep disorders. She has served as adjunct faculty at Bastyr University and National University of Natural Medicine. Dr. Darley now focuses on teaching people sleep skills so they can thrive at home, at work, and have a high quality of life. You can find her online at SkilledSleeper.com, on Instagram @skilledsleeper, and Substack.

About Paula (Host)
Paula Sampson Lawrence is a Certified Parent Coach and Youth Mentor. She is deeply dedicated to guiding parents through the rollercoaster journey of raising children while also helping youth, especially young girls, foster resilience and self-confidence.
You can connect with Paula on Instagram, Facebook & book a free 30 minute Parent Coaching call with her

The Untriggered Parenting Podcast is sponsored by Accelerate Empowerment, a company that provides creative and interactive well-being workshops for girls aged 7 - 15 yrs old. We also provide parenting coaching & support for the parents raising them!

​We are passionate about instilling self confidence, resilience and a growth mindset in girls at a young age and empowering families in order to help young people achieve their full potential.

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Welcome back!

On this week's episode, Jade Zammit aka Jade Sleep Nanny joins me for a conversation about one of the topics that causes the most concern when it comes to parenting - their child's sleep!

About Jade
Jade is a infant and child sleep consultant who provides families with gentle & effective solutions to any sleep challenges their child may be experiencing.

You can connect with Jade on her website
Https://www.beyondthestars.co.uk/stepstosleepsuccess

On Instagram
Https://www.instagram.com/jadesleepnanny

Jade's Facebook Group
Https://www.facebook.com/groups/exhaustedtothrivingcommunity

About Paula (Host)
Paula Sampson Lawrence is a Certified Parent Coach and Youth Mentor. She is deeply dedicated to guiding parents through the rollercoaster journey of raising children while also helping youth, especially young girls, foster resilience and self-confidence.
You can connect with Paula on Instagram, Facebook & book a free 30 minute Parent Coaching call with her

The Untriggered Parenting Podcast is sponsored by Accelerate Empowerment, a company that provides creative and interactive well-being workshops for girls aged 7 - 15 yrs old. We also provide parenting coaching & support for the parents raising them!

​We are passionate about instilling self confidence, resilience and a growth mindset in girls at a young age and empowering families in order to help young people achieve their full potential.