EP 509: Sapna Rad Coaching From Power Struggles To Real Connection With Your Child

What makes Sapna Rad with Sapna Rad Coaching a good neighbor?

We talk with Sapna Rad, parenting success coach and author of Yelling to Zening, about how conscious parenting can help families move from constant conflict and power struggles to stronger connection and communication. She shares how her own parenting journey challenged many of the traditional approaches she grew up with and led her to explore a different path.

Sapna addresses one of the biggest misconceptions she encounters: that conscious parenting means permissive parenting. Instead, she explains how effective parenting balances empathy and connection with healthy boundaries, helping children feel both understood and supported while maintaining structure and accountability.

We also explore how parents’ own experiences, expectations, and unmet needs can unintentionally fuel conflict at home. Through practical examples and relatable stories, Sapna illustrates how small daily interactions can either strengthen or strain the parent child relationship. She shares strategies for reducing yelling, improving communication, and creating an environment where both parents and children can thrive.

Throughout the conversation, Sapna emphasizes that the goal is not perfect parenting but greater awareness, authenticity, and connection. Her approach encourages parents to better understand themselves so they can respond to their children with intention rather than reaction.

If you’re looking for practical parenting tools, healthier discipline strategies, or ways to strengthen your relationship with your child, this conversation offers thoughtful insights and actionable takeaways.

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Guest Info: Sapna Rad Coaching | https://sapnarad.com 

Transcript

Welcome To Good Neighbor Podcast

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This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Sophia Yvette.

Meet Parenting Coach Sapna Rudd

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Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. Are you in need of a parenting success coach? Well, one may be closer than you think. Today, I have the pleasure of introducing our good neighbor, Sapna Rudd, with Sapna Rad Coaching. Sapna, it is so amazing having you on today, and we are so excited to learn all about your parenting success coaching tips that you have for us. So let's kick things off. Tell us a bit more about your business and your story.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Thank you so much for having me, Sophia. So excited to be here. So as you just introduced me as a parenting coach, I'm an old conscious parenting coach, an NLP trainer, author of the book Yelling to Zening, and I help parents to move from constant power struggles to connection. Having those tools and strategies and small tips helps you connect with your child better and reduce the power struggles we have today with the day-to-day issues. Because I love this quote which I share with my parents we cannot raise our children the way we were raised because the world in which we grew up does not exist anymore.

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Yeah. Yeah.

How Yelling Breaks Connection

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And Sapna, you know, where was your passion for this industry born?

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Well, it was during my own uh parenting when I was raising my son. I was using the same tools, the same outdated tools that my parents use, the culture used, and though I loved my child, I found myself constantly being stressed, worried about his future, yelling at him more than required. And that was kind of severing the connection that I was having with my son. And that's when I realized parenting is not only about raising your child, it's also about looking within. And that's when I went into this quest to learn about parenting, equip myself with the tools and the skills, and now I teach these skills all over the world.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

So, Sapna, that's a very brave thing for you to admit now.

The Biggest Myth About Conscious Parenting

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In all of your experience and with all of your expertise, you know, what is the biggest misconception when it comes from, you know, yelling to zenning, as you say?

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One of the biggest conceptions parents have is if you have to be a conscious parent, it means you let the child do whatever they want. Now, conscious parenting teaches the parent to attune to your child, really attune to your child, because sometimes the child needs a boundary, and that's where safety is um maintained, and the child absorbs the safety, and sometimes you need the connection, it's about knowing which one to use when, and that's what conscious parenting is all about. It's not about letting the child run wild and do whatever they want.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

I love that. So it's more of a guidance approach. It really sounds like now, you know, diving deeper into your business.

How Sapna Reaches Parents

SPEAKER_00 3:19

We know without your clients, there would be no business. So, ideally, you know, where are some of these parents you're looking to attract and how are you reaching them?

SPEAKER_01 3:32

Well, my parents are everywhere. Everyone who has a child or has been a child gets to um, you know, I welcome them to explore conscious parenting because it's about tapping into your own self to connect with your own self. And I talk to, I give workshops at schools, at mom clubs, at companies that have uh mom clubs, and I speak at various um book clubs too. And one-on-one coaching, people word of mouth, and people come to me that way too.

The Core Principle Behind The Work

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Wow. So, what is the number one principle when it comes to conscious parenting?

SPEAKER_01 4:12

Well, it's about looking into your own unmet needs, your own self, that baggage that we carry around that we unconsciously dump on our children, which is not the child's to bear, and that severs or disconnects us from our children. Eventually, it disconnects children from themselves too. And we um bring our focus into our own selves. That's where conscious parenting starts. Bring the awareness to the parent on the baggages that they are carrying.

A Lunchbox Story About Projections

SPEAKER_00 4:44

Wow, Sapna, is there a time in your life you experienced this yourself that you'd like to share with our audience today?

SPEAKER_01 4:51

Well, when I was a small example, I would like to share is like, let's say I was I used to pack these lunches for my child, and it used to be elaborate because you know, I myself growing up wanted this elaborate lunches, you know, lasagnas and pastas, and and my son would bring back half-eaten lunch boxes, and I would go crazy to just drive me wild. And when as I was doing this work, is when I realized my son just wanted a peanut butter jelly sandwich, and he wanted to sit and hang around with his friends. I was coming from my own projections, my own need to be seen, validated for the elaborate lunches that I made. But now, what did I want in the long run? Connected to him. He has a good um relationship with the food. That's what I wanted in the long run. But my own ideologies, my own beliefs about how it should be, how he should finish his lunch was getting in the way. And as I started doing this work, I was able to put that aside and just pack him simple lunches, not worrying about the food going waste. And thank goodness to that. Now he has a healthy relationship with food, and he has a healthy relationship with me.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

Wow, Sapna, you have such wonderful information to share with

Life Outside Work And Adventure

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us all today. Have you ever thought about having your own podcast for the business before?

SPEAKER_01 6:14

No, I haven't thought about that, but that would be a good thought.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

Now, outside of work, I have to ask you, what do you do not to go crazy? You know, any fun hobbies you have? Fill us in.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

We love to travel as a family because now that my son is all grown up and he's a teenager, he's in college, we barely get to spend the time together. But whenever we are together, we like to explore new stuff. I'm very adventurous. Like last year when my son turned 18, we went uh skydiving and we do crazy stuff. I like to travel, find new foods, and be very adventurous.

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That's

Vulnerability Over Perfect Parenting

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amazing. Does your adventurous side play any role in how you run your business?

SPEAKER_01 7:00

The adventurous side of me lets me be vulnerable with my clients. It's not about perfection, it's not about perfect parenting, it's about accepting all our so-called fallacies in parenting so we can show up authentically in every relationship, not just parenting.

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I love that, Sapna. You know, we have covered some wonderful information today about conscious

Where To Follow And How To Nominate

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parenting. But what our listeners really need to know is where can they go to learn more about Sapna Rad Coaching?

SPEAKER_01 7:36

I would welcome the listeners to follow me on Instagram. That is again sapna radcoaching. And of course, my website is sapnarad.com.

SPEAKER_00 7:44

Well, Sapna, I really appreciate you being on the show today. We wish you and your business the best moving forward. Thank you.

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