Regulating & Raising is a podcast for moms who want to feel calm, aligned, and in control again.
Hosted by MaKenzie, this show blends Human Design and nervous system support with real-life motherhood—so you can understand your energy, trust your decisions, and stop feeling like you’re constantly in survival mode.
Each episode is a mix of honest solo conversations and expert interviews, covering everything from emotional regulation and identity shifts to clean living, holistic health, and raising a family in a way that actually feels good.
This isn’t about doing more or getting it perfect.
It’s about learning how to regulate yourself while raising your kids—and building a life that works for your season.
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or like there has to be a better way… you’re in the right place.
How to Talk to Your Kids About Mom’s Hard Days | Kendall Concini
Today’s conversation is for the mom who has been quietly asking the questions she is scared to say out loud — and is finally ready to be met in them.
I’m joined by Kendall Concini, mother, wife, children’s book author, and the creative behind Cloudy Day Chronicles. Her work is not written from a distance. It is written from inside her real, messy, magical family life — co-created with her kids, Alma and Max.
Kendall lives with high-functioning depression. And instead of hiding it from her children, she gave them a language for it: the cloud.
In this episode, we go into the mental health conversations that rarely make it to Instagram — the guilt, the identity shifts, the “do I even like being a mom today?” moments — and what it looks like to break generational cycles not by being perfect, but by being honest.
What We Cover
Why Kendall didn’t want kids — and the shift that changed everything
The “cloud” language she uses to describe her depression to her kids
The difference between a light cloud, a storm cloud, and a tornado
High-functioning depression — what it actually looks like day to day
“Children-pleasing” — the people-pleasing cycle no one is naming
Why your kids don’t remember the moment you yelled — they remember the repair
Her daughter’s tornado method of releasing emotions
Human Design + parenting — projector kids vs. manifester kids
Why cycle breaking happens in micro moments, not big ones
Connect with Kendall
Kendall Concini is a mother, wife, and children’s book author normalizing mental health conversations through Cloudy Day Chronicles — a book series co-created with her own children.
Instagram: @cloudydaychronicles (https://instagram.com/cloudydaychronicles)
Website + books: cloudydaychronicles.org (https://cloudydaychronicles.org)
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Connect with MaKenzie
MaKenzie Byram is a Human Design practitioner, gut health specialist, and nervous system regulation coach helping mothers come home to themselves through the wiring they were born with. She’s the host of Regulating and Raising and the founder of The Clean Mom Edit Club.
Instagram: @thecleanmomedit (https://instagram.com/thecleanmomedit)
Website: thecleanmomedit.com (https://www.thecleanmomedit.com)
Join The Clean Mom Edit Club (free community): https://www.skool.com/the-soft-motherhood-collective-8849/about (https://www.skool.com/the-soft-motherhood-collective-8849/about)
Book your Human Design chart breakdown with MaKenzie: https://claude.ai/artifact/FDYwpP9uJSadfrYGpP8wJx (https://claude.ai/artifact/FDYwpP9uJSadfrYGpP8wJx)
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19 Oct 2026
How Astrology Decodes Your Nervous System | Annie Bertrand
Today’s conversation is for the mom who is doing all the inner work, running every regulation practice she’s read about, and still finds herself reacting in ways she does not understand — and is finally ready for a different kind of answer.
I’m joined by Annie Bertrand, an ancestral astrologer, energy healer, and cycle-breaking mom who uses astrology as a daily nervous system diagnostic — not a once-a-year personality quiz. She weaves astrology, ancestral healing, and Human Design together so moms can finally understand why their body reacts the way it does, and what their individual wiring actually needs to come back into regulation.
If you’ve ever been told to “just meditate” and felt more rage after than before — this one is for you.
What We Cover
Why your Moon sign + Mercury sign are the actual basis of nervous system regulation
The four elemental signatures (fire, water, earth, air) — and what each one looks like when it hits dysregulation
Why meditation makes some of us MORE angry — and what to do instead
The three free tools to pull your chart: Chani app, Astro-Seek, Time Passages
The Lunar Return — why one week every month feels like a “mini-PMS”
The IC line — the ancestral cycle you incarnated to break and heal for your family
Your child’s Mars sign and why connection beats checklists
Why planning your business in six-month cycles (not monthly) finally works
The full moon rule I follow with my own kids
Connect with Annie
Annie Bertrand is an ancestral astrologer, energy healer, and cycle-breaking mom helping self-aware mothers heal what they inherited so their children do not have to.
Instagram: @astrology_with_annie (https://instagram.com/astrology_with_annie)
Website: anniebertrand.com (https://anniebertrand.com)
Family Karma Reading (live Zoom reading of your ancestral patterns): anniebertrand.com/family-reading (https://anniebertrand.com/family-reading)
Connect with MaKenzie
MaKenzie Byram is a Human Design practitioner, gut health specialist, and nervous system regulation coach helping mothers come home to themselves through the wiring they were born with. She’s the host of Regulating and Raising and the founder of The Clean Mom Edit Club.
Instagram: @thecleanmomedit (https://instagram.com/thecleanmomedit)
Join The Clean Mom Edit Club (free community): https://www.skool.com/the-soft-motherhood-collective-8849/about (https://www.skool.com/the-soft-motherhood-collective-8849/about)
Book your Human Design chart breakdown with MaKenzie: https://claude.ai/artifact/FDYwpP9uJSadfrYGpP8wJx (https://claude.ai/artifact/FDYwpP9uJSadfrYGpP8wJx)
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13 Oct 2026
How She Quit Her 6-Figure PA Career to Save Her Family | Kayla Licari
Today’s conversation is for the mom who has been quietly building a life she did not fully choose — and is finally ready to walk away from what is no longer serving her, even when it does not make sense on paper.
I’m joined by Kayla Licari, who spent 15 years making six figures as a physician assistant before walking away from her career in 2023. That decision saved her health, her marriage, and her relationship with her three kids. Now she and her husband are redefining what success actually means for their family — and doing the deep work of parenting through CPTSD, healing their marriage, and reclaiming their voices as they go.
Kayla is a Manifesting Generator married to a Generator — and the way she talks about rupture, repair, and co-regulation inside a marriage is the kind of honesty most moms in her exact position are quietly begging for.
What We Cover
The identity shift of walking away from a career that looked good on paper
What chronic symptoms (migraines, fatigue, anxiety) were actually trying to tell her
Why PMS is the week your voice refuses to be held back any longer
The art of rupture and repair inside a marriage (and why avoiding the rupture is what breaks it)
Grief as the “unexplained heavy weight” and how to move it through your body
Why perfectionism is a trauma response — not a personality trait
How Human Design shifted the way she and her husband communicate
The two free lifestyle changes with the biggest hormonal impact: consistent sleep/wake + 5-10 min of morning sunlight
Connect with Kayla
Kayla Licari is a former physician assistant turned coach helping women and couples heal their nervous systems, their marriages, and their relationships with themselves. She and her husband are relaunching their coaching work for couples.
Instagram: @kayla.licari (spot-check this handle before posting)
Second account for couples content: @happywivesandhusbands (verify this is live)
Free couples call: linked in her bio
Connect with MaKenzie
MaKenzie Byram is a Human Design practitioner, gut health specialist, and nervous system regulation coach helping mothers come home to themselves through the wiring they were born with. She’s the host of Regulating and Raising and the founder of The Clean Mom Edit Club.
Instagram: @thecleanmomedit (https://instagram.com/thecleanmomedit)
Join The Clean Mom Edit Club (free community): https://www.skool.com/the-soft-motherhood-collective-8849/about (https://www.skool.com/the-soft-motherhood-collective-8849/about)
Book your Human Design chart breakdown with MaKenzie: https://claude.ai/artifact/FDYwpP9uJSadfrYGpP8wJx (https://claude.ai/artifact/FDYwpP9uJSadfrYGpP8wJx)
Loved this episode? Leave a review — it’s how more women find their way here. Screenshot it, share it to your stories, tag @thecleanmomedit, and I’ll send you a little thank-you 🤍
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