The Parent Playbook with Princess Nyah

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There is no manual.Nobody handed you an instruction guide when you became a parent. No one warned you about the invisible weight you'd carry — the mental load that never switches off, the identity you'd quietly grieve, the guilt that sits with you at 2am even when you did everything right. The ambition you're still fighting for. The version of yourself you're trying not to lose.The Parent Playbook by Trybe is where modern parents finally get to tell the truth.Hosted by Princess Nyah — founder, mum, and the kind of person who makes you feel safe enough to say the real thing — every episode is a deep, unfiltered conversation with parents who are living it: founders, creatives, educators, tech leaders, musicians, and community builders. All of them parents. All of them carrying something the world rarely asks about.Each conversation is guided by what Nyah calls the Purple Print — the shared emotional patterns, invisible pressures, and survival systems that connect every parent, even when they feel completely alone.No advice you didn't ask for. No polished parenting expertise. No perfect answers.Just honest storytelling, lived experience, and the permission to feel fully human.Every episode ends with the same question:"What's one part of parenting you were never told would take up so much space in your head?"And every now and then — Nyah's daughter Kizzy reaches into a jar and asks her own. The Purple Print The real patterns parents are living inside — the emotional truths, invisible pressures, and shared experiences that rarely get spoken about honestly. This is the space where they do. Princess Nyah — founder of Trybe, mother, and host.She approaches every guest as a person first.

  1. Dad Has an Invisible Load Too: Richard Cummins on Twins, Tech, the Dinner Table & Raising Three Kids Who Actually Talk to You

    5d ago

    Dad Has an Invisible Load Too: Richard Cummins on Twins, Tech, the Dinner Table & Raising Three Kids Who Actually Talk to You

    Send us Fan Mail This week on The Parent Playbook, Nyah sits down with Richard Cummins  adtech professional, startup advisor, podcast host, North Londoner and father of three: twin daughters and a son. And yes, the twins came first. This week on The Parent Playbook, Nyah sits down with Richard Cummins — adtech professional, startup advisor, podcast host, North Londoner and father of three: twin daughters and a son. And yes, the twins came first. Richard brings a perspective to this podcast that does not come around often enough — the honest, reflective, self-aware male voice in the parenting conversation. Not the Instagram version. The real one. The one that admits to blocking his calendar between 3 and 3:30 to do the school run. The one that talks about his father coming home at 8pm and his own version of showing up completely differently. The one that says directly and without apology that dads have their own version of the invisible load — a silent pressure to lead, provide, be the man of the house — and that it does not get talked about nearly enough. They get into what three months of paternity leave at Google actually gave him — the full immersion, the four hands on deck, the realisation that nothing in corporate life comes close to what happens inside a home with newborn twins. The conversations they have around the dinner table now that his girls are eight, asking about his presentations, engaging with his work, becoming the kind of children who talk to their parents because their parents have always talked to them. The origami phase. The Duolingo streaks. Teaching his son to read sheet music from an iPad in two weeks when it took Richard years. They talk about the 11+ without the panic — what it actually tests, why reasoning and articulation matter more than cramming, and why neither of them is putting their child through the pressure of feeling like their whole future rides on one test at age ten. About money conversations at the dinner table the way Black families have always had them — and what it means that the next generation is growing up in rooms where the right words for those conversations already exist. Richard also gets into the invisible load as a man — why it is a different kind of weight, why men are less likely to talk about it, what it costs when you do not, and why both parents having their outlet is not a luxury but a requirement. This one goes deep, goes wide and finishes warm. If this conversation sat with you — that's the Purple Print doing its thing. Share this episode with a parent who needs to hear it. Not the one who has it all together. The one who's in it, just like us. Come find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — we're @trybeuk — and if you want these conversations delivered straight to you, get on the newsletter. The link is in the show notes. No noise. Just the real stuff, when it matters. I'm Nyah. This is The Parent Playbook by Trybe. And I'll see you next Wednesday. trybeuk.com/newsletter  →

    44 min
  2. The 4:30am Alarm: Reema Samuel-Lewis on D&I at Sky, Raising Money-Smart Kids & Making It Work Without Losing Your Mind

    Jul 1

    The 4:30am Alarm: Reema Samuel-Lewis on D&I at Sky, Raising Money-Smart Kids & Making It Work Without Losing Your Mind

    Send us Fan Mail This week on The Parent Playbook, Nyah brings one of her oldest and most beloved friends onto the purple couch. They have known each other since they were 11 years old in their school uniforms — and it took this long to get Reema Samuel-Lewis in the chair. It was worth it. Reema is Head of Diversity and Inclusion Partnerships at Sky, where she oversees external partnerships, employee networks and community impact across the UK, Ireland, Italy and Germany. She is a wife, a daughter, a friend and a mum to two children aged 3 and 8 — and she somehow manages to get up at 4:30am twice a week to go to the gym, do the school run, build the shared calendar, earn the income, teach her children about Junior ISAs, and then come onto a podcast and make it all sound almost manageable. Almost. This conversation gets into the invisible load from the inside. Not just what it is, but what it actually looks like when you are the kind of person whose brain never stops — the lists, the columns, the shared calendar with everyone's names in it, the son who adds his birthday in six months in advance, the daughter who already understands what a bank card is at three years old. They talk about what it means to communicate your needs instead of burning out waiting for someone to notice, and why structure is not a control issue — it is how some of us survive. They also get into raising financially literate children in a household where money is talked about openly, investing in the things your kids already love, the Beyblade that costs £78 (and the investment conversation that followed), and what happens when you make your daughter buy her friend a marshmallow and watch the panic cross her face. Reema opens up about a pivotal career moment — a job she stayed in too long because someone kept telling her just do three more months — and what finally made her choose her own happiness. She talks about what it looks like to work in D&I, why she mentors young women, and what she would say to anyone trying to find their way into a meaningful career while raising children. Full of warmth, wisdom and the particular kind of honesty that only comes from two women who have known each other their whole lives. If this conversation sat with you — that's the Purple Print doing its thing. Share this episode with a parent who needs to hear it. Not the one who has it all together. The one who's in it, just like us. Come find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — we're @trybeuk — and if you want these conversations delivered straight to you, get on the newsletter. The link is in the show notes. No noise. Just the real stuff, when it matters. I'm Nyah. This is The Parent Playbook by Trybe. And I'll see you next Wednesday. trybeuk.com/newsletter  →

    35 min
  3. You Don't Have to Pick One Lane: Glamz Tan on Raising Four, Reinventing Yourself & Staying in the Game

    Jun 24

    You Don't Have to Pick One Lane: Glamz Tan on Raising Four, Reinventing Yourself & Staying in the Game

    Send us Fan Mail This week on The Parent Playbook, Nyah is joined by someone she has been desperate to get into the purple chair ever since she appeared on Glamz Tan's own podcast — and the conversation does not disappoint for a single second. Glamz Tan is a director, entrepreneur, podcaster, radio host, event coordinator and mum of four. Her children range from a 19-year-old son to a daughter in her early teens, a budding footballer and a jewellery-maker — four completely different humans she has raised while building multiple creative careers, surviving the chaos of three kids in pushchairs on a rainy bus and a vision board at the start of every single year that she has never once stopped filling out. This is a conversation about what it looks like to build when people told you to pick a lane — and to refuse. About being a singer-songwriter who became a podcaster who became a director who became a radio host who became whatever she needed to be next. About the down days that you hide in the bathroom with, the friend group that has held you up for decades, the lockdown moment that turned an idea into a show, and the fact that after everything — you've already won. Four times over. They talk about teaching children financial literacy from the age of six, raising kids who actually talk about investing and saving without being told to, what happens when your son goes to Spain at 19 and you try to follow him through security, and the very real panic of watching your child spend their own money for the first time. They also get into what it means to be a creative who does not fit one box, why the Jack of all trades mentality is an outdated trap, why resilience is not about having fewer bad days but about knowing you have been through them before and survived, and what Glamz told herself in the darkest moments to keep going. There is a lot of warmth in this one. A lot of laughter. And a lot of truth that lands differently when it comes from someone who has already been through the long game. If this conversation sat with you — that's the Purple Print doing its thing. Share this episode with a parent who needs to hear it. Not the one who has it all together. The one who's in it, just like us. Come find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — we're @trybeuk — and if you want these conversations delivered straight to you, get on the newsletter. The link is in the show notes. No noise. Just the real stuff, when it matters. I'm Nyah. This is The Parent Playbook by Trybe. And I'll see you next Wednesday. trybeuk.com/newsletter  →

    31 min
  4. She DJed Until She Was Nine Months Pregnant: Nikki Beatnik on Mums at Rave, the Music Industry & Doing It Anyway

    Jun 17

    She DJed Until She Was Nine Months Pregnant: Nikki Beatnik on Mums at Rave, the Music Industry & Doing It Anyway

    Send us Fan Mail This week on The Parent Playbook, Nyah finally gets the guest she has been trying to book for five years. And she was worth every single minute of the wait. Nikki Beatnik is a DJ, producer, songwriter, music director, entrepreneur and mother — and she has been to 70 countries across six continents doing what she loves. She has toured the world pregnant, slept in coffin bunk beds eight months gone, DJed her last residency days before giving birth, survived an emergency C-section she nearly did not walk away from, and was back behind the decks six weeks later in C-section pants because the bills do not stop coming just because you nearly died. If that does not tell you everything you need to know about this woman, nothing will. But this conversation is not just about how tough Nikki Beatnik is. It is about the music industry's silence around mothers. The fact that women producers are still just 4% of the industry. The fact that touring DJs who become mums are essentially invisible to any kind of support structure. The pressure that the industry places on women to simply not have children — and why Nikki waited as long as she did before becoming a mum. They get into Mums at Rave — the all-women day party that Nikki has been running for seven years, that has now clocked over 100 million views on social media and 80,000 organic followers, where women come from all over the UK on a Saturday afternoon and rave harder than anyone has any right to rave at 2pm. Artists have been moved to tears performing there. Women have found the confidence to cut their hair, leave relationships, go for the job and just be themselves for a few hours without the weight of everything else. They also talk about the invisible load, the self-employment maternity pay trap that nobody warns you about, why you should absolutely set up a limited company, why Nikki gentle parented before it had a name, dressing intentionally as a daily act of self-preservation, and why the Thai spa in Penge is better than any five-star hotel in the world. There are still gems to come. They need a part two. But this one alone is more than enough to keep you going. If this conversation sat with you — that's the Purple Print doing its thing. Share this episode with a parent who needs to hear it. Not the one who has it all together. The one who's in it, just like us. Come find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — we're @trybeuk — and if you want these conversations delivered straight to you, get on the newsletter. The link is in the show notes. No noise. Just the real stuff, when it matters. I'm Nyah. This is The Parent Playbook by Trybe. And I'll see you next Wednesday. trybeuk.com/newsletter  →

    39 min
  5. The Load Never Leaves: Rachel Ado on the Invisible Weight of Motherhood & Building Anyway

    Jun 10

    The Load Never Leaves: Rachel Ado on the Invisible Weight of Motherhood & Building Anyway

    Send us Fan Mail This week on The Parent Playbook, Nyah is joined by the brilliant, bubbly and deeply inspiring Rachel Ado — host of the Milk and Mommies podcast, founder of Tired as Mum, entrepreneur, creative, and mum to the firecracker that is three-year-old Zena. And they are talking about the invisible load. The mental load. That relentless, never-ending, lives-rent-free-in-your-brain weight that nobody warned you about before you had children — and that nobody around you can fully take from you, no matter how much they try. Rachel knows it intimately. She is a planner, a creative, an entrepreneur, and a first-time mum — which means her brain is running four different programmes simultaneously, all day every day, and not one of them ever fully shuts down. They also get into something that does not get talked about enough — the guilt that comes with actually carving out time for yourself. The decision to take your first solo trip without your baby. The glistening eyes at the airport that you tried so hard to hold back. The moment you realise on the plane that the world has not ended and you are actually going to be okay. Rachel took that trip. She came back. And she has thoughts. They dig into what it really looks like to hand over the reins to your partner and actually let go — the prep, the lists, the coded language only a mother knows, the water bottle that becomes a whole crisis, and the moment you realise that maybe, just maybe, the way you hold onto everything might not be purely a mum thing. It might just be you. Rachel also opens up about Tired as Mum — the company she started to try and figure out why everything starts in mum's brain first — and why she is on a mission to build something that gives mothers a genuine day off. She talks fundraising, tech, apps, the 22-year-old boys getting millions for apps that remind you to drink water, and why there has to be something built for the woman who is holding everything together. Plus brilliant advice on how to start a podcast, why you should launch before you are ready, what Elton John has got to do with anything, and a Kizzy question that ends with dancing and a three-year-old who has somehow discovered Strictly Come Dancing. This episode is for the planner who cannot switch off. The creative who has an idea in the middle of making dinner. The mum who is building something while holding everything else up. You are not doing it wrong. You are just carrying a lot. If this conversation sat with you — that's the Purple Print doing its thing. Share this episode with a parent who needs to hear it. Not the one who has it all together. The one who's in it, just like us. Come find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — we're @trybeuk — and if you want these conversations delivered straight to you, get on the newsletter. The link is in the show notes. No noise. Just the real stuff, when it matters. I'm Nyah. This is The Parent Playbook by Trybe. And I'll see you next Wednesday. trybeuk.com/newsletter  →

    34 min
  6. Time Is Better Than Money: Maxwell D on Music, Fatherhood & Breaking the Cycle

    Jun 3

    Time Is Better Than Money: Maxwell D on Music, Fatherhood & Breaking the Cycle

    Send us Fan Mail This week on The Parent Playbook, Nyah sits down with one of the most iconic figures to ever come out of the UK music scene. Maxwell D. The man behind Don't Let Me Get Serious. A legend of garage and funky house. A father of three. And one of the most unexpectedly raw, honest and profound conversations this podcast has ever had. Maxwell came into the music industry fierce, hungry and full of raw street energy. Fame followed. The penthouses. The cars. The charts. And then his first son Kamani arrived — named after Bob Marley's son, called by name from inside the womb — and everything changed. Because that was the moment Maxwell D finally understood what unconditional love actually felt like. But this is not a straightforward success story. It is a story about what happens when you are trying to provide and perform and be present all at the same time, without the tools or the role models to tell you how to do it. Maxwell's mum had him at 15. His dad was not around. He grew up in foster care, went to prison, and found music as a way to outrun his trauma — only to have fatherhood bring all of it rushing back to the surface. They talk about the grind of building a career in music while raising a child, the invisible load that performers carry on show days, the marriage that did not go the way he planned, the youngest son he did not meet until he was six years old, and what it really means to break the cycle when the cycle has been broken for generations before you. Maxwell also gets into the state of the music industry today — the 300 TikTok videos it takes to go viral, the way streaming killed the return, and why he is still making music at this stage of his life because it feeds his soul — not because it pays his bills. His new album Emotional Intelligence drops this week and this conversation is the perfect companion to it. Plus Kizzy sounds the alarm, the Kizzy question gets answered with Mortal Kombat energy, and Nyah reflects on why watching a child feel protected by their father might be one of the most powerful things she has ever witnessed. Gem after gem after gem. This one is a part one. You are going to want a part two. If this conversation sat with you — that's the Purple Print doing its thing. Share this episode with a parent who needs to hear it. Not the one who has it all together. The one who's in it, just like us. Come find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — we're @trybeuk — and if you want these conversations delivered straight to you, get on the newsletter. The link is in the show notes. No noise. Just the real stuff, when it matters. I'm Nyah. This is The Parent Playbook by Trybe. And I'll see you next Wednesday. trybeuk.com/newsletter  →

    56 min
  7. Boy Mum Energy: DJ SP on Raising Three Sons, ADHD & Finding Yourself in the Chaos

    May 27

    Boy Mum Energy: DJ SP on Raising Three Sons, ADHD & Finding Yourself in the Chaos

    Send us Fan Mail This week on The Parent Playbook, Nyah sits down with the incredibly warm, refreshingly honest and genuinely inspiring DJ SP — also known as Sian — and this conversation is one you are going to want to save, share and come back to. Sian is a lot of things at once. A full time mum of three boys aged 16, 13 and 7. A DJ with six years under her belt and her own all-female event series, The Antidote, now in its third year. A specialist SEN school worker with a background in playwork and early childhood studies. And someone who, without even knowing it, left a mark on Nyah that she has been waiting to talk about ever since. Three boys. All of their birthdays 16 days apart. Let that sink in. Sian gets into what it really means to be a boy mum — the full on energy, the deep love, the very different challenge of raising three completely different personalities at the same time, all at different stages, all with different needs. Her eldest is on the autistic spectrum and is now thriving in college studying gaming design — but getting there required Sian to check her ego, challenge what she thought a school was supposed to look like, and ultimately trust her instincts as a mother. Her middle son is navigating his teenage years and expressing that he wants more independence. And rather than shutting it down, Sian is meeting him exactly where he is. That takes a very special kind of parent. They also get deep into the SEN conversation — the denial that some parents go through when their child is first flagged, why mainstream school does not work for every child, what the Scandinavian education model does differently, and the honest truth about what specialist schools actually offer families beyond just the child. And then there is the ADHD conversation. Sian opens up about starting to recognise the signs in herself — and Nyah shares her own experience of being told by a migraine specialist, completely out of nowhere, that she had it too. What unfolds is one of the most relatable, funny and genuinely eye opening exchanges this podcast has had. Because understanding the why changes everything. For you. For your kids. For the way you parent. Add in a lockdown side hustle that accidentally became a career, a cat that started joining the dog walks and got chased out of Richmond Park, a wall calendar next to the bed that is the only thing keeping the whole operation running, and Kizzy's question — which Sian answers beautifully — and you have got yourself an episode. This is The Parent Playbook. Real conversations. No highlight reel. Just the good stuff. If this conversation sat with you — that's the Purple Print doing its thing. Share this episode with a parent who needs to hear it. Not the one who has it all together. The one who's in it, just like us. Come find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — we're @trybeuk — and if you want these conversations delivered straight to you, get on the newsletter. The link is in the show notes. No noise. Just the real stuff, when it matters. I'm Nyah. This is The Parent Playbook by Trybe. And I'll see you next Wednesday. trybeuk.com/newsletter  →

    41 min
  8. Get the Job Done: Freddy Craze on Fatherhood, Graft & Going It Alone

    May 20

    Get the Job Done: Freddy Craze on Fatherhood, Graft & Going It Alone

    Send us Fan Mail If you have ever sat across from someone and just known — this person is built different — then you already understand what it feels like to meet Freddy Craze. This week on The Parent Playbook, host Nyah brings one of her longest and most inspiring friends onto the purple couch, and the conversation does not disappoint. Freddy is a lot of things. A businessman. A son. A boyfriend. A brother. But ask him who he is, and the first thing out of his mouth is Lenny's dad. And that tells you everything you need to know about this man. At 25, with a brand new baby and a head full of ideas he had never quite got around to executing, something shifted. Because that is what becoming a parent does — it stops you waiting. Freddie stopped waiting. He borrowed £8k from his mum, set up a hand-print machine in a shed on a farm, and started knocking on doors in Camden, Oxford Street and everywhere in between, asking strangers to give him a chance. A lot of them said no. He kept going anyway. What followed is a story of graft, failure, bailiffs at the door, overdrawn bank accounts, and slowly — painfully slowly — a business that now produces merchandise for some of the biggest concert tours in the world. Beyoncé. Drake. Sabrina Carpenter. And it all started with a shed, a dream, and a refusal to quit. But this episode is not just about business. It is about what it costs. The 16-hour days and the guilt that comes with them. Growing up with a dad who was not quite there, and making a silent promise to do it differently for Lenny. Moving the whole family out to the Buckinghamshire countryside to give his son a different kind of childhood. And learning — eventually — that presence is the one thing money cannot buy and children never forget. They also get into routine in the early years, raising kids in a screen-obsessed world, the cultural conversation around moving out of the city, why Freddie never wore a suit to a boardroom in his life, and what he would say to any new parent staring down the barrel of starting a business with a mouth to feed. Plus Kizzy drops in with her question — and Freddy's answer might be the most honest and beautiful one yet. This is The Parent Playbook. And this week, the playbook is simple. Get the job done. If this conversation sat with you — that's the Purple Print doing its thing. Share this episode with a parent who needs to hear it. Not the one who has it all together. The one who's in it, just like us. Come find us on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube — we're @trybeuk — and if you want these conversations delivered straight to you, get on the newsletter. The link is in the show notes. No noise. Just the real stuff, when it matters. I'm Nyah. This is The Parent Playbook by Trybe. And I'll see you next Wednesday. trybeuk.com/newsletter  →

    44 min
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There is no manual.Nobody handed you an instruction guide when you became a parent. No one warned you about the invisible weight you'd carry — the mental load that never switches off, the identity you'd quietly grieve, the guilt that sits with you at 2am even when you did everything right. The ambition you're still fighting for. The version of yourself you're trying not to lose.The Parent Playbook by Trybe is where modern parents finally get to tell the truth.Hosted by Princess Nyah — founder, mum, and the kind of person who makes you feel safe enough to say the real thing — every episode is a deep, unfiltered conversation with parents who are living it: founders, creatives, educators, tech leaders, musicians, and community builders. All of them parents. All of them carrying something the world rarely asks about.Each conversation is guided by what Nyah calls the Purple Print — the shared emotional patterns, invisible pressures, and survival systems that connect every parent, even when they feel completely alone.No advice you didn't ask for. No polished parenting expertise. No perfect answers.Just honest storytelling, lived experience, and the permission to feel fully human.Every episode ends with the same question:"What's one part of parenting you were never told would take up so much space in your head?"And every now and then — Nyah's daughter Kizzy reaches into a jar and asks her own. The Purple Print The real patterns parents are living inside — the emotional truths, invisible pressures, and shared experiences that rarely get spoken about honestly. This is the space where they do. Princess Nyah — founder of Trybe, mother, and host.She approaches every guest as a person first.

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