Nadim Saad

We're teaching children maths long before we even consider teaching them how to be human

Schools are under huge pressure to improve attainment, manage behaviour, support neurodiverse learners, and protect mental health, often with too little time and too much admin. Nadim argues that emotional regulation, belonging, communication, and self-awareness are not soft extras; they are the foundation that makes learning possible. His school programme turns this into a practical ten-minute daily rhythm, rather than another one-hour wellbeing block schools cannot fit in. For education podcasts, he can make the case that classrooms work better when children understand themselves and each other first.

Good parents still make their children feel unsafe sometimes

There is a painful gap between being a loving parent and always being experienced as safe by your child. Nadim can speak candidly about the moment he realised that even as a parenting coach, his own anger sometimes made his children feel unsafe, and why denial is often the first place parents go when confronted with that truth. This is not a conversation about shaming parents; it is about helping them stay open long enough to repair. For parenting audiences, this creates a rare and honest discussion about accountability without self-destruction.

Your child’s difficult behaviour is often a story they do not yet know how to tell

When children lash out, shut down, hit siblings, refuse instructions, or seem suddenly unlike themselves, parents often focus on correcting the behaviour in front of them. Nadim reframes those moments as untranslated emotional information, shaped by thoughts, feelings, shame, and the child’s still-developing brain. His own turning point came when his daughter’s anger led to the discovery that she believed she was “a bad person,” which showed him how quickly a child can get trapped in a doom loop without the right conversation. This is a strong fit for parenting podcasts because it helps parents respond with more precision, less fear, and more useful questions.