Episodes
March 25, 2021
But He Doesn’t Hit Me
Madiha Schader joins us today to talk about her experience learning early on that she married someone who wouldn't be safe for her, yet how she continued to hide the details from her family and friends. The cultural reasons s...
March 18, 2021
Brain Tumors Suck
Samia Masood joins us today to talk about her harrowing experience through her son's illness and how she survived it. Life pre diagnosis and post-diagnosis is a real thing and very delineated in a mom’s mind and heart for lif...
March 11, 2021
Firewalkers Overcoming the Unthinkable Series: I Didn't Bring Home My Newborn Part II
If you haven’t scheduled to listen in on our Firewalker series this month, you’ll want to. These moms aren’t just walking over hot coals--they’re doing it through billowing blazes while taking names and kicking butt. Whether ...
March 4, 2021
NOT Netflix Auntie
Shownotes: This month’s Love & Marriage series closes out with the expertise of Tawakaltu Busari of Hitched!, a Muslim matchmaking service based in Houston. Not an app-based method, Hitched! provides halal opportunities for s...
Feb. 25, 2021
When it’s Time to Walk Away
We're all about love and marriage this month. Until we're not. Not all marriages work out, and we don't say "succeed" or "fail" because marriage isn't an Olympic event, y'all. Sometimes two people just don't belong together, ...
Feb. 18, 2021
Exploring Sex & Intimacy with Islamic Spiritual Perspectives
Sameera Qureshi of Sexual Health for Muslims joins us today to discuss the effects of colonized gender-based fallacies have on Muslim sexual health and practice. Not only does she have comprehensive sexual education from an I...
Feb. 11, 2021
Love & Marriage Series: Breaking Free of Baggage
Sadia Jalali, LMFT from Muslim Bliss joins us today to talk about how to develop ourselves before and during marriage in order to make it work. Gone are the days when marriage was the panacea for all things: mental illness, n...
Feb. 4, 2021
How to Produce Protest Music
We got a lot of flack last year for "getting too political" because white supremacy, fascism, and corruption aren't in our lane. Our argument has always been that as Muslim American moms, politics MATTERS to us because it dir...
Jan. 28, 2021
How to Write & Publish a Book
We continue talking about hard things, including writing and publishing on today's episode. There's a HUGE writers’ community on IG! AND there a lot of Muslimah writers out there with terrific stories and projects. How do the...
Jan. 21, 2021
How to Mother a Medically Complex Child
This month is all about hard things, and one of the hardest mommy jobs is taking care of medically complex children. Moms don't get a break to start, and these moms NEVER get to stop. How do we step up to be better sisters to...
Jan. 14, 2021
Bonus Episode: 100th Episode Special
"Would you be willing to come on a podcast and talk about that?" Zaiba asked Uzma almost 3 years ago about racial profiling of Muslim Americans by TSA. "Sure. What do I have to do?" Uzma had no idea what a podcast was, or tha...
Jan. 7, 2021
SERIES How-to: The Road from and to Jannah
Trigger alert: child loss Abeeha Hassan joins us today to discuss the very recent stillbirth of her newborn. She talks to us about how she grieved her daughter and talks about normalizing it contrary to what most Muslim cultu...
Dec. 31, 2020
The Science of Art Therapy
Shazia Siddiqi MA, LPC, ATR-BC of Let’s Art About It studio rejoins us today to talk about art therapy, a misunderstood or poorly understood therapeutic modality for trauma, anxiety, or depression. She’s here to explain the s...
Dec. 25, 2020
Naseeha Mental Health and Meeting Teen Needs
Summayah Poonah joins us today to talk about an important resource to assist our Muslim teens’ mental health needs. She is Head of Operations at Naseeha Mental Health, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting communi...
Dec. 17, 2020
How You Doin? The State of Our Emotional Cups
This year has brought a lot of changes we weren’t ready for, moms, and this episode brings on Dr. Saba Maroof, MD, a very busy psychiatrist whose work tripled as a result of the pandemic! She’s seen a lot and has had her puls...
Dec. 10, 2020
Muslim Mental Health Series: Childhood Anxiety
Dr. Rukhsana Chaudhry comes on today to kick off our mental health series and gives us SO MUCH insight into our anxieties and how to deal with our kids’. Let’s face it: this pandemic has kicked our collective butts and we’ve ...
Dec. 3, 2020
Election 2020 Part IV: Acceptance
Zaiba and Uzma discuss the final stage of Kubler Ross’grief: Acceptance today. They skipped over bargaining for religious reasons! As Muslims, “acceptance” doesn’t mean lie down and relax. The work is NOT DONE! There’s much t...
Nov. 26, 2020
Election 2020 Part III: Vitamin G for Gratitude Thanksgiving Episode
The next step in grief in this Part III of our election series is depression, which may feel worse today because it’s a holiday in pandemic, and it doesn’t look like what we’re used to. With social distancing protocols, many ...
Nov. 19, 2020
Election 2020: The Stages of Grief Part II-Anger
Since they couldn’t find a Muslim mom who voted for Trump, Zaiba recruited her husband, Zafar, to return to the podcast for this episode to help understand the 35% of Muslims surveyed by the Associated Press who said that the...
Nov. 12, 2020
SERIES t's an Election Year Series: The Stages of Grief Part I-Denial
Zaiba & Uzma discuss election results which, at the time of this recording, was not yet called, but was highly suggestive of results they did not expect. Why don’t they have cause to celebrate regardless of who is elected thi...
Nov. 5, 2020
Pregnancy and Preventive Women's Health
Dr. Hodon joins us today to talk about how to maintain pregnancy health during a pandemic when most of us are barraged with conflicting medical advice and everyone and their president wants to be the doctor giving it. While p...
Oct. 29, 2020
Hasan vs. Jafri on Roe vs. Wade
Zaiba and Uzma ended up having to have a conversation about abortion, as well as their religious and feminist views on the topic. This is not a scholarly episode, rather a discourse between friends on personal, very individua...
Oct. 22, 2020
The Not So Hot Episode: Hot Flashes and Atrophic Vaginitis
Zaiba and Uzma talk about expected symptoms of “the change,” and what exactly that is and is NOT. Menopause and genitourinary syndrome of menopause are the topics of the day. Super exciting, right? It IS! If we aren’t in the ...
Oct. 15, 2020
Mothering Mental Fortitude and Wellness in Islam
We continue our Women’s Health series by focusing on our spiritual health today with Zahra Aljabri, founder of Practical Muslim. She joins us on the podcast today to discuss developing our relationships with Allah SWT in orde...