Episodes
Oct. 18, 2024
Muslim Parenting Styles Part II
What do you get when you cross a parenting and spiritual coach with a very spiritual Masters psychology student mom? Join us as we dive into the heart of Islamic parenting styles, exploring what it means to raise resilient Mu...
Oct. 11, 2024
Brave Muslim Parenting
Our guest today is Shahnila Ahmad, a fellow podcaster and ICF certified and Gottman certified emotional coach @bravemuslimparents. We talk to her about the struggles of parenting vs. kidding, emotional regulation, and navigat...
Oct. 3, 2024
SERIES: Islamic Parenting Styles: Muslim Parenting Styles Part I
Noha Alshugairi, MS, LMFT and co-author of Positive Parenting in the Muslim Home, joins us today to be thanked for writing THE manual on Muslim American parenting we needed. Just kidding! Even she says that's not what it is, ...
Sept. 27, 2024
Empty Nesting With Tawakkul
As mothers, we spend years nurturing, guiding, and preparing our children to take flight. And then one day, they do. The once chaotic household grows quiet, and we're left standing in the wake of their departure. It’s a momen...
Sept. 27, 2024
The Wonder Years
This week's episode is all about Zaiba and Uzma's experiences parenting teenagers with the challenges and joys that come with it. If you don't know why they're calling it "The Wonder Years," it's because they are OLD. How the...
Sept. 12, 2024
The Early Years of Motherhood
Parenthood can be a beautiful journey, but it also comes with its share of challenges, right out of the gate. In this week's episode, we’re discussing the early years of parenting when loneliness, loss of identity, and postpa...
Sept. 6, 2024
SERIES: Phases of the Mom: Becoming Mommy Muslim Matrescence
There’s a lot to say about “mothers’ status” in Islam, but sadly, not enough about how to support her to maintain and thrive there. It’s hella lonely and confusing on these pedestals. We aren’t looking for trophies, just Jann...
Aug. 29, 2024
Replay: Does Shia/Sunni Matter in America?
☪☪On this popular replay from 2020 (can you believe it's been that long?!?!?!), podcaster mom, Farheen Raza @freeniraza, shared Shia history, practice, and whether or not sects make a difference in America. During this time o...
Aug. 22, 2024
Replay: Physical & Sexual Trauma and Leadership Accountability
TRIGGER WARNING: This is one of our favorite episodes because it's no one is above spiritual abuse, and everyone is vulnerable to falling victim to it. We need to have a means to bring leaders to account in this life so we ca...
Aug. 15, 2024
Replay: Childhood Sexual Abuse with Buddy Speaks
Trigger warning! This episode is NOT meant to be heard by children unless our mom audience feels they're ready for it. If you're a survivor of any sexual trauma, as a child or as an adult, you may not be ready for it either, ...
Aug. 11, 2024
Replay: Invisible Mom
Anyone ever feel self pity as you pick up in the kitchen at the end of the night, get laundry started or finished in the dark, put toys back where they belong, or end up refilling the tank at the most inopportune time because...
Aug. 8, 2024
Replay: My Muslim Kid & Drugs
Tina Khan joins us today to discuss her experience watching her son’s spiral into drugs and mental health crises and what it did to their family. This is definitely an episode you want to hear before you choose to let your ki...
July 25, 2024
Softly Leaning into Toughness
In this episode, Zaiba discusses the concept of embracing challenges to develop many strengths, including the elusive growth mindset. It’s not just for kids, folks! Takeaways include Leaning into toughness to build resilience...
July 19, 2024
Beat the Heat When Tempers Rise
Remember COVID cabin fever? And now it’s the middle of summer with all the kids home and some of us with hot flashes to boot. It’s a recipe for an explosion of tempers, so how do we manage ours? This is a great episode for th...
July 12, 2024
Crazy New Summer Hobbies
Summers are long and hot, and thanks to global warming, even longer and hotter. But while we’re cooped up indoors waiting for the world to come to its flaming end, we don’t have to be bored. Remember that as our kids grow up,...
July 12, 2024
SERIES: Chit Chats: Out of the Nest..Is It the Best?
Shownotes: This month’s Chit Chat Series addresses relevant mommying issues starting with the transitions we experience as adult children move out for college. Or go away for summer camp. Grief is real. So is the mental work ...
June 28, 2024
The Pros & Challenges of Being a Child of Immigrants
Tune in for this recap of our June series "Children of Immigrants!" We review episodes recorded this months, as well as lessons learned from them, but the meat of the talk is the good and bad things we inherit and how we use ...
June 21, 2024
Creating the Lives We Want
Our guest this week is, Marena Riyad, comedienne, creative, crafter, community builder, and crash courser in life. We got some learning today! From kidnapping to "it takes a village" to "be A LOT uncomfortable" to get where w...
June 14, 2024
From Barbados to Becoming: Building a Legacy for Change
We are celebrating Shellie McKinney of @momnetworkusa today, a first generation Muslim American and dedicated community organizer, who channels the resilience and spirit of her immigrant mother from Barbados. Growing up, Shel...
June 7, 2024
SERIES Children of Immigrants: From Iraq to Independence
There's so much Zeena on the podcast, and you'll find out why next week! @zeena_altalib joins us for the first of our Children of Immigrants series this month, recounting her family's move to the US from Iraq, her experience ...
May 31, 2024
Recap Tribute to Moms of Gaza
We recap this month's moving episodes that acknowledge the incredible burden of motherhood during genocide. Insha'Allah, that weight will be relieved from the shoulders and hearts of the Palestinian people, ameen. 🍉🍉 If you'v...
May 24, 2024
Mom Made in Palestine
Today’s guest, Morgan Cooper @mashjar_juthour, has lived and breathed Palestine for over two decades and is online telling Americans what her experiences have been as a Christian human in the land. She’s witnessed the DAILY g...
May 16, 2024
Gazan Mom Experiences
Fidaa Elaydi joins us today to share her personal experiences of Al Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza. A grandchild and child of Palestinian refugees to Gaza 76 years ago, she is four generations into a history of colonization and...
May 10, 2024
SERIES: A Tribute to Gazan Moms: Gazan Moms of the Diaspora
Did you know that much of the Palestinian diaspora is forbidden by Israel to return to Palestine, despite Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which requires nations to ensure the safe return of refugee...