Episodes
May 3, 2024
Where Are Muslims on Campus Right Now?
We had too good a conversation not to make an episode out of it, and thank you to Shehla Faizi of @imamuslimpodcast for initiating it! Basically, like the majority of the country, we moms are asking: WTH is going on on our st...
April 25, 2024
Portrait of a Listener Part 2
THANK YOU to all respondents of our survey so far. Anyone who'd like to receive a a free gift card via email, please head to the link in bio to fill that out by 5/15. Your answers helped us round out and improve the picture w...
April 19, 2024
SERIES: We're Baaaack!: Portrait of a Listener Part 1
Today is the first of two episodes reporting the results of our Annual Survey. On this one, find out who our fellow listeners are, where they listen in from, what they do, and what this data means to us. Find out if it's true...
April 17, 2024
Replay: Perpetuity of Ramadan's Spiritual Productivity
We are in dire need of it, hence the replay of Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi's episode about impediments to spiritual consistency in our lives. While some folks tried to white knuckle it through Ramadan, we used it to treat our bro...
April 6, 2024
Replay: This Isn't How I'm Supposed to Feel
This week's replay is Dr. Fareeha Malik, DDS, mom of 2 with a history of severe postpartum depression. PPD ended up informing her relationships and and even her reproduction. Of course, we discuss how she she found healing. B...
March 28, 2024
Replay: Female Scholars & Safe Spaces
This hiatus replay features Shaykha Tamara Gray, founder of Rabata, an online institute for and by Muslim women to educate themselves in Islam. She’s also an experienced mom who has a lot to share with moms about allying with...
March 21, 2024
Replay: Grief, Growth, and Sanctuary
Sumiya Khan, RD was recently on during our Where Are They Now series, and this is her original story from Season 2, in case you haven't heard it or don't know how to find it on your podcast app. She shared her devastating los...
March 14, 2024
Replay: Motherhood and Multiple Loss
Thirteen thousand children and counting....and as you heard on our hiatus announcement, at home, moms are losing their kids, too, to the continued shock of the community. Why are we so shocked? Are we untouchable, above grief...
March 9, 2024
SERIES: Ramadan Hiatus: Unready for Ramadan with Zaiba & Uzma
Zaiba and Uzma discussed how they faced the biggest "mommying challenges" during Ramadan 2019, and how they break us and make us. In light of the current siege in G@z@, we feel broken indeed and for that reason look forward t...
March 1, 2024
Ramadan 2024 Hiatus
We are still recovering from this past weekend’s Eman Entrepreneur Expo and Empower & Elevate Gala. Thank you to all who participated, attended, donated, and supported in all the ways that matter. But who knew two events in o...
Feb. 22, 2024
Spice it Up with Kink & Control
If this month's series title scared you, we can imagine today's episode title will, too. Rest assured, we have very tame info for everyone. In fact, it's info meant to help tame the problems we think are really big and we hav...
Feb. 15, 2024
Vulvodynia Diagnosis, Prognosis, & Treatment
"Name it to tame it," as Zaiba likes to say on the podcast and today, she has to DO IT! We don't say "hooha" anymore after this episode because we learn the correct anatomical terms for female external genitalia and the patho...
Feb. 9, 2024
Get Bedroom Help with Gynogirl
Apologies for the late drop this week, but we had to bring you Gynogirl, our favorite supershero, Dr. Sameena Rahman, MD, and OB/GYN. She's an expert on all things sexual dysfunction and menopause with a CV as long as our arm...
Feb. 1, 2024
SERIES Kink & Control in the Bedroom: Honeymoon Cystitis to Menopausal Dryness
We kick off our February series with the theme: Kink & Control in the Bedroom. Who better to teach us control there than Dr. Neda, NP, who joins us today to talk about sex during early conjugal relations in Muslim American be...
Jan. 26, 2024
Post 10/7 Muslim Narrative Changes
Dr. Maytha Al Hassen from the team at ‘Ramy’ is BACK to talk about the media shift that MAY BE happening as a result of mainstream being called out (finally!) for yellow journalism that vilifies Arabs and Muslims (at least th...
Jan. 18, 2024
Replay: Visceral News Reactions
Our Muslim Moms and the News Series this month is an offshoot of our series of a similar bent from 2021. Sadly we aren't saying anything different this time around. In this replay, Zaiba and Uzma cite past big headlines that ...
Jan. 12, 2024
When Mainstream Coverage isn't Enough
For those of you who are counting on news from the ground in Gaza, you know and follow journalist Leali Shalabi who consistently provides daily 24-hour newscaps from Gaza. She’s not only sharing her process and commitment to ...
Jan. 4, 2024
SERIES Muslim Moms in Media: They Are Not Just Numbers
We want to credit @trtworld for its article "What's it's like to be a parent in Gaza" that informs today’s episode. This is an older article from late October 2023, but it's awful how 90 days seems ages ago when we are talkin...
Dec. 28, 2023
Benevolence in the Face of Brutality
Mariam Muhanna comes on today with experience both working and living as an expat in Gaza for several years prior to coming back to the United States. Hear about her day to day experiences and why she wants to go back. Also r...
Dec. 22, 2023
Black Palestine
Vice President of Operations at Pillars Fund Kalia Abiade. Pillars Fund is dedicated to empowerment and support of Muslim voices. We know that Muslims have plenty of voices, but no one to hear them and no mainstream platform ...
Dec. 14, 2023
Dehumanization as Weaponization in Schools
Decorated Educator Dr. Sawsan Jaber comes on to discuss how our students are dehumanized in schools through curricula, bullying, and well intentioned harm created by school districts who create environments of “invisible” Pal...
Dec. 7, 2023
SERIES: What's Going on in Palestine: The US Government and Palestine
Nayyera Haq describes herself as “the intern who never left” government where she has become seasoned in politics through her work on Capitol Hill and even in the White House. Foreign affairs and national security policies ha...
Dec. 1, 2023
Muslim Women Podcasters Kick A$$
Zaiba & Uzma come on today to not only endorse that podcasting kicks a$$, but that they do, too. A far cry from where they started 5 years ago with imposter syndrome and trying to do it all, to where they are now and what’s c...
Nov. 23, 2023
Mindful Muslimah and Not Doing it ALL
Mindful Muslimah joins us today because listeners of her podcast of the same name may believe, “Oh my God, she does it all!” From homeschooling, to cooking with multiple aged kids with multiple food issues, to running busines...