Episodes

State Representative Ruwa Romman joins us from Georgia where she is working hard to represent District 97, as well as advocating for better background checks, studies on preventing gun violence, and solutions to keep guns out of the hands of abusers. In 2022, she became the first Muslim woman to be elected to the Georgia State House of Representatives. 🙌 Do most of us even know that the simple statistical STUDY of gun violence is not even allowed on a federal level in the US? No, and that’s why ...

Ayesha Nava is our candid guest who shares notes with Zaiba today on PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome), which is more common than we think and often interferes with one’s attempts at having children. Learn the signs and symptoms that could indicate PCOS in our bodies or in our daughters’. Yes! Look for signs in our young pubescent daughters because extreme pain and super heavy menses are not normal. Doctors are much better at helping us identify this condition earlier now and can help us plan f...

Whoa, is this late! Did y’all notice? Ashlea Angel joins us to discuss how lightning struck her (or her tubes) twice, affecting her choices of infertility treatments. Not only does she share her experience with retrievals and transfers, but shares that embryos get report cards! 🤯Tiger moms to be, this is the first of many grades your baby to be is gonna get. You’ll note some recurring themes and behaviors of moms with fertility struggles, but this is an episode where the ins and outs of testin...

Aneesa Husain is as proactive a Muslimah as we’ve ever met, and we LOVE it. She joins us on our Muslim Moms Overcoming Infertility series this month and has the deets on a few of the reasons why women pursue egg freezing, how to get the process started, and special considerations. We apologize for the coughing because #allergies, and the slight echo because #audiotech sometimes stinks. You can totally stand both because this is MUST KNOW info. We are getting A LOT of DMs and comments about the l...

Warning: Language Sarah Khan joins us to discuss her journey finding and following through with a gestational carrier not just once, but TWICE 👶🏽👶🏽. What's a gestational carrier? You'll have to listen to find out. 🎧 We learned some new things in this episode about the emotional pathos a mom goes through in this situation BEFORE and during pregnancy 💔. It definitely makes us think there's more to mothering after fertility issues than we knew, and we are so grateful for the insight. Finally, the...

Trigger warning! Listen again to Abeeha Hassan's experience of stillbirth after her IVF journey. All that heartbreak, anticipation and work to come home empty-handed. Early on in her recovery, she wanted us to broadcast normalizing grief. In this episode, she taught us sabr (patience), shukr (gratitude), and tawwakul (unshaking faith in Allah SWT). Her process of closure may seem familiar to someone else who has gone this journey alone, and we are so touched that Abeeha chose to share her stor...

| Rabia Rajab is a survivor of infertility and IVF 🌟. Call it mother's intuition, but she knew before the doctors did about how tough her journey was going to be and initiated a decade long trip that would make most of us cut and run. Certainly, the Force (and the 4th) are with her. 💰 The costs of treatments are not only financial, but as you'll hear, social and emotional as well. For anyone considering it, this is a MUST listen💕. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Rabia and her husband did not have a supportive community...

That had to be a record for Ramadan--over before it started subhanAllah. Here are our short reflections on the month and prayers for you, our wonderful audience. Eid Mubarak! Tune in for our message tonight and then next week for a full length episode. Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group...

Rabia Faisal of Chaishaiusa comes on to satisfy all our chai craving questions. Uzma and Zaiba fell onto their blends a few years ago and have been devout drinkers since. It’s the company they share with friends who ask which chai to buy. Learn the international chai curating process Rabia uses as well as the custom blending secrets she shares today. @chaishaiusa is SUPER generous to our loyal listeners and is giving away THREE freebies to the first 3 people who get the code word back to us by e...

​Fatmah Muhammad founder of Knafeh Queens is on the podcast for making knafeh konverts of Uzma and Zaiba. This is a dessert that can be daunting for anyone who doesn’t know about it, and your favorite podcast duo avoided knafeh like the plague until they encountered Fatmah’s unique family recipe. From her refreshing mommying philosophy, commitment to family, and commitment to spreading joy and unity through her culinary creations, you will NOT be sorry you hear about Knafeh Queens and its origin...

| Subhaan Ashrafi, founder of Sabr app, joins us today to tell us why he developed this for Muslim audiences and how it can help our families. His story of making a dream required resiliency and relationship-building, which he speaks on at length, an inspiration to us and to our kids. With persistence, he was able to create a unique app of its kind that is serving our families at the podcast so well. In these times of increased mental health and spiritual needs in our community, we need quick co...

| Artist Natalia Dar describes her journey toward healing personal losses via art and the resulting devoted following of admirers she has now. At least this podcast is a devoted follower! We love watching her process, which she shares at length on IG and you could watch those videos FOREVER. We discuss her choice of the hardest things to paint and draw in the art world, which include architecture, her link to her parents, may Allah SWT be pleased with them. Let’s also touch on. the loss of patro...

Fahd Al Binali of IQRA Network joins us today to discuss his role in creating the platform to teach Quran and Islamic studies without children hating either or both. His specific interest in gearing education toward Western audiences is especially important because it focuses on application of these principles in students’ lives. This requires innovatively training and treating instructors in an organized way with accountability on all sides. IQRA fosters the relationship between teachers and st...

@browndages co-founder Instisar Bashir joins us today to describe the product she created with her husband in order to provide POC with options to cover up their wounds with products that actually blend in with their skin. For too long, we’ve had to explain the mainstream bandaids when people can clearly see them on our darker skin when it’s really not relevant to discussions at hand. Can we just cover them up and move on already? Heal in silence! Find out how this mompreneur created Browndages ...

| @covermecutee founder and mompreneur, Idayat Sambo discusses her inspiration for launching a modest clothing brand, the origin story of her massive talent, and the utility of African American fashion fusion. As it turns out, our favorite piece, the Aisha hoodie, is also Idayat's favorite creation! Hear about affirming African standards of beauty that have us convinced we were born on the wrong continent, the amazing charitable work she is doing to empower women with her talent, and how to shop...

| Hanane Jamili discusses her inspiration for art, and her creative process as a busy mom of 3. Find out what products from her we use every day to beautify our homes, and check out her new Ramadan line as you prepare your home for the holy month, or for your Eid gift lists. One lucky winner will win a new piece from her limited edition Ramadan line IF they're the first to email salam@mommyingwhilemuslim.com or DM us with the code word heard on this episode. This giveaway is entirely sponsored b...

| Welcome to the launch of the Muslim Moms’ Favorite Things Series this month! Zaiba & Uzma are introducing the audience to products they use and love, and how to win some yourself in time for Eid. Fellas, this is where you want to shop this year because “happy wife, happy life,” right? If you’re a business that was contacted to be featured on this series, get back to us already! Uzma is exhausted from all the stalking. If you weren’t contacted and think you should be, email salam@mommyinghilemu...

Jenny Triplett is a multimompreneur, author, and podcaster who joins us today to share her POV on surviving marriage, also the title of her podcast! Jenny and her husband Rufus give us tips online and in their programs, and she shares how she survived her own marriage and kept the spark alive through love and loss. We take a curve down the dowry lane based on a recent post that generated a lot of conversation @rufusandjenny, but we bring it back. Her take on the Islamic marriage is conservative,...

She's BAAAAAAACK.....Y'all loved Cliteracy Consciousness last year with Dr. Shaakira Abdullah @thehalalsexpert, but now she's talking to us about the pressures Muslim kids face in and around sex. Is it just Hollywood hype, and how do we prep our kids to keep it halal and locked up until marriage? Tune in at 6pm EST on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, or head to our website for easiest listening. Google will take you right there. And if we are hard to contact this weekend, we are partying in Da...

​WOW! Let us apologize for the echo on this episode. However, we think it’s tolerable. Our DMs have been popping through the year with questions about yoni or vaginal steaming, so we needed to find a practitioner who knows more about this. Chantal Blake joins us from Dakkar, crossing the sea just to teach us about the globally ancient science of yoni steaming, a technique that addresses common issues women encounter daily. Heavy periods, infertility, sexual issues, watch out! Steaming may be the...

We kick off this podcast episode by apologizing to the Michigan Spartans! IFYKYK. Dr. Sadaf Lodhi OB/GYN sets us straight REAL fast on this episode! She is not only a practicing doctor to women, she is also host of The Muslim Sex Podcast and a certified Sex Coach. THEN we start talking about the good stuff to launch our “Muslim Moms Aren't Nuns” series this February. What are the silent conversations Muslims are having with themselves about sex, or what are the stories we make up about sex becau...

| Zaiba & Uzma share the details of putting together the Uyghur Muslim Mom narrative podcast series and why they presented it this way to you. Hear what their overarching vision for the Oppressed Mother Series is and how you can support it right now. Check out the Shownotes for each Uyghur Muslim Mom episode and find out what you can do today to help raise awareness and DO SOMETHING. Mihrigul’s experience proves that moms will do it all, even in the face of the most heinous atrocities against th...

In this finale of our limited series “Oppressed Mother,” hear how Mihrigul Tursun fought the PRC, and how her government demanded she relinquish her Egyptian citizenship or have her family in China imprisoned. Impossible choices a mother, daughter, sister, victim, must face. At the cost of family reunification, Mihrigul testified through translators to Congress. Not only can she never return to her homeland, she is raising her living children alone and apart from her husband who is forced into h...

Trigger warning: torture Mihrigul Tursun, Chinese citizen, recounts her journey out of China to higher education and global awareness: now she was surrounded by donkeys instead of chickens! Outside the PRC she also experienced her Islamic awakening, which would end up costing her freedom and threaten her children’s lives. Something as simple as what she newly wore on her head identified her as the “other” in the PRC, and landed her in a concentration camp. That’s not what they’re called by any m...