Season 4
Aug. 30, 2022
BONUS: LIVE QA about the Retreat
The entire Embracing Your Power team answers all your questions on this special BONUS Live with QA. We decided to air it as an episode in time for listeners to take advantage of the Early Bird discounts. We look forward to mo...
Aug. 26, 2022
Kinship Assaulted
Trigger warning: sexual abuse Mina is our guest today, anonymized to protect their identity. They share their experience with childhood sexual abuse and the effects it had on them, their parents, and their extended family. Th...
Aug. 19, 2022
The Space Between Us
#boymom Farheen Raza Abbas joins us to discuss the circumstances that caused her to limit relationships in her own family. We didn’t expect bullying to show up in our series this month, but this episode really highlights what...
Aug. 11, 2022
SERIES Muslims and Severed Ties of Kinship: Burned Bridges
Wow, get ready to gain insight into one of the most painful situations some families must deal with: severed ties of kinship. As Muslims, family is everything. But what happens when it’s not? Uzma kicks it off this month by s...
Aug. 4, 2022
Muslims En Route 66
| We want to make sure you don’t miss catching up on all the episodes of THE GREAT MUSLIM AMERICAN ROAD TRIP following Mona Haydar and her husband Sebastian Robins along historic Route 66, exploring Islam’s deep roots in Amer...
July 28, 2022
Empowered Mom Empower Moms
Dr. Rand Diab joins us to discuss her empowering Reels and what she brings to the table that's different than other accounts. She even broaches the difficulties of parenting adult kids that are harder to divulge on social me...
July 21, 2022
Pioneering Social Media Spaces & Motherhood
Yasemin Kanar spills the beans on what social media was like when she first took our feeds by the hijab, how it's transitioned, her content evolution, hasad and evil eye, and mommying while Muslim of course. You'll want to he...
July 15, 2022
SERIES Muslim Mominfluencers: Honestly Mommying
Honestly Aisha better known as Aisha Thabet joins us today to discuss her journey to social media: the good, the bad, and the scary. This is a terrific listen with kids and tweens so they know the reasons why they need to sta...
July 8, 2022
Project Lina
Anse Najiyah Maxfield returns to the podcast to discuss her conversion story with us today. As an OG at Rabata, she traces its history and the birth of Project Lina. So we’ve discussed lots of issues in women’s conversion jou...
July 1, 2022
Muslims en Route 66
A three-part documentary series, THE GREAT MUSLIM AMERICAN ROAD TRIP follows a millennial Muslim American couple on a cross-country journey along historic Route 66 as they explore Islam’s deep roots in America. Making more th...
June 28, 2022
Stuck on Islam
Kai Wingo’s energy in this episode is so refreshing mashaAllah. Her conversion story is another example of a uniquely easy one. With parental and community support as well as her own quest for knowledge, she was able to get h...
June 24, 2022
Making Happy People via Islam
Nye Armstrong of Happy People Podcast joins us to discuss her path to Islam and how her education showed her the life she was living (with a self titled Muslim) wasn’t jamming with the religion she was falling in love with. H...
June 16, 2022
Cosplay to Conversion
Alex Khouri of the Aweea brand is on today to tell us her story about coming to Islam and how hers might actually be kind of exceptional. She kind of hit the lottery a couple of times masha’Allah, but hear her repressed memor...
June 10, 2022
New Fashioned
Muslim women know fashion, and as such, they know Lisa Vogl, spokesperson for modest fashion and domestic violence, and convert to Islam. Her revelation about converts post shahadah (coming to Islam) is an important reflectio...
June 2, 2022
SERIES Muslim Conversion Helped & Hindered: So That You May Know One Another
This is one of our favorite replays, not just because of Amanda Moutakki's alternate identity as @marocmama, but because her conversion story is so unique. She just isn't afraid of a challenge, or a new experience, and every...
May 26, 2022
Food Addictions: When It's Not Just a Craving
Samihah Huq joins us to discuss her experience with food addiction and how she’s hit a wall with her doctor in terms of understanding, naming, and taming it. There are barriers to wrapping our brains around food addiction in ...
May 20, 2022
Epidemic of Muslim Porn Consumption
Like almost every episode this month, there’s explicit content so please be mindful of tiny ears within listening range. Dr. Madiha Tahseen from The Family & Youth Institute joins us today to discuss what The FYI research has...
May 20, 2022
BONUS episode: Naming & Treating Addiction: Muslim Barriers Study
We have a BONUS episode for you this week! There’s explicit content so please be mindful of tiny ears within listening range. Salah Abu Muna shares his research study that seeks to determine the need for Muslim-centered subst...
May 12, 2022
SERIES Sex, Drugs, Porn and Other Addictions: Watering Burning Buildings: 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...
May 6, 2022
BONUS Replay: Hasan V Jafri on Roe v Wade
Due to the mind-numbing circumstances of this week’s Supreme Court decision, we decided to re-release our abortion episode. Right, critics, we know if our moms got abortions, we would not be born to tell the tale. Your fallac...
April 28, 2022
Eid Reflections
Join Zaiba and Uzma with their Eid reflections, prep, and favorite resources. We appreciate our audience following along these last two months during our episodes to prepare for Ramadan, stay strong with our worship in Ramada...
April 21, 2022
Muslim Moms' Spiritual Fortitude
Ustadha Safiya Ravat of Suhbah Institute reminds us how to focus on our Ramadan as moms–beyond the food, the rat race, the decor, and all the things we have to continue doing–to build our safe spiritual spaces with Allah SWT....
April 14, 2022
Perpetuity of Ramadan Spiritual Productivity
We are so honored to have Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi talk to us about impediments to spiritual consistency in our lives. While some folks are trying to get through Ramadan day by day, we are excessively worried about the month c...
April 7, 2022
SERIES Muslim Moms' Spiritual Fortitude: Ramadan 2022 Special
| Zaiba and Uzma discuss their Ramadan 2022 plans and fears because let’s not continue saying “the pandemic is over” and go back to normal. It’s still a worrisome time, but less stressful alhamdulillah, and to that end, what ...