Season 6

May 22, 2025

SERIES: My Favorite Sahabiya: Lessons from the Life of Khadija (RA)

We kick off our Series: My Favorite Sahabiya based on audience feedback from our survey last summer. Watch out for double headers as I continue to catch up on production. Dive right on in with an easy listen on Khadija bint K...
March 8, 2025

Updates on Porn in the Muslim Community

📢 Pornography is a silent but pervasive issue in American Muslim communities.. We’re breaking that silence with Alaa Shareef of The Family and You Institute. She brings data-driven insights on who’s watching, why consumption ...
Feb. 28, 2025

Healthy Muslim Marriages

Are we talking about sexuality and intimacy the right way? How we navigate these subjects can make or break our relationships; with our partners, and later on, with our kids if we don't learn how to be sex positive. Too often...
Feb. 21, 2025

The Gender Health Gap Effect on Muslimahs

Dr. Sadaf Lodhi OBGYN is back on the podcast this year to discuss the gender health gap and how it creates even more barriers for women, especially in marginalized communities of Muslim American women: from the Black communit...
Feb. 14, 2025

Yasmin Auntie on "Muslim Matchmaking" Now on Hulu

We sat down with the hilarious and insightful Yasmin Elhady to talk about her new show, Muslim Matchmaker , co-starring Hoda Abrahim, and now streaming on Hulu. Yasmin brings her expertise and humor to the matchmaking world, ...
Feb. 6, 2025

SERIES: Sex Positive Muslim Family: Hot Takes on "Halal Dating"

Y'all know what FEBRUARY means on this podcast: love, sex, and all the stuff we would never discuss in public, but feel safe listening to on a podcast. Whether you listen in private or with a partner, I'm so glad you're here ...
Feb. 5, 2025

A New Kind of Agency: Wishah World Travel

BONUS EPISODE: @wishahworldtravel sent us their very own Briana Lodick, founder and mastermind of a new way to help people travel. With her background in travel and sincere passion for hitting the road, she explains how we ca...
Jan. 31, 2025

Retreat & Relax, Travel the Globe w/Moxie Living

🎧In this episode, we dive into the transformative power of travel for women, featuring a conversation with 2/3 of the Moxie Living team, Dr. Fareen Malik and Bisma Anwar. We discuss how a passion for travel turned into a move...
Jan. 23, 2025

Affordable Umrah Travel for Families

Our guest today, Amena Bakali of @hassansonholiday, is an award-winning travel educator, consultant, and travel blogger. Hear her expert tips on how to plan your next 'Umrah to get spiritually uplifted without going financial...
Jan. 16, 2025

Un-Interested Credit Cards for Travel Savvy

Are you ready to level up your family travel game? In this episode, Dr. Samya Muhammad, mom doc and travel agent, spills the free pretzels on how to turn everyday spending into extraordinary family vacations. Her practical ti...
Jan. 10, 2025

What I Learned About Travel 2024

What Uzma did in 2024 the many times she stepped out on recordings or published late because of jet lag is on this episode. Using real examples from her own journeys last year in the USA, to a whirlwind trip to Europe and a d...
Dec. 19, 2024

Tying the Knot in Faith

Brought to us by Living Our Beliefs podcast, our gracious hosts Meli Solomon melisolomon55 decided to bring together an interfaith discussion on marriage....not the successful ones or bad ones, but the ceremony itself. We wer...
Dec. 17, 2024

Witchy Quakers & Religious Magic

@sarajolena joins us on this episode to discuss religion, epistomology (meaning), colonization of earth and people, and magic, so hold onto your hijabs. We BARELY talked about HP on this episode, and instead focused on what a...
Nov. 22, 2024

The Gospel of Inclusion Part 2

⛪🕌✝🌙☪Thanks for coming back for PART TWO of this special episode with @3blackmenpod and @halfwaytherepodcast. This week, we continue to hear what a gospel of inclusion looks like by people who look and pray differently, but b...
Nov. 14, 2024

SERIES Interfaith Parenting in an Increasingly Secular World: The Gospel of Inclusion

⛪🕌✝🌙☪In this special TWO PART episode, @3blackmenpod and @halfwaytherepodcast help us dive into an essential conversation: fathering and parenting in a faith-centered world to create safe spaces for all children to embrace a ...
Oct. 24, 2024

Modern Muslim Parenting & Mental Health

"💡 New Episode Alert! 💡 This week on *Mommying While Muslim*, we’re diving deep into the challenges of *Modern Muslim Parenting & Mental Health* with the incredible Dr. Saira Pasha, AKA @drmindyourwellness. 🌱✨ As Muslim Ameri...
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...