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Portrait of a Listener Part 2

Mommying While Muslim - April 25, 2024 22:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 we have of you in our minds when we plan and pray for this podcast. 🎧 W...

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SERIES: We're Baaaack!: Portrait of a Listener Part 1

Mommying While Muslim - April 19, 2024 03:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 about you or not, and why this data matters to the podcasts industry i...

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Replay: Perpetuity of Ramadan's Spiritual Productivity

Mommying While Muslim - April 17, 2024 06:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 broken hearts and rage. But we are still worried about how to make the ess...

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Replay: This Isn't How I'm Supposed to Feel

Mommying While Muslim - April 06, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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. Bringing home a baby doesn’t always mean mom’s eternal happiness. Not ...

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This Isn't How I'm Supposed to Feel

Mommying While Muslim - April 06, 2024 00:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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. Bringing home a baby doesn’t always mean mom’s eternal happiness. Not ...

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Replay: Female Scholars & Safe Spaces

Mommying While Muslim - March 28, 2024 22:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 their kids as part of their mothering.  Mic drop moment 32:36 when Sh...

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Replay: Grief, Growth, and Sanctuary

Mommying While Muslim - March 21, 2024 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 loss and was on the path to overcoming it at the time of this recording. ...

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Replay: Motherhood and Multiple Loss

Mommying While Muslim - March 14, 2024 22:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 and trials from Allah? No, He's promised them to us, and we pray to pa...

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SERIES: Ramadan Hiatus: Unready for Ramadan with Zaiba & Uzma

Mommying While Muslim - March 09, 2024 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 to Ramadan. We were inspired to replay this due a recent post by @drhan...

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Ramadan 2024 Hiatus

Mommying While Muslim - March 01, 2024 00:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 one day would be this exhausting? Jokes aside, we are blessed to do the...

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Spice it Up with Kink & Control

Mommying While Muslim - February 22, 2024 22:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 have all to ourselves, when, in fact, many people suffer silently with the...

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Vulvodynia Diagnosis, Prognosis, & Treatment

Mommying While Muslim - February 15, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
"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 pathologies that affect it. Dr. Sadaf Lodhi OBGYN is on today to provide me...

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Get Bedroom Help with Gynogirl

Mommying While Muslim - February 09, 2024 19:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 mashaAllah. While she dives into vaginismus, she also dispels hymen m...

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SERIES Kink & Control in the Bedroom: Honeymoon Cystitis to Menopausal Dryness

Mommying While Muslim - February 01, 2024 23:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 bedroom life, and in later phases. While she’s better known as @hijabilus...

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Mental Well Being

Mothers Planet - January 28, 2024 18:09 - 52 minutes
Join Neelum and her guest Kamillah as they discuss  ”Mental Well Being” Hear more about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder/Childhood Trauma and how these affect people in different ways.

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Post 10/7 Muslim Narrative Changes

Mommying While Muslim - January 26, 2024 09:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 this time in history). The Golden Globes just happened, so what about nar...

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Replay: Visceral News Reactions

Mommying While Muslim - January 18, 2024 23:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 affected their physical and mental safety. Ask yourself how news cover...

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When Mainstream Coverage isn't Enough

Mommying While Muslim - January 12, 2024 00:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 covering Palestine, her insights into being a Palestinian American are ...

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SERIES Muslim Moms in Media: They Are Not Just Numbers

Mommying While Muslim - January 04, 2024 23:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 talking about tens of thousands of unalived humans. It's critical to share th...

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They Are Not Just Numbers

Mommying While Muslim - January 04, 2024 23:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 talking about tens of thousands of unalived humans. It's critical to share th...

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Benevolence in the Face of Brutality

Mommying While Muslim - December 28, 2023 23:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 remember to pray for her many immediate family members who have been kil...

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Black Palestine

Mommying While Muslim - December 22, 2023 00:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 where they’ll be taken seriously without having to first perform someon...

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Menopause

Mothers Planet - December 20, 2023 17:16 - 52 minutes
Join Neelum and her guest Caroline this morning as they discuss the ”Menopause” Note down tips and coping strategies on how to help yourself, through this stage of your life. Understand how to embrace the challenges and adjust your lifestyle accordingly.

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Dehumanization as Weaponization in Schools

Mommying While Muslim - December 14, 2023 23:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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” Palestinian and other Arab students at a critical juncture in their and ou...

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Work life for women

Mothers Planet - December 08, 2023 13:17 - 52 minutes
Join Neelum and her guest sister Tazeen this morning as they discuss  ”Work life for women” Hear about how the working world has changed for women and how sisterhood plays a crucial part for women.

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SERIES: What's Going on in Palestine: The US Government and Palestine

Mommying While Muslim - December 07, 2023 22:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 have been her day to day convos at work for a couple of decades now, and ...

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Muslim Women Podcasters Kick A$$

Mommying While Muslim - December 01, 2023 03:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 cooking for the future at Mommying While Muslim.  Find out about next m...

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Mindful Muslimah and Not Doing it ALL

Mommying While Muslim - November 23, 2023 22:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
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 businesses and teaching, she has her hands in everything. How DOES she do it a...

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Say STOP to Bullying

Mothers Planet - November 17, 2023 19:19 - 52 minutes
In this edition of Mother's Planet, neelum speaks about the Say STOP to Bullying campaign. In addition to this, she is also joined by Nazmin Shah who speaks to Neelum about a charity initiative being held for women and children in the community. She also speaks about her career change a...

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The Power of Voice and Public Speaking

Mommying While Muslim - November 16, 2023 23:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 89 ratings
Khalila Lister, founder of Power of Voice Academy, comes on today as a TedX speaker and homeschooling mom of 4. Today, she trains people to take the stage or just gain confidence in public speaking. In this time of trial for the ummah and particularly for the people of Gaza, we are seeing more p...