Mommying While Muslim
Mommying While Muslim is a one of a kind podcast where two American born and bred Muslim moms share their experiences to raise second generation kids. Having experienced both pre and post 9/11 America, they're acutely aware of the unique challenges their families face on top of the regular messes that all moms share. Mommying While Muslim is a space to take back their stories, and tell those no one will air on the news or portray fully or fairly in the media. Zaiba Hasan and Uzma Jafri are moms first, careerwomen second, and global citizens at heart. They meet taboo topics head on because they weren't allowed to do it growing up, not at home or at school and work. They aim to better their immediate households, communities, and their momsisterhood the world over by telling the truths sometimes people don't want to face or to hear. Not everyone has the privileges they have and they are eager to learn, more than they are to share their own experiences. Always looking to give back, they find women and families who need a mic because no one needs a voice; they just need an opportunity to speak. Besides tough social issues, they also tackle political ones because when laws affect their kids, they're coming for them as well as the ones who make them! There's no lane that doesn't get taken here. Along the way, they recruit momallies for Muslim Americans who have been inordinately targeted for the last 20 years. True moms know that ALL our children deserve to be safe, loved, and happy, and we bust every yellow brick on the Islamaphobic road to make sure they all are. If you like good trouble, this one's for you!
Episodes
301 episodes
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 navigating some challengin...
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Season 6
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Episode 27
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49:05
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, but it IS the text ...
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Season 6
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Episode 26
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47:22
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 moment we always knew wo...
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Season 6
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Episode 25
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43:52
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 they navigate th...
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Season 6
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Episode 24
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41:22
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 postpartum me...
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Season 6
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Episode 23
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37:12
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 Jannah (heaven), but so...
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Season 6
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Episode 22
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45:11
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 of division and chan...
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Season 6
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Episode 21
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32:28
Replay: Physical & Sexual Trauma and Leadership Accountability
TRIGGER WARNING:This is one of our favorite episodes because it's no one is above spiritual abuse, and everyone is vulnerable to falling victim to it. We need to have a means to bring leaders to account in this life so we can pro...
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Season 6
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Episode 20
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37:20
Replay: Childhood Sexual Abuse with Buddy Speaks
Trigger warning! This episode is NOT meant to be heard by children unless our mom audience feels they're ready for it. If you're a survivor of any sexual trauma, as a child or as an adult, you may not be ready for it either, so gauge yo...
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Season 6
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Episode 19
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43:44
Replay: Invisible Mom
Anyone ever feel self pity as you pick up in the kitchen at the end of the night, get laundry started or finished in the dark, put toys back where they belong, or end up refilling the tank at the most inopportune time because no one else did it...
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34:26
Replay: 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 kids listen in, but i...
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Season 6
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Episode 17
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51:22
Softly Leaning into Toughness
In this episode, Zaiba discusses the concept of embracing challenges to develop many strengths, including the elusive growth mindset. It’s not just for kids, folks!Takeaways includeLeaning into toughness to build resilience.<...
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Season 6
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Episode 16
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20:24
Beat the Heat When Tempers Rise
Remember COVID cabin fever? And now it’s the middle of summer with all the kids home and some of us with hot flashes to boot. It’s a recipe for an explosion of tempers, so how do we manage ours?This is a great episode for those of us str...
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Season 6
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Episode 15
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37:12
Crazy New Summer Hobbies
Summers are long and hot, and thanks to global warming, even longer and hotter. But while we’re cooped up indoors waiting for the world to come to its flaming end, we don’t have to be bored. Remember that as our kids grow up, so do we, and we c...
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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30:41
SERIES: Chit Chats: Out of the Nest..Is It the Best?
Shownotes:This month’s Chit Chat Series addresses relevant mommying issues starting with the transitions we experience as adult children move out for college. Or go away for summer camp. Grief is real.So is the mental work WE have...
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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38:49
The Pros & Challenges of Being a Child of Immigrants
Tune in for this recap of our June series "Children of Immigrants!" We review episodes recorded this months, as well as lessons learned from them, but the meat of the talk is the good and bad things we inherit and how we use them to do better w...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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41:40
Creating the Lives We Want
Our guest this week is, Marena Riyad, comedienne, creative, crafter, community builder, and crash courser in life. We got some learning today! From kidnapping to "it takes a village" to "be A LOT uncomfortable" to get where we want to go in lif...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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40:30
From Barbados to Becoming: Building a Legacy for Change
We are celebrating Shellie McKinney of @momnetworkusa today, a first generation Muslim American and dedicated community organizer, who channels the resilience and spirit of her immigrant mother from Barbados. Growing up, Shellie learned from he...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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34:12
SERIES Children of Immigrants: From Iraq to Independence
There's so much Zeena on the podcast, and you'll find out why next week!@zeena_altalib joins us for the first of our Children of Immigrants series this month, recounting her family's move to the US from Iraq, her experience of it as a t...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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40:13
Recap Tribute to Moms of Gaza
We recap this month's moving episodes that acknowledge the incredible burden of motherhood during genocide. Insha'Allah, that weight will be relieved from the shoulders and hearts of the Palestinian people, ameen. 🍉🍉If you've missed the...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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28:38
Mom Made in Palestine
Today’s guest, Morgan Cooper @mashjar_juthour, has lived and breathed Palestine for over two decades and is online telling Americans what her experiences have been as a Christian human in the land. She’s witnessed the DAILY government apartheid...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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1:10:17
Gazan Mom Experiences
Fidaa Elaydi joins us today to share her personal experiences of Al Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza. A grandchild and child of Palestinian refugees to Gaza 76 years ago, she is four generations into a history of colonization and displacement, and ...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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33:40
SERIES: A Tribute to Gazan Moms: Gazan Moms of the Diaspora
Did you know that much of the Palestinian diaspora is forbidden by Israel to return to Palestine, despite Article 13(2) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which requires nations to ensure the safe return of refugees to their homeland...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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38:50
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 student ca...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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40:49
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 we have of you in ou...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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37:44