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🥳🥳🥳Happy New Year! 2025 was hard for me. I'm so grateful for a new year, new slate and I pray yours is even better than I pray for you all. There's a short "episode" today. Big kudos to @faizifortexas running for Texas Comptroller. Do BIG things, y'all, even if you have to do them scared. 🙌🏾🙌🏾 ⚠⚠ BUT a warning to those in the DMV: Swipe left to witness those closest to Allah, who can't communicate with words. And then listen to what I reported about @rnacoordinates behavior and their refusal to make reasonable, long lasting reparations via @muhsen.  Send them a message and find other planners who don't just do their jobs, they care about and practice DEI. Our faith requires that we be DEI, and of course, the West has colonized the term for our way of life. We are all accountable to Allah, especially when we wrong the most vulnerable among us.  No, I don't call out women, but I have zero tolerance for those who reject sincere naseeha (advice) and dig deeper into their ignorance. As always, send me your sincere naseeha and feedback. Tune in now and next week. 🎧 #doitscared #inclusivity #dei #autismspeaks #savant Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack. Not the end of a horror film, but the end of a troubling journey of work, life and love lost with a happy ending. Don't be scared. I owe you the completion of the Sahabiya Series, so here's this week's episode on Sawdah bint Zam’a (RA), the second wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. While it's hard to find English language information on her, it is possible alhamdulillah thanks to shayookh out there interpreting those texts for us.  Tune in to hear the 6 lessons I learned from what I found, and how they help me mother and live right now. For Muslimahs today who are navigating faith, family, and societal expectations, this is a good listen! Links: 1. Mothers of the Believers Pt. 6: https://youtu.be/OcPOZd1edec?si=k0SfYDEttKzAowV7 2. Lady Sawdah Bint Zama'a: https://furqaan.org/lady-sawdah-bint-zamah-the-steadfast-wife-of-the-prophet-saw/ 3. Sawdah bint Zama'a: https://riwaya.co.uk/riwaya-blog/sawdah-bint-zamah-ra/ Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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 Khuwaylid with some important life lessons on being a supportive spouse, as well as an exemplar of faith to our children and communities. May Allah SWT be pleased with her, forgive us our shortcomings, and make it easy for us to walk in her footsteps. Ameen. Let us know if you learned something new after listening, which you can do on Saturdays on our Facebook group, or right on our website under "Podcast." Share this episode with a mom who doesn't estimate her work as she should, or "I'm just a mom's" herself frequently. Tune in for more Sahabiya episodes providing us with Muslim mothering/nurturing models coming up. #ummalmumineen #khadija #aisha #muslimrolemodels #muslimwomen #muslimhistory Links: Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

STILL catching up on nonprofit features, and for those of you looking to burn through your donation allotment to zakat and sadaqa this year, may Allah SWT make your scales heavy in the Hereafter and your wallets fat in this world. It's completely on me that you didn't get this episode in time for the end of Ramadan, but don't let my shortcomings hamper your generosity towards those organizations providing invaluable services due to our parents' generations. Zainab Hussaini is the fairy godmother of Olivers in #orangecounty, but she identifies as Program Manager @olivecommunityservices. She's on today to focus on the success and schedule of Olive in SoCal and I pick her brain to find out how we can bring some of that khair into our own communities.  Tune in now and share this episode with your imams, masjid social boards and golden population today. Ask for a khutbah on serving our best generations and put some money behind the initiatives. One day, we will ALL need them. Links: Olive Community Services on the Web: https://www.olivecs.org/Olive Community Services on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/olivecommunityservicesFB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim groupIG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastYouTubeDid you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

🎙Just dropped a powerful episode with @jessicaelgamil who spent 6 months on the ground in Egypt, where she supported mutual aid efforts for Palestinians and Sudanese people. This was recorded months ago in an effort to put it in series, but I am so behind schedule now and couldn't wait longer for it to go out. I know I've been gone for upwards of 6 weeks, and you can find out why by tuning in. Prayers welcome for my mother's speedy recovery and cure! 📿 🎧Hear about the differences in status and why they matter in resource distribution, and the intentions and barriers displaced people face as a result. Find out what both exploitation and generosity look like in local Egypt, and how mutual aid networks can do their work by avoiding red tape 🔴and just GETTING IT DONE. Jessica shares lessons from the frontlines and what it takes to make mutual aid sustainable and rooted in care, not charity. This convo is a must-listen for anyone trying to do more than repost.  Tune in at 6pm EST and share this episode with a friend who wants TO DO something to subvert genocide and displacement, and contact Jessica today! Links: 1. Contact Jessica on IG: @jessicaelgamil 2. What is mutual aid?  3. NPR on giving and generating wealth by giving Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

You bet we're going crazy featuring nonprofits this month on our Series: Organizations That Increase Khair! We've got extra episode drops and double headers coming your way this Ramadan 2025 so you know where you can send a few extra dollars to multiply khair (goodness) in this world and in the next. Dr. Madiha Tahseen of @thefyi_org shares the latest research that The Family & Youth Institute is doing, and the help it needs to develop resources to help us mommy better. Of all the helpers we love to help at home in America, it's The FYI because it's data based, relevant, practical, and at our fingertips. This podcast is trying to help The FYI reach its fundraising goals in Ramadan, so  take a listen to the episode to hear cutting edge findings on Muslim youth and families. Then head to the link in the bio to donate $1, $5 or $10 with 1000 of your friends who also listen to this podcast weekly, and help our favorite helpers. Tune in now and share this episode with 10 friends who want their scales heavy on the DOJ, starting this Ramadan insha'Allah. Make the best of your greatest nights tonight. Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

Lisa Kahler, new manager at the American Muslim Community Foundation, tells us all about the amazing changes and resources now brought to us by the American Muslim Women's Giving Circle. This national strategic donation product brings us together to empower women working for women in our communities. Take another tutorial on donor advised funds, endowments, and giving circles, adding to the knowledge you gained about them several years ago on this podcast, and get inspired to make great change with great intention. Deep pockets aren't needed and yes, even $1 can change someone's world. May it change our akhirah into the very best one. Tune in at 6pm EST and send this episode to a girlfriend, ally, sister, men supporting women, all who want to know how to make their donation dollars pack bigger punches. Give smarter for longer after you hear this one! Links: 1. Find out about AMCF 2. Join the AMWGC now  Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

🌏Dr. Meena Said discusses the work of her nonprofit, Wellness Worldwide, this week. It provides international tertiary care coordination for terminally ill Afghan children, forgotten by the world along with their nation. "Coordinate" because these kids cannot be treated IN Afghanistan as there is no pediatric cancer center there. Find out why on this episode. ⚕️Not only does @wellnessworldwide_ serve dying children, but its field clinic serves a population of 35,000 internally displaced Afghans, mostly women and children, with primary care and surgical follow up, labs and medication. It is also a referral source for the terminally ill children they help coordinate care for.  ❤️If you have zakat or sadaqa allocated to Gaza, as you should, please also consider the nonprofits, orgs, and people coming on the podcast this month on our series who work quietly in service of Allah's most ignored creation and causes. This Ramadan may be one of our tightest yet, but if it doesn't hurt to give, we haven't given enough. It's the least we can do as we sit in the comforts of the West that we still have. 🎧Tune in at 6pm to learn more and share this episode with someone who can help Meena meet her short and longterm goals for her kids, and to donate to Wellness Worldwide for Sustainable Communities. Links: 1. Find Wellness Worldwide for Sustainable Communities on the web 2. WWSC on IG: 3. MOAB 2017 evidence 4. More MOAB evidence Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

Our Series this month is "Organizations That Increase Khair," and we kick it off with Sana Imad of Elevate Adolescence. She's written a curriculum for a character education program designed to help tweens and teens build confidence and reach maturity in a developmentally appropriate way, both spiritually and psychologically. Rooted in Islamic principles and the sage example of Imam Ghazali, the program integrates timeless values like integrity, compassion, and self-discipline into practical life skills.   Through @girlsrisingstrong and @boys.breakingthru, parents and children can achieve deep understanding and connection. One of my favorite pearls from this episode had to be, "It isn't easy, but it gets easiER."  Practice makes perfect, y'all, but we have to be willing to take the first step. Learn more about these programs and how you can bring them to your kitchen tables. Tune in at 6pm EST and share this episode with another mom and maybe with a masjid board member who may find it easier to establish a youth group with a curriculum and support systems ready to go. Links: 1. Elevate Adolescence on the web 2. Find Elevate Adolescence on IG: @girlsrisingstrong & @boys.breakingthru 3. Girls Rising Strong  4. Imam Ghazali on upbringing of children Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

📢 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 happens, who's at risk, and what we can do about it—because ignoring it isn’t an option. 📊 Who is consuming porn in our communities, and what does that mean for our relationships and faith?  ⚠️ Who’s at risk? It’s not just who you think.  🛑 How can families, parents, and partners approach this conversation with love, faith, and practical solutions? We’re here to talk about real, shame-free solutions for prevention, intervention, and healing. If you’ve ever wondered how to protect your children, support a loved one, or unlearn toxic cultural taboos around this issue, this episode is for you. Key pearl from Alaa on this episode is "compassion not condemnation." 🎧 Tune in now and join the conversation—because the first step to solving a problem is talking about it. Then share this episode with a loved one who may be experiencing porn in some capacity that's harming their imaan, someone who may not know how to get help otherwise. Links: 1. The Family & Youth Institute 2. Our last episode on porn with TheFYI 3. Pornography in the Muslim Community 4. Premarital Sex & Muslim Youth 5. Donate to TheFYI Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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, these discussions are academic or purely rule-based, leaving little room for emotional depth, vulnerable connection, and the nuanced challenges couples actually face. In this episode, @coachmeganwyatt helps us explore emotionally intelligent thoughts and conversations about sexuality and intimacy. Her approach certainly sheds more light on how we understand marital duties versus rights, and how we spiritually connect with our partners. We also unpack some common marital challenges that cross her professional desk, from mismatched expectations to unspoken needs, and discuss where couples—and even community leaders—go wrong in addressing these issues. This is a conversation you don’t want to miss. Tune in now, and let’s start asking the right questions to have uncomfortable conversations. 🎙️💬 Links: Find Megan online One Meaningful LifeListen to Megan's podcast Wives of JannahFollow Megan on IG: @coachmeganwyattDid you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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 community to asylees, immigrants, and refugees. Sick women don’t have the luxury of having sex positivity in their homes when their basic needs won’t be met, and are in fact sabotaged by the state. We talk about trauma, cell memory, cultural competency, and funding cuts that directly impact how we fare in the American pseudo-healthcare maze that’s hard to navigate when we DO speak English. No visit with Dr. Sadaf Lodhi is complete without talking about mindset on the path to unlearning guilt and shame, and embracing sex positivity. There’s also lots of good news on the horizon with Dr. Lodhi and we hope you catch it towards the end of this episode. Share it with a friend and let us know how you’re working on building your sex positive home. Links: 1. Find Dr. Sadaf Lodhi OBGYN on IG 2. Find Dr. Sadaf Lodhi on the web 3. Resources Dr. Lodhi recommends for sex positivity, education & advocacy     a. HEART      b. Gynogirl     c. Desidoc.md     d. Dr. Habeeb Akande     e. Brown Girl Healthcare     f. The Black OBGYN Project  Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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, helping Muslims navigate the often-complicated journey of love and relationships. We discuss why this show is more than just entertainment—it's a celebration of the Muslim diaspora and of love as the last magic humanity has left. Yasmin shares why everyone, regardless of background, deserves to find love and how intentional matchmaking (with a modern twist) is helping people build meaningful connections. If you’re curious about modern love, matchmaking, or just want to hear Yasmin’s signature wit and wisdom, this episode is for you. Plus, we explore why shows like this matter in changing mainstream narratives about Muslims and relationships. Check out our show notes on ways to get Hulu to stream NOW. Links: 1. Student discounts-if you have T Mobile, there is a student discount for you! Check out your cell phone app. 2. Verizon-certain Verizon plans offer Hulu for free as a perk. Check your app! 3. Get a FREE trial with Hulu-Sign up and choose the basic package for $18.99. You have one month to cancel without being charged. You WILL have to enter your credit card information, but set your calendar and cancel before the charge hits. Free Hulu! BOOM. Welcome to the Brown Side. 4. Watch Muslim Matchmaker on Hulu Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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 for it. This month's series is "Sex Positive Muslim Family," and I'll go blue in the face asking us to create one. Never been on a halal date? Turns out, most of us have, whether we were old school or modern arranged, met through friends, or online. It's not the oxymoron it first sounded like to an old fogey like me. I challenge listeners to expand our vocabulary and thoughts, but I share all of your "haram reservations."  Let's get uncomfortable together. Mariam Afzal helps redefine "dating" for Generations X and Alpha, bringing home the message that all of it can look and be halal if we, as parents, create safe spaces for our kids. That means holding honest conversations, setting boundaries, and maybe chilling out and remembering that we are not to raise our children as we were raised. Biding the advice of Ali (RA), our children are for a different world, as we were for ours. So let's see how we can navigate this precarious future and keep it halal. Dating, rebellion, parenting genders, birth order, too....we avoided deep dives to stay on track, but I'm sure there will be a couple of new series coming just out of this one episode. Share the link with a friend, and post your craziest halal dating story in the comments. Links: Halal Dating by Salams AppMuslim Youth & Premarital SexHalf Our DeenWatch Muslim Matchmaker on HuluDid you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w

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 can do it well and on the cheap alone, or with kids. And if you’ve ever gasped at travel agency price tags, this one will be a breath of fresh air, especially if planning makes you want to put off vacation AGAIN. No need to put it off, or be put off! Check them out! Share this episode with your travelistas and start planning your next trip! Links: Wishah World TravelWishah World Travel in InstagramFor a free online course on discount travel points (They don't pay us either!)Podcasts for travel points         a. https://pointmetofirstclass.com/podcast (Neither does she.)          b. https://10xtravel.com/podcast/          c. https://frequentmiler.com/frequent-miler-on-the-air/ (Neither do they.) Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed! Support the show 1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com 2. Email: [email protected] 3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group 4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast 5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w