Mommying While Muslim
Uzma Jafri
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Mommying While Muslim is a one of a kind podcast where American 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. Host Uzma Jafri is mom first, careerwoman second, and global citizen at heart. She meets taboo topics head on because she wasn't allowed to do it growing up, not at home or at school and work. Her aim is to better her immediate household, community, and her momsisterhood the world over by telling the truths sometimes people don't want to face or to hear. Not everyone has these privileges, and she is eager to learn as well as share her own experiences. Always looking to give back, MWM finds women and families who need a mic because no one needs a voice; they just need an opportunity to speak. Besides tough social issues, MWM tackles political ones because when laws affect kids, we'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, MWM recruits 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!
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NOT Netflix Auntie
Mommying While Muslim
03/04/21 • 51 min
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This month’s Love & Marriage series closes out with the expertise of Tawakaltu Busari of Hitched!, a Muslim matchmaking service based in Houston. Not an app-based method, Hitched! provides halal opportunities for singles to meet organically and not in the traditional survey method historically used to match people. There aren’t speed dates or elaborate networks to figure out who can plan forever together at Hitched!. Instead, the company focuses on spiritual matchmaking as more important than the pedigrees that traditional matchmakers used to determine compatibility. This is NOT how Sima Auntie works on Netlfix! A Muslim company specializing in how couples need to operate with a goal of success in Islam as much as success in this world is the one we want to talk about, and talk to.
With rising divorce rates in the Muslim community, this is important for parents, young adults, new adults, single women, newly single women, and those men who listen to us on the DL. We know ya’ll are out there!
Links:
1. Find more information on Muslim matchmaking online: www.hitchedsoon.com
2. Purchase your own set of Fair Play cards (we don’t have anything to gain from it): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647409/the-fair-play-deck-by-eve-rodsky/?aid=9490&linkid=PRHA7471D3EF7&pdivflag&ref=PRHA7471D3EF7
3. Charter school in AZ charged with fraud: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox10phoenix.com/news/goodyear-charter-school-co-founders-accused-of-fraud-theft1.amp
4. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
5. Email: [email protected]
6. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
7. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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How to Write & Publish a Book
Mommying While Muslim
01/28/21 • 45 min
We continue talking about hard things, including writing and publishing on today's episode. There's a HUGE writers’ community on IG! AND there a lot of Muslimah writers out there with terrific stories and projects. How do they do it? Najiyah Maxfield of Daybreak Press is here to give us the scoop!
Links:
- Submit your momstory for our anthology: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dxCQGrErKj91RYu2Vd2WIu1ki_7mzYh68hxxOk1HsUA/edit?usp=sharing
- Shop Daybreak Press’ online bookstore: https://daybreak-international-bookstore.myshopify.com/
- Daybreak Press Book Award book nominations: https://www.rabata.org/daybreakpress/daybreak-awards/
- Submit a proposal for the fall 2021 Muslim Women’s Literary Conference: https://www.rabata.org/daybreakpress/literary-conference/
- Learn more about Rabata: https://www.rabata.org/
- Find Anse Najiyah on Twitter: @najiyah
- Find Anse Najiyah on IG: @clickedmyrubyslippers
- Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
- Email: [email protected]
- FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
- IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed!
1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com2. Email: [email protected]3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w
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Spiritual Sustenance with Secrets of Divine Love
Mommying While Muslim
09/10/20 • 27 min
The author of the incredibly popular and much loved book Secrets of Divine Love, A. Helwa, joins us today to talk about her book and what it brings to our souls during these turbulent times. Her popular blog @quranquotesdaily inspires and reminds us of Allah SWT daily as we scroll through fashion and makeup on IG. Secrets of Divine Love is a motivational and inspiring guide to help experience the Qur’an and the Islamic tradition from a place of love, passion, and joy.
She explains the anonymity of her persona, as well as the importance of authentic connection with each other. She also candidly reminds us that Allah is in control during a time when we all live under delusions of control. More pearls are in this episode than we document here, so take a listen and get the book!
Note: ‘namaz’ is Islamic ritual prayer in the Urdu language; the traditional word for ritual prayer is ‘salah’ in the Arabic language.
Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA
- Purchase Secrets of Divine Love: www.secretsofdivinelove.com
- Find inspiration: @quranquotesdaily
- Find the Jeem Journal: https://jeem.life/
- Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
- Email: [email protected]
- FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
- IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
- Purchase Jeem journal (journaling) https://jeem.life/
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Childhood Anxiety
Mommying While Muslim
12/10/20 • 49 min
Dr. Rukhsana Chaudhry comes on today to kick off our mental health series and gives us SO MUCH insight into our anxieties and how to deal with our kids’. Let’s face it: this pandemic has kicked our collective butts and we’ve seen changes in our kids and in ourselves we haven’t handled well all the time. We can do better by learning better, and when we do that, we MOM better.
Learning to sit with discomfort to teach our kids how to do the same can hit childhood anxiety head-on. Dr. Chaudhry addresses teen needs as well, sharing current research on pandemic-induced social isolation as potentially more hazardous in teens. Filtering information to quell teen anxiety and learning to recognize the signs of mental discomfort and illness in our kids will be key, and the resources she shares with us are amazing. Most importantly, continuing to work against the stigma of mental illness in some Muslim communities is going to be key, so HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS, ya’ll!
Don’t forget to click on the links in the show notes to recognize the signs, be mental health first aid proficient, and learn the lingo of mental health. Tune in to the rest of our episodes on mental health dropping this month, every Thursday at 6 pm EST on Alexa, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts!
Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA
- Recognize the signs! Mental Health First Aid virtual training via the American Muslim Health Professional Association: https://amhp.us/virtualmhfa/
- Learn the lingo! Reducing mental health stigma with National Alliance on Mental Illness: https://www.nami.org/Home
- UCLA Childhood Anxiety Center: https://carescenter.ucla.edu/
- Wellness Toolkit in the Time of Coronavirus from The FYI.org: https://www.thefyi.org/toolkits/coronavirus/
- Muslim American mental health issues with Muslim Wellness Foundation: https://www.muslimwellness.com/aboutmwf
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: https://afsp.org/
- CDC Coronavirus schedule: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6949e1.htm
- Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
- Email: [email protected]
- FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
- IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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*BONUS EPISODE* Dads on Identity Development
Mommying While Muslim
07/06/20 • 34 min
Zaiba and Uzma’s dads join them on this bonus episode for Father’s Day talking about their immigrant experiences and how they contributed to their daughters’ Muslim identities in America.
It’s a rare to have male voice on the podcast, but as moms themselves, the cohosts know how important fathers are in their children’s lives. These dads are friends in real life, developed generational relationships and resilience, and pray that their Muslim American grandchildren inherit and practice the truest version of Islam as they create their own culture.
Hear about immigrant “speed dating” experiences, the sage advice of fathers now passed, new daddyhood, and the ultimate raising of kids without a manual of any kid.
Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA
- Gateway to India is still open in Illinois! Zaiba and Uzma do not have any financial interest in this restaurant, just in its history: https://www.gatewaytoindia04.com/#restaurant-information
- Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
- Email: [email protected]
- FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
- IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed!
1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com2. Email: [email protected]3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w
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Sacred Sex and Motherhood
Mommying While Muslim
02/27/20 • 33 min
Do we hang up our womanhood, our God given sensual selves, once we have kids? And if we do, WHY?
The Village Auntie spills it all, as she does best, to help us reclaim our feminine histories in order to be better mothers. Part of that reclamation includes restoring the fundamentals about what Islam teaches regarding feminine sexuality, and how critics are quick to forget or minimize those religious truths in order to feed cultural taboos and shame culture.
Find out about her journey, her book, and hear how she exudes all things sensual, sensitive, and safe.
Links:https://youtu.be/NrB8Iamo0OA
- The Village Auntie on IG---Seriously, check out the videos to learn SO MUCH!: @villageauntie, also where you can click on the bio to buy Passage: A 31 Day Guided Journey with The Village Auntie
- The Village Auntie to schedule a workshop: [email protected]
- The Village Auntie monthly series Lights On at the Amaliah podcast: https://www.amaliah.com/post/56963/brand-new-sex-series-on-the-amaliah-podcast-angelica-lindsey-ali-village-aunty
- Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
- Email: [email protected]
- FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
- IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
Did you know you can send us a text? Feedback, questions, or recommendations welcomed!
1. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com2. Email: [email protected]3. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
4. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
5. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrrdKxpBdBO4ZLwB1kTmz1w
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The Road to Jannah
Mommying While Muslim
01/07/21 • 80 min
Trigger alert: child loss
Abeeha Hassan joins us today to discuss the very recent stillbirth of her newborn. She talks to us about how she grieved her daughter and talks about normalizing it contrary to what most Muslim cultures permit in society. Her process of closure may seem familiar to someone else who has gone this journey alone and we are so touched that Abeeha chose to share her story with us. We pray a momsister finds comfort in knowing there’s someone sharing her story of loss and is available to talk about it.
This month's series is about how to do hard things, and in our opinion, burying our own children is the hardest. Abeeha is a model of sabr, taqwa, as well as normalizing our emotions. She helps us understand that saying Jannah’s name is normal. We always seek to better support our moms in all their situations, and the education she provides on how to do that is invaluable. Grab a Kleenex, but there are moments where we find gratitude and laugh through the tears.
Note:
1) Miscarriage-pregnancy loss before 20 weeks
1) Stillbirth-pregnancy loss after 20 weeks (intrauterine fetal demise)
2) Neonatal death-death within the first 28 days of life
Links:
- Discrimination vs. hijab in Kansas City, MO: https://apnews.com/article/73d2c6104c891672e4d9cad88290a8f6
- Find Abeeha on IG: @mamaofalittleangel
- Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
- Email: [email protected]
- FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
- IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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Election 2020: The Stages of Grief Part I-Denial
Mommying While Muslim
11/12/20 • 42 min
Zaiba & Uzma discuss election results which, at the time of this recording, was not yet called, but was highly suggestive of results they did not expect. Why don’t they have cause to celebrate regardless of who is elected this year?
This is a darker episode, with some sad reflections about what the turnout means in terms of the moral compass of America and who our real allies are. Conscience does not have to be consistent with only a political ideology, rather requires us to think, act, and vote along economic and social plans as well, especially those of us who are Muslim Americans. A close election isn’t just a close call, but a larger revelation about the limitations of white liberalism/privilege, a two party system, and political rhetoric in this nation.
Now that we know who the President of the United States is, this is a great reflection of where so many of us were one week ago. This month will be a Kubler Ross stages of grief series reflecting on this election and what it means about our society. When we know better, we vote better, we do better.
Links:
- Website: https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/
- Facebook: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
- IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
- Twitter: @MWMpodcasting
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I Didn't Bring Home My Newborn Part II
Mommying While Muslim
03/11/21 • 60 min
If you haven’t scheduled to listen in on our Firewalker series this month, you’ll want to. These moms aren’t just walking over hot coals--they’re doing it through billowing blazes while taking names and kicking butt.
Whether you're ready for it or not, Shazia Imam, host of the Feminine & Fulfilled podcast joins us to drop truths about what it looks like when NOTHING works out. She's faced the worst of what we daily pray for protection against. How she overcame everything is a story to hear, and now it informs her important work for women! Her declarations to Allah SWT are aspirational and affirming so listen in to learn them.
Cool fact: This episode was recorded live on Facebook and YouTube but ran unrecorded for the first time on Clubhouse with live QA afterward! Super fun.
Links:
1. Biden on School Reopening: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/biden-schools-reopen/2021/02/11/3a63e3ee-6b2d-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html
2. Get the 100 Dreams template: https://www.thelifeengineer.com/dreams.html#ck_modal
3. Find Shazia on IG: @thelifeengineer
4. Find Shazia on the web: https://www.thelifeengineer.com/
5. Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
6. Email: [email protected]
7. FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
8. IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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100th Episode Special
Mommying While Muslim
01/14/21 • 60 min
"Would you be willing to come on a podcast and talk about that?" Zaiba asked Uzma almost 3 years ago about racial profiling of Muslim Americans by TSA.
"Sure. What do I have to do?" Uzma had no idea what a podcast was, or that she could find them right on her smartphone!
Find out our how-to's on getting started, podcasting (while staying friends), and how-to party on this with our giveaway we did live for our audience. This is our 100th episode alhamdulillah.
Links:
- Web: www.mommyingwhilemuslim.com
- Email: [email protected]
- FB: Mommying While Muslim page and Mommyingwhilemuslim group
- IG: @mommyingwhilemuslimpodcast
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How many episodes does Mommying While Muslim have?
Mommying While Muslim currently has 342 episodes available.
What topics does Mommying While Muslim cover?
The podcast is about Mom, Islam, Parenting, Dad, Parent, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Muslim and Mommy.
What is the most popular episode on Mommying While Muslim?
The episode title 'NOT Netflix Auntie' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Mommying While Muslim?
The average episode length on Mommying While Muslim is 44 minutes.
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Episodes of Mommying While Muslim are typically released every 7 days.
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The first episode of Mommying While Muslim was released on Mar 21, 2019.
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