🥳🥳🥳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

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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/

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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

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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.

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1. Olive Community Services on the Web: https://www.olivecs.org/
2. Olive Community Services on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/olivecommunityservices
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🎙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!

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1. Contact Jessica on IG: @jessicaelgamil

2. What is mutual aid? 

3. NPR on giving and generating wealth by giving

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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.

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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!

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1. Find out about AMCF

2. Join the AMWGC now 

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🌏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.

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2. WWSC on IG:

3. MOAB 2017 evidence

4. More MOAB evidence

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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.

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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

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📢 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.

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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

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