Muslims Doing Things

By Layla Shaikley

Hi! I am Layla Shaikley (@laylool), I co-founded a tech company and I am also visibly Muslim. So, my identity has been front and center throughout my life and career. I have lived a lifetime of reclai... more

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The podcast currently has 82 episodes available.

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January 24, 2021 Tahereh Mafi has published 12 books in 10 years
Author Tahereh Mafi (@tahereh) is an author and a force in the young adult world. Tahereh's first published work, Shatter Me, has been reviewed over 300,000 times on Goodreads. She is no stranger to the New York Times Best Selling Authors list and she is a National Book Award nominee. Recently, Tahereh's fictional novel (peppered with non-fictional anecdotes from her own life) about a hijabi teenager's coming of age was picked up for production on the big screen. Tahereh's newest novel, An Emotion of Great Delight, is set to come out later this year.

Find Tahereh on Instagram or at her website

About me & the pod: Follow the host (@laylool) on Instagram

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52min
January 17, 2021Dr Reshmaan Hussam teaches Harvard Business School students about social justice (and economics)
Dr. Reshmaan Hussam went to MIT for undergrad and grad school to study economics. As a developmental economist, she found herself as Harvard Business School’s first (a pretty confident assumption) hijabi professor. TL;DR -- her goal is to ensure some of the world's future business leaders are well versed in some of the world's greatest injustices. And other stuff. She sits at the intersection of development, behavioral, and health economics.

Listen to Reshma talk about her journey, and how she found herself writing case studies for business school students about Rohingya.

Plugs

Reshma invited listeners to email her directly if you are interested in development or forcibly displaced person space and are looking for direction [email protected]

Or visit her website

About me & the pod:

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41min
January 10, 2021 Dr Sahar Shafi turned college failure into a career as an oral surgeon
Sahar is a periodontist, and she didn't let a bad GPA get in the way of bright career. Listen to Sahar's journey as a student athlete, a surgeon, an influencer -- and how mentorship shaped her life.

Plugs:

Follow Sahar on Instagram

About the host + the pod:

Follow the host (@laylool) on Instagram

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49min
January 10, 2021 Layla Shaikley is...well...me
Y'all have been asking for a solo epi and I locked myself in a room and gabbed about myself. In honor of the pod's 1 month anni and your incredible support, I introduce myself, my career, how I met my co-founders at Wise Systems, and some of my favorite hacks. Some quick mentions: How to start a podcast and a go-to keyboard (Mac or PC) and a go-to mouse.

Shoutout + sponsor from the episode:

Follow MyArabiBox on Instagram or check out their site.

About me & the pod:

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31min
January 03, 2021 Malika Bilal is an Emmy nominated journalist
Malika Bilal is an American broadcast journalist. You may have seen Malika on The Stream, an Al-Jazeera English production which she co-hosted and digitally produced for upwards of a decade before receiving an Emmy nod. Malika is now the host of Al-Jazeera English's podcast, The Take. Learn how Malika carved her path as a hijabi, a Black woman, and a Muslim in broadcast media.

Keep up with Malika:

Follow Malika on Instagram

Follow Malika on Twitter

Follow Malika on Facebook

Subscribe to Malika's podcast, The Take

About the host + the pod:

Follow the host (@laylool) on Instagram

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43min
December 27, 2020Irene Sarah is an Influencer with a capital I
Irene Sarah (@IreneSarah) has turned her lifestyle into a business through representing brands. She has 500,000 Instagram followers and 275,000 YouTube followers, and has been in the social media industry before it was an Industry (capital I). Learn about Irene's journey.

Follow Irene on Instagram

About the host + the pod:

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34min
December 20, 2020Dr Aaliya Yaqub builds healthcare startups
Dr Aaliya Yaqub is a board certified physician, skincare guru, mom, and startup medical co-founder. She is working on her second company, Simple Health Kit, after serving as Forward's medical co-founder. Aaliya has an addictive Instagram, where she shares her favorite products (hint: she does drugstore face wash), articles, life hacks, with motivational monologues sprinkled throughout.

You can find Aaliya on:

Aaliya's Instagram

Aaliya's TikTok

About the host + the pod:

Follow Layla on Instagram

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37min
December 20, 2020 Dr Marzyeh Ghassemi is not your average MIT professor
Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi will soon be part of MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and its Institute for Medical Engineering and Science faculty. And she is quick to call out the lack of representation in the data we collect to build products and services across industries. Including for women, who are not a minority -- but an often ignored majority. Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in Computer Science and Medicine and a Vector Institute faculty member holding a Canadian CIFAR AI Chair and Canada Research Chair, Marzyeh has no shortage of accolades or degrees. She is an Oxford alum, as a Marshall Scholar. She also has 3 kids. About Marzyeh Marzyeh’s plug, Muslims in Machine Learning Marzyeh's other plug, apply to MIT! About the host + the pod: Follow Layla on Instagram Follow Muslims Doing Things on Instagram Fun fact - this is the first episode ever recorded! Pardon my audio quality, I was figuring out the ropes.

About me & the pod:

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37min
December 13, 2020Yuna Zarai is no stranger to the Billboard Hot 100
Yuna Zarai has worked with Pharrell, Usher, G-Eazy, Tyler the Creator. She is a singer, a song writer, a phenomenon -- and she also finished law school.

Episode plugs:

Yuna's Instagram

Yuna's new single, Dance Like Nobody's Watching

Where also to find Yuna

Yuna's Twitch

Yuna's Twitter

About the host + the pod:

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44min
December 13, 2020Isra Chaker is a professional activist -- and you can be one too
Isra Chaker is an activist, a community organizer, and a strong Muslim lead.

Stay connected to Isra:

Isra's Instagram

Connect with Isra on LinkedIn

About the host + the pod:

Follow Layla on Instagram

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48min

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