Salam, Girl!

We celebrated our 1 year anniversary at the adorable Pink Coffee venue with popular Muslim women's social group, Chai Talks.  We invited a few of the members to join us in talking about how we stay focused on living the straight life, during today's busy world. Happy Anniversary to all of you, our Salam Girls! 

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Happy 1 year anniversary Salam Girl family! We are so excited to celebrate the whole month of November with you! Today's episode features a montage of some of our favorite and most memorable moments our first year of podcasting. Make sure to check our Instagram weekly for our giveaways and special promo discounts!

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Nilly Naseer-Farooqui is a TEDX Speaker and the face behind the platform @wordsbehindasmile . She is a professional speaker and corporate trainer and on today's show we discuss the struggles and challenges that sometimes we face, in our prayer. 

Nilly walks us through addressing the source of the struggles, how to increase our intentions, and how to overcome the fear of missing out for those who are not native Arab speakers. 

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We absolutely love doing "Salam Talk" because we get to hear directly from you and give your personalized, tangible advice for the struggles and challenges you might be facing. Everyone has such different life scenarios and we want you to know you don't have to face them alone. We are a community and we stand by each other! 

This episode of Salam Talk faces relationship issues as well as dealing with substance abuse and your spouse having an addiction. InshAllah you will all make dua for all the Sisters out there who are struggling. 

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We dove into a very deep topic when we asked Nadirah P. to talk to us about race and the Muslim community. We talk about responsibility to make change and my favorite, "What not to say to Me".  If you love following Nadirah on Instagram, your going to love this inside look on our show. 

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Nahela Morales is a Mexican American convert to Islam, a single Mother, and a marching, shouting, oppression fighting activist.  Listen as she walks us through her conversion to Islam after 9/11 and how she began to live a life completely devoted to the service of the people.  She is non-stop. The Women's March, the border wall, and marching against discrimination are just a few of her usual yearly calendar. She shares her greatest project with ICNA, Embrace, which provides a safe space for converts to Islam to gather, support, and feel they are part of a community.  She can't do enough and she helps us share her vision of community service.

When she was in high school, Lena Sarsour alway knew she wanted to be a designer. Her parents pushed her to pursue a more lucrative career path but that creative gene never burned out. Now along with her husband, Lena has founded a jewelry brand that is truly innovative and unique. Nominalx is becoming the hottest trend in minimal style jewelry and Lena has her own niche focus on the Muslim community. Learn how they have crafted a very populated business into something very intentional.

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Crowdfunding sites are the new norm when it comes to getting started for some in the business, arts, and even charity sectors. LaunchGood is a niche crowdfunding platform for the Muslim community worldwide, with a focus on creative & entrepreneurial Muslims.

Today we are talking with founder and COO, Amany Killawi, about what to expect when pitching yourself to Launch Good and what to expect afterwards. This is everything you didn't know about crowdfunding!

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We asked you to send us your most intimate questions and challenges so we can discuss possible solutions and we absolutely loved the turn out. Today is our first segment of "Salam Talk" and we hope you are able to take something away from it. We answered questions about a Muslim girl wishing to convert but how she will get her Fathers blessing. We also talk about two other Sisters about their romance dilemmas and offer our best advice for navigating these very tricky areas of life.

Yaz the Spaz is one of the most well known names if your a Muslim girl, which ummm most of you are. She's the YouTube hijab tutorial OG and has created a name for herself with her upbeat positive outlook on living as a Muslim girl in America. When she got married and then started a family, fans saw less and less of her beloved content as life took hold of her.  If you know Yaz, you know nothing is too much to handle, today she is shining brighter than ever and her content has evolved with her new role as #mommyspaz . She's still sharing her timeless beautiful photos in hijab, but the depth to her captions reveals her new found wisdom and maturity and her reach is even further.