Episode Description
Mommying While Muslim seeks to support American Muslim moms and the unique issues we face in a post 9/11 world. In addition to sharing our personal experiences and perspectives, our greatest desire is to learn from and validate our Muslim American sisters, offer support, as well as work together to find solutions and relevant resources for us to help each other thrive. Through this work, the podcast intends to develop a movement of lasting cultural change by building allies, resources, and innovative programming that elevates women and motherhood to their rightful Islamic status.
Links from the Episode:
– Friendly Podcast Guide on TikTok
– Mommying While Muslim Website
– Introduction to Mommying While Muslim
– Hasan vs. Jafri on Roe vs. Wade
– Mommying While Muslim Facebook
More Information about Mommying While Muslim
The show description is Mommying While Muslim is a one of a kind podcast where two American born and bred 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. The length of each episode is about 45 minutes to an hour long, and it is kid ear friendly. The series is ongoing with new episodes available on Thursdays.
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Introduction to Zaiba, Uzma & Mommying While Muslim
I always say I’m a mama first, mama of four. My name is Zaiba Hasan. I am in the DC metropolitan area. I am the co-host of Mommy one Muslim podcast, but I always say I’m a mom first and I’ll probably be a mom last, and that is the defining that’s literally my defining and most proud achievement of my life.
My name is Uzma Jafri. I co-host Mommy While Muslim as well. But you know, like Zaiba, my primary profession is being a mom. And then on the side we do all the wonderful things like hustle and, well, it’s, I guess it’s not really hustling. Podcasting is a very all consuming, full-time, full-time job. So yes, we do that. But I’m also a practicing physician. I run my own practice. But again, the primary job is chauffeuring and refereeing for children. Chaos coordinator is the other thing.
How Mommying While Muslim Came to Be
Honestly, we felt that there was a void in the, in the marketplace. To be honest with you, there’s nobody that’s really addressing the concerns that we have as American Muslim mothers for our unique challenges that our, we face as mothers and our children have to face as native born American Muslim children. It’s selfish. We’re trying to find the answers for ourselves. Yeah. And finding the answers for ourselves. You know, we’re hoping that we help other people. That’s pretty much why we may as will do it publicly. .
What to Expect from Mommying While Muslim
We want women to feel solidarity you know, motherhood can often be really, really lonely especially in the beginning for all of us. And I don’t care if you have your community or you don’t, you still feel like you’re in the eye of the storm and nobody gets it and that you are the first person that’s Experiencing this and doing this and it, we really want them to know that no, you have an entire sisterhood right here. You have a library of episodes you can tap into, and at some point if you’ve thought it, we’ve already recorded it or if you’ve felt it like we’ve already recorded it or if you need it, we will record it.
The Vibe of Mommying While Musim
That depends on the day. We’re really honest about that because our topics and our episodes run the gamut of like literally potty training to politics. Cuz guess what? There are people they’re like, how the heck do you the day to day technique. The physical techniques of sleep training and potty training. Of course we’re there. We’ve got your back where that’s concerned. But then there are political things that happen and they have, you know, long term impacts and we’re there to kind of help, you know, talk it out and unravel that.
Sometimes we’re crying, sometimes we’re laughing, sometimes we’re in a bad mood and we’re processing that, you know, on the air with each other. And that’s all we can do is be our authentic, truthful selves and some. We’re in a good mood and some days were not. And some days we’re crying and some days we’re laughing.
As a podcast listener, you get to sit down and just kind of take a peek on a conversation between two friends. It’s our kitchen table, Yeah, exactly. And that was kind of always what we wanted. Like whatever it is, pull up, We don’t have the answer. We bring in an expert in her field, we wanna bring her on. We’re having a cup of tea or water or we’re fasting, you know, and I’m grumpy usually during that time, , and we’re talking and you’re just kind of, kind of getting an insight. And, and, and if we don’t have the answers, we’re, we’re providing you the resources for you to dig a little bit deeper. Cuz of course they’re, they’re shorter episodes, you know, their 40 minute episodes.
So we’re not gonna go through everything, but we’re gonna give you the resources or you can kind of come up with your own answers.
Uzma’s Favorite Episode
So I think my, my favorite episode really, I think is our Hasan versus Jafri, Roe versus Wade, because I think we recorded this a couple of years ago? And I don’t remember what was happening at the time, but it certainly wasn’t as critical as the Supreme Court opinion that just came out this year. But threatening women’s reproductive rights and women’s rights, that’s really big for both of us. And what I love about that episode is that at the beginning of our podcasting journey, Zaba was very like: I’m not a feminist. No, no, no, no, no. That’s like, that’s like the worst F word. Right? And then as we start recording, she’s like, Oh yeah, wait, I think I am. Even though she, she falls on the opposite political spectrum. Yes. On this particular issue. But it’s like when we talk about, you know, pro-life and pro-choice are such misnomers.
Anyway, because who the hell is against life? Everybody’s pro-life. I hate that title. It’s like saying All lives matter. Duh. But some, you know, you just need some slogans and in this case, like the opposite end, like chose this particular pro-life choice and you know when at the end of the day we both are on the same On the same wavelength, all life does matter to us, but like she would do something very different and I would do very, something very different.
What I love about it is I think it’s very different from what the audience expects. Yes. Yeah. Because we definitely break stereotypes, and that’s what I love because people will look at us. Obviously she’s a hijabi, so they think that she would have a particular viewpoint. And I’m not a hijabi, that’s the physical hair cover. And my viewpoint is very different on that as, as hers is. But I’m conservative on a lot of issues. I’m probably more conservative on a lot of issues than Uzma is herself. You know, like I don’t curse, like I’m just not one of those People. I’m very conservative and it’s funny because people would think totally the opposite, but I, and I love that, I love that we’re just by the nature of the two of us being who we are authentically, we’re breaking the molds even within our own community, let alone in the, in our external community, which we’re a part of, which is the Non-Muslim American community. We have a half and half audience of Muslim and non-Muslim people.
Zaiba’s Favorite Episode
So my, my favorite episode, and I know this will probably be a surprise to Uzma, is our first episode. It’s, it’s awkward. Yes. It’s, it’s so weird, you know, in all podcasters if you ask and they’re like, Do not listen to the first episode.
But really we were starting our journey. Right? And in starting your journey, When you look back, I, I thought very small. It was very individual. Like, it, it was something for the two, like we’re two friends talking out issues so that we can kind of walk through the problem together, you know, different mindsets and where can we do and let’s, let’s look this on and to look back on that and to see how we’ve grown individually and that we’ve kind of through our personal journeys and our evolution. Self, we’re bringing our audience along for the ride with us. And I feel like that’s a beautiful thing. And you can only get that if you were able to see the before, right? And you, you can’t do that if you erase that because who you were is part of that. So that’s why I feel like that, that’s probably one of my, my favorite episodes.
Mommying While Muslim & Little Ears
I think it goes back to, it depends on the series that we’re doing at the time. Yeah. Okay. And we usually say it ahead of time. Recognizing that people that we do have younger listeners will say, it’s up to the parent, really.
Motherhood as a Community
I would say, you know, just because we’re moming while Muslim, like for, for moms, like you said you were a mom podcast as well, that the universal truth. Is that being a mom and motherhood transcends religion and time. Of course, a lot of our podcastings talks about our specific journey as Muslim moms, but we feel the same things and go through the same challenges as any moms, and so my hopes is if a non-Muslim Mother listens to it, they can understand or, or perhaps empathize, sympathize with us on some level to be like, Oh, okay.
They’re the same. They want the same things for their children that we do. And that’s kind of what another thing that I would like your audience to understand is that we’re not scary. We’re here to answer whatever question that, you know, if you’re sitting next to me at baseball and you’re, you know, inquisitive about something don’t Feel like you’re gonna offend me by asking. I’m here to answer to the best of my ability.
Where to Find Mommying While Muslim
We are on Instagram at MommyingWhileMuslimpodcast. I think on TikTok, we’re at MommyingWhileMuslimpod, but we don’t do very much there right now because we’re trying to figure it out. So, yeah, my, my son also said we’re very cringe. But for our generation, I think Facebook is great. So we’re on Mommying While Muslim on Facebook. The Facebook page itself is just kind of informative, but if you join our group, you do not need to ascribe to any particular group or religion to be in our group. We have all kinds of women there, so it’s really a nice Safe space.
