Naptime Is Sacred

Naptime Is Sacred

In a series of conversations, host Fousia Abdullahi shares stories of Muslim women from all over the world. You'll hear the stories of interesting, accomplished, and amazing Muslim women authors, bloggers, entrepreneurs, nutritionists, and so many more. These stories will give you the tools you need not only to be inspired but to give you tangible steps toward personal and professional growth and development. We may take different paths, with different obstacles we each have to overcome, but our voices, successes, and individual stories are something to CELEBRATE and share.

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April 7, 2021 21 mins

 

Disclaimer: The discussion in this podcast is for educational and informational purposes ONLY. This is information should not be ...

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Shereeza is a Muslimah of Guyanese parents and was born and raised in Canada. 

 

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It's been one year since Hodan Nalayeh tragically passed away, alongside her husband, unborn child, and many others. May Allah have mercy on them, grant them Janntul firdose, and provide their families continued comfort.

Hodan Nalayeh, founder of Integration TV, an online platform with millions of YouTube viewers, was a prominent social media infl...

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 Welcome to the first episode of 2020. Since this show is all about personal and professional development, I wanted to start the year from a mental health perspective. 

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This year has been such a journey, full of wins and fails. I'm so glad to have been able to continue to share so many stories of amazing Muslim women who taught us so much about personal and professional development.

We'll be working hard this new year to bring you consistent and relevant episodes.

Thank you for your continued support, keep sharing the podcast with your friends and family so we can grow our Naptime Is Sacred famil...

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This is the part where things get technical but like Marie Forleo said Everything Is figureoutable.

 

You'll have to think about media hosting some of the popular ones are Soundcloud, Anchor, Libsyn, WordPress, podomatic, speaker, etc

Next is RSS Feed, RSS feed means Really Simple Syndication.
First, you...

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Before you go and spend a pretty penny on equipment, I would consider what you already have for free. Your smartphone has a recording app that you can start with, and there is also an app called anchor that uses your smartphones built-in microphone and records up to 2mins of audio, that you can directly post in the app. It has features like commenting and different people that you can follow and build an online community.

If the ph...

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Now that you've figured out who your ideal podcast listener is, in this case, a young practicing Muslim mom 25-34, who is interested in the environment, Community, social change, and healthy lifestyle. She spends a lot of time on Instagram and reading.

 It's time to think about what your avatar wants to hear. Is it an interview-style podcast, solo shows, will you have different segments than comes the topics For example, a podcast ...

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So you want to start a podcast, but you don't know where to start?


In the next four podmas episodes, I will teach you how to start planning your podcast.

Let's jump right in before you start thinking about the fun stuff like podcast name and album art. We need to think about who the podcast is, for we call this person an avatar or your niche. So, here we need to get super specific, is it a male or female, is it parents, kids, how...

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Guest Alia Salem is the Founder and Executive Director of FACE (Facing Abuse in Community Environments), an organization dedicating to helping hold abusive religious and community leaders accountable to the communities they serve. Her professional background is in organizational development, community organizing, and communications with a particular focus on the intersections of institutio...

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My husband Omar and I are coming up on a significant anniversary, and we wanted to do a How well do you know me tag for podmas. Here are the questions:
1. What is my favorite food?
2. What is my biggest pet peeve?
3. What's my favorite TV show?
4. If I could travel anywhere, where would I go?
5. What are my long-term goals?
6. What is one of my best childhood memories?

Thanks for tuning in, and don't forget to subscribe and leave a...

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It's that time of year when everyone is planning all their goals. Over the years, I've realized that while these set goals are im...

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I finally finished listening to Marie Forleo's book, Everything Is Figureoutable, and I loved it. There are multiple reasons, but I think the one that has made the most significant impact on how I see my dreams is OPTIMISM.

This book shared stories where Marie and others used everything is figureoutable to get jobs, start a business, overcome a hardship. Whenever I read books or blogs posts about just working through a problem and ...

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In today's episode of podmas, I wanted to highlight an amazing Muslim woman named Asha Farah. I met Asha at the SNABI conference, and unfortunately, the audio during her talk didn't come out properly in the recording, but I wanted to share a little bit of her story today.

Asha Farah is a corporate Real Estate Manager at Starbucks Coffee Company in Seattle, Washington. She Has over 18 o...

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So I just turned 36 this week, and I've been going through those 40 things to do before your 40, but they're intense and not aligned with a Muslim lifestyle, so I came up with Seven things I want to do before I turn 37

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In this interview episode, we have with us, Amal Mohamud is a Somali Canadian who works as a community producer for Omni Tv in Canada. The program is called Somalis in Alberta. She produces shows in the Somali language under a Canadian multicultural channel, and my goal is to give Somalis a better image in the media.

 

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Do you have any advice for the recently turned 18-year-old about anything? Life advise.

Here are his answers

Experience:
Volunteer for as many different things as you can and take on various jobs.

Learn:
Take classes on different subjects, read books, watch documentaries, meet people, and try to learn from their experience.

Relationships:
Spend time with family and relatives as much as possible. It invents time to cultivate good fr...

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