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Bismillah.

In this post, we have for you a special close-up of the Sabra girls’ braids, styled especially for them by their Mama. There are fun twists on the typical “boring” braid. You can see in the pictures below the creativity in the French braids, inverted braids, and more! Accompanying the photographs is the above podcast, in which Ponn shares the story of her girls going to school with the braids, the compliments they’ve received, how it reminds them of her, and a reminder of how we all need to be grateful to Allah.

Be sure to listen until the end of the roughly 4-minute podcast and leave your response to Ponn’s question in the comments.

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A Secret Revealed

Asalaamu Alaykum! As you may have realized Ponn has been missing from American Muslim Mom for the past couple months. Listening to her debut audio linked above, as well as reading the title of this post, will explain that she has been traveling to the 3 Most Sacred Lands for all Muslims–Mecca, Medina, and Palestine.

I’ve been overseeing American Muslim Mom, at Ponn’s direction, and I’ve been anticipating her  motivational stories and lessons learned from her journey. I’m glad that I can finally share this news that’s been a secret for the past few months–that Ponn’s one and only dream of going to Hajj before she dies came true, Alhumdulilah.

Ponn has served as my mentor and adviser in business for many months now. I’ve summarized the knowledge I’ve gained working alongside her in this post from July. I’ve also contributed various posts that Ponn has helped me edit which you can read here. Specifically in my end-of-summer internship post, Ponn not only serves as my mentor and adviser, but also one of my inspirations and friends. I wasn’t sure if we would be working again after the summer, but in the middle of the semester (around October), I received an email and later, a follow-up phone call. As Ponn shared her most incredible good news about Hajj, I was actually faced with a decision to oversee her American Muslim Mom blog network, as well other online businesses–a very daunting task and responsibility. I felt I could take on the challenge and began to scribble down detailed notes of what needed to be done to run the sites. However, I cannot say honestly I was confident about it everyday, because I did run into problems, and on a couple rare occassions, I felt I couldn’t handle it. But, Alhumdulillah, everything worked out, and now I can say that I’m truly blessed to have gained this professional experience and continue to do so.

The fact that Ponn even asked me to do this was flattering, because it displayed her confidence in my abilities–abilities sometimes I forgot I had. I felt only like a business partner for a very short period of time. Instead, our relationship has progressed more towards a sisterhood, with her as my Khalto (Auntie) is Islam.

While it’s easier to just read a post, I recommend everyone to listen to this audio, and if you can’t right now, download it so you can listen later. Ponn’s message from her overseas journey is so extremely heartfelt, genuine, and moving.

American Muslim Mom’s Journey to Our Sacred Lands – Audio Notes

• A full shift to the Islamic calendar
• Hajj, a life-long goal achieved Insha’Allah
• Praying as if it’s our last prayer
• Stay in Gaza writing the How to Perform Hajj book
• The importance of the Arabic language
• Doing everything for the sake of Allah

InshaAllah, God willing, Ponn will pray in the third of the most sacred masajid, Masjid Al-Aqsa in Al-Quds, Jerusalem while on this journey. May all Mu’minyn (true believers) pray in the Sacred Houses of Allah. Ameen.

 Please comment below with what you’d like to hear about the holy pilgrimage, Insha’Allah. JazakAllahu Khayr, wa salaamu alaykum.

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I’m happy to have my girls as show guests once again, alhumdulilah.

To enlighten

Over The Moon Stories by Suzanne Muir

To educate

Suzanne shares tip and fun & funny cute stories. Enjoy the show!

To empower you to action

Click here to get the Allah Made the World app from iTunes.

Special Thanks to our Sponsor

As shared in our show commercial, visit Muslim Toys and Dolls and say you were referred by American Muslim Mom to receive a free gift value at $9.95. Check out the owner’s unique creation: the Little Ponn Muslim doll–a large, soft, adorable hijabi doll named after yours truly, subhanallah, Glory be to God! Having never seen a doll like this before (and we’ve traveled in many Muslim and non-Muslim lands), it’s a must-have for any Muslim home. She even has Velcro removable clothes. She sits conveniently by my bedside, and wears my glasses for safe keeping. My girls and I hug her as often as we can. After all, no one is ever too old to squeeze a doll…let alone a Muslim one!

Always interested in your kind feedback and thoughts. Please comment below!

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I’m happy to have my girls as show guests.

To enlighten

• National Eid Toy Drive 2011. The charity is Baitul Salaam Network and it is a 501C3.

• Ramadan Qur’an-a-thon is Back! Sadaqah Drive 2011.

To educate

Ahadith supporting good deeds and sadaqah during Ramadan.

To empower you to action

To apply to receive gifts for your children, please request an application by Friday, August 5. 2011.

Sister Hadayai at Baitul Salaam Network is haleem1@aol.com

To make a donation you may send money via Paypal to:

Sister Hadayai at Baitul Salaam Network at haleem1@aol.com, or Sister Debbie for shipping costs at dharbi123@yahoo.com

To donate toys to the Toy Drive send to:

Debbie Al-Harbi

ATTN: National Eid Toy Drive 2011 Donation

5  B  Street

Chelmsford, MA 01824

Special Thanks to our Sponsor

As shared in our show commercial, visit Muslim Toys and Dolls and say you were referred by American Muslim Mom to receive a free gift value at $9.95. Check out the owner’s unique creation: the Little Ponn Muslim doll–a large, soft, adorable hijabi doll named after yours truly, subhanallah, Glory be to God! Having never seen a doll like this before (and we’ve traveled in many Muslim and non-Muslim lands), it’s a must-have for any Muslim home. She even has Velcro removable clothes. She sits conveniently by my bedside, and wears my glasses for safe keeping. My girls and I hug her as often as we can. After all, no one is ever too old to squeeze a doll…let alone a Muslim one!

Always interested in your kind feedback and thoughts. Please comm

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Alhumdulilah, Praise be to God, American Muslim Mom continues to grow! Subhanallah, Glory be to God.

To enlighten

• Online Eid Gift Guide – Halal Shopping Made Easy Check out our intentions and please refer Muslim business owners or entrepreneurs for a referral fee of $5 (via paypal) for any approved advertiser.
  

To educate

Listen to my various online business tips in launching 3 websites in 2-weeks, and a 4th inshaAllah,  God willing, this week.

For example, having Ummah Design behind the American Muslim Mom brand, Eid Gift Guide & Kid Bloggers Club, subhanallah!

To empower you to action

• Publicity Spark – Do It Yourself Online PR
• Ponn Sabra – Network with me!
• Kid Bloggers Club – Come learn how kids and parents blog for fun, free stuff and profit! Relaunching VERY soon! Get your kids excited with us.

Special Thanks to our Sponsor

As shared in our show commercial, visit Muslim Toys and Dolls and say you were referred by American Muslim Mom to receive a free gift value at $9.95. Check out the owner’s unique creation: the Little Ponn Muslim doll–a large, soft, adorable hijabi doll named after yours truly, subhanallah, Glory be to God! Having never seen a doll like this before (and we’ve traveled in many Muslim and non-Muslim lands), it’s a must-have for any Muslim home. She even has Velcro removable clothes. She sits conveniently by my bedside, and wears my glasses for safe keeping. My girls and I hug her as often as we can. After all, no one is ever too old to squeeze a doll…let alone a Muslim one!

Always interested in your kind feedback and thoughts. Please comment below.

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Alhumdulilah, Praise be to God, American Muslim Mom is growing! Subhanallah, Glory be to God, I announced new Contributing Muslim Mommy Bloggers to American Muslim Mom last week. Therefore, I have all of them on today to share their excitement and plans for their monthly contributions, inshaAllah, God willing.

Please welcome our new contributors as they are committed to our mission To Enlighten, Educate and Empower You to Take Action in Your Lives Today, as faithful Muslims, Wives and Moms. MashaAllah, our guests are truly as excited and ambitious as I am for adding to my Team!

May Allah bless us and our families. May Allah accept our words as sadaqah jariyah. May Allah accept our efforts as ibadah and forgive our sins when we fall astray. May Allah bless this team’s efforts as He deems fit. May Allah guide us with humility. May Allah grant all Mu’minym jennah. Ameen.

Show Guests

• Amera Rahim of Habeebee Homeschooling
• Amnah Ibrahim of Little Life of Mine
• Amanda Mouttaki of MarocMama
• Hanane Pollard of CommenCentsMom
• Aya Khalil of Aya Khalil
• Kimberly (Umm Yusuf) Ben of Muslimahs Working at Home

Special Thanks to our Sponsor

As shared in our show commercial, visit Muslim Toys and Dolls and say you were referred by American Muslim Mom to receive a free gift value at $9.95. Check out the owner’s unique creation: the Little Ponn Muslim doll–a large, soft, adorable hijabi doll named after yours truly, subhanallah, Glory be to God! Having never seen a doll like this before (and we’ve traveled in many Muslim and non-Muslim lands), it’s a must-have for any Muslim home. She even has Velcro removable clothes. She sits conveniently by my bedside, and wears my glasses for safe keeping. My girls and I hug her as often as we can. After all, no one is ever too old to squeeze a doll…let alone a Muslim one!

Subhanallah, wasn’t this a fabulous show? It was actually much less time-intensive for my podcast producer and I, and really fun! Our shortest show yet–Do you like this length? (It’s ~10 mins. shorter than our average 23-min. show). Would you like to see more shows like this with multiple guests (contributors)? Are you looking forward to all these new articles? What are you most looking forward to?  We willfully accept your kind critiques, as it will only cause us to serve your needs better. So, please share details below.

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Alhumdulilah, Praise be to God, my girls of Kid Bloggers Club are my guests again. We received many kind remarks but more questions from their debut show with me, so I think we’ll be making this a more regular thing, inshaAllah.

To enlighten
Learning how my girls are learning about Major Sins, 70 Ways to Gain Reward from Allah, and the Hijab for Muslim Woman. Truly enlightening! We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

To educate

• Living life without a microwave.
• Cooking and Baking with olive oil. Healthy–But, Yummy! Win our favorite cookbook here.
• More tips about using the library.

To empower You to Take Action!
Get your kids blogging with you! But, kids should NOT do this alone. Make your homeschooling writing fun project for free stuff & profit–not just for homeschoolers!

Special Thanks to our Sponsor

As shared in our show commercial, visit Muslim Toys and Dolls and say you were referred by American Muslim Mom to receive a free gift value at $9.95. Check out the owner’s unique creation: the Little Ponn Muslim doll–a large, soft, adorable hijabi doll named after yours truly, subhanallah, Glory be to God! Having never seen a doll like this before (and we’ve traveled in many Muslim and non-Muslim lands), it’s a must-have in any Muslim home. She even has Velcro removable clothes. She sits conveniently by my bedside, and wears my glasses for safe keeping. My girls and I hug her as often as we can. After all, no one is ever too old to squeeze a doll…let alone a Muslim one!

Past shows:

#1 Ponn Sabra of AmericanMuslimMom.com

#2 Zohra Sawari of ZohraSawari.com

#3 Amanda Moutakki of MarocMama.com

#4 Debbie Al-Harbi of MuslimToysandDolls.com

#5 Ponn Sabra RE: Social Media and Islam

#6 JuJu, GiGi and JoJo Sabra of KidBloggersClub.com

#7 Ameera Rahim of Habeebee Homeschooling

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My grave apologies for being a day late in this podcast show, the lack of internet and phone due to my recent move and multiple technical difficulties caused this delay. I’m happy to welcome Ameera Rahim of Habeebee Homeschooling. There’s wonderful tips obviously regarding homeschooling as Muslims, but we expand to share critical marriage and parenting tips for all moms and dads Muslim and non-Muslim. So, please enjoy the show.

To enlighten

Ameera Rahim shares her very unique story of embracing Islam! This is a story you don’t want to miss.

To educate

Learn more about her various online endeavors:

• Habeebee Homeschooling Blog
• Habeebee Homescholing Facebook Fan Page
• Habeebee Homeschooling on Twitter @habeebeeHS
• Habeebee Homeschooling Podcast on the American Muslim 360 network

To empower You to Take Action!

Two must-read articles, Ameera wrote, that I highly recommend you read with your husband and children!

• Putting the PR in Homeschool
• Tips to Overcome Becoming Overwhelmed while Homeschooling

Special Thanks to our Sponsor

As shared in our show commercial, visit Muslim Toys and Dolls and say you were referred by American Muslim Mom to receive a free gift value at $9.95. Check out the owner’s unique creation: the Little Ponn Muslim doll–a large, soft, adorable hijabi doll named after yours truly, subhanallah, Glory be to God! Having never seen a doll like this before (and we’ve traveled in many Muslim and non-Muslim lands), it’s a must-have in any Muslim home. She even has Velcro removable clothes. She sits conveniently by my bedside, and wears my glasses for safe keeping. My girls and I hug her as often as we can. After all, no one is ever too old to squeeze a doll…let alone a Muslim one!

Past shows:

#1 Ponn Sabra of AmericanMuslimMom.com

#2 Zohra Sawari of ZohraSawari.com

#3 Amanda Moutakki of MarocMama.com

#4 Debbie Al-Harbi of MuslimToysandDolls.com

#5 Ponn Sabra RE: Social Media and Islam

#6 JuJu, GiGi and JoJo Sabra of KidBloggersClub.com

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Today’s guest is me and my 3 girls of Kid Bloggers Club! (Ages are 7, 9 and 10 years old) Please enjoy the show as I share their debut podcast. MashaAllah, God has willed; their natural ease and comfort on air. While I had notes to guide us; they didn’t have any notes. We shared that we’d just have a family discussion, same ones that we often share in halaqas (educational gatherings), and share typical questions and answers whenever people ask us (especially them) on their views of learning Arabic, Qur’an and homeschooling in general. While starting our show with the Qur’an was deep and serious, byPart 2 they totally took over with their surprising excitement and answers. Without a script at hand, you’ll see their ease and love for homeschooling, so we pray you will enjoy their tips and unique perspective; inshaAllah.

To educate

About the role of Arabic and Qur’an during our typical day of homeschooling.

To enlighten

To truly learn, understand, know, contemplate and most importantly act according to the Qur’an and not simply memorize it. We break down the Opening Chapter, Surah al-Fatihah, explain its first ayat and it’s 2 distinct parts.

To empower You to Take Action!

My girls lead the show with their excitement, tips for and perspective of homeschooling compared to public and private school education, examples include how to study the Qur’an, online education, kid blogging at Kid Bloggers Club and much more!

Special Thanks to our Sponsor

As shared in our show commercial, visit Muslim Toys and Dolls and say you were referred by American Muslim Mom to receive a free gift value at $9.95. Check  out the owner’s unique creation: the Little Ponn Muslim doll–a large, soft, adorable hijabi doll named after yours truly, subhanallah, Glory be to God! Having never seen a doll like this before (and we’ve traveled in many Muslim and non-Muslim lands), it’s a must-have in any Muslim home. She even has Velcro removable clothes. She sits conveniently by my bedside, and wears my glasses for safe keeping. My girls and I hug her as often as we can. After all, no one is ever too old to squeeze a doll…let alone a Muslim one!

Past shows:

#1 Ponn Sabra of AmericanMuslimMom.com

#2 Zohra Sawari of ZohraSawari.com

#3 Amanda Moutakki of MarocMama.com

#4 Debbie Al-Harbi of MuslimToysandDolls.com

#5 Ponn Sabra RE: Social Media and Islam

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Today’s guest is yours truly–Me! So, many crazy-busy and interesting things are happening behind the scenes. And, well…our testimonials are using words like “priceless”, “must-have”, “awesome”; so MashaAllah, God has willed some cool stuff for me to share. Alhumdulilah, our debut podcast has nearly doubled our annual goal of downloads in just 2-months. Please enjoy the show as I share the following:

To educate
1. Publicity Spark – Do It Yourself Online PR (Public Relations) – Hop over now to get your FREE guide, Top Ways To Get Free PR Leads. These are all our tips how CNN, Associated Press and other major media outlets find my partner and my work.

2. Publicity Spark Bloggers Network. Sign up today to get paid to blog! Sample thought-provoking campaigns include: How about Mom & Dad & Elder care?, How Do You Talk to Kids about STDs?, and What do you think about online college & distance learning?

To enlighten

1. Muslim and Mum Magazine – Featured “Interview with a supermama”. Humbled by the surprising title, I share a bunch of tips, God willing, to dispel any fact that I’m really nothing special, let alone “super”…but, if hubby and my girls say thank, mashaAllah, I’ll take that compliment.

2. Social media – Muslims and Islam. I share passionately what I think and feel about what I care about and clearly what I don’t care about when asked about “perceptions” “images” “stereotypes” of being a Muslim women or mom here in America. Want to discuss–please listen and comment kindly below!

To empower You to Take Action!

1. Tips of homeschooling. Habeebee homescholling American Muslim 360 podcast. – The 1st hour of the show.

2. Making Money with a Mommy Blog - The upcoming title of my next highly-in-demand ebook, please make du’a (supplication) this project keeps being pushed aside. But, my final goal and deadline to myself is Sunday night, inshAllah T’ala.

3. Muslim Mom Media Network – Sign up today. If you’re blogging, on facebook or twitter–please let’s join forces. Stop reinventing the wheel, let’s pool our resources and work together! Here’s my article, Top Ten Reasons Why Brands Should Target Muslim Social Media Moms. We have double the buying power of regular moms, so use your consumer power with taqwa (God-conscientiousness)!

4. Virtual Fundraiser for Islamic Center of Murfreesboro TN. I no longer believe this is a dream for Murfreesboro Muslims–It’s for all Muslims in America and abroad. They’ve seen enough struggle, let’s work together to help one another construct this historic masjid sooner than later!

Past shows:

#1 Ponn Sabra of AmericanMuslimMom.com

#2 Zohra Sawari of ZohraSawari.com

#3 Amanda Moutakki of MarocMama.com

#4 Debbie Al-Harbi of MuslimToysandDolls.com

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I’m happy to welcome American Muslim Mom Debbie Al-Harbi, founder and owner of MuslimToysandDolls.com a certified mental health counselor in Massachusetts, devout wife to a Saudi Bedouin,  and proud mom of three grown children, mashaAllah (God has willed). As with our debut guest, and carried through to past interviews,  we’re following our mission to lay the format of our podcast shows:

• Enlightenment – Debbie shares her personal journey of how being married to a Muslim for over 30 years and being raised Jewish, she recently made her Shahadah (declaration of faith) approximately four years ago, mashaAllah.
• Education – She shares tips how to start an online business on the side while working full-time and raising her family, and
• Empower You to Take Action – To get you involved in the National Eid Toy Drive, as well as purchasing her worldwide selection of unique Muslim family products that spans much wider than just Muslim Toys and Dolls–in which 50% of her profits go to charity, mashaAllah.

• Enjoy listening to our show!

National Muslim Eid Toy Drive

To qualify and apply

$50,000 annual income with 3 or more children

$41,000 – $49,999 annual income with 2 or more children

Less than $40,000 annual income with 1 or more children

Contact Debbie at info<at>muslimtoysanddolls.com and ask to “Apply for the National Eid Toy Drive”

Please become a sponsor!

Tax-deductible charity. Please email Debbie as well!

To connect with Debbie, Please sign up for her mailing list here, and make sure you visit here on the first Thursday of every month, as we plan to have monthly reviews and giveaways of MuslimToysandDolls.com products, inshaAllah! Better yet, subscribe to our RSS feed.

Please comment below and let us know what you thought of this show. Alhumdulilah, Praise be to God, we reached our annual goal of downloads in 3-short weeks for our debut show; but your feedback is critical to assure we’re giving you what you need and desire most. So, if you subscribe via iTunes, please review and rate us because it’ll help give us more visibility and inshaAllah, God willing, together we can reach as many Muslim Moms as possible.

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I’m happy to welcome devout Muslim, wife, founder and owner of MarocMama, a full-time working mom of 2 young boys, Amanda Mouttaki, mashaAllah (God has willed). As with our debut guest, we’re following our mission to lay the format of our podcast shows:

• Enlightenment – Amanda shares her personal journey of how and when she was introduced to Islam and ultimately embraced it, mashaAllah.
• Education – Tips to best balance juggle life as a working mom, side-business owner, blogger, and wife who prioritizes her daily dinner dates with the most important men in her life (husband and 2 sons), and
• Empower You to Take Action – To learn how food diplomacy is a great way to bridge the gaps with cross-cultural differences. And, listen to how her husband and her work around making sure their family is at least bilingual, even though Amanda may know 3, 4 or even 5 languages at one-time of her life, mashaAllah.

• Enjoy listening to our show!

To connect with Amanda, her facebook fan page, tweet her, or follow her blog like I do!

Please comment below and let us know what you thought of this show. Alhumdulilah, Praise be to God, we FAR exceeded the number of listeners and downloads for our debut show; but your feedback is critical to assure we’re giving you what you need and desire most. And, if you subscribe via iTunes, please review and rate us because it’ll help give us more visibility and inshaAllah, God willing, together we can reach as many Muslim Moms as possible.

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Please welcome to my debut guest–my dear friend, motivational speaker, author, publisher, life and productivity coach, homeschool mom of 3, and devout Muslim and wife, Zohra Sawari, mashaAllah (God has willed). To go along with our Mission “To  enlighten, educate, empower Muslim Moms to take action”, I conducted this interview to give our audience tips, resources and motivation to move further in this dunya (life on Earth). So, by listening you will hear Zohra share

• Enlightenment – Her personal and spiritual journey away from debt to debt-freedom and her discoveries once she read the “Qur’an with Meaning”,
• Education – Tips to those contemplating homeschooling, or worse willing to give up homeschooling, and
• Empower You to Take Action – Tips in Balancing Life as a Muslim Mom happily in a marriage and working as a home Muslimpreneur for the sake of Allah.

Enjoy listening to our first guest!

Please comment below and let us know what you thought of this show. Alhumdulilah, Praise be to God, we FAR exceeded the number of listeners and downloads for our debut show; but your feedback is critical to assure we’re giving you what you need and desire most. And, if you subscribe via iTunes, please review and rate us because it’ll help give us more visibility and inshaAllah, God willing, together we can reach as many Muslim Moms as possible.

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Alhumdulilah rabbil alameen (Praise be to God, the Lord/Master of all things), the past six weeks have been truly exciting time preparing for major changes to occur here at American Muslim Mom. From concept to design (staying focused on tasks and milestones), I am so pleased to share with you the debut show of the American Muslim Mom Podcast.

In today’s show I share all the major changes we made to improve our brand to make it more representative of what we’ve grown to become as the #1 online blog community for American Muslim Moms.

Warning: it’s a bit of a slow start–the energizing Ponn you’re familiar with started to get more comfortable half-way through the show: so the middle and definitely the ending is something I believe is worth listening to. The truth is, I recorded this well passed 1am at night, for the silence of my home and the hectic days preparing for tomorrow. I joked on our Facebook page, that it took me half the show just to wake myself up.

Major Changes to the American Muslim Mom Brand

• Logo
• Tagline
• Categories, Topics, Themed Days
• Social Media Networks
• “Balancing Life as a Muslim Mom” ebook
• Muslim Mom Media Network
• American Muslim Mom community video

InshaAllah, God willing, my debut show will get you excited about tomorrow’s big Relaunch. We’re going to have a real cool Giveaway Gala for our big Giveaway Day to celebrate our big launch.

Podcast Acknowledgements

MultiMediaVA

It has been an incredibly humbling experience working with Christina Lemmey of MultiMediaVA for helping make my podcast possible. From brainstorming how to find royalty-free nasheed (Islamic songs) or Islamic tunes (which we never found), to having Arabic-pronunciation lessons–Christina has been amazingly patient, professional, creative, upbeat, determined, open-minded, willing and definitely capable of producing our intro, extro and segue in a very Islamically-appropriate way.

There were 2 things that came to us completely by accident as she shared–and I shared that we’d say “Subhanallah/Glory be to God” for the perfection of timing, the perfection of the opportunities that have been destined to happend. This is where I’m so humbled, because I was given the opportunity to share the beauty of Islam so effortlessly like I do each and every day to my Muslim brothers and sisters, in addition to the vast majority of non-Muslims who cross my path daily. Subhanallah!

Do You Want To Try Podcasting?

Now, if you’re a Do-It-Yourselfer, Christina has a free ebook that shares how you can setup a podcast in 1-hour “Easy Podcast Setup”.

It tired my patience, just trying to get the recordings in, timing, script, etc.; that I couldn’t worry about it, so I’d rather delegate and be done with it.

Oh, and Christina even offered video tutorial to get my link on this page–so cool! So, If you are in need of audio or video production or assistance, I highly recommend hiring Christina. And, please tell her I sent you.

My girls

MashaAllah, God has willed, my girls are one two three of my biggest blessings in this life. It has been so much fun to involve them in the development to the American Muslim Mom brand; and as you listen to our debut show and future shows inshaAllah, you’ll hear the joy they feel in honoring us–Moms through their innocent and lovable voices, mashaAllah.

MashaAllah, I must give particular attention to my eldest, 10 year old daughter, who as the one to figure out how to best record our audio file. We tried the phone, cell phone, online directly to our audio program–and Subhanallah, Glory be to Allah, while working on our slideshow video (which is definitely one of our biggest highlights for tomorrow), she was able to record a voice, a movie without voice and a movie with voice over. It was the audio file that Christina was able to use just yesterday, because the quality was the best of all.

I look forward to your honest critique, comments and concerns. Please share what you thought of our new show below, and inshaAllah–please be gentle it’s only our first show. Have a suggestion of a great guest (is it you), or topic you’d like me to focus on; please let me know as well.

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