Growing Up Halal

Growing Up Halal presents our new series, Muslimah Business Owners! For our first episode we feature Isha Sajid who owns Ishq by Sajid (@ishqbysajid ) a custom nike sneaker design brand on Etsy. Join Ashiyana and Isha for a discussion on how to grow your business, manage customers and keep your faith central to your business!

In this episode, Sulphia, Hanan, Amena, Malak, and Ashiyana talk about all things halal food! From explaining what halal really is to their experience growing up and not being able to eat the lunch at school,

Join our full Growing Up Halal team in our Back to School episode! We talk about procrastinating on our summer reading assignments and college apps, how to convince your parents to let you dorm, transitioning to college, the struggle that is senior year, shopping for modest fashion clothes this season (especially when all there these days are crop tops and mani skirts

In this episode, Hanan and Ashiyana are joined by Hannah Shraim, a Palestinian activist in the community to discuss and inform the public of the ongoing occupation, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid against the Palestinian people. These three cover topics such as the media distortion of the issue, false narratives, current events, and action the individuals can take towards putting an end to Palestinian opression.

In this episode, Sulphia (fencing) and Amena (lacrosse) are joined by guest Amirah Ahmed (track and field, cross country) to talk about the Muslimah athlete experience! From discussing the struggles of finding suitable, modest athletic wear (spoiler alert: we got a lot to say about the Nike hijab

In today's episode, Sulphia and Hanan are joined by Pashmina Khan, a senior in high school who will be majoring in journalism and film at NYU in the fall! Together, they discuss their takes on how Muslims have been portrayed in popular movies, tv shows, books, and the news cycle!

In today's episode, Amena and Hanan were accompanied by Aronno Shafi, a senior at NYU! She was able to share with us a bunch of things she wish she had done as a high school student, and gave us so many tips on things ranging from interviews to financial management as a young muslimah! Tune in to this episode to learn more about these tips and to hear about Aronno's art business and other fun experiences, including studying aboard in Europe!

In this episode, Sulphia and Aisha are joined by Sammi and Meena for a discussion often put to the side in the Muslim community: anti-blackness. Part of Growing Up Halal's mission is to create a safer and open community and the first step is having discussions that are ignored and overlooked. Listen to understand how to begin to become an ally to the Black community.

In today's episode, Sulphia and Amena are joined by guest, Hira Peracha. Hira has been dedicated to service and is working on building a school in Pakistan while running her non-profit, Illuminate Light Foundation. She is a published author working in healthcare. In this episode, we discuss how service can aid our self development and the lessons Hira has learned along the way!

In today's episode, Aisha, Amena, Hanan, and Sulphia read about and discuss the term “toxic positivity,” which often facilities the societal pressure we experience on social media and at school, and significantly harms self-growth. Reflecting on our own experience with this concept, we talk about how we hope to address toxic positivity going into the new year.

This is the third and final episode in our new series “The College MSA Field Trip”! Join us each week as we interview members at college/university MSAs around the country to learn about the school, its Islamic community, and the application process! This week, Hanan and Aisha interview Anna Syed, the public relations director of the MSA at UCLA!

This is the second episode in our new series “The College MSA Field Trip”! Join us each week as we interview members at college/university MSAs around the country to learn about the school, its Islamic community, and the application process! This week, Sulphia and Amena interview Aisha Chebbi, a freshman at Princeton University and the host of the Hybrid Podcast!

This is the first episode in our new series “The College MSA Field Trip”! Join us each week as we interview members at college/university MSAs around the country to learn about the school, its Islamic community, and the application process! This week, Sulphia and Hanan interview Asma Bawla, a junior at New York University (NYU) and the host of the Muslimah Podcast!

For many Desi/Muslim families, family friend groups become a second family over time. It's a special bond that's formed over years of intense badminton matches at potlucks, funny Sunday School incidents, long Taraweeh prayers at the masjid, chaotic Eid parties, Iftar nights, hiking trips, and more. The both of us have always felt that our group has become more than just a circle of friends that meets every weekend. In all honesty, it's been our strongest link to our culture, tradition, and religion, one that we are extremely blessed to have. So in today's episode, we're joined by our family friends to talk about the importance of family friend groups and what ours means to us!

As rising seniors, we've been really busy thinking a lot about college and starting our college apps. We've also heard so many concerns about college from our friends and their parents. So today, we've brought on Ramsha Khan, a sophmore at Rutgers University, to learn about the college experience for Muslim Americans and what we can expect!

“Heaven on Earth is a Hell for many” In this episode we delve into the ongoing crisis in Kashmir along with a special guest. We hope that our discussion was able to inform you about the issue and hopefully inspire you to take action!

In today's episode, we talk about the activities and habits we've started during quarantine in an effort to keep our mental health in check and maintain our sANiTy in the last 6 months of quarantine.

In this episode, we've brought on a special guest to discuss one of most misrepresented aspects of Islam - the hijab. We talk about the true meaning of the hijab, our own hijab journeys, and the handful of misconceptions surrounding it!

In this episode, we discuss our character study of Katara from the show “Avatar the Last Airbender”. Katara has a bad rep among viewers, but we're here to expIain why she was one of the most well written characters in the ATLA universe. Here's to our favorite “sweaty stinky genius”, the standby Mom of Team Avatar, Aang's Avatar State therapist, and the only reason why Team Avatar's bones aren't rotting in the desert right now.

In this episode, we talk about the most popular Indian American Muslim in media these days - Hasan Minhaj. We discuss the impact of his work on the weekly Netflix show "Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj", why it's been so popular and successful, and what the show means to us.

In this episode, we talk about the great food at the Sunday School cafeteria, Muslimah representation at school, and how living in a diverse community with a strong Islamic presence allowed us to maintain a connection to Islam growing up

In this episode, we reflect on the last semester of our Junior Year, discuss the consequences of COVID on our high school experience, and consider what may be in store for us in the upcoming school year. 

Welcome to Growing Up Halal! In this episode, we introduce ourselves and explain why we created this podcast and what we plan to do going forward!