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S2E9 Accustomed to Limitations
Holding onto limiting ideas and beliefs while trying to break with social norms and standards can be challenging. It's important for us to question and interrogate why we have these beliefs and examine how they limit...
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S2E8 The Importance of Leadership Skills in Pursuing Your Career and Life Goals
In the pursuit of careers, especially in the STEM fields, one of the biggest gaps in professional development is the lack of leadership training during the early parts of the journey. While these skills are important...
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S2E7 Beyond A Seat At The Table - Deqa Mohamed
Deqa is a premed student passionate about pursuing surgery. She's a first-generation student who lost her father at a young age and was was raised by a single mother. As a Black Muslim woman, she found it difficult...
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S2E6 The value of calculated risks - Dr. Sondos Al Sad
In a society that teaches you to be risk averse, can taking calculated risks in your personal and career goals be the key to overcoming obstacles? In this episode, Dr. Sondos Al Sad and I dig deep into what it means...
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S2E5 Mentoring Moments - Becoming a surgeon
Our first Mentoring Moments segment! In this episode, I answer the question "How do you become a surgeon?" I outline the process from high school, college, medical school, all the way to fellowship. Got questions...
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S2E4 Taking Control of Your Life and Career
In this episode, we discuss how we can use our biggest strengths - our families and our communities - to our advantage in building the life and career we want. Got questions on life and career goals? Submit them at...
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S2E3 Dr. Emma Wiley - Leading Change with Faith and Action
In this episode, Dr. Emma Wiley shares her path into medicine how the growth mindset impacted her journey the importance of maintaining faith her incredible work with the Muslim Women of Merton in advocating for...
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S2E2 Expectations vs. Reality
After you prove yourself and surpass all expectations, you're given the respect you deserve and opportunities to advance in your career, right? Sadly this expectation is inconsistent with the reality of the workplace,...
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S2E1 Muslim Women, Leadership and Why We Need a Defiant Career Strategy
Welcome to Season 2! We’re so excited to be back. We’re picking up right where we left off after a two-year pandemic break. Our personal and professional lives have significantly changed since the start of the...
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Episode 24: Covid Comeback; The pandemic, struggle for racial equality and the 2020 Election
Welcome back! The ladies of The Professional Muslim Women podcast sit down and catch up on all that 2020 has dropped into their lives. As front line healthcare workers in the pandemic, their personal lives have been...
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Ep 23: Finance is a Mindset Game: How to Build Wealth and Improve your Financial Wellbeing with Saima Ali
Building wealth is not as hard as you think. The secrets have been out years ago. We just have to remind ourselves again and again and make a conscious effort to follow it. What comes to mind when you hear terms like...
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Ep 22: The Journey from Employee to Entrepreneur with Samira Ali
Quitting your job to start your own business is probably one of the riskiest paths you’d ever take. It’s full of uncertainties. What if you fail? You will surely scratch your knees along the way but once you get past...
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