Can You Be a Devout Muslim and a Competitive Athlete? | Hoopjabi's Journey | Finding Home EP 15

Can You Be a Devout Muslim and a Competitive Athlete? | Hoopjabi's Journey | Finding Home EP 15

Growing up Muslim and athletic in America isn't as straightforward as it sounds. Saliha - known online as Hoopjabi - spent years asking herself the same questions. Was she American enough? Muslim enough? Could she be both a devout Muslim and a serious athlete? In this conversation, we go deep on the identity crisis of being a Muslim woman in sport, the challenge of balancing modesty with performance, why the Muslim fitness industry is one of the most untapped spaces in the world, and how Hoopjabi is building something to change that. This is for every Muslim girl who was ever told her faith and her ambitions don't belong together. Finding Home is the podcast for people who belong everywhere and nowhere. New episodes biweekly. Socoals: Guest - Hoopjabi (Saliha) https://www.instagram.com/hoopjabi/ https://www.tiktok.com/@hoopjabi Host - Meed (Ahmed Kwesi) https://www.instagram.com/ahmeedius https://www.youtube.com/@ahmeedius/videos https://www.tiktok.com/@findinghome.pod

Ep 14: I Left Korea. Now What? | Solo Episode

After a year in Korea, it's time to talk. This is the intermission episode. The Seoul chapter is closed. The London chapter is beginning. No guest. Just me giving you the most honest update I can. What Korea was really like, how it feels being back in London, what I'm building next, and why I started Finding Home in the first place. This podcast exists to give underrepresented voices a platform. This episode is where I finally tell you mine. Season 2 starts now. Finding Home is the podcast for people who belong everywhere and nowhere. Hosted by a British-Ghanaian-Lebanese Muslim navigating life between cultures. New episodes biweekly.

Ep 13: From Lagos to Seoul to Global Influencer | Prisca

She came to Korea for university and never left. Over a decade later Prisca is completing her PhD at Ewha - Korea's most prestigious women's university - while building a global platform with millions of views as one of Korea's most recognised African influencers. In this conversation we go deep on what it actually means to build a life in Korea as a Nigerian woman. The culture shock, the academic journey, the lack of support from African governments for students abroad, and how she turned her experience into a platform that reaches the world. This is what a decade of Finding Home looks like. Finding Home is the podcast for people who belong everywhere and nowhere. New episodes drop biweekly.

Ep 12: Korea Stopped Her From Dancing | Samira

She left London for Korea with two goals - teach English and dance. The teaching worked. The dancing didn't. Visa rules meant every opportunity to perform had to be turned down, one by one. Samira is a Somalian Muslim woman from London who built a life in Korea and found herself navigating faith, identity and the gap between the dream and the reality - all at the same time. In this episode we talk about: * Life as an ethnic minority in Korea * Navigating faith as a Muslim woman abroad * Teaching English in Korea and what nobody tells you before you go * How visa restrictions killed her dancing opportunities in Korea * Working with global music artists * What home actually means when you've built a life somewhere that was never meant to be permanent This conversation goes deep on what it actually means to chase your passion in a country that wasn't built for you. Finding Home is the podcast for people who belong everywhere and nowhere. New episodes drop biweekly.

Ep 11: Moroccan Artist Survives Homelessness in Seoul | Yuri

She arrived in Korea from Morocco with a dream and almost lost everything. Her first manager scammed her - took her music, her money, her momentum. She spent two weeks homeless in Seoul with nothing but the decision to keep going. Today Yuri is a working artist collaborating with K-Pop idols and rappers in both Korea and Morocco. In this conversation we go deep on her journey — the survival jobs, the betrayal, the two weeks with nowhere to sleep, and how she rebuilt herself into one of the most unique voices operating across two music industries and two cultures. This is what Finding Home actually sounds like. In this episode we talk about:— Growing up in Morocco and what pushed her to move to Korea— Working multiple jobs just to survive in a foreign country— How her first manager scammed her and took everything— Surviving homelessness in Seoul for two weeks— How she rebuilt from nothing and broke into the Korean music industry— What it means to be a Moroccan Muslim woman making music in Korea— Working with K-Pop idols and Moroccan rappers today Finding Home is the podcast for people who belong everywhere and nowhere. New episodes drop biweekly.