How Do You Turn Your Story Into Your Superpower? | Zaakirah Muhammad

How Do You Turn Your Story Into Your Superpower? | Zaakirah Muhammad

She lost her eye to cancer at nine months old. Grew up Black American Muslim: African and American at once, never fully either. And she turned every single part of that into a brand. Zaakirah Muhammad is a TEDx speaker, brand strategist and world traveler who has visited over fifteen countries. In this conversation we go deep on identity, the African diaspora, finding your purpose and how to build something meaningful from the life you've actually lived. She also did a DNA test that confirmed Ghanaian ancestry years after she'd already been there and felt at home without knowing why. This is what happens when you stop seeing your story as a burden and start seeing it as your superpower. Finding Home is the podcast for people who belong everywhere and nowhere. New episodes biweekly. 🔗 Socials: Zaakirah Nayyar Muhammad (Guest): YouTube -  ⁨@illuminousone⁩  [https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCBxoOqGM0cQ-pKRQ96IZjJw] Website - https://zaakirahnayyar.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/illuminousone/ Meed (Host): Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ahmeedius YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@ahmeedius/

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.