You're listening to Unsweeten and Unfiltered the podcast, Episode 7 of Season 2.

Fear often keeps us from going down the path less traveled, even if that path is where our hopes and dreams live.

Today, we sit down with Malika Bilal to talk about following your dreams while navigating your fears,

working as a black female Muslim journalist in America and how she's using her platform

to debunk any fake news about her identities.

Hey, it's Danielle and Zana.

And welcome to Unsweeten and Unfiltered, the podcast where we elevate the voices of women by sharing their stories of struggle while also highlighting their success.

We wanted to create a space for women to feel like they're not alone in whatever hardship they may be facing.

Some conversations may be lighthearted, while others may touch upon taboo topics ranging from mental health to women's bodies and spiritual struggles, and we don't

shy away from any of it.

But our overall mission is to make every woman realize that she is not alone.

We are all in this together, I promise.

Our sole purpose is to build relationships, not barriers, between you and the woman who may

need you.

We're here to provide inspiration and to build courage.

Tune in every Wednesday, we will future an insightful guest who will help us reach these

goals. We laugh, we ugly cry, and we'll probably laugh some more. So plug in your headphones,

grab your favorite cup of coffee or Shea and get ready to become a part of this

unbreakable sisterhood. You are tuning into season two of unsweet and unfiltered.

So we've only been three months into 2020 and it's already been very hard and a lot of people and so

much has been going on.

And I just want to take a moment before we really dive into what's really going on around the

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