Episode 398: Faisal & Kaya

Freshly Grounded

Faisal & Sam

Muslimpodcast, Freshlygrounded, Islam, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 941 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Faisal and Kaya flip the usual “life is a sprint” motivational message on its head.

Instead of talking about short bursts of intensity, they dive into the marathon parts of life: the slow, steady habits that compound over years and truly shape who we become.

From memorizing the Qur’an (even just 3 āyāt a day), to cutting sugar from your tea, to improving in sales, lowering your gaze, managing finances, and building patience (ṣabr & ḥilm), the brothers reflect on the things worth pacing yourself for.

This is an episode about playing the long game in life: spiritually, financially, and personally.

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0:00.0	Okay, so for this podcast, here's what we're going to do, brother. I was making a bunch of
0:04.2	reels yesterday and I was looking at them at my blue book and I was looking through them
0:11.2	for like what we could talk about in today's episode. And then I thought, oh, this would be a good
0:15.4	topic. And so in one of the reels, basically, I talk about how you hear this narrative that
0:19.7	life is a marathon, but there's times where
0:22.8	you have to sprint. And I think we talk about is, you know, it's a common theme and a lot of
0:26.2	motivational videos. So I thought for today's episode, what we could talk about is the opposite of
0:30.1	that. You know, the beginning of that sentence is that life is a marathon. And for most of life
0:35.8	is a marathon. Most of life is steady. And there's moments
0:39.6	when you go full force and you go, you go, you sprint. But I thought maybe we could both,
0:45.2	we could talk about the marathon bits. So talk about things in life that are like a marathon
0:50.9	that slowly and steadily throughout the course of your life,
0:55.0	you should constantly try and improve and increase and do better at.
0:59.6	Yeah, good. I like it. It's a good framework, isn't it?
1:02.3	It is a good framework, yeah. So, you know, we often talk about the sprint phases,
1:06.3	but I thought let's talk about the slow, boring stuff today.
1:08.7	Yeah, I like that. Um, you mentioned before talk about the slow, boring stuff today. Yeah. I like that.
1:15.7	You mentioned before, like, fifth and stuff, learning Quran. I think it's a good place to start.
1:21.9	Yeah. Yeah. So I noted some down and I asked you to know some dimes also. We can start with some suggestions that I have of things that. And I think while you get that, let me just like,
1:25.5	when you said the marathon sprint to me, yeah, I saw it as a framework of like, okay, why, why even be in a marathon? Why even be, why is it a marathon? Like, why is it, why are we, why are we racing at this point, right? Um, and why we're not always just sprinting, but why not just sprint forever, essentially.
1:44.5	And I think one, that's not always just sprinting. Why not just sprint forever, essentially?
1:48.0	And I think one, that's not realistic to sprint forever.
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