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Unswtnd + Unfltrd

Finding the Silver Lining Within Our Hardships and Embodying Gratitude with Lina Bettayeb

Unswtnd + Unfltrd

Unswtnd+Unfltrd

Relationships, Depression, Society & Culture, Women, Health & Fitness, Self Care, Islam, Mental Illness, Politics, Sisterhood. Life Coach, Faith, Anxiety, Divorce, Mental Health, Relationship Advice, Religion & Spirituality, Marriage, Muslim Women, Muslim, Taboo

4.9685 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 39, Lina Bettayeb joins us as she dives into the family trip that had completely changed her life. At the age of 16, Lina and her family embark on a journey to Umrah. Her memory jumps from a joyous van full of her loved ones on their way to complete their pilgrimage to waking up in the hospital connected to several life-saving machines. Although, she still can't piece together the memories of what happened that day, Lina tells us that her dad was the one to fill her in: A...

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 39 of unsweetened and unfiltered.

0:13.6

My cheeks still hurt from laughing so much at the Wellishie's funny comedy show last night.

0:18.4

You guys, okay, that was like my first ever real comedy show and

0:22.3

it was amazing because it was all muslim women and ill muslims and penny appeal hosted it and i know we

0:27.5

snapped it so you guys probably seen it but well laia i've never been to a funnier comedy show i know you

0:32.2

i said that was the only one i've ever been to but i don't think i'll ever go to one that's even

0:35.3

funnier than that one i was sitting next to you and Dunya was laughing at everything.

0:39.7

And sometimes I was like, oh shoot, did I just snore?

0:43.2

Because you guys, we had like, yes guru, which everybody knows.

0:46.7

Like, she was freaking amazing.

0:48.5

Well, you guys might know her as Yasminat Shadi, but on Instagram she's Yasur.

0:52.6

Dude, like, I was like you did you guys ever watch that

0:55.5

movie um I think it was called the Nani Professor yeah where they go to a comedy show and then the

0:59.6

guy was picking on like Eddie Murphy or whatever I was like please do not pick up pick on me I'd be so

1:04.9

scared I would hate to sit in the front row because I'm like I would not know what to do in that

1:09.5

situation girl I was like in the center so I

1:11.5

was like please do not say anything to me but I think we were like playing a safe it was just us

1:15.3

girls so we did not get picked on but the point is she is so witty that she was just able to just like

1:20.9

look at the audience and just say random funny jokes about everybody like it and they were like

1:25.5

harder to you guys she was not like when i say picking on people she wasn't like you know tearing up into pieces but it was so good so like I commend

1:33.3

ill Muslims and penny appeal for putting this together like we were advertising it like crazy because

1:38.1

we want obviously to meet everybody at the Chicago show and it was sold out it was sold out it we were

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