Unapologetically Me with Shaymaa Ismaa’eel

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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

4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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In Episode 14, Shaymaa Ismaa’eel joins us to discuss her journey in connecting spiritually to her faith. Although, that journey varies from one person to the next, Shaymaa's approach to finding her place in Islam is truly inspirational. We also talk about what it's like to be visibly Muslim in today's political climate and how she deals with racism. We learn though that racism doesn't always come from outside of one's religious group and as a Black-Muslim, Shaymaa deals with this problem in d...

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 14 of unsweetened and unfiltered.
0:14.0	Zana, girl, how are you feeling?
0:15.7	I'm good. I'm just annoyed. Tell me why you're annoyed as usual.
0:19.5	We spoke about this before, but it's so hard
0:22.5	to find modest dresses, like formal modest dresses that you wear to like a close relatives
0:28.8	wedding. And like, I have to go to like the seamstress and like deal with fabrics. And it's like,
0:34.2	it's so annoying. There's like a two-part thing with finding dresses as a Muslim
0:38.0	girl because you find the dress that you're like, okay, I think it's cute, but then you kind of look
0:42.7	at like, damn, the back is missing, the arms are missing. There's a slit. I don't understand
0:47.0	why there's slits in dresses. Like, there's just so much going on. And it's like sometimes you find nice dresses and it has like a halter top and it's like there's no way you can add sleeves to an alter top.
0:55.7	I hate halter tops.
0:56.9	I do too, but like sometimes the dresses are cute or like you just can't fix it no matter how much work you put into it or even if you can fix it.
1:04.7	It looks so patchy and it's like when do we ever win?
1:08.4	When do we ever win by not going to all these weddings and events and just sending like a,
1:12.9	you know, congratulations card.
1:14.4	It doesn't always work like that though.
1:15.8	I can't find a dress.
1:16.8	I know.
1:17.2	I think I've gotten to the point where like it's very hard for me to like go to every wedding
1:23.3	and every event.
1:24.6	Yeah.
1:25.1	But then you feel kind of obligated because it's like more so really, really close family.
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