Simspace

I’ve started over more times than I can count. In this episode, I’m sharing the moments that forced me to rebuild my life from the ground up—moving countries as a child, navigating my identity, losing relationships I thought would last forever, closing chapters I wasn’t ready to let go of, and finding myself asking the same question over and over again: “Now what?” For a long time, I thought start...

There are conversations that stay with you… and then there are moments that change how you see everything. This episode unpacks the “two finger ultimatum”,  a situation many people recognise but rarely speak about openly. On the surface, it looks like a choice. In reality, it’s something much deeper. We’re talking about family, pressure, religion, identity, and what happens when love starts to fee...

What does it mean to grow up Somali, Muslim, and gay? In this episode of Simspace, I speak openly about my experience navigating identity, faith, culture, and family expectations. Growing up Somali and Muslim often comes with a script for how life is supposed to unfold. But what happens when your truth doesn’t fit that script? In this episode I talk about the silence that often surrounds conversat...

I announced this podcast with chest. Visuals done. Confidence loud. Energy high. And then I disappeared. Not because I didn’t care. Not because I gave up. But because 2025 decided to test every area of my life at the same time. In this first episode of Simspace, I talk about what really happened during those eight months. The ego hit of announcing something publicly and not delivering. The relatio...