Cousin Connection Pod

In this week's episode, we are starting a new series called the Spotlight Series where we invite guests of various backgrounds and shine a spotlight on their accomplishments, their backgrounds and upcoming endeavours. To kickstart the first episode in this series, we were joined by a special guest, Mohamed Osman AKA MK! As one half of the Imbalanced Podcast - MK shares his story of how he upro...

In this week's episode of the Cousin Connection Podcast, we addressed the difference between Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence as a continuation of our discussion from Episode 19 - Self Doubt (ps. if you haven't listened to that episode yet, go check it out!).  We then went on to talk about some of the experiences we've had as first generation Harari-Canadians which I'm sure aren&#39...

In this week's episode, we have finally transitioned to YouTube!! We went over a bunch of different topics including "gym-bro behaviour", when it's time to let go of a book without finishing it, Sara recalls her traumatizing ski trip and Amir's first YouTube video titled "Ski Trip and Fall" LOL. We also discussed our experiences with seasonal depression and how we have...

Have any of you ever experienced self-doubt? Do you feel like maybe you’re not good enough for certain experiences, roles, or for the relationships in your life? In this week’s episode, we discuss our experiences with self doubt in our day to day lives, at work and within our friendships. We also touched on imposter syndrome and how we’ve been trying to work on reducing the self doubt. We’re all t...

In this week's episode, we discuss the art of tipping in the service/food industry and how we got called out for not tipping at a sushi restaurant. Do you tip your server, regardless of how well the service is?  We also discuss whether we should be cancelling "cancel culture" -- should we punish celebrities/influencers for something they did/tweeted 5+ years ago? Why don't we allow...

In this weeks episode, we discuss friendship GREEN flags! Everyone is always so focused on the red flags we should be avoiding in any of our relationships but Amir and I…mostly I decided that it’s time to focus on the positive traits that we should be looking out for. Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to follow our podcast page on Instagram: @cousinconnectionpod Advertising Inquiries: https://red...

Hey cousins...clearly the reverse psychology worked and you clicked on this episode! When we recorded this week’s episode, it sounded like a good idea at first but we might have just committed social suicide! These are the types of convos we REALLY have offline. We hope you found some humour in the stories we shared and can maybe relate? IBS anyone? Thank you for listening! Follow us on IG: @cousi...

This week on the podcast, we dive into some of our insecurities and phobias…but with a more light hearted approach. Our conversations span from toxic masculinity to kids krumping in a summer camp dance competition. Hopefully you enjoy listening to this episode as much as we loved making it! Follow us on IG:  @cousinconnectionpod  @amirwastaken  @alisara__  Thank you so much for listening! :) Adver...

This week's episode covers the Body Positivity movement that is super popular at the moment. Now we are all for body positivity, HOWEVER we do not agree with shaming someone who chooses to lose weight for their own reasons.  We discuss our experiences with body dysmorphia and how family pressures, society pressures and social media has contributed to this.  We got our girl Nabat back for anoth...

In today’s episode, we’re discussing what it’s like to be a hijabi in the society we’re currently in. We got into a real good discussion about the haram police and how to properly advice your Muslim sisters (and brothers!) on social media. And of course we did all this with the help of a special guest, our long time bestie - Nabat!  We'd love to hear your thoughts on our topic - you know what...

In this week's episode we discuss our experience, and introduction to the culture of consumerism. We also touch on the rise of Instagram influencers and the social pressures to always have the latest clothes and tech. And of course we rambled a little in this episode…but this wouldn't be the cousin connection without going off topic.  Thank you so much for listening! We'd love to conne...

How would you define ‘hitting rock bottom’? In this week's episode, we discuss our experience with the low points in life and how we overcame it. Everyone defines hitting rock bottom differently and choose to bounce back in many different ways, we hope that you can relate to our experiences and if you're going through something -- you're not alone!  Thank you so much for listening! We&...

Another week, another podcast!  In this week's episode, we asked ourselves why we choose to focus on certain world issues over the other. Does it reeeally matter if your fave celeb posts about a global issue that you are passionate about? Are you a bad person if you choose not to post about Palestine? BLM? Uyghur Muslims? The Ethiopia-Tigray Conflict? Yemen? The War on the Middle East? ...and...

In this week's episode, we are getting into Part 2 of the Relationship Talks series!! We were joined by Nabela, Hidaya and Khalid from Melbourne, Australia and Sabri from Toronto to discuss the realities of married life. We asked you all on Instagram to send in questions that you would like to ask our panel of marriage experts and boy did y'all deliver! We hope you enjoyed what everyone ha...

Welcome back to another week with the Cousin Connection Podcast!  In this week's episode, we discuss why we (as first generation Canadian Hararis) assimilated to African-American culture. It's a touchy topic but it's our reality and we're sure many of you have gone through this experience as well. We also shared some stories about whether we were ashamed/embarrassed to be labeled a...

Hellooo everybody!  Welcome back to another episode of the Cousin Connection Podcast! We are so excited to introduce this new series that we will have on our Podcast called Relationship Talks! We all know that this is everyone's favourite topic so we started off the series by talking about why we are still single, should we be lowering our standards if we're 30+ and still single and whethe...

Welcome back to the Cousin Connection Podcast! In this week's episode, we are discussing the horrible violence, illegal occupation of Palestine, how the US supports the Zionists and what we can do to support our Palestinian brothers and sisters. We also discuss how the blatant racism towards the Palestinians reminds us of the blatant racism that Black people face (mostly in the US) and briefly...

Welcome back to another episode of the Cousin Connection Podcast everybody!! In this week's episode, we're not going to lie, we were definitely all over the place. It was "late" at night (it was really only like 8pm but Amir thinks that's late so...) and we were all over the place with our conversation. We started off comparing shower and skincare routines and then got into wei...

Happy Thursday everyone!! In this week's episode of the Cousin Connection Podcase, we're talking about everyone's favourite topic....QUARANTINE! We talk about the stimmy $$$, how the quarantine experience was for each of us and our self-development journey and traveling during COVID. Catch a new episode every Thursday. Listen to us on all podcast platforms - we available everywhere now...

Ramadan Mubarak everybody!  We're hitting y'all with back to back episodes this week. In today's episode, we're talking about spending another year in lockdown during Ramadan, our goals for the month, our favourite memories and of course all things Eid-related! Hit us up on instagram to tell us your favourite memories about Ramadan and Eid growing up. In sha Allah we all continue t...

Hello everybody!!!  Welcome to our first ever episode of the Cousin Connection Podcast! In our intro episode, we talk about our memories of growing up together and share our reasons and motivation behind starting this podcast. We hope you will continue to join us as we share our conversations and maybe have a laugh or two or learn something new.   Look out for a new episode every Thursday!  ======...