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Our guest today is poet and theologian, Pádraig Ó Tuama’s , whose work centres around themes of language, power, conflict and religion. Working fluently on the page and in public, Pádraig is a compelling poet and skilled speaker, teacher and group worker. A profoundly engaging public speaker, Ó Tuama has worked with groups to explore story, conflict, their relationship with religion and argum...

Our guest today is Mahein Kazi , born and raised primarily in Pakistan, after having completed her Bachelor’s degree in Statistics & Economics, Mahein moved to Germany after marriage. Her interest in foreign languages led to her German Language Diploma from the Goethe Institute in Munich. She taught German as a foreign language before moving on to teaching Business English. Truly a global citi...

In conversation with Dr. Helen Redman, who is an experienced General Practitioner in South Birmingham, UK. Helen has a long term interest in menopause management and also works as a Specialist at Newson Health Menopause and Wellbeing Centre in Stratford upon Avon. Helen is passionate about raising awareness of issues related to the menopause and believes that access to correct, evidence-based info...

Our guest today is Dr. Abdallah Rothman is the founder of Shifaa Integrative Counseling, co-founder and Executive Director of the International Association of Islamic Psychology, and the Principal of Cambridge Muslim College. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist (ATR-BC), working at the intersection of Islamic spirituality and mental health p...

In conversation with Judith Hanson Lasater, PhD, PT, C-IAYT, ERYT-500, YACEPR, has taught yoga since 1971. She holds a doctorate in East-West psychology and is a physical therapist. Dr. Lasater is the president emeritus of the California Yoga Teachers Association, and is one of the founders of  Yoga Journal  magazine. She trains yoga teachers in asana, kinesiology, yoga therapeutics, and...

In conversation with Mr. Shad Moarif - who in 1986 established Pakistan’s first centre for Remedial Education and Assessment of Dyslexics( READ, Karachi) and introduced the practice of Educational Assessment & extensive clinical diagnostics to identify Language Learning difficulties. It helped parents understand there were reasons why their children were displaying behavioural difficulties. He...

Our guest today is Maya Lasker-Wallfisch who lives in London where she works as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and educator. She has specialized in working with people whose lives have been impacted by the Holocaust and other displacement trauma. Her book Letters to Breslau (Briefe nach Breslau) has been published by Suhrkamp For more details please click https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/letter_to...

 In conversation with A. Helwa who believes that every single person on Earth is deeply loved by the Divine. She is a writer who has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers through her passionate, poetic, and love-based approach to spirituality. Her popular blog @quranquotesdaily, was established while obtaining her Masters in Divinity, as a means of helping others overcome personal and spi...

In this podcast we are in conversation with Faiza Khan and Moni Mohsin  Faiza is a london based editor and critic with bylines in the Guardian, The New Republic, the FT. She is currently a consulting publisher with Bloomsbury Publishing. Moni Mohsin was born and raised in Lahore, Pakistan. She started her writing career at The Friday Times, Pakistan’s first independent weekly, where she served as...

Our guest in this episode is Hazel Kahan - Born in Lahore when it was still British India, the daughter of two Jewish refugee physicians, Hazel was educated by nuns, monks, missionaries, cosmopolitans and psychologists in India, Pakistan, England and Australia, swerving every now and then to gather world wisdoms offered by activists, New Agers, hippies, entrepreneurs, Muslims, Jews, Marxists, Hind...

In conversation with 3 boys placed in 3 different continents - it was a complete pleasure to talk to these young individuals who are ready to embark on a new academic chapter in their life.  My name is Emaad Saad. I was born in New Jersey, and spent ten years in Canada, after which I moved to Karachi where I'm now in A-levels at KGS as a pre med student. I believe in education and have an immense...

Our guest today is Dr. Bilal A Shaikh who graduated from the de’Montmorency college of dentistry Lahore in 1992 and started private clinical practice as an associate in Feb 1994. In 1998 he went for his post graduate, Masters programme in prosthodontics from Guys, kings & St’ Thomas’ school of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical sciences ( Now kings College London) . And now runs a private practice i...

Our guest today is Mrs. Shabina Mustafa , a woman of strength, grit and gumption. The story of Shabina Mustafa’s life is truly as inspirational as the school itself. She had a happy carefree childhood being the youngest among five siblings. She moved to Karachi after her marriage to Flight Lieutenant Syed Safi Mustafa who was martyred only after one year of his marriage with Shabina in 1971. Widow...

Our guest today is Aliya Farooq Pasha, who has taught English Literature and Language for over a decade from high schoolers to undergrads. Aliya's love for the subject also continues in news papers and magazines, where she has been a contributor and also the Editor of a magazine called Matrixmag published out of Islamabad , Pakistan. Aliya believes that Lahore is her soul city and is currently bus...

Our guest today is Zain Mustafa who is the President and Founding Member of the Society for the Protection of Animal Rights (SPAR) which came into existence in July 2017, triggered by the unfortunate loss of a Husky puppy whom he rescued from its owner who had it suffering in a small concrete floor enclosure outside his house on the footpath on the June heat of Karachi, lonely, neglected and in po...

Our guest today is Shayma Saadat an internationally published food writer (Globe and Mail, BBC, New York Times, CBC, Toronto Star, among others), whose work focuses on culture and identity. She is also a cook, food stylist and photographer and recipe developer. A proud Torontonian, Shayma is a Pakistani-Afghan with Persian ancestry, and loves to combine the food of her heritage—which she calls Sil...

Our guest today is Karla McLaren, M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. She is the founder and CEO of Emotion Dynamics LLC and the developer...

Our Guest today is Marvin Singh, M.D is an Integrative Gastroenterologist in San Diego, California, and a Member of the Board and Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Medicine. He is also trained and board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology/Hepatology. As Dr. Singh says in one of his interviews "My best piece of wellness advice is to never give up or get discouraged. Fin...

Diane Malaspina (Ph. D.) is an experienced, 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (e-RYT 500), an Applied Psychologist, and a Senior Teacher for international yoga training program, Yoga Medicine©. Combining yoga tradition and modern science, she teaches evidenced-based methods for healing, stress prevention, and sustainable well-being through yoga sessions, workshops, and teacher trainings -...

Our guest today is Jason Crandell , a natural teacher and author with more than 20 years of experience. Named “one of the teachers shaping the future of yoga,” by Yoga Journal, Jason has been an in-demand teacher at conferences around the world for more than a decade. Considered a teacher’s teacher, Jason has taught on countless teacher training faculties, leads trainings globally, and regularly p...

Our guest today is Amneh Shaikh-Farooqui, who  is a management-consulting professional and gender specialist with fourteen years of experience in economic development, poverty reduction, environment and health initiatives. Amneh supports and helps lead a not-for-profit organization called the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Institute ( www.ecdipakistan.org ) which specialises in mi...

Arsalan Aziz is an architect, based in London, UK and his experience ranges from a small bespoke architectural firm dealing with residential design to one of the leading architectural practises in London, dealing with award winning large scale luxury residential developments and large scale mixed use developments. Following this Arsalan has also worked in conjunction with a London property develop...

 Emil Ihsan Alexander is the creator of Soul of Islam Radio and the Spiritual Excellence personal growth and spiritual development program which consists of key courses and resources to help members of the global community rediscover the power and the practicality of classical and traditional faith-based spirituality in the context of modern life and living. His most popular program to date is the...

Nabila has been in the styling and image building industry for over 35 years. Starting from a humble background she knew she had a special liking for hair and scissors. In her own words she is " chic, defiant, disruptive, legendary, phenomenal, rebellious, magical, power & bold" Brick by brick , Nabila has built her empire , constituting of state of the art salons and miraculous image-related...

Tiffany Cruikshank is the founder of Yoga Medicine® (@yoga_medicine), a community of teachers focused on fusing anatomy and western medicine with traditional yoga practices to serve the medical communities. She has trained thousands of teachers around the world, graced the cover of over 15 magazines, been featured regularly in major media outlets, authored 2 books.  With a background in Acupu...