If you can bear with the awful audio quality of this recording, you are going to really enjoy this interview. Recently, I was interviewed by the BBC for their Heart and Soul podcast for a documentary about the rise of the Muslim manosphere.

When I recorded this interview, I had to do it off of a screen share. I didn’t get the Zoom recording. I asked them for the recording but they refused, it’s not something they do. So I had to ninja record it. Alhamdulillah that I did, because they used less than 5% of a 45-minute interview.

But the audio quality turned out to be really bad. So I had to manually go through and increase the levels when the host spoke. That took several hours. But it’s done now and the podcast is out on BBC too. You can listen to it here.

What I would suggest though, is that you listen to this interview first and then go listen to the Heart and Soul documentary. Because the full unedited interview will give you more context on what we talked about, the tone of the discussion and the overall vibe, as opposed to the chopped-up clips that you’re going to hear on the BBC Heart and Soul podcast, which were edited to fit the story that they were trying to tell.

So here’s the interview. Enjoy. Let me know what you think in the comments. And remember to subscribe to our newsletter.

The Boys In The Cave podcast recently interviewed Becoming The Alpha Muslim. After publishing the episode, they faced criticism and pressure from SJW Muslims online. They caved to the pressure and took down the episode. Here is the full, unedited interview for your listening pleasure. 

Full show notes are available here: http://bit.ly/boysinthecave

I first came across Hodan Ibrahim in 2016, when she basically dropped everything she was doing in Canada and moved to Dubai to organize and host M-Powered Summit.

This was a first-of-its-kind conference on Muslim startups and entrepreneurship.

I ended up interviewing her and her co-founder for Ilmfeed, and also did writeups of the event.

I haven't seen one like it, since.

She hosted another, similar conference in Malaysia then next year, and has since moved on to bigger and better things.

You see, Hodan is a serial entrepreneur.

Being an entrepreneur is "cool" now...every other Instagram profile has the title splashed across their bio.

But Hodan was in the entrepreneurship Game long before it was even a thing.

As a first-generation, Somali-Canadian immigrant Muslim (her family fled because of the war,) she ticked multiple minority status boxes...

And frequently found herself the only black woman in a room full of white men.

None of this stopped her.

What's interesting to me is how she didn't let her hamster run wild and create a narrative of victimhood (Feminism, Patriarchy, Toxic Masculinity, yadda yadda yadda.)

She just did what she had to do to get where she needed to go.

And it was her faith that aided her.

In this episode of the Becoming the Alpha Muslim podcast, Hodan and I talk about:

• Being a minority business owner as a first generation Somali-Canadian immigrant black Muslimah
• The historical context behind attitudes toward Muslim women today
• Feminism (and why Muslim women don't need it)
• How Muslim women can develop their self-worth and happiness
• Why she's pro-polygyny and thinks its the best relationship arrangement for her personality and lifestyle
• And a bunch of other topics

For complete show notes, visit our blog:

https://becomingthealphamuslim.com/muslimah-serial-entrepreneur-hodan-ibrahim