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When Boys Are Forced to Marry | Impacts on Trust, Bonding & Accountability 30.12.2025 26min

In this episode of Boys Don’t Cry, we tackle a sensitive but important topic: the impacts of forcing boys into marriage. This conversation is deeply personal to me, and I share why before offering practical action items for parents. 💭✨ We explore three major consequences. This episode is about understanding how cultural pressures can harm not just boys, but families and communities. By opening dialogue, we can shift from control to compassion, and from pressure to partnership. 👉 Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more episodes of Boys Don’t Cry, where we challenge stereotypes and open up honest conversations about men’s emotional wellness.

Educators & Boys' Mental Health: Classrooms as safe havens 15.12.2025 1h

In this episode of Boys Don’t Cry, we explore the vital role educators play in shaping classrooms into safe havens for boys. 🏫✨ This conversation covers: • 🧠 Why boys need emotionally safe spaces in schools • 👨‍🏫 How educators can foster trust, vulnerability, and healing • 💬 What's the line between discipline and emotional safety • 🌍 The broader impact of safe classrooms on men’s mental health and cultural narratives Our goal is to highlight how classrooms can become more than places of learning—they can be spaces of healing, growth, and transformation.

Role of educators and its impact on boys 27.11.2025 1h 2min

In this powerful episode of Boys Don’t Cry, I sit down with a former teacher, principal and an administrator (and an Influencer in her own right) to explore the often-overlooked emotional influence educators have on boys during their formative years. From classroom discipline to hallway conversations, we unpack how school environments either reinforce emotional suppression or create space for vulnerability and growth. Whether you’re a parent, teacher, coach, or community leader, get ready to be challenged to rethink what it means to raise emotionally healthy boys—and how educators are uniquely positioned to be the architects of that transformation. 🔔 Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe if this helped you or someone you love.

Healing from abuse: From accountability to therapy 23.11.2025 41min

Healing from abuse is not a straight line — it’s a deeply personal journey that requires courage, support, and intentional action. In this video, we explore the key pathways to healing after experiencing emotional, physical, or psychological abuse: 🔹 The role of therapy in processing trauma 🔹 The importance of accountability 🔹 The power and complexity of forgiveness, and how it can (or can’t) play a part Whether you’re a survivor, a supporter, or someone working to understand trauma better, this conversation offers a grounded, hope-filled look at what healing can actually look like. You are not alone. Healing is possible. Change is real. Let’s talk about it — with honesty, empathy, and strength.

Abusive men: Monsters or product of generational conditioning 18.11.2025 21min

Are abusive men born this way or are they made to become so they dish out the most gruesome of treatment to others. As I venture out to start conversation around Men's Mental Health, I start with this all important question for in case of an abusive male, whose finger is being used, who loads the gun and whose shoulder is being used to fire the shots... Are such men born that way or were they a products of lifelong conditioning.

Why men's mental health is still a difficult topic 14.11.2025 56min

I speak with my first guest ‪Sohail Bukharee on men's mental health podcast titled "Boys don't cry". Join the conversation as we reflect on: - Why this is such a difficult topic not just for men but for muslim men specifically - Why is it hard for men to open up and consider mental health issues and resolution thereof - How does it impact everyone around - What has he learnt in his life and work he does in how we can tackle this

Leadership Agility - Keys to organizational progress 12.11.2024 5min

What is business agility? Is it fast decision making or is it decision making at the very operational level? How much impact does positive mindset have on business and organizational agility? Let's talk...

Scrum Master & Product Owner - One Person Two Roles 12.11.2024 5min

Scrum Master and Product Owner are two distinct roles within agile framework that ensure planning and delivery of work in a methodical and seamless fashion. Can one person be both product owner and scrum master? I share my perspective and would love to hear from you.

Is your organization suffering from Framework Syndrome? 12.11.2024 5min

Is your organization suffering from framework syndrome as to which framework to use, whether to stay waterfall or to try embracing agility in mindset and practice adoption?

Agility & Non - IT Organizations 12.11.2024 6min

I speak about how non IT organizations can embrace agility by virtue of a collective people, product and process approach.

So You Want To Be A Scrum Master ! 09.11.2024 12min

This episode covers competencies you will employ in order to become a good scrum master. What are those character traits that you will need to excel at your job as a scrum master? How can you anticipate various dependencies arising in team of teams environment? What knowledge gap you need to overcome in order to transition to a scrum master?

Surah Qalam (33-52) #68 - Allah's questions to non believers 06.11.2024 55min

This third and final part of Surah Qalam/Nun deals in how Allah repeatedly asks Kuffaar questions which within themselves are statements in relation to Allah's grandeur and omnipresent status. Allah wraps up this surah with mention of Prophet of the whale and how repentance can work wonders to attract Allah's forgiveness and rahma (blessings).

Surah Qalam (17-33) #68 - Warning through storytelling 13.10.2024 28min

This part of Surah Qalam reflects upon Allah's story telling technique used to warn people of Makkah for their behavior towards Prophet Mohammad who like People of Garden transgressed and deemed themselves beyond reproach eventually to repent.

Surah Qalam (1-16) #68 - Allah's mic drop moment 12.10.2024 43min

This first of three parts of Surah Qalam is about how Allah is comforting Prophet Mohammad when people (Kuffaar) of Makkah have started calling him a madman in light of him spreading word of Allah and practices taught by Allah to people of Makkah. This also covers personality traits of individuals who will be at immense loss and in danger of being marked by Allah...

Surah Alaq (6-19) #96 - Transgressor & Prostrate Oh Prophet 12.10.2024 31min

This second part of Surah Alaq is for when Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) started praying according to how Allah taught him which instigated Kuffar, especially Abu-Jahl and he became enemy number one for Muslims and Prophet Mohammad Source: Quran.com Sunnah.com The Quran, Translation by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem Tafheem ul Quran (Urdu) by Maulana Maudidi Lessons from the lives of those went went astray (Lesson No. 4)

Surah Alaq (1-5) #96 - Beginning of the end: Read !!! 12.10.2024 19min

This episode covers first five ayaat of Surah Alaq (96) of Quran as part of my journey through understanding of word of Allah in context of events surrounding revelation.

Tale of two words 04.08.2024 23min

This is inspired from my humble understanding of influence and significance of these two words in the life of a muslim. What is perceive for these two words to mean and reflect towards a muslim's life. Furthermore, how these two words form the cornerstone of our life along with everything else that I can and should strive to do in my lifetime.

Dependency Management & how it impacts organizational culture 18.09.2023 48min

This was a webinar I did on June 01 2023 but never got around editing it. The topic is Dependency Management and how it impacts organizational culture where I share my personal experience working dependencies on team, program and enterprise level.

Scrum Master: From good to a great one ! 18.03.2023 5min

This episode encapsulates one key factor, (based on my experience in the field working as a scrum master, with scrum masters as an agile coach and RTE and even as product owner) paying attention to which can help a scrum master moving the needle from being a good to a great one at it. What is this one critical success factor which does need help from so many other facets of a scrum master persona to succeed. @agilepakistan @pakistanagileeducation5104 @PakistanAgileScrumExchange @AgileIndy @Agilealliance @agilealliancebrazil-meetup9795 @agileindonesia6256 @scrumalliance @ScrumOrg @ScaledAgileInc

Scrum Master: What drives your success in this role... 10.03.2023 11min

This track deals with what makes for a relatively successful transition into the role of a scrum master providing you a platform for ongoing success. This is by no means a silver bullet and like any other role and you need constant learning and evolution to impact incremental relentless improvement.