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Along the way, Zaid talks openly about personal victories, painful setbacks, lessons learned, creative projects, his memoir, career goals, men’s issues, community service, and the ideas that continue to shape who he is becoming.<br /><br />Living My Purpose is about redemption without perfection, progress without pretending, and finding purpose in every season of life.<br /><br />Become a supporter of this podcast: <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/izaid-living-my-purpose-victories-through-redemption--5074306/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss">https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/izaid-living-my-purpose-victories-through-redemption--5074306/support</a>.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture"><itunes:category text="Personal Journals"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality"><itunes:category text="Islam"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Education"><itunes:category text="Self-Improvement"/></itunes:category><itunes:explicit>true</itunes:explicit><podcast:guid>60611b96-3a94-5665-8f88-73dfb6aae3b6</podcast:guid><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><podcast:funding url="https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/izaid-living-my-purpose-victories-through-redemption--5074306/support?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss">Support the podcast!</podcast:funding><item><title>The Prayer Block — Clean Version</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-prayer-block-clean-version--75386947</link><description><![CDATA[What happens when you have plenty to say — until it’s time to speak honestly to Allah?<br /> In Episode 1 of <b>iZAID</b>, I explore what I call <b>“the prayer block”</b>: faith, recovery, self-reflection, conflict, better choices, and learning to keep moving forward while still figuring life out in real time.<br /> I also introduce the working title of my memoir, <b>B-Zaid: Decoded</b>.<br /><b>Explicit version:</b> adult language and mature themes.<br /> The fight continues. 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