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Sep 2019
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Befriending Failure and Embracing Our Th...

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In Episode 26, Sahar Shafi leaves us feeling all types of ways with her vulnerability, honesty and all around adorable charm. 

Although, she's currently a successful Periodontal & Implant Surgeon (mashallah), Sahar tells us she's no stranger to failure. After moving away to attend a fairly large university, her grades suffered tremendously during her freshman year.  Sahar talks about accepting the fact that something she once really wanted wasn’t in God’s plan for her. She discusses her choice to move back home and how she pulled herself out of that hole and to go on and graduate Magna Cum Laude. 

Her positive outlook on life is prevalent in everything she does; from aging to tackling life’s toughest obstacles, Sahar gives us some insight on how she uses her faith to keep moving forward. 

This positivity is put to the test as Sahar begins to discuss her journey with Crohn’s disease and Endometriosis. She explains how they have impacted her life and the ways she’s found peace in accepting the diagnosis. Sahar also opens up about her infertility journey and she shares with us the life changing decision that she has had to make.


We are left with an everlasting imprint of who she truly is as a person: a beautiful being both inside and out. 

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