33 min
Start Fail Repeat | Episode 6 | Nafisa Bakkar | Creating meaningful experiences with Muslim audiences & launching a platform. Start Fail Repeat
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Nafisa Bakkar is co-founder and CEO of the award-winning media platform, Amaliah.
After graduating with a degree in Natural Sciences, Nafisa learnt to code and built Amaliah, with her co-founder and sister, into one of the UK’s leading platforms for Muslim women. Today, Amaliah has a digital footprint of 4.2 million each month. Through articles, videos, podcasts, events and brand partnerships, Amaliah creates meaningful moments for Muslim women to feel seen. Nafisa has worked with global brands and agencies like WGSN, Universal, eBay, Lush, and Marks and Spencer to help them understand how to create meaningful moments for their audience and communities.
Nafisa is also the CEO of Halal Gems, a halal food discovery platform which runs one of London’s biggest street food festivals, seeing over 150,000 attendees over 3 years at Old Spitalfields Market.
In this episode, we chat about what led Nafisa to start her platform Amaliah and the challenges she's faced overcoming imposter syndrome.
We also discuss why brands need to be better at speaking to Muslim audiences and how they can go about doing that.
If you liked the episode, please subscribe and leave a review!
Thanks for listening,
Katie
Nafisa Bakkar is co-founder and CEO of the award-winning media platform, Amaliah.
After graduating with a degree in Natural Sciences, Nafisa learnt to code and built Amaliah, with her co-founder and sister, into one of the UK’s leading platforms for Muslim women. Today, Amaliah has a digital footprint of 4.2 million each month. Through articles, videos, podcasts, events and brand partnerships, Amaliah creates meaningful moments for Muslim women to feel seen. Nafisa has worked with global brands and agencies like WGSN, Universal, eBay, Lush, and Marks and Spencer to help them understand how to create meaningful moments for their audience and communities.
Nafisa is also the CEO of Halal Gems, a halal food discovery platform which runs one of London’s biggest street food festivals, seeing over 150,000 attendees over 3 years at Old Spitalfields Market.
In this episode, we chat about what led Nafisa to start her platform Amaliah and the challenges she's faced overcoming imposter syndrome.
We also discuss why brands need to be better at speaking to Muslim audiences and how they can go about doing that.
If you liked the episode, please subscribe and leave a review!
Thanks for listening,
Katie
33 min