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Former Oprah Winfrey Show Guest, Mubarakah Ibrahim, appeared on the "Thirty-Something in America" [2008] segment, highlighted as "the job you'd never expect" as a Muslim Woman Personal Trainer and owner of her own personal training business, Balance Fitness in New Haven CT. Her efforts as both a health and fitness educator and Muslim businesswoman has afforded her the opportunity to be invited as a special guest to the White House Iftar Dinner by President Barack Obama in both 2012 and 2013. Mubarakah writes and speaks from the lived experience of her intersectionality of being an African American Muslim women and every thing that comes with it. She is an international speaker in which she lectures, promotes, and conducts workshops on business, Islam, health, fitness, feminism, being black & Muslim and everything that intersects those topics. She is a published author, radio show host and serial entrepreneur that lives in New Haven CT with her husband and four children.