About Dadhood
A platform built by a Muslim father, for Muslim fathers rooted in faith, honesty, and the conviction that intentional fatherhood changes everything.
Eight years ago, my wife told me she was pregnant. I had no idea what to do.
I remember exactly where I was standing. Happy, terrified, and completely unprepared, all at once. I did what most people do when they don't know what to do I went online. I searched for anything that spoke to a Muslim man about to become a dad. Something honest. Something real. Something that would tell me what was coming and how to handle it.
I found almost nothing.
Here is the part that made it worse: I didn't grow up with my father. I had no template. No one who had walked this road before me and come back to tell me what it actually looked like, day to day the sleepless nights, the marriage strain, the moments you feel like you're failing and the moments you feel like you've got it. I felt completely alone in one of the most important moments of my life, and the internet had nothing for me.
So I decided to build the thing I needed myself.
It started small a podcast, just me having honest conversations with other Muslim dads about what fatherhood actually feels like. No scripts, no performance. Just men telling the truth about presence, marriage, faith, and money. People started listening. Then they started messaging me, telling me they felt less alone. That's when I knew this was bigger than a podcast.
The podcast became a community a private WhatsApp group where dads could ask the questions they couldn't ask anywhere else, and get answers from men who had actually lived it. The community grew into articles, events, and 1-to-1 mentoring, where I get to sit with dads directly and help them work through what they're carrying. And now, Dadhood is becoming a daily companion app because I want every dad to have this support in his pocket, not just when he remembers to check WhatsApp.
Eight years later, Dadhood is still the same thing it was on day one: the space that should have always existed, built by someone who needed it and couldn't find it anywhere else.
If you are about to become a dad, or you are years in and still working it out this place is for you.
Mohammad Shoaib
Founder, Dadhood
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I'm a father of three and the founder of Dadhood. Eight years ago, my wife fell pregnant and I went looking for content that spoke to me as a Muslim man about to become a dad. I found almost nothing. I didn't grow up with my father, so I had no model to work from. I built Dadhood because the space didn't exist and because I knew I wasn't the only one who needed it.
What started as a podcast became a community of 200+ dads, a mentoring practice, and now an app. The conversation is still going.
Read Our Story“Fatherhood isn't a role you fall into it's a legacy you build, one intentional day at a time.”
Mohammad Shoaib
Faith & Family
Three principles that guide everything we do
Tarbiyah over trend
We are not chasing what is popular. We are chasing what is lasting. Every piece of content is measured against one question: does this help a father raise better humans?
Real over polished
Fatherhood is messy, uncertain, and deeply human. We will not dress it up. Our guests speak from lived experience, not rehearsed talking points.
Community over isolation
The nuclear family alone was never the design. Brotherhood matters. We exist to connect fathers who are doing the work and remind them they are not alone.
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If I can help one father be more present, more patient, more intentional then every conversation we have had was worth it. That is the whole mission.
Mohammad Shoaib Founder, Dadhood