In this episode of Stacy Phillips & Friends, Stacy sits down with co-host Deborah Martin and the remarkable Rabia Chaudry. Rabia is an attorney, activist, bestselling author, and the woman whose relentless belief in one man's innocence sparked a cultural phenomenon called Serial. What starts as a conversation about one of the most famous wrongful conviction cases in American history quickly becomes something much more personal: a candid, warm, and surprisingly funny exploration of justice, identity, faith, and what it means to fight for other people for decades while finally learning to fight for yourself.

Rabia knew Adnan Syed since he was twelve years old. When he was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hamin Lee in 2000, she couldn't walk away. And she didn't for 24 years. She sat through both trials. She built a podcast. She helped exonerate 18 people. She took on federal law enforcement, immigration cases, and the Muslim ban. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, she also lost 100 pounds, wrote a hilarious memoir called Fatty Fatty Boom Boom, and became one of the most quietly extraordinary women you'll ever hear from.

This episode is also a love letter to women who do too much for everyone else and are only now learning to do something for themselves. It's smart, stirring, and a little bit hilarious.

✨ EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS

• How Rabia went from wanting to be a corporate lawyer to becoming the woman who helped free Adnan Syed — and why she says she never had a choice
• The Serial effect: what it was like to watch a podcast turn into a global phenomenon — and a Saturday Night Live sketch
• 18 exonerations in 7 years — and the pattern Rabia sees in nearly every wrongful conviction case
• Post-9/11 civil rights work, the Muslim ban, and why immigration and criminal justice are more connected than people think
• The Muslim-Jewish alliance work that got her ostracized from her own community — and why she'd do it again
• Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: losing 100 pounds, ditching dieting forever, and the strength training revelation that changed everything
• Why women over 40 are set up to fail when it comes to weight — and what actually works
• What's next for Rabia

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Rabia Chaudry Website: rabiachaudry.com Instagram: @rabiasquared2 Facebook: Rabia Chaudry