Conversations with leaders who have built successful companies and organisations.
Our mission is to inspire Muslims to build things that empower the ummah.
Muslim Founder
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Conversations with leaders who have built successful companies and organisations. Our mission is to inspire Muslims to build things that empower the ummah.
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1/20/2025
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Recent Episodes
June 26, 2026
Ex-Goldman Banker Exposes The Secret To Building a Billion Dollar Company
<p>Mariam Ahmed is the co-founder of Menza, an AI intelligence platform for consumer brands. </p><p><br></p><p>Born and raised in New York, she studied computer science at King's College London before joining Goldman Sachs.</p><p><br></p><p>Today she's growing Menza toward a billion-dollar company, backed by Y Combinator and featured in Forbes. </p><p>-------------------</p><p>Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939ddd</p><p><br></p><p>For the latest updates on events, programs and announcements. </p><p>-------------------</p><p>Follow Mariam Ahmed:</p><p>https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariamaahmed/</p><p>https://menza.ai/</p><p>-------------------</p><p>0:00 Intro</p><p>2:07 Growing up in New York</p><p>4:26 From medicine to coding</p><p>7:40 Inside Goldman Sachs: how to find winners and losers</p><p>11:21 The dinner that ended her finance career</p><p>15:02 Last day Friday, flew Saturday, YC on Sunday</p><p>17:11 The real reason they got into Y Combinator</p><p>20:56 100 conversations in one week to find the idea</p><p>22:40 What Menza actually does</p><p>23:40 Why 80% of her YC batch is already dead</p><p>27:09 The brutal truth about having no boss</p><p>33:14 How to build with zero money in 2026</p><p>34:06 "You don't need to fundraise anymore"</p><p>36:18 Building a billion-dollar company on Islamic values</p><p>39:46 America's abundance vs Britain's scarcity</p><p>45:59 The failures she's most proud of</p>
June 8, 2026
What the Prophet ﷺ Understood About Islam That We Forgot
<p>Iqbal Nasim is the former CEO of the National Zakat Foundation.</p><p><br></p><p>He studied economics at Cambridge before going into investment banking, then left a seven-figure package to build NZF, transforming how Muslims across the country give their zakat.</p><p><br></p><p>He's the founder of Transform My Prayer, helping Muslims connect with their salah, and the Last Day Leadership program, helping them find purpose.</p><p><br></p><p>Over the past year, his podcast "In Good Faith" has become a home for the conversations most people avoid</p><p>-------------------</p><p>Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939ddd</p><p><br></p><p>For the latest updates on events, programs and announcements. </p><p>-------------------</p><p>Follow Iqbal Nasim:</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@UCZ4GnufkU9g_wWUmmfaOKrA </p><p>https://www.iqbalnasim.com/</p><p>-------------------</p><p>0:00 Intro</p><p>1:25 "There's no such thing as Islam"</p><p>3:38 What does the Quran say on this?</p><p>5:09 The misunderstanding of the word "Islam"</p><p>8:23 How we lost the original meaning</p><p>10:33 The trap of "Islamic everything"</p><p>13:07 Why "non-Muslim" is a dehumanizing word</p><p>15:57 Do you believe in Allah because you're "Muslim"? </p><p>20:40 Would a non-Muslim really not understand halal?</p><p>26:47 Are Islamic schools a help or a harm?</p><p>30:05 The hard lines we draw between "us" and "them"</p><p>32:29 "The Muslim ummah is a complete myth"</p><p>36:42 Muslim pride & the obsession with "Muslim power"</p><p>45:01 "There is no ummah" - so what do you belong to?</p><p>49:12 "Why should anyone even care about this?"</p><p>52:27 The real harms of clinging to the label</p><p>54:38 What keeps Iqbal up at night: NDEs & psychedelics</p><p>57:48 Panentheism</p>
May 26, 2026
The Muslim That Makes Millionaires: This Dua Habit Turned $0 to $10k/mo
<p>Abu Lahya is a Muslim entrepreneur specialising in influencer marketing agencies. He spent 3 years failing in business before making his first $100K.</p><p><br></p><p>Today, after building a multi-6-figure marketing agency, he runs one of the biggest business mentorship programs in the Muslim space - with over 40,000 applications and students who've changed their lives, quit their jobs, and made hijrah.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, he breaks down the exact roadmap from broke to your first $100K, why your relationship with Allah determines your success in business, and how dua became the foundation of everything he built.</p><p>-------------------</p><p>Join Abu Lahya's mentorship:</p><p>https://application.imaccelerator.com/sohaib</p><p>-------------------</p><p>Follow Abu Lahya:</p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@AbuLayha</p><p>https://www.instagram.com/abu_lahya1/</p><p>-------------------</p><p>0:00 Introduction</p><p>2:07 The art of sales & never taking no for an answer</p><p>3:25 The origin story: rejection and failed businesses</p><p>4:39 Why beginners should start with service-based businesses</p><p>8:40 Zero to one: the $100 course that changed everything</p><p>10:12 Why Muslims avoid business </p><p>13:17 Why most people quit and fail</p><p>15:36 How the influencer marketing agency model works</p><p>16:54 Finding influencers & how to price deals</p><p>19:47 The outreach strategy & how to stand out</p><p>24:39 Is your niche saturated, or is it a skill issue?</p><p>30:06 This sounds too good to be true?</p><p>33:05 "I was crying how broke I was, making dua"</p><p>35:01 Fix your relationship with Allah before your business</p><p>40:08 "Using Islam to sell your course"</p><p>44:31 Meeting Alex Hormozi</p><p>49:51 The roadmap for starting.</p><p>53:51 Abu Lahya's legacy</p>
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