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Sohaib Ashraf
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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.

  1. 4d ago

    How Islamic Psychology Heals Your Mind and Soul (By Dr. Rothman)

    Dr Abdallah Rothman is the Head of Islamic Psychology at Cambridge Muslim College and Executive Director of the International Association of Islamic Psychology. An American convert and licensed counsellor, he spent over 15 years as a practising therapist before writing one of the first academic models of Islamic psychology. He went on to serve as Principal of Cambridge Muslim College, founded Dar al-Shifaa, and now trains the next generation of Muslim therapists from the UAE. In this episode, he breaks down what Muslims get wrong about their own minds, how the Prophet ﷺ dealt with anxiety and sadness, and the daily practices that actually change your heart. Find out more: https://www.cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/aer ------------------- Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f ------------------- 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - The Part of You That Forgets Where It Came From 07:44 - The Verse People Hide Behind to Avoid Studying the Soul 17:30 - Doing Everything Right and Still Feeling the Constriction 20:06 - The Year the Prophet Spent in Sadness 24:24 - Why Psychology Books Put a Severed Head on the Cover 26:38 - The Five Minutes Before Prayer That Change It 28:13 - Why He Refuses to Call It Mental Health 33:54 - Don't Wait Until You're Out of Options 44:11 - The Part of Istikhara Almost Nobody Means 47:48 - Why He Thinks Superintelligence Is the Wrong Goal ------------------- Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939ddd For the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.

  2. Oct 20

    The Reason Behind the Fall of Muslim Ummah | Dr Wajid Akhter

    Dr Wajid Akhter is the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain, the largest umbrella body for Muslims in the UK. A practising doctor born and raised in Britain, he founded Charity Week and the Islamic History Channel, and was a founding member of the British Islamic Medical Association. He was elected to lead the MCB in January 2025 and re-elected for a second term in July 2026, running on a plan he calls Vision 2050. In this episode, he breaks down why so many Muslim organisations duplicate each other, what that fragmentation actually costs, and why he thinks we should be building institutions instead of personal brands. Find out more: https://mcb.org.uk/ ------------------- Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f ------------------- 00:00 - Introduction 00:52 - One Street in Leicester With Eight Mosques 06:54 - Seven Hospitals in One Year, From Student Collections 10:54 - The Advice He Got on Day One at MCB, and Why He Ignored It 15:14 - The Red Phone and the Medical Student Who Did Too Little 17:24 - Michael Jordan, or the Man Who Owns the Club 26:12 - What If Disney Ran Your Mosque? 28:32 - The Words That Kept Britain Fighting 34:41 - The Muslim Nobody Talks About Who Built Everything 36:26 - The Best Answer to Islamophobia Isn't a Better Argument 44:37 - A Million Fried Chicken Shops, Not One KFC ------------------- Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939ddd For the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.

  3. Oct 5

    Israel is Scared Of This Muslim Smartly Exposing Their Evil Crimes

    Yusuf Omar is a journalist and co-founder of Seen TV, building the world’s most immersive storytelling company. Creating a more empathetic world by helping people share their lived experiences. Born to South African parents, he has been a foreign correspondent carrying nothing but a phone since 2010, later becoming CNN's senior social media reporter on Snapchat and mobile editor at the Hindustan Times. He was recently detained at Ben Gurion Airport (Tel Aviv), deported, and banned from entry for up to ten years. He is now taking the case to court. In this episode, he breaks down what happened in detention, why he thinks Muslims have failed at media, and the fund he wants to leave behind for independent journalism. Find out more: https://www.instagram.com/yusufomar/ https://www.seen.tv/ https://x.com/YusufOmarSA ------------------- Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f ------------------- 00:00 - Introduction 03:48 - The Watermelon Question 05:36 - 18 Hours in Interrogation 12:33 - Why He Thinks Muslims Have Failed at Media 14:01 - What America Actually Gave the World 17:25 - Boarding the Flotilla With a Six-Week-Old at Home 21:59 - Why the Ummah Won't Fund Media ------------------- Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939ddd For the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.

  4. Sep 28

    The Muslim Founder Who Built a $40M Company Fighting With Tinder

    Shahzad Younas is the founder and CEO of Muzz, the world's largest Muslim marriage app. A former VP at Morgan Stanley, he walked away from nine years in investment banking, taught himself to code, and launched the app from his bedroom in 2015. Today Muzz has more than 20 million members, a team of 160, and is closing in on a million people who've met their partner on the app. In this episode, he breaks down turning down Match Group's acquisition offer, the lawsuit that forced a rebrand, and why he's raised just $9 million in over a decade. Find out more: https://muzz.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/shahzad-younas ------------------- Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f ------------------- 0:00 - Introduction 1:46 - Five Traders Huddled Around One Phone 2:45 - The App He Designed in Microsoft Word 4:45 - Racing Out of Jummah to Hand Out Business Cards 9:17 - Would He Build It Again? His Honest Answer 12:55 - The Billboard That Went Viral Before Anyone Knew It Was Them 31:36 - The Acquisition Calls He Took From a Mosque Classroom 33:39 - Walking Away From $35 Million Over Dinner at The Ivy 34:18 - The Court Case That Cost Them Their Name 36:53 - Why Half His Series A Is Still Sitting in the Bank 45:10 - The Easiest Way for Muslim Men to Stand Out on the App ------------------- Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939ddd For the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.

  5. Sep 15

    The Genius Muslim Who Built a $1B Company By Challenging The Banking System

    Raafi Hossain is the co-founder and CEO of Fasset, a stablecoin-powered digital bank built for emerging markets. Born in Dhaka, he studied at Harvard and worked at the UN before starting the company in 2019. Today Fasset is valued at $1 billion, with more than 3 million wallets across 125 countries and $40 billion in annualised transaction volume. In this episode, he breaks down why almost all of crypto is a scam, how he gets regulators and politicians to say yes, and why he thinks Sharia compliance is the wrong way to think about Islamic finance. Find out more: https://www.fasset.com/ https://www.instagram.com/raafihossain/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/raafihossain/ ------------------- Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f ------------------- 0:00 - Introduction 4:14 - The Five Banks Standing Between You and $100 7:01 - Why He Says 99.99% of Crypto Is a Scam 8:55 - The Official Who Told Him to Come Back in 2074 10:23 - The Person Every Regulator Actually Answers To 16:15 - John Smith Clears in Seconds, Muhammad Ahmed Doesn't 21:20 - Why He Calls Sharia Compliance a Colonial Mindset 27:55 - The American Banking Problem He Didn't Expect 36:44 - Why He Thinks Western Muslims Are Too Comfortable 40:54 - The Medina Parable He Uses When Onboarding New Hires ------------------- Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939ddd For the latest updates on events, programs and announcements.

  6. Sep 7

    Exactly How This Muslim Kid Built a $14M Startup (with zero funding)

    Rayyan Khan is the founder and CEO of Founders Arm, an offshore recruitment firm that places vetted talent from North Africa and Latin America into US startups. Pakistani, raised between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, he dropped out in his final month of college and moved to San Francisco with no money to go all in. Today Founders Arm is at six figures a month with no venture funding and not a single North American hire, with clients including Cal AI and MyFitnessPal. In this episode, he breaks down how he found his first client, why he deliberately avoided the Philippines and India, and what he felt when he finally met his team in Egypt. Find out more: https://foundersarm.com/ https://x.com/rayyanfkhan https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayyanfkhan/ ------------------- Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f ------------------- Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939ddd For the latest updates on events, programs and announcements. ------------------- 0:00 - Introduction 1:33 - Dropping Out in the Final Month of College 2:23 - Hundreds of Job Applications, Not a Single Interview 3:04 - How Offshore Recruitment Actually Makes Money 4:14 - Why Selling to Everybody Means Selling to Nobody 4:52 - The Content Funnel That Brought Clients to Him 6:12 - Six Months of Running Every Interview Himself 7:27 - Why He Avoided the Philippines, India and Pakistan 8:18 - The First Four Months Were Really Tough 9:07 - The Client Who Hired 22 People Through Him 10:43 - What Gets You to One Won't Get You to Ten 11:36 - A Seven Figure Company With No North American Hires 12:33 - The Lake Tahoe Trip That Didn't Feel Like Winning 14:13 - Failing School and Knowing It Since Fourteen 15:24 - Why He Never Wanted Venture Money 16:50 - Figure Out Who You Are Before You Pick a Model 22:33 - The Criticism of Offshore Hiring, Answered 24:43 - Flying to Egypt and Meeting the Team 28:00 - Why Building Something Deepened His Tawakkul 30:00 - What the Next Ten Years Look Like

  7. Aug 31

    The Palestinian Genius Revolutionizing How Startups Operate ($23M Company)

    Jawad Shreim is the co-founder and CEO of MilkStraw AI, a platform that automatically cuts companies' cloud infrastructure costs. Palestinian, born and raised in Dubai, he spent over a decade in Silicon Valley building and selling a startup before walking away to start again from the Middle East. Today MilkStraw is backed by VentureSouq and Flat6Labs, with more than 100 startups running on it. In this episode, he breaks down why he left America, the near-death experience in Mexico City that brought him back to Islam, and what a co-founder breakdown taught him about who to build with. Find out more: https://milkstraw.ai/ ------------------- Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f ------------------- Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939ddd For the latest updates on events, programs and announcements. ------------------- 0:00 - Introduction 2:49 - The Day His Father Walked Away From a CEO Job 4:18 - Watching Dubai Go From Desert to Global Hub 9:47 - The Paper That Concluded Silicon Valley Isn't a Place 11:40 - The USB Dongle He Sold to His Classmates 12:49 - The Running Costs That Killed His First Company 15:52 - Six Months Living Inside One Italian Restaurant 18:41 - When the Side Product Became the Real Product 20:25 - The Co-Founder Signals He Kept Explaining Away 22:15 - The Acquisition That Arrived Mid-Fight 27:59 - Losing His Grip on His Own Identity 29:29 - The Taxi Ride in Mexico City 34:10 - The Shahada He Couldn't Bring Himself to Say 39:54 - Why the Exit Money Meant Nothing 41:11 - A Year Before He Knew It Was Depression 42:31 - Becoming Muslim for the Second Time 45:14 - The Trip That Convinced Him to Come Home 47:53 - Silicon Valley Level Engineers, in Jordan 50:13 - The Company Name That Came to Him in a Dream

  8. Aug 24

    The Muslim Genius Who Made $12M With a Halal Business (just copy him)

    Ammar Sulthan is the founder of Muslimpreneur, teaching Muslims how to start their service-based businesses. He started his first agency while working an IT apprenticeship, cold-calling up to 100 businesses a day and taking six months to land his first client. Today he's on a mission to help 1,000 Muslims become millionaires. In this episode, he breaks down the middleman agency model, how to land your first client with no track record, and why he checks his deen first whenever business slows down. Find out more: https://go.halalonlinebusiness.co/muslimfounder ------------------- LONG-FORM (YOUTUBE): Hire My YouTube Strategist (Ideas, Titles, Thumbnails) - https://trakyo.link/91546e9f ------------------- Subscribe to the Muslim Founder Newsletter: https://muslimfounder.kit.com/32ea939ddd For the latest updates on events, programs and announcements. ------------------- 0:00 - Introduction 0:52 - What Hajj Actually Felt Like, Weeks Later 3:14 - The One Question Almost Nobody Asks Themselves 6:00 - The Morning Protocol He Makes Every Student Do 9:56 - The Fine Line Between Certainty and Entitlement in Dua 11:58 - Why He Tells Beginners to Start Here, Not With Software 18:33 - The Middleman Model, Explained 22:06 - Six Months, Business Cards, and Still No Clients 23:32 - Selling Like a Doctor Who Has the Remedy 26:31 - How to Land a Client With Zero Testimonials 27:20 - Authority Jacking and Why He Tells People to Send a Brick 32:34 - 100 Cold Calls a Day and the 561 Nos 36:23 - Charging 5K a Month When That's Someone's Whole Salary 38:14 - Audit Your Time: The Exercise Most People Avoid 49:11 - What Stops the Freelancer Going Straight to Your Client 52:31 - The Unfair Advantage Muslims in the West Have 54:16 - What Happens After Your First 10K Month 1:01:44 - The Mission to Make 1,000 Muslim Millionaires

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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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  • Creator
    Sohaib Ashraf
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    41
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Sohaib Ashraf
  • Show Website
    Muslim Founder

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