The Barakah Blueprint guest
Canyon Mimbs
Entrepreneur and creator
Canyon Mimbs grew up on a farm in North Idaho and got into entrepreneurship as a child before building a sales career that took him from Warsaw to Pakistan, where he took his shahada at 19. He now creates content teaching Muslims financial literacy and explaining Islam through logical, step-by-step arguments, reaching over 100K on Instagram and the mid 300Ks on TikTok. He is the first ever guest on the Barakah Blueprint podcast. Canyon is the first guest to return to The Barakah Blueprint.
2 appearances on The Barakah Blueprint
- Episode 44Success Is Not What You Were TaughtIbrahim Shareef reunites with Canyon Mimbs, a convert content creator and the show's first and only returning guest, for an accountability-driven conversation a year after their first episode. They argue that real success is not balancing the dunya and the akhirah but prioritizing the akhirah so both follow, that every answer the self-help industry sells already lives in the Quran and Sunnah, and that the Muslim community is failing reverts by converting them and then abandoning them.
- Episode 17Canyon on Wealth, Faith, and Moving in SilenceIbrahim Shareef sits down with Canyon Mimbs, a North Idaho farm kid turned entrepreneur who took his shahada at 19 in Pakistan, for the Barakah Blueprint's first ever guest episode. They unpack how a teenage brain injury reshaped his mindset, why Muslims wrongly treat wealth as shameful, and how solitude exposes the self you hide. The sharpest insight: you can have it all, because the Prophet emulated both faith and worldly success without sacrificing either.