Canyon Mimbs Show

From Catholic schoolboy to Muslim revert. Bryan Maravic's journey to Islam is unlike anything you've heard before.Bryan spent years chasing identity through soccer, literature, and a romanticized writer's life in Lisbon, Portugal, before a conversation with his then-girlfriend about the Trinity sent him down a path he never expected. He picked up a Quran at a call center, listened to recitation...

Matthew reverted to Islam just two months ago, the day before Ramadan. He's 22, born in Ohio, and came to Islam after years of quietly searching: Catholic school, a comparative religions class that changed his life, backpacking through Europe solo, praying for the first time in a mosque in Istanbul, building a successful supplement company, and eventually walking into a masjid in Dayton not even...

This female revert grew up attending Jewish school, observing Shabbat and living fully inside a rabbinically Jewish world. Then the questions started. Why can't you rip toilet paper on Shabbat? And why did King David sound like he was describing a completely different religion?Umm Yahia shares her 7-year journey from born-and-raised Jewish to Muslim revert, a slow, logical process driven entirely...

A trans woman who spent years studying every major world religion (Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, and finally the Quran) walks into a conversation with a Muslim. River was a devout Christian for over a decade before deconverting. She's agnostic now, on a serious search for truth, and she gave Islam the least fair shot of any religion she studied. What is Islam's view on trans...

He spent years in Australian military intelligence, working across the Middle East in war zones, learning Farsi and Dari and somewhere between Iraq and Syria, something started to shift.Joule is a former military intelligence officer, security professional, and now Muslim revert. In this episode, he breaks down the full story from being first approached about Islam in 2003 by an Iranian man in...

George grew up in Greece as the son of atheists with no religion, no church, and a deeply negative view of Islam shaped by schools and culture. At 17, feeling something was missing, he started searching. What he found would change everything.In this episode, George shares his full revert story: praying for the first time with his face on the ground, reading one page of the Quran in a hotel room...

Kristian is a Norwegian revert to Islam who grew up baptized but spiritually empty, until a 3-hour conversation with his Christian girlfriend made him start asking whether God exists, leading him through Christianity and ultimately to Islam. In this episode, he shares how growing up next to a Kurdish-Turkish Muslim family in Oslo planted seeds he didn't understand until years later, how his...

She grew up as the only non-Muslim in a 80% Bangladeshi school in East London and it shaped everything.Amanda's story is one of the most raw and courageous we've had on the show. From childhood trauma, to leaving home at 18 with nothing, to a single moment in a mosque that changed her entire life, her path to Islam is a testimony of what happens when the community of the believers shows up for...

He was raised Jewish, self-described as more Islamophobic than his own family and then a stranger on a New York subway changed everything.Lenny's revert story is unlike anything we've had on the show. Jewish by ethnicity and culture, deeply Islamophobic by his own admission, he went from hostile skeptic to Muslim in the span of a few months, triggered by a random man on the F train who told him...

In this powerful Muslim revert podcast, Alex shares his unbelievable journey from gang life, drugs, jail, homelessness, and suicidal thoughts to finding Islam and peace through Allah.Raised Mormon, surrounded by crime, alcohol, and violence, Alex opens up about hitting rock bottom, contemplating suicide on a hospital rooftop, discovering the Quran inside a psychiatric unit, taking shahada,...