In this Business Blast podcast episode, host Tyler Wagner interviews finance director Mominur Rashid. Rashid shares a personal turning‑point story about meeting his wife, which gave him mental peace and helped focus his career. He outlines key finance‑industry insights, emphasizing the need for constant innovation, patience, and continuous learning to achieve sustainable long‑term returns. His broader business advice is simple: keep learning, be innovative, and dream big. When reflecting on his younger self, he advises kindness, acting as a hero in one’s own time, and making a positive impact on society. Rashid defines happiness as traveling with his wife, experiencing new cultures, and being surrounded by loved ones. He discusses a recent business book on corporate social responsibility, highlighting that passion for societal contribution can extend beyond a company’s core competency. His favorite quote, from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, "If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun," underscores his belief in continuous hard work and excellence. Finally, he directs listeners to his professional LinkedIn profile and a travel page, Cupbookovita, for more about his personal and travel endeavors. The episode includes a sponsor mention for Authors Unite and notes that it was recorded with Anchor.
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Welcome to the Business Blast podcast. I'm your host, Tyler Wagner. This episode is brought to you by Authors Unite. Authors Unite provides you with all the resources you need to become a successful author. You can learn more about Authors Unite and join the free community at authorsunite.com. Now let's jump into the episode. All right everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Business Blast podcast. I'm your host Tyler Wagner, and today I have Mominur Rashid with us. He is a finance director, so welcome to the show.
Welcome, thank you.
Of course, thank you for joining us. We'll dive in. The first question I have for you is, what is the best story from your life that has an underlying valuable message?
Ah, that's great. I think I have many stories, but let me pick up one which is the turning point of my life. This is when I met with my wife, because before that, at that time, I was just in the last stage of my professional exam. So my life is struggling, my mental— I think when I met with her, I get the mental peace and my life turned to the very positive direction. Because after meeting with her, actually, uh, it's like I'm getting the main very good mental comfort, and I can concentrate more on my work and my career life. So that's it, the message I want to give from here. Actually, I think in life everybody needs at least one person to whom people can share his or her personal feelings, or to whom he or she feels very comfortable, is very important in life.
And what is the most valuable piece of information we should know that's within your expertise or industry?
Okay, I am in finance industry last 11 years, so my I think the most valuable information here, actually, in the industry, you need to be innovative always because this industry is changing very frequently. The people need is changing very frequently. So another part I want to say, actually, there is no shortcut way for success. Actually, it all need to be— everybody need to be passed through the learning curve. To, to achieve the sustainable long-term return, I think everybody need to invest sufficient time, energy. And in our industry, financial industry, success is always for the participant who have patience and whose learning is continuous.
And what is your best piece of overall business advice, so not necessarily industry specific?
So I think irrespective of industry, for everybody, learning is very important. Everybody have to be learning. Learning is a continuous process. And also everybody need to be innovative because world is changing very fast, very fast. And I think also people need to dream big. So there's the overall business advice. So keep learning, be innovative, and dream big.
And if you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would that be?
I think always younger self is be kind to yourself. Uh, at this point of time, if I feel what is my advice to younger self is, so you have to be a hero in your own time. So since life is only one, so each minute is important. So we have to do something which has positive impact to others' life and society so that people remember you.
And in your opinion, what is the key to happiness?
Happiness is a subjective term. It's a different person define it differently. For me, happiness is traveling with my wife to different cities. Meet with the different people and learning the new culture. So also, if I'm not traveling, then other time also being surrounded by the people whom I love and whom they love us.
And what is the best book that you've read, and what was the number one thing you learned from that?
Of course, always religious books are the best books, but recently I have read one business book on corporate social responsibility. It's very interesting. I want to share the learning. The learning from the book is if you have passion and if you really want to do something towards the society, you can do it. It doesn't— this is— doesn't necessarily have to be your core competence. So there are many examples, there are many successful business groups who are running best hospital, best school, which none of them, there is best core competency. Their core competency is in different sector, but since they want to do something, they are running the good hospital, good school.
And what is your favorite quote and why?
I think one quote is in my mind now. It is, uh, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, ex-president of India. His quote was, if you You want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun. So to me, the meaning is actually excellence and hard work is a continuous process. So it's not coming like accident. It's— you have to be perform, you have to be continuous, you have to be shine. So you have to be do, uh, more hard work.
Yes, I love it, man. Thank you so much for coming on. The last question I have for you before we let you go is, where's the best place for people to find you online?
So obviously social media for professional friend LinkedIn. So, but we also have a travel page, which is Cupbookovita, the couple traveler. So we are there.
So perfect. Thanks again, man. We really appreciate it.
Thank you. Thank you.
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