Hi, and thank you so much for visiting my page and taking the time to learn a little about me and my story. My name is Inul Chowdhury. I’m the founder and CEO of RC Digital Media, a life and business coach, and the host of The Inul Chowdhury Show. But my journey to where I am today has been far from straightforward. I was born in Bangladesh and moved to the UK when I was 16. The reason I left Bangladesh was because I had lost both of my parents at a very young age. I lost my father to cancer when I was 13 after he battled the disease for two to three years. A few months later, I lost my mother. She struggled deeply after losing her husband and, sadly, suffered a heart attack just one day before my 14th birthday and passed away. Losing both of my parents at such a young age was the most devastating experience of my life. After their deaths, I spent around two years largely on my own before eventually moving to the UK. Those years were incredibly difficult. I suffered from severe anxiety attacks, anxiety, depression, insomnia and overwhelming emotions. There were times when I couldn’t sleep properly for almost two years, and despite trying sleeping tablets and different medications, nothing seemed to help. Then, at 16, I moved to the UK and had to start my life all over again. Everything was unfamiliar, English wasn’t my first language, and I struggled to fit in. I was bullied at college because of my accent and the way I spoke, which made an already difficult period even harder. At the same time, I had to work to support myself. While studying, I worked around 60–70 hours a week and earned roughly £100 a week. I did that for around three years. Eventually, I started a takeaway business with my brother, where I learned how to become a chef and gained my first real experience of running a business.
While running the takeaway, I was also studying at university. Originally, I wanted to go into business management or accountancy, but because of my educational background in Bangladesh, getting onto those courses was challenging, so I ended up choosing a different path. I eventually became a primary school teacher. I genuinely enjoyed teaching and loved working with the children, but deep down I knew it wasn’t the life I wanted long-term. The job extended far beyond the hours spent in the classroom, with planning, marking and preparation taking up more of my time at home, and financially I didn’t feel it gave me the future I wanted for myself and my family. I began thinking seriously about what I wanted from life. I wanted freedom. I wanted financial independence. I wanted to be able to provide for my family. Most importantly, I wanted to build something of my own. I continued working in the takeaway while trying to figure out my next step. I was introduced to network marketing through a company called ACN and spent around six months trying to make it work. Although I learned from the experience, I eventually realised it wasn’t the right path for me. That’s when I recognised that I had been constantly changing direction, trying different careers and businesses without truly understanding what I wanted. I didn’t want to spend my life chasing someone else’s dream. I wanted to find my own. I eventually found a mentor who helped completely change my mindset. I began investing heavily in personal development, reading books, watching educational videos and listening to podcasts. I started working on myself first and became fascinated by business, marketing, mindset and entrepreneurship. Eventually, I discovered online marketing, and something clicked. I loved the idea of being able to help businesses grow while building something of my own and having the freedom to work online. I started as a freelancer and spent around three years developing my skills, helping businesses with their marketing and building my reputation. Then, in 2016, I took the next major step and started my own agency. It wasn’t easy. There were countless sleepless nights, long hours, stressful situations, mistakes, setbacks and moments where I questioned whether I was doing the right thing. But I kept going, and slowly, all those years of work began to pay off.
In 2017, I met the love of my life, and in 2018, at the age of 24, we got married because I wanted to start building our life together. Then, in 2019, another major challenge entered my life. I started experiencing bleeding and problems with my health. At first, I thought it was simply stress from working long hours and running a business, and I hoped it would eventually get better. I didn’t realise at the time that I was dealing with ulcerative colitis or how serious it could become. I tried to manage things through diet and exercise, hoping I could keep it under control. Then, in 2021, during COVID, my wife and I were blessed with our first child. We imagined it would be one of the happiest days of our lives, but instead, it became one of the most frightening. Our son suffered brain damage during birth due to a lack of oxygen, and he was extremely unwell. Doctors told us that he might not survive the next 24 hours. It was one of the most devastating moments of my life, bringing back many of the emotions and trauma I had experienced after losing my parents. The timing made it even more difficult. Our son was born on the 7th, and we were told he might not make it past the 8th, just one day before my birthday on the 9th, which is also the date my mother passed away. My wife and I refused to give up hope. We believed our son was going to fight, and thankfully, he did. He spent six weeks in NICU before finally coming home. But even after coming home, the challenges continued. The brain damage caused significant ongoing difficulties, including epilepsy, cerebral palsy and other health issues. Our lives became very different from what we had imagined, but we decided to stay positive and give our son the best life we possibly could. At the same time, I was trying to manage my health, run my business and support my family. Eventually, everything caught up with me. In 2022, my ulcerative colitis became severe and I ended up in hospital. After a full examination, I was diagnosed and started treatment, including steroids because of the heavy bleeding. The treatment had a significant impact on my mental health and caused my anxiety to become extremely high. Things became so difficult that for around six months I struggled to leave the house and was unable to run my business properly. It felt like everything I had worked so hard to build was slipping away.
But eventually, I realised that I couldn’t allow fear, anxiety, my health or my circumstances to control the rest of my life. I had already survived losing both of my parents, starting again in a foreign country, being bullied, working incredibly long hours for very little money, changing careers, building a business from nothing and facing the possibility of losing my own child. I knew I had to fight again. So, from January 1st, 2023, I made a decision to face everything head-on. I stopped trying to fix everything overnight and instead focused on taking one day at a time. I started focusing on myself, my health, my mindset, my habits and my family. Slowly, things began to change. When I look back at where I was in 2022 compared with where I am today, I genuinely feel like a completely different person. My life hasn’t been easy. It has been filled with incredible highs and some of the lowest moments I could ever imagine, but every chapter has taught me something. I’ve learned that success isn’t simply about money, business or achievements. It’s about resilience. It’s about continuing to move forward when life doesn’t go according to plan. It’s about learning from your struggles rather than allowing them to define you. Today, I have built my business, developed my personal brand and created The Inul Chowdhury Show, where I get to sit down with founders, CEOs, investors, authors, marketers and inspiring people to learn about their journeys, their struggles, their successes and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. I want to use everything I’ve experienced to help and inspire others. Because if there is one thing my journey has taught me, it is that your current circumstances do not have to determine your future. You may not have everything figured out today, and you may be going through a chapter that feels impossible, but that doesn’t mean your story is over. I’ve had to start again more than once in my life, and I’m still here, still learning, still building and still moving forward. This is my story so far, but it isn’t the end. In many ways, it’s only the beginning. I hope you’ll follow my journey, learn from the lessons I’ve picked up along the way, and hopefully find something that can help you on your own journey. If my story can inspire even one person to keep going when they feel like giving up, then everything I’ve been through will have had a greater purpose.