The Business of Life with Dr King
Dr Ariel Rosita King brings on a variety of International guests from various countries, cultures, organisations, and businesses to talk about turning
problem into possibilities! Let's turn our challenges in opportunities together!
For more information:
http://www.drarielrositaking.com
http://www.arielfoundation.org
Episodes
70 episodes
How Building Medical Schools In Africa Can Heal A Worldwide Crisis with Sir Tanimola Oyewole (Senegal & Nigeria)
The waiting lists are getting longer, the clinicians are exhausted, and the pipeline isn’t keeping up. We sit down with economic development strategist Sir Tanimola Oyewole to map a practical, ethical way to close the global health worker gap w...
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Season 2026
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Episode 74
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28:17
You Can Learn To Talk About Your Work Without Feeling Like You’re Bragging with Lady Octavia Goredema, MBE (Zimbabwe, UK, USA)
What if confidence wasn’t a feeling but a record you keep? We sit down with Octavia Goredema—author, leadership development strategist and coach—to explore how a childhood letter to a publisher grew into a mission to help people do their best w...
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Season 2026
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Episode 72
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26:27
Light And Heavy: Understanding Everyday Energy with The Business of Life with Eitu Vij Chopra (India)
What if your energy is the most accurate compass you own? We sit down with Eitu Chopra—teacher turned social entrepreneur, mental health coach, and energy practitioner—to unpack how “light” and “heavy” states shape our choices, relationships, a...
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Season 2026
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Episode 71
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28:26
Belonging, Achievement, and Relationships: The Real Work Of Leading with Kyle Cronk (USA)
Leadership gets easier when you stop trying to be the hero and start building the village. We sit down with Kyle Cronk, president and CEO of a YMCA and an executive and life coach, to unpack a simple but radical truth: leadership is about peopl...
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Season 2026
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Episode 70
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24:54
How Holistic Coaching Helps Students Win Admissions And Wellbeing with Nicole Elizabeth Olaniyi (USA)
Prestige without purpose burns people out. That’s why we sat down with education consultant Nicole Olany to unpack how ambitious students can earn offers from top universities while protecting their mental health and honouring their cultural id...
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Season 2026
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Episode 69
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26:14
From Informational To Attraction: Turning Websites Into Client Engines with Inyone Udom (UK)
Three seconds can decide whether a visitor becomes a client or disappears. We dive into smart decision-making for 2026 and translate it into a practical website strategy you can use right away. With Lady Ineye Udan—web strategist for coaches an...
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Season 2026
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Episode 68
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26:49
How European Women’s Health Innovators Unlock The U.S. Market Renee Meyer (France / USA)
Women’s health deserves more than lip service—it deserves sharper science, faster market paths, and partners who know how to navigate both. We sit down with Renee Meyer, a cross-Atlantic strategist who helps European medtech and digital health ...
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Season 2026
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Episode 67
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23:07
How Connection And Self-Worth Transform Troubled Teens with Dr Suzanne Simpson (USA)
What if the first step to learning isn’t a lesson plan, but a human connection? We sit down with Dr Suzanne Simpson, a veteran educator who left elite French immersion to teach on a psychiatric unit and now leads an alternative programme for te...
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Season 2026
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Episode 66
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31:32
Nine Trillion Cells, One Quiet Self with Ahsan Syed (Pakistan)
What if you’re the CEO of your life but you’ve been acting like an overworked employee? We sit down with Ahsan Syed to reframe existence as an enterprise with invisible capital, unknown deadlines, and priceless assets that most of us mismanage....
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Season 2026
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Episode 65
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28:45
Pivot As A Practice: Building Films That Amplify Quiet Voices with Marc Sternberg, MA, MBA (USA)
The moment a gallery visit turns into a dinner and a documentary deal, you realise some careers are built on curiosity meeting readiness. We sit down with producer Marc Sternberg, who left a two-decade marketing run to build films that carry re...
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Season 2026
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Episode 64
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24:57
Choosing Yourself: The Real Work Of Entrepreneurship with Amel Saidane (Tunesia)
Want the truth about building something from nothing? Emil Saiden joins us to unpack the beauty and the bruises of entrepreneurship, from testing ideas in Tunisia to leading BetaWaves across Africa and the Gulf. We talk about the messy middle f...
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Season 2026
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Episode 63
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23:29
From Bullying To Balance: Rethinking Manhood And Power with Garry Turner (UK)
What if the strongest thing a man can do is feel? Gary Turner joins us to unpack a lifetime of conditioning—from schoolyard bullying to corporate stoicism—and rebuilds masculinity on a foundation of empathy, courage and community. His story mov...
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Season 2026
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Episode 61
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27:41
How A Global Collaborative Is Redefining Housing To Serve Real Lives With Elizabeth Glenn (USA)
What if housing could heal disconnection and build dignity at scale? We sit down with community catalyst Elizabeth Glenn to explore how the US–Africa Collaborative is uniting planners, doctors, architects, engineers, builders, financiers and ed...
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Season 2026
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Episode 60
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27:20
Healing Begins When We Listen To Those Who Suffer with Jane Durgom-Powers (USA)
Loss doesn’t pause for paperwork, borders, or neat definitions of war. Dr King sits down with Jane Durgum-Powers, founder and CEO of Families of the Missing, to unpack what it takes to support people living with disappearance, displacement, and...
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Season 2025
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Episode 58
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34:10
Navigating International Development: One Woman's Journey from the Midwest to Global Impact with Laura Jagla (USA)
What happens when a chance encounter shifts your entire life path? For Laura Jagla, a brief handshake with then-candidate Barack Obama during her college years sparked a journey from organic chemistry studies to a fulfilling career in internati...
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Season 2025
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Episode 57
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21:55
How A Simple App Turns Small Acts Into Big Impact with Daniel Varga (Hungary & Luxembourg)
What if your feed rewarded kindness instead of conflict? We sit down with founder Daniel Varga to unpack Better.ette, a minimalist app that turns everyday generosity into a repeatable habit. Born from a career pivot and a personal audit of what...
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Season 2025
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Episode 56
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22:23
Rewire Your Student Mindset: From Self-Doubt to Smart Study with Sharon Olaniyi (Nigeria)
Doubt can start long before an exam, and that quiet defeat often decides the result. We sat down with Lady Sharon Holani—a Nigerian law student, tutor and mentor—to unpack the real drivers of academic focus: belief, aligned environments, and sy...
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Season 2025
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Episode 55
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24:12
How To Build A Trustworthy Personal Brand In A Noisy Digital World with Paige Arnof-Fenn (USA)
Your name should be the answer to a specific problem. That simple shift—from “I do many things” to “I stand for this”—can change how often you are found, trusted, and hired. We sat down with marketing leader Paige Arnof-Fenn to unpack what turn...
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Season 2025
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Episode 54
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27:16
Why Women’s Leadership And Early Climate Education Decide Who Thrives with Amb Ruby Kryticous (Zambia)
A backyard mango tree with only four fruits shouldn’t tell a global story—but it does. Ambassador Ruby Kritikos joins us to connect the dots between extreme heat, shifting winds, and the quiet collapse of everyday nutrition, then widens the len...
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Season 2025
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Episode 53
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28:21
Ending Silence To Protect Children with Dr Matthew McVarish (Scotland)
A single play sparked a family’s disclosure, an arrest, and a mission that now reaches the halls of the Council of Europe. We sit down with Dr Matthew McVarish to unpack how survivor voices can reshape laws, build child‑centred justice, and pus...
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Season 2025
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Episode 52
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29:53
Turning Job Search Into Career Velocity: How to Communicate a Unique Value Proposition That Gets You Seen and Heard with Gina Riley (USA)
Job boards feel like shouting into the wind, and for many smart, seasoned professionals, that silence is maddening. We sat down with career transition coach and author Gina Riley to unpack why “qualified” rarely wins on its own—and how clarity,...
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Season 2025
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Episode 51
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26:15
Bridging Brain and Brand with Shauna Van Mourik (Canada)
What if your marketing felt as genuine as your work—and actually performed better because of it? We sit down with Shauna Van Mourik to unpack how a neuroscience lens, a translator’s ear, and a values-first strategy can turn vague messagi...
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Season 2025
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Episode 50
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21:45
From Solitary To Solidarity: An Iranian Activist’s Journey with Shabnam Madadzedeh (Iran & Switzerland)
The story starts with a young computer science student in Tehran and pivots into a life reshaped by courage. Shabnam Madadzedeh takes us inside Evin Prison—solitary confinement, interrogations, a sham trial—and then beyond the prison gates wher...
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Season 2025
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Episode 49
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31:17
From Burnout to Bold: Breaking the Career Hamster Wheel for Good with Hulya Kurt (Turkey & Switzerland)
Feeling the slow grind of effort without progress is not a personal flaw—it’s a signal. We sit down with Lady Huyla Kurt—career master coach, author, lecturer, and Toastmaster—to map a clear route out of the hamster wheel and into work that ali...
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24:26
Why a trusted adult can change a young person’s path— how The MentorWell builds that bridge with Chris Coulter (Canada)
The most powerful support isn’t always advice—it’s being heard by someone who truly understands. We sit down with entrepreneur and father Chris Coulter to explore how The Mentor Well pairs young people with mentors who’ve lived through similar ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 47
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30:34