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!
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Episodes
77 episodes
How AI Cuts The Cost Of Social Media Content For Small Businesses with Ismeen Haruna (Nigeria)
Two months for a single advert used to feel normal. Now it feels like a warning sign. Dr Ariel R King sits down with AI expert and illustrator Sir Ismeen Haruna to unpack how artificial intelligence is reshaping content creation for busi...
Wealth and Confidence Are Built Through Focus, Not More Shifts or More Income with Dr Camille Upchurch, MD (Jamaica & USA)
One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) of debt paid off in seven months sounds impossible until you hear how Dr Camille Upchurch did it and why the “how” is simpler than most of us want to believe. Dr Ariel R King sits down with Camille, a Jam...
Technology Works Best When Humans Add Structure with Kenchukwu (Kene) Nnakwue (Nigeria)
Technology is moving so fast that what feels “new” today can feel obsolete in months, and that pace can be thrilling or exhausting depending on where you sit. I sit down with Mr Kanakwe, a software engineer and lifelong problem-solver, to get g...
What If Healing Is The Real Reparations with Daniel G. Harvell (USA/Mexico)
A UN vote on the transatlantic slave trade sounds like distant diplomacy until you look at the scoreboard and ask what it reveals about conscience, power, and denial. We sit down with Daniel G. Harvell, a lifelong traveller and researcher origi...
Self-Leadership For Youth Livelihoods In Zambia with Clyde Baron Milimo Ngwaze (Zambia)
Youth unemployment is often treated like a numbers problem. We treat it like a leadership and livelihoods problem. Dr Ariel R King sits down with Sir Clyde Milimo, co-founder of iCare Youth Zambia, to share a grounded model for youth empowermen...
From Sri Lanka Retreats To Tech Boardrooms: A Journey Of Mindful Travel with Deborah Seminario (USA)
What if the most meaningful journey you take this year is the one that brings you back to yourself? We sit down with Deborah Seminario—global sales leader, language enthusiast, and lifelong traveller—to explore how moving through the world can ...
From Mass Extinction To Mindset Shift: Rethinking Growth, Wealth, And What We Value with Barbara Williams (UK)
A century into a human-driven mass extinction, the stories we tell about progress are colliding with the limits of a finite planet. We sit down with Lady Barbara Williams, a UK-based scientist and activist, to unpack the IPAT equation—Impact = ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...