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
84 episodes
Regulate Your Breathing And Your World Starts To Change with Andrea Betschart (Switzerland)
A lot of personal growth advice starts with willpower and goals. We go somewhere more basic: the moment your nervous system feels unsafe, your world gets smaller, your thinking narrows, and even good guidance bounces off. Our guest, Lady Andrea...
You Can Turn Rejection Into Service And Still Reach The UN with Aparnesh Ahan (India)
Rejection can either harden you or shape you, and Ahan chooses the second option. He joins us from India with a simple mission that turns out to be quietly radical: spot real opportunities, share them publicly, and help people from every walk o...
Slavery Never Ended It Just Changed Form with Tristan Matthew Chen (USA)
Slavery did not vanish, it changed its paperwork, its supply chains, and its hiding places. I sit down with Tristan Matthew Chen, director of the United States Anti-Slavery Organisation (USASO), to name what modern slavery looks like right now ...
A People First Leadership Style Can Lift Performance with Victor Trieu (Australia)
Seven mental health spirals. Six burnouts. A successful corporate career on paper, and a private fight to keep going underneath it. We sit down with Victor Trieu, a former banking executive with 18 years in Australia’s corporate world, to talk ...
Sustainability Demands Growth That Protects People And Planet with JaQuerra Washington (Japan, USA)
Microplastics in our water, plastics in our food chain, and “development” that drains other countries of the resources they need. That’s not just an environmental problem, it’s a life problem. We sit down with Lady Jacquera Washington, an inter...
From Hockey Goalie To Long-Serving Mayor with Donald J Atchison (Canada)
A man walks into civic life after four years of professional hockey and ends up becoming the longest-serving mayor in Saskatoon’s history. Donald J. Atchison joins us to unpack what that journey taught him about leadership under pressure, why “...
What El Salvador Taught A Human Rights Consultant with Marliee Marks (USA)
A 13-year-old holding her infant son in an institution is not a statistic. It is a life that forces you to rethink what “help” really means. We sit down with human rights and foreign policy consultant Marilee Marks to talk about her family’s ye...
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...