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
Fear does not always shout. Sometimes it whispers, “Stay quiet,” “Don’t try,” “They will laugh,” until years pass and your life feels smaller than your potential. We sit down with Chinedu Ihekoronye , a Nigerian lawyer, writer, and motivational speaker, to talk about what it really takes to face your fears and reclaim your voice, especially when public speaking anxiety...
Profit-only thinking sounds efficient right up until it produces a board that cannot see the people, risks, and long-term consequences sitting right in front of it. We sit down with governance specialist Katja Rieger to unpack what responsibility in the boardroom actually means: stewardship, ethical judgement, and decision-making that includes stakeholders rather than treating them as afterthoughts.
We get pr...
Handing decisions to AI sounds efficient until you ask a basic question: who carries the consequences when the model is wrong? We sit down with Sir Bryant Lee Jones, a Silicon Valley CIO who has guided organisations through four decades of technology upheaval, to make the case that AI’s biggest challenge is not the algorithms. It is leadership, governance, and the quality of executive judgement.
We dig ...
A child refuses food, sits alone while others play, and wakes up terrified by memories that will not leave. When you work in a refugee settlement, those signs can be mistaken for ordinary illness, but they can also be PTSD. We sit down with Lulu Emmanuel Ederia, a Ugandan nurse and clinic officer with years in humanitarian health, to explain what “healing beyond medicine” looks like when the goal is not ...
A child at 12 is told she will not live to 30, then spends years hearing a steady drumbeat of “you can’t” at home. Renahi Zabari turns that script on its head, sharing what it is really like to live with osteogenesis imperfecta, a brittle bone disease marked by fractures, surgeries, and long periods of forced stillness, while still building a confident identity that refuses to disappear behin...
You can love your children fiercely and still feel like you are failing when work is relentless. That tension sits at the heart of our conversation with Dr Pamela Buchanan, an emergency medicine doctor and single mum raising three children through school, sport, and the chaotic leap into adulthood. We get specific about what “doing it alone” really looks like: choosing night shifts to show up in the dayt...
You can feel the shift when your body stops “bouncing back” and starts sending invoices: low energy, poor sleep, creeping weight gain, and random aches that were not there in your twenties. We sit down with Dr Ayomide Sina-Odunsi, a medical doctor now working as an emergency officer in the humanitarian sector, to talk about what changed when he stopped treating nutrition like background noise and started...
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 Batschart, brings a sharp and refreshingly practical view of change shaped by life in Switzerland, where switching languages is normal and flexibility is built into everyday ...
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 of life feel less lost about their next step. What starts as posting on LinkedIn becomes a growing mentoring network, where one piece of information can lead to an internship, ...
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 and why so many people never see it, even when it is tied to everyday life.
We dig into prison labour in the United States and the uncomfortable legal truth insid...
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 honestly about what high pressure environments can do to your confidence, your body, and your sense of self when you believe you are never quite “enough”. If...
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 international business economics student at Temple University, to talk about what sustainability looks like when you stop treating it like a trend and start...
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 “success” has to include employees and neighbours, and how the basics of city life still shape trust: safety, security, transport, affordable housing, and a s...
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 years living and working in El Salvador during a brutal orphan crisis shaped by poverty, abandonment, addiction, and gender-based violence. The stories are ten...
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 businesses that rely on social media marketing but do not have studio budgets.
We get practical about what the tools actually are: large language models for copy and planning, im...
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 Jamaican-born practising physician who now coaches women and women physicians on wealth building, financial literacy, investing confidence, and creating a legacy that...
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 grounded on what matters most as artificial intelligence and modern digital tools reshape work, learning, and everyday life.
We talk about technology as a pr...
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 originally from Detroit, to break down what happened at the United Nations, why the resolution matters even without legal teeth, and why the pattern of yes votes, no votes, and abs...
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 empowerment in Zambia that moves beyond inspiration into practical outcomes: employability, vocational skills, internships, and real routes into self-employment.
Clyde traces the...
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 shift your inner life, strengthen relationships, and make everyday choices feel lighter and more deliberate.
Deborah traces a path from a childhood shaped b...
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