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
99 episodes
Why Intimate Storytelling Beats Big Budgets with Yolanda Thame (Jamaica)
Perfect lives sell well, but they rarely help us live well. Dr Ariel King sits down with filmmaker Lady Yolanda Thame, born and bred in Kingston, Jamaica, to make the case for “small stories” that carry the real weight of identity, culture and ...
We Can Own Our Health Records And Still Get Care Faster with Ed Clinkett (UK, Portugal)
A child’s eczema flare-up during COVID becomes the spark for a bigger rethink of healthcare access. We sit down with technologist and future visionary Sir Ed Clinkett to unpack CU, a digital triage app built around a simple promise: give people...
Accessible Travel That Actually Works with Diego Dupoint (France)
“Accessible” should never be a leap of faith, yet that’s exactly what travel becomes when a hotel listing offers a tick-box label and no usable detail. We sit down with Sir Diego Dupont, a tech builder behind accessible.hotel.eu and the Nusa Ba...
From Sudden Nausea To End-Stage Heart Failure with Dr Lawrence R Levy (Canada)
One month you are walking four to six kilometres a day with no breathlessness. The next, you are in hospital hearing the words “end-stage congestive heart failure” and being told the only way forward is an emergency heart transplant. That whipl...
When A Diagnosis Dementia Costs You Rights with Michael Ellenbogen (USA)
A hospital stay can be frightening for anyone. Now imagine being handed a TV remote you cannot work, a menu with too many options, a discharge plan you will not remember, and questions you feel pressured to answer “yes” to, even when you are lo...
Transition Is A Skill with Elina Stamataki (Greece)
Change can be obvious on the outside, but the real work happens on the inside. We sit down with Lady Elina Stamataki of Still Point Advisory to unpack why a new job, a new city, a promotion, or even retirement can feel destabilising even when i...
From Antigua To Global Screens: Building A Home For Authentic Culture with Elliott Paige (Antigua)
You can live a full, complex life and still never see anything like it on screen. That absence quietly teaches you who matters, whose choices count, and what you should and should not dream about. We sit down with Elliot Page to talk about stor...
How To Lead Digital Change With People First with Belinda Rodman (Portugal & South Africa)
Change does not fail because the software is wrong. It fails because people do not feel safe, included or clear about what happens next. I’m joined by my friend Lady Belinda Rodman, a technology leader with nearly 40 years of experience from th...
Fear, Voice, And The First Step with Chinedu Ihekoronye (Nigeria)
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 motiva...
A Board’s Job Is To Challenge Short-Term Profit with Katja Rieger (Switzerland)
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 responsibili...
Artificial Intelligence Needs Leadership with Bryant Lee Jones (USA)
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 tech...
Play Therapy That Helps Refugee Children Heal with Lulu Emannuel Ederia (Uganda)
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 Lul...
Being Denied A Cup Of Tea Sparked A Movement For Dignity with Ronahi Zebari (USA)
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...
Single Parenting With A Demanding Career with Dr. Pamela Buchanan, MD (USA)
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 thro...
If Modern Life Makes Us Ill Then Why Keep Eating The Same Way with Dr Ayomide Sina-Odunsi (Nigeria)
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 doc...
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...