The Business of Life with Dr King

Send us Fan Mail 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 back...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 inf...

Send us Fan Mail 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 uncomfo...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 tre...

Send us Fan Mail 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, affordabl...

Send us Fan Mail 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. T...

Send us Fan Mail 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 mode...

Send us Fan Mail 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, an...

Send us Fan Mail 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 t...

Send us Fan Mail 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 pat...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 c...

Send us Fan Mail 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 = Population × Affluence × Technology—and why growth economics reliably amplifies all three. Her thesis is stark but clarifying: our admirati...

Send us Fan Mail 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 without draining the very systems that need help most. Our conversation starts with the uncomfortable truth: high-income countries face agei...

Send us Fan Mail 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 work and speak about it without cringing. From a high‑pressure PR career to a coaching practice that serves teams across the US, Canada, Eur...

Send us Fan Mail 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, and resilience. From classrooms to global fellowships with iCongo and Rex Karamvir, Itu’s path reveals how purpose emerges when curiosity me...

Send us Fan Mail 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 people. Kyle shares how he moved from answer‑giver to convener, and why co‑creating guiding principles with his team outperforms any top‑down ma...

Send us Fan Mail 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 identity. Nicole’s story moves from high achievement and missionary life to Princeton, where self worth theory reshaped how she defines succe...

Send us Fan Mail 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 and service businesses—we unpack how to set a clear annual goal, break it into daily micro choices, and build a site that works as an asset,...

Send us Fan Mail 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 founders land in the right U.S. ecosystems and meet the people who actually move decisions: clinicians, administrators, payers, and trial p...

Send us Fan Mail 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 teens navigating anxiety, substance use, and trauma. The picture she paints is raw and hopeful: classrooms as triage zones, yes, but also as...

Send us Fan Mail 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. Guided by his mentor’s insights into Muhammad Iqbal’s poetry, Ahsan Syed maps a path from noise to nuance, from borrowed identities to a q...

Send us Fan Mail 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 real weight—projects that start with a strong why, gather great teams, and earn their audience through clarity and craft. He shares how COVID...