Arun Jayaraj Podcast: Recent Episodes
Arun Jayaraj
Hello! My name is Arun and in this podcast, I engage in conversations about achieving our greatest potential by optimizing our physical and mental health, overcoming self-limitations, and accelerating personal growth. I'm a London-based medical student, personal trainer, and photographer passionate about reducing mental clutter, sustainable weight loss, and transparent health marketing.
In this episode, I reflect on why our fitness tends to fail after a while and how we should approach it to make it more sustainable long-term.
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In this episode of my podcast, I have a chat with Shahir, a fellow medical student at King's College London on Ramadan, and how he stays healthy during this religious period. We also discuss its effects on habits and mindset too.
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In this episode, I reflect on why we don't stay motivated to study for exams and how we should look at it instead to get things done.
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ABOUT ME:
I'm a medical student King's College London and I'm from Singapore. I'm also a lifestyle photographer and qualified personal trainer. I created this podcast to discuss topics surrounding personal well-being and optimising personal growth.
In this episode of my podcast, I explain why, in order to better achieve our goals and live more meaningfully, we need to stop thinking about calories when considering our exercise routine.
Watch this episode: https://youtu.be/Pg2usAEicF8
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In this episode of my podcast, I reflect on why our health habits are designed to fail and how we should approach them to improve our chances of success.
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Dr. Gao Jye Teh is a Dentist based in Malaysia and a graduate from King's College London's dental school. But most importantly, his TikTok video on how much toothpaste we should use has been seen over 12 million times. In this episode I talk to him about how that happened, some general advice on oral health and lessons with self-improvement in our 20's as well.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/w1GoHxpwvc4
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:11 - I ask Dr. Gao about oral health
21:21 - Dr. Gao's mindset with dentistry
28:48 - Personal growth in our 20's
40:45 - Advice for dental students
43:50 - Dr. Gao on supporting university applicants with his company
In this podcast, I speak to Tash Binnie, a medical student at King's College London. We cover topics surrounding mental health for students and how she works on her mental health as well.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HnSzv-l0DMI
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In this podcast, I share what I've learned that has helped me create a much better relationship with social media and actually enjoy consuming and creating content on multiple platforms.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/n05NsZ3FgS0
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In this podcast, I talk to Raina, a 4th-year dental student at The University of Sheffield about creating useful content for students on YouTube while in dental school.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VTbU-z7mYvY
Timestamps:
00:00 - Creating & growing her YouTube channel
15:42 - Raina on mental well-being as a YouTuber & dental student
40:28 - Why YouTube and not other social media
42:36 - Is Ali Abdaal's Part-Time YouTuber Academy useful?
45:28 - Arun's thoughts on joining a community
47:34 - Arun's on prioritizing YouTube and podcast in 2021
50:13 - Raina's general advice for new YouTubers
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In this podcast, I reflect on personal experiences and observations about personal wellbeing during this year of COVID. What is the most important thing you've learned that you will carry over to the future?
In this podcast, I talk to Kiran Morjaria, who is a UK-based doctor, YouTuber, and comedian. We cover his journey to becoming each of these 3 things and some of the hurdles heβs overcome to create his best work.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-DmBwQeBSn0
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In this episode, I go solo and answer 16 questions I received from Instagram about health, life, and purpose.
In this episode, we cover what Kimmy does as a pharmacist, how it was working through the pandemic, what she does to improve her mental well-being, and also how she deals with certain self-limiting beliefs such as fear of judgment impostor syndrome, and self-doubt.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_ray1c7jEtw
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In this episode, I talk to Mei-Ying Chow who is a final year economics and management student at King's College London and also an amazing lifestyle YouTuber creating entertaining and wholesome content. We discuss how she built her brand starting from Instagram to YouTube and her mindset when approaching brands for sponsorships.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YcmI-fdIuLY
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Welcome to the second episode of my Podcast. What you're about to listen to is a conversation I had with Kenji who is a fourth-year medical student at King's College London. He is also an amazing YouTuber that helps others get into medical school and provides advice on how we can improve our time at University.
In this episode, I talk to him about overcoming rejection when he didn't get into medical school the first time he applied and the self-limitations he's dealt with while building a growing YouTube channel.
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Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/iioLqVPzC3o
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Welcome to the first episode of my podcast, what you're about to listen to is a conversation I had with Yath who is a final year medical student in UCL, a designer, a YouTuber and he sends out an amazing newsletter every week on self-improvement.
In this episode I talk to him about balancing medical school and content creation, how he's efficiently building his audience on YouTube. and how he's handling self-doubt, fear of judgment, and negative comments.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cPvFrrOTPaw
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:51 - Who is Yath Prem?
02:24 - How to balance medicine and content creation
07:34 - Starting his newsletter
13:02 - Growing his newsletter
17:35 - How to save time when engaging with your audience
22:38 - Starting his YouTube channel
27:34 - Overcoming fear of judgment
35:08 - Dealing with dislikes and negativity
38:02 - Overcoming self-doubt
41:46 - Avoiding imposter syndrome
48:46 - Putting your strengths together to create a unique brand
54:04 - Advice on asking people for what you want
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