Swurl Radio

Hosted by Ayka and Eric · Ayka Williams, Eric Williams

5.0from 1 ratings

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25
Episodes: 1
Transcribed: 1
Ratings: Bi-weekly
Cadence: 2025
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About Swurl Radio

Welcome to the Swurl community, find us at swurl.io (https://swurl.io/). This is the podcast where real people come together to share, connect, and just talk. Swurl Radio is hosted by Eric and Ayka Williams. Each episode we interview a tech or creative leader and get into the real story. The pivot after failure. The decision nobody understood. The years of figuring it out that didn't make it to LinkedIn. We focus on backstory, failures, and process. We ask about childhood, culture, identity, and the hard truths that shaped how our guests build and create today. Every episode is different but the core stays the same: what do you do when it doesn't work out? This is for international professionals in transition. People who feel like they're in the dumps and need a real human story. Not another course. Not another ten tips video. Just honest conversations with people who've been there.

Publisher: Ayka Williams, Eric Williams
Category: business
Language: en
Explicit: No
First episode: 13 Mar 2025
Latest episode: 21 Sept 2026

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1 of 25 episodes have a transcript.

21 Sept 2026
Disney, SCAD, Bird, and 20 years of chasing a good problem w/Paul Lafata | Ep 25
Paul Lafata has spent his career building things that didn’t have a playbook—from early digital products and healthcare tools to Bird scooters, connected devices, AI, and design teams. In this episode of Swurl Radio, Paul talks about growing up around fishing, the Navy, Atari, and Disney before finding his way into design. He breaks down what startups taught him about speed and experimentation, why being an outsider can actually be an advantage, how AI can accelerate research without replacin...
29 Aug 2026
Who gets remembered when Al writes history? w/ Malik Afegbua | Ep 24
Malik has built a career around one idea: stories shape how we see ourselves and the world around us. In this episode of Swurl Radio, Eric and Ayka sit down with the filmmaker, visual artist, and creative technologist behind the globally recognized Elder Series. Malik shares his journey from growing up in Nigeria and teaching himself filmmaking to using AI as a tool for cultural preservation, advocacy, and storytelling. He also opens up about losing his mother, how grief ultimately inspired...
10 Jul 2026
AI Can't Replace Great Problem Solvers w/ Daria Tarawneh | Ep 23
What makes someone irreplaceable in the age of AI? In this episode of Swurl Radio, Eric and Ayka sit down with Daria Tarawneh, VP of Design at SAP Build, to explore the human skills that technology can't replace. From growing up between Russian and Jordanian cultures to leading design teams at some of the world's top technology companies, Daria shares how resilience, curiosity, and problem solving shaped her career. The conversation dives into identity, leadership, AI, ADHD, design thinking, ...

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Identity Shifts, Failure, and Pricing Your Worth w/ Jonathan Stark| Ep 18

Published 6 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] If you want to go the seeing crowd or you want to go the fast route, okay, fast route. All right. So then you're going to go this way. And then stuff is going to happen and you're not sure you're going to get feedback or roads closed or oh, there is an attraction I want to take a side trip for. […]

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Edmund Earle
Chris Do
Asya Palatova
Morgan Ramsey
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Apple Podcasts (US): 5.0 / 5; 1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 20 / 100

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Ayka and Eric host the show. Published by Ayka Williams, Eric Williams.

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