Cultural Catalysts with Ukonwa Oja || Fatih in the Marketplace

The Kris Vallotton Podcast

Kris Vallotton

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode of Cultural Catalysts, Kris sits down with Ukonwa, a remarkable business leader whose career spans executive roles at Amazon Prime Video, MAC Cosmetics, and CoverGirl. Ukonwa shares her fascinating journey from Nigeria to becoming a powerful leader in secular corporate environments. As the founder of Zaia Ventures, she reveals how she navigated the complex terrain of maintaining her faith while excelling in high-profile positions, often serving as what she calls "God's sleeper cell" in the business world. Ukonwa offers profound insights on bringing wisdom and balance to marketing decisions, advocating for understanding all customer perspectives rather than pursuing activist agendas. Join us for this inspiring conversation about being a bridge between worlds, standing firm in your convictions, and finding divine purpose in unexpected places—even when it means being the only voice of faith at the table. Connect with Kris Vallotton: Website: https://www.krisvallotton.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kvministries/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kvministries/ X: https://x.com/kvministries Additional Resources by Kris Vallotton: https://shop.bethel.com/collections/kris-vallotton About Kris Vallotton: Kris Vallotton is the Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church, Redding, and is the Co-Founder of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) and Spiritual Intelligence Institute. He is also the Founder and President of Moral Revolution and a sought-after international conference speaker. Kris and his wife, Kathy, have trained, developed, and pastored prophetic teams and supernatural schools all over the world.

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0:00.0	Hi, Chris Valleton here. Welcome to my podcast, where I hope to inspire you to transform the world within you and transform the world around you. I hope you enjoy today's episode.
0:15.5	Hi, welcome to cultural catalyst where we teach you how to live fully live fully live co-laver with god and change the world i'm
0:22.1	your host chris phalleton and i have a very interesting guest today and i oh my gosh i'm already anxious
0:29.0	about your name come on tell me your name so i i don't look as stupid as i am it's uconwa u. Unkowa. Unko. Unko.
0:38.3	We practiced over and over, and I'm so sorry.
0:43.3	Yes. You can thrash my name just so to be equal.
0:48.3	A for effort. Are you Chris, crass?
0:51.3	Oh, you.
0:53.3	That was, that was so bad.
0:56.9	My name is really hard.
0:59.5	Even in Nigeria, because I'm origin from Nigeria, even in Nigeria, it was hard.
1:03.4	My classmates couldn't pronounce my name.
1:05.0	I was like, I guess my parents thought it was a really good idea to give me a really hard name.
1:10.0	But this, to be honest, has been my entire life.
1:12.9	Like, it doesn't even matter if you're from Nigeria. I'm probably the only Okonwa you've met, Nigerian or not. Like, it's, I was named after my aunt and we're the only two people I know with that name. Oh my gosh. Well, I have to tell you that, you know, I've written many books, but I don't know anything about literature. So they write it out in, you know, in phonetic. And I don't know anything about phonetics. So it doesn't really help me. They're like, look what it says. Just read what it says. It's like, I'm sorry, you know. I don't know what that is. You're dealing
1:47.1	with someone who's never been to college. So, you know, sorry about that. Well, I, well,
1:53.4	you are the founder of a company called, is it Zara? Zia. Yeah. But your background is really interesting.
2:02.6	Before we get started, tell us a little bit about your story.
2:05.1	Like, you worked for Amazon.
2:07.3	You've worked for, gosh, I was reading it just a few minutes ago.
2:11.9	You also work for Mac Cosmetics. And were also work for Cover Girl.
2:20.5	Yeah, I've done Cover Girl globally. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay. So we'll have to back up and
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