Katial: Troubled relationships drive personal distress more than career or finances
Tarun Katial · Ep3: He Built BigFM & Zee5. Now Healing India! ft. Tarun Katial · Nov 26, 2025 · at 4:30
Tarun Katial, founder of emotional wellness platform coto and former CEO of Zee5 and Big FM, discusses the psychological causes of personal anxiety.
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“And the core of all of these issues comes from relationships, right? While people will say that they've had career issues in the past, or they've had financial issues in the past, or they will have You know, a lot of other kind of issues, right? But what we realized is that the core, at the core of what they do, it is distraught relationships, right?”
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