GEORGE FOX TALKS

In this episode, our host Dave Tussing meets with finance professional Kayode Odeleye to discuss relationship with God, integrity, and adversity as they relate to career building. What kind of adversity is helpful, and how does faith in God speak into the way we lead and plan our lives?

Kayode is the Founder and CEO of Caena.io, a financial technology company building tools to simplify the fundraising process for startups and private investment firms.  Before Caena, he worked for 14 years in financial services across retail banking, strategy and investment banking. His most significant stint was in investment banking where he was Vice President, Leveraged Finance at Standard Chartered Bank. He is an associate alumnus of MIT Sloan Management School. He holds an M.Sc. International Management from University of Liverpool and a B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria.

Connect with Kayode on LinkedIn.
Learn more about Caena.io.

Dave Tussing is a leader that cares about the whole person, and inspiring others to live into their full potential and calling. He strives to infuse ethics and values into business and to lead teams to improve the world as they grow their business. Dave has led teams across technology, healthcare and sports / retail industries at companies ranging in size from small pacific northwest based companies to some of the largest companies in the world. He holds a BA in Accounting and BS in Computer & Information Science from George Fox University and obtained his MBA from Portland State University. As a lifetime learner he also obtained an executive certificate in Strategy & Innovation from MIT and has completed courses in data science and AI/ML from Udacity. With learning, there is no finish line.

Dave can be reached on LinkedIn.

Views and opinions expressed in this podcast do not represent views of the companies for which David or guests are employed.

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In this episode, Joseph Clair meets with professor and researcher Michael Ward to discuss C.S. Lewis' famous book, The Abolition of Man. How did Lewis reconcile reason and emotion in humanity—and what can we learn from his mid-twentieth century take on subjectivism for our own time?

Find Ward's book, After Humanity, here: https://www.wordonfire.org/humanity/

Michael Ward is Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and Professor of Apologetics at HBU. He is the author of the award-winning Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford University Press) and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis (Cambridge University Press). Michael Ward presented the BBC television documentary, The Narnia Code, directed and produced by the BAFTA-winning film-maker, Norman Stone. He authored an accompanying book entitled The Narnia Code: C.S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens.
To connect more with Michael Ward, check out https://michaelward.net/

Our host, Joseph Clair, serves as the executive dean of the Cultural Enterprise at George Fox University, which encompasses the humanities, theology, education, and professional studies. He is also an associate professor of theology and culture. Before joining the George Fox faculty in 2013, he earned his PhD in the religion, ethics and politics program at Princeton University while also working as an assistant in instruction. Prior to Princeton, Clair earned an MPhil at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. He also holds master’s degrees from Fordham and Duke University, as well as a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College.

These podcasts are also all video recorded and on our YouTube channel! You can also visit our website at https://georgefox.edu/talks for more content like this. 

In this episode, our host, Dr. Abigail Favale, welcomes English Professor Bill Jolliff into a discussion about difficult texts. How do we engage with literature that may cause us emotional distress? Can unsettling books be instrumental in shaping our worldviews in a positive way?

Dr. Bill Jolliff: https://www.georgefox.edu/academics/u...

Professor Abigail Favale completed her doctorate at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where she was a recipient of the competitive Overseas Research Award. In 2011, her dissertation was granted the Samuel Rutherford Prize for the most distinguished thesis in English literature.
Check out Abigail's academic profile.

To connect with more of her work, visit her website.

These podcasts are also all video recorded and on our YouTube channel! You can also visit our website at https://georgefox.edu/talks for more content like this. 

In this episode, our host Dr. Daniel Kang talks with Dr. Kevin Sellars about disease, resiliency, and hope. Along the way, they discuss what to look for in a doctor and how to make it through low points in life.
 
Find Dr. Kevin Sellars' medical profile here.

The host for this episode, Dr. Daniel Kang, joined George Fox’s Department of Physical Therapy as an assistant professor of physical therapy in 2013. Previously, he worked for nine years as owner and lead physical therapist of Kang Physical Therapy Inc. of Ventura, California. His teaching experience includes stints as an instructor of kinesiology at California State University of Channel Islands and as a teaching assistant of anatomy and physiology at Loma Linda University. He is in the process of earning a graduate certification of medical physiology with a specialization in cardiovascular/renal physiology and pathophysiology from the University of Florida. He holds a doctor of physical therapy degree (2004), a master’s degree in physical therapy (2002) and a bachelor’s degree in health science (2002), all from Loma Linda University.

These podcasts are also all video recorded and on our YouTube channel! You can also visit our website at https://georgefox.edu/talks for more content like this. 

We need to talk. To each other—often. About serious things. Political things and theological things and leadership things. Wild things. About our bodies and our health. About poetry and death. About God. And so we’re going to talk about it, together, as people of Christian faith, here in our new podcast and video series: it’s called “George Fox Talks”

We’re going to use this new George Fox Talks series to bring you conversation in key areas, like: WELLNESS--we’re made in the image of God, so what does it mean to think about our health in ways that honor that? THEOLOGY--who is God, how do we respond to Scripture and have faith in a complicated world? CULTURE--reading literature and thinking about gender and talking about how to interpret our lives; and LEADERSHIP--how can we make a difference with the talents and resources that we have? 

Who’s going to bring you this conversation? You’ll get a chance to meet and hear from some fantastic hosts from our George Fox University community--like Daniel Kang, a professor of physical therapy, Abigail Favale, popular author and our dean of humanities, Joseph Clair, a Christian thought leader in theology and ethics, and Dave Tussing, an alum who’s made an impact as a leader in huge companies. We’ll introduce you to professors, doctors, business owners, and basically a lot of smart and relatable people. It will be like sitting in on all of the best lectures and panel discussions in college, but with no grades or assignments--except maybe, just like in college,  you’ll find yourself transformed in surprising ways. 

We’re also going to use George Fox Talks to curate and re-present as both podcasts and YouTube videos some other fantastic material we’ve hosted at George Fox University over the past few years on faith, science, racial justice, and more. Regardless of whether the content is new or not, everything is going to be thought provoking and faithful at the same time, a rare combination in the world, as you know. 

Where can you find all of this content that could literally change your life? On our podcast, George Fox Talks, to which you can subscribe on Apple or Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. You can also find it on our new website, at https://georgefox.edu/talks, and you can find us on YouTube, at George Fox Digital, where you’ll find lectures, course materials, short segments, video podcasts, and more. 

So what are we waiting for? Let’s talk.