Fiftyfaces Focus - Intersections
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago -This podcast series started as a special "capsule" focused on the 2021 Provost Election at Trinity College Dublin, which saw Linda Doyle elected as the first female provost in the institution's 429 year history. Inspired by Linda's focus on the intersection of Engineering and the Arts, we have curated a series of compelling podcasts with individuals who transcend traditional subject matter barriers. These people #choosetochallenge every day and listening to them will force you too to challenge your assumptions and see the enormous potential when we think outside the box and let ideas be cross-fertilized.
In February 2023 we are using this platform to promote our Love Series about the loves and passions that our guests hold outside or as their careers. We learn about what these passions can teach us and how they can make us the professionals we are.
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Episode 2: Dena Ackerman - Artist, Illustrator and Art Instructor - Art as a Labor of Love
February 07, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBDena Ackerman is a fine artist, illustrator, art instructor and writer now based in Israel, but originally from Los Angeles. She is a frequent presence on LinkedIn, and has a passionate following because of her relatable, personal posts, as well as her vulnerability around the challenges of making a living as an artist. I came across her through a contact on our inspiring Israeli women in tech series Fran Jakubowicz and have had the pleasure of having her capture some family members...
Episode 1: Laura Sage - The Power to Chill Anywhere
February 04, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBLaura Sage is CEO at Chill Anywhere, and Co-Founder of the Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Foundation. She has previously held a series of advisory and business development roles at different financial institutions including hedge funds. Our conversation starts with her financial career, and the grueling travel schedule that accompanied it. She describes her pivot to wellness and what led her to think about a solution for employing a holistic approach to health and wellness in the workpla...
Episode 3: Bonus: Fiftyfaces Focus Medicine and Science - Chidiebere Ibe - Representation with a Difference
October 20, 2022 00:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBChidiebere Ibe is a medical student and Forbes-Featured medical illustrator whose illustration of a black fetus in utero went viral in December 2021. Many commentators said that this was the first time that they had seen a depiction of a dark-skinned fetus or pregnant woman and provoked a discussion about the lack of representation of such images in textbooks and journals. Chidiebere has a bachelors degree in chemistry from the University of Uyo in Nigeria, and is the Chief Medical...
Episode 1: BONUS: Joe Adkins - Once Upon A Time It Grew Into The Big One - A Modern Fairytale
October 18, 2022 00:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBJoe Adkins is a massage therapist based in Wheaton Illinois. For the past 15 years or so Joe has been growing large vegetables – very large vegetables – in his garden in Wheaton, and in 2016 grew a pumpkin which weighed over 1860 lbs, winning the coveted title of “heaviest in Illinois” in that year. Since then his passion – and harvest – has grown and this year the total “harvest” from the 3 largest pumpkins grown on their property topped 4520 lbs, earning him a Pumpkin Growe...
Episode 2: Dr. Patrick Devitt: Modern Psychiatry - Reflections on the Road to Here
October 13, 2022 00:00 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBDr. Patrick Devitt is my father and co-host of the first series of Inspiring People in the Law. He is a consultant psychiatrist in in Dublin, Ireland, and formerly spent time as Mental Health Inspector. His area of specialty is community psychiatry and Medico-legal psychiatry. He also has degrees in law and science. Our conversation starts with his upbringing in Dublin in the 1950s, why he initially pursued a degree in science and some of the twists and turns that led him to go...
Episode 1: Bonus: Inspiring People in Medicine and Science: Professor Brian Devitt - Orthopaedic Surgeon - Mobility, Quality of Life, Sport and the Importance of EQ in Medicine
September 27, 2022 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBProfessor Brian Devitt is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Professor of Orthopaedics and Surgical Biomechanics at Dublin City University. He studied medicine at University College Dublin and has a particular focus on the knee. He is also my brother and given that he has spent that last 8 years in Melbourne, Australia and we have only seen eachother a handful of times in this period, I am excited to sit down with him and touch base on his medical career and outlook. We start wit...
Episode 2: Eoin Murray of Federated Hermes - Sustainable Investing and Mountain and Water Rescue
October 27, 2021 00:00 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBEoin Murray is Head of Investment at the international business of Federated Hermes. He has had a long career in investment management, spending time as a hedge fund manager and a quantitative equity specialist. He recently obtained a certificate in energy innovation and emerging technologies and is a passionate advocate for sustainable investing, greater awareness of climate change and in driving change in the investment industry towards these goals. He also has a diploma in spe...
Episode 1: Minh Tsai of Hodo Foods - a culinary journey from Vietnam to the US
October 20, 2021 00:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MBIn this episode of the Intersections Podcast, hosted by Gaëlle Beltran-Grémaud, an INSEAD classmate now based in Philadelphia, we listen to the story of Minh Tsai the co-founder and CEO of Hodo Foods. Minh shares how he arrived from Vietnam to the US as a child, speaking no English; and that with luck, the support of one woman and hard work, he went on to study at Columbia University. After a stint in investment banking and management consulting, he took the risk to follow his passi...
2. Robert Finkel - Why Private Equity and Forbidden Roots make for an Intoxicating Brew
May 12, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBRobert Finkel has had an over 30 year career in investing and provided capital and support to over 40 companies through equity and investment funds under the firm Prism. He wrote the book The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital featuring 10 of the US’s most notable venture capital and private equity investor. When I met Robert he was experimenting late into the night with his botanic craft brew at home, and in 2014 he launched a botanic craft brew under the name Forbidd...
1. Jasmine Pradissitto - Breathe: How Physics Met Art to Create an Accidental Activist
April 20, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 33.9 MBJasmine Pradissitto is a British artist, academic, scientist, speaker and environmentalist who has a Ph.D. in physics from UCL and has studied art at Goldsmith’s and London Met. Her critical practice spans painting and sculpture and she is the only artist in the world licensed to use NOXTEKTM , a newly developed sustainable material that absorbs nitrogen dioxide (NOx) pollution from the air. Jasmine is represented by Gillian Jason Gallery in London, and has exhibited worldwide includ...
Jane Ohlmeyer - Empowering change, academic freedom and intellectual autonomy
March 11, 2021 00:00 - 28 minutes - 39 MBJane Ohlmeyer is the Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Irish Research Council. In this conversation we discuss her love of history, its richness, and complexity and how sometimes we are forced to re-think aspects of it, bearing in mind the voices that have been lost throughout time. We speak about the role of women in history, figures who have inspired Jane throughout her career and words of wisdom that they have passed on. Our ...
Linda Doyle - Leadership as Service and Engineering Change
March 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 minute - 38.1 MBLinda Doyle is Professor of Engineering and the Arts at Trinity College Dublin and a Fellow of the College. Her research focuses on themes of telecommunications and creative arts practices. in this podcast we speak about her research in engineering and the arts and what sits at the fusion of these two disciplines. We discuss her path into the area and move to analyse the challenges of diversity in STEM classes in particular, and what can be done to improve it. We then turn to ...
Linda Hogan - Shaping a Post-Pandemic Institution by Finding the Light
March 09, 2021 12:23 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBLinda Hogan, is Chair of Ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin and a Fellow of the College. Her research focuses on themes of ethics and religion and she was vice provost of the College from 2011 to 2016. In this discussion we start with Linda's background and entry into the field of ecumenics and why the interdisciplinary approach appealed to her. We discuss her vision for a post-pandemic institution and how putting people at its core will be vital. She speaks in particular about ...
Trinity College Provost Election 2021 - International Women's Day Special: Trailer
March 05, 2021 00:00 - 3 minutes - 4.97 MBThis special FiftyFaces Focus series showcases the three candidates for the upcoming provost election at Trinity College Dublin, due to be held in April 2021. The Provost is the Chief Officer of the university responsible to the Board and ultimately to the State for the performance of the university. This historic election will see the first female provost in the institutions 429 year history. We are delighted to present interviews with each of the three candidates, in this very ...