Oceanside Chat: L.I.T.E. Beyond Generations Oceanside Chat

What sets those who are successful apart from the rest? Contrary to popular belief, it's not talent. It's something author and psychologist Angela Duckworth calls grit. But what exactly is grit?

In our newest episode of Oceanside Chat podcast, we speak to Susan Spence, retired VP of Sourcing, Procurement & Accounts Payable at Fedex. During her tenure, she oversaw a team of 250+ professionals managing $25 billion dollars in spend and global procurement policies. Watch/listen now to learn about Sue's unexpected career journey and life story, which exemplify the concept of grit, the crucial combination of passion and perseverance.

"Inflammation is the common denominator for the vast majority of diseases," says Dr. Ernie Bodai in our newest episode of Oceanside Chat podcast. Season 4 will focus on Leading with Emotional Intelligence.

But before we can successfully lead other people, we must first lead ourselves and take care of both our physical and emotional well-being. This episode features Dr. Ernie Bodai, founder of the Breast Cancer Research Stamp that has raised over $130 million for cancer research, and Therese Nakata, who is certified in oncological nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and has numerous research articles on these topics published in medical journals. Keep listening to learn about how an anti-inflammatory lifestyle can build resilience and prevent disease for everyone!

This special episode was recorded in Spring 2022, live in the classroom at the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego.

Our guests are Piyush Bhargava, Valerie Bonebrake, and Tom Linton. Piyush is currently the Vice President of Operations & Global Head of SIOP at Carrier, and previously the Vice President of Customer & Financial Services at Dell Technologies. Valerie serves as Independent Director of Forward Air Corporation, and has more than 25 years of industry experience in logistics services. Tom is currently Senior Advisor at McKinsey and Company, and previously the Chief Procurement & Supply Chain Officer at Flex. 

Our host and creator, Helen Wang, is the NGO Founder and President of Oceanside Perspective, previous Chair of ISEI, a professor teaching Emotional Intelligence and Innovation to Market at UC San Diego, a supply chain researcher, architect, and veteran of Silicon Valley’s high tech industry.

Our guest is Marc Raibert, the executive director of The Boston Dynamics AI Institute. In this role, he drives the Institute's strategic roadmap and spearheads recruitment efforts to achieve the organization’s mission of developing technology that enables future generations of intelligent machines. Dr. Raibert also serves as the chairman of the board at Boston Dynamics, which he founded in 1992. Boston Dynamics is arguably the most influential pure-play robotics organization in the world, having produced robots such as BigDog, Atlas, Stretch, and Spot, which have been used by organizations around the globe.

Our host and creator, Helen Wang, is the NGO Founder and President of Oceanside Perspective, current Chair of ISEI, a professor teaching Emotional Intelligence and Innovation to Market at UC San Diego, a supply chain researcher, architect, and veteran of Silicon Valley’s high tech industry. In Season III, Helen designs each episode to explore futuristic topics and growth opportunities that formulate the emerging innovation ecosystem.

Our guest is Rajesh Gupta, a founding director of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and a distinguished professor of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. His research is in embedded and cyber-physical systems with a focus on sensor data organization and its use in optimization and analytics. He currently leads NSF project MetroInsight and a co-PI on DARPA/SRC Center on Computing on Network Infrastructure (CONIX) with the goal to build new generation of distributed cyber physical systems that use city-scale sensing data for improved services and autonomy.

Our host and creator, Helen Wang, is the NGO Founder and President of Oceanside Perspective, current Chair of ISEI, a professor teaching Emotional Intelligence and Innovation to Market at UC San Diego, a supply chain researcher, architect, and veteran of Silicon Valley’s high tech industry. In Season III, Helen designs each episode to explore futuristic topics and growth opportunities that formulate the emerging innovation ecosystem.

Our guest is Tyler Mincey, a Co-founder and General Partner at Baukunst, an early-stage venture capital fund investing at the frontiers of technology and design. Previously, Tyler was a leader in the iPhone and iPod team at Apple, a Partner at the digital product studio Fictive Kin, and on the founding team at Pearl Automation. He brings deep experience with the art and craft of product development to early-stage company building.

Our host and creator, Helen Wang, is the NGO Founder and President of Oceanside Perspective, current Chair of ISEI, a professor teaching Emotional Intelligence and Innovation to Market at UC San Diego, a supply chain researcher, architect, and veteran of Silicon Valley’s high tech industry. In Season III, Helen designs each episode to explore futuristic topics and growth opportunities that formulate the emerging innovation ecosystem.