Ep 9: Family Business with Millie Chan, Founder of Legacy127 Consulting
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Release Date: 05/12/2021
Ep 13: Advertising with Dr. Joseph Pai, Former Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Taiwan
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Dr. Joseph Pai has over 30 years of experience working in public communication and enterprise marketing. His most recent role was working as the Chairman of Taiwan Ogilvy & Mather. In this episode, Joseph talks about the unexpected twists and turns in his career journey that led him to advertising. He shares why truth is so important in advertising, why it’s important for Christians to perform well in their jobs, and what it means to be a marketplace minister.
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Ep 12: Theology of Work with Dr. Natalie Chan, Director of the Ray Bakke Center for Urban Transformation
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Dr. Natalie Chan has worked in finance for close to 20 years, with Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, Europe, and the US. Natalie is currently the director of the Ray Bakke Center for Urban Transformation in Hong Kong. She shares how she went from a successful financial career to a nervous breakdown in a hospital bed, and how God met her in that place. We discuss what theology of work is, how theology can be helpful for people working in high pressure jobs, and using the prayer of examen in their work.
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Ep 11: Law with Peter Mogan, Founding Partner of Mogan Daniels Slager LLP
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Peter Mogan is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and mediator. He' known as a leading legal advisor for mid-market mergers and acquisitions, and is the founding partner of Mogan Daniels Slager LLP. Peter shares about vocational confusion, how studying theology shaped him, and his journey to starting his own law firm. Peter also shares why lawyers have a bad reputation, what Christians can do to redeem the legal profession, and what it means to him to be an ambassador in the marketplace.
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Ep 10: Entrepreneurs with Jimmy Pak, Founder & Managing Director of Net-Makers Limited
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Jimmy Pak is the founder and managing director of Net-Makers Limited, which is an IT and business consulting company based in Hong Kong. After working 20 years in global corporations, he started Net-Makers with a vision of using business to serve God. In our conversation with Jimmy, we talk about the traits of an entrepreneur, how he initially believed that faith & work integration meant evangelism, and how he now sees his business as contributing to God’s mission of reconciliation in the world.
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Ep 9: Family Business with Millie Chan, Founder of Legacy127 Consulting
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Our guest today is Millie Chan, a lawyer with over 30 years of experience working in Malaysia and Vancouver. We discuss her work with helping ultra-high net worth families in Asia with inter-generational wealth transfer and her holistic approach to wealth, which includes intangible assets such as family identity, vision, values, and traditions.
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Ep 8: Vocation with George Bedlion, Lead Pastor of Whitewater Church
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Our guest today is George Bedlion, who is the lead pastor at Whitewater Church in Northwest Washington. This is part two of our conversation with George. In today’s episode, George shares what it looks like for his church to help people find their vocations and callings, affirm them, and empower them. Stay until the end, because Paul and Tim have a discussion about the role of storytelling, and the places in the Bible that talk about calling.
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Ep 7: Pastors are Servants with George Bedlion, Lead Pastor of Whitewater Church
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Our guest today is George Bedlion, who is the lead pastor at Whitewater Church in Northwest Washington. Our conversation is divided into two podcast episodes. In this episode, George shares the story of starting Whitewater Church, how they reached out to their neighbourhood, and his church’s vision for supporting their people from Monday to Saturday.
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Ep 6: Gender Equity with Brenda Halk, Canadian Baptist Ministries
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Brenda Halk is the Senior Associate for Strategic Projects at Canadian Baptist Ministries, and works in the area of gender based programs and Faith & Work initiatives. She has over 20 years of experience running 3 businesses. Brenda shares about gender equity - what is it, why is it important, and the work she does to promote gender equity in Canada and internationally.
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Ep 5: Money with Dr. Clive Lim, Leap International
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Dr. Clive Lim is the Managing Director of Leap International and also teaches theology classes on money, leadership, and the marketplace. In this episode, Clive shares his story of growing up without money, his obsession with money, and how his Christian faith has changed how he views money.
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Ep 4: Success with Andre Chen, CEO of DENHAM Jeans
Doing God's Business (with Dr. Paul Stevens)
Andre Chen is the CEO of DENHAM, which is an international brand that makes premium-quality jeans. In our interview with Andre we talk about success, and how his views on success have changed as he’s grown older as a business person and matured as a follower of Jesus. After our conversation with Andre, Dr. Paul Stevens shares about his thoughts and insights into what Andre had to say.
info_outlineOur guest today is Millie Chan. Millie is a lawyer with over 30 years of experience working in Malaysia and Vancouver. She is the founder of Legacy 127 Consulting, a senior consultant with the Canadian national law firm BLG, and a consultant with the Malaysian law firm Shearn Delamore & Co.
In our conversation with Millie, we discuss her work with helping ultra-high net worth families in Asia with inter-generational wealth transfer and her holistic approach to wealth, which includes intangible assets such as family identity, vision, values, and traditions. Millie also shares how as a newer Christian, she felt it would be a higher calling to leave her work as a lawyer and join full-time ministry, and what changed in her to allow her to see her legal work as doing God’s work.
Highlights from the podcast:
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The work that Millie does serving high net worth families
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Millie’s story of being antagonistic towards God and God pursuing her
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The misconceptions that Millie felt about calling, feeling like she had to muster up courage to leave the marketplace to do church or ministry work
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Why Millie feels privileged to work alongside patriarchs and matriarchs
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How Millie’s holistic approach goes beyond the practical work of asset management, and goes deeper to the work of mending relationships between family members and facilitating important conversations