Living Legacy Leadership

Email: donnakimbrand@gmail.com www. GameChangerThinking.com Simplify Well-Being to Live Longer & More Joyfully Gaining ultimate well-being, however you define it, includes boosting function of your body, mind and soul. There are psychological or attitudinal elements which set the strategic direction of your adventure in well-being. And there are practical actions or behaviors you can take to g...

Email: donnakimbrand@gmail.com www. GameChangerThinking.com How Leaders Can Shift Strategic Thinking from Work-life to Post-Retirement Life Strategy involves mental perception and perspectives, yet is developed and delivered through several specific types of behaviors. Ironically, leaders become more strategic via tactics that shift the prevailing viewpoint to gain more buy-in. One roadmap suggest...

Email: donnakimbrand@gmail.com  Purpose-Driven Leaders Can Use Their Skills for Post-Retirement Ventures Most modern-day employees want their efforts and values to jive with the organizational culture. Along with a fair salary stemming from productivity and profitability, they want purposefulness in the process. Leaders who know how to embody and embed a sense of purpose into daily work life, such...

Email: douglasbrandspeaking@gmail.com Website: www.douglasbrandspeaking.com Shifting from Military to Civilian Operation After Conflict: With Douglas Brand OBE Former career British Police Chief Douglas Brand has spent decades in a range of countries in what are termed ‘Peace Support Operations’. This is the period after a major conflict where the military has been involved, where stabilization op...

Next Up, Revitalizing Retirement as Baby Boomers Continue to Lead Change Host Donna Kim-Brand takes a romp through history, rehashing a number of major societal changes brought about by the age-wave group known as Baby Boomers. Traditionally taught as a reaction to returning soldiers at the end of World War 2, we’ll explore other rationales for the boom in births and their subsequent influence on...

How to Raise a Teen’s Self-Image to Survive and Thrive Self-image wellness and resilience may be the key to surviving adolescence in our social media driven and polarized turbulent times. Surviving the in-built conundrum of being uniquely yourself while also fitting in is tough for most people. But in the hyper-intense world of teens the pressure to conform to norms they may not have chosen couple...

BBC Journalist Hot Scoop: Children Need a Relationship with Their Father Jon Devitt worked as the BBC’s Central Europe Correspondent for years, on assignments around the globe at short notice or for extended periods in areas of conflict. When his wife claimed it was now ‘her turn’, he shifted his livelihood and became a stay-at-home dad. He claims that getting to know his kids and developing a clo...

Leadership in Crisis vs. Business as Usual; with Ron Donovan Executive Coach Ron Donovan brings us his insights on Leadership in Crisis, given we seem to be in a perpetual state of flux nowadays. He reveals what he thinks was the most dangerous point in human history, and how an excellent leader at that time handled the situation. Ron reveals how great leaders need to show up for their people and...

Thinking Like William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is the second most quoted English writer after the writers of the Bible and invented over 3000 words or idiomatic phrases. For an author and playwright once called an ‘upstart crow’ and whose works were never published in his lifetime yet later survived across hundreds of years, much to the chagrin of many-a student, quite a bit about Shakespea...

Thinking Like Sherlock Holmes Despite being a fictional character, Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed human character in film, according to Guinness World Records. Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a former medical doctor turned author, the genius of Sherlock Holmes as an eccentric ace detective caught the imagination of generations of people in only 4 novels and 56 short stories. His intellec...

Thinking Like Leonardo DaVinci Considered the epitome of a Renaissance Man and # 1 Genius in history, it behooves us to take a look at how Leonardo thought and approached his various artworks and inventions. We can then consider how to adopt or adapt some of his principles of learning and discovery to our own life and work. Given his humble beginnings and the hundreds of years since his lifetime,...

Upsides & Downsides of Artificial Intelligence (AI) With Donna Kim-Brand Having recently looked at issues with Neuro-technology and its impact on business, life and cognitive liberty, let’s now tackle some of the current conversation around Artificial Intelligence, AI. Concerns range from issues with plagiarism, copyright infringement of Intellectual Property, lack of personal cognitive develo...

Life Design: Coming Home to Yourself with Helen Raptoplous Helen Raptoplous-Belanger exemplifies ‘The Power of Choosing You’. She turned on her deep inner lovingness and power by going through a personal transformation involving becoming a marathon runner. Now she teaches others to become Fit and Fabulous by making yourself a priority. Come meet this amazing woman as we chat through her amazing tr...

Find Your WHY and Find Your Way to Create a Living Legacy Humans tend to make choices and progress when motivated. After all, movement is baked into the word ‘motivation’. We’ll explore distinctions between notions of purpose & WHY, vision & mission, along with suggesting 7 steps you can take to discover your WHY. Once aligned both internally with conviction and externally by actions, it’s...

Honoring Arun Gandhi: Elderly Grandson of Mahatma & Social Justice Advocate Arun was a friend, soon to have been a guest again on this podcast, so imagine my profound sadness to learn of his recent passing after a short illness. Having been born in South Africa, he moved to live with his Grandfather in India at age 12, and learned first-hand at the feet of the Mahatma. Since then, Arun and his...

Are Neuro-Technology & Artificial Intelligence Threatening Cognitive Liberty? Host Donna Kim-Brand analyzes Neuro-Technology from the perspective of how it intrudes on business and life as we know it, as well as on what possible benefits it can provide. Progress always involves upsetting familiar norms and often brings with it questions of ethics, fairness and legality. Who gets to have the ad...

Managing Failure as a Natural Part of the Path to Success Many Boomers will have been introduced to Dr. Maxwell Matz’s 1960’s groundbreaking book ‘Psycho-Cybernetics’. He explored the power of the mind and how our thoughts have a profound impact on our behavior and outcomes; and that by changing our self-image and thought patterns, we can change our lives. Today host Donna Km-Brand will delve into...

Reconnect with Life by Breathing Better & Overcoming Emotional Numbness We don’t tend to give our breathing a thought unless we can’t easily breathe, we’re in yoga class or trying to meditate mindfully. Breathing is a process which connects our mind and body to regulate our emotions, mood, metabolism and longevity, especially if done well.  In revival is an old trend, referred to as ‘breathwor...

The Question Isn’t How Intelligent Are You, But How Are You Intelligent? Multiple Intelligences is a theory that was introduced by Harvard Professor Howard Gardner in his 1983 book “Frames of Mind: The Theory of Intelligences”. He proposed that intelligence isn’t a fixed number, as was measured by an IQ test. Rather, he suggested seven different types of intelligence, of which each person has a un...

22 Small Tweaks to Morph into a Healthier You While few of us relish change, even though we know we need it and could pull it off if we made it a focus, just the thought feels daunting. Somehow, using words like ‘tweak’ or ‘shift’ seems more doable. So here we go with a handful of simple tweaks we could easily build into our daily life with cumulative positive effects. As we approach a change of s...

Enlightenment in Action with Direct Awakening a la Craig Hamilton The human condition is dominated by an underlying and persistent feeling of lack, which leaves us always looking to apparent greener pastures for happiness and fulfillment. With a deep awareness attuned to the present moment, we open the door to direct awakening to spiritual enlightenment now, rather than having to endure years of t...

British Actor-Musician-Comedic Legend, Unflappable Spencer K. Gibbons Part 2 Entertainer extraordinaire; stage manager, actor, singer, tour leader, cruise director and raconteur Spencer K Gibbons continues with his colorful career and life adventures. You can still catch him on stages around the UK or giving walking tours in London on the Beatles, Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie. He’s a walking...

Meet British Actor-Musician-Comedic Legend, Unflappable Spencer K. Gibbons Author of the little gem ‘Some of Us Didn’t Make It’, which tells the story of the early days of rag-tag Rock ‘n Roll groups earning their chops playing gigs between England, Germany and the US in the early 1960’s. He knew the Beatles & almost snuffed out Aretha Franklin in their beginning days overseas. The demands for...

Road-Trip Preparation Allows for Memories You’ll Want to Keep Part 2 We live in a mobile society, with generally decent road systems and available amenities along the way, depending on where you are of course. Still, preparing ahead of time can make all the difference in both comfort, convenience and a care-free experience. There are lots of small issues that if you know about, will ease your way...

Road-Trip Preparation Allows for Memories You’ll Want to Keep We live in a mobile society, with generally decent road systems and available amenities along the way, depending on where you are of course. Still, preparing ahead of time can make all the difference in both comfort, convenience and a care-free experience. There are lots of small issues that if you know about, will ease your way greatly...