Living Legacy Leadership

How Emotional Intelligence Shows Up in Real Life & Why It’s Worth Developing Daniel Goleman’s 1995 book Emotional Intelligence brought to light the concept of Emotional Intelligence, or EI; an ability to understand and manage emotions which is hailed as a key cause of increased success in business and life.   Host Donna Kim-Brand shares 14 ways EI can show up in daily life situations and how y...

Intelligence and Sexuality: Are you Sapio-sexual and What is it Anyway? In the current trend to segment and label people with intersectional identities, are we really just splitting hairs? A relatively new term is on the scene and even part of stating online dating preferences. It’s sapio-sexuality, which describes people who self-identify as ‘attracted by intellect’ as a pre-condition for an even...

The Meditation Myth of the Quiet Mind a la Craig Hamilton Traditional and mystical wisdom has taught us that successful meditation requires suppressing or eliminating our thoughts, over-riding or stilling thoughts with mantras, or at least redirecting them to be more ‘spiritual’. That’s a process like trying to pin down a ball of mercury, and has led to years of frustrated or defeated practitioner...

Brief Introduction for Show Description: Protesters, Public Order, Precedent & Police Intervention with Douglas Brand The United Kingdom is being wracked in recent months and years by protests that seriously interrupt the normalcy of daily or urgent activities of the public: rail strikes, strikes by nurses, ambulance crews & dispatchers, teachers and most radically, climate change and anti...

Keeping Romance Alive in an Automated World Host Donna Kim-Brand explores the state of romance in our modern world of digital devices, workaholic busyness and often militant individualism. With February being the month of enforced romantic gestures on Valentine’s Day, it has become cliché to spend an average of over $150 on one’s partner. One dare not ‘forget’ or suffer hostile consequences! Donna...

25 Things You Didn’t Know About Men: with Donna Kim-Brand Rather a cool, scientific approach to diagnosing who men are and why they act as they do, it’s still helpful to know and understand what is driving them. From the roles and effects of testosterone to the percentage of men who take condoms to office parties to the 70% plus of men who enjoy being married and the 30% who initiate divorce, mode...

Tapping the Secrets of the Universe: Riffing on Walter Russell’s Philosophy One of my favorite books and stories is ‘The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe’, by Glenn Clark about Renaissance man Walter Russell. He was a polymath with high achievements in business, science, architecture, art, sculpture, music, painting and more. This account is a condensed version of his keystone principles...

My Journey to the Earth: Book Secrets with Author Tish Narh Asumang Author Tish Narh Asumang tells the story, first in a series, about children of light living in love in Heaven. They prepare for a journey of coming to Earth along with lessons they will learn and share. We’ll seek to understand the source of this story and what we Earthlings can learn from her fantastical depiction.

Turning Aging into Saging by Activating Elder Wisdom Host Donna Kim-Brand explores several perspectives on aging well, in a context of Creative Living and Giving. Our early life exposures and experiences color who we become as people and how we express our unique sense of self, personally & professionally. Much of what we assume is ‘set in stone’ is actually able to be shifted with conscious a...

Why Making New Year’s Resolutions is Important & How to Make Them Stick Even though statistically, 90+% of New Year’s Resolutions remain unfulfilled and are even given up on within weeks if not months, there is a method to the madness that makes the effort worthwhile. While some are cynical about the annual greeting to ‘make it your best year yet’, why not try to make it so? Reach higher, be b...

Turning Aging into Saging by Activating Elder Wisdom Host Donna Kim-Brand explores several perspectives on aging well, in a context of Creative Living and Giving. Our early life exposures and experiences color who we become as people and how we express our unique sense of self, personally & professionally. Much of what we assume is ‘set in stone’ is actually able to be shifted with conscious a...

An Artist’s Cruise Around the World in 90 Days with Granville Danny Clarke British watercolor artist, poet, folk singer and environmental educator, G. Danny Clarke, has finally compiled his sketches, watercolors and musings in a coffee table book that begs to be fingered. While the trip was 30 years ago, his recollections and stunning art renderings stem from those days, capturing and describing 2...

An Artist’s Cruise Around the World in 90 Days with Granville Danny Clarke   British watercolor artist, poet, folk singer and environmental educator, G. Danny Clarke, has finally compiled his sketches, watercolors and musings in a coffee table book that begs to be fingered. While the trip was 30 years ago, his recollections and stunning art renderings stem from those days, capturing and describing...

An Artist’s Cruise Around the World in 90 Days with Granville Danny Clarke British watercolor artist, poet, folk singer and environmental educator, G. Danny Clarke, has finally compiled his sketches, watercolors and musings in a coffee table book that begs to be fingered. While the trip was 30 years ago, his recollections and stunning art renderings stem from those days, capturing and describing 2...

The Future is Analog: How to Create a More Humane World with Miami Book Fair Author David Sax From days even earlier than the Jetsons cartoons, most of us grew up looking forward to a convenient, futuristic digital life, work and learning lifestyle that defined a tantalizing way forward. Yet when most of the world was thrown into that scenario during the Covid-19 Pandemic lockdowns, we humans coll...

Remembering: The Science of Memory and The Art of Forgetting with Miami Book Fair Author Lisa Genova Combine neuroscientist with storyteller and you have Lisa Genova’s entertaining yet informative access to the latest on remembering and forgetting as a brain function. Memory is an undervalued human skill, surrounded in mystery, both as to how it works and why it doesn’t. Just because we forget som...

Make Your Own Lucky Opportunities in Creating a Life You Love (part 2) Donna Kim-Brand presents key concepts from the book Opportunity: How to Win in Business and Life and Create a Life You Love by one of her mentors, Eben Pagan. He has found that a common key factor in highly successful people is their ability to notice or create opportunities. What’s the role of neuroscience in priming your mind...

Drugs and the FDA: Safety, Efficacy & The Public Trust- Miami Book Fair author Dr. Mikkael Sekeres Mikkael Sikeres, a respected cancer specialist, professor, author and former chair of the FDA’s drug advisory committee, explores the Food and Drug Administration’s mission, global health crises, patient advocates and politics of the pharmaceutical industry today. While this book primarily tackle...

When Opportunity Knocks, Do You See It and Open the Door? Host Donna Kim-Brand presents key concepts from the book Opportunity: How to Win in Business and Create a Life You Love by one of her mentors, Eben Pagan. He has found that a common key factor in highly successful people is their ability to notice or create opportunities, then choose the best ones for them in which to invest time, energy an...

You Belong: A Call for Connection with Miami Book Fair Author Sebine Selassie In  You Belong , much-admired meditation expert Sebene Selassie reveals that accepting our belonging is the key to facing many challenges currently impacting our world. To belong is to experience joy in any moment: to feel pleasure, dance in public, accept death, forgive what seems unforgivable, and extend kindness to yo...

Nazis on the Potomac: The Top Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II- with Miami Book Fair author Robert Sutton When the United States entered World War II, one endeavor was to establish a secret facility not far from the Pentagon to interrogate and eavesdrop on the highest-level Nazi prisoners and also translate and analyze captured German war documents. The American serviceme...

dbrand2@hotmail.com Website: www.douglasbrandspeaking.com A Motocycle Love Affair: Personal & Professional Adventures on Two Wheels with Douglas Brand Having owned around 20 motorcycles across his lifetime so far, former UK police chief Douglas Brand has had thrills, minor spills and adventures linked to each. He was able to parlay his love of motorcycles into a professional role as a motorcyc...

Are You in Charge Your Brain’s Executive Functioning? Executive functioning refers to the many skills our brains use to get important things done- from work to homework, studying, chores and other daily responsibilities. It’s about how we prioritize and execute important tasks through to completion. And about choosing what’s required over more fun ways to spend your time and attention. Since we se...

Win the Game of Independent Learning at Home, School or Work Recent trends in education and even employment have us learning remotely on our own at home, or virtually via platforms like Zoom. This has thrust many students, parents and managers into the stressful position of ‘teacher’ for which they have no official training. While subject matter is always changing depending on age, maturity, sophi...