Living Legacy Leadership

ReInventing Yourself Can Give a New Lease on Life Who we show up as in the world can morph depending on both conscious and unconscious factors. When it is by design to try on a new identity you can change and enrich your experience of life with a courage that might belie your underlying introversion or fear of showing up. It’s like putting on a costume that gives you permission to behave in synch...

Key Skills for Back to School, Home School or Adult Learning Donna Kim-Brand shares underlying concepts embedded in L.E.A.R.N. and A.I.D. M.E. that approach the essential human skill of learning in order to grease the wheels of a better quality of current and future life. For teachers, parents, students and business people alike, the approaches will help you get more productivity and joy out of yo...

Rock’nRoll in His Blood, Peggy Sue & Oh Donna in His Life! w/Paul King How is it that a Brit knows the actual people Peggy Sue and Donna sung about in early rock and roll, and why has he been to the Buddy Holly plane crash site in Iowa over 30 times? Why are Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison such an obsession? In the process, Paul King has traveled to all 50 US states and so far, 44 state capitals?...

An Adventurous and Fiery Life of Service with Ken Brand Imagine being in the Army during the infamous and deadly ‘Troubles’ in Belfast from age 17, followed by a long career in the British Fire and Rescue Service, where drama was your daily diet. How do you manage your adrenalin rushes without burning out? Without compassion fatigue? For Ken Brand, it included partaking in Historic re-enactments,...

More Mojo & Gusto in Life with Holistic Focused Thinking We don’t usually think that being focused, as demanded by parents, teachers and employers through our life, can profoundly affect our personal well-being. We tend to view focus as sharp with pinpoint precision, in order to achieve specific results. That is true. But there are other aspects to focus which give additional thinking and crea...

How Respect Keeps Humanity Intact in Tough Prison Work: Courtenay Burton It’s a balancing act between treating prisoners with respect by listening and responding appropriately to their demands while maintaining one’s own boundaries and sanity in high stakes, high pressured and often dangerous environments. Courtenay Burton shares some of her personal strategies and stories of managing a career in...

Make Even Your Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer Boost Your Well-Being We’ve all heard of the benefits of compound interest, with benefits which accumulate exponentially with consistent inputs over time. It’s the same in considering your mood and well-being when you take one of these suggested tweaks daily across a whole month. By the end of a few weeks the cumulative effect will have made a huge d...

Can You Have a Good Marriage Even If You Marry the ‘Wrong’ Person? “You complete me” is a line from the movie Jerry McGuire that makes some swoon and others cringe. Concepts of marriage have shifted dramatically across the years; viewed as a legal, economic or political contract vs. relationship construct vs. love bond (or is it bondage?). And how we escape from a marriage that doesn’t satisfy or...

Those 36 Love Questions- Do They Really Foster Closeness? These questions that popped on the scene in 2015 claimed to explore whether intimacy between strangers can be accelerated by asking each other a specific set of personal questions, ideally face to face. In the age of online dating and superficial social media one-up-manship, probing responses to these questions is meant to reveal key values...

The Black, White and Blurred Aspects of Criminology -- Douglas Brand OBE Criminology as a field is multi-faceted, crossing back and forth between pure science and social science. Criminology includes the study of crime, patterns of criminal behavior, criminal psychology, redressing criminality and much more. This means the potential for career options is wide-ranging. Since Douglas Brand is a form...

Email: donnakimbrand@gmail.com Website: www. GameChangerThinking.com The Psychology & Ripple Effect Behind That Infamous Slap Everybody and his brother has an opinion or theory about why Will Smith acted as he did at the 2022 Oscars. Yes, it’s complicated, and of course, the truth or rationale may not even be clearly known to those involved. As well, ripple effects are likely to show up, as th...

Email: donnakimbrand@gmail.com Website: www. GameChangerThinking.com The History & Magic of the English Canal System The underbelly of England is populated by a sprawling network of canals constructed from the 1500’s primarily to ship coal, cattle and commodities more safely and efficiently than by land or sea. In the process, architecture and engineering of the canal and lock systems, boat de...

Email: donnakimbrand@gmail.com Website: www. GameChangerThinking.com Take the Ride of Your Life and Access Your Soul with Akashic Records For millennia, mystics, masters and sages across traditions claim to have read the Akashic Records. This is the proverbial ‘Big Book in the Sky’, a dynamic repository holding information about every soul and its journey through life. Long considered accessible b...

Email: chele@cheletindall.com Website: cheletindall.com Fire Up Your Burning Desire and Elevate Your Results with Chele Tindall So much of our reality is built upon our experiences and the conditioning we received as a child, which subconsciously affects us as we move through life. Often we are not aware that this hidden mechanism is directly in control of our personal performance and achievements...

Implications of Outdated Perspectives on Aging and Longevity Stages of life used to consider 3 main arenas: education, work and family, then retirement. With the human lifespan extending since the late 1800’s by nearly 30 years, primarily extending longevity after retirement, the old system doesn’t fit anymore. A whole range of societal issues have to change or be created to accommodate this massi...

Humor, Explaining Jokes and the Role of Comedians Humor relates to our ‘funny bone’, supposedly existing to trigger feel-good neurotransmitters and mental insights, causing laughter and new perspectives on our world. Comedians use set-up language and juxtaposing issues that jolt us into seeing things in a different way. Bold comedians tackle controversial current issues or personalities, social in...

Much A-do About That Oscars Slap Despite a range of heavy-duty, even life-threatening, events swirling about our world these days, we are still sounding off about Will Smith’s infamous slap of Chris Rock at the Oscars weeks ago. We’ll dissect the cacophony of viewpoints across a variety of sectors: friends or foes of the Pinkett-Smith family, comedians, celebrities, the film industry, psychologist...

Intergenerational Mentoring a Viable ‘Encore’ Option, with Douglas Brand Many organizations function these days with 4 or 5 generations of employees, whose work-place preferences can cause serious difficulties in seamless operations. Add to that multiple channels of communication, ever-changing technology and a range of leadership and management styles, and you have the makings of conflict and fru...

Arizona on My Musical Mind Donna has been visiting the American Southwest and has a range of perspectives on the rugged desert scapes and colorful mountain formations. Today she’ll focus on where places and scenes of Arizona show up in song lyrics, some quite famous. Remember “standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona”, anyone? Guided by adept writer Craig Outhier in Phoenix Magazine, Donna will ti...

Running for Her Life; with Helen Raptoplous on her Marathon Journey No kidding, Helen recently completed her first marathon, a grueling 26 mile adventure in one of her favorite places, Disney World Florida. She’ll share what led her to take up running later in life, how she prepared for both the physical and mental aspects of such a long run and how it changed her life. She has tips for you to app...

What’s the Big Deal with Knowing Your Life Purpose? There are both psychological and neurological reasons that support knowing the purpose of something. Fundamentally, having a WHY explains your rationale for taking certain actions, allowing you to know both when to go along with or align with any choice and when you shouldn’t if it deters you from what you really want. In terms of brain science,...

Time to Move On- From Individuals Moving House to Societies Going to War As humans we move through life on a growth timeline of sorts, often fulfilling goals and milestones at different ages or stages of life, as circumstances change or opportunities arise. Shouldn’t this also apply to humanity as a collective? With Ron Donovan, Executive Coach, we’ll discuss designing & moving into his dream...

Living Life on Your Own Terms a la Neale Donald Walsh The number one regret of the dying is feeling they lived their life by someone else’s agenda, not their own. How about you? What does it mean for you to live on your own terms? Author and spiritual teacher Neale Donald Walsh offers ten life lessons and four fundamental questions to provide guidance in exploring, defining or updating these issue...

Oxbridge Programs Cultivate World Class Students via World Class Education: with Richard Michaelis For more than 35 years, Oxbridge Academic Programs has hosted bright and enthusiastic high school students summer study programs on some of the world’s leading campuses. What began in 1986 in Oxford, England, now additionally includes university campuses in Cambridge, Paris, Montpellier, Barcelona, S...

Perceptions & Experience of Community Policing Globally w/ Douglas Brand We all know what Community Policing is, don’t we? Or do we? The Monday morning quarterback has an opinion that is limited & biased. Likewise, the concept of Community Policing can be so chameleon-like as to mean all things to all people. In practical reality, one must consider the history, context, culture and consequ...