Living Legacy Leadership

Trials, Tribulations & Practical Tips in Downsizing & Decluttering with Shirley The American Dream of the Boomer generation involves consumerism and ownership. There is now a shift by younger generations to less material ownership and more collaborative experiences to make a life feel worthwhile. This coincides with many Boomers at a stage or need for downsizing and decluttering, a task mo...

When Your Hero’s Journey Becomes An Anatomy of Your Living Legacy Most Boomers are somewhat aware of Joseph Campbell’s myth-based Hero’s Journey Framework describing the likely path of a meaningful quest. We’ll revisit and unpick the basic steps as well as distinctions made by Lissa Rankin MD in her fascinating book The Anatomy of a Calling, so you can consider how they might apply to your life pa...

The Ultimate Wait-Loss Program is Living Purposefully with Fulfilling Work Waiting to be discovered, waiting to be given permission to do what really ‘floats your boat’ or live on your own terms, waiting to be clear about your life purpose; do you know anyone living like this? While it’s true there are clues leading you to figure out what your destiny on earth might be, it is often only revealed i...

Defining Hate Crime and its Impact, Directly & Indirectly w/ Douglas Brand OBE Hate Crime includes a range of potential behaviors and verbal attacks. What are challenges to police in responding to and handling potential hate crimes, including collection of evidence and eventual prosecution? What criteria determines what is Hate Speech versus an expression of Assertive Opinion of Disagreement?...

Hitting the Jackpot with Side Hustles: with Bill Johnson In a world of uncertain of jobs, income, freedom of mobility and access to goods and services due to disruption, one way to keep your personal economy going is through buying or selling goods or services through alternative means. Tune in to discover from finance wizard Bill Johnson a range of options for making more money, moving along item...

Nthenya Mwendwa is the founder, creative director and designer of an emerging luxury leather bag brand, THE.LABEL.SABA. A Brand that represents "Redefined Nomadism". The movement of traditional culture through the passages of refined luxury, bringing us to a "new age heritage". Transcendent. Eternal. African. She studied at the Arsutoria School in Milan, Italy. Her interest in merging sustainabili...

Self-Care Isn’t Selfish, So Banish the Guilt and Enjoy Some Pampering! Part of Game Changer Thinking and a Living Legacy Lifestyle is that you need to be healthy, strong and vibrant in order to fulfill your Living Legacy. While there are several factors involved, taking care of your health and well-being for the long-haul is something you can handle…in fact you are responsible for it. We’ll take a...

‘Undertaking an Academic Journey in Later Life’ with Douglas Brand Academic study is usually relegated to the first quarte of our life, with various upgrades for career advancement or furthering areas of interest peppered throughout the rest of our years as necessary. Douglas Brand, who never thought himself smart as a kid, has never-the-less ended up earning a Masters and is now undertaking a doc...

New Year, New You? How to Avoid Living Groundhog Day Syndrome Statistics are shocking, sad and demotivating as to how few of us get past the first month or two in carrying out our New Year’s resolutions. Despite an often deep desire to stop doing something or start doing something different, we seem to face a resistance that causes us to yoyo back to past performance and call ourselves a failure…a...

Human Resonance: Healing Thru Musical Vibration w/ Maestro Miha Pogacnic Miha Pogacnic epitomizes living at full-tilt, a veritable human Energizer Bunny. As a violin virtuoso and global cultural Ambassador, he pours music out of his soul in a variety of creative endeavors. Through his organization IDRIART, he organized a Cultural Caravan by train across Mongolia and Tibet, where he connected with...

How Can You Heal & Be Healthy Even with a Terminal Diagnosis? Donna Kim-Brand explores concepts and the process of healing- physically, mentally and emotionally. Having grown up expecting to become a doctor and working in a hospital for 5 years, later training in Reiki energy healing and hypnosis, and having interviewed a range of physicians, Donna has had a unique peek into dynamics of what c...

Epidemic of Social Isolation & Loneliness in Our So-called Connected World We know many elderly suffer from isolation and loneliness, but did you know that the age group experiencing it the most is youth 16-25? Seems rather ironic with how tied to their devices they are, seemingly always ‘connected’. And of course, the pandemic and lockdowns made it worse for everyone. We’ll explore causes, ty...

How Life Changes When You’re Dying; A Conversation with Ron Donovan Ron Donovan has lived a full life, and yet, like most anyone, he’s not enthused about it ending too soon. Well, ‘too soon’ in relation to what? Recently diagnosed with Stage 3 cancer and faced with imminent death, he has been through the medical ringer and thankfully is doing very well. As ever, he’s open, honest and brave enough...

Battle for the Bigtop: Miami Book Fair Author Les Standiford’s Newest Treasure World class author and professor of Creative Writing, Les Standiford, explores issues of imagination, creativity, curiosity & cultural appropriation in writing with host Donna Kim-Brand. He also expounds on the entrepreneurial zeal and resourcefulness of early American circus founders in his latest tome: Battle for...

Seeing Spirit, Utter Humanity & God in his Blood Cancer Patients: by Miami Book Fair Author Mikkael Sekeres In his celebrated book, When Blood Breaks Down: Life Lessons from Leukemia , Mikkael Sekeres tells the compelling stories of three people who receive diagnoses of adult leukemia within hours of each other. We join the intimacy of the conversations Sekeres has with his patients and listen...

Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven, by Miami Book Fair Author Catherine Wolff Catherine Wolff delves boldly yet kindly into how people and cultures have defined heaven over the centuries, describing how different faiths and religions have framed it, how the sense of heaven has evolved, and how nonreligious influences have affected it. Beyond is a mighty tome that explores ideas key to our s...

Riding the Waves of Addiction by Miami Book Fair author Thad Ziolkowski Award-winning author Thad Ziolkowski’s revelatory book, The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction & Recovery ,   illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free o...

As a Woman What I Learned About Power, Sex & Patriarchy After Transitioning by Miami Book Fair Author Paula Stone Williams A deeply moving and insightful conversation covering Paula’s transition from successful male pastor and counselor to female, with the ups and downs of seeking authenticity and truth in order to live her soul’s purpose and for the greater good. She spills the beans on male...

Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self Care Can Change The World, with Miami Book Fair Author Shelley Tygielski Teacher, Public Speaker and Author of the acclaimed new book “Sit Down to Rise Up” Shelly Tygielski is a  Self-Care Activist and Community Organizer  who helps leaders desiring to do the “inner work” of radical self-care expand the result of that work to mindful communities. She is also t...

One Friday In April A Story of Suicide and Survival by Donald Antrim, featured at Miami Book Fair Named one of the Most Anticipated of Books of 2021 by the Los Angeles Times, Literary Hub and The Millions, a searing and brave memoir that offers a new understanding of suicide as a distinct mental illness.  We discuss this unflinchingly honest account of the author's personal experiences, his percep...

Creativity in the 21st Century Workplace, w/ Brain-Trainer Donna Kim-Brand The biggest question in times of massive and accelerating change is how to maintain a consistent identity and value-proposition as an organization and workforce, even while keeping up with the times or leading the way with innovation. Donna shares several key dynamics that allow creativity to flourish individually and colle...

Do You Really Have to Summit a Mountain to be Your Best? w/Marlowe Brand Marlowe Brand and an intrepid group of like-minded guys participated in a Man-Up summer challenge program. Led by a former Navy SEAL, the group met in Wyoming and put themselves to the test physically, mentally and, dare we say, emotionally. Discover how they were prepared for the rigors and came to bond during the various th...

Lessons in Love Better Learned Sooner than Later with Donna Kim-Brand 64.5% of songs deal with love: feelings & emotions of romance and falling in love, the joys and delights of being in love, and the heartbreak or bitterness of a breakup or unrequited love. Humans are wired to be in loving relationships, yet we are rarely taught how to love and be loved. If lucky, we grow up in a loving envir...

What Makes CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) so Sexy: with Douglas Brand Career British police officer Douglas Brand moved up the ranks from cadet to Chief to representative in the European Union and in hotspots around the globe. Now working on a doctorate on Police Reform, he shares insights and perspectives from a recent project focusing on Crime Scene Investigation. What actually happens when inv...

Have Courtesy & Customer Service Gone Out the Window? With Ingrid Gittens Call Center Manager Ingrid Gittens has her British sense of good manners and propriety ruffled by the onslaught of rudeness on the part of staff and customers who interact on a phone call meant to deliver excellent customer service. Instead of addressing a complaint to satisfy or even delight customers, new issues seem t...