Success (Paperback)

Award-winning film and television writer, producer and director David Brady’s work is best known in Canada and the U.S., but he is no stranger to European audiences. He was also an award-winning professor at Ryerson University in Toronto as well as on the faculty of York University in Toronto, and was recently on the Faculty of Motion Picture Arts at Capilano University in North Vancouver British Columbia. David holds an MFA from York University in Toronto. He is also an award-winning author of inspirational Non-Fiction Books. In his new dramatic and compelling three books – A Life Trilogy, beginning with Surviving: Transforming Childhood Trauma; Success: Reflections on Money, Sex & Power, and ending with Serenity: Aging With Dignity, Living with Grace, David chronicles his life-altering experiences from his violent childhood, through international success to his current and fascinating life in his 60s. Because of his incredible and diverse life experiences, Brady got thinking, how many other people, especially those who are blindsided by some event that they didn’t see coming find solutions to the myriad of challenges we all must face at different stages of our lives.   As he looked around, he realized that there is no how-to manual out there to handle these major dilemmas or transition from young adult starting out to “baby boomers” who must transform from a busy, active career or professional life to supposed retirement or the “golden years.” And there is absolutely no manual on how to handle the inevitable crises that are sure to arise over time.   David said, “I don’t know about you, but no one has ever told me, here is how we cope with events like an unexpected financial reversal, major illness or life altering injury, the loss of a partner through death, the end of marriage, or our eventual death?”           We know our banks, financial institutions, and insurance companies like to talk to us about financial planning and retirement, but what about interpersonal family relations, business relations and lifelong friendship that goes south on us.  Most importantly, how do we find a way to cope, stay happy, productive and find a purpose when we are facing either emotional or financial issues during the various stages of our lives?

Award-winning film and television writer, producer, director and university lecturer David Brady enlightens audiences on how to overcome severe adversity, find peace of mind and real success in his three books: A Life Trilogy - Survival: Transforming Childhood Trauma; Success: Reflections on Money, Sex and Power - How to Use Them, Not Abuse Them or Lose Them; and Serenity: Aging With Dignity, Living With Grace. David Brady began his work life in the financial services industry and then returned to college, then university. He began his writing, producing and directing career in film and television in February of 1979 while he was a graduate student in Communications at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. In addition to his undergraduate and graduate work at Simon Fraser, David also holds an MFA in Screenwriting from York University. David was a partner in Mercury Pictures and President of Gateways Studios in Vancouver during the 1980s, as well founder & president of Deer Park Communications, and one of the founding partners of Red Apple Entertainment in Toronto. Initially operating out of Vancouver, David then went on to spend eight years producing movies out of Los Angeles and New York. He executive produced and produced four successful feature films, The Grey Fox, Till Death Do Us Part, Dixie Lanes and was one of the executive producers of You Wish with Alan Sacks for The Disney Channel. During this period, the companies he was associated with were nominated for an Academy Award, earned two Golden Globe Nominations (Best Foreign Picture and Best Actor, The Grey Fox), seven Genie Awards, and international recognition for their artistic and commercial successes. He was won numerous international awards since then for his television productions. In addition to his feature films, David has written, produced and directed roughly one hundred and thirty, half-hours of scripted comedy/dramas, and over 60 award-winning primetime documentary/docudrama television episodes, with a host of domestic and international broadcasters. David taught on the faculty of Motion Picture Arts at Capilano University in Vancouver and was previously on the faculties of York University and Ryerson University, receiving the CESAR Teaching Award. Most recently David's Aging With Dignity, Living With Grace won the Silver, Reader's Favorite Awards for Best Self Help in October 2015 in the USA. David splits his time between Toronto and Vancouver B.C.