Life and Death
How to live so that you die with less regrets.
During his flight to a mayoral conference in Mexico, Bill had a seizure. Bill Brand, mayor of Redondo Beach, avid surfer, runner, long distance swimmer and nonsmoker, found out that he had 4th stage lung cancer that has spread to his brain and neck. How he lived the next four and a half years, and actually his entire life, shows it’s not how long you live, but how you live.
Bill always followed his own inner guidance. He graduated with a chemical engineering degree, and then found out that he didn’t like working on extracting fossil fuels for a large corporation. He went back to school and got an MBA from USC. However, to utilize his education he was required to move to Dallas to work at the American Airlines headquarters, away from his beloved ocean and Redondo Beach. He chose to stay and continue to work at AA LAX, close to Redondo Beach, instead of telling the people what to do from above and afar.
He was one of the pioneers who forged the surfers’ bucket list. He surfed all the now legendary surf spots, Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, France, Ireland, Mexico, Barbados, Australia, the Dominican Republic, Fiji, and New Zealand before they were known. Along the way he found his related passion, to help people and nature flourish together. He dove into citizen activism and politics like he…
