Meet the Writer and Creative Artist: More than a Calling
Brenda Louise Emanuel is the founder, CEO and creative director of Our Dose of Love®, LLC (ODOL). For over 30 years she has been a catalyst for change through her profession, her advocacy in the community, and now through her company ODOL. ODOL provides her with the platform to elevate the issues of racial discrimination, hate and inequality, provide an avenue for healing, and preserves and shares lessons learned and wisdom from everyday people who have championed the struggle for equality. Recognizing the need for change came early in Brenda’s life. She learned at an early age about racial inequality through the walks and talks she had with her loving grandmother “Nannie” through the streets of Fort Valley, Georgia, as blacks were not allowed to enter the downtown department stores because of the color of their skin. After moving to Ohio with her father and mother, Brenda fought for equality in her formative years through her vocalization of unequal treatment in the education systems she matriculated through in Columbus, Ohio. After receiving a master’s degree from the Ohio State University, Brenda continued to fight for equality through her professional career. Brenda became an officer in both the Columbus Ohio and Montgomery County Maryland NAACP’s, fighting for justice and equality.
As a young girl and young adult, Brenda expressed her feelings through her writings of short stories about courage and love. She also expressed herself through her love for sewing and making articles of clothing for herself and others. Learning to piece material together to make something significant out of nothing, became a foundational steppingstone for Brenda’s future as she learned to become a champion and crusader for justice and change. She learned to play chess from her father, Edward Emanuel, which taught her strategy is important to succeed. She also loved to draw, paint, and create beauty in the world around her. Brenda now lives in Maryland and has taken her talents to another level with the revamping of her company ODOL to begin to share with others through the written word, lessons for overcoming systematic racism and how to begin to heal oneself and others through the power of Love. Brenda has two adult daughters and one loving granddaughter who gives her the impetus to keep fighting for a better world that we may live and love in a world where people are not seen by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
About the Company: Our Dose of Love®, LLC
Our Dose of Love®, LLC is a company started in 2008 and has as its mission to bring together liked minded people who are fighting for racial justice with the intent of sharing wisdom to overcome difficult situations and healing the hurt caused by hate, racial discrimination and inequality. ODOL is dedicated to spreading the love of God… Agape Love. We are committed to help individuals heal themselves, others and mankind through preserving and passing down wisdom and through various written formats such as blogs, books, online webinars, inspirational greeting cards and love notes.
Our Dose of Love®, LLC continuously collects, shares lessons learned and wisdom from individuals such as yourself who have paved the way for others. These lessons learned should not be forgotten but should be preserved and made available for generations to come as a reminder of where we are, how far we have come and what victory looks like when the right principles are applied to everyday life. We hope that people from all races join in and share experiences that have helped them to become a champion for the cause of eliminating hate, racial discrimination and injustice in all avenues of life.
Love is the foundational pillar of Our Dose of Love®, LLC. Love conquers hate. If we want mankind to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world, love is the one and only answer. Love is the most powerful force there is, because it has no limits. Our Dose of Love aims to help save humanity by helping us to nourish ourselves with another kind of energy… the universal force of LOVE.
As Albert Einstein said in the letter to his daughter, “There is one extremely powerful force that science has not found a formal explanation for. It is a force that includes and governs all others and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us. Love is a force so powerful that it can destroy the hate, selfishness and greed that devastate the planet. Each one of us carries within a small but powerful generator of love whose energy is waiting to be released.
We hope you enjoy the Our Dose of Love® stories of wisdom and lessons learned from champions of the fight for equality, our books, webinars and our series of greeting cards. Please share this website with your young adults, family members, friends, colleagues and others as we learn from one another. We encourage you to send us feedback by clicking on the Contact icon in the top tools bar. Thank you for your support and we hope to see you visiting our site again and again!
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