
They have two children, Ellen and Charlie.Does being vulnerable make you nervous? Do you run and hide whenever you start to feel vulnerable? This Daring Greatly summary will highlight the top 5 key ideas from Brené Brown’s encouraging book about vulnerability. Brown lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. Her Netflix special, The Call to Courage, is the first filmed lecture by a researcher on the streaming service. She hosts the Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead podcasts, and her TEDx talk, "The Power of Vulnerability", is one of the top five most-viewed TED talks in the world with more than 50 million views. With Tarana Burke, she co-edited the bestselling anthology You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience and the Black Experience. Brown has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame and empathy, and is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness and Dare to Lead, which is the culmination of a seven-year study on courage and leadership. She is also a visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business.

Read moreīrené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation-Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. It is an invitation to be courageous to show up and let ourselves be seen, even when there are no guarantees. She argues that, in truth, vulnerability is strength and when we shut ourselves off from vulnerability - fromrevealing our true selves - we distance ourselves from the experiences that bring purpose and meaning to our lives.ĭaring Greatly is the culmination of 12 years of groundbreaking social research, across every area of our lives including home, relationships, work, and parenting. In a powerful new vision Brené Brown challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability, and dispels the widely accepted myth that it's a weakness.

Most of us try to fight those feelings - we strive to appear perfect.

**Now on Netflix as The Call to Courage**Įvery time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. The sensational US bestseller that teaches us how to embrace vulnerability
