Plus, you had moved to New Orleans, which, in 1969, the whole notion of racial belonging was, yet again, at a new, tumultuous stage. And the dynamics were so completely different in the 1960s, even though it isn’t that long ago. In your more recent writing, in Braving the Wilderness, you talk about your childhood. Tippett: Turns out to be good for the rest of us. And I think that, often, your research is a way for you to - is a very special way you have to delve into the things that you’re navigating, and that, in fact, we are all navigating. Tippett: One of the many reasons that your work reaches people is that you - the things you write about and do your research on, you’re also completely open about how they are things you struggle with. We spoke in 2018, when she’d just published Braving the Wilderness. And her TED talks have come into millions of homes, as have her books - most recently, Dare to Lead. She consults widely with corporate, military, and athletic leaders. Tippett: Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being.

I think we just have to get the stuff out of the way that’s stopping it from happening. And I don’t think we have to work to make it true between people.

I believe that’s what’s true between people. Now she’s turning her attention to how we walked into the crisis of our life together and how we can move beyond it: with strong backs, soft fronts, and wild hearts.īrené Brown: I don’t think - when we’re our best selves with each other, I don’t think that’s what’s possible between people. Her research has reminded the world in recent years of the uncomfortable, life-giving link between vulnerability and courage. Krista Tippett, host: Brené Brown says that our belonging to each other can’t be lost, but it can be forgotten.

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