This led to the creation of her filmed lecture, Brené Brown: The Call to Courage, which debuted on Netflix in 2019. She also has a less well-known talk from 2010 given at TEDxKC titled 'The Price of Invulnerability.' In it she explains that when numbing hard and difficult feelings, essentially feeling vulnerable, we also numb positive emotions, like joy. In the second talk she talks about how her life has changed since the first talk and explains the connection between shame and vulnerability, building on the thesis of her first TED talk. The talk 'summarizes a decade of Brown's research on shame, framing her weightiest discoveries in self-deprecating and personal terms.' Reggie Ugwu for The New York Times said that this event gave the world 'a new star of social psychology.' She went on to follow this popular TED talk with another titled 'Listening to Shame' in 2012. Its popularity shifted her work from relative obscurity in academia into the mainstream spotlight. Public speaking īrown's TEDx talk from Houston in 2010, 'The Power of Vulnerability', is one of the five most viewed TED talks. She has spent her research career as a professor at her alma mater, the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work. Career Research and teaching īrown has studied the topics of courage, vulnerability, shame, empathy, and leadership, which she has used to look at human connection and how it works. īrown completed a Bachelor of Social Work degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, followed by a Master of Social Work degree in 1996, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in social work at the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work in 2002. In 2022, HBO Max released a documentary series based on her book, Atlas of the Heart.īrown holds the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and is a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.īrown was born on November 18, 1965, in San Antonio, Texas, where her parents Charles Arthur Brown and Casandra Deanne Rogers had her baptized in the Episcopal Church. She appears on the 2019 documentary, Brené Brown: The Call to Courage, on Netflix. She has written six number-one New York Times bestselling books and hosted two podcasts on Spotify. Brown is known for her work on shame, vulnerability, and leadership, and for her widely viewed TEDx talk in 2010. Acompañar: A Grounded Theory of Developing, Maintaining and Assessing Relevance in Professional Helping (2002)Ĭasandra Brené Brown (born November 18, 1965) is an American professor, author, and podcast host.

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