Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent more than a decade studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity and shame. With two TED talks under her belt, Brené Brown brings her humor and empathy to Netflix to discuss what it takes to choose courage over comfort in a culture defined by scarcity, fear and uncertainty.
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Research-backed zingers that gut-punch gently
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Intimate staging, arena show energy
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Sandra Restrepo
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This was Netflix's first original stand-up style special from an academic researcher, not a comedian—though Brown's timing rivals many who claim the title.
Brown's 2010 TEDx talk on vulnerability went unexpectedly viral, crashing the site and making her the accidental face of a pre-pandemic emotional literacy movement.
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Brené is a gift to humanity
@fegodev 166
I see here they're paving the way to a long-form TED-like kind of shows. I'd be very happy to have shows on topics ranging from astrophysics to anthropology
@simonecordeddu4783 131
Brene, I love, LOVE your advice. You couldn't be more right. I'm a therapist and I work with teens and I try to teach them what you teach others - no matter how hard you failed, you tried, which is more than what most people can say. You can't be brave without being afraid first, and you face that and fail and you've done it! You've got it! You decide what you value and you do what lines up with those values and, regardless of what others think, no matter the outcome, you've been braver than the vast majority of everyone else and that's a something. Venerability requires far more strength than does not being vulnerable. Life is complicated and trying is the best thing you can do. We're taught not to share, not to be vulnerable, not to empathize. If we truly want to be strong and brave and make the world a better place, we have to be vulnerable and anyone who doesn't get that doesn't get the most important lesson life has to teach us. You're amazing. Anyone who says shit about you needing Botox or whatever else knows nothing about what's really important in life. As a wierdo Californian (😉), I appreciate you and your message to the world. (Also, my moment of vulnerability in this little comment section: non-human animals feel fear, shame, and love, they feel pain and they suffer... making the world a better place includes excluding violence towards them. Don't fund it. Help them, help the planet, help us.)
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