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Sep 24
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Brené Brown On: How To Succeed Without B...

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About this episode

A toolkit for navigating your fears, finding your “core,” and having sovereignty over your nervous system.

 

Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers and the host of two award-winning podcasts. 

 

In this episode we talk about:

  • The inspiration behind her new book (it involves a fateful game of pickleball)
  • The importance of building a strong "core" rather than operating from a place of dysfunction or fear
  • How to achieve sovereignty over your nervous system
  • Brené’s "above the line" / "below the line" practice
  • How language acts as an indicator light for our emotions
  • The role of our values and how to operationalize them
  • Why we shit talk other people
  • How to build your capacity for paradoxical thinking 
  • And more



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