Yeah, today's QOD is when you own your story, you get to write the ending.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and

.com. We got Brunei Brown on this show today. And I think this clip is going to resonate

with a lot of people because she's talking about shame. She's talking about what drives

it, what relieves it, and how you can discover the power of identifying shame, reality checking

it and sharing your story because when you own your story, you're the one who gets to

write the ending. Brunei Brown coming up after these words.

We left off in the last session talking about empathy and shame resilience. And what I'd

like to do as we come back is jump back in there and do something I don't get the opportunity

to do very often, which is really drop into deeply drop into some of the empathy work.

Because I think it's key. It is, as I mentioned earlier, the antidote to shame. And I'm not

sure. I know that before I did this research, I did not fully understand empathy and it's

complexities and what it was and what it was not. So what I'd like to do is drop into

it a little bit more and talk about empathy. The one thing I would like to share is I do

this kind of visual routine to explain the power of empathy with shame that involves

the petri dish. If you put shame in a petri dish, it only needs three things to grow exponentially.

Secrecy, silence and judgment. If you take shame in the petri dish and you douse it with

a little secrecy, a little silence and a little judgment, it will grow exponentially.

It will creep into every corner and crevice of our lives. It is the exact perfect environment

for shame. If on the other hand, you take shame and you put it in a petri dish and you douse

it with empathy, when that happens, you've created a hostile environment for shame. Shame

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