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We Can Do Hard Things

Brené Brown & Barrett Guillen on Sisterhood & Digging Deep

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Relationships, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.842.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

1. Brené and Barrett share their parenting strategy that Brené calls “the opposite of raising a child that’s full of shame.” 2. The family of origin roles that Brené (the Protector) and Barrett (the Peacekeeper) had to adjust in order to work together – and the two keys to working well with family.   3. The ways in which a child who grows up living on eggshells becomes an adult who is fearful – and how that fear shows up differently for Brené, Barrett, Glennon, and Amanda.    4. The hilarious moment when each sister confesses a secret that they fear the other believes about them–and we find out whether or not it’s true.  5. How Brené and Barrett are walking through the grief of their mother’s sudden decline, and how they circle back when the stress of that grief makes them shitty to each other.   About Brené:  Dr. 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 has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, is the author of six #1 New York Times bestsellers, and is the host of the weekly podcasts Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead.  Brené’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages and titles include:  Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. Most recently Brené collaborated with Tarana Burke to co-edit You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience.  In her latest #1 New York Times bestseller, ATLAS OF THE HEART, which has been adapted for television and now streaming on HBO Max, she takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human.  Brené lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie. TW: @BreneBrown IG: @BreneBrown About Barrett:  Barrett Guillen is Chief of Staff for Brené Brown Education and Research Group. With her team, Barrett supports both Brené and the organization by helping to prioritize competing demands, managing relationships, and building connective tissue and strategy across all business initiatives. Barrett holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Kinesiology from the University of Houston. After more than a decade in education in the Texas Panhandle, Barrett and her family moved back to the Houston area to join Brene’s team in making the world a braver place. Having the opportunity to work with her sisters every day has been one of the great joys of her life. Outside the office, you can find Barrett spending time with her family (immediate and extended), enjoying her daughter’s games, eating her husband’s famous burgers, floating in the water (any water!), or on the pickle ball court.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Last week on We Can Do Hard Things, we revisited our most mortifying stories.

0:06.5

You must listen to that episode if you have not yet, and you need some lightness and a laugh. Your calls are flooding in again,

0:14.3

and the voicemails about your mortifying stories

0:17.6

are absolutely making our week.

0:19.8

So we thank you.

0:20.8

We needed that Pod Squad.

0:22.2

Please never stop sharing your embarrassing stories with us

0:26.3

Call us at 747 200 5307 and share yours sharing is caring at the top of that episode and Share Yours, Sharing Is Caring.

0:33.4

At the top of that episode, that mortifying stories episode,

0:36.6

Amanda mentioned that this type of sharing

0:39.4

made her think of today's double date

0:42.4

with Brinay Brown and her sister Barrett Gien.

0:46.5

It reminded her of this episode because Bernay talks in this episode about how she shares

0:51.9

with her children all of the horrible things that she

0:54.8

thinks in her mind instead of shielding them from her weirdest thoughts because she thinks that normalization is the antidote to shame, which is so

1:06.7

important. You must listen to that in this episode. We keep so much from each

1:10.3

other, but really what we should be doing is sharing all of our bananas

1:14.6

selves so that other people feel less bananas. This was a favorite episode of

1:19.8

ours because we at this pod like to celebrate all kinds of love, not just romantic love.

1:25.0

So today we celebrate a special kind of love that has always been the steadiest love and

1:31.0

most long lasting love of my life which is sister love.

1:36.0

Brine and Barrett talk about the family of origin roles that they had to adjust in

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