Welcome back, everyone, to the School of Greatness Podcast. I'm very excited today. We have the incredible

Brunei Brown on. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. Yes, I'm very excited to be here.

We have an event called the Summit of Greatness every year, an annual event. And the people on my team

in our program write down the person that they want to have on the School of Greatness.

And most of our team is women, and most of them put your name down as the people, the person

we want to have on. So we're finally making it happen. And my team can stop asking for

Bernay. It's happening. I feel very connected to you. Yeah. Because I felt very alone for almost

my entire life. I felt like I didn't belong anywhere. I was the

youngest of four. I was always picked on, bullied. I was sexually abused when I was a kid by a man

that I didn't know. I was always picked last on sports teams. And I know you weren't even picked

for, I think it was the step team or some type of... Oh, yeah, the drill team.

The drill team. I remember how, you know, that kind of transformed your life. It was defining. Defining, right? These moments that we go through as kids can really define and shape us. And so I'm just, I feel connected to you in that sense that I felt very alone and didn't know who I was for a very long time. And still, I'm trying to learn who I am.

Yeah, me too.

You are?

Yeah. that sense that I felt very alone and didn't know who I was for a very long time. And still,

I'm trying to learn who I am. Yeah, me too. You are? Yeah. But you seem like you've all figured out.

Oh, God. No, I don't. No, I don't have, I mean, first of all, I think the one thing I've learned

in my research above all else is that in the absence of love and

belonging, there's always suffering. So when I hear about your experiences growing up, that's

suffering. Yeah. That's real suffering. And for me, not making the drill team when I was,

I think it was an eighth grade, by itself is not a lot, but how my family responded to it. It was like when

things changed for me and I didn't feel like I belong to my family anymore. So I think that

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