Brené Brown on "Amazing Grace"
One by Willie
John Spong
4.8 • 833 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Brené Brown is a researcher, storyteller, and best-selling author known for her work on vulnerability, shame, and empathy—though many of her fans just call her “an inspiration.” On this week’s OBW, she talks about Willie’s 1976 cover of “Amazing Grace” and the way her life was completely transformed the first time she heard it...before we move into the song’s history; her lifelong love of Willie; the concepts of faith, grace, and acceptance, more generally; and the most powerful performance of “Amazing Grace” she’s ever heard.
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| 0:00.0 | Texas Monthly. |
| 0:11.0 | Hey there, I'm John Spong with Texas Monthly magazine, and this is One by a Willie, |
| 0:16.0 | a podcast in which I talk each week to one notable Willie Nelson fan about one Willie song that they really love. |
| 0:22.7 | This week, Dr. Bray Brown, |
| 0:24.9 | the internationally regarded researcher, storyteller, and best-selling author |
| 0:28.7 | who built her career studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy, |
| 0:33.2 | is going to talk about Willie's sublime, 1976 version of Amazing Grace. |
| 0:39.0 | Now, I should note here that Dr. Brown's fans and friends, just call her Brunay, |
| 0:43.2 | and I suspect they shorthand that list of heady job descriptions to simply inspiration. |
| 0:48.9 | Well, for my money, that's exactly what she's fixing to do with us. |
| 0:52.1 | Inspire. |
| 0:53.0 | She's going to describe how listening to |
| 0:54.6 | Willie's version of Amazing Grace completely transformed her life, helping her finally understand how |
| 1:00.2 | to live with fear and uncertainty, before then getting into the way that music connected Willie |
| 1:05.5 | and Sister Bobby, and really all of us, if we'll let it, and then she's going to go even deeper |
| 1:10.1 | into ideas on faith and the concept of grace itself. |
| 1:14.2 | And we'll also be discussing at the close of the episode |
| 1:16.9 | the single most powerful performance of Amazing Grace |
| 1:20.0 | that either one of us has ever witnessed. |
| 1:22.7 | So let's do it. |
| 1:25.0 | It's hard Amazing grace |
| 1:40.9 | How sweet the sound |
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