Brené Brown On: How To Succeed Without Being a Bullying, Bullshitting, Power-Hungry Jerk Face
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:00.0 | It's the 10% Happier Podcast. I'm Dan Harris. |
| 0:18.5 | Hello, everybody. How we doing? If you look around today, too often the exemplars of success and status and power are bullying, blustering, bullshitters. But actually, it is possible to succeed without being an asshole. In fact, I would argue you're more likely to succeed |
| 0:38.4 | and that the success will be even more delicious if you're doing it with, and now I'm going to |
| 0:43.8 | use some cliches, but if you're doing it with integrity and with values. My guest today is |
| 0:49.4 | going to talk about how to take these sometimes anodyne or boring terms like integrity values, et cetera, and operationalize |
| 0:57.0 | them in ways that will give you confidence and boost your odds of success, however you define |
| 1:03.1 | success. To be clear, when I use the word success, I'm using the word not only professionally, |
| 1:07.5 | but also personally. Again, how you define success is up to you, |
| 1:11.2 | but I think, and my guest thinks, that it is best achieved with a calm nervous system, or as my |
| 1:16.8 | guest says, in a state where you have sovereignty over your nervous system. Said guest is |
| 1:22.1 | Brune Brown. I'm sure you've heard of her. She's huge. She's a research professor at the University |
| 1:26.0 | of Houston, where she holds |
| 1:27.6 | the Huffington Foundation endowed chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. Bray is also the author |
| 1:33.7 | of six number one New York Times bestsellers, and she's the host of two award-winning podcasts. |
| 1:39.1 | She's got a new book out. It's called Strong Ground, and it's all about how to move through life |
| 1:43.4 | from a position of maximal strength. |
| 1:46.5 | In this conversation, we talk about the inspiration for her new book and involves a fateful game of pickleball. |
| 1:52.1 | You'll hear her explain that. |
| 1:53.6 | We talk about the importance of building a strong core rather than operating from a place of dysfunction or fear. |
| 1:59.2 | We talk about nervous system management, the above the |
| 2:02.2 | line slash below the line framework. I've been thinking a lot about this. She'll explain it, but it's |
| 2:08.0 | extremely helpful. How language acts as an indicator light for our emotions. In other words, if you're |
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