Brené Brown: The Power of Vulnerability

Oprah's Super Soul

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Oprah is joined by New York Times best-selling author and University of Houston graduate professor Dr. Brené Brown, as they delve into the power of vulnerability. In front of a live studio audience, Brené shares the four myths of vulnerability, explains why vulnerability means being truthful to who we are and offers examples of how to integrate vulnerability into your everyday life. Brené also answers audience questions.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.5	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.0	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.0	now.
0:25.0	Welcome to Brunei Brown!
0:32.0	And I know that you have been, y'all have been counting down the days till Brunei.
0:40.0	Literally on Twitter, all my Twitter rotties are here, my tweet cards. On Twitter everybody's
0:45.2	like, Brunei Brown, Brunei Brown, Brunei Brown, Brunei, Brunei vulnerability, hashtag, hashtag.
0:53.2	She's really Dr. Brunei Brown, but we get to call her Brunei, because we're that friendly.
0:58.2	Yes.
0:59.2	She is a professor at the University of Houston grad school and has spent the past decade studying
1:04.2	vulnerability, studying courage, studying worthiness and shame. And she's also the author of Daring
1:12.2	Greatly.
1:13.2	Okay. Now, we're not here to talk about the book as much as we're here to talk about you
1:25.6	all. Now, I know a lot of you saw her 2010 TED Talk on the power of vulnerability. You all
1:31.2	saw it here.
1:32.2	Okay. You are among the 10 million views and counting for that TED Talk. And she has over
1:38.7	200,000 devoted followers on Facebook and Twitter. Not bad for a girl from Texas.
1:43.7	Not bad.
1:44.7	So, for years, people have been telling me, tweeting me, you got to meet Brunei Brown. And
1:51.9	we finally met a few months ago. And we just click. We're sisters. We're law sisters.
1:57.5	And she introduced us to the notion of Daring Greatly. And I was like, yes, yes, yes,
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