Dr. Brené Brown, Research Professor and Author
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This week’s conversation is with Dr. Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work.
She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness and her latest book Dare to Lead, which is the culmination of a seven-year study on courage and leadership
Brené’s TED talk – The Power of Vulnerability – is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 35 million views.
The relationship between vulnerability and courage is a focal point of our conversation.
In Brené’s words: “You cannot get to courage without walking right through vulnerability.”
So what is courage all about and when is it the right time to be vulnerable?
Whether it be with a loved one or in the corporate world, do you have the courage to say or do the difficult things?
And if you’re a leader, do you have the courage to create a culture that actually allows for people to fall on their face and get back up?
Brené has an amazing way of putting her researching into action with simple and applied strategies so I can’t wait for you to learn from her.
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| 0:16.3 | Coming off the research I just came off of for Dare to Lead, seven years studying kind of really top performing leaders across every from athletes to Fortune 10 CEOs civic leaders just across the board, asking one question, given the complexity that we're living in right now and what the future looks like, what's the |
| 0:20.6 | one thing that you're going to be looking for in leaders like who's going to be still standing as a leader in the next five years? |
| 0:27.8 | And it was the first time I've ever done research where the answer saturated across every single participant. |
| 0:33.9 | And without question, people didn't even hesitate. |
| 0:36.2 | They just said courage. |
| 0:37.8 | We need braver leaders. |
| 0:40.6 | We need more courageous cultures. |
| 0:43.0 | All right, |
| 0:45.0 | welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Michael Jervay by Trade and Training, a Sport Performance Psychologist, |
| 0:59.0 | as well as the co-founder of Compete to Create. |
| 1:01.0 | And if you're new to the podcast, the whole design of this |
| 1:04.5 | podcast is to study, learn, and apply the insights and practices of people who |
| 1:11.0 | have walked in extraordinary life. |
| 1:13.0 | And what we want to do is understand their psychological framework, |
| 1:16.0 | how they organize their internal and external world |
| 1:18.0 | to walk the path of mastery. |
| 1:20.0 | Then we also want to understand what they're searching for, |
| 1:22.0 | what they're aching for, where that craving comes from, and as well, very mechanically understand the mental skills that they've used to build and refine their craft. |
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