We love to be able to say, oh, that's because X, Y, and Z.

They made me, they require me pointing fingers, and this leader's terrible, that leader's terrible.

This book is really at its heart about self-leadership.

Regardless of what's happening externally, all of these things, I know who I want to be in the midst of this.

From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.

You know, we love Brene Brown around here, and there's a reason why her work is so popular.

Brene understands that business is about people. It's about how we connect.

I think here about this conversation that we had last fall.

The core muscles that we need right now are all built on humanity.

Human connection, deep human skills like courage, mastery, trust.

And so what you're seeing in organizations is folks who need to get into a gym,

do the reps for building back humanity at work. Bray really gets it. So when she told me to pay

attention to Iko Bethea's work, I did. Ico is the founder of rare coaching and consulting,

and through their shared work, she has become friends with Brne. In fact, Ico oversaw the

development of leadership strategies for the Brne Brown Education and Research Group. Now Ico

has a new book. It's called Anchored, Aligned,

accountable, a framework for transcending bullshit and transforming our lives and work. If Brne

talks about building back our humanity at work, Ico is invested in showing us exactly how to do

it. Here's Iko.

In reading your book, it felt like a spiritual cousin to Bernay's work. And I wanted to actually

start by reading you a sentence that jumped out at me. Sure. And maybe we can start our

conversation there. You write, remember that the only way you can belong everywhere at once is when you belong to yourself.

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