Biography
Brené Brown is an educator, author, social worker, and podcast host from the United States well-known for her work on vulnerability, shame, and leadership as well as for her highly watched TEDx lecture from 2010. She is the author of six New York Times bestselling novels that are at number one, and she has presented two Spotify podcasts.
Age
Born Casandra Brené Brown, the actress is 58 years old as of 18 November 2023. She was born in 1965 in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
Parents and Siblings(Family)
On November 18, 1965, Brown was born in San Antonio, Texas, and was christened in the Episcopal Church by her parents, Charles Arthur Brown and Casandra Deanne Rogers. Of the four children, she is the oldest. Her family then relocated to Louisiana’s New Orleans.
Does Brown have a PHD?
Brown earned a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, a Master of Social Work from the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work in 1996, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the same institution in 2002.
Wife and Children
Brown has two kids with her spouse, Dr. Steve Alley. Houston, Texas is home to the family.
Podcast
Brown started presenting the Dare to Lead and Unlocking Us podcasts in 2020. Unlocking Us alternates between guest interviews and solo segments in which Brown addresses the audience one-on-one. She shares personal anecdotes, elucidates research findings, and adds to it all in solo episodes by summarizing relevant works from different social science fields. Grief expert David Kessler, singer Alicia Keys, author Glennon Doyle, and activist Tarana Burke—the woman behind the Me Too movement—have all been interviewed. Brown and Debbie Millman’s interview was included in the fifth season premiere of Storybound in 2022.
Brené Brown TED Talk
One of the top five most viewed TED speeches is Brown’s 2010 Houston TEDx address, “The Power of Vulnerability”. Her work went from relative obscurity in academia to the public eye as a result of its popularity. The lecture “summarizes a decade of Brown’s research on shame, framing her weightiest discoveries in self-deprecating and personal terms.”
For The New York Times, Reggie Ugwu reported that this incident unveiled “a new star of social psychology.” In 2012, she gave another well-received TED presentation titled “Listening to Shame” in response to this one. Building on the idea of her first TED talk, she expands on it in her second lecture, discussing how her life has altered since the first and explaining the link between vulnerability and shame.
Book written by Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness, Dare to Lead, and Atlas of the Heart are her six number-one New York Times bestsellers as of 2021. In March 2013, she spoke with Oprah Winfrey on Daring Greatly at Super Soul Sunday. The title of the book is derived from a lecture delivered at the Sorbonne by Theodore Roosevelt in 1910 titled “Citizenship in a Republic”. Atlas of the Heart, her most recent book, was released in November 2021 with the intention of assisting readers in increasing the vocabulary they possess for expressing their emotions.
Brown contributed a chapter to Tim Ferriss’ book Tools of Titans with advice. She co-wrote the book You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience with Tarana Burke. It is an anthology of writings written by Black people that explores the trauma of white supremacist as well as Black love and Black life.
She faced backlash for her 2024 essay, “Not Looking Away: Thoughts on the Israel-Hamas War,” which was deemed excessively “corporate-friendly” and adopted a privileged viewpoint that disregarded some facets of the Palestinian people’s life under Israeli rule.
What does Brown do?
Brown has concentrated on the subjects of fortitude, weakness, disgrace, compassion, and initiative, which she has used to take a gander at human association and how it functions. She has spent her exploration vocation as a teacher at her institute of matriculation, the College of Houston’s Alumni School of Social Work.
Brown’s TEDx talk from Houston in 2010, “The Force of Weakness”, is one of the five most seen TED talks. Its prevalence moved her work from relative lack of clarity in scholarly community into the standard spotlight. The discussion “sums up 10 years of Earthy colored’s examination on disgrace, outlining her weightiest disclosures in humble and individual terms.” Reggie Ugwu for The New York Times said that this occasion gave the world “another star of social brain research.” She proceeded to follow this famous TED talk with one more named “Paying attention to Disgrace” in 2012. In the second talk she discusses how her life has changed starting from the principal talk and makes sense of the association among disgrace and weakness, expanding on the postulation of her most memorable TED talk.
She additionally has a less notable talk from 2010 given at TEDxKC named “The Cost of Safety.” In it she makes sense of that while desensitizing hard and troublesome sentiments, basically feeling defenseless, we likewise numb good feelings, similar to euphoria. This prompted the making of her recorded talk, Brené Brown: The Call to Mental fortitude, which appeared on Netflix in 2019. USA Today referred to it as “a blend of an inspirational discourse and stand-up satire extraordinary.” Brown examines how and for what reason to pick boldness over solace, likening being courageous to being defenseless. As indicated by her examination, doing this opens individuals to cherish, happiness, and having a place by permitting them to all the more likely know themselves and all the more profoundly interface with others.
Brown consistently fills in as a public speaker at private occasions and organizations, for example, at Alain de Botton’s School of Life and at Google and Disney. Brown is President of “The Trying Way”, an expert preparation and certificate program on the subjects of weakness, boldness, disgrace, and compassion. She showed up as herself in the film Wine Country. Her five-section docuseries, Brené Brown: Chart book of the Heart, was delivered on HBO Max in 2022.