"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome."
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About Brené Brown
Brené Brown is 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. Brown's TED talk on the power of vulnerability is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world, with over 50 million views.
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