Getting Started With Brené

A collection of conversations, writings, and resources that get to the heart of my work.

During my 20 years as a researcher, I have found that the most difficult and most rewarding challenge of my work is how to be both a mapmaker and a traveler. My maps, or theories, on shame resilience, wholeheartedness, vulnerability, and leadership have not been drawn from the experiences of my own travels, but from the data I’ve collected over the past two decades—the experiences of thousands of men and women who are forging paths in the direction that I, and many others, want to take our lives. Read more about my story here.

Featured work

  • My moment to “dare greatly,” as Theodore Roosevelt once urged citizens to do, came in June 2010 when I was invited to speak at TEDxHouston. The video of that talk has now been viewed more than 55 million times.

    This 2010 TED Talk stemmed from my faith in my research and what emerged from the data—that vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center of meaningful human experiences.

  • My team and I receive emails every week from people asking “If I’m new to your work, where do I start? Which book do I read first?”

    A primer for navigating the progression of my written work.

Conversations

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