Quotes from Brene Brown

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—

Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging. 1

Maps are the most important documents in human history. They give us tools to store and exchange knowledge about space and place.

La dicha es lo que sentimos cuando nos permitimos reconocer lo buenas que son las cosas en realidad».

choose courage, you will absolutely know failure, disappointment, setback, even heartbreak. That's why we call it courage. That's why it's so rare.

hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When

Advertising is an over $200 billion a year industry. We are each exposed to over 3000 ads a day. Yet, remarkably, most of us believe we are not influenced by advertising.

And when it comes to addiction, employers with successful employee assistance programs report improvements in morale and productivity and decreases in absenteeism, accidents, downtime, turnover, and theft. Employers with long-standing programs also report better health status among employees and family members.

There's an old saying that I lead by now "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Are you the adult that you want your child to grow up to be?" As

The difference between leading from hurt and leading from heart is not what you've experienced or are currently experiencing, it's what you do with that pain and hurt.

In a society that says, "Put yourself last," self-love and self-acceptance are almost revolutionary. If

power with multiplies individual talents, knowledge, and resources to make a larger impact.

But the feeling of scarcity does thrive in shame-prone cultures that are deeply steeped in comparison and fractured by disengagement.

I haven't been in a company in five years where people aren't whispering, "This is great, but, um, how do we talk about race?

A value is a way of being or believing that we hold most important. Living into our values means that we do more than profess our values, we practice them. We walk our talk - we are clear about what we believe and hold important, and we take care that our intentions, words, thoughts, and behaviors align with those beliefs.

It was as if she bundled up all the courage I'll ever need in my entire life and handed it to me.

Everyone seems to know too little and say too much.

it's our fear of the unknown and our fear of being wrong that create most of our conflict and anxiety.

At some point, if everything on the list is important, then nothing is truly a driver for you.

Yes, there can be no innovation, learning, or creativity without failure. But failing is painful. It fuels the "shouldas and couldas," which means judgment and shame are often lying in wait.

Trying to avoid media messages is like holding your breath to avoid air pollution—it's not going to happen.

political correctness. The history of this concept is as wild and unruly as the conversations about it have become. At this point, the term is so loaded that I think it makes more sense to talk about inclusive language.