Vulnerability & Power | Brené Brown & Russell Brand

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself" Rumi

1:02:42 “When you avoid conflict to make peace with other people, you start a war within.” ❤️

I just want to say that i am going through such a hard time right now and no money for therapy and Russell Brand's videos and podcasts have literally become my therapy. I am so grateful that this is available. Thank you!

"when you avoid conflict to make peace with other people, you start a war within" Thank you, zoned in on a conflict within me <3

"Pain that is not transformed will always be transmitted."

Brene (to her husband Steve): "Do you think people are doing the best they can?" Steve: "I have no idea but what I do know is my life is better when I assume they are."

These are my favorite types of conversation. I wish I had more ppl in my real life who would go to these places with me!!!

Something about Brene talking about the domestic violence survivors recognizing that their abuser was doing the best they could and that’s why they needed to leave reallllly hit home for me. What an amazing conversation.

I dropped out of my PhD program because I was so full of self doubt and shame. I never felt like I belonged and was so selfconscious about the fact that I was the only black person, I was in a big name program and everyone else had come from big name or ivy league schools, I never felt smart enough or really worthy and any mistake felt like a painful death. When I walked into a room I just felt like they could see my uneducated crackhead mother, my wayward father, my years of homelessness, and my then crumbling marriage. It was overwhelming and sadly I folded and now there is no space financially for me to go back. I don't have many regrets but this is definitely one. That I did fight and beat back my shame and fear.... Thank you so much for being who you are and making me face myself and grow.

This interview changed my life! "People that are most compassionate have boundaries of steel. They don't let others hurt them." Love you both. Thank you.

Coming up on six years July 22, 2016 I flew 3000 miles to go to rehab for drinking and my therapist play the Ted talk of Brené Brown and I can definitely say that she helped me change my life❣️

“Pain that is not transformed will always be transmitted” That quote struck me like a lightning bolt and suddenly my life flashed before eyes. Somehow I ended up here and this conversation has added to my 1 year sober awakening. Every day I get stronger unfortunately the regret will always tear me apart.

Omg these two need a podcast together!! I need more of these conversations

The chemistry between you two is palpable and beautiful..two souls open wide x

I've spent the passed 3 years since my partner passed, mindlessly watching youtube drama and getting sucked into gossip i never cared about before. I feel lost. Watching Russell and his guests talk so candidly and indepth about raw topics from such diversely angled approaches, is like beginning to see the cracks of light between the brick and mortar of my mental prison. Not quite a tunnel, and not enough light to fill the end of one, but the proof that there is light lying beyond these walls, and enough light to illuminate the existence of the walls in their own respects. Its there. Thank you. Also as an atheist, I prefer to see the mechanical analytical method of science as an explorative relationship with the tangible aspects of our natural world. I think absolutism is as dangerous in science as in any fundamentalist religion. I just think science is religion of the tangible, while spirituality(minus weird cultural red tape in dusty ancient books written by man about the "science" of God's and their existence as a tangible thing) is the same explorative relationship but with the intangible. Assuming one is right and one is wrong, is to assume white and black are strict polarities (good and evil) rather than degrees of saturation that are essential for the foundational existence of the color wheel in its entirety.

When you avoid conflict to make peace with other people, you start a war within. That hits me so hard and I am so grateful to have heard it and have the capacity to keep it with me. I would have trouble doing it past the "take it easy" part as well.

"pain that is not transformed will always be transmitted"

Russel is the epitome of what a man should be. So much humility and genuine love from this beautiful being!

Im going to spend the next couple of days putting my head back together.

I absolutely love the energy between these two. It's like they've been BFFs their whole lives. Plus there is much information that we (the world) need to take to heart. Thanks, Brené and Russel for this poignant and hilarious chat.