Personal Development
Vulnerability as Strength

Vulnerability as Strength

Embracing and harnessing weakness into your biggest strength

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Allowing yourself to be and be seen as vulnerable can be terrifying, especially if you've been hurt before. Your natural instincts might be to protect and harden yourself. However, if you learn to lean into these emotions and allow yourself to process the discomfort, that in itself is a massive act of courage. These Blinks and Shortcast episodes encourage you to own your vulnerability, explore why vulnerability scares us and why we shy away from it, and show you real-life examples of people overcoming obstacles in their most vulnerable of times.

Vulnerability as Strength

Embracing and harnessing weakness into your biggest strength

Brené Brown: Power in Vulnerability
Brené Brown: Power in Vulnerability
Hosted by Emily Thompson
Brené Brown guides you to find a stronger, more authentic version of yourself—and learn how to filter opinions
10 min4.3
Daring Greatly
Daring Greatly
Brené Brown
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
20 min4.5
Love Warrior
Love Warrior
Glennon Doyle
A Memoir
27 min4.0
The Discomfort Zone
The Discomfort Zone
Marcia Reynolds
How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs
13 min3.9
Farrah Storr: The Discomfort Zone
Farrah Storr: The Discomfort Zone
Hosted by Emma Gannon
Fact: Then more you push into discomfort, the easier it is to get past it and begin real growth—here's how and why
5 min4.3
Emotional Intelligence at Work: Liz Fosslien
Emotional Intelligence at Work: Liz Fosslien
Hosted by Erik Fisher
Not showing your real emotions can block success for your whole team—master emotional intelligence now with Liz Fosslein
9 min4.3
You Are Your Best Thing
You Are Your Best Thing
Edited by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
32 min4.1
The Undying
The Undying
Anne Boyer
Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care
19 min3.7
Imperfect Courage
Imperfect Courage
Jessica Honegger
Live a Life of Purpose by Leaving Comfort and Going Scared
22 min3.4
Dare to Lead
Dare to Lead
Brené Brown
Brave work. Tough conversations. Whole hearts.
21 min4.3
Welcoming the Unwelcome
Welcoming the Unwelcome
Pema Chödrön
Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
18 min4.5
Bittersweet
Bittersweet
Susan Cain
How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole
26 min4.7
How to Fail
How to Fail
Elizabeth Day
Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
21 min3.8

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