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A note from Wild Card host Rachel Martin: I went back and watched the TED talk that Brené Brown did in 2010 – the one about vulnerability. This was before a lot of her bestselling books, before the Oprah interviews, before her podcast and her Netflix special and I’m telling you that watching her stand on stage talking about how you gotta be vulnerable to get to courage – it felt as new and as important as it did 15 years ago. It doesn’t hurt that she’s always had this vibe — like she’s your smartest best friend who is funny and irreverent and she isn’t telling you things because she has a hunch – she’s a research professor who uses facts to dissect feelings.

Her latest book is called “Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit.”