Braving the Wilderness

Two things happened for me from a, you know, just kind of foundational, uh, leadership perspective.

Uh, one was reading some of Brené Brown's books and, um, you know, uh, Braving the Wilderness, all of it.

And she talks about empathy and-

Mm-hmm

the people that I get to, um, feel at home with.

But you know, you know what I think has been the most powerful definition of home to me was after I read this book called "Braving the Wilderness" by Brené Brown, and it was in a season where I didn't really feel at home with people.

Um, you know, I didn't, I didn't have, um, the closest or healthiest relationship with my parents or my husband or...

I was just kinda, and I, I had kind of burned a lot of bridges with people that I'd worked with, and I just relationally was not a great friend to people or a great partner to people.

But another seat at my table is Brene Brown.

Someone who may be well known to a lot of you who are listening, someone who is a shame researcher, is a social worker who really came to the forefront of the public eye after doing a very viral TED talk a number of years ago and talking about shame resilience and so many other themes that I will say that some of the teachings that Brene has put out to the world through some of her incredible books like Braving the Wilderness.

I'm listening to...

There are four of them on my audio and like at various stages of re-listening right now, just because of this.

And I'd love to hear more from you, but we've also done an Allure book club this week.

So it's been a very busy week and our book club was Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown.

And in that it's a lot about the whole point of the book is finding your identity and standing strong within the wilderness, whatever that looks like.

And we've taken that from the accompanying partner experience.

Yeah, but on top of that, I think there was probably, if I'm being honest with myself, you know, the first time that we're also doing logistically a hybrid event, I think I was firing on all cylinders, even the extrovert in the room was still, you know, I was still sort of hosting people in person as well that sort of felt like a lot.

But it was a very, very fun experience.

Yeah, so it was so interesting to go from writing our stories to then reading about identity in Brene Brown's book, Braving the Wilderness.

And in our book club we talked a lot about friendships and I think it was interesting we sort of went in that direction.