{"id":210829,"date":"2019-04-21T07:21:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T11:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=210829"},"modified":"2019-04-21T07:21:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T11:21:17","slug":"courage-special-brings-author-brene-brown-to-netflix-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/04\/21\/courage-special-brings-author-brene-brown-to-netflix-2\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Courage’ special brings author Brene Brown to Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five bestselling books later, Brown is debuting her first Netflix special on Friday, \u201cBrene Brown: The Call to Courage ,\u201d based off her two decades of research. The special is a bit of an experiment for the streaming service, whose categories Brown doesn’t neatly fit into. (File Photo<\/a>: @brenebrown\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASHVIILLE, Tenn. \u2013 Brene Brown’s books on shame, vulnerability and courage have given her A-list fans like Oprah and Melinda Gates and made her a go-to leadership consultant for both Pixar and the Seattle Seahawks.<\/p>\n

But Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work, thought she’d spend her career writing for other academics, not making the New York Times’ bestseller list.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal was to put it in peer-reviewed articles that no one would read but like five people and they would just read it to check to make sure they were quoted,\u201d Brown told The Associated Press from her home in Houston.<\/p>\n

Five bestselling books later, Brown is debuting her first Netflix special on Friday, \u201cBrene Brown: The Call to Courage ,\u201d based off her two decades of research. The special is a bit of an experiment for the streaming service, whose categories Brown doesn’t neatly fit into.<\/p>\n

\u201cAm I comedy? Documentary? True crime?\u201d Brown joked.<\/p>\n

Brown’s skill as a writer and speaker is that she doesn’t sound like a typical self-help or leadership expert who is shouting motivational speaker mantras. She has a researcher’s mind for patterns and a storyteller’s gift of language. She peppers her talks with plenty of Texas colloquialisms, like \u201cThere’s nothing in the middle of the road but white stripes and dead armadillos.\u201d She tells personal anecdotes about her kids and her husband to illustrate her broader ideas about parenting, compassion, leadership and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople will come up to me and say, ‘I already knew everything you said. I just didn’t have the language to say it. I didn’t know we were allowed to talk about it,\u201d’ said Brown. \u201cAnd so I think I just put language around feelings and experiences and thoughts that we all have.\u201d<\/p>\n

She can also curse like a true Southern lady, which is just enough to set people at ease and give them a laugh. \u201cNot like Andrew Dice Clay,\u201d she said. \u201cAn appropriate amount of cursing.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the special she talks about her 2010 speech at a TEDxHouston conference on vulnerability that has become one of the most watched TED Talk speeches, now viewed about 39 million times. Her most recent book, \u201cDare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts,\u201d is a playbook for leading with empathy.<\/p>\n

When asked about leadership qualities she hopes to see among candidates for the upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential election, Brown took a long pause.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am one-inch away from being completely disenchanted with politics but I’m holding on. I’m white-knuckling it right now,\u201d Brown said. \u201cI need a political system where the people who make the decisions actually are required to live by them and are not in such an elite position where they make policy and laws and financial decisions that don’t affect them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Netflix special is good timing for Brown, who has spent years travelling all over the country giving speeches to corporations, entrepreneurs, women’s conferences and leadership training events.<\/p>\n

Her youngest child is in middle school and she’s moving into a period of her career where she’s doing less of those speaking opportunities in order to be at home. But with Netflix, she has a chance to continue building on the conversations she started with her books.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis opportunity from Netflix just felt like such a deeply important gift,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThis thing is going to drop in 190 countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

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