What We Can Learn From Brené Brown About Exceptional Speaking

It’s a lesson we can embrace well before we find ourselves on a stage

I don’t remember how I stumbled across Brené Brown’s breakout Ted Talk on shame, but I do remember finishing off the last third of a box of Kleenex that was on my desk while listening to it.

What was going on? What nerve inside of me had been touched? And how had she moved so effortlessly past my defenses? 

It was 2010, and I was in a raw place since the …