Brené Brown

Casandra Brené Brown (born November 18, 1965) is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin. Brown is known for her work on shame, vulnerability, and leadership, and for her widely viewed 2010 TEDx talk. She has written six number-one ''New York Times'' bestselling books and hosted two podcasts on Spotify.

She appears in the 2019 documentary ''Brené Brown: The Call to Courage'' on Netflix''.'' In 2022, HBO Max released a documentary series based on her book ''Atlas of the Heart.'' Provided by Wikipedia