Why The Bravest Leaders Are Afraid All the Time | Brené Brown (E401)
3/30/20261 hr 18 min
Brené Brown is a world-renowned researcher and author, known for her work on vulnerability, courage, and what makes truly effective leaders. She has spent decades studying human behaviour, uncovering how fear, connection, and self-awareness shape performance at the highest level.
In this episode, Brené sits down with Jake and Damian to explore the difference between safe and unsafe leadership, and how fear quietly drives decisions at work and at home. She explains why the best leaders don’t avoid vulnerability, but use it to build trust, clarity, and stronger teams.
They cover why your greatest strength might secretly be your armour, the formula every elite performer needs to understand (performance = potential minus interference), why organisational leaders are the only high-performers in the world where coaching isn't expected, and what England's penalty curse and Liverpool's current struggles really tell us about the psychology of winning.
Plus — a special surprise message from Steven Gerrard leaves Brené lost for words!
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Brené’s latest book ‘Strong Ground’ is available now: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strong-Ground-Leadership-Tenacity-Vermilion/dp/178504320X
Links referenced in podcast: The lethality of loneliness: John Cacioppo TED TALK
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Speaker 31:14
[upbeat music] Thanks very much for being here. Can I be so bold as to start with a, a line of yours that I think is powerful and important for our audience, which is the opposite of courage is armor. And I