Brené Brown Audiobooks

Strong Ground: courage, shame and leadership from the researcher who made them mainstream

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Who is Brené Brown?

Brené Brown, born Casandra Brené Brown in 1965, is an American academic, author and podcaster who turned shame – of all subjects – into mainstream reading. Her research on shame, vulnerability and leadership reached a vast audience through a widely viewed 2010 TEDx talk, and she has since written six number-one New York Times bestsellers, among them The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Dare to Lead and Atlas of the Heart.

She has kept one foot firmly in academia throughout, holding the Huffington Foundation’s endowed chair at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professorship in management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Screen audiences know her too: Netflix released the documentary Brené Brown: The Call to Courage in 2019, and in 2022 HBO Max built a documentary series around Atlas of the Heart. She has also hosted two podcasts on Spotify.

Brené Brown in audiobooks

Brown made her reputation out loud – on the TEDx stage and across two podcasts – so it is no surprise that her material feels at home in headphones. Her territory is shame, vulnerability and leadership: subjects that could easily curdle into corporate jargon, but which she approaches with a researcher’s rigour and a storyteller’s timing. Listening suits that mix, and it is arguably the most direct route into her work.

Strong Ground, the Brown title in our catalogue, sits squarely on her home turf, and it makes a sensible first stop for UK listeners who want her brand of practical courage in their ears rather than on the nightstand.