Where to Start with Brené Brown
- Best entry point → Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
- Best standalone → A book The Gifts of Imperfection
- Start the Dare to Lead series → Dare to Lead
- Short listen, big payoff → Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
- What fans keep coming back to → Braving the Wilderness
- Best narrator for Brené Brown → Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
- Highest rated by listeners → I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"
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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
by Brené Brown
Narrated by Brené Brown
★ 4.84 ABR Score (266.7K ratings)★ 4.29 Goodreads (244.9K) ★ 4.86 Audible (21.8K)6h 30m listening time • Released 2018 - 2
A book The Gifts of Imperfection
by Brené Brown
Narrated by Brené Brown
★ 4.77 ABR Score (235.7K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (224.8K) ★ 4.85 Audible (11.0K)4h 31m listening time • Released 2020 - 3
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
by Brené Brown
Narrated by Brené Brown
★ 4.70 ABR Score (108.2K ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (89.3K) ★ 4.79 Audible (18.9K)8h 51m listening time • Released 2015 - 4
Dare to Lead
Dare to Lead • Book 1
by Brené Brown
Narrated by Brené Brown
★ 4.70 ABR Score (158.4K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (128.7K) ★ 4.73 Audible (29.8K)8h 10m listening time • Released 2018Brené Brown narrating her own research on courage and vulnerability hits different—her voice carries the hard-won authority that makes you actually believe leadership starts with getting uncomfortable.
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Braving the Wilderness
by Brené Brown
Narrated by Brené Brown
★ 4.58 ABR Score (149.5K ratings)★ 4.12 Goodreads (121.3K) ★ 4.74 Audible (28.2K)4h 12m listening time • Released 2017 - 6
Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox, and the Wisdom of the Human Spirit
Dare to Lead • Book 2
by Brené Brown
Narrated by Brené Brown
★ 4.29 ABR Score (5.8K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (5.4K) ★ 4.67 Audible (468)11h 38m listening time • Released 2025Brené Brown narrating her own leadership framework makes this feel like a conversation with someone who's actually lived this work with 150,000 leaders—practical wisdom that cuts through corporate buzzwords.
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I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough"
by Brené Brown
Narrated by Lauren Fortgang
★ 4.25 ABR Score (32.7K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (26.8K) ★ 4.51 Audible (6.0K)10h 44m listening time • Released 2010 - 8
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
by Amanda Palmer, Brené Brown
Narrated by Amanda Palmer, Ellen Archer, Jamy Ian Swiss
★ 4.15 ABR Score (40.3K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (36.5K) ★ 4.57 Audible (3.7K)11h 27m listening time • Released 2014
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