It should be about the work, right? I’m not that interesting. It also… to be totally frank with you, I actually don’t like the cult of personality celebrity stuff around my work at all. Part of the problem, she says, is that “it’s not me.
A photo shoot was scheduled for after my interview, but when I catch up with her in her London hotel she explains that she has pulled out because it was just “too much”.
On the other she seems, well, a bit exhausted. On the one hand she’s now reaching the kind of audience that most academics can only dream of.
She was “the vulnerability woman” or “the shame academic”, and it’s a measure of how much her life has changed that during a whistlestop few days in Britain she has had a private leadership session with banking executives in the City, an evening in front of a capacity crowd at Alain de Botton’s School of Life, an all-day workshop training counsellors in her methodology, and a whole string of interviews to mark the launch of her latest book, Rising Strong. F ive years ago, Brené Brown was an obscure academic – an associate professor of social work at the University of Houston – and then, overnight, she was famous.
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