I can hardly believe it’s been ten years since The Gifts of Imperfection was published! I’m connected to all my books for different reasons, but The Gifts is special because it gave birth to our wonderful, wild, and truly wholehearted community.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary, I wanted to do something for y’all – a thank you of sorts. This turned out to be trickier than I thought. Over the past decade, community members have had four big requests for The Gifts:
- Give us a hardcover, but don’t mess with the content.
- Read the audio book yourself.
- Do a series or class on the ten guideposts.
- Give us something like the Daring Leadership Assessment, but focused on The Gifts.
SO, HERE’S HOW WE’RE CELEBRATING:
- We have the first ever hardcover edition of The Gifts coming out on September 8, 2020! I’ve written a new introduction, included a new tool for personalizing the work called an Integration Index, and I’ve cleaned up the binary gender language (which I’m doing on all my books). And, as requested, I didn’t change the core content. It’s so beautiful, and it has our most downloaded quote on the back. Under a strand of twinkle lights – of course.
- A new audiobook for The Gifts will be available in September, and I’m reading it!
- We’re launching a free webinar series on The Gifts in September, and I’m going to dedicate several podcast episodes to topics from the book. More to come.
- We’re unveiling a new Wholehearted Inventory in August. We worked on this instrument for several years, and it’s ready for primetime. You can take it for free and have the results emailed to you! And, by the way, we don’t hold on to any data, including your email.
Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. Brené is also a visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. She has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of five #1 New York Times bestsellers. Brené hosts the Unlocking Us podcast, and her TED talk – The Power of Vulnerability – is one of the top five most viewed TED talks in the world with over 45 million views. She is also the first researcher to have a filmed lecture on Netflix. The Call to Courage special debuted on the streaming service on April 19, 2019.
