 Having spent her career studying the concepts of courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and having authored seven books including five New York Times best-sellers, Brown hosts the "Unlocking Us" podcast, and her TED talk, "The Power of Vulnerability", has been widely viewed.Her filmed lecture, "", debuted on Netflix in 2019.Casandra Brené Brown was born in 1965 in San Antonio, Texas, where her parents, Charles Arthur Brown and Casandra Deanne Rogers, baptized her in the Episcopal church.