Brené Brown

Let go of what doesn't serve.

And that is the big milestone, I think, that we have to wrestle with in midlife.

what no longer serves, that's preventing us from growing into who we want to be.

And is that where vulnerability comes into the picture?

Oh, for sure.

Because all the armor, all the armor is about vulnerability.

That's why I think metaphor is helpful.

I mean, most of us can understand if you back me into an emotional corner, what are you going to get?

Like as a leader, I know my armor, perfectionism, micromanagement.

I get super intensive.

I get recklessly decisive.

I know my armor and my team knows my armor.

I think my armor in my personal life, especially when it comes to my kids, when I feel vulnerable, is control, control, control.

Take over all the chess pieces.

It's not possible.

It's just, it's just pretend that's called anxiety.

Like pretending that you can control the chessboard of other people's lives, your own, much less other people's lives.

But I think I do it out of fear.

No, I think the opposite of courage is armor.

I think the opposite of courage is self-protection.