Brené with James Clear on Atomic Habits, Part 1 of 2

Hi, everyone. I'm Barrett Geehan, and this is Dare to Lead. I'm up here at the office. I was just gonna start with a little sneak peek into what's been going on with us this week. We're still not fully back, but there are a few of us here from time to time. And this week, we got the most special delivery. We got four palettes full of our new book, Atlas of the Heart, that comes out November 30. Brian and Cookie have been here trucking boxes up and down the stairs, getting ready for launch, and we could not be more excited about this book, y'all. It's so beautiful inside and out. It's really a culmination of Brene's work over the last twenty five years. I think you're gonna love it. More to come. I think we're gonna talk more about the book on the podcast in the upcoming weeks. But I did get to sneak away so that I could introduce the podcast for you this week. Whoo. And it is such a good one. This is part one of a two part series that Brene is doing with James Clear on habits and his book, Atomic Habits, which has sold more than 5,000,000 copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 50 languages. So many of us have read Atomic Habits, and it's so good. But in this episode, we're gonna get to meet the man behind the book. James shares his story with us and gives us some more insight into how he develops his deep understanding of the importance of consistency over intensity when establishing habits to last. Yeah. I took, like, literally almost six pages of notes during this episode. It's so good and so helpful, very tactical. I really love it. And it's interesting because most of the time when we do a two part series, we get into the conversation and then we decide, oh, we need to have one more episode. But Bray knew before we even got started with James that she had so many questions she wanted to ask him that we just asked him from the beginning, can we do two episodes? And he was all in. In this first episode, they talk about identity based habits and how we can become the architects of our habits, not the victims of them. And then they dig into some real strategies about how to make that happen. They also talk about the intersection of his work and Brene's work, the collective stories we all make up, and how those stories really can trigger some shame responses that set us up for failure. But they also cover how our mindsets and our systems can set us up for success. Just a side note on that, if you've heard Brene speak or do any events in the last several months, you'll know that one thing that she's been talking a lot about, a very specific quote from James's book, …