Read along with me: Dare to Lead

11 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment of the YouTube video, Hadar Shemesh reads from Brené Brown’s Dare to Lead and explains three common emotional metaphors. She defines “on the receiving end” as being the person who receives something, then describes a “lump in your throat” as the tight, strong‑emotion feeling in the throat, and clarifies “butterflies in your stomach” as the nervous, fluttery, excited sensation. The purpose is to help listeners recognize and attend to these visceral cues, emphasizing that noticing such feelings signals that one is truly engaged with the experience.

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If being on the receiving end of one of life's most valuable gifts fails to leave you with a lump in your throat or butterflies in your stomach, then you're not paying attention. On the receiving end of something is to be the one who receives something. And a lump in your throat, I'm sure you know what that feels like. It's that feeling, that tight feeling in your throat. When you have strong emotions, and butterflies in your stomach, probably I don't have to explain it, but it's that feeling of like nervous, but like nervous fluttery feeling. It's like nervous light, nervous excited sometimes.