Vulnerability
Subject in Self-Improvement
Vulnerability has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including The Mel Robbins Podcast, TED Radio Hour. 3 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Vanessa Van EdwardsBehavioral researcher, bestselling author, and founder of Science of People
Van Edwards argues that vulnerability and small mistakes make people more likable than trying to appear perfect.
“In fact, vulnerability is one of the fastest ways to show likability”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: Body Language Expert: 6 Psychological Tricks to Turn Awkwardness into Confidence (Sep 26, 2026) · Listen from 22:06
Manoush ZomorodiHost of NPR's TED Radio Hour
Zomorodi relates that postpartum depression caused her to lose her filter, after which her career took off.
“having honestly postpartum depression. And the one thing that came out of that was that I lost my filter and just kind of said what I thought”
TED Radio Hour: What this musician’s identity crisis teaches us about navigating change (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 45:59
Joshua RomanAmerican cellist, composer, and TED speaker, former principal cellist of the Seattle Symphony
Roman argues that trying to be a perfect empty vessel for music made him a lesser musician because he left himself out of it.
“I wasn't even really doing that as well as I could because I wasn't letting myself be a part of the equation”
TED Radio Hour: What this musician’s identity crisis teaches us about navigating change (Sep 11, 2026) · Listen from 26:24
Podcasts
- The Mel Robbins Podcast · 1 episode
- TED Radio Hour · 1 episode
Episodes
Body Language Expert: 6 Psychological Tricks to Turn Awkwardness into ConfidenceThe Mel Robbins Podcast · Sep 26, 2026 · 1 h 23 min
Mel Robbins and behavioral researcher Vanessa Van Edwards discuss body language, energy management, likability, conversation starters, networking positioning, and the ABCD productivity exercise.
What this musician’s identity crisis teaches us about navigating changeTED Radio Hour · Sep 11, 2026 · 50 min
Manoush Zomorodi talks with cellist Joshua Roman about how long COVID upended his lifelong devotion to the cello, his faith, and his debut album Immunity.