Emma Grede is one of America’s richest self-made women, according to Forbes. She is the founding partner of Skims, serial entrepreneur, and investor. She made history as the first Black woman to serve as an investor on Shark Tank.
On ‘Aspire with Emma Grede,' learn through thought-provoking conversations with some of the most successful and smartest minds on the planet, including goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow, investor, philanthropist, and former chair of Starbucks Mellody Hobson, and international bestselling author and “On Purpose” podcast host, Jay Shetty. Each episode will unpack their habits, philosophy, and strategies, covering career advice, well-being, psychology, and, of course, how to win in business. The show offers personal stories, data-driven advice, real-world strategies, and the experience you need to turn your dreams into reality.
Emma Grede
New episode with Jennifer Garner drops Tomorrow!! 💛 Tuesday, 8/25 at 6AM PT. Turn your post notifications on, it's a GOOD ONE!!
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Summer for me means home in London, slow mornings with my family, and pressing pause on the noise.
This year I also started something new: Start With Yourself book club dinners with other moms, women I admire, and readers who wanted to keep the conversation going.
New Within Reach is up — inside one of those dinners, and the conversation about money that came out of it.
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Krissy Cela’s first business started with a $25 workout PDF she made on her university laptop.
She didn’t have a camera, so she found GIFs online, built the PDF herself, put it on Instagram and thought, If one person buys this, I’ll be proud.
Within an hour, she’d made roughly £9,000.
That was the beginning of a 10-year journey that eventually led to Oner Active, a rapidly growing activewear company approaching $300M this year.
Watch the full episode for a lesson in what can happen when you start with what you have, take yourself seriously before anyone else does, and keep learning your way into opportunities you may not feel qualified for yet.
What’s the simplest version of an idea you could start with today?
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Kinda chic to subscribe to the channel!! 🎙️💛
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What's better than one incredible female founder? Two.
This week it's Erin and Sara Foster. They signed a deal that would become a $150 million brand with no lawyers in the room. They built a fashion label without ever considering themselves fashion people. And they got their biggest break in their forties, after years of being told they weren't quite right for it.
This is a conversation about the years before anything works. The failures, the pivots, the moments where most people would have stopped, and what it actually looks like to keep going anyway. We also get into something I don't hear talked about enough: how the way you grew up thinking about money shapes everything about how you build.
Watch the full episode here 👉 https://youtu.be/70IASd7GmkA
Then tell me in the comments: what lane are you still figuring out? 👇
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Every woman should understand the partnership she's entering before a crisis forces her to. This week's episode is that conversation.
Laura Wasser has spent 32 years as one of the country's most sought-after divorce attorneys. She's the person people call when a marriage is ending. But what makes this one so valuable is that almost everything she knows matters long before anyone gets divorced.
We get into why marriage is already a contract, with or without a prenup, how to protect yourself whether you earn more or less than your partner, and why knowing your financial reality doesn't make you cynical. It makes you an equal participant in your own life.
Watch the full episode here 👉 https://youtu.be/-Gmf2ymxWd4
Then let me know in the comments, what's the money conversation you've been putting off? 👇
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If you follow Emma Chamberlain, you probably already know she’s been a lot quieter lately. Which is why I was eager when she said yes to sitting down with me on this week’s episode of Aspire. She’s been on my list since day one.
This is a rare conversation, and we got into a lot of what she’s been thinking about lately, tracing her success from the early days when she was just 16 on YouTube, before the millions of subscribers, the brand deals, and Chamberlain Coffee.
She talks about why she paused her podcast. What it's actually like running her business at 25. What she thinks is coming next for creators (and why she needed to take a step back from all of it). And she says something about her own brand that I genuinely didn't expect her to say on tape.
This episode is one worth watching all the way through if you're interested at all in how a creator becomes a cultural force without losing the identity that made them famous in the first place.
Watch the full episode here 👉 https://youtu.be/w5KHFU-jIJk
Then let me know in the comments, what stuck with you? 👇
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Bravery doesn't feel good. Nobody tells you that.
My guest on Aspire this week said something to me I haven't been able to shake. We're so used to chasing the feeling of doing well that when we finally do the brave thing, we're thrown by how bad it feels. It feels like rejection.
Reshma Saujani would know. She lost a congressional race in public, badly, and became a leading voice on women's power out of that wreckage. She calls failure a gift and she means it.
This is a conversation about ambition, and what it actually costs to keep reaching. I didn't agree with Reshma about everything, and we get into that too. Work-life balance. Trad wives vs. girl bosses. The price women pay to show up as themselves at work.
What's the brave thing you're putting off because you know it'll feel awful? Tell me below.
Full Episode - https://youtu.be/JxRS-XlkLYM
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For years, Kristin Cavallari believed building a business was about creating something successful.
What she eventually realized was that it was about creating freedom. Financial independence gave her something far more valuable than a bigger lifestyle. It gave her options. The ability to make difficult decisions on her own terms. The confidence to choose herself when it mattered most.
In this week's episode of Aspire, we get into:
• Why knowing her "number" completely changed the way she thinks about money
• How building her business gave her the confidence to leave her marriage
• What replacing her entire C-suite taught her about trusting herself as a founder
• And why money isn't about having more it's about having the freedom to choose.
The most valuable thing money can buy isn't luxury. It's optionality.
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New episode with Kristin Cavallari drops Tomorrow!! 💛 Tuesday at 6AM PT.
Turn your post notifications on, it's a GOOD ONE!!
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