Aspire with Emma Grede
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Build the life of your dreams and learn from the world’s most successful people.Emma Grede, one of America’s richest self-made women, wants you to make the most of your life. 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 is a founding partner and chief product officer of SKIMS and CEO of Good American. She also made history as the first Black woman to serve as an investor on Shark Tank.
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- Sofia Franklyn on Call Her Daddy and the Decision That Changed Everything · 1 h 6 minSofia Franklyn co-created Call Her Daddy in 2018. Two years later, a contract fight with Barstool ended her partnership, and the show kept going without her. Six years on, she's…
- Who Would You Be With Nothing to Prove? · 1 h 5 minFor more than a decade, Lewis Howes has interviewed some of the world’s most successful people on The School of Greatness, his podcast with more than a billion downloads. When…
- The Decisions You Owe Yourself · 35 minSome decisions get easier with time. Others quietly get made for you while you’re still waiting for the perfect answer.In this solo episode, Emma walks through some of the…
- Rachel Zoe on Making Your Next Act the Best One · 1 h 19 minToday, Emma Grede sits down with her longtime friend Rachel Zoe. Long before everyone had a personal brand, Rachel built one almost by accident. She was making $23,000 a year as…
- Conflict Is a Skill—Here’s How to Get Better at It · 1 h 3 minMost of us have been taught to see conflict as a sign that something has gone wrong. Today’s guest, Priya Parker, sees it differently. After more than two decades working in…
- How to Get Paid for What Only You Can Bring with Law Roach · 1 h 6 minLaw Roach is the image architect behind some of the most talked-about red carpet moments in the world. Raised on Chicago’s South Side, he built his career working with stars…
- You Don't Build a Career from the Sidelines (Malika Andrews & Taylor Rooks) · 1 h 16 minMalika Andrews and Taylor Rooks have two of the most visible jobs in sports media. Malika is the face of ESPN's NBA coverage, hosting NBA Today and NBA Countdown. Taylor hosts…
- Nara Smith’s Secret Ingredient For Building a Multimillion-Dollar Business · 59 minEveryone has an opinion about Nara Smith. Very few people have asked her how the business works. At 24, with four kids under six and one of the most recognizable formats on the…
- The Conversation Skills That Change Your Career · 1 h 20 minVanessa Van Edwards has spent nearly twenty years studying what makes some people easy to talk to. Her argument is that conversation is a skill rather than a personality, and…
- The Real-Life Ari Gold: How Ari Emanuel Built a Hollywood Empire · 46 minAri Emanuel is one of the most powerful people in entertainment and the real-life inspiration for Ari Gold on Entourage. He started in the CAA mailroom before co-founding…
- Diane von Furstenberg: How to Become the Woman You Want to Be · 56 minDiane von Furstenberg created the iconic wrap dress in her twenties and built her namesake company DVF into one of the most recognizable fashion brands in the world. More than…
- It’s My Birthday. Here’s Everything I Know to Be True at 44 · 32 minOn this special birthday solo of Aspire, Emma Grede shares 44 rules for life, business, and success—her personal operating system for nearly everything. This is everything she…
- Andrew Rosen Built Theory and Backed SKIMS – Here’s What He’d Tell Every Founder · 1 h 8 minAndrew Rosen has spent nearly five decades building, investing in, and shaping some of the most influential brands in American fashion. As the co-founder of Theory and an early…
- Inside Cymbiotika: How Durana Elmi Built a Wellness Empire · 1 h 7 minDurana Elmi knows how to build a business. Before Cymbiotika, she built and exited four companies. She then took a wellness brand with one employee, one product, and almost no…
- How to Build a Beauty Brand People Believe In (ft. Tower 28, Danessa Myricks Beauty, Crown Affair) · 1 h 20 minIt's easier than ever to launch a beauty brand—and harder than ever to make it last. In this first-ever Aspire founders roundtable, Danessa Myricks (Danessa Myricks Beauty)…
- Introducing: Money Moves with Jill Schlesinger · 2 minThere’s a lot of dopey financial advice out there. Jill Schlesinger is here to call it out, answer your questions, break down the financial news that actually matters, and help…
- The Science of a Well-Lived Life: How to Create a Life That Feels as Good as It Looks · 1 h 7 minArthur C. Brooks believes we are living through an age of emptiness—a time when more people feel distracted, disconnected, and unsure of what will actually make their lives…
- Jennifer Garner on What Only Time Can Teach You · 1 h 5 minJennifer Garner is an award-winning actor, producer, longtime Save the Children ambassador, and co-founder of Once Upon a Farm, an organic children’s food brand. After rising to…
- Everything I Know About Money—and Why We Won’t Talk About It · 42 minIn this solo episode, Emma shares how she thinks about money, from the lessons she learned growing up in East London to the principles she uses today. She gets into her personal…
- Can You Turn What You Love Into a Real Business? (Krissy Cela, founder of Oner Active) · 1 h 2 minEmma sits down with Krissy Cela, founder and creative director of Oner Active, for an honest conversation about building a bootstrapped business on track to generate close to…
- How to Create What People Actually Want with Erin and Sara Foster · 1 h 23 minErin and Sara Foster have spent more than 15 years working across television, fashion, media and investing. Today, they are behind the hit Netflix series Nobody Wants This, the…
- What a Divorce Lawyer Wishes Every Woman Knew About Money and Marriage · 1 h 0 minEvery woman should understand the partnership she's entering before a crisis forces her to. This episode is that conversation.Laura Wasser has spent 32 years as one of the…
- Emma Chamberlain On Building Chamberlain Coffee, Burnout & Walking Away From YouTube · 1 h 1 minEmma Chamberlain started posting videos at 16, before anyone fully understood what the creator economy would become. Within a couple of years she’d become one of the most watched…
- The Culture War Against Women (Reshma Saujani) · 1 h 3 minReshma Saujani a leading advocate for women’s economic power, the founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First, and the force behind the new documentary No Country for Mothers. After…
- Kristin Cavallari on the Business That Set Her Free · 1 h 0 minKristin Cavallari became a household name before she'd even graduated high school, and spent the next two decades building a life, a business, and a family under constant public…
- Ask Me Anything: Pivoting in Your 40s, Plastic Surgery, and Starting a Business With No Money · 43 minIn today’s solo episode, Emma dives into real listener questions: the actual mechanics of building from nothing, starting a business with no capital, why having no money can be…
- How to Monetize AI and Build the Life and Career You Want · 1 h 6 minAlicia Lyttle is the CEO of AI InnoVision and one of the clearest voices teaching entrepreneurs and operators how to actually use AI to make money. Her clients run from solo…
- Patrick Ta on Accountability, Identity and Building a Beauty Empire · 55 minPatrick Ta built one of the most successful beauty brands in the world after dropping out of high school, filing for bankruptcy at 21, and spending years building his career one…
- Building a Billion-Dollar Unicorn with Julia Collins · 1 h 10 minJulia Collins has spent much of her life chasing big goals,first to prove herself and then to save the planet. The path took her from restaurant kitchens in New York City to…
- Success Requires Letting Go of People’s Expectations of You (Jackie Aina) · 1 h 2 minJackie Aina has been building in public for 17 years. She didn't just grow an audience, she helped define what it meant to be a Black woman with a voice in the beauty industry…
- Build a Team That Wins: Emma Grede on Hiring the Right Employees · 29 minHiring is the single most consequential thing you do when you're building anything. Get it right and it compounds. Get it wrong and it costs you years. In today's episode, Emma…
- Gary Vaynerchuk: Why Truth, Humility, and Kindness Will Become Your Next Superpower · 1 h 2 minGary Vaynerchuk has spent the last two decades understanding where culture and consumer behavior were headed long before the rest of the world caught up. He was early to YouTube…
- Bethenny Frankel: The Business Model Nobody Else Will Share · 59 minBethenny Frankel turned a TikTok account into a $20-million-a-year business without a plan or a brand of her own. She had a vision and a set of deal terms that no one in the…
- How to Build Something Meaningful From Your Worst Chapter (Sarah Jakes Roberts) · 1 h 0 minSarah Jakes Roberts is not a traditional entrepreneur. She’s the daughter of Bishop T.D. Jakes, one of the most prominent pastors in America. Sarah became a mother at 13—and in…
- What You Don't Know About Brand Beckham · 1 h 14 minVictoria Beckham is one of the most famous women in the world. But behind the headlines is a business story that took nearly two decades to build. She entered fashion with every…
- Oprah Winfrey Interviews Emma Grede on Her Debut Book "Start with Yourself” · 1 h 1 minThis one is a little different. For Emma, sitting down with Oprah Winfrey wasn’t just another interview — it was a full circle moment. A conversation years in the making with…
- On Negativity, Ambition, and Building a Serious Business (Tory Burch) · 1 h 3 minTory Burch started her company in 2004 with a single store on Elizabeth Street in New York City, a friends and family round of funding, and a belief that purpose and business…
- How to Quiet the Voice That’s Holding You Back · 1 h 6 minEmma sits down with Tara Mohr, author of the bestselling ‘Playing Big’, for a conversation that started as an interview and turned into something much more personal. Tara has…
- It’s Time to Start With Yourself · 40 minEmma’s debut book, Start With Yourself, is out today. This is the episode she’s been building toward since the very beginning of Aspire. She’s doing something she’s never done on…
- Bobbi Brown on Selling Your Name, Getting Fired, and Starting Over · 1 h 0 minWhat does it mean to build something so successful that it outgrows you, and then start again from nothing with your name legally off the table? Bobbi Brown built one of the most…
- Kimora Lee They Called Me a B*tch. I Built an Empire Anyway · 1 h 4 minEmma sits down with Kimora Lee – fashion icon, entrepreneur, and founder — to talk about building one of the most influential brands in fashion and the lessons she learned about…
- Her Next Money Move: Cardi B is Tired of Making Everyone Else Rich · 1 h 11 minEmma sits down with Cardi B, global superstar, entrepreneur, and now founder, to talk about what actually changed once she understood where her power sits. Cardi didn’t come into…
- From a Basement to a Billion Dollar Brand: The Greatest Founder Story You Never Heard · 1 h 19 minMonique Rodriguez built Mielle Organics from her basement into a billion-dollar brand and did it without a blueprint. In this episode of Aspire, Monique shares the real story…
- The AI Lessons That Will Change How You Operate · 1 h 10 minAllie K. Miller has been working in AI for nearly 20 years, and she says most of us aren't even close to using these tools to their full potential. Today, she's going to teach us…
- Money Rules Everyone Should Know · 1 h 15 minIn this episode, Emma sits down with financial educator and entrepreneur and everyone’s RichBFF, Vivian Tu to unpack why women are still the least likely to talk openly about…
- What Growing Up in Chaos Actually Teaches You (Rich Kleiman) · 1 h 26 minEmma has known Rich Kleiman for 20 years. In all that time, they've never talked about where he actually came from, until now. What came next was one of the most honest…
- How to Change Careers Without Starting From Scratch · 24 minSometimes you can reach a point in your career when everything looks right on paper, but feels completely wrong. And wanting something different doesn’t make you ungrateful, it…
- Why Financial Education is the Best Investment You Can Make (Tori Dunlap) · 1 h 29 minThe truth is, most of us weren’t taught how to manage our money, we were taught not to talk about it. From salary transparency and investing to honest discussions about debt and…
- Negotiation Starts Before You Enter the Room · 1 h 4 minMori Taheripour is one of the leading negotiation experts in the country, but her most important lesson may be this: negotiation has nothing to do with conflict and everything to…
- How to Scale While Keeping Your Brand Intact (Kelly Wearstler) · 1 h 4 minKelly Wearstler is one of the most influential designers in the world, but her real genius may be how she turned taste into a scalable multi-million dollar business. Over the…







