Emma Grede: #1 Trick Successful People Use Every Day (THIS Will Open Doors You Didn’t Know Existed!)
What’s one habit that’s helped you succeed lately?
What made you decide to stick with that habit?
In this special live conversation, at The Theater at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Jay sits down with entrepreneur and industry leader Emma Grede for a conversation every builder, creator, and business-minded thinker needs to hear. Together, Jay and Emma unpack a challenge that holds so many talented people back, caring too much about what others think. Emma shares the early moments in her career when she stayed quiet in rooms where she deserved to speak, the times she underestimated her own value, and the double standards she had to navigate as a woman in business. This episode is a powerful reminder that confidence isn’t something you wait to feel, it’s something you build through action, decision-making, and showing up for the opportunities in front of you.
As the conversation deepens, Emma shares the mindsets that shaped her path, from a kid obsessed with fashion magazines to a visionary leader with a global reach. She breaks down why excellence starts with showing up fully in whatever role you’re in, how competence is the foundation of real confidence, and why chasing “passion” isn’t always the most strategic move. Jay adds powerful reflections on focus, leaning into your strengths, and accepting that you don’t need to be great at everything to succeed. This is an honest and refreshing look at what it really takes to trust yourself, take bigger swings, and grow into the person you’re meant to be.
In this interview, you'll learn:
How to Stop Caring What Others Think
How to Build Confidence Through Competence
How to Use Fear as Fuel, Not a Setback
How to Become Excellent at What You’re Doing Now
How to Set Your Own Standards, Not Society’s
How to Start Before You Have It All Figured Out
You don’t have to wait until you feel fully ready, fully confident, or fully “enough.” Start where you are, use what you have, and trust that focus, effort, and self-belief will do more for your future than fear ever will.
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Jay Shetty
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What We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
00:44 Why Do We Worry About Others’ Opinions?
02:12 Opportunities Lost to Comparison
04:09 The Double Standards for Women in Business
07:19 Why You Must Start With Yourself
09:57 The Three-Word Mantra for Career Growth
11:58 Visualize the Life You Want
14:27 Follow What Gives You Energy
16:47 How Competence Builds Real Confidence
18:23 What’s Actually Distracting Us From True Focus?
20:52 Build a Circle That Complements Your Strengths
24:46 Teaching Kids to Chase Their Own Dreams
28:38 Defining Your Life’s Non-Negotiables
32:25 How to Choose What Truly Matters
37:46 Owning Your Truth Creates New Opportunities
40:59 Start Small: Scale Down and Test Your Idea
Episode Resources:
Emma Grede | Website
Emma Grede | Instagram
Emma Grede | Facebook
Emma Grede | LinkedIn
Emma Grede | TikTok
Emma Grede | YouTube
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1: I am so excited to be here tonight at the
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Speaker 1: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco with the one
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Speaker 1: and only Emma Greed. Emma, I can just keep saying
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Speaker 1: your name. It's just like you are. First of all,
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Speaker 1: I want to say, you're one of my dear friends.
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Speaker 1: I adore you, I love you. I think you're incredible.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Darlan.
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Speaker 1: The fact that you came out here to do this
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Speaker 2: J until about three hours ago, I thought it was
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 1: It's definitely like thousands of people. I want to start
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Speaker 2: That's all I do. And it's really important to know
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Speaker 2: and to figure out how you can go deep on
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Speaker 2: something and not spread yourself too thinly. And I think
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Speaker 2: this idea, you know, we as a as a society,
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Speaker 2: But it isn't true, right, it's not a career plan
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Speaker 2: to think like that. And if I'm really really honest,
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Speaker 2: I have never ever worked harder in my life than
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Speaker 2: I do today. That's that's the honest truth. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: get easier. When you get more successful, it gets much
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Speaker 2: more difficult. And so I think, if that's the life
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Speaker 2: that you're looking for and you want to do great things,
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Speaker 2: you've got to be willing to sacrifice some other stuff
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Speaker 2: and go deep on one thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and when you do it, it doesn't feel like
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Speaker 1: a sacrifice. No, it's so fulfilling one hundred percent. It
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Speaker 1: just might feel like, oh my goodness.
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Speaker 2: There were all of these options that I had, But
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Speaker 2: to me, it's really interesting to think about where your
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Speaker 2: strengths are and find what you're good at and go
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Speaker 2: into that thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I love the way you articulate your strengths. I
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Speaker 1: remember years ago, and I have no affiliation with this platform,
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Speaker 1: but it's amazing. I remember years ago I did something
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Speaker 1: called Strengths Finder, and it's this test that asks you
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Speaker 1: all these questions. It's like fifty dollars on the Internet.
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Speaker 1: You fill it out and it will give you your
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Speaker 1: top thirty four strengths.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow, in order thirty four strengths.
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Speaker 1: You know, everyone ever on ever on histaty four strengths.
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Speaker 1: It ranks them in order.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Jay had thirty four, stroke we all had three.
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Speaker 1: No, No, No. The model is thirty four strengths. Everyone
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Speaker 1: will get thirty four, I promise. But it's all about
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Speaker 1: your top five strengths. And what's fascinating to me is
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Speaker 1: when I did that, and it's a thing you've got
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Speaker 1: to take an hour to do properly. Of course, the
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Speaker 1: more self aware you are, the better it is. When
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Speaker 1: I look to my top five strengths, and I imagine
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Speaker 1: if you look to yours. And I use this when
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Speaker 1: I'm hiring, I use this when I'm meeting people. I
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Speaker 1: use it with clients. When I look at my top
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Speaker 1: five strengds, I knew four of them, but I didn't
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Speaker 1: know the first one. Wow. Really, we're on that piece
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Speaker 1: of paper, I mean, sorry, on the digital PDF that
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Speaker 1: it sends you back. I was like, I had no
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Speaker 1: idea that that was my top strength, and from that
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Speaker 1: day on I leaned into that strength.
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Speaker 2: Well, well, now you've got to tell us what you're touching,
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Speaker 2: what is happening.
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Speaker 1: So my top five, I'll tell the four first before
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Speaker 1: the first one. There's communications is in my top five?
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Speaker 2: We agree?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ideation, intellections, ideations, coming up with original ideas and intellections,
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Speaker 1: having thoughtful, reflective discussions and then the fourth one ideation, intellection,
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Speaker 1: what I say, communication, And there's one more in there
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Speaker 1: I can't remember. And the top one, number one was strategy.
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Speaker 2: Strategy, Yeah, was my number one skill and.
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Speaker 1: I never knew that, Like I wasn't conscious of that.
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Speaker 1: And the moment I became conscious of the fact that
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Speaker 1: I'm extremely strategic, it shifted my entire way everything. It
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Speaker 1: shifted everything. And I would encourage, Like I said, I
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Speaker 1: have no affiliation with the company, I highly recommend you
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Speaker 1: do it because you might look at those and go,
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Speaker 1: wait a minute. Like when you articulated your strength, you
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Speaker 1: are so clear, You're like, this is what I'm good at. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And when you're able to do that, it filled you
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Speaker 1: with confidence, to fills you with competence, and all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden you realize why your life's been going wrong. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Not only that, you realize what you need around you,
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Speaker 2: because my whole thing is that none of us are
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Speaker 2: successful alone.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: I've arrived here tonight with like a smuttering of people
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Speaker 2: with me, right, because you don't just wake up and
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Speaker 2: turn up like that. Sadly, I don't look it took
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Speaker 2: a lot to roll me out here tonight. But I
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Speaker 2: do think it's kind of interesting because I think about
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Speaker 2: my own strengths, like I have an unbelievable ability to focus,
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Speaker 2: Like that is something that I'm very very good at.
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Speaker 2: I am as resilient as a person gets, like it
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Speaker 2: takes a lot to get to me, and I can
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Speaker 2: take a lot of knockbacks, and I can take a
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Speaker 2: lot of bad news. And I have a work ethic
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Speaker 2: like you wouldn't believe, Like it's just I can work
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Speaker 2: and work and go and go and go, and I've
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Speaker 2: needed those three things. But there's an enormous amount of
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Speaker 2: things that I'm just horrendous, not just a little bit bad,
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Speaker 2: like really bad. I am super impatient, like I have
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Speaker 2: no patience, and so I have to surround myself with
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Speaker 2: people that have the things that I don't have. And
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Speaker 2: I think that it's again so important to understand like
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Speaker 2: who you are, not like, where are your weaknesses? What
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Speaker 2: are you not good at? And again we always go
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Speaker 2: around going you know, what do I need? Who am
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Speaker 2: I like?
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Speaker 1: Me?
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Speaker 2: Me? Me, me me, And it's like it's so important
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Speaker 2: in your life to surround yourself with friends, with business partners,
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Speaker 2: with colleagues that have all the things that you don't have,
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Speaker 2: and I think that that is one of the reasons
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Speaker 2: I've been really successful. I surround myself with the right
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Speaker 2: people constantly.
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Speaker 1: As I'm listening to you, I'm just thinking about how
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Speaker 1: this self awareness principle for everyone sitting here is. It's
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Speaker 1: so powerful. And we're so told in society to get
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Speaker 1: better at what we're bad at. And I remember, and
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Speaker 1: this is real for me. When I became a consultant,
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Speaker 1: after I left the monastery, finally got a job. I
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Speaker 1: was lucky to get a job. I was rejected by
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Speaker 1: forty companies before I got it. And when I finally
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Speaker 1: got that job, they were telling me, you've got to
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Speaker 1: be good at Excel. You've got to be good at PowerPoint,
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Speaker 1: You've got to be good at this, you got to
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Speaker 1: be good at this. And it was like a suite
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Speaker 1: of things you had to be good at. And I
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Speaker 1: was like, I do not want to be good at
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Speaker 1: Microsoft Excel. I still don't. I still don't know how
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Speaker 1: to do a v look up. All right, For any
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Speaker 1: of you geeks out there and there's.
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Speaker 2: The wrong town to you, admit that. Let me tell you.
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Speaker 2: They're like so pasted out here.
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Speaker 1: I know they're like, oh, you right, bro, seriously.
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Speaker 3: Well, like Ai and Oba, but it's that kind of
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Speaker 3: idea of like you're so you're drawt you're told to
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Speaker 3: get good at things that aren't your thing, and you
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Speaker 3: constantly are wasting all this time and energy.
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Speaker 1: Focus. Talking about focus, You've got a finite amount of focus,
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Speaker 1: and if you're spending it on all the things you're
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Speaker 1: not that great at, maybe you'll get average at those.
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Speaker 1: But if you put it in the things, as Emma saying,
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Speaker 1: the things you're good at, you can become phenomenal at those.
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Speaker 1: And that's what we need to encourage people to do.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's really true.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to ask you. You have four adorable
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Speaker 1: children adore like the cutest, like truly the cutest. You
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Speaker 1: post about them all the time as well. You have
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Speaker 1: an amazing husband as well, who I love yends like
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Speaker 1: what a great man.
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Speaker 2: Lucky girl.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's just beautiful to see what you've been
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Speaker 1: able to create. And what did you say?
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Speaker 2: I said, I'm a lucky girl.
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Speaker 1: He's a lucky And when I look at I was
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Speaker 1: wondering if we ask your kids what does mum do?
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Speaker 1: How would they explain it? Oh?
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Speaker 2: My goodness, So my kids like, this is like a
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Speaker 2: big graduation week for everybody.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: So I've an eleven year old and eight and twins
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Speaker 2: three year olds, and the three year olds had like
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Speaker 2: one of those projects where it was like, you know,
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Speaker 2: what's your mom's name? Your dad named Da Da? And
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Speaker 2: my kid said, our mum goes to work all the time.
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Speaker 2: And I was like, you know, it's one of those things.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, what are you going to do?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 2: And and there was a part of me that I
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Speaker 2: was like, do I feel shame about that? Am I
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Speaker 2: comfortable with that? But you know, I've really made it
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Speaker 2: a point to tell my kids how much I love work,
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Speaker 2: because I felt that with my first two I was
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Speaker 2: constantly in some cycle of apologies. I'm sorry that I'm leaving,
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry that I'm going to New York. I'm sorry
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Speaker 2: that I'll be back late tonight. And what I realized
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Speaker 2: is that I created a narrative that I didn't really
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Speaker 2: like what I was doing. And I had this conversation
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Speaker 2: with my daughter as I was going to New York, like,
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Speaker 2: you know a few months ago, and she said, I'm
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Speaker 2: so sorry You've got to go on this trip. And
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Speaker 2: I said, lo when I go to New York, I
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Speaker 2: have an amazing time. I sleep diagonally. I go out,
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Speaker 2: my friends are drink too much wine, like, I have
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Speaker 2: the best time. And she said to me, Oh, Okay,
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Speaker 2: have an amazing time. I'll see you in three days.
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Speaker 2: And I thought, wow, I did that. So I'm working
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Speaker 2: really hard to let my kids know. Yeah, like, I'm
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Speaker 2: not the mom that is at every drop off, I'm
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Speaker 2: not the mom that is volunteering at the school. But
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Speaker 2: guess what, there are all of these other amazing things
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Speaker 2: that I do that I enjoy, and I'm not trying
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Speaker 2: to make you guys feel guilty about it. I'm not
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Speaker 2: trying to play a marda. These are things that I
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Speaker 2: really love and enjoy, and I kind of feel like
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Speaker 2: my kids are cool with it because they've been raised
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Speaker 2: like that and they know that they can go after
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Speaker 2: their dreams unashamedly. And I feel like if we start
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Speaker 2: to shift that narrative with our children, it will make
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Speaker 2: everything so much easier because nobody wants mum guilt. Nobody
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Speaker 2: wants any parental guilt, and we all know it's there,
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Speaker 2: but we don't need that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know, I can only speak about it
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Speaker 1: from being a son to a mom that I love.
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Speaker 1: And I've told you this before. Like my mom was
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Speaker 1: the bread wren of the house. She'd wake up in
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Speaker 1: the morning, make me and my sister lunch to take
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Speaker 1: with us to school, make us breakfast, she'd drop us
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Speaker 1: to school, go to work. We'd get picked up by
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Speaker 1: a nanny from school. We'd wait there for a couple
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Speaker 1: of hours. My mom would come back from work, pick
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Speaker 1: us up, make us dinner, help us with our homework,
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Speaker 1: and then go back to work in the evening. And
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Speaker 1: I really believe that my work ethic is because of
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Speaker 1: watching my mom work. Yes, And here's the interesting thing.
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of time with my mom
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Speaker 1: growing up, but I never felt unloved. And I've started
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Speaker 1: to realize that time doesn't equal love. But that's what
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Speaker 1: we've all convinced ourselves. We're like, if I'm there for
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Speaker 1: you all the time, then that means I love you.
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Speaker 1: And actually that's not the case, because I I'm there
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Speaker 1: all the time, but I'm not happy, I'm not really present,
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Speaker 1: I'm on my phone, I'm distracted, I'm over entertaining you.
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Speaker 1: You don't get time to be bored. You don't get
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Speaker 1: time to be disconnect. Time doesn't equal love. And I
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Speaker 1: feel like today put a lot of pressure on parents
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Speaker 1: to have to be everything at home and perform at
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Speaker 1: really hard on my friends that I see having that
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Speaker 1: pressure to be a perfect parent, a perfect professional, a
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Speaker 2: But we also have to figure out where does that
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Speaker 2: pressure come from, right, because oftentimes it's coming from some
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Speaker 2: outside source or we're putting it on ourselves. And I
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Speaker 2: did an exercise for myself when I first had Grace,
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Speaker 2: so like eleven years ago, and I wrote down what
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Speaker 2: was important to me, because you know what, there are
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Speaker 2: certain non negotiables, like if my kids in a play,
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Speaker 2: if they're you know, like we had a big graduation
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Speaker 2: thing today, Like I am there, but I don't know
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Speaker 2: that I think it's important to make like instagrammable lunch boxes,
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Speaker 2: Like that's not something I need to do, you know,
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Speaker 2: And so I don't do that. But you know, it's
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Speaker 2: like it's so it's really important to figure out, like
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Speaker 2: these my standards or are these somebody else's standards? And
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Speaker 2: one of my non negotiables, and so I feel like
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Speaker 2: once you get there, everything suddenly falls into place, and
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Speaker 2: that's the important thing, Like in all parts of our life,
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Speaker 2: like where are my standards? Where are the places that
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Speaker 2: I feel that I will absolutely not be happy if
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Speaker 2: these things are happening in my life? Where are the
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Speaker 2: places that I feel like I would be making a
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Speaker 2: sacrifice versus what is everybody else thinking of me? Or
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Speaker 2: did I see that? I feel like I need to
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Speaker 2: be keeping up with what do the school tell me?
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Speaker 2: You know I need to do? Because half the time,
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Speaker 2: if you know, if you can level with things in
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Speaker 2: your own life, like you'll be okay. So I think
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Speaker 2: it's really important and I constantly have those conversations with
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Speaker 2: myself because life that you're you're in this constant change
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Speaker 2: mode hopefully right, Like what worked for my kids when
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Speaker 2: they were five doesn't work for them at eleven, And
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Speaker 2: so I try to reassess constantly, like how do I
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Speaker 2: really feel about these things? And I write it down.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, it's really important for me to have a
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Speaker 2: girl's trip once a year, and I do that every
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Speaker 2: single year without fail, Like like I don't negotiate, I
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Speaker 2: don't like say to my husband. Oh, I can't like
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Speaker 2: can't figure out the data. It's like it is happening.
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Speaker 2: That is one of the things that makes me happy
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Speaker 2: because those connections, those relationships are something that I find
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Speaker 2: absolutely precious. And so I just have a bunch of
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Speaker 2: things that I feel and non negotiable in my life.
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Speaker 2: But they're mine. It's my list. I own it. It
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Speaker 2: doesn't belong to anyone else and it doesn't come from
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Speaker 2: anywhere else. And the rest I just say, like, I'm
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Speaker 2: not doing it.
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Speaker 1: So good, so good, honestly, Like I love the standard
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Speaker 1: piece because maybe someone's standard is to make instagrammable lunches. Yes,
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Speaker 1: beautiful and good for them.
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Speaker 2: I love watching those videos.
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Speaker 1: I watched the video.
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Speaker 2: I just don't want to make.
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Speaker 1: The lunch and that's what's so beautiful. And that's that's
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Speaker 1: kind of where we're struggling. I feel where we're making
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Speaker 1: someone else's standards are standards, as you said, and that's
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Speaker 1: where everything goes wrong. You know again, I want to
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Speaker 1: go back to the point you made earlier about this.
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Speaker 1: Women get this asked this question, especially as CEOs, especially
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Speaker 1: as business builders, far more disproportionately than men. To be honest,
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Speaker 1: I don't think men you get asked this, And so
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Speaker 1: when I'm asking this, I'm asking it self aware and
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Speaker 1: want to make that point that women always get asked
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Speaker 1: how do you balance it all? Right, which men don't
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Speaker 1: get asked, Like if I'm sitting with a male CEO
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Speaker 1: E fact, no one goes, hey, wait a minute, how
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Speaker 1: do you balance it all?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yo, elon, how's the balance going? We were seventeen
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Speaker 2: kids like.
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Speaker 1: But and so I asked it for that reaction, right,
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Speaker 1: and you get asked and all the rest of it.
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Speaker 1: And then how have you been able to And this
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Speaker 1: is true for me too, and I think about it,
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Speaker 1: but you've done it with you do have beautiful We
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Speaker 1: were just literally when I saw you this today, you
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Speaker 1: were facetiming your daughter and she was building a crown.
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Speaker 2: It made a man natile.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was so happy with it, so happy.
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Speaker 1: It's beautiful and we're talking to that and then and
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Speaker 1: then Yen's your husband who I know too, and he's
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Speaker 1: like having dinner while you're getting ready and you chatting,
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Speaker 1: and it's so beautiful to see, right, and like you're
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Speaker 1: finding time for all of these really important relationships, even
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Speaker 1: though you've been so kind to come out and help
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Speaker 1: me out with this. And so when I see that happening,
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Speaker 1: I'm like, what does it take? What does it take
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Speaker 1: to be the powerhouse CEO, to be a present wife,
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Speaker 1: to be a connected mum? Like, what is that taking?
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Speaker 1: And I know you, I know you don't believe in perfection?
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Speaker 1: What is that? What does it take?
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Speaker 2: So, at the risk of sounding and saying things that
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Speaker 2: I've said a lot, I do talk about the ideas
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Speaker 2: of trade offs all the time. I talk about the
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Speaker 2: idea of an unbelievable amount of help. But I think
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Speaker 2: the most important thing to talk about in the context
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Speaker 2: of where we are today is really thinking about ourselves,
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Speaker 2: really thinking about ourselves, because if the standard and if
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Speaker 2: people look at me and think, well, you know, her
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Speaker 2: hair's done, and the husband's nice, and the kids look perfect,
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Speaker 2: and that house is good and she's running all these companies,
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Speaker 2: you would have missed the entire point of me. Because
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Speaker 2: what I do well is what works for me. That's
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Speaker 2: what works for me. And I think that if we
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Speaker 2: think for one second that we have to emulate and
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Speaker 2: we have to take pieces of everybody's life, like, that's
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Speaker 2: where we start to go wrong. So for me, I
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Speaker 2: have nanny's, I have other people that do things in
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Speaker 2: the house. I have like so much help, But I've
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Speaker 2: never had a problem my whole life in asking for help.
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Speaker 2: It's something that I do all the time. If I
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Speaker 2: have a problem in my business, I'll call a competitor.
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Speaker 2: If I can't figure something out, like I'm on the
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Speaker 2: phone trying to work it through. And that becomes a
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Speaker 2: pattern in your life, like asking for help, not comparing yourself.
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Speaker 2: And so what I say to not just women, to
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Speaker 2: everyone who's trying to figure out how to do all
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Speaker 2: their stuff is work it out for yourself. Don't let
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Speaker 2: the standards of what you see around you impede on
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Speaker 2: how you feel, because the idea that anyone's got it
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Speaker 2: all down is just fake, and I don't like that's
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Speaker 2: the truth. Every single day, if you see me here,
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Speaker 2: it means that my kids didn't have me at dinner tonight.
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Speaker 2: If you see me here right now, it means that
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Speaker 2: I'm giving something else up. And so my life is
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Speaker 2: this series of trade offs. It is this series of
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Speaker 2: I'm doing one thing. But I made this decision today
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Speaker 2: because I was like, I want to go to Jay
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Speaker 2: s Sheddy and talk to peoboss, you know, and it's like,
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Speaker 2: and that's fine, but I don't feel bad about that.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to talture myself about it. But I
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Speaker 2: think that we have to really look into ourselves and
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Speaker 2: decide what's right for us and stop trying to chase
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Speaker 2: this idea of balance, and also stop lying. You know,
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Speaker 2: I just stopped lying about it. I started to say,
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Speaker 2: this is really hard. I really have to make difficult choices.
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Speaker 2: And when I made choices that were seemingly selfish or
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Speaker 2: about me, I stopped hiding them because I thought that
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Speaker 2: was doing a disservice to other women. So when I'm out,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to say I'm out when I'm not with
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Speaker 2: my kids. I'm going to say I'm not with my kids.
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Speaker 2: When I say I only do school drop up twice
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Speaker 2: a week, that's on a good week. So I'm just
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Speaker 2: going to stop lying and everyone else comes fallow suit.
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Speaker 1: You're changing the game, like you actually changed the game.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I was so excited by the way.
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Speaker 1: I was so excited because literally just a couple of
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Speaker 1: weeks ago, Emma launched her own podcast, I Aspire with
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Speaker 1: Emma Greed, and I want everyone in here to go
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Speaker 1: on their Spotify or their Apple app or whatever app
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Speaker 1: you use when you leave tonight, and I want you
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Speaker 1: to go subscribe to Aspire by Emma Greed.
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Speaker 2: You're so loud.
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Speaker 1: If you're not already, I mean, I loved because I
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Speaker 1: really feel like your voice in this space is so refreshing.
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Speaker 1: It's so revolutionary. It's totally redefining what women can think about,
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Speaker 1: of what's possible, what's expected of them, what's perfect, what's not,
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Speaker 1: what's real. And I feel like you just being real
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Speaker 1: and honest is genuinely what's needed in this space. I
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Speaker 1: don't know anyone else who's doing it, and it's so
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Speaker 1: It's something I love about you. I'm in awe of
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Speaker 1: you and I admire it so so deeply.
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Speaker 2: I mean it, No, I love it so Thanks Jay,
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Speaker 2: I'll pull you later. I mean, I love you. But
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Speaker 2: I have to tell everyone that on my first day
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Speaker 2: of filming, I filmed with Jay and I wanted to die.
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Speaker 2: I was like, why are you the first person I'm
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Speaker 2: filming with? You know you because and I tell you why,
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Speaker 2: because this is and it speaks so much to who
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Speaker 2: you are, you know. I thought about my dream guests.
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Speaker 2: I was like, who do I want to talk to it?
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Speaker 2: And so I text Jay and I thought, you know what,
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Speaker 2: He'll want to see the show and he'll watch a
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Speaker 2: couple of episodes and maybe, if I'm super lucky, in
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Speaker 2: like six or nine months, he'll come on the pod.
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Speaker 2: But of course you were like, yeah, when should I come?
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Speaker 2: And I was like, oh shit, I can't believe it.
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Speaker 2: So you were the first person, which was so crazy.
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Speaker 2: But you know, I'm really happy to be doing this
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Speaker 2: thing because I've spent my entire career building businesses and
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Speaker 2: after a while, you start to realize that as much
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Speaker 2: as a solution you are, you're also part of the problem, right,
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Speaker 2: You're part of the problem of what people look to
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Speaker 2: and see sometimes as unattainable. And so what I wanted
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Speaker 2: I feel like there's so much toxic positivity out there
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Speaker 2: and it's totally unhelpful for all of us. So I
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Speaker 2: was like, I'm going to tell the truth. I'm gonna,
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Speaker 2: you know, be me from East London, which means like
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Speaker 2: get the people that I have worked so hard to
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Speaker 2: look at you know, we're all, in some way trying
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Speaker 2: to build the life of our dreams. We're all trying
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Speaker 2: to live out this idea of what we find aspiring.
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Speaker 2: But it's different for different people, and we all have
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Speaker 2: different opportunities. And the more I would go around this country,
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Speaker 2: I get constantly stopped by people that would say to me,
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Speaker 2: I've got two kids and I'm like thirty five, and
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Speaker 2: I just want to change, and could you give me
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Speaker 2: some advice? And I thought, wouldn't it be amazing if
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Speaker 2: you could figure out how you could scale mentorship. And
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Speaker 2: so for me, the idea was just that simple. Just
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Speaker 2: have conversations, be really honest, talk to the people that
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Speaker 2: I aspire to the most, and give people the tools
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Speaker 2: so that they can make and build the life of
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Speaker 2: their dreams. And it's honestly been like the biggest privilege
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Speaker 2: because I feel like when you come at something with
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Speaker 2: a really good intention, like unbelievable things happen. And it's
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Speaker 2: only been I don't know. It's been like a couple
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Speaker 2: of months filming, but I feel like it's been pretty
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Speaker 2: magical and people are doing exactly that they're coming there,
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Speaker 2: they're telling the truth and it's actually helping people.
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Speaker 1: What more do you need? I love it. I love
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Speaker 1: it all right. I want to take you up on that.
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Speaker 1: I want to take you up on the Emma. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to give someone a really special opportunity today, and
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Speaker 1: therefore I want you to really honor it. If you
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Speaker 1: raise your hand, I want it to be because you
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Speaker 1: have something really valuable and something really thought through and
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Speaker 1: something really mature in new idea, because I believe it's
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Speaker 1: such a special opportunity. Tonight it's been all about doing things,
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Speaker 1: not caring about what people think. To take your moment
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Speaker 1: to make sure that you don't miss out to say
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Speaker 1: I'll do that. As Emma taught us earlier, I want
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Speaker 1: to give someone the opportunity in a moment to come
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Speaker 1: up here and have sixty seconds to elevate a pitch
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Speaker 1: their idea to the one and only Emma. So if
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Speaker 1: anyone had a business idea, a dream for a business idea, company, AI,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, I want you to raise your hand.
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Speaker 1: I'm taking a look around, raise your hand, raise your hand,
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Speaker 1: and seeing a lot of people. This is great. I'm
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Speaker 1: looking up there off the top. I see the light
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Speaker 1: as well. I see the light as well. Let me go,
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Speaker 1: let me go to it. I'm gonna come out and
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Speaker 1: talk to it a reporter. That's so they won't say.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to get up from the audience. Give it
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Speaker 1: up for k everyone.
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Speaker 2: Well done. I love it, so nice to meet you. Congratulations,
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Speaker 2: well done for standing. I chose you because you stood up.
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Speaker 1: Kate. I'm gonna ask you to come over here on
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Speaker 1: our spot. This is for you. We're going to give
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Speaker 1: you sixty seconds to share your elevator pitch to the
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Speaker 1: one and only Emma Read and the audience of Hello.
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Speaker 4: My name is Kate Wood. I'm from Reading, California. In
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty, I had twins as well. About eight months later,
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Speaker 4: I opened my first restaurant. About six weeks ago, I
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Speaker 4: opened my second restaurant. But I've always had this. I've
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Speaker 4: always had this dream to have a YouTube show and
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Speaker 4: take it to the Food Network. My dream is to
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Speaker 4: start a show called Stage and where you can either
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Speaker 4: take celebrities or other people influencers, and each season would
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Speaker 4: be that person and you put them in different spaces
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Speaker 4: for an episode. So each episode would have an adventure challenge,
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Speaker 4: it would have like a high end challenge, and it
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Speaker 4: would also have something really like heartwarming. All in the
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Speaker 4: food industry, we expose. You can expose meat packaging places,
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Speaker 4: you could go into prisons, you could go to high
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Speaker 4: end Michelin Star restaurants. But each episode, that celebrity or
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Speaker 4: that person would be a stage and you'd have to
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Speaker 4: take on those challenges. You'd have to step into that risk,
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Speaker 4: have to expose different parts of this industry. And it's
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Speaker 4: sort of this meeting between Triple D and Dirty Jobs,
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Speaker 4: but all in the food industry, because it's such a
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Speaker 4: huge industry that I love so much, and it takes
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Speaker 4: so much every day for us to make this happen,
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Speaker 4: and we all just love creating food and feeding people,
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Speaker 4: and so I just thought it'd be a really lovely
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Speaker 4: TV show idea, and I would have to take that
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Speaker 4: first step to be a starch.
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Speaker 2: And so that's my idea anyway, right not okay, everyone,
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Speaker 2: thank you. It's amazing, amazing insight advice. Here we go,
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Speaker 2: ready advice. So the first thing I want to say
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Speaker 2: is I love that you stood because you were the
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Speaker 2: first person that I saw, and that's why I was like,
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Speaker 2: I'm going for you there, because you just stood out.
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Speaker 2: So the idea that you would even put yourself out
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Speaker 2: there in that way is a really big and important
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Speaker 2: first step. Also, on restaurant number two, congratulations to you.
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Speaker 2: That's like insane, insane, it really is. I think the
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Speaker 2: beauty about the media climate and where we are right
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Speaker 2: now is that you can do things in a really big, shiny, Netflix,
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Speaker 2: big budget, beautiful way, or you can scale ideas down
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Speaker 2: and you can test into them. And I think that
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Speaker 2: one of the most amazing things that I've seen really
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Speaker 2: really work in my career is when we've taken things
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Speaker 2: that we thought had potential to be really big and
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Speaker 2: really global and we've tested them on smaller platforms, like
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Speaker 2: figuring something out on YouTube or figuring out like an
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Speaker 2: Instagram version of what you're trying to do. Your idea
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Speaker 2: is to take something you know, like a whole industry,
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Speaker 2: and to go into somewhere you know, like the prisons
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Speaker 2: that you mentioned or whatever it might be. But why
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Speaker 2: would you not test that instead of with an influencer
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Speaker 2: with one of your friends in a more localized situation
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Speaker 2: and figure out how it works. Because there's some beauty
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Speaker 2: to this idea of test and learn. One of the
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Speaker 2: things that I want that thousand percent no as an
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Speaker 2: entrepreneur is that you've just got to start. Like if
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Speaker 2: you have figured it all out and you've written a
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Speaker 2: big presentation and you're waiting for the one magical day
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Speaker 2: that you're going to, you know, meet Ted Surrandos some
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Speaker 2: pictures in Netflix like that day might never come, but
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Speaker 2: you could get out of the starting block and just
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Speaker 2: try something. And then the beauty of that is that
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Speaker 2: you get to test and learn, and you fail and
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Speaker 2: you iterate and you start again. So I would take
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Speaker 2: this idea that you've got and extraculate the best pieces
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Speaker 2: of it and try it in some really little small way,
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Speaker 2: whatever you can. I will do it tomorrow. Tomorrow. Forget everyone,
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Speaker 2: Thank you, it's very nice to meet.
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Speaker 1: Bye, give it. I forget everyone.
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Speaker 2: I don't believe we did that that. I can't believe
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Speaker 2: we did that.
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Speaker 1: I know that's much fun. It's like that. It's what
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Speaker 1: you said, like someone saying, I'll do that. Raising a
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Speaker 1: and Kate's courage and also just having a great idea,
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Speaker 1: having a great thought, and and that advice you gave
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Speaker 1: was spot on. I love the advice you gave. I
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Speaker 1: think it's so valuable to hear that. It's interesting you
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Speaker 1: said that when I first wanted this show to exist,
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Speaker 1: I actually started on purpose because I pitched a TV
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Speaker 1: show that got rejected. Now seven years ago, No, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I had a TV show idea. I actually had the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to pitch at Netflix and pitch at ABC and
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Speaker 1: pitch at MTV was still around then. And did they
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Speaker 1: turn you down and I got rejected? They rejected my
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Speaker 1: TV show idea and so a podcast. Yes, yes, So
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Speaker 1: you know, like, just just hearing that I gave me
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Speaker 1: goosebumps because that was exactly what happened to me. Emma,
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Speaker 1: you have been phenomenal tonight. You are truly one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite people in the world. Everyone make sure you
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Speaker 1: go and subscribe to Aspire with Emma Greed, Apple, Spotify, YouTube,
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Speaker 1: all the platforms. Follow Emma on Instagram if you don't
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Speaker 1: already give it up for Emma Reed.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, You're the best. I
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Speaker 2: love you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening to this conversation. If
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Speaker 1: you enjoyed it, you'll love my chat with Adam Grant
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Speaker 1: on why discomfort is the key to growth and the
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Speaker 1: strategies for unlocking your hidden potential. If you know you
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Speaker 1: want to be more and achieve more this year, go
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Speaker 1: check it out right now.
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Speaker 2: You set a goal today, you achieve it in six months,
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Speaker 2: and then by the time it happens, it's almost a relief.
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Speaker 4: There's no sense of meaning and purpose.
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Speaker 2: You sort of expected it, and you would have been
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Speaker 2: disappointed if it didn't happen.
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