Start with Yourself is a game-changing, no-BS guide for anyone seeking meaningful success on their own terms. It\u2019s an essential framework that will give you the tools and mindset to unlock your full potential in life and business\u2014straight from a woman who defied all the odds to become a serial entrepreneur, a cofounder of culture-defining global businesses, a nonprofit champion, and the host of the Aspire with Emma Grede podcast. All while raising a family of four children.<\/p>\n
Based on the factors of her early life\u2014she\u2019s the child of a working-class single mother and grew up in a rough neighborhood in East London and dropped out of high school\u2014you\u2019d never guess that Emma Grede would go on to become one of America\u2019s richest self-made women.<\/p>\n
This makes Grede unique, but she\u2019s convinced you can do it, Start with Yourself is a blueprint to her mindset and how she thinks about business and life, structured in easy takeaways, so you can immediately apply her philosophy to what you\u2019re trying to build and create.<\/p>\n
Among her most blazing insights, Grede identifies what she calls \u201cOld Thoughts\u201d: stale thinking, outdated ideas; set-in-stone rules ingrained into the culture about work-life balance, the crassness of money, and the unseemliness of ambition\u2014that aren\u2019t actually rules at all. They\u2019re biases, Grede insists, system errors, and we must strike them from our minds so that we can gain a greater sense of control, even mastery, over our day-to-day and long-range goals.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, this is a book for everyone tired of feeling like a bystander or passenger in their own life. Grede offers tangible and applicable-right-now solutions to create a mindset, an overall system of thought to manage emotions, clarify ideas, and illuminate the right next step\u2014while always staying positive.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s about gathering yourself after failure. It\u2019s about being accountable but also forgiving yourself. It\u2019s about not expecting shortcuts while never being bashful about grabbing them when they appear. It\u2019s about pushing hard for wins and never apologizing for your dreams.<\/p>\n
Above all, Grede offers a new vision for work and life that encourages readers everywhere to take responsibility for their own thinking in order to achieve personal and professional success at the highest levels.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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