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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

Her close working partnerships with the Kardashian family have led Greed to become an advocate for empowering women through business.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

And she also sits on the board of the Obama Foundation, as well as being a King's Trust ambassador.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

Now, as if that weren't enough, she's publishing her first book, Start With Yourself, in which she explores everything from building personal resilience to developing self-forgiveness.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

It's an extraordinary ascent for someone whose first job was a local paper round and who struggled at school because of undiagnosed dyslexia.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

After dropping out of her London College of Fashion degree, Greed started working in fashion events before founding her own talent and marketing agency at the age of 26.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

She later pitched a business idea to Kris Jenner for a size-inclusive denim brand with Khloe Kardashian.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

Good American launched in 2016, racking up $1 million of sales in its first day.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

Her stakes in various ventures have earned her a nine-digit net worth and a self-deprecating nickname.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

She told Dragon's Den to call her Emma Greedy when she was a guest judge.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

Alongside her business achievements, Greed is also a mother of four who famously once said that work-life balance is an employee's responsibility.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

As she expands in her book, if you want to be extraordinarily successful, then extraordinary work is required.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

If you're not failing, she writes, your ambition probably isn't big enough.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

Emma Green, welcome to How to Fail.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

What an intro.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

You are so impressive.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

It's true.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

And I'm very interested and admiring of that idea that your ambition might not be big enough.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

If you feel undone by failure, maybe you're not taking the risks that you're meant to be taking.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

And one of the things that you write in your book, which I loved, by the way, is this idea that selling women the idea of effortless perfection is what really holds us back.

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Emma Grede - ‘Ambition Is Something I Am Entitled to’

Okay, let's just end the interview there because nothing's going to be better than that.