Emma Grede

But it's understanding that that doesn't have to be the default.

And a big part of what I write about in this book is...

being a woman and having your emotions guide your decision-making is a really kind of like low vibrational place to be.

That's right.

And if you are going to, you know, live up to your higher self, as you know, you have always said, then that can't be the way you make your decisions.

I love that you say that.

My working title was Without Apology.

And I decided that that couldn't possibly be the title because it gives you the connotations that there's something to apologize for.

And so to me, start with yourself was everything because it's about not blaming anything that's happening on the outside and knowing that everything that you do, all the success that you have and all the hardships that you have and the way that you choose to walk through the world, it all starts with yourself.

So when I landed it, I was like, that's it.

That's the one.

And I like the way it looks.

Yeah, I don't want my face on there either.

You know, I was a real dreamer, and I've always been in my head.

And I would have what I now know of, you know, visualizations.

I don't think I thought about it that way when I was a kid, but I'm somebody that could take themselves off into a dream.

And then, you know, when I was a kid, I used to be obsessed with fashion magazines.

Mm-hmm.

But I would take myself into the magazine, like into the show, into the advertising campaign, and I would create collages and I would imagine my life if it weren't in Plasto, if it weren't where I grew up.

And I just knew that I could do better.