Emma Grede

I knew that the sadness and the heaviness around me wasn't my...

Destiny.

I don't know what it was.

You could feel that inside yourself.

I knew it.

What is happening?

It's such an interesting way to look at it.

And I think about it as a combination of all of those things.

You know, my strong belief is that

You can't manifest your way alone into anything.

Manifestation has to meet really hard work.

And I have been in practice to be the type of woman that I wanted to be since I was 10 years old.

Whether that was emulating you or it was just getting up and delivering those papers, I wanted to be somebody that was going in a different direction to what I saw around me.

And so I think it's a culmination of putting myself in...

Really difficult situations, honestly, you know, because I've been in places where, you know, my first apartment, I didn't have a fridge.

I didn't have a way to cook.

And so I used to put, you know, the milk on the balcony.

But I knew that if I didn't, you know, if I didn't live there, I wouldn't be able to get to college.

And if I didn't get to this college, then I wouldn't be able to, you know, have the type of job and work experience that I want.

So everything has led to something.