Emma Grede

But it is something that I started practicing sort of like in my early 20s because I understood that most of my problems exist.

were here they weren't real they were like all because of me and so when I say start with yourself I'm like go into yourself understand yourself and figure out how much stuff you can actually affect in your life it's humbling unbelievable it's really humbling humbling because you really you can't be the victim you can't be you know we've all been through

You know, I feel like East London gave me so many things because where I grew up, first of all, it was like a proper neighbourhood, like a proper community.

You could knock on anyone's door and be like, my mum's not home yet.

I need a pack of crisps and they'll give you a pack of crisps.

Do you know what I mean?

It was that type of place.

And by the same token, you had to tell the truth.

There was this moral baseline that existed that was like, you are a good person.

oh, you're a shit person.

Are you going to tell the truth?

Are you going to be reliable?

Are you going to keep to your word?

And that was just how I was raised.

You were polite to your elders.

That was just like, you called everybody Mrs. Such and Such.

You said that please and thank you.

That was like you were representing your family.

You were going out into the world and there was just a way to behave and a way to be.

And I actually think that