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Emma

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3712 total appearances

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Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

priceless facts about money which I love and I bought immediately for my own children but I'm kind of interested in how you think about your relationship to money now and how like how do you speak to the people within your organization about that it's evolved so Warren Buffett says do the job you would do if you didn't need a job that's what I do so I don't work for money and I don't say that casually or in a dispassionate way I like doing well but

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

priceless facts about money which I love and I bought immediately for my own children but I'm kind of interested in how you think about your relationship to money now and how like how do you speak to the people within your organization about that it's evolved so Warren Buffett says do the job you would do if you didn't need a job that's what I do so I don't work for money and I don't say that casually or in a dispassionate way I like doing well but

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

And I'm such a huge believer in mindset. And yet I'm completely allergic to toxic positivity. I feel like there's so much of that around. And I wonder what makes you uniquely able to do what you do. What do you think it is inside of you that makes you so successful and so able to see around the corners and have such clarity around what it is that you're doing.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

And I'm such a huge believer in mindset. And yet I'm completely allergic to toxic positivity. I feel like there's so much of that around. And I wonder what makes you uniquely able to do what you do. What do you think it is inside of you that makes you so successful and so able to see around the corners and have such clarity around what it is that you're doing.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

Interesting.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

Interesting.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

Who else is a person like that for you in your life?

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

Who else is a person like that for you in your life?

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

Yes.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

Yes.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

I know what that feels like. I married a Swedish man, so I get the straightforward critique every day. Yeah. Literally. No sides.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

I know what that feels like. I married a Swedish man, so I get the straightforward critique every day. Yeah. Literally. No sides.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

When it works both ways, doesn't it? It's like you can talk yourself in or out of anything every day. And so I said. And so you have to make it a habit. Be accountable. Yeah.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

When it works both ways, doesn't it? It's like you can talk yourself in or out of anything every day. And so I said. And so you have to make it a habit. Be accountable. Yeah.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

Instead of making so many big skills. It takes a lot. And I feel like that is a muscle because that is something that you have to practice. Like that level of honesty, so few people have it. If I take one thing away today from our conversation, that will be it. Just increasing that level of intellectual honesty because I think it's very, very hard to get there. I live on group chats.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

Instead of making so many big skills. It takes a lot. And I feel like that is a muscle because that is something that you have to practice. Like that level of honesty, so few people have it. If I take one thing away today from our conversation, that will be it. Just increasing that level of intellectual honesty because I think it's very, very hard to get there. I live on group chats.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

I did not hit the family group chat. I would never do that to you. But my girlfriend group chat, I did hit up. And the question that they wanted to ask you was about difficult conversations and how you learn to get comfortable with having difficult conversations at work. How have you done that?

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

I did not hit the family group chat. I would never do that to you. But my girlfriend group chat, I did hit up. And the question that they wanted to ask you was about difficult conversations and how you learn to get comfortable with having difficult conversations at work. How have you done that?

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

That's a great answer. All right, we're going to move to rapid fire. The first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, please. Look at my phone.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Mellody Hobson: What I Learned From My Business Hero

That's a great answer. All right, we're going to move to rapid fire. The first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, please. Look at my phone.