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Gwyneth Paltrow

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
444 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

And now of course, like gluten-free is like a trillion dollar industry. So But what started to happen was by pattern recognition, I could say, okay, I'm going to say something. I'm going to talk about how I'm addressing an issue, whether it's divorce, whether it's trying to get my kid off gluten for a time being, whatever. And everyone's going to freak out. And then everybody's going to adopt it.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

And now of course, like gluten-free is like a trillion dollar industry. So But what started to happen was by pattern recognition, I could say, okay, I'm going to say something. I'm going to talk about how I'm addressing an issue, whether it's divorce, whether it's trying to get my kid off gluten for a time being, whatever. And everyone's going to freak out. And then everybody's going to adopt it.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

And so I, you know, I think I was able to get that perspective, but it didn't mean that it didn't hurt. I mean, luckily it's like all that stuff always does drive traffic to the site. Thank goodness. And one time I did, you know, like a sort of sentiment thing.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

And so I, you know, I think I was able to get that perspective, but it didn't mean that it didn't hurt. I mean, luckily it's like all that stuff always does drive traffic to the site. Thank goodness. And one time I did, you know, like a sort of sentiment thing.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

And even when, even like if people were like, oh, we don't like Goop this week because like she did some, said something crazy or we don't, you know, it always went up and to the right.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

And even when, even like if people were like, oh, we don't like Goop this week because like she did some, said something crazy or we don't, you know, it always went up and to the right.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

really suffering, right? I'm getting a divorce. I'm getting separated. I have little kids. And I really believed in what we were doing. It's basically that all started because you know, it was so me, the way I got divorced, I was like, okay, like what is the best way to do this? Like, let me go gather data from everyone who was raised in a divorced family.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

really suffering, right? I'm getting a divorce. I'm getting separated. I have little kids. And I really believed in what we were doing. It's basically that all started because you know, it was so me, the way I got divorced, I was like, okay, like what is the best way to do this? Like, let me go gather data from everyone who was raised in a divorced family.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

And figure out what is the way to optimize for this situation. What is the way to optimize this? It's not what I want. You know, we all want to like be married to the parent forever. Of course. So I was like, how should I do this? And I actually talked to a lot of people who were children of divorce. And the common denominator, what everybody said, it wasn't that their parents got a divorce.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

And figure out what is the way to optimize for this situation. What is the way to optimize this? It's not what I want. You know, we all want to like be married to the parent forever. Of course. So I was like, how should I do this? And I actually talked to a lot of people who were children of divorce. And the common denominator, what everybody said, it wasn't that their parents got a divorce.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

It was that their parents, it's that a dad would drop them off the end of the driveway and be like, I'll see you next week. I don't want to see your mother. It's that the mother would roll her eyes or say something bad about the father. And that was what had hurt the kids and caused the trauma.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

It was that their parents, it's that a dad would drop them off the end of the driveway and be like, I'll see you next week. I don't want to see your mother. It's that the mother would roll her eyes or say something bad about the father. And that was what had hurt the kids and caused the trauma.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

It's really nice. And it wasn't easy to do. It definitely took a lot of work, but I remember at some point, the therapist that we were working with kind of was talking us through something and I had a penny drop and I thought, you know, we're not a couple anymore, but we're a family. We are a family and we're going to be a family forever.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

It's really nice. And it wasn't easy to do. It definitely took a lot of work, but I remember at some point, the therapist that we were working with kind of was talking us through something and I had a penny drop and I thought, you know, we're not a couple anymore, but we're a family. We are a family and we're going to be a family forever.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

And let's figure out how to be a family without being a couple. And so that's sort of how it all came about.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

And let's figure out how to be a family without being a couple. And so that's sort of how it all came about.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

I don't think about resiliency. I was raised to be resilient. Right. My father really made me stand on my own two feet as a kid. You know, I think the ways in which, you know, we all grew up in a time where, you know, as we were talking about before, it was different, right? And so I think we all had some degrees of adversity in our households, which made us resilient.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

I don't think about resiliency. I was raised to be resilient. Right. My father really made me stand on my own two feet as a kid. You know, I think the ways in which, you know, we all grew up in a time where, you know, as we were talking about before, it was different, right? And so I think we all had some degrees of adversity in our households, which made us resilient.

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

Then I chose acting, which is like 7,000 no's. You're not good enough. You're not pretty enough. You're not this. You're not that. And just kept going. And I think it's because it's almost like if you are holding your future...

Aspire with Emma Grede
Aspire with Gwyneth Paltrow: Why Being Early Is Better Than Being Liked

Then I chose acting, which is like 7,000 no's. You're not good enough. You're not pretty enough. You're not this. You're not that. And just kept going. And I think it's because it's almost like if you are holding your future...