Start with Yourself: A New Vision for Work & Life

Start with Yourself is a game-changing, no-BS guide for anyone seeking meaningful success on their own terms. It´s an essential framework that will give you the tools and mindset to unlock your full potential in life and business--straight from a woman who defied all the odds to become a serial entrepreneur, a cofounder of culture-defining global businesses, a nonprofit champion, and the host of the Aspire with Emma Grede podcast. All while raising a family of four children. Based on the factors of her early life--she´s the child of a working-class single mother and grew up in a rough neighborhood in East London and dropped out of high school--you´d never guess that Emma Grede would go on to become one of America´s richest self-made women. This makes Grede unique, but she´s convinced you can do it, too: Start with Yourself is a blueprint to her mindset and how she thinks about business and life, structured in easy takeaways, so you can immediately apply her philosophy to what you´re trying to build and create. Among her most blazing insights, Grede identifies what she calls "Old Thoughts" stale thinking, outdated ideas; set-in-stone rules ingrained into the culture about work-life balance, the crassness of money, and the unseemliness of ambition--that aren´t actually rules at all. They´re biases, Grede insists, system errors, and we must strike them from our minds so that we can gain a greater sense of control, even mastery, over our day-to-day and long-range goals. Ultimately, this is a book for everyone tired of feeling like a bystander or passenger in their own life. Grede offers tangible and applicable-right-now solutions to create a mindset, an overall system of thought to manage emotions, clarify ideas, and illuminate the right next step--while always staying positive. It´s about gathering yourself after failure. It´s about being accountаble but also forgiving yourself. It´s about not expecting shortcuts while never being bashful about grabbing them when they appear. It´s about pushing hard for wins and never apologizing for your dreams. Above all, Grede offers a new vision for work and life that encourages readers everywhere to take responsibility for their own thinking in order to achieve personal and professional success at the highest levels.