Description
Instant New York Times bestseller. Featured by Oprah Winfrey on The Oprah Podcast, and highlighted as a guide for anyone starting a business, building a business, or seeking a better way to live and work.
Start With Yourself: A New Vision for Work & Life is a direct, practical guide for anyone seeking meaningful success on their own terms. Emma Grede shares the tools, mindset, and personal framework that helped shape her journey as a serial entrepreneur, cofounder of global businesses, nonprofit champion, podcast host, and mother of four.
Raised by a working-class single mother in East London, Grede’s early life did not point obviously towards becoming one of America’s richest self-made women. In this book, she turns that experience into a blueprint for how she thinks about business, ambition, failure, accountability, and personal growth.
A central idea in the book is what Grede calls “Old Thoughts”: outdated beliefs about work-life balance, money, ambition, and success that often operate like invisible rules. Grede challenges readers to recognise these beliefs as biases rather than truths, so they can take greater control of their goals, choices, and direction.
Written for readers who feel tired of being passengers in their own lives, Start With Yourself offers applicable guidance for managing emotions, clarifying ideas, recovering after failure, and identifying the next right step. It encourages readers to take responsibility for their own thinking as they pursue personal and professional success.




