How Emma Grede built billion-dollar empires – twice
4/19/202651 min
Today, we have a very special guest…the incredible Emma Grede, businesswoman, entrepreneur, and fashion designer. Emma is behind some of the world’s biggest brands, including Skims and Good American. Rhi and Emma have a wide-ranging conversation about everything from workplace culture and career-building, how to best uplift the women around you, the brands she thinks are really cutting through right now, and much more. Love the podcast? You'll adore our weekly newsletter, too. Subscribe here: http://eepurl.com/iI829A Join us over on socials to see what our Style-ish family of incredible content creators are wearing, buying and trying. We’re on Instagram @style_ishau and TikTok @style_ishau. Big thanks to Merit for making this episode of Style-ish possible! They’re the minimalist beauty brand making you feel your best in minutes. Right now, Merit Beauty is offering their Signature Makeup Bag with your first order at meritbeauty.com. Your hosts today were Rhiannon Joyce (@rhiannonjoyce), Maddison Sullivan-Thorpe (@maddisonsullivanthorpe), and Emma Grede (@emmagrede) was the guest. And here’s a link to the reccos we made throughout: Mads’ word of the week: The Chanel ‘25 handbag campaign You can find Emma Grede’s podcast here and her new book, Start with Yourself, here. Do you have any Opinions Please that you’d like to submit? Send over your questions and dilemmas here. Style-ish's producers are Lucy Hunt (@lucyhunt3) and Cait Emma Burke (@caitemmaburke). This episode was recorded at Session in Progress. Enjoy the content we create? The best way to support us is to click that ‘follow’ button in your favourite podcast app and leave a five-star review. Or, you can go old school and tell a friend to listen.We’ll see you back here on Wednesday.
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First 90 secondsRhiannon Joyce· Host0:00
[upbeat electronic music] Shameless Media.
Maddison Sullivan-Thorpe· Host0:05
This episode of Stylish is brought to you by MERIT, the minimalist beauty brand making you feel your best in minutes. Right now, MERIT Beauty is offering their signature makeup bag with your first order at meritbeauty.com. That's M-E-R-I-T beauty.com.
Rhiannon Joyce· Host0:21
[gentle music] Hello, guys. We are back. I'm Rhiannon Joyce, and today I'm joined by Madison Sullivan Thorpe. To be fair, our little dynamic duo has been few and far between over the past few weeks.
Maddison Sullivan-Thorpe· Host0:38
Got a great episode to be back with, Rhi. I could not be prouder of you and this one.
Rhiannon Joyce· Host0:43
Oh my God, this was a real tick box moment for me.
Maddison Sullivan-Thorpe· Host0:47
Tick box, come on, it's one of the biggest moments of my life, I will be honest.
Rhiannon Joyce· Host0:50
Oh, don't tell Louis what you all that, your husband.
Maddison Sullivan-Thorpe· Host0:53
[laughs] It's up there.
Rhiannon Joyce· Host0:54
Rhi, you were lucky enough to interview Emma Grede, who we have spoken at length about on this podcast, but we're gonna get into that very soon. You're gonna ask me what my word of the week is.
Maddison Sullivan-Thorpe· Host1:06
What is your word of the week?
Rhiannon Joyce· Host1:07
My word is nostalgia. It's not a surprising one, and maybe you're listening to this going, "Basic," whatever. Period.
Maddison Sullivan-Thorpe· Host1:14
It's not that it's basic. I just think it's very, very prevalent everywhere at the moment.
Rhiannon Joyce· Host1:19
It, it's everywhere, and I feel like it has been this recurring theme. It's like the ocean, it just swells every now and then, and we talk about it more, whether we're talking about archives on red carpets,