Hi everyone, I'm Maggie McGrath, editor of Forbes Women.

Our next guest is the definition of a self-made female entrepreneur.

She is a serial entrepreneur, the co-founder and CEO of Good American, the chairwoman of the 15% pledge.

She recently joined the board of the Obama Foundation, and she has a new podcast. She is Emma Greed and she is here

today. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks so much for having me. I just rattled off a bunch of

titles and I think there are a few that I left off. Do you have a favorite title? No, I don't,

funnily enough. I don't. I love everything I do or I wouldn't do it. That's a fair point. What do you see

as the spark of your entrepreneurial journey? Because you have started a number of businesses,

and I know you had a paper route when you were barely 12 years old. Did it start then? Or when did

you first start calling yourself an entrepreneur? You know, honestly, it was never something that I

thought about as a kid.

I definitely didn't even know anyone who had their own business.

I wasn't brought up around any entrepreneurs.

I fell into entrepreneurialism and it really came from, you know, I worked a corporate job

for many years and I wasn't being paid what I thought I deserved.

And as a 20, I don't know, 23 year old, I thought, I'm sure I could do this better myself.

And I just left and decided that I would set up on my own.

And so that was the beginning of my journey.

I wasn't being paid what I thought I deserved.

Did that feel like a huge risk going from a corporate job to

staking out on your own? Yeah. And you know, it wasn't, it's so interesting in terms of the

way that it happened because I was lucky enough to fall into a bit of an infrastructure. So I ended

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