How Can More Women Become Business Leaders? (Your Radical Questions with Emma Grede)

Radical with Amol Rajan

BBC

Society & Culture

4.5 • 919 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

This week, Amol puts your questions to the businesswoman Emma Grede - from opportunity and motivation, to how dyslexia can contribute to our work ethic and the way we approach tasks.

Emma Grede is the co‑founder of Skims, created with her husband Jens and Kim Kardashian, and the CEO and co‑founder of Good American, a fashion label known for its focus on inclusivity. She also serves on the board of the Obama Foundation and is an ambassador for The King’s Trust.

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Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan are released every Thursday.

Amol Rajan presents the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 and hosts University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was the BBC’s media editor and the editor of The Independent newspaper. 

Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made Lewis Vickers, Anna Budd, Rufus Gray, and Oscar Pearson. Digital production was by Gabriel Purcell-Davies. Technical production was by Mike Regaard. The Senior News Editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:07.2	We get it. Life is busy. You want to keep up with the news, but there's just too much going on.
0:13.0	Which is where newscast comes in. We do the work, and when you're ready to dig deeper into the day's news, you just pop us into your ears.
0:23.1	It does mean we have to put in the hard work though.
0:26.2	Listen to newscast every day on BBC Sounds.
0:30.6	Hello team, just before we get going with this question and answer episode with the mighty Emma Greed, I wanted to ask for your questions for me to ask one of our next radical
0:36.0	guests. He is a giant of modern technology and
0:39.9	business. It's Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, which is the world's largest
0:43.9	professional networking platform. Maybe you're on it. And he is arguing in favor of a rapid
0:49.8	adoption of AI in the workplace all around the world. He sees AI as another machine, which makes
0:54.6	some human jobs obsolete, but he argues humanity will be able to adapt. There's probably no one
1:00.7	who's thought more and be more immersed in the implications of AI for jobs for the workforce
1:06.6	than Reid Hoffman, the founder or co-founder of LinkedIn. And he's a pretty political person, a vocal critic of Donald Trump. He's reportedly donated hundreds of millions of dollars to politics over the last few years, much of it going to Democrat and Liberal causes. I think you're going to really enjoy this episode. Please do get in touch and tell me what you want me to ask, Reid Hoffman. I'll pursue answers on your behalf. The number, as you know by now, is 03330-123-94480. And you can email us on Radical at BBC.co.com. UK. Right, on to Emma Creed.
1:51.4	Hello and welcome to your radical questions.
1:56.9	This is where I put your questions to one of our magnificent radical guests.
2:09.8	It's your chance to engage very, very directly and really connect with the super smart, interesting, powerful, influential people that we have on this podcast and ask them about their radical ideas for the future.
2:15.7	Well, I hope you heard last Thursday's episode because it was a corker with Emma Greed, who is still with me.
2:21.6	She's a serial entrepreneur, investor, one of America's most successful self-made businesswomen.
2:27.3	She is the CEO and co-founder of the denim company, Good American, which she started with Chloe Kardashian.
2:28.2	And she's the founding partner of Skims, which she founded alongside her husband, Yens, and Kim Kardashian.
2:34.3	From her, I'm going I put it's humble beginnings,
2:36.9	ordinary beginnings in East London,
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