How to Chase What Scares You Into Greatness | Emma Grede

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Emma Grede has built an empire—but she's learned that real greatness costs you something. In this conversation, she reveals what she sacrificed for success, why chasing what terrifies you is the path to your next breakthrough, and how she rewired her mind to see failure as a teacher, not a threat. It's not inspirational fluff; it's the honest cost-benefit of ambition and what it actually takes to keep growing.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:13.0	I think you've mentioned twice by now in this conversation that you grew up not needing someone,
0:19.3	specifically like a man. I think you mentioned maybe some around that
0:21.9	like i was strong enough or independent enough i didn't need someone to make it in some way i can't remember
0:26.2	exactly how you said it where would you be if you weren't in a beautiful marriage though you know not that
0:32.7	you need your husband but in some ways we need other people to experience beautiful moments of life and to
0:38.7	experience more love and abundance. So I guess I'm asking, not questioning you, but asking like,
0:44.3	where is that line of not needing someone, but also needing other people to create those moments
0:51.3	in your life. So I love that question because I'm somebody that really
0:55.8	thrives in community. Like it's like I have my people like my ride or die and make no mistake.
1:03.3	Like I need my husband. Like my husband is somebody that I think is my best friend and he's the person that I find the most interesting on the planet
1:13.8	and I still really fancy him, thank God.
1:17.4	And I really need him.
1:19.9	I think that I don't, when I say I don't need anyone,
1:25.1	my expectation on people is never that they will be everything to me like i haven't set
1:30.8	yens up to be like all the things that i need because i need different things from different people
1:35.5	and it's like i have like a bunch of girlfriends and i have the people that i work with and i have my
1:39.9	sisters and i have my family and i have my husband and my life is like a tapestry of all of these
1:44.9	different things that I've created around me and I need all of them. I need everything. I need
1:51.9	all of it and I love that because I am somebody that like like I'm a real life person. You know,
1:57.5	I want to be in person with you. I would like give the phone up tomorrow. You know, I am an in person person. I want to do meetings. I want to be in the office. I want to chat with you for three hours. It's like I've zero time for like nightclub chat, you know, frivolous conversations. I want to go straight in, all in. Tell me everything. Tell me about your wife, the kids thing, the thing.
2:18.3	Do you know what I mean?
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