"Work life balance is your problem. It isn't the employer's responsibility. Look, I have four kids and I had to figure out how I would think about my own ambition balanced with my parenting. That's the..."

"when I ask that question, I'm looking for the characteristics that were most formative in creating the woman that is Emma. What a great way to start. I think that that's a great question for me becaus..."

"you're the oldest of four sisters. I am indeed. How did that shape you? I think in a really big way. You know, I have a pretty interesting relationship with my mom. You know, my dad left when we were ..."

"doing. I have an ability to get better at what I'm doing, right? Like to constantly get better at whatever it is that I'm focusing on. And then I have an ability to drown out and kind of disregard the..."

"important. I think getting outside of your head is like really important because so many people have dreams and ambitions and ideas, but it just exists here. Like what I do is a lot of action. Like I ..."

"your customer says is true because it's true to them. And so what I do is like of course we have a balanced view. We try to like speak to as many customers. We're doing giant surveys and you take you ..."

"clothes shops. And when I got my first real job in an office in a fashion show production company, I was 18 years old. So I've had a salaried job in a place that was working towards something that I f..."

"I'd be in the meeting I'd be like I have two other questions for you. It have nothing to do with the work that we're doing or the you know whatever brief I was there to deliver and I'd ask a question...."

"to the that next place. And is that grit an ember that life blew on? Because I wonder if I'd gone back and I'd met Emma at 18 years old whether she would have said it like to me like that. No, Emma at..."

"Have you ever seen someone go from what should we call it? What's the opposite of grittiness? Floppy. I don't know. I don't know what the opposite of grittiness is, actually. Um I soft I guess. Yes. L..."

"had this woman that sat behind me and I would take notes of everything she said. That happened in real time, right? She would walk out of the room and I'd be on my next new business call saying her li..."

"in the role that they're at now before they're going to go anywhere else. So that's the first thing to say. But I don't think it's any I I again I have hire much more for attitude over experience, rig..."

"work life balance, you have to be profitable. The company has to be, you know, in line with, if not beating its competition. We have to be able to run an efficient business to give people what they ne..."

"have to work a little bit more. That's the truth. Like, what are we talking about here? We're gonna lie to everyone. Do you work five days a week, Stephen? No, babe. You're working on a Saturday and a..."

"interesting incentive that the employee has where they can they can pop back. And so if if you fire me from your company, Emma, and you know, I didn't feel so good when I was there, I now have you by ..."

"through various things in different companies where you've had to you know downsize or let people go and things that are really unfortunate and that's just part of the course of business. Now are you ..."

"when in London in ITV the first time I had to do like a meaningful downsizing of the agency and I had to fire like you know it was a small agency. I had like 60 people and I fired 15 people in one day..."

"I think there's a lot of business owners that can relate to holding on to all of that pressure themselves, cash flow issues, the uncertainty around the business, and you know, they internalize it, the..."

"customer seeing I go like in store I really try to understand that what is everybody else like what are customers truly experiencing from this brand and then it's really about looking objectively at w..."

"business partner invested alongside somebody else that I bought in in my first company. Then I married him. Um then we had four kids together and it has been an unbelievable relationship and one of th..."

"like cheerleader husband, but you need somebody that at least supports your belief in yourself so that you can go off and do what you need to do. But I don't know that there's any big secret. The secr..."

"IDC white paper found that companies using Vant save over $535,000 a year, and it pays for itself in just 3 months. For a limited time, my community gets $1,000 off Vanta at vanta.com/stephven. That's..."

"cash was taking was crossing hands. So for me it was this new interesting part of the business that I had to figure out how to monetize. So fast forward I did a couple of deals and instead of you know..."

"slit as high, cuz you know what? We bet she does. If we make a teeny tiny fluorescent pink bikini, we're going to make it in every size and we'll let the decision be down to the woman. And it turns ou..."

"think about where we started eight years ago and where we are in the middle somewhere we became BC Corp certified and that was another like real push for the company it was very very very heavy liftin..."

"company are about it being about our customers and the people that work for work there and whatever is true to them being the most important thing. And so that has really evolved over time. How old ar..."

"worked with people in one company and been able to bring them into another company and another and I start almost a lot of things with like a similar group of people and I love that because they fill ..."

"women, for men, for everybody to cultivate that particular skill and how did how did you cultivate it? Oh, I I think it's one of the most important things. You know, when I think about who I am invest..."

"higher. Yeah. I think there is some truth to it. I mean, look, I I don't know that I even had an idea of how high high was, you know, and I think that it's perspective and your environment that gives ..."

"problems in a business, right? Like and when you get successful, you've got to allow yourself and your team to be equally critical. Even when everything's going well and even if the bottom line's well..."

"sometimes it can be the company that can make people great. You can have a truly exceptional person in a kind of dysfunctional company and then they don't do as well, right? Like you can bring in some..."

"even walk into the room because of that stereotype threat. Mhm. It could be age it could be race, it could be gender, it could be anything else. It could be a a disability. And I just wonder how you t..."

"I really worry that people will internalize other people's prejudice and then limit themselves. Yeah. And I think this is a very different Listen, you and I speak as two British people right? I've liv..."

"such high it's not that I don't care. I just have such a high value on how much I care about what I think that maybe what other people think just kind of like pales into insignificance for me. That th..."

"you know, going fantastic. I decide baby number three. Come off the pill again. And I'm like waiting. I'm waiting again. And it doesn't happen. And so I'm like, honey you need to go and get yourself c..."

"biggest thing that anyone can ever do. You're like, "What? Like this is so crazy." Um, and it was amazing. I had like such a profound, incredible pregnancy with this amazing, wonderful woman who beyon..."

"was just something that I couldn't I couldn't bear in that moment. Are there any like are there decisions that you wish you'd made or is there something you'd wish you'd known? Because we don't talk a..."

"bloody difficult and it's not how you think. Thank you. Thank you for talking about that because there, as you say there's not enough people that talk about it. And actually, had I not had the the acc..."

"when we had to like walk like from the studio to the bar where everyone was doing that thing and you know it's like inundated with people and questions and people just wanted like just get like this o..."

"people. But it's not lost on me that like the older I've gotten, just seeing someone that you can that makes you realize that that brings down those like limiting beliefs that you have or that society..."

"anything because even the biggest mistakes like these people would they'll always love me like it's totally fine whatever I do. So it's like I would say that that's a beautiful thing. Emma thank you s..."