Emma Grede, the businesswoman who has co-founded brands like SKIMS and Good American with Kim and Khloé Kardashian, is opening up about how she has just a high school education — but that didn’t stop her from becoming a big success story.
“I was raised by a single mom, one of four girls, and I watched my mom every single day get up and go out to work,” says the London-born Grede, 41, who is currently co-hosting season two of Side Hustlers on Roku with Ashley Graham, where they guide and invest in women who are pitching new businesses. (The new season was the #1 on-demand title on Roku Channel since its launch.)
“I always think about myself as someone who was kind of born leaning in,” she says of her secret. “I was always working — I was just finding lots of things that either I wasn’t that good at or I didn’t want to do. And so it was more about …