Emma Grede has co-founded multiple companies, works as the CEO of one of them, was the first Black woman to be an investor on ABC’s “Shark Tank” and has an estimated net worth of $405 million.
A calculated daily routine helps Grede stay productive without sacrificing self-care, she said on a May 12 podcast episode of “The Skinny Confidential Him and Her.”
“I’m pretty regimented with my routine and, because I have four kids, that’s the only way I can do it,” said Grede, 42, the co-founder and CEO of apparel brand Good American. “I’m very, very, very militant about not picking up my phone first thing [in the morning] ... So I’m like, what do I need to do today? What’s important to me? And what do I think before I start getting messages from the world, from the news, from social [media]?”
Grede, who also co-founded apparel brand Skims and cleaning product company Safely, starts each day at 4:35 a.m., grabbing a cup of coffee before heading downstairs to her home gym, she said. She does a 90-minute workout five days per week, she said: ”[It’s] the only time no one’s asking anything of me. That’s like my meditation time ... I’m in my own space.”
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