As we are all becoming more aware of identity politics, uncovering systems that do not suit us or get us near equality any time soon, I could not help but wonder. Is the Tall Poppy a syndrome or a manipulation?

I recently caught myself in a tall poppy moment, and I am not proud of it. I was in a networking room. Someone asked if anyone could help with a particular piece of software. I knew exactly how to answer. I said nothing. Because I did not want to seem like I was showing off.

That moment sent me down a rabbit hole. Where did tall poppy syndrome actually come from? Who benefits when we stay quiet in rooms where we have something to offer? And what does any of this have to do with why women are the least likely to be learning the AI tools that are coming for their jobs?

The data is damning. The history is darker than you think. And the connection between tall poppy culture and AI avoidance is the conversation nobody is having yet.

We are having it today.

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Emma Grede is a British entrepreneur, philanthropist, and one of the most polarising business voices of 2026. She is the co-founder and CEO of Good American, the founding partner of SKIMS, and the author of the instant New York Times bestseller Start With Yourself. The internet had very loud opinions about her this April. Most of those opinions came from people who had not read a single page.

This episode is for the ones willing to sit with discomfort instead of scrolling past it.

I have read this book three times. Not because I agree with everything in it, but because it keeps showing me something I have not finished learning yet. We go through the controversy, the three-hour mom comment, the work-from-home take, the work-life balance position, and the parts the internet completely missed. Including why a working-class girl from East London who dropped out of high school and became one of America's richest self-made women has more in common with how some of us were raised than the critics are willing to admit.

You do not have to agree with Emma Grede to learn from her. But you do have to read the book first.

The audiobook is narrated by Emma herself. It feels like a straight-talking conversation, not a performance. Get it on Audible here: audible.com/pd/Start-With-Yourself-Audiobook/B0FW2VSXFK

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Carrie Bradshaw had a column, a cigarette, and time to think. Ciara Miller has 986,000 Instagram followers and absolutely no intention of slowing down.

In three weeks, Ciara attended the Met Gala, landed a Love Island USA hosting announcement, corrected TMZ herself on Threads without a publicist in sight, and kept posting her breakfast and her cat Jasper in between. Not because she is reckless. Because she understands something most people building a public profile do not. Visibility is protection. Silence leaves your story to someone else.

Ciara Miller is 30 years old and solidly Millennial. But she is operating on social media with a precision and a lack of self-consciousness that most of her generation abandoned around 2019, when everyone got too polished and forgot that realness was the whole point.

This episode breaks down her real-time posting regimen, when to be messy, when to drop the tea, and what people building a public profile can take from the most sophisticated personal-brand play of 2026. None of which she is doing on purpose. Which is exactly the point.

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