Sofia Franklyn co-created Call Her Daddy in 2018. Two years later, a contract fight with Barstool ended her partnership, and the show kept going without her. Six years on, she's telling her side of the story in her new memoir, Daddy Issues.

In this conversation, Emma walks Sofia back through the deal, from a $75,000 first contract to the fight over who owns the IP. They get into what Sofia would do differently, and how she learned to trust herself again after losing control of her own story. Emma also shares how she went into business with her close friend too, and the protections she put into writing from day one.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the one thing to get in writing before going into business with a friend is a partnership agreement
• How to weight a partnership by what each person brings, so it holds up when your lives change
• Why "in perpetuity" should stop you cold in any contract
• When to get a second opinion, even from advisors with big names
• How to stop measuring your success against someone else's

Daddy Issues is out now, wherever books are sold.

For more than a decade, Lewis Howes has interviewed some of the world’s most successful people on The School of Greatness, his podcast with more than a billion downloads. When Emma was a guest, they talked about something they recognized in each other: how much of their drive had come from anger.

On Aspire, Emma turns the questions on Lewis. After more than 2,000 episodes exploring what drives high achievers, what has he noticed about the ones who are genuinely at peace with what they’ve accomplished? In this episode, Lewis shares his own story of healing and how it changed what he wanted from success.

You’ll learn:

• How to tell whether you want the goal itself or what achieving it would prove
• Ways for recognizing your own triggers and understand what’s underneath your reaction
• How to find more fulfillment in your work by asking who it serves and what you feel called to do
• How to spot the beliefs about money that still shape your decisions, even after you earn more
• What pursuing his Olympic dream has taught Lewis about going all in on a goal without making the outcome a measure of his worth

Some decisions get easier with time. Others quietly get made for you while you’re still waiting for the perfect answer.

In this solo episode, Emma walks through some of the biggest choices that shape a life, from deciding whether you want children and choosing the person you want to build with, to protecting the friendships that matter and knowing when it’s time to take a bigger risk.

There isn’t one right answer. The point is to get honest about what you want, understand what you’re willing to compromise on, and make the choice consciously instead of letting fear, timing, or other people make it for you.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to separate “Do I want children?” from “Am I ready right now?”
• The questions to ask when deciding whether a relationship can carry the future you want
• How to tell which friendships deserve more of your time and which ones you may have outgrown
• Why Emma thinks you should calculate the risk of not acting
• How to make a big decision without waiting for complete certainty

Plus, download Emma’s Decision Audit to work through the questions for yourself. Sign up for the newsletter at emmagrede.com.