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Is advice about “manifesting” your dreams doing women a disservice? According to serial entrepreneur (and one of America’s richest self-made women) Emma Grede, the answer to that is a resounding yes.

“In my experience, none of that is true,” Grede said during this week’s Know Your Value segment with me, Morning Joe cohost Mika Brzezinski and The Weeknight cohost Symone Sanders. Vision is important, Grede said, but “ambition has to meet hard work.”

Emma also talked about the need for women to speak more openly with each other about money—a subject she’s especially passionate about.

“I believe that women are exceptional but the reality of that exceptionalism is not reflected in the cap tables that matter, in the halls of power,” Grede said when I asked her about it yesterday. “I think what happens is that we are culturally conditioned to avoid the exact behaviors that lead to power, money and leadership positions for us.” But, she added, “once you........

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