399: Arianna Huffington on Ending Burnout and Increasing Well-Being With Microsteps
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/ariannahuffington399
Arianna Huffington (IG: @ariannahuff) is the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, the founder of The Huffington Post, and the author of 15 books, including, most recently, Thrive and The Sleep Revolution.
In 2016, she launched Thrive Global, a leading behaviour change tech company with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success.
She has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How hard it is to change behaviours
- Microsteps are based on the 60 second concept
- The judgement free zone
- Picking a time of day to unplug and recharge
- There is no microstep too small
- When we feel successful, we want to do better
- Having an accountability buddy for inspiration and motivation
- Failure is a stepping stone to success
- Be open to possibilities
- Connecting with your intuition
- Heartbreak leads to some of the best things in our lives
- Working mothers are struggling during the pandemic
- Arianna’s success as a writer to starting The Huffington Post and Thrive Global
- What is habit stacking?
- Sleep is a keystone habit
- The value of downtime
- Arianna being diagnosed with burnout in 2007
- We need 7-9 hours of sleep
- A power nap can restore you
- If you can breathe, you can meditate
- Mindfulness as part of your busy day
- The difference between stacking microsteps and multitasking
- Arianna’s 30 minute transition before sleep
- Keep improving your habits every day
- Giving yourself a break
- Getting creative with our addictions
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Related links:
Marina Khidekel (forward & contributions by Arianna Huffington) - Your Time to Thrive (book)
Follow Arianna Huffington on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn
Listen to Arianna Huffington previously on TUHP (episode #107)
Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd - Goodnight Moon (book)
Arianna Huffington - Goodnight Smartphone (audible book)
Meditative Story Podcast by WaitWhat + Thrive Global
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:02.4 | I've been meditating for many, many years and I find it an incredible gift really to |
| 0:09.4 | connecting me with my own source of strength, wisdom, peace, but again, microstats. |
| 0:16.9 | Like if you tell someone to start with 20 minutes meditation, it may seem impossible and |
| 0:22.6 | less. |
| 0:23.8 | So start with 5, doesn't seem to be, can you do 60 seconds of deep breathing and anybody |
| 0:32.0 | who wonders, meditating, that sounds really difficult. |
| 0:37.0 | If you can breathe, you can meditate. |
| 0:40.4 | Meditation is ultimately about focusing on your inhales and exhales and being completely |
| 0:48.2 | comfortable with the fact that your mind is going to keep coming up with thoughts and |
| 0:52.9 | ideas and what you need to buy at the grocery store and everything and that's inevitable |
| 0:59.5 | and all that we need to do is kind of go back to the breath, go back to the breath instead |
| 1:06.6 | of judging ourselves or giving into whatever thoughts are in our head. |
| 1:17.3 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast Episode 399. |
| 1:21.4 | I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 1:25.1 | Each week I'll bring you in up conversations with health and wellness leaders from around |
| 1:28.4 | the world. |
| 1:29.4 | This week I'm chatting with Ariana Huffington again. |
| 1:32.1 | She's the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, the founder of the Huffington Post and author |
| 1:37.0 | of 15 books including most recently Thrive in the Sleep Revolution. |
| 1:42.1 | In 2016 she launched Thrive Global, a leading behavior change tech company with the mission |
| 1:47.6 | of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the |
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