Arianna Huffington: Burnout Is Real with Host Joe De Sena
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
While building the incredibly successful Huffington Post Arianna Huffington suddenly collapsed. The diagnosis - burnout. Yes, burnout is a real, medical condition and it threatens all of our health.
Over the next few years Arianna explored the consequences, the cure and the prevention of burnout - today it's her life's work. Spreading the anti-burnout gospel through her books like "Thrive" and "The Sleep Revolution" and her company Thrive Global teaching resilience and behavior change.
In this candid discussion, Arianna shares the journey and the pillars of good mental and physical health with Spartan founder Joe De Sena, and asks him to take a look at his own health in a new way.
This episode of Spartan Up! is brought to you by Lumen metabolism tracker — the first device to track your metabolism and provide daily personalized nutrition plans for peak performance. Visit Lumen.me to order and use code spartan50 for $50 off.
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena
Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye send their regards :)
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up Podcast with Joe DeSena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:07.2 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:12.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here on the Spartan |
| 0:16.8 | up podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:19.8 | Today on Spartan Up, Joe interviews Ariana Huffington. |
| 0:22.8 | After enormous success with the Huffington Post, |
| 0:25.2 | she started a new endeavor, Thrive Global. |
| 0:27.6 | She tells Joe the story of her at-work collapse |
| 0:30.1 | that began her journey from burnout to wellness. |
| 0:32.7 | And during the conversation, she gets Joe a little of his own medicine, |
| 0:35.9 | some coaching to get him to get his own health under control. |
| 0:38.6 | This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Lumen metabolism tracker. |
| 0:45.0 | The first device to track your metabolism and provide daily personalized nutrition plans for peak performance. |
| 0:51.0 | Visit lumen. M.E to order and use the code Spartan 50 for $50 off. |
| 0:56.0 | Here we are for Spartan Up Podcast, Joe Descenta Founder. |
| 0:59.0 | I am with a legend, Ariana Huffington. |
| 1:02.0 | Great to be with you, Joe. |
| 1:04.2 | Where are you? |
| 1:05.6 | I'm in Los Angeles. |
| 1:07.2 | We kept our family home in Los Angeles, |
| 1:10.9 | and we moved here from New York in March. |
| 1:15.1 | And where are you? |
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