Arianna Huffington: On Family, Success and Sleep

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, How To, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 11 April 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today's guest is Arianna Huffington, co-founder, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, and author of fifteen books.

In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet.

In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Huffington has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.

Originally from Greece, Huffington moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the debating society, the Cambridge Union. She serves on numerous boards, including The Center for Public Integrity and The Committee to Protect Journalists.

A devoted mom with a deepening focus on redefining the metrics of a life well-lived beyond business, she's decided to make sleep her revolutionary cause with her latest book, The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life One Night At A Time.

In This episode, You’ll Learn:

What family means to Arianna and how her Greek heritage shaped her lens on relationships.
How an health incident awakened her to the important of redefining success.
Why she chose sleep as the subject of her attention and new book.
Why sleep may well be the single biggest game-changer for your life.
What Arianna's doing to make her smartphone into a dumb phone.
Simple things you can start that will make the biggest difference in your sleep.
How sleep affects mood, cravings and weight.

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0:00.0	How are magnificent what we may be doing in the world is who we are in our essence is more magnificent.
0:12.8	And I feel that sleep is also a gateway to the mystery of being alive.
0:22.0	My guest today is Ariana Huffington. I'm sure you recognize the name. She is the co-founder of the Huffington Post.
0:28.4	She's been a long time voice and activist in everything from politics to org and music and society.
0:35.8	And somebody who is championed and really refocusing to champion a new definition of success.
0:43.8	And that was kicked off really by an incident in 2007 where she literally passed out and realized that the way she had been living her life, building her life, and building her business and contributing to the world
0:55.6	was not the way that she wanted to continue doing it. That also kicked off a really deep fascination with sleep.
1:03.6	And what it does to us and for us and how we've developed an incredibly dysfunctional relationship with this massively important piece of our ability to live good lives.
1:16.0	So we dive into all these different things into her journey into the role of family and culture into redefining success and living a good life and into the power and sort of the nuances and the details and some of the big challenges and mythology around this idea of sleep.
1:34.2	Really excited to share this conversation and she also wraps all of this up in a new book called the Sleep Revolution.
1:41.5	I'm Jonathan Fields. This is Good Life Project.
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