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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ezra Client Show.

I'm excited this week to have Ariana Huffington on the show.

Ariana Huffington obviously is the founder and namesake of the Huffington Post,

which is if you don't read it, although you probably do, just a monolithic.

Has just become a new media, Jagannah was really important in defining the first wave of

search-driven traffic in new media and then it's become really, really powerful in the second

wave of social-driven traffic. So we talk a lot about the building of the Huffington Post,

how it works, how their global expansion has gone, how they rebuilt themselves from search to

social. Ariana is very interesting and thoughtful and forthcoming on that. It is particularly

for me who's interested in these things. A really great conversation. We also talk about her

fascinating background in politics. Ariana Huffington was a conservative, but when she first came

on the political scene, she was good friends with Newt Gingrich. Her first website was resignation.com,

which was trying to elicit Bill Clinton's resignation during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

We talk a bit about her new book, which is about sleep and why you should be getting more of it.

She has in recent years really been trying to push against what she sees as the American culture

of overwork and under sleep and poor work life balance. I am probably part of that culture,

so I ask her a lot of questions about that. And frankly, I found her answers gave me a lot to think

about in the time after we conducted the interview. We also, of course, talk about her favorite books.

One thing we talk about, which I was not expecting, is why she does not believe in death as a concept.

Yes, death, the extinction of human life. So that is interesting and worth paying some attention

to in there. This is a great conversation. I really enjoyed it. I'm appreciative to her for having

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