Hi my name is Louis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

What was your original vision when you decided to launch Offington Post?

What was the vision?

Did you exceed your vision as well in 10 years?

My original vision when we launched on May 9th, 2005 was to offer a platform to anybody who had anything interesting to say,

whether they were well known or completely unknown,

whether they were presidents of a country

or a homeless student with something interesting to say,

to say it on the Huffington Post.

And at the same time to build a very robust journalistic enterprise as we have done.

So from the beginning my dream was to create a hybrid

Both great journalism and a great platform and I would say

We've exceeded the dream in many ways

And let me just mention a couple. One is that we are now all over the world. We're in 13 countries now including all over Europe and Japan, Korea, India. We're launching in

Australia next month, then in the Arab world, then Mexico, China, so that's a

dream come true. And the other thing that I'm really, really excited about

is that we started as a primarily news and politics site,

but now our content around thriving, around reducing stress and helping our readers and our viewers because we do more and more video lead, more fulfilling lives. life has seen a phenomenal growth. We have over 20 sections on these themes

ranging from sleep, meditation, parenting, and so I love the fact that as well as informing people we can inspire

them, empower them, and help them lead the lives they want and not just the lives they settle for.

I'm very proud of the fact that we are working to reimagine journalism, so it doesn't just focus on all the things that are

dysfunctional, corrupt, all the crises, the rapes, the beheadings, which of course

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