Arianna Huffington: She cut out “Game of Thrones” for 8 hours of sleep.

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

You know Arianna Huffington as the woman who put the Huffington in The Huffington Post. But she’s got a lot more on her resume. Including ‘best-selling author’ and ‘ran for office.’ But in 2007, after working 18-hour days, she collapsed in her office. And decided it was time to focus on herself more. Enter: Thrive Global. Aka the company Arianna started to help people reset, recharge, and get a lot more sleep. On the couch, Arianna talks to us about being a proud outfit repeater, the time she interviewed Skimm B for a job, and putting your phone to bed. Literally.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Carly Zagan.
0:04.0	And I'm Danielle Weisberg, and we're the co-founders of The Skim.
0:07.5	Welcome to our podcast, Skimmed From the Couch.
0:10.2	On every episode we invite smart, inspiring successful women to chat candidly about
0:15.1	what it takes to get to the top and then what it's like when you actually get there.
0:18.6	So this is a podcast about the real stuff, the crappy days, the bad advice, the first big career win, and the people
0:24.8	who are there for the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. We started the skim from a
0:29.2	couch and we have only one rule on this one, no BS.
0:34.0	Please join us in welcoming Ariana Huffington
0:36.7	to the couch.
0:37.8	This is a big deal for us.
0:39.0	We are very, very excited you are here.
0:41.7	Obviously, you know Ariana is the woman who put the Huffington in the Huffington. you are you on
0:42.7	on the woman who put the Huffington in the Huffington Post
0:45.4	but she's got a lot more on her resume by her early 20s she was a
0:50.0	best-selling author and she even once ran for the California
0:53.9	governorship she's done a lot but when she collapsed in her office in 2007 after
0:59.6	working 18 hour days she decided it was time to focus more on her well-being. That
1:04.2	sparked her latest venture as the founder and CEO of Thrive Global. The company
1:08.6	is all about helping people reset, recharge, and get more sleep. We will sign up for that.
1:15.0	Welcome to the couch Ariana. Thank you so much for joining us.
1:19.0	Thank you so much. It's great to be with you.
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