Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.

I'm Kelly Corrigan and today I'm wondering about the forces that create our lives.

I think there are three, I think there are the circumstances

into which you were born. I think there are interventions along the way that

change your course and of course I think there's agency. My guest today has

interesting stories in all three categories. She is Ariana Huffington, a woman who

has tried and succeeded, do lots of things that lots of people

haven't been able to pull off. My questions were about why and how and who got involved in her life along the way to show her

avenues she might not have known existed. So join us for Kelly Corrigan

Wonders and a great conversation

with the one and only Ariana Huffington. Welcome back to Kelly Corrigan Wonders. I'm Kelly Corrigan. We've talked a lot in this series about the interplay

between agency, circumstance, and intervention. Americans love the

bootstrap story. We lionize Gumption. We also spill a lot of words about how the

neighborhood you're born into makes it easier or harder to live a fulfilling life.

We design elaborate social policies to make playing fields

more level. Some will tell you when it comes to intervention, the very best person

to intervene is you. Can you get more deep sleep? Drink less, eat more

whole foods, walk around the block a couple times a day. Can you make relationships

deeper and more connected? Can you put down your phone?

Ariana Huffington is a kid from Greece who watched Laughin to learn English,

a Cambridge grad who taught herself public speaking by joining debate. a has one big idea for how to make it in America, behavior change through microsteps.

Here is my conversation originally recorded for my PBS show, Tell Me More,

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