Saturday, January 30, 2010

Arianna Huffington - The Huffington Post

Friday night I caught a great interview of Arianna Huffington by Elizabeth Brackett on The Friday Night Show, at WTTW, on Channel 11 in our neck of the woods.

As I listened, I admired her positive attitude, which she attributes to her mother who told her not to be afraid of failure. As a young girl from a poor family in Greece, Arianna dreamed of going to Cambridge and got there by means of a scholarship.

I was not only drawn to Arianna's engaging manner, but also to the fact that she authored 12 books, and was once a candidate for Governor of California. Her latest venture is The Huffington Post, The Internet Newspaper:News Blogs Video Community, which boasts an astronomical number of followers, something like 22 million visitors a month. She's a great believer in the power of the Internet, not only as entertainment, but also for information.

I'm not sure how long it'll be up at the WTTW site, but here's a link to her interview:
http://www.wttw.com/  It's highly motivating and worth a listen. If you check it out, let me know how you like it.

Morgan Mandel

4 comments:

  1. New tours are going out in the morning and the clock is ticking but I sure do want to listen to this. I am such an admirer of her work and love hearing how people overcome obstacles and become something great and fantastic...thanks for sharing, Morgan!

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  2. I've been to her site before and found some good info there. That's an amazing number of hits. Wow.

    Helen
    Straight From Hel

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  3. I have always enjoyed her work and have the greatest respect for how she has built a career. Thanks for the link to the interview.

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