Arianna Huffington: ‘The Female Woman’, The Influence Of All Women

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Arianna Huffington: ‘The Female Woman’, The Influence Of All Women
08 Dec 2021
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Arianna Huffington is a Greek American businesswoman, syndicated columnist, and author who goes by the name Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. She is best known as the face of The Huffington Post, which she co-founded and is now one of the country's most popular websites. Here read the article below to get inspiration from her successful life journey. #ThinkwithNiche.

“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall.” ― Arianna Huffington

Arianna Huffington, also known as Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, is a Greek American entrepreneur, syndicated columnist, and novelist. She is best recognized as the face of The Huffington Post, which she co-founded and is one of the most popular websites in the country. Also, the Huffington Post Media Group's President and Editor-in-Chief. It is currently owned by AOL.

She rose to prominence as a conservative pundit in the mid-1990s. The Huffington Post Media Group named her president and editor-in-chief. It included AOL Music, Patch Media, The Huffington Post, Engadget, and Stylist, all of which had just been bought.

Early Life

Arianna Huffington was born on July 15, 1950, in Athens, Greece, as Ariadne-Anna Stasinopoulos. At the age of 16, she traveled to the United Kingdom to study Economics at Girton College in Cambridge. She was the Cambridge Union's first foreigner and third female President.

Arianna's parents were instrumental in motivating her and pushing her along the path to success. Elli and Konstantinos Stasinopoulos, who divorced when she was 11 years old, established a strong example for her. Her dreamy father introduced her to the thrills of journalism. She once stated that her mother instilled in her the belief that failure was not to be feared, and that it was not the opposite of achievement. It served as a springboard to greater achievement.

After a coup in Greece in 1967, troops imposed a curfew on every street corner. Huffington had to choose between attending her economics lesson, which was crucial to her aim of entering Cambridge, and obeying the curfew. She walked to class despite the curfew. Her mother played a significant role in that decision.

Journey From Failure To Success

There is a famous quote of Arianna Huffington - “Failure isn’t opposite; it’s part of Success”.

Arianna Huffington's life story exemplifies this. Her life has a lot of ups and downs of its own. She began her career as a writer when she was 23 years old, in 1973. 'The Female Woman,' a book she wrote, was published. She has opposed the movement for women's liberation in her writings. This book has been translated into eleven other languages.

Arianna Huffington has published several articles and biographies, including 'Maria Callas – The Woman Behind the Legend' and 'Picasso: Creator and Destroyer,' as well as books such as 'The Sleep Revolution,' 'Fearlessness,' and others.

Despite the popularity of her first book, her second novel received 36 rejections. Rather than sit back and be unhappy, Arianna opted to acquire confidence and insight with each setback, allowing her to take on even larger challenges. The rejections just increased her resolve to pursue her goals in the future. Arianna and her business partner Ken Lerer founded The Huffington Post two years later. Today, as HuffPost continues to dominate Internet media, it has attained long-term viability, with traffic five times higher than its new media competitors.

Huffington celebrates her latest book, Third World America, released by Crown Publishers, as HuffPost continues to dominate Internet media, having attained profitability and drawing traffic that is reputedly five times bigger than its new-media competitors. She criticizes politicians throughout the book for damaging the American Dream and the middle class.

Then there's her dreadful performance as an independent in the 2003 California gubernatorial election: despite withdrawing a week before the election, Huffington's name remained on the ballot, and she finished fifth with 0.55 percent of the vote.

Her illustrious career does not end with HuffPost. Arianna has also dabbled with acting. She appeared on Roseanne and How I Met Your Mother, among other series. Arianna Huffington rose to national attention while campaigning for her husband's Senate campaign in 1994, which led to several guest appearances on television as a political and social commentator, as well as excursions into acting and writing for television. She was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1994 for her work as one of the writers for Politically Incorrect.

Journey Of Huffington Post

Arianna joined Kenneth Lerer, Jonah Peretti, and Andrew Breitbart in co-founding the Huffington Post in 2005. Both unpaid bloggers and staff writers contributed to the site. It quickly climbed to fame, and after just one year, SoftBank, a Japanese multinational corporation, invested $5 million in the firm. The website grew in popularity, and local copies were launched in Chicago, New York, and Denver in 2008. HuffPost currently offers editions in the United Kingdom and Canada, as well as Spanish, German, Italian, and French.

The Huffington Post was purchased by AOL for $315 million in 2011. After The Huffington Post was acquired by AOL, Arianna continued as President and Editor-in-Chief until her resignation in 2016.

Even though the Huffington Post has been a huge success, not everything has gone according to plan. HuffPost Live was one of her major projects that ultimately failed. The initiative, which cost $12 million, aimed to break into real-time internet broadcasting by providing eight hours of live streaming programming every day. HuffPost Live, however, did not garner the attention it deserved, and it stopped generating new live content in March 2016.

'What's Working,' another Huffington Post endeavor, was universally seen as a failure. This project is intended to promote innovative ideas, solutions, and inspiring news. However, it was mostly perceived as a means of generating ad income and had little influence.

She has been working on her new business, Thrive Global, since 2016. Huffington left AOL and the Huffington Post Media Group to start her own company, Thrive Global. Thrive Global provides scientifically sound solutions.

Conclusion

So, to wrap up, Arianna Huffington rightly said, “If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.” She proves that if we set our minds on the right track and go on fighting even after many falls, we can conquer the world, we can successfully reach the top one day.

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