Well-Being

Listen to Arianna Huffington, Billy Shore, and Claudia Flemings’ Conversation About the Effect of Stress on Creativity

They sat down to discuss burnout in the restaurant industry, the importance of rest, and how small habits can profoundly improve our well-being.
Arianna Huffington
Billy Shore

Arianna Huffington and Billy Shore

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On his podcast, Add Passion and Stir, Billy Shore sits down with Arianna Huffington and pastry chef and North Fork Table & Inn owner Claudia Fleming to talk about the effects of stress and exhaustion on creativity, productivity and health.

“90% of the health care problems we deal with are stress-related and preventable,” says Huffington. “If your life is just about productivity and there is no joy, there is something wrong.”

Listen to their entire conversation below:

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Author(s)

  • Arianna Huffington

    Founder & CEO of Thrive

    Arianna Huffington is the founder and CEO of Thrive, the founder of The Huffington Post, and the author of 15 books, including Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In 2016, she launched Thrive, a leading behavior change tech company with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success. She has been named to Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. She serves on numerous boards, including Onex and The B Team. Her last two books, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder and The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night At A Time, both became instant international bestsellers. Most recently, she wrote the foreword to Thrive's first book, Your Time to Thrive: End Burnout, Increase Well-being, and Unlock Your Full Potential with the New Science of Microsteps.

  • Billy Shore

    Founder and CEO of Share Our Strength, author of The Cathedral Within and The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men.

    Billy Shore is the Founder and CEO of Share Our Strength, and the author of The Cathedral Within and The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men. He also hosts Add Passion and Stir, a weekly podcast that brings together high-profile chefs and change-makers to talk about the central role food plays in social justice.