HUFFINGTON
06.02.13
THE THIRD
METRIC
me. In fact, “I think every woman
should sleep her way to the top.”
She actually means sleep. And with
that, she started to worry about me,
offering advice and opportunity.
Arianna is a modern-day, hot,
fairy Godmother. She shares her
success with other women, expecting nothing in return but the joy
of being able to do so. Together as
friends, we have addressed sleep
deprivation, overmedicating, food
issues, marriage, relationships, parenting, exhaustion, and every other
challenge that successful, but overstressed working women face every day. We came up with the idea
for the conference at a hastily put
together breakfast in Washington,
D.C., during the inauguration, after
weeks of having to reschedule in
our home base of New York City.
We were having a tough, deeply
personal conversation about life,
relationships and our many work
projects. Arianna confronted me
about my ability to take care of myself while balancing so many different challenges and opportunities.
I had few answers, if any. Mostly, I
stuttered and hemmed and hawed
— a sign that trouble was on the
horizon for me if I didn’t learn fast.
So what did we do? We made a
plan — a plan based on our friendship and hope to help others — to
solve this terrible riddle together.
Out of that conversation at breakfast, “Redefining Success, the Third
Metric” was born. The goal: to share
success with others, but to also share
secrets of success, especially secrets
behind achieving the Third Metric.
We have addressed
sleep deprivation,
overmedicating, food issues,
marriage, relationships,
parenting, exhaustion, and every
other challenge that successful,
but overstressed working
women face every day.”
I will be moderating panels all day
next Thursday and can’t
wait to see what we all learn.
Mika Brzezinski is co-host of MSNBC’s
Morning Joe, a columnist for Cosmopolitan and a three-time best-selling author,
most recently of Obsessed: America’s
Food Addiction — and My Own.