She sold The Huffington Post to AOL for $315m but stayed on as CEO. Now, Arianna Huffington is on a mission to make sure everyone starts sleeping better, believing “sleep is the ultimate performance enhancer.” Annie Ridout interviews her…
Author: Annie Ridout
Work Life
Living in a spacious, white-washed converted factory in Norwich, Fiona and Bobby Burrage let life inspire work and vice versa. We spoke to Fiona about her lifestyle brand Nor-Folk, mornings and the perfect weekend…
Wellbeing
Nearly 40,000 people took part in last year’s London Marathon, suggesting competitive running is having a moment. But why do people do it? Annie Ridout asks a Guardian journalist, a restauranteur, Emerald Street’s deputy editor, a general manager and a TV producer…
Mornings
Morning is the start of a new day but can also allude to the beginning of life. In Sylvia Plath’s emotive poem Morning Song, she describes the arrival of her baby and those tender early days as a new mother…
Family
Two dads on paternity leave, taking advantage of the new shared parental leave law, are hounded by an over-excited Annie Ridout who asks whether they like it, if it’s helped them bond with the babies and what other men think…
Mornings
You know how we love early mornings and spend most of our time talking about them? Well, our research led us to a great TED talk by poet and storyteller Rives, all about the mysterious and fascinating 4am…
Work Life
PATTERNITY, originally set up by artists Anna Murray and Grace Winteringham as a pattern archive, is now a globally influential style brand. We talk branding, partnerships and seeing beauty in the mundane…
Work Life
She helped to turn Liz Earle beauty into a multi-million pound empire and is now a mentor alongside running her own consultancy business. This morning, Tracy Hastain discusses the importance of branding…
Family
In celebration of Mother’s Day and the mother/daughter relationship, the editor Annie Ridout has written a list of all the things she does/says/feels that make her realise she’s very quickly turning into her own mother…
Family
No Mother’s Day card from the kids? We’re here to help with an almost free, very quick, creative and fun card-making activity. It will take less than five minutes but you’ll be in the good books for much longer…