Martha Stewart revealed a whole lotta ’bout herself for The Cut‘s “How I Get It Done.” It’s a great read — a literal day-in-the-life of one of America’s busiest businesswomen.
In the article, Stewart lays out her daily routine. Here are some highlights.
It starts with waking up with the sunrise, followed by reading the NY Times, taking a shower, and letting her three cats outside.
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In addition to her three cats, she has five dogs and…30 red-factor canaries. In her dining room. Which she wakes up in the morning:
…I uncover them and turn their light on. I have a really beautiful light for them, it’s really a human light, but it’s very good for the canaries.
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After going to the gym, she meets with her gardener.
I go and just review what has to be done that day in the garden, and then I rush back to the house, have my green juice, and a single shot of whole-milk cappuccino, then I get in the car and we drive to New York!
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Explaining her breakfast, Stewart adds:
I’ll have my half-shot of cappuccino, a small one, with whole milk. If I don’t have it then, I can have it on my way to New York, or when I get to New York; I’m not an addict. That’s my usual cappuccino for the day. I like to have either a soft-boiled egg, a four-minute egg, from my chickens, or I have a bowl of wheat germ or a bowl of spelt. I just discovered spelt or puffed rice or puffed wheat. I love puffed cereal, because a whole cup of it is like ten calories.
After breakfast, she hops in her car service and heads to New York City, which is a 47 mile commute from her home in Bedford, Connecticut:
I have my New York Times, my Wall Street Journal, and my New York Post — in paper form. I also have it on my iPad, but I like to look at the pictures and stuff on my ride in the car, and then I do the sudoku, and I do the KenKen, and I talk on the phone, and I do all of that stuff on my way into the city.
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Once she arrives to her office, she stops by her namesake café:
I stop by the Martha Café, in the lobby of my building. It’s my café, and I check in with them — if I haven’t had a coffee at home, I’ll have my same half-shot of espresso with my crema, and that’s what I’ll have, or I’ll have a very delicious yogurt; we have the very best yogurt in the café. I look at all the pastries and I try never to get them.
Stewart says she tastes all the wine for her Martha Stewart Wine Co., but not during the day:
…I’m not good at drinking alcoholic beverages during the day, so that has to be at the end of the day. [Laughs.] Yesterday, I tasted 12 wines. It’s a tasting sitting, but it’s still imbibing. I never drink it before dinner, ever, I couldn’t function for a second if I had to drink it at lunchtime or something like that.
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While many probably think that Stewart is a workhorse and continues the grind when she gets home, they’re wrong. She says she ends her work day by getting social:
That’s the time to go out and meet friends, meet with businesspeople, visit a new restaurant, you know, that kind of stuff. I love doing all that.
For the rest of the interview, including what Stewart eats for lunch and how she gets dressed in the mornings, check out The Cut.
