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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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Speaker 2: This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 2: episode is going to be a longer one part of

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Speaker 2: the series where I interview fascinating people about how they

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Speaker 2: take their days from great to awesome and any advice

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Speaker 2: they might have for.

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Speaker 1: The rest of us.

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Speaker 2: So today's episode is going to be something a little new.

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Speaker 2: I'm delighted to bring you my guest whose name is Haley.

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Speaker 2: She is a long time Before Breakfast listener who lives

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Speaker 2: in Texas works for a tech company. She was listening

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Speaker 2: to the new interview format and asked if I had

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Speaker 2: considered doing any listener time makeovers as part of an episode,

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Speaker 2: and I said, well, I'd love to. Was Hailey interested

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Speaker 2: in volunteering? She was, so here she is Hailey, Welcome

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Speaker 2: to the show.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, Thanks Laura, it's great to be here.

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Speaker 2: So, Haley, could you just quickly introduce yourself to our listeners.

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Speaker 1: Anything you'd like to share about yourself?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. So I'm Haley. I work full time as

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Speaker 3: a program manager and a tech company. I'm based in

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Speaker 3: Austin and I have a husband, no pets, and no kids.

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Speaker 1: Excellent. And how long have you been listening to Before Breakfast?

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Speaker 3: Gosh, I think since the beginning. I've been such a

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Speaker 3: big fan. The small episodes are great little tidbits for

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Speaker 3: getting ready or whatnot, and the longer episodes have been

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Speaker 3: great to listen to as well.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'm excited to hear that. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: tried any of the tips that you've gotten from Before Breakfast?

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Speaker 3: Definitely? Yeah, quite a few. Definitely one is bashing the

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Speaker 3: little things. I do that all the time in my

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Speaker 3: work life in personal life. And then also the one

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Speaker 3: you did on making kits to be prepared. I have

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Speaker 3: that in the car pool bag, all that stuff that's good.

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Speaker 2: I can't say that I have necessarily made as many

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Speaker 2: kids as I probably should have, but you know, one

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Speaker 2: of these days I will maybe take my own advice. So, Hayley,

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Speaker 2: when we conversed the first time a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: I told you that when I have people do time makeovers,

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Speaker 2: I always have them keep track of their time for

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Speaker 2: a week. Longtime listeners know that I definitely suggest people

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Speaker 2: track their time just to see where the time really goes.

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Speaker 2: So can you talk a little bit about the experience

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Speaker 2: of tracking your time and what you did as you

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Speaker 2: were keeping track of your time and how it worked

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Speaker 2: and whether you know what your experience.

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Speaker 3: Was with that. Yeah, it was a great experience. So

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Speaker 3: just kind of for ease, I ended up printing out

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Speaker 3: a great experience. It definitely held me accountable to what

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Speaker 3: where I was spending my time before we even talked.

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Speaker 2: About it, Yeah, was it challenging to remember to keep

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Speaker 2: track of your time. I'm wonder if you had any

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Speaker 1: How much time were you spending I'm curious.

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Speaker 2: Interesting and was it more challenging to keep track of

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Speaker 2: So as you were tracking your time, I mean, what

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think definitely in the mornings kind of how

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Speaker 2: Can you talk a little bit about your morning routine?

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Speaker 2: I mean, what generally are you doing in your mornings?

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Speaker 3: lot of content out there about morning routines, five am,

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Speaker 3: learning to me that I don't necessarily need to be

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Speaker 2: So when Haley and I first talked, I mean, she

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Speaker 3: Definitely? Yeah. I think it takes the pressure off of

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Speaker 2: Well and still two hours between when you get up

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Speaker 2: routine already there. Yeah, well we're going to take one

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Speaker 2: Haley did decide to change in her schedule.

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Speaker 1: Well, I am back.

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Speaker 2: I am interviewing Before Breakfast listener Hailey, who lives in Texas,

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Speaker 2: our longer episodes of Before Breakfast, Haley agreed to do

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Speaker 2: So the weekend that you tracked, you had a pretty

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Speaker 1: I wonder if you could talk a little bit about that.

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Speaker 3: Definitely, I think a lot of that ties into I

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Speaker 3: something I learned from you, Laura is really focusing in

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Speaker 3: on that double plan right, So yeah, why.

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Speaker 2: Don't you talk about what the double planning means? There

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Speaker 3: So definitely if you haven't done it before, it's certainly magical.

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Speaker 3: So what you do is, you know, planning on friday's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the double plan is because you know, if

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Speaker 2: So I always think of this as having a sort

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Speaker 2: for the one that's right coming up exactly. Yeah, So

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Speaker 2: when did you try doing that over the past few weeks.

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Speaker 3: Yes, definitely, it's now fully into my routine. I don't

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I've started having different flavored sparkling waters in my

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Speaker 2: If you have feedback for me on this episode or

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Speaker 2: Set up a time to talk. And in the meantime,

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Speaker 2: this is Laura. Thanks for listening and here's to making

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Speaker 2: the most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.

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Speaker 2: If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach

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Speaker 2: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. Before Breakfast

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