--- title: Martha Stewart's Mornings Are Way More Ambitious Than Yours description: The lifestyle boss shares her daily routine, including all the things she gets done before even leaving the house. canonical: https://time.com/4911278/martha-stewart-morning/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-22T19:34:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:42.195Z og:title: Martha Stewart's Mornings Are Way More Ambitious Than Yours og:description: The yolks of my eggs taste better than any you've ever had." og:url: https://time.com/4911278/martha-stewart-morning/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f2e578b0d289daf/6988dab47cdbac8f15d59b1e/martha-stewart.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: 2017 MTV Movie And TV Awards - Press Room og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Martha Stewart's Mornings Are Way More Ambitious Than Yours twitter:description: The yolks of my eggs taste better than any you've ever had." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f2e578b0d289daf/6988dab47cdbac8f15d59b1e/martha-stewart.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Of Course Martha Stewart's Morning Routine Is Way More Ambitious Than Yours > Sponsored content. 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C Flanigan—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 22, 2017 7:34 PM UTC [Media mogul](http://time.com/4841466/seth-meyers-martha-stewart/) and [homemaking hero](http://time.com/4665829/martha-stewart-snow-plow/) Martha Stewart knows a thing or two about running of a business empire while pursuing life’s simple pleasures. In a new run-down of her daily habits [with _The Cut_](https://www.thecut.com/2017/08/martha-stewart-interview-how-i-get-it-done.html), Stewart described her days, which includes waking at sunrise to greet her three cats, five dogs and thirty canaries. “I generally read the New York _Times_ right away. I have my iPad right next to my bed and I do the mini-crossword puzzle — if I haven’t done it before I go to bed, because the new one is posted around midnight. It’s sort of a habit I have,” she explained of her early-morning routine. After letting out her cats and turning a special light on for her many canaries (“They’re very healthy canaries”), Stewart will hit the gym with her two French bulldogs. This all happens before breakfast, which includes a small cappuccino (“with whole milk”), a homemade green juice and some food: she’s into soft-boiled eggs, wheat germ or spelt. Finally, Stewart heads out on her hour-or-more commute to Manhattan, during which she’ll read not one but three newspapers (the _Times_, the _Wall Street Journal_, and the New York _Post_) and take calls. The secret to it all, though, might just be those fresh eggs. “Most people who have chickens will tell you their chickens stop laying in the wintertime. And mine never stop laying… I really think it’s attributed to the fresh food that they get, all year round,” she mused. “I mean, the yolks of my eggs taste better than any you’ve ever had.” Sounds like a good way to kick off a day. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4911278/martha-stewart-morning/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4911278/martha-stewart-morning/"},"headline":"Of Course Martha Stewart's Morning Routine Is Way More Ambitious Than Yours","datePublished":"2017-08-22T19:34:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:42.195Z","description":"The lifestyle boss shares her daily routine, including all the things she gets done before even leaving the house.","url":"https://time.com/4911278/martha-stewart-morning/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","celebrities","martha stewart"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f2e578b0d289daf/6988dab47cdbac8f15d59b1e/martha-stewart.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f2e578b0d289daf/6988dab47cdbac8f15d59b1e/martha-stewart.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2017 MTV Movie And TV Awards - Press Room","caption":"2017 MTV Movie And TV Awards - Press Room","creditText":"C Flanigan—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4911278/martha-stewart-morning/","name":"Of Course Martha Stewart's Morning Routine Is Way More Ambitious Than Yours"}}]}] ```