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Before Breakfast

Instead of what's new

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Education

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What to ask to make sure you learn useful information

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.1

Hey, I'm Jay Shetty, and I'm the host of the on-purpose podcast.

0:08.1

Recently, I had a conversation with the one and only, Madonna.

0:12.2

When I was broke and I had no friends, nowhere to live, I was held up at gunpoint.

0:17.4

I was robbed.

0:18.3

Always horrendous things happened to me.

0:20.1

I had such an unhappy childhood that whatever happened to me. I had such an unhappy childhood

0:21.8

that whatever happened to me in New York is better than what my life was, so I'm not going back.

0:27.8

Listen to On Purpose with Jay Shetty on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

0:33.6

podcast. Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:42.9

Good morning.

0:44.8

This is Laura.

0:46.8

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

0:50.2

Today's tip is to ask people what is coming up that you should know about.

0:55.7

Rather than the nebulous, what's new, this question tends to lead to information that really

1:02.0

will be useful to you.

1:05.5

Today's tip comes from freelance writer Diana Kelly Levy.

1:09.4

In a LinkedIn post, she recommended asking,

1:12.5

What are you working on next that I should know about? Levy says she asked this question as a magazine

1:19.0

editor and asks it now as a freelance writer. Asking this question means she gets to hear about topics

1:25.9

that might make good articles in the future.

1:28.3

For instance, if an editor has a major feature package coming up, she could figure out what might fit with that.

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