Make big projects doable, with Jin Zheng Shi

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Buddhist nun Jin Zheng Shi talks about goals and monastery life

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:07.0	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:13.0	Good morning. This is Laura.
0:16.0	Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
0:19.1	Today's episode is going to be a longer one, part of the series where I interview fascinating
0:23.9	people about how they take their days from great to awesome and any advice they have for the
0:28.9	rest of us.
0:29.9	So today, I'm delighted to welcome Jean Juncture to the show.
0:33.7	She is an ordained Buddhist nun who is also a graduate student.
0:38.0	So, Jean Tungshur, welcome to the show.
0:40.4	Thank you, Laura.
0:42.0	I'm excited to be here.
0:43.3	I'm so excited to have you here.
0:44.7	Yeah.
0:45.3	Well, why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself?
0:48.1	Okay.
0:49.2	I am a big shuny.
0:51.3	I'm ordained in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition.
0:58.1	And currently, I'm going into my second year of graduate school.
1:05.7	Very exciting. Yeah. And you had a different life before entering a monastery, correct?
1:11.5	Yes. For over a decade, I sold tea, wholesale teas. And, yeah, sales and marketing and PR stuff.
1:15.1	Sales and marketing.
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