Second Cup: Take a better break today
Before Breakfast
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🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Enjoy work more with intentional, rejuvenating breaks
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. |
| 0:08.5 | Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? |
| 0:15.1 | Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. |
| 0:18.5 | From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. |
| 0:23.9 | What difference at this point does it make? |
| 0:27.4 | Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, in the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:41.1 | Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:43.9 | Good morning. |
| 0:45.6 | This is Laura. |
| 0:48.8 | Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. |
| 0:53.9 | Today's tip is to take a better break today. |
| 0:59.7 | Everyone takes breaks during the workday, whether they think they do or not. |
| 1:09.2 | So if you are going to take a break at some point today, why not make it as rejuvenating and wonderful as possible? |
| 1:14.5 | In some lines of work, breaks are formally built in. |
| 1:18.1 | When I worked in a fast food restaurant many years ago, |
| 1:21.8 | an eight-hour shift was scheduled over nine hours because the working hours came with two 15-minute breaks |
| 1:25.5 | and one 30-minute break. My coworkers and I all took our 15-minute breaks and one 30-minute break. My co-workers and I all took our 15-minute |
| 1:31.3 | breaks at set staggered times to make sure enough people were manning the kitchen and the |
| 1:37.3 | registers. I imagine many people listening to this podcast work in slightly different ways. |
| 1:44.6 | Breaks aren't so formally structured in your line of work. |
| 1:48.4 | You work for a while, and then you do something different, |
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