Tune into the new podcast, Stories from the Village of Nothing Much, like Easy Listening, but for fiction.

If you've overdosed on bad news, we invite you into a world where the glimmers of goodness in everyday life are all around you.

I'm Catherine Nikolai and I'm an architect of Cozy.

Come spend some time where everyone is welcome and the default is kindness.

Listen, relax, enjoy.

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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

Today's tip is that you have time to be human.

There is no real point in pretending you are a machine.

If taking a few minutes for something would make you feel a lot better, take them.

So I know we are all busy these days and I talk with many people who feel like they go go go from

dawn until night. Some of this might be circumstance and some might be

self-imposed.

But if you are feeling particularly frenzied,

it might help to remind yourself

that most small things that make us feel human don't actually take that much time.

For instance, if you want to eat breakfast, you probably have time to eat breakfast. The food industry has

spent a lot of time and effort convincing us that we have to eat bars or shakes

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