{"id":274547,"date":"2025-10-03T12:35:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/274547\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:35:27","slug":"forget-retirement-martha-stewart-wants-to-be-a-super-ager-she-wakes-up-at-4-a-m-packs-in-brain-games-and-pilates-before-staff-arrive-at-7-a-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/274547\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget retirement: Martha Stewart wants to be a \u2018super ager\u2019\u2014she wakes up at 4 a.m., packs in brain games and pilates, before staff arrive at 7 a.m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martha Stewart doesn\u2019t want to be your typical retiree<\/a>. The 84-year-old cooking mogul is up at 4 a.m., fitting in brain games, a homemade green juice and a pilates class, all before dawn.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have friends now, unfortunately\u2014and I feel very bad for them\u2014they have stopped changing,\u201d she told Lipstick on the Rim<\/a> podcast, adding that it\u2019s the peril of quitting your job and kicking up your feet when you reach a ripe age.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people I admire most are what they\u2019re calling now \u2018super agers\u2019 who are not retiring, who continue doing good things, who continue to evolve\u2026 that\u2019s what I\u2019m going after.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although for many, the benefit of not having a 9-to-5 is being able to wake up whenever, Stewart insists her pre-dawn wake-up is \u201cthe secret for everybody who wants to get a lot done in the day\u201d\u2014and in her world, it\u2019s not just her who\u2019s banned from sleeping in.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI live on a farm. Everybody comes to work at 7, right? So, you can\u2019t be in bed, you have to be up,\u201d the lifestyle guru said. \u201cYou have to be up and you have to show them that you\u2019re as lively as they are at 7:00 a.m.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Martha Stewart\u2019s energizing morning routine<\/p>\n

While many of her retired peers are leaning into leisurely retirements, Stewart treats her mornings as a launchpad to gain energy for a full workday, despite only getting four hours of sleep a night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI read the entire New York Times,\u201d she said. \u201cI do all the puzzles. I do letterbox and I do tiles, I do all of those silly games. It\u2019s good for your brain.\u201d<\/p>\n

After getting mental stimulation from a game of Connections,<\/a> she hits the gym or does pilates. Though the TV star has a gym at home, she likes to leave the house for her workout routine. Then she washes it all down with some green juice from ingredients from her garden. Her breakfast ranges from yogurt or eggs\u2014which\u00a0unsurprisingly, are both homemade.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same relentless work ethic that made Stewart the first self-made female billionaire <\/a>in America, from being a media mogul to commuting into Manhattan well into her 80s.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, I work in New York, so I drive into New York almost every day,\u201d she said on the podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stewart, or otherwise known as America\u2019s homemaker\u2014had a path that was far from linear. From starting as a Wall Street stockbroker to launching Martha Stewart Living on TV, by the 90s she took her company public and became the first self-made billionaire in the U.S.<\/p>\n

After serving jail time in the 2000s for lying about a stock trade<\/a>\u2013she expanded her brand into retail partnerships and teamed up with Snoop Dogg to win over younger people. She graced the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit at 81, and created a brand of CBD products.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI was lucky, and I was smart. I built a beautiful company, and I was rewarded. And that\u2019s the American way,\u201d Steart previously told Fortune<\/a> in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In that interview, she reflected on her past endeavors and advice for entrepreneurs booking to start a business, after all her success late into her 80s embodies its never too late to start.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have a good idea, and you have encouragement from your family and friends, try to build it into something amazing. Entrepreneurial behavior, to me, is the most exciting way to work. To build on a business, and build more and more, it\u2019s so much fun. Every day I wake up with a new idea. That\u2019s kept me really active,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy motto is, when you\u2019re through changing, you\u2019re through. I really believe that\u2014you have to keep aware of what\u2019s happening around you.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Fortune Global Forum<\/strong> returns Oct. 26\u201327, 2025 in Riyadh. CEOs and global leaders will gather for a dynamic, invitation-only event shaping the future of business. Apply for an invitation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martha Stewart doesn\u2019t want to be your typical retiree. The 84-year-old cooking mogul is up at 4 a.m.,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":274548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[244,2563,49245,17382,142129,12833,1198,210,421,1165,112618,6459,62297,403,6985,700,1079,25852,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-274547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-billionaires","9":"tag-career","10":"tag-career-success","11":"tag-cooking","12":"tag-day-in-the-life-of-a-ceo","13":"tag-farming","14":"tag-fitness","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-homes","17":"tag-lifestyle","18":"tag-martha-stewart","19":"tag-money","20":"tag-morning-routine","21":"tag-new-york-city","22":"tag-new-york-times","23":"tag-retirement","24":"tag-sleep","25":"tag-success","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115310265971139124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}