[0:00]Up with her focuses on women who are in business, who are leaders, up and coming entrepreneurs, we call them thrivers and strivers. So I'll start with Thrivers, which are usually 20s, 30s, 40s trying to get to where they want to be. Any advice when it comes to leadership for these women who are up and coming entrepreneurs? Well, um, you have to be focused. I think focus is extremely important. I think you have to be strong. I think you have to, uh, know what you're going for. Uh, that's very important to make up your mind what, what are you really trying to do with this time that you have. And, um, and yeah, I could say a million trait things. But it is uh really up to the person to, um, sort of develop a path of action. And uh that's what you have to do. Uh, a master plan doesn't always work. You have to be able to uh compromise, you have to be able to change. Uh you can't be afraid of that. Um and uh and you go from there. And I guess that would almost applied to the thrivers, the people who've sort of hit their stride, because you've adapted quite a bit over the years, and you've added new things to your brand and to your business. So would you say change is something that you were always comfortable with? Change is always good. Um, change is good, uh adaptation is good, evolution is good. All those words are very important in the development of a career, of a business. Um and I try very hard to, I mean, I have, I have my little, my little sayings for myself. Uh when you're through changing, you're through. That's a very important thing to think about. Also, learn something new every day. Very important in business, because if you're static and you just go the same way every single day and you're not learning, you can't teach, you can't, um, you can't influence. You have to be able to do all those things. What is something that you've maybe learned recently? Well, just today. Today I learned about a little a little restaurant in Dallas called Rise where they make soufflés of all different kinds. And they make a soup called marshmallow soup. So odd, but I mean, that's just something. I've been there to I've been there and it's amazing. Yeah, because the soufflé is very complicated, so they do it every day. Right. Okay. So let me ask you, one thing, and I'm going to mention this when we go on stage, but one thing that people viewers would not know about you just by googling you. One thing. Um, well they wouldn't know that I do Pilates now three times a week on the reformers and uh it's 6:15 a.m. Now which has been amazingly helpful. I was gonna ask you how you distress. I guess that's probably one of those ways. Well, this one way. And so a Pilates, I've heard that it's a game changer for everyone. I read that you don't have to sleep a lot. Is that true? How much? I'm I'm kind of an insomniac. I always have been. Okay. You know, my mother would have to come in and take the light bulbs out of my lamps because I would be up reading all night. But um, but I that's the way I am. And so you can get up at 6:15, not a problem? No. When does your alarm go off? Oh, I don't even need an alarm. I I wake up. So it's like, I I set it sometimes if I have to catch a plane and I can't possibly make a mistake. I might set an alarm, but I don't need alarms. I don't have no curtains on any windows by the way. Really? And so daylight, I wake up with daylight all the time. And um and that's in every house. I've never had curtains. For that reason or you're not a curtain fan? Both. I like, I like light. I know, I I agree with you. Okay, so let's talk about where you put your attention. You have so many things that you're working on. We're going to discuss more of those when we get on stage later. How do you focus your attention? Is it a daily thing, a weekly thing, um you know, so that you are present? Well, I have three executive assistants who kind of focus on my calendar and on my appointments and on my scheduling. And um and I look at my schedule. I I have a week at a glance that comes every day that goes from, you know, Monday through Friday, actually Monday through Sunday. Um, so, um, so I I look at that calendar. It's a hideous mess. If you saw it, you'd be horrified. Like it's so full. And uh and I try to and I talk about it, you know, day before I talk about the following day. And um and I know what I have to do. Uh and I know where it is, basically. I know where I have to be. But uh it's a it's a complicated life and it's good. You like that though. Oh yeah. I'm empty calendar, I, I would just what would I do if I had an empty calendar? You've never had an empty calendar. No. What about on vacation? It's never empty. You should see friends are now fleeing from my vacations. They don't want to go with me anymore. Because they have to get up and do. Yeah, they have to get up and really do stuff. You know, who wants to go? Kids, grandchildren. They like to go because they have, they know their day will be full. Let's talk about the grandkids. Okay. Um, you know, uh, favorite. I know. Well, they teach me every every day. I mean, the the grandson just the other day said, why did you name your dog Empress chin? And I said, well, you're, you know, Chinese history, he studies Chinese. He's a 11 years old. He speaks Mandarin. And he said, well, you know, Empress Chin didn't exist. He said, the chin dynasty only had emperor. That was in 700 BC. And I said, well, I didn't know that actually. And uh I didn't named the other dog, you know, Empress the cat, Empress Tang. And there was an Empress Tang. He said, yeah, but that was 780. This is this kid, this is a 11-year-old telling me, you know, that's what I learned. I learned to be accurate. I learned to be, um, not to pull around. My my facts better be my facts better be right. You can't lie to them, right? Not why. You can't make mistakes. They're they're too smart. Do they listen to because I said so? Is that still work or no? No. No.
[7:20]And so you said you, okay, so they know to vacation with you, their day is full. So what do you guys like to do together? Oh we traveled to all over the world. And my joy is to travel with the grandchildren. And I've taken them to seven continents, we've been to as far away as Tasmania and Madagascar. We've been to Africa, we've been to China, we've been to South Pole. And we've been a lot of places. Favorite favorite spot, spot that stands out? It's so far. Well, I really liked Madagascar. Okay. I think I think they like Botswana. Oh, what was it about Botswana? Oh, the elephants. Oh, of course. Of course. Always want to go back. And when does that have happen typically in the summer? Do you do a summer trip? No, we have a big trip at Christmas time because then they have a long a long break from school. And in the summertime they are they go to Maine with me up to my house in Maine and uh we have lots of activities. It's a lot, it's very nice to be with those those kids. Their eyes are open. Their brains are, you know, very, very agile. I love it. I yeah, I know. I'm I'm telling you I've watched my parents just they want to be with them all the time. Of course. Let them be. I do. Absolutely. Uh, so, okay, speaking of travel, does that inspire any of the different projects you have going on right now? Is that infiltrate any of your ideas or? Oh no, often times traveling will uh introduce me to something new, something different. Uh maybe a new craft, maybe a new product, maybe a new manufacturing facility. Uh we're doing a lot of uh manufacturing in India now since the pandemic, you know, China has become kind of problematical for making many of our products. Many are now being made in India, which is a very active and the most populous nation on earth. Did you just read that? Wow, no. Yeah. And it just superseded uh China as the most populous nation. So they have they and they're so so aggressively interested in business. So that's good. Oh, okay. So at this point then when you're looking at all of these different projects you have going on, what is something that you go, okay, this is a winner. This is not a winner. You obviously have developed an eye for that. How how do you know? I don't want to work on projects or on products that I do not believe in. So if there is a dog food that is not a good dog food, I'm not going to put my name on it or actually, you know, do do work for them. I don't want to do that. I want my products with my name associated to be good products. So, um, that's that's how I operate. And I know you're working on there was um a wing or an area in a hospital you've been working on as well. I I developed a hospital at Mount Sinai uh 12 years ago. It's called the Martha Stewart Center for Living. It's a geriatric outpatient ward. We have two hospitals now, one uh in Union Square in New York City and one uptown at the main hospital at Mount Sinai. And it is a hospital devoted to caring for uh anybody uh over the age of 65. And it's very successful. People are learning so much about themselves. Uh we consolidate their records, we uh we guide them on their medications, we do exams, we help them with operations. everything. It's a it's a fabulous hospital. There's there's a um a gap often times, I feel like, in people don't have that advocating for themselves when it comes to when you get older. I only say that because I have my parents who I feel like are very good advocating for themselves and still they face challenges. Yeah, oh no. It's uh they the population is aging drastically. Uh in 2030, there's more people over the age of 65 than under 65 in the United States. Who is going to care for those people? Uh doctors uh for a long, long time wouldn't touch geriatric medicine. They really found it to be, you know, boring and problematical and people are old whiny people. You know, over 60, 65 is not so old anymore. No. And by the way, um, so so that that is it's very it's very important now that the population is really vering toward the aged. Uh doctors all of a sudden have discovered geriatric medicine. And they are paying a lot more attention to it. But look what's happening to aging. It's becoming non-aging or successful aging. And I'm talking about living, not dying. I'm talking about getting old gracefully and not getting old, just just living gracefully. So it's there's a lot of terminology change and a lot of stuff going on in the world of uh of a successful living. That's right. Okay. I have to ask you one more before they're going to kick me out of here. Um very hot in here. Snoop Snoop Dogg. Everyone likes to ask you about Snoop Dogg. What is it about your relationship that people are so attracted to? He's a good friend. He's a good friend. We work really well together. Uh you can go to Time Square this week and see a giant billboard with Snoop, Martha and the the very fabulous um Willie Nelson uh talking about big lighters. Okay. 100 ft high. Okay.
[13:57]Just look at that. Well, thanks for chatting with me. Thank you.
