How I Built This, the flagship of his podcasting empire, is where Raz routinely interviews entrepreneurs, founders and innovators about their journey, including Instagram’s Kevin Systrom, Airbnb’s Joe Gebbia, Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson, and plenty more. I’M GUY RAZ, NPR HOST, AND THIS IS HOW I PARENT | LIFEHACKER Make sure boys triple check their backpacks before they go to bed and make sure they place their backpacks - PACKED - by the front door at night. Make as much of next day’s breakfast and school lunch as possible. Grind coffee and put it in the coffee maker. The best trick (and this is hard!) is to get as much ready the night before. By 7:45, we’re in the car and on the way to school. They are slow eaters so our breakfast routine takes at least 30 minutes. My wife hops on a 6:25am bus to downtown. At 6:30, I start making breakfast for the boys and pack their school lunches. I drink a tall glass of water and then check email and get some work done. In a parenting profile for Lifehacker, Raz takes readers through a typical morning routine, which largely revolves around his family: Reading through the interviews done to date, you can get the impression that much of the appeal of running a podcasting empire to Raz is that it allows the flexibility and time to spend with his family - he’s married to Hannah, a lawyer, and the couple have two sons. It’s unlikely the work you do is ever more important than the small moments you have with your family.” In a 2015 interview with Routine Behaviours, Raz admitted that, despite loving his job, “if it meant I had to stay until very late every night for NPR to employ me, I just wouldn’t do it.” He also told Lifehacker, “It’s just a job - unless you are Barack Obama or Nelson Mandela or Gandhi. Learn about the daily routines from the most successful people in the world by signing up to our newsletter On Daily Routines, we profile successful leaders, entrepreneurs, artists, executives and athletes to explore their routines, schedules, habits and day in the life.Īs someone who has been described by The New York Times as one of the most popular voices in podcasting history, Guy Raz - creator of the widely downloaded NPR podcasts, TED Radio Hour, How I Built This and Wow in the World - can have quite a blasé attitude to his work.

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