Name: What is your 5-9 after your 9-5?
Uploaded: 2025-05-23
Duration: 1 min 22 s
Description: Fortune asked top executives at Fortune MPW what their 5-9 routine is after their 9-5 jobs.

Fortune asked top executives at Fortune MPW what their 5-9 routine is after their 9-5 jobs.

What is your 5-9 after your 9-5?

Julie Brill, Corporate VP, Global Technology and Regulatory Policy, Microsoft

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I'll tell you what the 5 to 9 before my 9 to 5 is not. It is not getting up and doing meditation and yoga and going for a run and being really virtuous and doing journaling, OK? I tend to hit my day like a wrecking ball, honestly. I do spend to be either, you know, quietly thinking or meditating, but I am all about productivity to start the day so I can enjoy the later part of the day. The first thing that often greets me in the morning is customers. Mailing me about their feedback in our hotels, so I often start my day with our customers. I love to start off the day working out. I definitely pray. I definitely also meditate. I sit in the sauna. That's my method of meditation, and I get a workout in, largely sleeping and then waking up, getting breakfast, and sometimes I get on the peloton. Even if I have a bit of time, I like to play tennis. I like to go to the gym, make a cup of tea, light a candle, read a poem or some small passage. Do Duolingo pretty competitively, I might add. It's about fitness. It's about getting a game of tennis in. So I start by setting the intention for the day. I finished the day also with going over what happened and reflecting on the day. I usually am the first one to get up. I'm really picky about this time that's very precious to be just alone. In the kitchen sorting my thoughts and in the evening, I just really enjoy sit on the sofa, one of my dogs with me. That's a nice evening.