The Lazy Genius Podcast

By Kendra, The Lazy Genius

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Part systems expert, part permission giver, Kendra Adachi, The Lazy Genius, is here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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#333 - 7 Ways to Always Kno...

09.25.2023

Today, I’m going to share 7 ways to always know what to wear. You can pick one, or you can pick all seven. Either way, you’re going to leave with more calm and hopefully even more excitement about the daily ...

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09.25.2023 #333 - 7 Ways to Always Know What to Wear Today, I’m going to share 7 ways to always know what to wear. You can pick one, or you can pick all seven. Either way, you’re going to leave with more calm and hopefully even more excitement about the daily ...
09.18.2023 #332 - How to Enjoy Your Evening Hours I’m really excited about this topic because it is something every single person likely struggles with. The evening especially feels like time that we can use however we want. It’s not dictated by someone else, and that freedom often leaves ...
09.11.2023 #331 - What’s Saving My Life I don’t need to tell you that life is full and sometimes overwhelming and we need things that offer sparkle and light. Every quarter, I share my list and encourage you to make your own. Let’s get started. Helpful Companion ...
09.04.2023 #330 - How I Handle a Busy Season When you are transitioning from one season to another - like from summer to school or school to summer, from this job to that job, from being in a relationship to being single or being single to being in a ...
08.28.2023 #329 10 Things to Do When You Don’t Want to Cook It is likely a time of transition in your life. We are going into a new season, fall is coming, school has started, and all of this impacts our energy and schedules no matter what our lives look like and ...
08.21.2023 #328 - My 10 Most Memorable Books When we reflect on things from the past that have meant something to us, it’s good for us. It’s fun! And since books are fairly universal as a thing people love, I’m sharing my 10 most memorable books. They’re not ...
08.16.2023 Bonus: Packing School Lunches I did not anticipate recording this episode, but after this week’s Office Hours episode where I answered your questions, I realized that this particular question needed a mini episode all its own. It was the most frequently asked question in ...
08.14.2023 #327 - Lazy Genius Office Hours This is the second episode of this type where I take questions you asked on Instagram and answer them on the podcast. We’ve got a handful of great ones today! Helpful Companion LinksThis episode’s Office Hours Instagram postEpisode 323: How ...
08.07.2023 #326 - How to Magic Question Your Morning This is the time of year when we start hearing a lot of buzz about transitioning to fall. If transitioning to fall is all the buzz, a morning routine is for sure the buzzword. But morning routines don’t have to ...
07.31.2023 #325 - Dealing with Differences on How Something Is Done We all have situations where we disagree with someone on how something should be done, and we have to deal with that. We have to figure out how to move forward, navigate any relational issues emotionally, and still get the ...
07.24.2023 #324 - How to Make the Rest of the Summer Easier The middle of seasons can be tricky in that you’re in multiple places at once. So let’s talk about how to take that energy and massage it out a bit, making the rest of the summer easier. And we’re going ...
07.17.2023 #323 - How to Lazy Genius a Big Change One of the most common questions I get is how to Lazy Genius some kind of big change. A new city, job, kid, or relationship. Leaving a career, a friend group, or a religion. Losing a spouse, parent, or the ...
07.10.2023 #322 What to Do with Random Pockets of Time What do you do with those little pockets of time between appointments or meetings or pickups and dropoffs? Our time feels out of whack somehow, and there are these random pockets that don’t feel good for much of anything, and ...
07.03.2023 #321 - How to Neutralize the Sunday Scaries It’s very likely all have felt this to varying degrees in varying seasons of our lives. One Sunday can feel fine, and the next we feel like everything might catch on fire. So here’s what I’d like to offer. I ...
06.26.2023 #320 - How to Feel Good About Free Time Free time is time that is free of responsibilities, obligations, and being beholden to someone else’s needs, wants, or whims. If that’s the case, free time sounds absolutely lovely. But free time, for women especially, comes with a slew of ...
06.19.2023 #319 - 21 Books for Your Summer Reading It’s already the middle of June, but there are still a solid eight weeks left of summer reading, and if you’re still on library hold lists for new releases or had great intentions about summer reading and have watched it ...
06.15.2023 Bonus: Summer and the Chuck Norris Effect Today, I'm joined by my sister, Hannah, for our seasonal Lazy Sisters episode. You'll hear our list of how to improve your summer, aka how to bring Chuck Norris energy. It was an AI generated title that made us laugh, ...
06.12.2023 #318 - 10 Foods I’m Stocking This Summer Summer is here, and summer food is a bit different than food in other seasons. There are a lot of things that can impact the way we eat in the summer. Today, I want to get specific about the 10 ...
06.05.2023 #317 - 5 Steps to a Routine That Actually Works You might be itching to get into your carefully planned summer routines, or maybe you know you want some but haven’t thought about what they are yet. Regardless of where you are, you want your routines to work! You want ...
05.29.2023 #316 - How to Not Bummer Your Summer Because of our wonky expectations about this supposedly magical season, we all have unmet expectations. There will be times when you don’t deal with them super well. So in today’s episode, let’s figure out how to not bummer our summer. ...
05.22.2023 #315 - Lazy Genius Office Hours! Today is a very exciting episode, the first of its kind and hopefully not the last! One of my favorite things about this job is helping you all Lazy Genius your problems. It is always the most fun, the most ...
05.18.2023 Bonus: The Disney World Episode My family of five went to Disney World for the first time in February of 2023, and I’m sharing the 13 things I’m glad we did and the four things we could’ve done without. Helpful Companion LinksGo Now Travel CompanyDisney ...
05.15.2023 #314 - Put On Your Summer Face We are entering summer, at least in the northern hemisphere, and it might be worth thinking about the sun and your face. This episode is part skincare, part makeup, part pep talk. Helpful Companion LinksEltaMD Facial Sunscreen (Amazon)Black Girl Sunscreen ...
05.08.2023 #313 - 10 Questions for the Start of the Summer Once May hits, it already feels like August is right around the corner. Time is weird, right? Everyone likely feels the urgency of the season in different ways. Instead of drowning in the overwhelm of this giant, approaching season, let’s ...
05.01.2023 #312 - My Favorite Chapter from The Lazy Genius Kitchen This week marks the one year anniversary of the release of my second book, The Lazy Genius Kitchen, and today I want to celebrate that by sharing my favorite chapter with you. It’s the beginning of the whole kit and ...
04.27.2023 BONUS: Sisterhood, Songwriting, and Vulnerability Hangovers with Joseph Today is a very special bonus episode where I get to talk to one of my favorite bands in the whole world, Joseph. They have a new album releasing tomorrow, April 28, called The Sun. It is an album full ...
04.24.2023 #311 What's Saving My Life Right Now Presented by KFC and Acast Creative This special episode is presented by KFC and Acast Creative. KFC chicken nuggets have made their debut and they truly are the perfect chicken nugget. Each one is hand-breaded with KFC’s Original Recipe and absolutely packed with flavor. So basically ...
04.17.2023 #310 - How to Pivot Around Any Obstacle One of the most beautiful things about being a Lazy Genius is that you can Lazy Genius literally anything. Some of those solutions are linear, but frustratingly, a lot of them are not. There isn’t always a straight line from ...
04.10.2023 #309 - The Friendship Episode, Part Two with Laura Tremaine Let's continue the conversation with friendship expert, Laura Tremaine! In this episode, she shares the rest of her list of 10 ways to start small in friendship, and there are so many things I wrote down like I was highlighting ...
04.03.2023 #308 - The Friendship Episode, Part One with Laura Tremaine Friendship is one of the most highly requested topics, and for good reason. No one can survive without a friend. For the next two weeks, I have my favorite friendship expert Laura Tremaine joining us to talk about how we ...
03.27.2023 #307 - A More Helpful Way to Look at Spring Cleaning Why “more helpful”? Because I think that most spring cleaning information I run across is not helpful, at least not how I need it to be. So today, we’re going to do what we often do: we’re going to tackle ...
03.23.2023 BONUS: How to be a Person, Part Two with Aundi Kolber Is there a way to compassionately experience stressful situations? There actually is, and author and licensed trauma therapist, Aundi Kolber, is on the show today to talk about how. Learn about the flow of strength (a mind-blowing concept), the difference ...
03.20.2023 #306 - What We Need to Have More Fun Being a person is tough. We all know this. Part of what I love about this job is offering encouragement and tools, not just to take the edge off, but to enjoy being a person and living your life in ...
03.13.2023 #305 - Dinner Permission with Ali Slagle Ali Slagle is a food writer for The New York Times, the author of one of my favorite cookbooks, and an all-around delight. She’s here today to put some words to the never-ending chore of dinner and give us a ...
03.06.2023 #304 - How to Rest When You’re Caring for Everyone Else Let’s take a minute to validate the complexity that is caregiving. It’s loving and fulfilling and something we’re probably honored to do. Most often, we’re caring for people we deeply love, who are desperately important to us, and when pressed, ...
02.27.2023 #303 - The 10 Most Helpful Episodes From the Last Two Years I get asked often where someone should start with the podcast since there are over 300 episodes now, and I always point them to that episode 200. But we have made some really great episodes in the last 100 episodes, ...
02.20.2023 #302: The Lazy Genius Guide to Basketball Editor’s Note: This episode was slated to be a bonus episode, but then Team LG was struck with the stomach bug. Thanks for your understanding of this editorial change. We are about to enter March Madness, and I know a ...
02.13.2023 #301 - How to Kindly Navigate a Changing Body This episode isn’t about how to kindly change your body. It’s about kindly navigating the fact that your body is changing. Those are two very different things. Our bodies are present with us at all times, and yet we often ...
02.06.2023 #300 - How to Lazy Genius Meal Prep Are you feeling “rut energy” around the table? Maybe you’re already tired of soup. Maybe you had January goals to cook more at home or try new things, and you haven’t experienced that the way you hoped. Maybe you’re having ...
01.30.2023 #299 - What’s Saving My Life We do these episodes about once a quarter for two reasons. One, it’s a wonderful practice that I want to remind you of as often as possible. And two, because our seasons of life change, so do the things that ...
01.23.2023 #298 - How to Keep Up with Household Habits It’s easy to feel behind in our homes, like everything is at best a sneeze from falling apart. So today, we’re going to talk about how to choose the household habits that matter to you and how you might keep ...
01.19.2023 Bonus: The Lazy Sisters Answer Your Questions Kendra is joined by her little sister Hannah to answer your questions, many of which are about how to foster connected relationships between siblings. The sisters also talk about their current favorite things, including a Kindle accessory that could revolutionize ...
01.16.2023 #297 - 5 Steps for More Ease at Work I believe that people can feel more at ease at work no matter what work it is you do. In part one, we’re going to walk through how to do that, and in part two, we’ll apply those principles to ...
01.09.2023 #296 - How to Lazy Genius Your Habits It is January, and we have that fresh start energy, right? Today, we won’t deep dive on habits because this is a podcast episode, but maybe you don’t need a deep dive. You just need a reminder or two as ...
01.02.2023 #295 - How to Start Fresh Without Starting Over It’s January, it’s the beginning of a new year, and our options used to be either lazy or genius. We’ve been trying to be geniuses about the start of a new year for too long, but the alternative is not ...
12.29.2022 Bonus: How I Read 120 Books This Year This is not an episode of bragging. This is not an episode to make you feel like you should figure out a way to read 120 books or 20 books or 200 books or whatever. It is about what can ...
12.26.2022 #294 - How to Celebrate Your Own Birthday My birthday is December 27th, so tomorrow if you’re listening to this on the day it releases. I think that it is a very common problem for adults, maybe even especially for women, to know how to celebrate your own ...
12.19.2022 #293 An Easily Forgotten Holiday Reminder We are entering the week before Christmas. I don’t want to take up too much of your enjoyment time with a podcast episode, but I do want to say a few words about something I think we so easily forget ...
12.12.2022 #292 - How to Enjoy the Last Two Weeks of the Year We have done so much work these last few weeks of figuring out how to manage our expectations and our holiday home and our time and our tasks and all the things. But we don’t want just to manage the ...
12.05.2022 #291 - Your Path to an Easier December Let’s walk through December almost like it’s a Candyland board, and plan for the potential challenges you’ll run into like a Lazy Genius. Helpful Companion LinksThe 2022 Lazy Genius Gift GuideHow to Decorate for The Holidays with The Nester#290: Managing ...

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