The Lazy Genius Podcast

By Kendra, The Lazy Genius

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The Lazy Genius Podcast is here to help you be a genius about the things that matter and lazy about the things that don't. Each season will include conversations with Lazy Geniuses from all walks of life about topics that really matter - people, creativity, food, and television.

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#228 - 5 Ways to Organize Y...

09.20.2021

We’re talking about five different personalities of book organization, so hopefully, you’ll see yourself in one of these. We all have different challenges when it comes to organizing our books, but there’s really no one-size-fits-all approach. Having a lot of ...

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09.20.2021 #228 - 5 Ways to Organize Your Books We’re talking about five different personalities of book organization, so hopefully, you’ll see yourself in one of these. We all have different challenges when it comes to organizing our books, but there’s really no one-size-fits-all approach. Having a lot of ...
09.13.2021 #227 - How to Know What to Read Next with Anne Bogel You guys, we have Anne Bogel on the show today to help us be Lazy Geniuses about deciding what to read next! She hosts her own podcast aptly called What Should I Read Next? And I’m delighted she’s here with ...
09.06.2021 #226 - How Batching and Bags Can Get You Out the Door In the last episode in a quasi-series on getting out the door, we’re going to use Courtney Cleveland’s method of packing for vacation to help us get out the door with all the right stuff (and at the right time!). ...
08.30.2021 #225 The Shoe Episode We are going to plow through common challenges we all face with shoes and apply some Lazy Genius principles to help make those challenges easier. Obviously, we can’t cover every possible shoe scenario, but I am hoping to cover some ...
08.23.2021 #224 - When Things Don’t Go According to Plan This episode was inspired by last week’s episode The Lazy Genius Gets Out the Door. One of the reasons we all have trouble getting out the door is things not going according to plan. There are so many variables, so ...
08.16.2021 #223 - The Lazy Genius Gets Out the Door A few weeks ago, I asked y’all on Instagram to share the challenges that make leaving your house so complicated. What makes it hard to get out the door? I have never had more responses to a question box on ...
08.09.2021 #222 Taking Care of Yourself As the World Opens Up Today I want to talk about taking care of yourself as the world opens up. We’ll lay some groundwork and then apply a couple of principles for you to consider over these next few weeks, especially as we move out ...
08.02.2021 #221 - Get Your Back-to-School Life Together It is the first Monday in August, and August is a unique month. For people with kids or if you’re an educator, it still feels like summer outside but you’re transitioning into fall routines. There are a lot of things ...
07.26.2021 #220 - Kendra Answers Your Burning Questions We’re talking about everything from what glasses I wear to how to Lazy Genius a marriage in this fun episode where I answer your burning questions (or the questions that pop up in DMs and my inbox on the reg). ...
07.19.2021 #219 - A Midsummer Pep Talk We’re halfway through July, halfway through a crazy year that followed the craziest year of any in quite a while, and I think our bodies and minds might be feeling it. So let’s just take a few short minutes for ...
07.12.2021 #218 - Let’s Talk About the Body, Part Two Last week was Let’s Talk About the Body, Part One, and I highly encourage you to listen to it if you haven’t already. I’m laying out ten principles to think about when it comes to your body and other people’s ...
07.05.2021 #217 - Let’s Talk About Your Body, Part One There’s a lot I want to cover here, so much so that I had to break it up into two episodes. It was just too long. So next week, we’ll obviously do part two of let’s talk about your body. ...
06.28.2021 #216 - Navigating Siblings Who Fight Today, I’m sharing ten things to help you navigate siblings who fight. To give you some context, I am not an expert. I’m only a mom. I am not a child psychologist or a parenting expert. I am in the ...
06.21.2021 #215 - Hospitality on the Fly Have you ever wished you were one of those people who could welcome anyone into your home for a meal or a hang without plans? Or maybe you’ve experienced one too many encounters where your brain forgot that your guests ...
06.14.2021 #214 - Your Guide to Summer Meals The energy around cooking this summer is a bit of a situation. So we’re going to talk about how you think about your meals, cook them, and eat them through the lens of how you might eat on vacation. If ...
06.07.2021 #213 - Create a Summer Reading Club Obviously, summer reading is a big thing for a lot of people, and if you’re new around here, reading is one of my favorite things on the planet. Today though, I want to talk about something more specific. I want ...
05.31.2021 #212 - A Guide to Summer House Rules A House Rule is something that could keep that first domino from teetering and knocking over everything else. All of us have different kinds of summers, and all of us likely experience different modes and priorities, again, within the same ...
05.24.2021 #211 - How to Plan a Summer Day I want us to plan a summer day without turning into robots or without leaving literally everything to chance where we’re playing it cool on the outside because we’re cool and spontaneous and we go with the flow and on ...
05.17.2021 #210 - How to Lazy Genius Kids’ Screen Time It’s here, you guys, it’s here! This is such a highly requested topic, and I think now that we’re about to go into summer, we could use some perspective on how to approach this ever-present topic. So I have three ...
05.10.2021 #209 - How to Keep Your Surfaces Clear Clutter is a real thing. It feels like there’s never a clear spot to put anything down, and I think it’s safe to say that when surfaces are reasonably clear, your home feels cleaner and more welcoming even if it’s ...
05.06.2021 BONUS: A New Way to Think About Money with Rachel Rodgers The Lazy Genius Podcast is not an interview-style show, so when I invite a guest on, I make sure they are a Lazy Genius at what they do. I’m thrilled to introduce you to Rachel Rodgers, a former attorney and ...
05.03.2021 #208 - Essentializing Your Phone Apps Today, I want to help you essentialize your phone apps. In this episode, we’re going to specifically apply the Lazy Genius principle of essentializing to your phone apps to that you can go from being overwhelmed or annoyed or distracted ...
04.26.2021 #207 - The 15 Moments That Shaped the Lazy Genius I get asked about the origin story of this business a lot, especially when I do our Ask Me Anything sessions on Sunday nights on Instagram. I get a lot of questions like “how did you get started, where did ...
04.19.2021 #206 - The Lazy Genius Guide to Buying Great Gifts It’s April, and we’re entering Teacher Appreciation Week soon. Then it’s Mother’s Day and Father’s Day and the end of school. And pandemic guidelines are loosening, people are planning weddings and baby showers. Then, of course, there are birthdays and ...
04.12.2021 #205 - How to Lazy Genius a Wedding First things first, you do not have to be planning a wedding to find this episode relevant. This is one of our Lazy Genius Brain episodes where we practice applying Lazy Genius principles to a specific area, even if it ...
04.05.2021 #204 - How to Rally on a Bad Day We all have bad days and for different reasons. There’s something about being inside a bad day that feels like there’s no way out. You kind of just have to wait until the next day and start over. But if ...
03.29.2021 #203 - 10 Things Saving My Life Right Now I love sharing lists like this and also encouraging you to make and share your own. We are still in it after a very long year, and paying attention to the things that bring us joy, make things easier, make ...
03.22.2021 #202 - Revisiting Your Morning Routine I want to revisit the concept of a morning routine, especially in light of still living kind of in a pandemic, and give you one question you can ask yourself - just one - as you think about how your ...
03.15.2021 #201 - The Lazy Genius Guide to Moving It’s finally here — an episode about moving! Good golly, I’ve been getting asked to Lazy Genius moving at least once a week for the last two years. But before you scroll away because you aren’t planning a move, I ...
03.08.2021 #200 - The Lazy Genius Starter Kit: 20 Episodes That Will Immediately Change Your Life Two hundred episodes is a lot, and it’s likely you haven’t listened to every single one. Or maybe you have but it’s been a while and you need a brush-up. Whatever it is, I went through the entire archive and ...
03.01.2021 #199 - 7 Ways to Get Out of a Dinner Rut Most of you live in the United States, many of you have kids, all of us are living in varying degrees of isolation still because of the pandemic, and all the things. Yet we still have to eat, we still ...
02.22.2021 #198 - How to Lazy Genius Your To-Do List People have always had stuff to do, but let’s think about it. Our culture and lives have evolved to such a point where if we don’t write down what we have to do, we will in fact forget. Today, we ...
02.15.2021 #197 - How to Navigate a Faith Crisis It’s a heavy topic, I know, but I want to give some language and space around this thing that many people in the Christian faith are struggling with right now. And who better to help us with this than Erin ...
02.08.2021 #196 - How to Lazy Genius Adult Screen Time I love my iPhone. I love my apps. I love Instagram. I love it all! And because we love it, we’re on it a lot, and while that is not a universally bad thing, you might desire a better relationship ...
02.01.2021 #195 - Creating Your Own Holiday When There’s Nothing To Look Forward To February and March struggle to bring the thunder. I mean, it’s just the way it is. We’re past the lovely winter holiday gauntlet, we’re past the energy around fresh starts in January, we’re still weeks away from spring break if ...
01.25.2021 #194 - From Selfies to Politics: How to Share Yourself Online with Laura Tremaine This is a rare episode where I talk to another human, and I only have humans on who are actual Lazy Geniuses at what they do, and you guys? Laura Tremaine is 100% a Lazy Genius, maybe even just a ...
01.18.2021 #193 - What I Want To Do in My 40th Year This is a year I want to pay attention to in ways I’ve never paid attention to a year before. So in today’s episode, I want to share some things I want to do in my 40th year, why that ...
01.11.2021 #192 - What To Do Before Reorganizing Your Home We all get that early January itch that carries into the dark winter of February where we just want our homes to feel good to be in. But we often start in the wrong place. I want to prevent that ...
01.04.2021 #191 - Naming What Matters in 2021 The turning of the calendar doesn’t change everything, but it does change something. It changes our outlook, even the tiniest bit. We are no longer in one of the hardest years, if not the hardest year depending on your life ...
12.28.2020 #190 - My Favorite Discoveries of 2020 I want to mark the end of this year here with you by sharing my favorite discoveries of 2020, and maybe it’ll make you want to remember the good things that you discovered and enjoyed and learned. So that’s what ...
12.21.2020 #189 - A Pep Talk for the Final Stretch We’re almost there. We’ve almost made it through this impossible year. I would love to take just a couple of minutes to find our position in it, our position in our days right now. Helpful Companion Links Get a copy ...
12.14.2020 #188 - How to Lazy Genius a Pandemic Cookie Exchange This year may not be the year to host the entire neighborhood or maybe even anyone for a traditional cookie exchange; however, it could be a fun way to get everyone in your house involved in the kitchen and flex ...
12.07.2020 #187 - Rethinking Opening Ceremonies I love implementing opening and closing ceremonies into my year and especially into the fall and winter holiday season. As we all know, holidays in 2020 are not what we expected. So how can we rethink traditions and gatherings and ...
11.30.2020 #186 - A Pep Talk for Not Knowing There is so much we don’t know. So today on this Monday after Thanksgiving and this final day of November, I think we could all use a short little pep talk and a way to start small with all of ...
11.23.2020 #185 - How to Think About Holiday Photos I get asked a lot about photo storage all the time, and I haven’t talked about it at all because I’m not an expert. But lucky for you, I’m joined by someone who is an expert on today’s show! Casey ...
11.16.2020 #184 - Find Your Holiday Decorating Personality It’s the middle of November, and some of you might have already gone through the process of decorating or you’re putting it off because it’s overwhelming or you always do the weekend after Thanksgiving which is coming up, but the ...
11.12.2020 BONUS: Lazy Geniusing Advent with Tsh Oxenreider In this bonus episode, I talk with Tsh Oxenreider about her new book, Shadow and Light, that walks us through Advent in the most Lazy Genius way possible. It gives us permission to engage in the season of Advent without ...
11.09.2020 #183 - The Lazy Genius Guide to Spices Spices are pretty important in cooking obviously, so let’s demystify a few things — what they’re good for, what to have on hand, how to use them, and how to store them. And we’ll run through what could be your ...
11.02.2020 #182 Loving People You Disagree With Tomorrow is Election Day. I can’t remember an election in my lifetime that was this contentious and would leave so many people devastated no matter the result. It’s just a lot. And you are a unicorn if you do not ...
10.26.2020 #181 - The Instant Pot Episode Here’s what we’re going to go through today: what the Instant Pot is great for, what it’s not great for, how to start using one including my favorite tools and resources, and my own personal Instant Pot rhythm. Because here’s ...

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