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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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#246 - 5 Essential Mindsets...

01.24.2022

We all have time, we all have expectations about how we want it emptied or filled, and we have a lot of hard, busy, stressful days that we need to manage so we don’t lose our minds. It’s a front-burner ...

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01.24.2022 #246 - 5 Essential Mindsets for Time Management We all have time, we all have expectations about how we want it emptied or filled, and we have a lot of hard, busy, stressful days that we need to manage so we don’t lose our minds. It’s a front-burner ...
01.17.2022 #245 - How I Personally Meal Plan It’s funny - I talk about meal planning a lot here on the podcast, on Instagram, and in my upcoming book that I can’t wait for you to read, The Lazy Genius Kitchen. But I don’t know that I’ve ever ...
01.13.2022 Bonus: How to Listen to Your Body with Dr. Hillary McBride In this bonus episode, Hillary talks about why our bodies aren’t what we look like, how to engage with our bodies in healing ways, and what it means to exist with pain and tension and let it make us more ...
01.10.2022 #244 - How to Choose the Right Lazy Genius Principle for You In my book The Lazy Genius Way, I share 13 principles you can use to Lazy Genius any situation in your life. Sometimes you might need one principle, sometimes a few together, and sometimes you don’t know which to choose. ...
01.03.2022 #243 - Lazy Genius Questions for the Start of 2022 It’s the first Monday in January which always has some fun energy to it. Fun? Is fun the right word? It has an energy to it. The level of fun depends on your personality and circumstances I suppose. So as ...
12.27.2021 #242 - What I Learned In My 40th Year You guys, it’s the last episode of 2021, and it’s also my birthday today. And not just any birthday; today I turn 40! In early January, in episode 193, I shared seven things I wanted to do this year, in ...
12.23.2021 Bonus: Your Holiday Horror Stories A few weeks ago, I posted on Instagram asking for your holiday horror stories. You know, that time you tried to be either super lazy or super genius during the holidays. Here’s a collection of stories for solidarity and encouragement ...
12.20.2021 #241 - A Quick Holiday Pep Talk I always find that this week of Christmas I don’t need more information; I just need encouragement to be a person and exist in the information I already have. So this is just a quick word from me to you.Helpful ...
12.13.2021 #240 - How to Plan a Personal Retreat When I sent out December’s Latest Lazy Letter, I mentioned taking a personal retreat day the week between Christmas and the New Year, and a woman named Rebecca wrote back asking me to explain it. Like, what do you do? ...
12.06.2021 #239 - Five Lessons Learned From Soup (No, Really!) It’s winter, and most people have big soup energy this time of year. I have such energy. I love a good soup. I wish my kids liked soup more than they do, but they don’t hate it as a concept. ...
11.29.2021 #238 - How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It The number of times I have to do stuff I don’t want to do is a very high number, and it’s part of life. I think it’s important to name what we can be a genius about and what we ...
11.24.2021 Bonus: The Lazy Genius Guide to Understanding Football We’re doing something a little different around here today with a bonus episode! We might start playing around with some of these that are deeply specific in the future, or it might be just this one. But I have had ...
11.22.2021 #237 - A Quick Word Before Thanksgiving It’s easy to feel like this particular week is pretty condensed. It’s hard, for me at least, to let Thanksgiving just be Thanksgiving. So I want to take a few minutes to center us this week before everything ramps up, ...
11.15.2021 #236 - 10 Things Saving My Life Right Now Lots of people on the Internet love to share what’s saving their life, so do I, and so do you! Talking about some favorite things definitely has an ease that disagreeing with a partner doesn’t. Plus, y’all really love these ...
11.08.2021 #235 - When You Disagree on What Matters This episode is dedicated to the hundreds of you who have asked me over the years how you handle disagreeing about what matters with someone you love. In this Lazy Genius way of living, we seek to support what matters ...
11.01.2021 #234 - 10 Rules for Holiday Gift Giving You might be done with your holiday shopping already or maybe you haven’t started. Either way, these rules can still add some lightness and help to the next couple of months. Helpful Companion LinksLooking for gift inspiration? Check out Team ...
10.25.2021 #233 - Three Things to Continue Racial Peacemaking When it comes to this episode, I will not speak any of these words as some kind of social or racial justice expert. But I’m learning and want to keep learning, and based on the communication I’ve gotten from so ...
10.18.2021 #232 - How to Hold Your Own In Conversations You Know Nothing About This is a special, unique little episode because I am not alone. My sister, Hannah, recorded this little bonus episode with me to give some fun and levity but also permission to be who you are in a room even ...
10.11.2021 #231 - What I Learned During Covid Quarantine When the first positive test came back for Covid in my family, I started writing things down. Especially the big things I learned. Even if you’re not in this situation, hearing what people learned from challenging situations is always helpful ...
10.04.2021 #230 - How to Feel Like a Person with Aundi Kolber Today, I’m speaking with therapist and author Aundi Kolber. This conversation is a rich exploration of how to start small in finding a therapist, how to care for ourselves when we’re disappointed (like when we think a pandemic is going ...
09.27.2021 #229 - How to Magic Question the Rest of 2021 There are only 95 days between today and December 31st, and those might be the fastest flying 95 days of the year in any year. Rather than find yourself in the middle of day 52 wondering how in the world ...
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 ...

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