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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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 ...

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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 ...
11.28.2022 #290 - Managing Your Holiday Home There’s a decent chance that while you love the feeling of the holidays in your home, you’re also a little overwhelmed by it. There’s the regular upkeep of one’s home - the general cleaning and tidying, but there’s also a ...
11.21.2022 #289 - How to Lazy Genius Holiday Expectations This Thursday is American Thanksgiving, and we’re coming up on a season of lots of holidays, and with those holidays come many many expectations. You have them, your kids have them, your parents have them, your boss has them, the ...
11.14.2022 #288 - How to Make the Rest of 2022 Easier We’re in the middle of November. American Thanksgiving is next week which means that Christmas is in five minutes, and it’s easy to feel like we’re losing our minds a little bit with all the things. Today, we’re going to ...
11.10.2022 Bonus: How to Decorate for the Holidays with The Nester Today, I’m so excited to welcome Myquillyn Smith, aka The Nester, to the show to talk to us about decorating our homes! She is so good at helping people have the greatest amount of style with the least amount of ...
11.07.2022 #287 - How I’m Making Dinner Easier for the Rest of the Year It’s early November, and we’re about to hit the gauntlet if we’re not already in it. Dinner is one of those things that just keeps happening no matter who you are and how you live, so today I’m going to ...
10.31.2022 #286 What’s Saving My Life Today is one of my favorite episodes we do every quarter or so on what’s saving my life. Y’all like it too because it always has above average downloads. I think we’re always looking for language around what’s making life ...
10.24.2022 #285 How to Parent When Kids Constantly Change Being with and loving and helping guide kids is a privilege, a challenge, and can be exhausting. What works today won’t work tomorrow. What works for this kid won’t work for that kid. What works for you when you have ...
10.20.2022 Bonus: How to Find a New Relationship Rhythm Today, I'm joined by my sister, Hannah, to talk about how to get our relationship back on track. We're in a season of not talking or seeing each other as much as we used to, and we want that to ...
10.17.2022 #284 - How to Lazy Genius Email Oh, man, have we been waiting a long time for this one! This is a highly requested topic, and I’m excited for us to walk through how to make email inboxes more manageable and less stressful. Helpful Companion LinksThe Lazy ...
10.10.2022 #283 What It Really Means to be a Neighbor with Shannan Martin This is one of the best conversations I've ever had. Shannan Martin is the author of Start with Hello, a beautiful book about being a neighbor. She is a true Lazy Genius in this area and offers so many ways ...
10.03.2022 #282 - How to Have People Over to Eat Feeding people at my house is one of my favorite things in the entire world, and I hope that my enthusiasm for it and the permission you’ll hear in this episode will help you be excited about it, too. But ...
09.29.2022 Bonus: How to Lazy Genius the Start of a New Month Today is a quick little bonus episode - How to Lazy Genius the Start of a New Month. We’re a whisper away from October, and anytime the calendar turns to a new month, we feel some things. There’s a sense ...
09.26.2022 #281 How to Get Dressed Without Losing Your Mind Last week, we had a longer-than-usual episode about how to find your personal style. So much of it is about how you want to feel, but there are also some great reminders and practical tips to help you get there. ...
09.19.2022 #280 - How to Find Your Personal Style A couple of weeks ago, I put up a very unofficial poll on Instagram asking what clothing-related problem was your biggest challenge, and finding your own personal style won out. This might feel like a problem no one else has, ...
09.12.2022 #279 - How to Fix Dinner When You’re Never Home We have a lot of things we’re managing right now, and the one thing that never goes anywhere, no matter our season or stage of life, is food. We have to eat, you guys. So in light of all of ...
09.05.2022 #278 - How to Manage Your Time This Fall It’s Labor Day here in the US, and fall is decidedly about to start. We’re eager and excited, going up the hill of the first drop of the fall roller coaster and super pumped. But, once we crest that first ...
08.29.2022 #277 - How to Connect with Friends More Regularly Today, I want to give us a bigger picture of what we expect from our friendships, and then after the break, I’ll share a couple of friendship principles along with your ideas on how to connect more regularly. Helpful Companion ...
08.22.2022 #276 - How to Pack Lunch for Work I’m excited about this episode because when I went looking for grownup lunch help, I found very little that would work for a variety of people. Most solutions start from the wrong place, so today we’re going to Lazy Genius ...
08.15.2022 #275 - What’s Saving My Life Right Now I love doing these episodes because they are a reminder for me as I create them and you as you listen to them that we can always pay attention to what’s saving our lives. What’s giving us joy and hope ...
08.08.2022 #274 - The Back to School Starter Pack Remember back in episode 200 where we did the Lazy Genius starter pack and listed 20 of the best episodes that will impact your life right away? This is that but for going back to school. If you don’t have ...
08.01.2022 #273 - How to Cross the Summer Finish Line The summer-to-fall transition can feel murky, especially if you have kids or work in education. There’s not a clean mark between the end of this and the start of that. Which means it feels like we’re neither beginning nor ending ...
07.28.2022 Bonus: How to Transition Your Routine From One Season to Another with Ashley Brown It’s bonus episode day! Today, I’m chatting with routine expert Ashley Brown about transitioning your routines from one season to another. I love Ashley’s no-nonsense, yet kind approach to routines, and I hope you will, too! Helpful Companion LinksFind Ashley ...
07.25.2022 #272 The Complete Guide to Seasonal Ceremonies I haven’t talked about opening and closing ceremonies (or what I now have shortened and broadened to seasonal ceremonies) in a while. Even though a lot of you are familiar with them, we haven’t done a full-on episode about them ...
07.18.2022 #271 - How to Fix Summer Dinners Yeah, we need to fix dinner, as in make it. But also summer dinners feel a little broken, especially around July, so we’re going to fix them that way, too! I love a pun. Helpful Companion LinksHang out with me ...
07.11.2022 #270 - A 2022 Midsummer Pep Talk Let’s do a quick little midsummer pep talk for the year of 2022 that just keeps outdoing its big brothers, 2020 and 2021. There are so many things that can impact our day, and right now, it feels like the ...
07.04.2022 #269 - How to be a Tourist in Your Hometown It’s summer, we’re traveling, and faraway places seem lovely. But so can home! Today, let’s Lazy Genius how to visit where you live like you’ve never been there before. Helpful Companion LinksCourtney Cleveland from All the Best Days // use ...
06.30.2022 Bonus: The Lazy Sisters' Season Passes Sometimes we need a break from things like homework and time management and how to get dinner on the table. And right now is a perfect time for a break. Enjoy this bonus Lazy Sisters episode featuring my sister Hannah. ...
06.27.2022 #268 - 10 Summer Reading Ideas for Your Kids Last week, we talked about finding your own summer reading rhythm as a grownup, whether you’re home in the summer or just existing like the rest of the year, and today, I want to talk about some specifics for kids ...
06.20.2022 #267 - Find Your Summer Reading Rhythm My goal is that you listen to these next twenty minutes or so and you leave with the following pieces of information: what matters most to you about your reading over the next two or three months, an idea of ...
06.13.2022 #266 - How to Lazy Genius a Summer at the Pool First, there’s a different strategy when you’re visiting the pool once or twice versus going to the pool again and again. If you’re going as a guest, you pack your bag with towels and snacks and whatever you or your ...
06.06.2022 #265 - How to Come Home from Vacation I am very excited about this episode, you guys. I think there are so many opportunities to just Lazy Genius the mess out of coming home from vacation, so we’re going to do what we often do which is have ...

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